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“Email security & usage” [Infographic]
![“Email security & usage” [Infographic]](http://cdn.dottech.org/media/2013/05/email_security_and_usage-290x160.jpg)
This infographic looks at some interesting stats regarding email usage and email security from around the world.
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“When will Google Fiber take over the world?” [Infographic]
![“When will Google Fiber take over the world?” [Infographic]](http://cdn.dottech.org/media/2013/05/google_fiber_infographic-290x160.jpg)
Very interesting infographic compares the speed and price of Google Fiber to other broadband ISPs in USA and UK.
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Lady writes a real letter to a company asking to be unsubscribed from email newsletter [Image]
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You can unsubscribe from most email newsletters from a link at the bottom of every email. Apparently this lady didn’t know that. So she wrote a physical letter and sent it via snail-mail asking a company to stop sending her emails.
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Chinese firm is looking to hire a “Chief Pornographic Identification Officer”
We’ve all heard about countries wanting to rid the internet of porn — South Korea and Iceland to name a few. China is also one of these countries, and if you’ve ever wondered how they choose their porn-fighters, it’s simple. Like every other job, they post a job listing!
Security [...]
Read More »Master of the Internet [Video]
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This 1994 advertisement will help you realize how the world has changed in less than 20 years.
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Bloody hilarious email addresses [Humor]
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Who would have thought generating email addresses from initials could turn out to be so entertaining.
Read More »Bing shows five times more malware websites than Google, according to study
Search engines like Google and Bing index the web. The web contains thousands (millions?) of malware links, either malicious websites or malicious downloads. So it shouldn’t surprise anyone that malware links can be found when searching via a search engine. The people at major search engines, including Google and Bing, [...]
Read More »VirusTotal maximum file size limit is now 64 MB, up from 32 MB
As I’m sure most dotTechies know, VirusTotal is an awesome online virus/malware scanner that allows users to scan files and programs for viruses or malware using over 40 different anti-virus/anti-malware engines.
VirusTotal historically had a maximum file size limit of 20 MB. Files above 20 MB were not able to [...]
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Forget food, water, and shelter — having Internet access is more important [Image]
![Forget food, water, and shelter — having Internet access is more important [Image]](http://cdn.dottech.org/media/2013/04/basic_human_needs-290x160.jpg)
Maslow was mostly accurate in his hierarchy of needs — he just forgot to include the Internet.
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How to make YouTube videos load faster on Windows (XP, 7, 8, Vista), Mac OS X, and Linux [Guide]
YouTube is owned by Google. Google is a web 2.0 company. They know how to manage server load. So then the question is why do so many people run into buffering issues when watching YouTube… even people on seemingly fast connections? This article provides more insights into this conundrum plus [...]
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Mozilla wants to bring console games to the web, ports Unreal 3 engine to web browsers
We all know Mozilla loves the Internet. Not only do they develop a web browser, Firefox, but they have been working on an HTML5-only mobile operating system, Firefox OS. So you shouldn’t be surprised when I tell you Mozilla isn’t stopping now. In fact, their latest endeavor may be more [...]
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Getting motivated by the Internet [Comic]
![Getting motivated by the Internet [Comic]](http://cdn.dottech.org/media/2013/03/motivation_on_internet-290x160.jpg)
How many times have you read something motivational on the Internet only to forget it soon after?
Read More »Facebook is testing notifications that will pester you to post new updates
Facebook, don’t do this. You recently showed off a newly redesigned News Feed and it looked great. Things were looking up. And then you had to go off and do something like this.
If you’re wondering what exactly Facebook did wrong this time, it’s exactly what you see in the [...]
Read More »[Web] Add special effects to your photos without downloading a thing with TiltShiftMaker
If there is one thing that I like better than things I don’t have to install, it is things I don’t have to download at all! TiltShiftMaker is an online tool that you can use to add special effects to your photos. Simply visit their site, upload a picture and [...]
Iran launches ‘Mehr’, their very own version of YouTube
Iran has launched an alternative to YouTube called ‘Mehr’. Why not just use YouTube with its already well-established amount of cat videos, you ask? That’s because sites like YouTube (and even Facebook) have been banned in the country since 2009, with YouTube being deemed as “inappropriate”.
Mehr, which means affection [...]
Read More »South Korea declares war against Internet porn
Pornography is illegal in South Korea. Inevitably, savvy Internet-users find ways to go around governmental blocks, in this case to acquire or view said pornography. South Korea’s solution? Destroy all the porn in an all-out war!
The Associated Press reports that officials in South Korea have decided to outsource an [...]
Read More »Gmail is finally the most popular e-mail service in the world, only just recently passed Hotmail
Back in July Google reported Gmail has 425 million monthly active Gmail accounts. If true, that would have finally made Gmail the most popular web mail service in the world, surpassing Hotmail and Yahoo. However, at the time, Google’s numbers were not in-line with third party companies that track such [...]
Read More »How to disable Gmail’s new compose-new-email pop-up window [How-To Guide]
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Google recently introduced a new way to compose e-mails in Gmail. If you switched to the new way and don’t like it, don’t worry — there is a way to switch back. This guide shows you how.
How to switch back to old compose-new-email method in Gmail
Do the following [...]
Read More »Microsoft asked Google to censor “infringing” links belonging to BBC, CNN, Wikipedia, US government, and more
We have seen dumb takedown notices and requests (via DMCA) in the past, such as when a researcher was kicked off MediaFire. However, we have not yet seen something as ridiculous as the following.
As I mentioned before in my criticism of LeakID, companies are allowed to issue DMCA takedown [...]
Read More »India sends more spam than any other country, followed by Italy and the United States
Curious as to who you can thank for those glorious spam emails you receive? India, Italy, and United States, the top three countries when it comes to number of spam sent from July 2012 to September 2012.
According to the “Dirty Dozen” report by SophosLabs, a UK-based digital security firm, [...]
Read More »These are seven new malicious emails you should stay clear of — emails from YouTube, Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, British Airways, and DHL Express
dotTech has gotten into the habit of warning our readers about web security issues, namely malicious emails that make their rounds in the inboxes of people around the world — such as the fake Windows Update password stealing email and the fake email from Microsoft. The following are seven new [...]
Read More »Alto is a web-based email client that syncs all your Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, and Apple accounts into one inbox
AOL used to be a giant, providing one of the largest (if not the largest) dial-up service in the early to mid 2000s. AOL took a nose dive once broadband took over and since then AOL has been working hard to rebrand itself as a Web 2.0 company. A recent [...]
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