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An error in the version of Skype has fallen

An error in the version of Skype for Windows caused the recent global recession Services, said the developer of the popular VoIP application on his blog. December 22, several auxiliary network server failure due to overload, which leads to an increase in message delivery time. Version 5. 0. 0. 152 on Windows is handled properly, this event led to a complete failure. The latest version of Skype for Windows - 5. 0. 0. 156, as well as earlier versions for Windows (4. X), Mac OS and IOS event was not handled properly and there was no crash, according to TechNews.

Firefox - the most popular in Europe

Mozilla Firefox is the most popular web browser on the European market. This study shows, StatCounter, cited by kaldata. COM. In December of 2010. "Fox Fire" for the first time before Microsoft Internet Explorer. According to the company, the average for the countries of the European market share of Firefox has 38.11 percent versus 37.52 percent for Internet Explorer. The company said that these values ​​are derived from monitoring of almost 3 million web site, and a total capacity of about 15 billion page views per month from the StatCounter says that Firefox will stabilize his leadership, but he will be prosecuted by a competitor -.

Skype tend to "big money"

Skype is planning a significant expansion of its activities this year. VoIP service company will increase its staff by 50%, and its presence in Silicon Valley and start some new paid services, has announced TechNews. BG. Despite its high brand recognition and popularity among the internet service Skype users, the company still has serious problems with the receipt of income and new paid services.

Twitter users doubled

Social network Twitter mikroblogirane has more than a million new users in 2010, reported the Daily Telegraph. This site is about two hundred million users, which means that one year their number has doubled. Twitter has received worldwide recognition as an important source of news from the event and comment. He assured the information from eyewitnesses, as the protests in Iran after the presidential elections in June 2009 passenger aircraft ditching in the Hudson River in New York and the earthquake in Haiti since 2010. Among the celebrities who have Twitter account at this year's Tiger Woods, Bill Gates, Kanye West, Cher, the Dalai Lama, Hugo Chavez, Sylvester Stallone, Victoria Beckham, Ronaldo and others.

Microsoft and Facebook to unite against Google

Bing search engine will be more closely integrated with the services, in the coming days. Wired reports that a new step in the fight against Google, which is known to prepare your social network. Bing and now allows users to search for information online, without leaving the social network, but on Wednesday the results of the search engine would be "socialized.

Google: Change your password twice a year

Internet giant Google has advised users to change their password twice a year and never use the same letters and symbols it again. Hackers are concentrating their attention on popular Web services like Gmail, Facebook, Yahoo, Hotmail and others. They are trying to gain access to many accounts, mainly for sending spam messages to friends as victims are likely to respond to the message came from a friend. That said Andrew Brandt, Director of Research Division in the field of computer security company Webroot, cited by kaldata. COM. According to Google, the most common user names and passwords are stolen, "fakes" visited pages (called phishing), and malicious programs that steal personal information from your computer to the victim.

Dialogue on social networking features winners from the losers of companies

Top managers of the company Microsoft, Yahoo, ComScore, and appointed a mandatory Brandwatch dialogue with companies on social networks of consumers. This became clear during the discussion on the corporate reputation management is carried out under the biggest event for digital business in Central and Eastern Europe - webit 2010. Conference held in Sofia from 27 to 29 October. "The events in social networks is growing rapidly. If the company's product has a major drawback, he quickly noticed and helps users. In online communities and communication creative advertising is useless if the product or the company's customer service is not level," said Marvin Liao, commercial director of Yahoo Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Skype for Android smartphones are equipped with

Members of Android smartphones already have access to the popular VoIP-service Skype. The client application version is available for download for free from Android Market online catalog and web site Skype, reports TechNews. BG. The program allows free calls between users of the Internet Skype, instant messaging and cheap calls to landline and mobile telephone numbers.

Prison for teenager refused password

19 years old, was sentenced to 16 weeks in jail for refusing to give police the password on the computer, the BBC reported. Oliver Dreydzh from Liverpool was arrested in May 2009. in conjunction with the police investigation into the pedophile network. Police confiscated his computer, which was protected with a password of 50 characters. As a result, investigators are unable to search computer hard drives. In September, the young man was officially called to reveal the password, but he refused.

The new leader in the world of viruses

Significant changes from previous months was observed in the ranking of the most popular viruses in August, made by ET. From the beginning, the top threats were fairly static, even predictable. Last month, a new leader - analysis ThreatSense. Net show the greatest number of threats detected by the family INF / Autorun, with nearly 7.76 percent of the shares. "This is partly due to the innovations made by the virus laboratory in collecting data about malware and naming signatures.

Google employee fired spy

Google employee was fired for violating company ethics and abuse of authority. 27-year-old David Barksdeyl spied less friend on the phone service Google Voice, a mailbox and chat. The boy did not want to say Barksdeyl which is his new girlfriend, according to TechNews. BG. Google will use this opportunity to stress that strict control over the security of customer data and trying to reduce the number of employees who have special access rights and time of inspection. David Barksdeyl had official right to access to confidential information about consumers. The criminal shot at the end of July, but now the company is exporting the information on this case.

