Microsoft Live Search Cashback Gives you Money, Kind of

Microsoft launched 'Live Search CashBack' this week, letting surfers search for products and get discounts sent back to them. Apparently people are finding discounts of up to 15 per cent off on items ranging from digital cameras to umbrellas. Analysts like it so far, but it's...

PayPal to Block Users With Old Browsers

"PayPal, eBay's electronic payment service, plans to take the dramatic step of locking out people using older versions of Web browsers in order to stem phishing attacks. PayPal said a "significant" group of people still use Microsoft's Internet Explorer 3, released in 1996,...

Web networkers 'at risk of fraud'

"People who use internet networking sites are being warned that they could be at risk of identity theft. Credit information group Equifax said members of sites such as MySpace, Bebo and Facebook may be putting too many details about themselves online. It said fraudsters could...

HP Boss Walks Away Free From Spy Scandal

"A California criminal case against former Hewlett-Packard chairwoman Patricia Dunn and three others - a corporate spying scandal that led to congressional hearings and an enhanced state privacy law - has ended with a whimper. Dunn was cleared of all charges by Santa Clara...

Computer VIRUSES Can Ruin Your Life

A virus is a program – a piece of executable code – that has the possibly of cloning itself. Computer viruses can spread fast and they are hard to eradicate. They can be attached to any type of file and they are spread as files copied and sent from person to person....

Using CSS to Style Text in Flash 8: A Tutorial

"If you’ve had the chance to work with Flash 8, one of the first things you’ve probably noticed is the change in rendering texts on the screen. Better than ever, working with text in Flash is no longer a chore in pixel checks, font size checks, scrolling hacks and...

Blogspot.com Blocked In India By Some ISPs

"Amit at Digital Inspiration has a [partial] list of Indian ISPs that seem to be blocking Blogspot and offers several solutions to get around the block. We are waiting on news to confirm if it indeed was a Ministry of Communications directive that made these ISPs block the...