News: Internet
Thursday, 7 Feb 2013
New Sign-in Experience for Microsoft Services Coming End 2013
The Windows Azure Active Directory team will be launching a new sign-in experience across Office 365, Windows Azure, and other of the company’s services used by organizations by the end of this year.
Wednesday, 6 Feb 2013
Trend Micro Warns Against Cybercriminals Capitalizing on Windows 8's Popularity
Trend Micro has detected some sites which are offering their own dubious version of free 'Windows 8 Activator' upgrade. With the adoption rate of Windows 8 increasing by more than 30% in January 2013, cybercriminals are hoping to ride on Windows 8's popularity.
Instagram Now Available on Web
Instagram has just announced that users can now browse their full feeds in real-time at Instagram.com, which used to be just a placeholder for the app. While users can "like" or comment on pictures, they can't upload pictures or apply filters yet.
Pinterest to Secure More Funding, Company Valued at $2 Billion
Popular photo sharing site Pinterest is reportedly in talks for a fresh round of funding that would value the company at around US$2 billion.
Tuesday, 5 Feb 2013
Roam7 Traverses Your Friends' Facebook Photo Albums to Help Plan Your Trips
Roam7 lets you easily plan trips by automatically generating travel advice from your friends' travel photo albums on Facebook.
Saturday, 2 Feb 2013
MyRepublic Celebrates Local Flagship Store Opening
MyRepublic is celebrating its opening of its first Singapore store today - the first in MyRepublic's planned chain of retail outlets that will focus on promoting and showcasing the experience of Next Generation high-speed fibre broadband and its applications.
Friday, 1 Feb 2013
Symantec Advises Against Surprise "Parcels" In Your Inbox
Symantec Security Response has discovered that fake FedEx emails have been circulating. In these emails, users are asked to click on a link to print out a receipt in order to retrieve their parcel in person from the nearest FedEx office. Unsuspecting users who click on the link will be greeted by a PostalReceipt.zip file containing a malicious executable file named "PostalReceipt.exe", where a malware, "Trojan.Smoaler", will then be delivered to their computer.
Thursday, 31 Jan 2013
Dropbox to Focus More on Content Rather Than Files
Dropbox recently gave a preview on what to expect from its service in 2013. The new features shown, will place emphasis on how a user's content will be displayed instead. This signals Dropbox's desire of being more than just a storage locker in the cloud.
Facebook Reports 2012 Full Year Financial Results
Facebook has just reported its Q4 and also full year 2012 financial results, and the company did better than expected, ending the year on a high.
Monday, 28 Jan 2013
Google+ Now Second Most Popular Social Network
In the last quarter of 2012, Google+ became the second most popular social media on the Internet, just slightly behind Facebook. In third place was Youtube, another Google product, while Twitter was in fourth place.
