Monthly archive of 12 December 2008

Closing In On The Software Scammers

_45291608_ftc-eyewire226The US government have confirmed they are closing in on internet fraudsters who are trying to sell fake security software to innocent buyers.

In a bid to stop the sellers of the non-existent software from trading online, The Federal Trade Commission has successfully made an example of a couple of the big culprits of the scam, of which over a million people in the US and an estimated 5 million worldwide, have already fallen victim to.

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Google Joins The Battle Of The Browsers

The Google empire has been built on the foundation of recreating existing products in a more innovative way. The unrivalled success of Google Search and Gmail were based on the innovation and expansion of features such as relevant search results and email storage space respectively, setting them aside from already established competitors.

Just three and a half months after the launch of the beta version of Chrome, Google’s answer to Internet Explorer and Firefox, Google has launched Chrome 1.0. A beta version is part of software’s release life cycle where the product is on pre-release to selected users for testing purposes and then updated based on the results. Compared with Gmail’s 2004 release which is still in Beta version, Chrome 1.0 has spent very little time under testing.

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