Category: Tech News

The ever insightful owner of Godaddy, Bob Parsons, has summed up excellently the events of the past week or so in the normally peaceful world of domain names. As many readers will be aware, a new domain .eu was launched by the European Union, allowing ‘normal’ people to register names. Prior to this period, there… Continue reading The Disaster That Was The .EU Land Rush

Ryan at CyberNetNews.com has posted an article about how to fix the memory leak in firefox. Now, this is by no means a REAL fix for the Firefox memory leak, but it certainly does appear to help it quite a bit. This little fix will move Firefox to your hard drive when you minimize it,… Continue reading Firefox Memory Leak Fix

75 Microsoft employees joined a Microsoft “Hack Day” on Thursday, which was focused around Windows Live products and services. Hack Day is Microsoft’s way of getting inspiration, creativity, and ideas out of its employees. “We knew lots of people had cool ideas because they talk about them all the time in the hallways,” Jennifer Johnston,… Continue reading Microsoft “Hack Day” is creative play at work

Search engine giant Google recently acquired an advanced text search algorithm invented by Ori Alon, an Israeli student. Sources believe Yahoo and Microsoft were also negotiating with the University of New South Wales in Australia, where Alon is a doctoral student in computer science. Google, Alon and the university all refused to comment, though Google… Continue reading Google Buys Search Algorithm From a PhD Student

Virus writers have crafted another example of malicious software that can infect computers running Windows or Linux. The proof-of-concept was submitted to Russian antivirus company Kaspersky Lab, which calls it Bi.a. The virus was written in low-level computer code called “assembler” and is limited, as it only infects files in the current directory, Kaspersky said… Continue reading Virus Targets Both Windows and Linux