Quick Byte: Google Docs, 42 Translations Google posted today that it added a little flair to the popular Google Docs application – by allowing you to translate your text into 42 different languages. The translation process is overwhelmingly easy, after you are finished typing up a document, highlight the area you need translated. Next go...

Facebook Thief Steals Goods and Account Login Victoria Richardson 42 of Hove, experienced a robbery like no other, last week according to the Telegraph. The burglar not only stole her iPhone, laptop, Nintendo DS and handbag, but also decided to break into Richardson’s Facebook account- to add insult to injury. ...

Sunday Roundup: Top Web Stories This Week, Twitter, Facebook, etc. Twitter Service Spotty as Attacks Continue Thursday sparked a world wide web storm as attackers focused their efforts on several prominent websites. Twitter apparently suffered the most, during the attack. .. ...

Quick Byte: AdSense Plans Routine Maintenance The engineers at Google plan on doing routine maintenance on Saturday, August 8. So if you have an AdSense account- don’t be alarmed if you can not access your user interface. Google ensures us that all people running AdSense ads will still get credit for ad clicks and impressions will be...

Twitter fights off a #Dos Attack Some of you may have attempted to login to your Twitter account earlier this morning, but instead of navigating to the page you requested you were faced with a network error message. According to a recent blog post, the Twitter Guru’s worked on getting the 30 million plus user site, back online from an...

Twitter is Being Sued Over an IRIS Well it’s official the microblogging master of the internet Twitter, is facing patent infringement charges from a Sugar land, Texas Company that specializes in mass notifications systems. The Texas Based Company, TechRadium , claims to have several patents protecting the concept of mass...

Quick Byte: Paypal to Miss $36,000,000 in Transactions #PayPalFail The webs largest Online Payment Service, Paypal went down yesterday from the hours of 1:30 EDT to 6:30 EDT missing approximately $36,000,000 in transactions from around the globe. According to the Wall Street Journal, PayPal spokesman Anuj Nayar said the cause was from an “internal network hardware...

Twitter is now blocking Harmful Links – Unofficially Twitter the popular online microblogging site has begun to block links that contain references to malicious sites. F-secure Security Labs first reported this activity on their blog sometime after suggesting to Twitter that filtering traffic will help to reduce the spread of malware. Since links are the...

Apple releases SMS fix a Mere 6 Weeks Later Well its official now, Apple has released an update to patch the iPhone SMS vulnerability that was demonstrated at the Black Hat Security conference in Los Vegas on July 30, 2009. This update was pretty fast considering the security expert Charlie Miller just demonstrated the flaw yesterday. Although I...

Facebook Drama over for Now If you have Twitter and Facebook accounts some of you may have noticed something a little strange going on with your Facebook page yesterday. The problem? Facebook had some technical difficulties that did allow, in what they call a “handful” of apps, to post your twitter stream onto your...