Google | M&A and Tieups | News
Google Acquires Feedburner
TechCrunch reports that Google has acquired Feedburner for $100 million dollars. This is indeed a great achievement for Feedburner. For us publishers, I see a lot of good things in store…
China limits kids’ online gaming time
Amidst concerns of curbs on free speech and online gaming addiction, China has passed a decree to limit the amount of time kids spend gaming online report Xinhua. Kids spending more than three hours online will lose half the credits they earned and those spending more than five hours online lose all of them. Online gamers will also need to get themselves registered.
Google TiSPs over
Google launched their brand new ISP which provides free in-home broadband via wifi. The ISP is called TiSP. Read the official press release or find out how to go about getting it.
WordPress Bug Fix Release
The WordPress team has released WordPress 2.1.3 and 2.
Where are you’re visitors from?
Alexa Traffic Ranking and Stats has been updated to include country statistics as well as Reach. The stats show me that over 45% of my visitors are from USA, followed by India. On the traffic rank point of view, Denmark seems to top the list where my average traffic rank there is a little over 30,000, with India once gain in second place with 34,000.
Gmail is now Open To All
For as long as Gmail has existed, it has been an invite only, which meant that you couldn’t get an account unless you managed to find some kind soul to invite you for one. During the early days invites were rare and you could even find them for sale on eBay. I remember getting my invite from some forum with the condition I had to give back, which I did.
WordPress 2.1 released
WordPress 2.1 has just been released by the WordPress development team. I personally and I’m sure many others two were not very happy with WordPress 2.
WordPress releases 2.0.7; Security Bugs squashed
The WordPress team has just released WordPress 2.0.7.
News | Operating Systems | Security | Windows
Hack Windows Vista; Get Paid
Less than a month after Trend Micro discovered Vista flaws being sold off for $50,000 in the underground market by hackers, VeriSign’s iDefense Labs has placed an $8,000 bounty on remote code execution holes in Windows Vista and Internet Explorer 7. This is part of its three-year old Vulnerability Contributor Program which compensates individuals who provide iDefense with advance notification of unpublished vulnerabilities and/or exploit code. 3Com’s Zero Day Initiative is a similar program.
Microsoft to release Critical MS Office Fixes today
It had to be coming. As part of its monthly patches release, Microsoft will be releasing eight security bulletins with patches for a several Windows and Office vulnerabilities. These include the patches for Microsoft Word which had remained unpatched last month.
WordPress 2.0.6 is out
We had reported that WordPress 2.0.5 and below version were affected by a critical security issue which could let a hacker into your site.
SMF 1.1.1 released
Simple Machines has released SMF 1.1.1.