By MARK MAREMONT CONNECT Google Inc. founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin may have to dig deeper to operate their fleet of private jets, after the U.S. Department of Defense ended a little-known arrangement that for years allowed the tech billionaires to travel on sharply discounted jet fuel bought from the Pentagon. Google founders Larry...Read More
Mega-popular blogging and content management system WordPress has just put out version 3.6.1. Since it’s a maintenance release (an update from 3.6), it doesn’t have a huge raft of new features, but it does fix three security holes. One of them is a Remote Code Execution vulnerability reported by a young Belgian web application security...Read More
For many retailers and brands, success pivots on holiday sales. A single day during November and December might bring in double or even triple the amount of average same day sales in other months, particularly on traditional retail discount days. But consumers begin window shopping online well ahead of Thanksgiving, planning gift purchases and often...Read More
The ruling, which comes at a moment when online privacy is being hotly debated, has its origins in a much-publicized Google initiative, Street View, which tried to map the inhabited world. In addition to photographs, Street View vehicles secretly collected e-mail, passwords, images and other personal information from unencrypted home computer networks. The scooping of...Read More
The WordPress integration with Google+ means publishers and commenters can use their Google online identities, share posts with Google+ manually or automatically, and in some cases expect better prominence of WordPress sites in Google search results. (Credit: WordPress) WordPress, the widely used blogging system, has built in Google+ technology that will let publishers use the...Read More
Whether you are creating a personal blog or a large scale portal site, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is essential to getting visitors to your site. Although it is possible to perform SEO manually, the process is often made easier through the use of SEO tools. Recently I launched two new non-technology related blogs (www.poker-run-boats.com and...Read More
BRUSSELS | Mon Sep 9, 2013 6:19am EDT BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Google has offered further concessions aimed at ending a three-year investigation into complaints it was blocking competitors and to avert a possible $5 billion fine, the European Commission said on Monday. The new proposal comes two months after the Commission, which is the European...Read More
Naked Security reader Lisa Goodlin is a website designer and a WordPress user. That’s not exactly a secret. If you happen to visit one of the sites she looks after, you’ll probably see her name and a link to her own website discreetly placed at the bottom of every page, as I’ve done on this...Read More
Imagine the future of SEO — a future in which you forget about using keywords or their synonyms multiple times on a page. In the future, this will be obsolete. Search engines of the future will provide users with answers to their queries by internally verifying validated data that link to trusted documents. To optimize...Read More
Google’s encryption initiative, initially approved last year, was accelerated in June as the tech giant struggled to guard its reputation as a reliable steward of user information amid controversy about the NSA’s PRISM program, first reported in The Washington Post and the Guardian that month. PRISM obtains data from American technology companies, including Google, under...Read More
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