The Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA), a body responsible for managing Nigeria’s identity on the domain name space, .ng, has urged firms to switch to the .ng country-code Top Level Domain. A country-code Top Level Domain (cc-TLD) is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country [...]
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Microsoft Malware Removal Tool Takes Out Public Enemy No. 4
Microsoft this week used its Malicious Software Removal Tool to take out the fourth-biggest threat in automated program’s history, which dates back to at least 2005. The malware, known as Win32/Renocide, is a crafty backdoor-enabled worm that spreads through removable drives, network shares and popular file-sharing applications.Fruitfulujah: Fast and Reliable [...]
SEO Course: Backlinking Your Way to the Top
By Ben Jackson What is a Backlink? What’s all this hoopla over backlinks? Every SEO forum and blog you stop by is constantly touting the power and necessity of backlinks so they must be a pretty big deal! So what exactly is a backlink? Simply put, a backlink is a [...]
Is cyber-warfare a genuine threat?
Cyber attacks are already upon us but the rules of digital warfare have yet to be agreed upon. Is it time, as an influential think tank believes, for a digital Geneva Convention? Is it even possible when the internet was designed without country borders and when defining what a “cyber-war” [...]
X-CART: PHP shopping cart software & ecommerce solutions
Some of the most important problems “out-of-the-box” shopping carts owners usually face are described in few simple questions: “Will this ecommerce solution reflect all edges of my business?” “Can I integrate it into my existing website?” “What do I do to make my online shop support special functionality?” Different shopping [...]
An early look at Google’s Chrome operating system
Consumers have had two choices when it comes to computers: Macs and PCs. Now, Google is about to offer a third. Chrome OS, a streamlined operating system that Google unveiled this week and plans to release by next summer, represents a radical overhaul in the way computers work: there’s no [...]
Twitter News Service Here: “It’s Called Twitter”
To set the record straight, there’s been a lot of confusion around what Twitter may or may not be doing, stemming from an interview Reuters did with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. Stone originally appeared to indicate that the company was considering partnering with news organizations on some kind of new [...]