TECHFLAPS – Waves of Technology

Is your website loading too slow? Are you loosing traffic to your site? Loosing some sales? Before reducing the number of requests to your servers, reducing JPEG sizes or enlisting your services to a content delivery network vendor, stop for a minute and check those JavaScript’s and CSS files you are using in your site.

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) has begun notifying more than 160,000 students, alumni and others about the potential compromise of their Social Security numbers, health insurance information and other personal data, following a database intrusion at the university. The University began notifying students, alumni and others that their personal information may have been [...]

It came to know that just days after it launched Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC), Microsoft has released a fix for a major flaw that slipped through testing.The patch, which Microsoft describes as an “Important” update when it appears in Windows Update, was released yesterday. A hot-fix is available as an important update that should [...]

Apple recently released the new iPod Shuffle, the world’s smallest music player (1.8 inches (45.2 mm)) also happens to be the world’s first talking one. Two things that make the iPod shuffle one amazing device. The new iPod shuffle is jaw-droppingly small. It’s half the size of the previous generation. Yet there’s room for so [...]

Would you say “NO” to any product that is free? That too in this economy? Most people won’t. And so is the case with hundreds of new startups. More and more people are turning to Google Apps, it seems. Google’s Gmail, launched in 2004, now boasts tens of millions of users. In 2006 Google turned [...]

Amir Ahmad Shah, 28, of St. Louis, and his brother, Osmaan Ahmad Shah, 25, of Columbia, Mo., who made over $4 million pitching and selling everything from electronics to teeth whiteners to students in more than 2000 colleges and universities have been indicted by a federal grand jury on a variety of e-mail spamming and [...]

A computer worm that has alarmed security experts around the world has crawled into hundreds of medical devices at dozens of hospitals in the United States and other countries, according to technologists monitoring the threat. The worm, known as “Conficker,” has not harmed any patients, they say, but it poses a potential threat to hospital [...]

The Minnesota state’s Department of Public Safety last week penned a letter to 11 telephone and Internet service providers asking them to block access to 200 gambling Web sites and their phone numbers because they violate a 1961 law known as the Wire Act.

Determined to grow its share of the personal computer market during the worst economic climate in its corporate history, Apple is tailoring changes to a pair of its offerings that will help drive down prices of some of the most popular Macs.

Google announced recently that now publishers can integrate their AdSense accounts with Google Analytics, and this feature is now available to all publishers. Integrating your account with Analytics will provide you with more detailed information about traffic to your pages and how users interact with your site.