IT lessons for pensioners Burgas

burgasinfo. comOsven teen school year begins and a group of 14 retired Burgas. They began to visit the "60 + computer course organized by the Bulgarian Association for Promotion of Civil Initiatives (BSNGI) announced burgasinfo. COM. Means are provided for the preparation of the elderly through donations from the Bulgarian-American community in Washington, led by former U.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria, Sol Polansky .

"Facebook" box

Internet social networking site Facebook was not available yesterday, a day for many users, who receive the message "Error DNS" when trying to join, reports AP. Network administrators told what to do experiments with some elements of the site, so that the "Facebook" has been delayed or impossible to access. They added that work on the rapid resolution of problems.

BP bought the rights to the phrase to search for oil spill

BP bought by Google and Yahoo search phrases rights on the Internet related to the oil spill, officials TechNews. BG. In a crisis, one of the first things most people is to review the results on Google in case the request. BP's profit is from this fact in an attempt to reduce the negative impact on its image as a result of an accident in the Gulf of Mexico, led to a huge oil spill. BP within a few months to deal with the aftermath of oil incident. The company currently owns the rights to the search such as "oil spill", "claims the oil spill," and others.

Panic button keeps teens on Facebook

The largest social networking site, Facebook join forces with the British agency for child protection, to reduce the risk to young consumers, announced AFP. The new application is called ClickCEOP, which allows each young person to seek help if it becomes the subject to any threat. A unique panic button gives users full access to the Centre to protect children from exploitation and online protection of CEOP, which can be reported suspicious behavior related to online fraud, hackers and pedophiles. Advertising ClickCEOP will appear on the front pages of all users of Facebook, which are expressed in age from 13 to 18 years, they will only need to add the application to obtain protection.

Google Apps is now in the version for public institutions

At a press conference at its Internet giant Google introduced a version of its online platform, Google Apps, is intended for officials of the U.S. government, told CNET. Google Apps for government is different from the standard version with a higher level of security and their own data centers, which are located exclusively in the United States. In accordance with the level of Internet security company complies with the provisions of U.S. law, as even the day before the platform has been certified by the controller. According to Google, the U.S. government spends about $ 76 billion a year on information technology.

U.S. investigation into a conspiracy on the market of electronic books

Authorities in Connecticut, began an investigation of Apple and Amazon, suspecting them of collusion in the market of electronic books. The reason for this is lack of "healthy" competition in this segment. The two companies signed earlier this year, agreements with five leading publishers, including. M., Simon & Schuster, Hachette, HarperCollins and Pengui. In accordance with the contract will be the publishers to sell e-books, Apple and Amazon at prices not available to other customers, shows Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said New York Times said TechNews. BG. The so-called modeling agency for the sale of electronic works that publishers themselves determine the prices of books, taking 70% of the profits. Recent work sold for $ 12.99 to 14.99, while Amazon, which says 70-80% of the U.S. market of electronic books, bestsellers sell for $ 9.99. This is the lowest price allowed the company to capture a large share in the industry.

Furthermore, without the light version

Addition, the social network has ceased to light "Lite" version. Sam feysbukarite network is considered a potential competitor minibloga Twitter. "We do not support it, but learned a lot of testing a simplified version of the site," reads a message on its Web site. "If you used the Lite, it will now be redirected to the main site Facebook. Com". Sam Lite version has been developed as a quick download, a simplified version of what you can add comments, gathering of friends, writing on foreign "wall", as well as viewing photos and status. "Basic service designed for new users who want to start with something easier," said Facebook. It was used in a fashion similar to comments in real time on Twitter.

Microsoft teaches children about Internet safety

At today's press conference, Microsoft launch platform "NetAlarma, whose goal is to obtain information about large and small about how to protect themselves in cyberspace. Under the motto" Manifesto for a Safer Internet ", if the software giant took the initiative and the State Agency for Child Protection Association of Bulgarian Children and Youth Parliament, the students of the National School of Ancient Languages ​​and Cultures, "Constantine Cyril the Philosopher," and so forth. Representatives from schools in large cities in Bulgaria took part, as described surveys and projects developed by them to help their colleagues and friends on the Internet safely. as the main "hot spots" were marked by a lack of awareness among young people and their parents.

Facebook has released a mobile version

Social networking site Facebook, which is recognized as one of the largest, has announced its new version, aimed at its mobile users. The "zero" option, has been called, is aimed at reducing the cost of traffic for operators to display only the text version of the page. Loading 0. Facebook. COM will not be able to watch videos from YouTube, and play games in it. What you can do is to update the status and treatment of your contacts. Following the announcement of the new service, the company reported a short list of countries where it is preserved, and most importantly - free of certain operators. Bulgaria is a country that declared in the list, the mobile network, which will be free access to Mtel. From the fact, pointed out that this version is only for people who want to save bandwidth. Those who want to use the full version will have to pay traffic in accordance with the tariff of mobile operator.

