Apple Patches Safari and Core Mac OS X Components
Information Week reports Apple on Monday released security updates for its Mac OS X and Windows customers that repair vulnerabilities in a number of Mac operating system components, as well as Apple’s Safari Web browser and the Flash and Shockwave browser plug-ins. Mac versions of the Security Update 2007-009 update are available for Mac OS [...]
Read MoreRumor Mill: Digg possible IAC Aquisition
According to VentureBeat Digg has hired Allen & Company, a tiny but influential private investment firm, to help broker an acquisition deal. Digg’s reported asking price, a whopping $300 million. According to Valley Wag one possible suitor is media mogul Barry Diller’s IAC. IAC, which had previously expressed interest but has backed off before. One [...]
Read MoreEgo Surfing up in 2007
In a report released Sunday, the Pew Internet and American Life Project said 47 percent of U.S. adult Internet users have looked for information about themselves through Google or another search engine. That is more than twice the 22 percent of users who did in 2002. However, few monitor their online presence with great regularity. [...]
Read MoreMatch.com teams up with Facebook
IAC’s dating website Match.com, plans to launch two new features this week that bring greater social networking capabilities to its more than 15 million Match members and to the roughly 58 million active users of Facebook. Match.com will announce Thursday the launch of Little Black Book, a new way to link Facebook users with Match.com [...]
Read MoreAmazon SimpleDB released in Limited Beta
Amazon.com has announced the limited beta release of the newest edition to their ever growing family of web services, SimpleDB. SimpleDB is a web service for running queries on structured data in real time. With the scale and functionality of a clustered relational database, SimpleDB provides a simple web services interface to create and store [...]
Read MoreGoogle does Wikipedia
Well kinda! The official Google Blog reports a new tool to “encourage people who know a particular subject to write an authoritative article about it.” The tool, Knol, which stands for a unit of knowledge, is still in development and is in the initial phase of testing. Currently, using Knol is by invitation only, but [...]
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