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Twitter Hacked
Reports are coming in that Twitter was hacked ealier today by an Iraninan organization known as the “Iranian Cyber Army”. Twitter was defaced and the image below is what you got when you accessed Twitter. Negative publicity like this is never good for giants like Twitter. Hopefully they will have better mechanisms in place to [...]
Google Public DNS
Google today introduced their latest offering. “Google Public DNS”. I’ve always been on OpenDNS. However, they have no presence in Asia and this doesn’t exactly boost DNS performance for us. Google’s new “Google Public DNS” is surprising fast and after switching over to it I experince improvements my web browsing experience. Here’s a quick benchmark of Google vs OpenDNS. Link Currently Google does [...]
Retweet to share tweets
Looks like I’m gonna be testing Twitter’s new “Retweet” feature. Received the above when I logged in to Twitter today. Source: Blog @ Twitter
FTTH in Malaysia
Looks like the FTTH ( Fiber To The Home ) in Malaysia ball is rolling again. There are reports of Maxis and TM enrolling testers in Bangsar and Sri Hartamas to carry out beta testing. This what Alan Tan who’s currently beta testing the Maxis FTTH is getting. WOW! …. Sigh… I want, I want. [...]
YouTube goes 1080p HD this week
YouTube announced that it’s rolling out support for 1080p HD format this week. Up till now YouTube only went up to 720p but now it’s going further with 1080p. What about all the current HD video already re-encoded into lower quality formats you ask? YouTube plans to re-encode all HD video previously uploaded by users [...]
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