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Motorola Mobility says about 100 Xoom tablet computers that it refurbished for sale on Woot.com may not have been properly wiped of the previous owners' data. Motorola is offering two years of free credit monitoring to anyone who bought a Xoom tablet from an outlet like Amazon.com Inc., Best Buy Co. Inc., RadioShack Corp., Staples Inc. between March and October, and then returned them. The stored data could include owners' photographs, documents and login information for email and websites,...

Facebook is sueing a Delaware online-based company called Adscend Media LLC for a type of spam called "clickjacking" that is plaguing the social networking site, company and state officials announced Thursday.Facebook says it's important for them to stay ahead of spammers and scammers(aka Yahoo boys)."In clickjacking, links on Facebookpromising shocking or salacious videos have code embedded in them that spreads the link to the user's page."That makes it seem like the user 'liked' the link,...

A Couple Of Valentine Jokes To Share On This Year's Valentine 1. Son: "Dad, what do I give my girlfriend as a valentine gift?"Dad: "How does she look?"Son: "She looks sweet, pretty, fun to be with and of course very sexy"Dad: "Give her my number!"2. The Best Valentine Divorce Letter, Ever! My dear husband: I'm writing this letterto inform you that I'm leaving you.I've been a good wife to you for the past 20yrs & I've nothing to show for it; And the last 2 weeks has been hell. Your boss called...

Good news! Google updated the much awaited Google pagerank today! My blog, Somtoo.com( the one you are reading now), scored a little disappionting Pagerank — 2/10 — I was expecting something like 4/10, you dig? :DAnyways, it was fun today, I was thoroghly exiting checking my websites' Pageranks.And for the beginers: What Is Google Pagerank Google Pagerank is one of the alogrithms used by Google for ranking webpages in a Google search result. Each page is assigned to a specific Pagerank. A...

Even with the efforts put in place by Security agencies in co-operation with the social media to decrease the number of internet scams to the barest minimum, some innocent people still manage to get scammed even till today.That reminds me, sometime ago last year. I was sent an e-mail from these internet scammers.The content of the e-mail was neatly oranised that it looked so good to be believed. If not that I had heared about these scammers and their screwed strategies before, I would have...

Google announced late Friday of a change in their Privacy Policy. "One policy, one Google experience We’re getting rid of over 60 differentprivacy policies across Google andreplacing them with one that’s a lotshorter and easier to read. Our new policy covers multiple products and features, reflecting our desire to create one beautifully simple and intuitive experience across Google. This stuff matters, so please take a few minutes to read our updated Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service...

Late Sunday evening; Stories had been going round on Facebook that a hacker, or hacker group whom or which goes by the name Hannibal, "recently leaked 100,000 Facebook usernamesand passwords..."The story has not been confirmed officially as there was no comments from Facebook.A source stated that the alegedly exposed Facebook credentials "belong to Arab users of the social network." But that does not necessarily mean that everybody else is safe. Even as this Facebook hack story is not...

The other day, I was going through my Facebook profile with my phone when suddenly, I noticed a 'nice little nonesense' on my employent details. It says something like : "Somtoo worked at World Internet Summit".Who is? Where is? And how did I work at this mysterious "World Internet Summit"?I had to flash back my memories. I remembered that someone(a Facebook friend) had 'suggested' me to a company on Facebook and curiously, I had clicked and accepted that I worked at this mysterious company....

Recently, I got some information on when Google PageRank will be updated. The information was not from a very reliable source but it looks very good to be true. The (suposedly leaked) information came just as webmasters are growing impatient but submisively waiting on the next update of the GREAT Google pagerank and definitly, backlinks database too. If this news is true then it means that the next update Google pagerank is at hand — precisely starts on 30th January 2012 — according to 'my...

One of the world's largest movie and music file-sharing sites was shut down by federal autorities today, Thursday 20th January 2012. Federal authorities are calling it one of the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought.The official charge Megaupload is being accused of is "international enterprise based on Internet piracy." Megaupload was one of the most popular music and movie sharing website on the Internet, allowing users to anonymously transfer files like music, softwares and movies...

The aim of the Stop Online Piracy Act is "to crackdown on internet pirates or peopleillegally downloading copyrightedalbums and DVDs". But opponents of the bill say it's too vague and could potentially restrict freedom of speech and fundamentally change the Internet.Tens of thousands of web sites have protested, including giants such as Wikipedia and Reddit.But what would really happen if this SOPA is actually passed?Would Big Brother track our every click? Could you be arrested and hauled...

Most USB modems issued by service providers such as Vodafone, Etisalat; are locked to the issuing service provider for usage. This means for example, that USB modems issued by Etisalat is compatible only with Etisalat sim cards. But with many networks to choose, one might be tempted to drift to another service provider.My USB modem supports only the sim card of Service A but I want to browse with Service B or Service C sim cards on the modem as well. How do I go about it?There are two ways to...

I am 13, 14,15,16 or 17 years old. I want to make money for myself but I'm too young to have a job; Or my school schedules are too tight for having a job. How do I go about it?As an under-eighteen teenager, you have limits on securing a job for yourself limited; to the opportunities of getting money. Not even the internet can guarantee you can make money online when you are not up to eighteen. Most online companies where you will supposedly make money online require you be 18years and above...

I was checking for keywords on Google Insights For Search when I stumbled across this information that I am about to give you. I found out that the name of the biggest social network — Facebook, is still the most searched keyword on the most popular and visited search engine and web site — Google; for the year 2012. This news did not come to me as much suprise as the word "Facebook" was also the most searched word in 2011. Other keywords in the limelight along Facebook were you tube[sic],...

Mobile freindly web pages are very much needed these days because of the increasing volume of mobile internet users. That was why Google's Blogger.com introduced the mobile templates for Blogger blogs. To Set And Choose Mobile Templates For Blogger 1. Login to your Blogger.com dashborad. 2. Go to Settings >gt&; Email&Mobile. 3. Under Show mobile template, select Yes. Show mobile template on mobile devices. 4. Now select your desired template - Default;Simple;Watermark;Awsome;Travel;Picture...