Wednesday, December 01, 2010

WikiLeaks–The New Journalism?

WikiLeaks has U.S. scrambling to plug holes

The apparent revelations originating from the latest WikiLeaks are both embarrassing and rapid-fire: Afghanistan's vice president was found to be transporting $52 million in cash; Saudi Arabia's king called for the U.S. to attack Iran; a British duke mocked Americans' understanding of geography.

Facebook infested with new worm; More proof site is insecure? 

Facebook is littered with a worm, seemingly the same one under different names, created by randomly generated developers, which is spreading links all over the site.

Google Earth 6.0 Offers a Full Walking Tour Experience

A virtual walking tour with a mouse scroll wheel is one of the new features in Google Earth 6.0. The streets available to tour on Google Earth are in selected city locations and highlighted in blue. Google Earth 6.0 also makes it significantly easier to access historical images. Backgrounds in Google Earth are now filled with 3-D constructs.

Google's E-Book Store Will Offer 'Read Anywhere' Storage

he delayed Google Editions e-book store is getting ready to launch with a new twist of storing e-books in the cloud for "read anywhere" access. Analysts expect 200 independent booksellers could join Google Editions, and Google could capture a fifth of a growing market. While Google is not offering an e-book reader, that could come later.

WinUtilities Free Edition

WinUtilities Free Edition, a suite of tools designed to free up disk space and improve system performance. We were quite pleased with the program's results.

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