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Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Big Brother is watching you!

The friendly search engines on the internet know a lot about you, more than what you think. Whenever you search something on the net, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Live Search engines not just search and fetch you results, they also store a lot of information about every query you make.
This techworld article tells you more.
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Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

google ad for infecting pcs with virus!

Security researcher Didier Stevens ran a google ad that promised to infect the pcs of anyone who clicked on the ad.
More importantly, the ad ran unnoticed by google for about 6 months and 409 people clicked on this during this time period!!
more here.
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2007/05/hundreds_click_.html

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Friday, April 27th, 2007

Threatening Spam!

Spammers are getting scarier. They used to be irksome and even funny sometimes. But now it seems at least some of them have decided to scare people.
Spam that threatens recipients with death if they do not pay thousands of dollars to the sender is circulating on the Internet, according to SecureWorks.
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Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

Recent Techcrunch coverage for ChaCha

The going is not so great as this article points out
 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/03/chacha-90-pranksters/

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Friday, February 2nd, 2007

cha-cha gets a mention

I’d written about cha-cha earlier. Now they get a mention here in popularmechanics.com
Nice to see.  Looks like they are gaining popularity.

No Comments » - Posted in Online Services by arun
Sunday, January 28th, 2007

Another online file sharing service

senduit  - another online file sharing service, similar to DivShare.
The difference here is senduit has a limitation of 100 MB whereas divshare claimed unlimited storage.
You also have the option to set an expiry time for the link. I personally like the simplistic-looking UI.

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