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Microsoft, Google, Yahoo sued for sex selection ads in India

Microsoft, Google and Yahoo were issued notices by India’s Supreme Court on Wednesday, following a complaint that they were promoting techniques and products for the selection of an unborn child’s sex through advertising and links on their search engines.
There is a deliberate attempt by these companies to target Indian users with advertisements that claim to [...]

Surfing Google may be harmful to your security

A well-known researcher specializing in website security has strongly criticized safety on Google, arguing the world’s biggest search engine needlessly puts its millions of users at risk.”Google is and will be and always has been vulnerable,” Robert Hansen, CEO of secTheory, told a standing-room-only audience at the Defcon security conference in Las Vegas. “They haven’t [...]

Dutch unlocked iPhone site takes €700,000 then goes offline

A Dutch online reseller who promised customers simlock-free iPhones has apparently gone missing, leaving coworkers bemused and hundreds of consumers a total of €700,000 in the hole.
The owner of the website iPhonehelpdesk.nl has allegedly emptied his offices in Amsterdam and disappeared without a word to his colleagues.
Like many other European countries, in the Netherlands the [...]

Good Bye PhotoShop, Hello SpashUp !

Found an interesting new site recently that my friend sent me to. Its called Splashup.
It is a basic version of photoshop online. I find this to be pretty neat, because photoshop is a wonderful program and offers a lot more options that what typically comes installed on a computer….such as paint. I guess [...]

Water Flowed Freely On Mars - NASA

NASA has discovered more evidence pointing to the possibility of life on Mars. Scientists have studied data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and they believe Mars once had large lakes, flowing rivers, and other wet environments that could have supported life.
A study published in the July 17 issue of Nature shows that large [...]