Verizon Launching Its New 150Mbps Broadband Service in U.S.

Verizon introduced a new service which started rolling out this Monday, and claims to be the ‘fastest mass-market broadband service in the entire United States.’ It will promisingly deliver download speed of 150 Mbps and upload speeds of estimated 35 Mbps over Verizon's exclusive all-fiber-optic FiOS network. Verizon announced that the service would be made available to all small businesses and the majority of the more than 12.5 million homes in areas where FiOS is available till the end of this year.

This new high speed is three times more than the current speed available for users over FiOS network. Boasting upon this figure, Verizon’s VP of product management, Eric Bruno, exclaimed:"The new 150/35 Mbps FiOS Internet offer establishes a new benchmark for high-speed Internet in America, and paves the way for a flurry of emerging bandwidth-intensive applications to reach mainstream status."

Facebook Users Vulnerable To Malware, Almost Every Fifth Posts Is A Spam: Study

BitDefender surfaced its Facebook app called ‘Safego,’ just in the start of November, which promises a scan to Facebook users analyzing the links posted to their facebook profile. Just as social networks become the hub of internet usage, and internet’s most used activity is social networking, so do shift the spammers from previously emails to latest social networks. This particular application developed in Facebook’s platform presented a defensive mechanism for all sorts of spamming, it aim was to reduce the spread of malware’s in the website to the minimum.

According to the currently commenced scan, BitDefender has claimed to run so far, it declares that almost about one post out of every five posts of all Facebook users’ one kind or another of infections in their news feeds. Reading the applications Facebook page, it is posted: “Since its launch (almost a month ago), BitDefender safego scanned 17 million Facebook posts and it has detected infections on the news feeds of around 20% of its users. We detected several types of scam waves.”

Leo Apotheker, HP's New CEO – During a Conference Call with the Media

Since Leo Apotheker's has become the new CEO of Hewlett-Packard Co. everyone is curious to ask him the same two questions, which were finally answered when the company was presenting its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings.

Oracle Corp., which is in competition to HP in the practical market, has been attempting to convinvvr him to testify at an intellectual property trial which is related to Apotheker's former employer SAP AG. According to Oracle, HP has denied any subpoena on Apotheker's behalf, whereas HP has even pointed the finger at Oracle for harassing Apotheker. However, in any case, Oracle failed to bring Apotheker at the trial, and it is now on Monday that jury expects Apotheker appearing in person, or maybe Oracle playing a recorded deposition he had given in 2008.

Facebook Tends To Become Your Homepage! – Attempt To Beat Google at Its Own Game? (Detail of Google-Facebook Rivalry)

Facebook is about to introduce a new tool, which will aim to convince its huge number of users to set Facebook.com as their browser’s homepage. It's barely any strange move, considering its scenario and taking a glimpse at the building leading to this day It is a very interesting move, by Facebook. While simultaneously, Facebook is implementing its own emailing service in phases, it gaurds itself from losing its grip on user data, this move demonstrates the Facebook's desire of sweeping its rivals.

If Facebook successfully persuades its user to use the social networking website as the homepage for their browsers, it will be displacing the reign of another Internet giant ‘Google,’ in that place. Surprisingly enough, some Facebook users have already reportedly seen a "Make Facebook Home" button at their facebook home pages. Their tag line in this new tool tends to convince users, as they again use their power of socialism in this factor, by attracting them to keep more in contact with their facebook friends and family. One such tag line reported is "See what's happening with Stephanie, Kim, and the rest of your friends the moment you open your browser," where the names seems to be your most recently contacted friends on Facebook.