Raffi Krikorian has made it public via a tweet that twitter supports the by google made “spdy-protocol”. With the “spdy-protocol” developed by Google web pages can be loaded faster and more secure. The protocol allows data connections to be multiplexed, compressed and encrypted automatically. Below are some of the spdy-protocol enhancements: Stream Control Transmission...

Google has been found guilty by a French commercial court of abusing the dominant position of it’s Google Maps application. Google has been ordered by this court to pay a fine and damages to a French mapping company.   Google must pay 500,000 euros ($660,000) in damages and a 15,00 euro fine   The French mapping company provides the same services for a fee and it claimed that...

In a statement made on the EA forums it has been made clear that the “forums was defaced by a hacker”. The forums were taken offline while the issue was being investigated.   The vulnerability is believed to be fixed and EA has found no evidence that any personal data was compromised. You have to ask yourself why so much game-developers / publishers are being hacked. Have they...

So the website Megaupload has been shutdown by the FEDS. Is this true justice or the end of file-sharing websites? McLEAN, Va. (AP) — One of the world’s largest file-sharing sites was shut down Thursday, and its founder and several company executives were charged with violating piracy laws, federal prosecutors said.   An indictment accuses Megaupload.com of costing copyright holders more...

And that’s a quote. Below you will find the rest of their official statement. So NVIDIA isn’t supporting the SOPA, now let’s wait and see what AMD‘s “position” on this subject will be as they haven’t officially responded yet NVIDIA wasn’t consulted by ESA in formulating their position on SOPA. Our position is this: we oppose piracy, as it hurts our...

EA just announced Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances. It’s a browser based MMO Real-time strategy Command & Conquer game. It’s based on the “Command and Conquer Tiberium story world” and will use HTML5 to bring it all to life. This should in theory bring the game to almost all portable devices and consoles. You can apply for the Closed Beta today at...

Firefox has released it’s latest version and says it will use 20 to 50% less memory and the “http://” URL prefix will be hidden by default now. Maybe this will get Firefox back in the game again. They managed to reduce the memory use by updating the frequency used for the garbage-collection-mechanism and by a more efficient way of assigning memory to the Firefox system-processes...

Facebook has responded to the publication of Nik Cubrilovic claiming Facebook will track it’s users via the Social-Website’s cookie even after logging out from facebook. At this point no official statement from Facebook has been given but the article is still a interesting read. Facebook Engineer “Arturo Bejar” comment son the alligations of Nik Cubrilovic, Arturo Bejar...

Hacker Nik Cubrilovic made an analasys on the http-headers that come from Facebook and the cookies that the social-network site produces. The new Facebook API makes it possible to send status updates to the Facebook Timeline without any actions take on the user side something Facebook likes to call “frictionless sharing” and not many people seem to like the new Friction Less Stalking...

The bird that doesn’t stop growing but still hasn’t got a working and active “profit-model”… Twitter has 100 million active users logging in at least once a month and 50 million active users every day, CEO Dick Costolo revealed Thursday.   The microblogging service has a total of 200 million registered users, but how many of those are actually regulars has been...

It might block more malware but it’s still not my favorite browser, I’m for chrome all the way. In Q2 of 2011, NSS Labs performed a test of web browser protection against socially-engineered malware targeting users around the globe. This test was in addition to our recent European and Asia-Pacific  browser tests. Socially-engineered malware is a widespread problem, claiming one...

The Drag and Drop noob friendly website design and publishing tool Create websites as easily as you create layouts for print. You can design and publish original HTML pages to the latest web standards without writing code. Now in beta, Muse makes it a snap to produce unique, professional websites Some of Muse’s Features: Plan your site: Easy-to-use sitemaps, master pages, and a host of...

Google announced some new improvements for it’s chrome web platform. Native Client allows C and C++ code to be executed inside the browser and Web Audio API that offers advanced audio capabilities. These new features should take Browser based games to the next level but only time will tell. Today’s new Beta channel release brings big improvements to Chrome’s web platform capabilities,...

Codemasters announced F1 Online: The Game™ set to launch early 2012. F1 ONLINE: THE GAME will give you the chance to be the driver and the team boss in a game that combines intuitive top-down racing gameplay with a rewarding management game as you create and manage your own team.   www.f1onlinethegame.com   F1 Online: The Game™ is the official online FORMULA ONE™ racing and...

Google announced on it’s official blog that it has added games support to Google+. With a newly added button on the top of the screen. Not only can games be played but it’s also possible to see game-updates from your “friends” circles. My family has a games closet. Inside you’ll find a few decks of cards, two decades’ worth of board games and a Twister mat for those...