http://computers.diaryhosting.com Computers Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:23:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Google has gone live with a big change to their result pages, at least for those of you who are logged in (if you’re not seeing it yet, it may still be rolled out for your Google Account). It’s called SearchWiki, and lets you edit the position of the results ... http://computers.diaryhosting.com/1908-google-now-lets-you-upvote-results-and-comment-on-them.html Nowadays, the most prevalent infections belong to rogueware, which are those fake antivirus, antispyware or anti-anything that try to take the money from the users by making them pay to remove nonexistent threats. As we showed recently, they are making huge amounts of money.They are usually installed on victim's computers ... http://computers.diaryhosting.com/1918-new-ways-to-distribute-rogueware.html As the U.S. stock market indexes dramatically declined in September, cybercriminals began organizing their efforts to sustain profitability. While the stock market shows a sharp declining trend, malware has a very different trend which indicates growth during periods of economic uncertainty or recession. In essence, cybercriminals are adapting tactics in ... http://computers.diaryhosting.com/1919-as-stock-market-drops-malware-rises.html EtherPad is a collaborative, real-time text editor created by, among others, two ex-Google employees*. An EtherPad document is quickly set up without any need for registration. You can then share the URL of the document, and others who will visit that page will then be able to see, in real-time, ... http://computers.diaryhosting.com/1909-etherpad.html Google announced that on December 31st they will shut down Lively, which was their 3D chat world, and somewhat of a potential competitor to Second Life. Room widgets embedded in other sites are then supposed to show an image but no more interaction, which would add Lively to the list ... http://computers.diaryhosting.com/1910-google-plans-to-shut-down-lively-3d-world.html