A little known Malaysian start-up company has been acquired by Facebook last week for an undisclosed amount according to Gigaom.
Octazen Solutions – a company based in Kuala Lumpur was a maker of a contact importer that the social network had already been using to grow its number of users by encouraging them to [...]
Streamyx users and other users of broadband – Digi, Celcom, Maxis often face problem related to “speed”. If it a genuine technical problem like – like rebooting the connection – a call to the ISP would help. However most of the time broadband users can resolve the problem themselves.
Apple chief executive Steve Jobs unveiled a new touchscreen tablet computer on Wednesday dubbed the “iPad,” seeking to carve out a niche between the laptop and the smartphone.
“We want to kick off 2010 by introducing a truly magical and revolutionary product,” said Jobs, who underwent a liver transplant last year and was making just [...]
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer could inadvertently allow a hacker to read files on a person’s computer, another problem for the company just days after a serious vulnerability received an emergency patch.
The problem was actually discovered as long as two years ago but has persisted despite two attempts by Microsoft to fix it, said Jorge Luis Alvarez [...]
TAIPEI: US computer brands may be gone in 20 years’ time due to an inability to produce the low-priced PCs the market demands, the Taiwanese founder of computer maker Acer was quoted as saying Tuesday.
“The trend for low-priced computers will last for the coming years,” said Stan Shih, high tech entrepreneur and founder [...]
SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft said Tuesday it is working around the clock to patch an Internet Explorer 6 (IE 6) software hole through which China-based cyber spies attacked Google and other firms.
Microsoft is testing a security fix and will make it available as soon as it is ready instead of following its protocol of releasing security [...]
The Federal Office for Information Security, or BSI, urged web users to find an alternative browser to protect security.
The warning comes after Microsoft admitted Internet Explorer was the weak link in recent attacks on Google’s systems.
Hackers in China had pried into e-mail accounts of human rights activists.
The company said, however, that the hole could [...]
Hundreds of scientists sifting through genetic data from 122,000 people have quintupled the number of gene variants known to boost the risk of diabetes, a pair of studies released Sunday reported.
A consortium of researchers first isolated 10 gene mutations that help determine the body’s ability to regulate blood sugar and insulin levels, the key factors [...]
