The Iphone,”no the Apple iPhone” has been at the top of the list of “must have” items for techies all over the globe and it was recently launched in India. It seems like every time you turn around you’re about to bump into someone working on an iPhone – or at least talking about how they wished they had one. It doesn’t matter if you’ve been an iPhone lover from the start and are looking for an upgrade or if you are considering your very first purchase.
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Facebook Introduces Disposable Passwords
Facebook is trying some new security measures to help its 500 million users . Now, they have announced in their blog that they are going to allow disposable passwords for the US users . Most of the times users get hacked using public computers due to lack of security in those computers. This disposable password will help you login with your one-time passwords to make it safer to use public computers in places like hotels, cafes or airports.
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Weird facts about technology:
- It’s impossible for your computer to be infected by a virus, just from opening an email message.
- 70% of virus writers actually work under a contract for an organization.
- Bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and
laser printers were all invented by women. - Leonardo DA Vinci invented the scissors.
Close to 60% of the radiation that comes from a mobile phone goes directly to the users head.
The web, not indexed by search engines is said to be 500 times bigger than the current size of the indexed web. - The original URL for Yahoo was was http://akebono.stanford.edu/
- The name of the search engine Alta Vista came into existence when the word Vista was misinterpreted as “Alta Vista” on a white board.
- Up until the 14th of September, 1995, domain registration was free.
- The average person receives around 30 emails a day, 3 of these being spam.
- Billions of hours are wasted online, spent, waiting for content to download.
- The first “modern” computer was built in 1941 by Konrad Zuse in World War 2. He looked to funding from the Germans but was denied because they did not expect the war to last beyond Christmas.
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