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Google plays tag with tricksters
News Called a "no follow" tag, the control when placed before pages of blog comments will signal to Google as it indexes the Web that the pages are to be overlooked. Otherwise known as "link" or "comment spam", the ruse is as old as Web marketing.
[January 19, 2005, 7:45]
Wednesday
Blog Google ranks Web pages by their content and by how many different sites point to them: likewise, influential online people can be spotted by finding out how many replies their postings in forums generate, how many times their names are mentioned...
[November 1, 2002, 17:42]
Apple readies first Jaguar update
News Many other glitches also are fixed, according to the document, such as resolving problems waking up an iBook attached to an external monitor, slow loading graphics on some Web pages or fatal crashes involving the Mac OS X kernel -- also known as...
[September 17, 2002, 8:27]
Dell site outage during Christmas rush
News Dell's Web site, with its sales, support and information pages, has become an essential tool for the company in promoting its PCs and other products as well as in interacting with its customers. But Kaufman said that even while Dell's home page...
[December 12, 2002, 11:21]
PDF417 ActiveX
Downloads Our PDF417-ActiveX Control has all the features necessary to easily add professional quality barcodes to any Windows application including Web pages, database reporting and labeling, product packaging, document tracking, postal bar coding and...
[July 18, 2008, 8:00]
Eolas ruling prompts Microsoft action
News The alterations proposed by Microsoft include changes to the manner in which Explorer handles some Web pages that use ActiveX Controls, object-oriented programming technologies and tools found in plug-in software such as Macromedia's Flash, Apple...
[October 7, 2003, 16:15]
Microsoft aims to break new ground with Gazelle
News Indeed, she says, Gazelle depends on Windows, acting merely as the middleman for web pages seeking to access a computer's resources. Google's decision to offer Chrome, some think, was more about having an engine for running its web applications...
[July 8, 2009, 16:01]
Skyfire Mobile Browser 1.0 (for Windows Mobile Touch Screen Phones)
Downloads Blazing fast Skyfire fires up fast and web pages load quickly. Postweb pages and status updates to Facebook and Twitter, with one click! The best mobile browsing experience For the first time ever, on your phone, you can watch any video, connect...
[April 6, 2009, 8:00]
Skyfire Mobile Browser 1.0 (for Windows Mobile Non Touch Screen Phones)
Downloads Blazing fast Skyfire fires up fast and web pages load quickly. Postweb pages and status updates to Facebook and Twitter, with one click! The best mobile browsing experience For the first time ever, on your phone, you can watch any video, connect...
[April 6, 2009, 8:00]
Skyfire Mobile Browser 1.0 (for Nokia Symbian Phones)
Downloads Blazing fast Skyfire fires up fast and web pages load quickly. Postweb pages and status updates to Facebook and Twitter, with one click! The best mobile browsing experience For the first time ever, on your phone, you can watch any video, connect...
[April 6, 2009, 8:00]
Screen-Scraper Professional Edition
Downloads It provides a graphical interface allowing you to designate URL's, data elements to be extracted, and scripting logic to traverse pages and work with mined data. Once these items have been created, screen-scraper can be invoked from external...
[August 15, 2008, 10:42]
Google seeks better business sales
News For example, the company's PageRank system, licensed exclusively from Stanford University, looks at link structures of pages on the Web as a hint to their relevance. Pages that have lots of other pages pointing links at them are likely to be more...
[June 2, 2004, 9:15]
Google web workshop targets developers
News Google I/O: Web Forward will extend the developer resources already found on the Google Code pages, which include application programming interfaces (APIs), project-hosting options and a community portal.
[March 12, 2008, 14:38]
AltaVista goes for the Google effect
News In addition, AltaVista will give Web surfers a button labeled "More Precision," which will search for pages based on natural-language questions. Barnett estimates that nearly 20 million documents in its one-billion-object database will be indexed...
[November 12, 2002, 9:56]
Lovesick hacker hits Microsoft
News The impacted Web pages appear to be conference information sites, including "icassp.microsoft.com," "isys.microsoft.com," and "cuai-97.microsoft.com. According to attrition.org, "flipz" altered the University of California at Riverside Police...
[October 27, 1999, 8:30]
MS security flaw called 'pinhole'
News How it works Instead of a back door, the security hole is just that -- a bug in a dynamic link library, or DLL, file known as "dvwssr.dll" that allows access to a Web site's active server pages and applications.
[April 17, 2000, 9:48]
Thus bends law to avoid responsibility for child porn
News Their terms and conditions state that they are able to access everything on their Web pages," said Stener. No statute would prevent an ISP from downloading Web pages that it is hosting in order to check them," said Stener.
[March 28, 2001, 16:37]
Netscape flaw worse than 'Back Orifice'?
News They are designed to allow programmers to display Web pages within the browser -- but Brumleve discovered the applets can just as easily be told to display local files instead. In this day and age the line between Web pages and emails is blurring...
[August 8, 2000, 9:54]
Sun, AOL collaborate on instant messaging
News The new product fits neatly into iPlanet's portfolio of software products that handle tasks such as shuttling e-mail, delivering Web pages, managing employee calendars, and creating corporate portal sites.
[July 16, 2001, 13:58]
Search engines own up to paid-for results
News But the reforms are unlikely to go beyond relabeling, at least for now, leaving untouched the myriad arrangements that have transformed many search engines from Web library catalogues to the online equivalent of the Yellow Pages.
[August 19, 2002, 13:12]
