24
Nov

How Google Pakistan and 284 other website were hacked by a Turkish Hacker

How Google Pakistan and 284 other website were hacked by a Turkish Hacker

The news just coming in is that google.co.pk, ebay.com.pk, visa.com.pk, microsoft.com.pk, blogspot.pk and other 280 websites (list below) have been hacked allegedly by Turkish Hackers. You would ask HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? The answer lies in checking the Name Servers of the website, Name servers are basically the hosts names the domain points to. Clearly, the […]

15
Jun

Google applies for .google and 101 gTLDs, Airtel, Amazon, VeriSign joins the bandwagon too

Google applies for .google and 101 gTLDs, Airtel, Amazon, VeriSign joins the bandwagon too

Soon you will see funny looking TLDs like .lol, .baby, .wow, with the likes of company branding like .google, .apple etc, the reason? ICANN is enabling gTLDs (Generic Top Level Domain) for anyone who has $185,000 to spare I want his very own TLD like .com, If I that kind of money to spare I […]

11
Apr

Come May 2012 ‘Halal Internet’ will go live in Iran; Internet to be abolished permanently

Come May 2012 ‘Halal Internet’ will go live in Iran; Internet to be abolished permanently

If you are a person who is addicted to Online gaming or Social Networking sites, consider yourself lucky for not being in Iran. In what comes as a shocker of a decision, Iranian minister for Information and Communications Technology, Reza Taghipour announced his decision to set up and implement a national Intranet. This would be […]

23
Oct

[Exclusive] Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) vs. iOS5 vs. Windows Mobile 7.5 Mango; Head to Head, Which One should you buy

[Exclusive] Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) vs. iOS5 vs. Windows Mobile 7.5 Mango; Head to Head, Which One should you buy

There have been host of websites and Technology gurus talking about the hardware of the Awesome Smartphones coming along, no one talks about the Software or the Operating system, well they do, but, the war is always with The iPhones and the Androids et. al, which makes us think of how can you compare an […]

17
Sep

Internet 1996 vs 2011; Changes with the internet

Internet 1996 vs 2011; Changes with the internet

In the last  15 years, there have been a lot of changes. If you think about what the Internet looked like 5 years ago,  10 years  ago and even  15 years  ago, you know the evolution of the  World Wide Web  (as it was more commonly known in 1996) at the lightning speed. We posted […]

20
Aug

Mobile Patent suing mess – Simplified

Mobile Patent suing mess – Simplified

Every second day you hear some or the other company suing another company for Patent infringement, Patent trolling, as we call it. Some days, back it was Apple suing Samsung for the Muti-touch gesture, then there was HTC suing Apple for infringing patent import and  Sales in the US, then Microsoft getting royalties for android […]

27
Jul

Why is Samsung, HTC, LG and others paying Microsoft royalties for Android that is developed by Google?

Why is Samsung, HTC, LG and others paying Microsoft royalties for Android that is developed by Google?

The Android operating system is developed by Google, but Samsung pays $15 per device to Microsoft and HTC is paying $5 per device to Microsoft. It really doesn’t make any sense for Samsung to pay $15 per Android device sold to Microsoft, does it? For a good proportion of people this makes perfect sense. These […]

1
Jul

Internet Usage Statistics

Internet Usage Statistics

Did you know an Average American spends 66 hours a month on the internet, out of these 7 hours are spent on Facebook. There are 11 billion searches made in a month in USA alone, 2/3 being on Google. For more of the stats about the internet Check this out     Astonishing numbers, aren’t […]

3
Jun

History of Indian Internet – Infograph

History of Indian Internet – Infograph

Internet users in India have grown rapidly, especially after the dot com boom in India, almost all the domain of work are now somewhere related to the internet. Social Networks, Search Engines and other are some of the main reason for the growth. A lot more innovation is happening in India, most of the young […]