Security Breach at a Marketing and Communications Vendor Makes Major Clients Deliver Warning To Their Customers

Among others, Best Buy Co., TiVo Inc., and Walgreen Co. become the newest victims of apparently never-ending string of companies issuing warnings to their customers regarding the hacking over the weekend. Warnings claim that access was gained by the hackers to confidential customers' files mostly obtaining bulk of names and related email addresses.

The only thing these companies have in common is their marketing and communications vendor, Epsilon. It is undoubtedly one of the most reputable marketing services firms of the day, its functions by sending annual e-mails of almost more than 40 billion by the supreme command of its 2,500 elite clients. Epsilon, based in Dallas, passed a very short statement on Friday declaring that "a full investigation was under way" after the breach was found and they learned about the customer client data loss. Epsilon repeatedly assured that the only information obtained the list of names and email addresses and it quoted that "no other personal identifiable information associated with the names was at risk." Whereas, Epsilon spokeswoman Jessica Simon, refused to answer any further queries after that.

Mozilla Aims Reacts to the up Add-Ons Which Slow the Perfomance of Its Browser

Mozilla has publicly warned all its current actives users regarding the amount of vulnerability recent add-ons of the browsers bring to the slow startup. Alongside it has also warned its developers for fastening their extension software’s. Firefox said in a statement that whiles these add-ons adds versatility and new features to Mozilla's browser; they also slow the performance speed of the browser too. Mozilla has now began taking full action towards this rising speed-killing extensions.

Blog post of 1^st April by the Mozilla product manager, Justin Scott, also declares several steps the company is going take to for eradicating this problem and provide tentative solution to the delay caused by these add-ons. He wrote that "Firefox performance is extremely important to our users, especially how quickly it starts up and loads websites. Customization is also extremely important, and while most add-ons cause only a tiny performance impact, others can significantly slow down Firefox.”

Google’s Opportunity Scale in China is Continuously Becoming Smaller

One year has passed since the stunts between Beijing and Google over censorship were pulled publicly. According to an analysis, Google’s business with Chinese advertisers is growing more and more simultaneously as the Internet giant's share of online searches becomes lesser and lesser in China.

Interface of Google.com in Chinese

Just recently, a Chinese portal made public declaration that it is not use Google for search anymore, making the rapid loss of market share steeper. It was anticipated that Google’s step forward in China will be its famous mapping service which has previously played a key role boasting its reputation at other places, but its appeal remains unanswered and doubtful in China. Now the Google's primary presence in China has mere come down to its advertising sales offices, which is a very unfortunate event for a company like Google which largely dominates the Internet everywhere else.

Apple Keeps Campaigning for a Better User Experience rather than Boasting on Hardware Specifications for iPad 2 Commercials

Apple has revamped its current commercial advertisement for the  iPad 2 as now it portrays the groundbreaking tablet device giving the users "delightful, even magical" experience rather than simply mentioning the specifications and the functionality of the device.

The spot in the video begins with saying that "This is what we believe." Than it implies it point that "Technology alone is not enough, faster, thinner, lighter; those are all good things. But when technology gets out of the way, everything becomes more delightful, even magical. That's when you leap forward. That's when you end up with something like this." After this the screen fades and suddenly "iPad 2" appears in titles.

Twitter Tax Deal Exemption Deal Raises Concern Among Other San Francisco Residents

Near the San Francisco's grand City Hall, right in the middle of transients, drugs and crime, world’s trendy social media company has promised settle in such neighborhood, offering urban rebirth in exchange for a tax break. Twitter has asked for tax incentives before it brings its offices to such wrecked streets. Initially the mayor is very much positive and looks forward for such plan, although other progressive politicians, including the city's largest public employee union, have united to demand to call of such proposal.

Current Twitter Office Building

Protesters have claimed such agreement to be ‘poorly crafted giveaway to the rich.’ The major conflict is the city's payroll tax. One and the only city of the California having such taxing system is San Francisco, it exercise its business tax depending on the no. of employees of the company at their pay grades, rather than depending the investment and worth of the company.

N.J. School Teacher Gets Suspension for posting a Facebook Status Update

A 21-years-old female teacher of first grade, employed at a School in N.J., has been placed on immediate suspension, apparently for updating her Facebook status. New York Times report that this status update went like ‘she felt like a warden overseeing future criminals.’

The teachers name has not been disclosed but she has been placed on a paid suspension and N.J. school district claims that this decision was inevitable after "a significant number" of concerned parents had witnessed the post. They have claimed that many parents had visited the school just for complaining about it, crying for her immediate punishment and few even went on demanding to fire her.

Facebook Sued For $1 Billion Against ‘Infitada Page’ Removal

Famous has been sued for a lawsuit which demands above $1 billion against the damages which were caused due to a Facebook fan page on the website titled "Third Intifada" against Israel. Facebook has very recently taken down the fan page. It had gathered a total of 500,000 fans. Regardless of the fanpage being removed, the lawsuit filed in the court implies that Facebook has shown unnecessary "negligence" for not having to remove such pages immediately once they are appealed to be removed.

Screenshot of the Facebook Fanpage

More than only compensating for the alleged damages caused, the filing goes on and demands to court to bar Facebook "from allowing the Facebook page titled 'Third Palestinian Intifada,' and other related and similar sites, which advocate violence and death to Jews."

1st April Fool Day’s Jokes Continue All Day

1^st April, 2011 was like any other April fool’s Day where tomfoolery is celebrated on an international level as pranks, hoaxes and practical jokes continue the entire day long and every keeps themselves cautions to not to fall for an of them.

Search engine giant Google, retains its supremacy of 1^st April pranks, for which it has a good known reputation for a decade long time. Google announced its new feature for G-Mail, which offered absurd and both hilarious "motion-controlled" system apparently users to be able to operate G-Mail and write e-mails through different gestures as a replacement to old-fashioned keyboards and mice control. Whereas, Google was obviously not alone offering crazy new feature; LinkedIn, the favorite networking website for business personal fooled its users by allowing them to have apparently connected with Ernest Hemingway. Coupon hawker Living Social presented free salami-based spa treatment passes to fool its users and the undisputable photography mogul, Eastman Kodak distributed pain-free permanent photo tattoos to its customers.