Him of losing 60% of users

Social network Facebook has become a whole new world for Internet users. But this will soon change, according to a poll by Sophos anti-virus giant. This shows that 60% of social network users are concerned about the lack of protection of their data. The study involved 1588 people with 30% of them claim that it is very likely to leave the site, 30% believe it is possible to move, while 16% say they have already done so. On the other hand, 12% of the solid response that will remain, a further 12% do not think they would take this step. In the group that was created is called "Out of that day," which encourages all users to delete their accounts on May 31 in protest against the policies of social networks.

The largest provider in the Pirates 'Cut' of Ireland

Since yesterday (May 24), the Irish ISP Eircom introduces a method called "progressive obligation" to customers who illegally share music network, announced by the connection. This method has been recommended to Bulgaria and the IFPI regional director for Europe -. Frances Moore, during his visit with us a month ago in a model of progressive responsibility, Ireland became the first country to actually start using a method to limit Internet piracy. According to the plan provider serving 750,000 Internet users in the week will be warned subscribers to 50 IP-addresses for which there is a signal that violates the copyrights, illegally sharing files with protected content. The first warning for them to be done with a call for a second violation will be warned again, and the third offense will be shut down Internet access for one week.

The site sells for doubtful the 2010 World Cup

The Commission on Consumer Protection warns that a reasonable doubt that the site worldcupticketing. COM neraglamentirano sells tickets and tours to the World Cup. The signal is received from the UK, the government of this country have received confirmation from the organization of official International Federation of Football Association (FIFA) for the sale of tickets for World Cup matches, that the trader - World Cup ticket is not authorized by FIFA to sell, no tickets or tours.

New promotional product is a web-

In-Text Ads is a new product specialist digital agency Web Easy AD. It is based on kontekstualnost, selecting certain keywords. In-text advertising is unique in the Bulgarian market of the Internet as it is organized under the EasyAds ad platform and will be used as the text content of more than 100 Bulgarian site. In-Text is a type of pay per click, which appears in the text of a web site in the double-underlined words with hyperlinks. After placing the mouse on the link to open the information window containing text or image ads that when clicked causes the user to the advertiser's site. The first results from the in-text advertising confirmed that this is a very high form of ad CTR (klikaemost), successfully combining the advantages of standard text and image advertising platform EasyAds kontekstualnost and targeting keywords.

Problems with the Windows 7 are the most common plant

The company iYogi, dealing with technical support, published a curious inquiry, which was attended by more than 100. 000 customers reports PCWorld. BG. Accordingly, users of Windows 7, most of the problems encountered during installation. For example, 31% of consumers surveyed iYogi recognize that the difficulties in installing or upgrading the software platform. There are those who are faced with problems in data transmission. Of course, all these problems are not insurmountable, and concern about the lack of user training for computer processing.

Pirates: Mi, we have equated with terrorists

With the new amendments to the Law on Electronic Communications, the Ministry refers to all Internet users with terrorists! He said in a letter to the media at the initiative of the Committee to establish a Pirate Party in Bulgaria. Dangerous and totally unacceptable in the new texts have been proposed in the bill changes the WEU, prepared by the Ministry of Interior, Bogomil Shopov on the organization, cited in TechNews. BG. In particular, attacks, in addition to paragraph 2 of the bill, which will be discussed tomorrow in the internal order and security of the National Assembly, as follows: "Art. 250A. (1) For the purposes of detection and investigation of serious crimes, resulting in serious offenses: offenses under Art.

AVG recipe for online shopping

From AVG Technologies based on previous experience expressed fears that Christmas shopping online can be a far from celebratory. Estimates for the UK, because they are more than 2% (about 185 million pounds) spent will be lost due to the gift trade false and fraudulent websites and other forms of online crime. Roger Thompson, Chief of Research Department, AVG said: "With Christmas approaching, many sites claim that the proposal of the Supreme products at the lowest prices buyers are often unable to verify that these traders are true and correct and.

Panic button to turn off

Presented by the device has one goal - to. . . To "turn on and off the Internet" on your computer, writes PCWorld Bg is a small black box with red button on the top USB device can relate more to the class "interesting", and this is certainly due to some colleagues in the office. In practice, hardly any situations that require immediate shutdown of Internet access - so that it can easily be done in the middle of Windows.

Stop supporting Windows XP SP2, in July

We know that regardless of his old old Windows XP SP2 is still popular with consumers, says PCWorld. BG. But everything has its end, and Microsoft says that the cessation of service Windows XP Service Pack 2. As the official company blog, it will happen after the July 13, 2010, in addition to Windows XP SP2, the list of Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2000 clients. Of course, this does not mean that users can not install the OS on their computers.

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