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Supreme Court Upholds TikTok Ban: A Financial Nightmare Looms for Tech Giants

Posted on January 17, 2025 by admin

On January 17, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (PAFACA), mandating ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, to divest its ownership by January 19 or face a nationwide ban. The … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Adds a Copilot Key: Practical Upgrade or Flashy Button?

Posted on January 5, 2024 by admin

Heads up, Windows users! Prepare for a new addition to your keyboard family: the Copilot key. Yes, the first new key since 1994 (remember the Start button’s debut?). It’s a bold move, sparking curiosity (and maybe a bit of skepticism). … Continue reading →

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Sanmay Ved owns Google.com domain for 1 minute

Posted on October 13, 2015 by admin

Anyone here watch the tv show “How I Met Your Mother”? “Nothing Good Happens After 2 A.M.” is the 18th episode in the first season of the television series. In this case, it was around 1:20 AM Eastern Time, on … Continue reading →

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Taylor Swift, Microsoft buy .porn and .adult domain names to protect brand

Posted on March 24, 2015 by admin

You probably know about .com, .org, and .net domain names.  But did you know that there are now over 547 new gTLDs, or generic top-level domains, on the Web, with new suffixes released every month?  And starting from June 1, new … Continue reading →

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Microsoft is Phasing Out Internet Explorer, introducing Project Spartan

Posted on March 19, 2015 by admin

This week at the Microsoft Convergence conference, marketing chief Chris Capossela announced that Project Spartan will be replacing the 90’s go-to internet browser, Internet Explorer (IE).  Most welcome the upgrade, to have a more advanced/compliant and therefore compatible web browser … Continue reading →

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Microsoft releases Internet Explorer security patch, for Windows XP too

Posted on May 1, 2014 by admin

Microsoft has just released a security patch to fix the major security bug that was reported for Internet Explorer (IE) this previous weekend.  And they included Windows XP too, since the security flaw was found so close to its end … Continue reading →

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Internet Explorer bug, Use Google Chrome/Mozilla Firefox to avoid hacking

Posted on April 29, 2014 by admin

UPDATE: Microsoft releases Internet Explorer security patch, for Windows XP too If you are using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE), the U.S. Department of Homeland security is advising you to switch to another web browser until Microsoft releases a fix for a … Continue reading →

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