If you use Windows Live, you probably have already noticed the introduction of SmartScreen , a usefull add-on that allows you to instantly access white-listed locations on the web, redirecting users to interstitial pages or simply denying access to certain pages based on content. SmartScreen is a kind of barrier between the links received in Windown Live services and the actual target. Let me explain how it works. Windows Live Messenger contact list contains personal or business contacts.Nowadays, "block-checker" and other services have been increasingly harvesting account names and passwords to be re-used in link-spam bots that message contacts from the affected account. Since a certain amount of trust is expected from Messenger contacts, malicious links which are sent usually without the account's owner even aware of it, have become a growing irritation among Windows Live users. SmartScreen has therefor been created to form a gateway between the received links in Wind...
Today, Apple launch of Inc. Released a press statement announcing the launch of its latest visionary product, the Apple iBall . The artificial, smart bionic eye would be Apple's answer to the Google Glass technology. The iBall would be surgically be implanted, replacing one of their "organic" eyes. As you already suspected this story is fully made up and not real. But it does make us all think how far the tech-giants of this world would go in their everlasting journey of innovation. What are your thoughts?
Google's Bay View Googleplex Google is known to use some of the most famous offices in the world as their workplaces, but they actually never built a single office themselves, until now! The center-core of the Googleplex in Mountain View, California, hosts a suburban office park once occupied by Silicon Graphics which Google, being the new owner, "Google-ized it to suit its needs. In the past two years, Google did a little brainstorming about building something totally from scratch. It went so far that the company decided to hire the German architect Christophe Ingenhoven to design a new, eco-friendly structure on a site next to the existing Googleplex but they abandoned the project upon radically deciding to build in anleother part of Mountain View, closer to San Francisco Bay, and hiring a different architect: NBBJ from Seatt, a bit more conventional in nature. The more you look at the plans, the more it hits you. The new complex has 9 somewhat identical buildings, most o...
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