Tales from the bits

According to Julia Angwin and Jennifer Valentino-Devries, reporters of The Wall Street Journal, Google bypassed user privacy settings for the Safari web browser. In simple words, Google was able to drop tracking cookies even when the user has set Safari to block cookies. Microsoft confirmed that Google was using similar techniques to bypass privacy settings  for IE. [...]

Last updated (April 11th, 2012) When you are on the move you need to make the most of your time. I prefer to carry around my iPad 2 and not my notebook. Making that decision I needed to select an Office suite to be able to edit and share documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Of course [...]

For long time I was resisting the temptation of owning a tablet. Recently I quite resisting and I bought an ipad 2. It took me sometime to make that choice because I wanted to be 100% sure that I am purchasing the correct tablet according to my needs. Before making my final choice I wrote [...]

The newiPad from Apple is simply fantastic. It has a multi-touch high resolution screen which makes surfing on the Internet, reading emails, browsing photos, watching videos a new experience. Some technical specifications: Height: 9.56 inches (242.8 mm) Width:  7.47 inches (189.7 mm) Depth: 0.5 inch (13.4 mm) — extremely slim!! Weight: 1.5 pounds (.68 kg) Wi-Fi model; [...]