More than 1,000 WordPress blogs have been modified to redirect visitors to sites serving malware, affiliate and pay-per-click redirectors, and low quality PPC search result aggregators, through the WordPress’ automatic update feature. The discovery was made by Denis Sinegubko, the founder of the helpful Unmask Parasites website, who points out the irony of webmasters trying...Read More
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, May 04, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Whether they have yet experienced a drop in their organic search rankings or not due to Google’s latest algorithm update, ‘Penguin’, brands should audit their SEO strategies swiftly to minimise the risk of any activity being interpreted as web spam by the search engine, advises...Read More
(click image for larger view and for slideshow) After deliberating for more than three days, the jury tasked with determining whether Google’s Android operating system infringes Oracle’s intellectual property rights in Java remained undecided about the copyright claim as noon, Pacific Time, approached on Friday. Oracle sued Google last year, alleging that Android infringed Oracle’s...Read More
While I am still waiting for a native WordPress app for the PlayBook the Android port is working well. The Automattic team announce on their BlackBerry blog that v2.1 of WordPress for PlayBook has been rolled into App World. This version brings loads of improvements including: Comment editing: tap the new ‘Edit’ button when viewing...Read More
“The question of ownership is very murky because of the contractual relationships between the parties and because it is conceded that in many cases authors receive no royalties from the publisher for these displays,†she said. Joanne Zack, a lawyer for The Authors Guild, countered that the judge should certify the authors as a class...Read More
Google’s snooping into wireless network data via its Street View cars—behavior that triggered a Federal Communications Commission investigation, as well as multiple lawsuits—is back in the news via a report on Tuesday from the New York Times that identifies the engineer behind the project. But while there has been much public outrage about what Google...Read More
The engineer who wrote the code causing Google’s Street View cars to capture unencrypted Wi-Fi traffic in several countries has been identified, according to an online report. Marius Milner, currently a software engineer for Google’s YouTube, was the person responsible for creating Street View’s Wi-Fi traffic recording software, The New York Times is reporting. The...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO — After Oracle made its closing statements on Monday morning at the U.S. District Court, Google’s Robert Van Nest stepped up to the plate, defending Android‘s implementation of the 37 Java APIs at question in this lawsuit. Van Nest’s core defense rested on positioning this as a case of fair use, asserting that...Read More
Mobile versions of social networks and websites hosted using WordPress were two of the major targets for malware in the past quarter, a report from AVG reveals, while small businesses are being warned to crack down and keep their systems safe. The warning comes during a big month for malware, after an infection spread across...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO — New revelations in a full report detailing the Federal Communications Commission’s investigation into Google’s Street View service are raising questions about whether the search giant escaped scrutiny for capturing personal information from millions of unknowing households across the nation. Chief among the new disclosures: The engineer who intentionally wrote the software code...Read More
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