Qualys is set to launch on Monday a free service for Web site operators that will scan their sites for malware. From next Monday on, Qualys will be ready to start a free service that will check web sites for malicious software. The new services will be useful for web site administrators. The task of Guard Malware Detection is to observe the pages of customer sites and looks for invisible iframes, malicious javascript code, and other indications of a stealth threat to visitors and provides automated alerts and reports to Web site owners. According to Wolfgang Kandek, chief technology officer at Qualys, the company has tested Internet Explorer 6 and Adobe's Acrobat, Reader, and Flash Player to understand exactly what happens under normal conditions so it can quickly find deviations that occur when malicious software is present. Kandek added that some other applications are to be analyzed soon because think consider them to be a typical target for attackers. Thanks to Dasient...

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No doubt, anyone of us has experienced the following situation – we see someone on the subway or on the street but we can't quite remember who they are. But now, Recognizr – a new technology from the Swedish firm The Astonishing Tribe (TAT) could soon be able to help us figure out who they are so that we can greet them by name. According to an article published Tuesday in Popular Science, Recognizr is a new application that can figure out who someone is – it only need a photo of the person and a quick tour in social networking information about that person. ( See how here ) Riffing on the growing field of augmented reality, the magazine called the technology "augmented identity” (Augmented reality is a term in computer researches that explains a live direct or indirect view of a physical real-world environment whose elements are augmented by virtual computer-generated imagery). PopSci describes the innovative technology as a alliance...

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A few days ago the German Federal Agency for safety IT sphere announced that the world’s most popular browser Internet Explorer (6,7 and 8) had occurred to be dangerous for the computer when used for website surfing. The conflict arose in the moment when Google announced a series of cyber attacks toward the emails of Chinese right defenders and added that accidents like this can force the company to leave the Chinese market. According to BBC, in a statement Microsoft has confessed that its browser is a “weak unit” and it was he main reason for the cyber attacks against Google serves. The cause was a bug in Internet Explorer browser of which hackers took advantage. According Thomas Baumgarthner, Microsoft representative in Germany, the attacks against Google were executed by “highly motivated people with special aims” and were not directed toward regular users. That’s why, Microsoft representative didn’t agreed with the German...

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If 2008 was the year of the Netbook, then 2009 as a whole can be described as the year of the e-reader. Just 12 months ago, Amazon's Kindle was the only real player in field e-reading devices but now, at the end of 2009, consumers could read e-books on similar products such as the Barnes & Noble Nook, Sony Reader, and Interead Cool-er, as well as the lesser-known Aluratek Libre. Lots of companies that haven’t taken action in developing and releasing an e-reader up to now announced their intentions to invade that product category, which is still dominated by Amazon. Among those are: Plastic Logic with its Que; Spring Design with its Alex; Entourage, maker of the Edge; and Zen maker Creative and their project with experimental name MediaBook. E-readers showed a strong presence but so did smartphones. E-readers and smartphones seemed uninfluenced by the recession. Market research experts from IDC announced that during the third quarter, vendors shipped a record 43.3...

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Forget about the Google phone. What do you think of a Google-branded netbook? That's the latest rumor that emerged after a report from TechCrunch that says the company is planning to build a netbook based on its operating system Chrome. TechCrunch cites an interview during which Google said it was working with several prominent hardware manufacturers who were interested in the Chrome OS. Among them are Acer, Lenovo, HP and Qualcomm. A direct quote says: “The Google Chrome OS team is currently working with a number of technology companies to design and build a device that will provide customers with extraordinary performance. Among them are Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and Toshiba.” Besides, TechCrunch cites multiple sources who claim that Google has been talking to at least one hardware manufacturer about building a netbook for Google directly. In the report, it’s said that since Google had given...

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Although 2009 was a hard year for the global economy, the technology industry continued its growth, especially in the areas of mobile Internet, smartphones, laptops, Web applications, and the virtualized data center. Even though the progress is remarkable, among the successful innovations, some really weak products can be found. Below you can get acquainted with some of the worst products of the tech industry in 2009, arranged in a decreasing order. As you’ll notice, that the list is dominated by mobile devices but it’s mobile sector where a lot of the innovation and investment are happening. 5. Android 1.0 It may seem unfair to make Google’s Android operating system part of this list because Android 2.0 - which powers the Verizon Droid that launched in Q4 - has developed into a competitive smartphone platform. However, before the launch of the Droid, the Android OS was a weakly developed product. The Android 1.0 devices, the T-Mobile G1 and the myTouch...

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Google Earth and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Wednesday that Google is developing a tool that will map out the alarming predictions of how California can be affected by climate change. The project is a result of the collaboration between with the California Natural Resources Agency, Gov. Schwarzenegger, the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), an organization funded by the California Energy Commission and Google.org. In a statement, SEI says that ecologists now have a serious problem in explaining the important information for climate change consequences in an understandable manner. It’s crucial these climate transformations to be clearly explained to politicians that take the significant decisions now. Ecologist need to visualize their scientific results on interactive geographic maps to succeed in explaining their ecologic fears. The CalAdapt Google Earth tool will allow individuals to view how their specific region would be changed....

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Microsoft has improved the Bing Maps performance to a new level interactivity. This is what the new beta version of Bing Maps shows – it uses Silverlight to display 3D images and its own version of street-level images. The company presented to the media the new beta version in Wednesday during a discussion of other improvements to the search engine. Bing Maps Beta is available from today. Along with it, several other new features in the main Bing search results are released too. Bing Maps Beta requires the installation of Microsoft Silverlight which provides very smooth three-dimensional transitions between satellite and street-view imagery. Like Google Street View, Microsoft has driven the streets of major cities such as San Francisco and assembled its own library of map-related images. Microsoft has street-level imagery for around 100 U.S. cities, it has announced that is adding more imagery on a constant basis. With the new beta service users are able to find images...

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