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Anyone lament to avoid being tracked by ad firms as they use the web are getting more help from browser makers. Mozilla and Google have disclosed different ways for people to dodge efforts to monitor what they do online and tailor ads to their likes. Google has made a Chrome extension that permanently opts people [...]

Nearly everyone of us rely on e-mail as one of our primary communication tools. And given the number of messages we send and receive, we do it with remarkable success. However as with anything, the more e-mails we send, the more likely we are to screw one up. And simple e-mail mistakes can be disastrous. [...]

The country’s state-run Xinhua news agency reported Thursday, that more than 60,000 Web sites were shut down and about 350 million pieces of pornographic and indecent content were eliminated from the Internet in 2010, Police investigated 2,197 cases involving 4,965 people suspected of disseminating pornography via the Internet or cell phone in violation of China [...]

If exploited by a booby-trapped webpage the bug would allow attackers to take control of an unprotected computer. Code to exploit the bug has already been published though Microsoft said it had no evidence it was currently being used by hi-tech criminals. A workaround for the bug has been produced while Microsoft works on a [...]

Google’s Chrome OS platform could possibly be a major headline-stealer in 2011. Not only does it come from one of the most primal and prominent tech companies in the industry, but it delivers a unique operating system experience that consumers and even some enterprise customers will be keen on getting to know more about. But [...]

Google has just soft-launched its latest browser experiment, the Google Body Browser, which is basically Google Earth for the human body. Think of it as a three-dimensional, multi-layered browser version of those Visible Man/Woman model kits. Or a virtualized version of Slim Goodbody, if you will. Google showed off the app at the WebGL Camp. [...]

WikiLeaks is using Amazon.com Inc. servers in the U.S. to help deliver leaked U.S. diplomatic cables, as the controversial website combats powerful Internet-based attacks. WikiLeaks said Tuesday it was the target of a computer attack that overwhelmed its website and made it inaccessible for a few hours to some users. The site also claimed to [...]

Is Google struggling to keep top employees from migrating to Facebook and other tech companies? Chief executive Eric Schmidt talked about the issue today, focusing specifically on a recent 10 percent raise for all of its 23,000 employees. “It is a war for talent,” Schmidt acknowledged. That’s particularly true in tech, he said, where salaries [...]