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It would be impossible to argue that there isn’t a lot of hype around Facebook. Microsoft’s recent purchase of a mere 1.6% stake of Facebook for a total of $250 million means that Microsoft believes Facebook to be worth a whopping $15 billion. To put things in perspective, that means that Facebook has a […]

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All about Brick Breaker
As the Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, and Sony Playstation 3 vie for sales in the “next generation” of console gaming - the Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerry would seem to pale in comparison, if one were to look only at raw gaming power. Yet the BlackBerry has quite the fan […]

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Background on Flash Cookies
Since its introduction in 1996, Adobe Flash has become a popular method for adding animation and interactivity to web pages; several software products, systems, and devices are able to create or display Flash. Flash is commonly used to create animation, advertisements, various web-page components, to integrate video into web pages, and more […]

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In the early days of Facebook, including an apostrophe or quote in a search string would cause a SQL error. This exposed Facebook to a SQL injection vulnerability, a common hack for dynamic websites driven by SQL databases, usually coded in PHP, frequently the result of a single developer coding the system from the ground […]

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The other day, I was near Times Square, and I desperately needed to check my email account so that I could get the phone number of a person I was meeting. I didn’t have my laptop on me, so the free wireless in Bryant Park (or open wi-fi elsewhere) was out of the question. […]

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