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. [...]

The recent attack to Google, Adobe and other companies revealed a vulnerability that exists in many versions of Internet Explorer. According to Wired the attack was ultra sophisticated and targeted source code from Google, Adobe and dozens of other high-profile companies. The level of sophistication was equal to the attacks seen in defense industry. Microsoft [...]

Every day I collaborate online with team members that are in another country. There are several online collaboration tools that make online meetings easier. I have selected seven free (7) tools to present. 1. Skype Skype is a great application for free Skype-to-Skype calls. It has also the subscription option that lets you call to landlines and [...]

Google presented today its new super phone Nexus One. It looks great and it sure will be a success. The operating system is Android Mobile Technology Platform 2.1 (Eclair).The display is 3.7-inch (diagonal) wide-screen WVGA AMOLED touchscreen with resolution 800 x 480 pixels, 100,000:1 typical contrast ratio, 1ms typical response rate. You can get all [...]