Google Chrome’s 8.0.552.237 update costs a total of almost $14,500 fix for 16 security vulnerabilities, including one in the Web browser’s speech handling rated as critical by developers with its risk of allowing malicious code to run clean, a hole that gave developer Sergey Glazunov a $3,133.7 reward, and the highest for the search giant since its security reward program and reward premiums increased.
Glazunov, brilliant as he is, also discovered three other holes for $1,000 each, and …

With over 85 million registered users, LinkedIn stands atop all professional social networking sites today, especially when it allows you to make profiles, show resumes, create business relationships or partnerships, seek jobs and enter groups of professionals in accord, which explains why LinkedIn is the most sought after network for working professionals and businesses.
Neal Schaffer, the social media strategist and blogger, authored the Windmill Networking-Understanding, Leveraging and …

Oklahoma’s DISH Network subscribers may not be able to see broadcasts from CBS and CW next week if the satellite company breaks down agreement in signing a new contract with local affiliations.
Griffin Communications LLC makes threats to close accessibility to Tulsa’s KOTV Channel 6 Griffin, Oklahoma’s KWTV and CW stations on both locations when both parties, DISH Network and Griffin, failed to achieve an agreement last Saturday.
CEO David Griffin, president of Griffin Communications and …

Some sources say that the earlier reported Samsung Galaxy S5830 Mini smartphone is actually named as ACE.
First images of smartphone Samsung S 5830 have appeared on the internet. Apparently, the smartphone has been designed as a mini version of Galaxy S, reports Samfirmware. Official name of the smartphone is not known yet, but many portals have dubbed this novelty as Galaxy S Mini, and some sources have now confirmed the official name of this newbie is Samsung Galaxy Ace.
Chinese portal Teena …

Chris Hughes, who co-founded Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg when they were roommates at Harvard, is engaged to his boyfriend of five years, Sean Eldridge.  Hughes worked as a spokesman for Facebook, and reportedly earned about $500 million from social networking giant.  Hughes is now the founder and director of Juno.com. Eldridge is political director for Freedom to Marry, an organization that is working on legalizing same sex marriage.

Hughes and his boyfriend Sean Eldridge announced their …

A twenty-three year old California man, George Bronk, used Facebook to obtain information about the email accounts of women, then hacked into the email accounts, and downloaded nude and semi nude pictures and video from these accounts.  Bronk then proceeded to email these private photos and videos to everyone on the womens’ contact list.

Bronk, who lives in Citrus Heights California, even bullied one woman into emailing him additional explicit pictures by threatening to email the ones …

The Winklevoss twins, whom moviegoers may recall were portrayed in the Facebook movie ‘The Social Network’ last year, were back in court last week to reopen their lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg.  Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Harvard alumni and Olympic oarsmen, claim that they, not Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, and Zuckerberg stole it from them.

Several years ago, the twins, along with another Harvard alumnus, Divya Narenda launched a lawsuit and were successful in that they were …

Executive Director of Research in Motion (RIM), Mike Lazaridis has confirmed during the CES 2011 that his company plans to release a number of super smartphones running on QNX OS. Then, Lazaridis told PC Mag that the company is looking far into the future and has high expectations from these gadgets.
Smartphones, which RIM plans to release, will have high-performance hardware, running on new OS QNX and can well compete with such ‘giants’ like Apple’s iPhone or Samsung Galaxy S.
According …

Changes to Google’s Gmail Service Level Agreement (SLA) have been announced by the search giant, aiming to highlight differences between their email services with different providers particularly clients of Microsoft’s email technologies.

Email Services Downtimes for 2010 – Google Enterprise Blog

“People expect email to be as reliable as their phone’s dial tone, and our goal is to deliver that kind of always-on availability with our applications,” wrote Google Enterprise …

Apple Inc. will be giving a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card to the person who downloads the ten billionth app from the Apple App Store.

Apple App Store Ten Billionth App Download Countdown

A large counter has been posted by Apple on its App Store site indicating that the ten billionth download of an app is nearing.
“The App Store is about to hit ten billion downloads,” read the live counter. “Download the ten billionth app and you could win a US $10,000 iTunes Gift Card.”
However, Don …