Youtube’s Bandwidth Costs, Concern For Google?

Earlier this year, an analytical report by Credit Suisse estimated that Google’s video service, the ever popular Youtube, was on track to lose around half a billion dollars this year. The report said that while Youtube was the leader in online video streams, monetization...

Pakistan: The Land I Love!

This is my country, the country that I love and belong to. This is the real Pakistan, not what you see in your media. That, is something cooked up to keep you glued to your tv screens and pooping in your pants. There are more than 1 billion Muslims in the world. If we were...

Awesome Video By Sony: Did You (Frikkin’) Know?

Tweetdeck: Bug Or Feature?

I was recently followed by a guy on Twitter but due to my laziness, I did not follow back at once. Which simply means that on the Twitter web interface, I can’t see his tweets but he can see mine. So if he replies to any of my tweets, I would be oblivious to it. I...

Conficker Is Up And Kicking!

The fourth variant of the Conficker worm, Conficker.D, failed to show up on April 1 putting a stop to the speculation that April Fool’s Day would prove to be some sort of Cyber Doomsday. However, 7 days later on April 8, another variant Conficker.E has risen. The...

The Conficker Worm: Random Threat Or Something More?

With the arrival of April 1st, concerns among security experts are on the rise with respect to the threat of the Conficker worm, the latest version of which is reportedly set to activate on this day and wreak havoc in the world. This worm targets the Microsoft Windows operating...

NBA Fines Mavs’ Owner $25,000 For Tweet Against Ref

The NBA slapped a fine of $25,000 on Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks for criticizing the refs on Twitter after the Denver Nuggets 103 – 101 win over the Mavericks last Friday night. During the Mavericks visit to Denver in January, Cuban was fined $25,000...

Internet Explorer 8: One of the fastest web browsers?

Microsoft has posted a video on the Internet Explorer 8 website which boasts about the speed of Internet Explorer. Shockingly, it proves to be 1/3 faster than Chrome and 3 times faster than Firefox ( all stable released versions ). They’ve done testing by using a stop...

URI, URL and URN: What’s the goddamn difference?

I had been seeing the term URI used in place of URL for quite a long time and it finally got to my head to investigate that what the heck is a URI and why is it kicking URL’s bum off the net almost everywhere. I always thought that a URL is the address of a website...