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Internet search giant, Google, seems to have grown over concerned about its customers. This was evident from the past set of updates that they have done to their algorithms. First it was the update on the PageRank algorithm, that affected a plethora of bloggers and similar publishers. A recent one being an update on the clickable region of the Google AdSense from the entire box.

Google believes that these steps would help erradicate false alrams or fruadulent clicks on the ad, thus taking only the really interested folks to the respective sites. Anyway, Google already has many algorithms to detect fraud and unintentional clicks, to do away with wrong statistics, then why the heck this sudden change?

Well, to get into a bit deeper let us divide the Internet Users into 4 categories:

1. Google (yep, need to put the company separately).
2. Advertisers

In their monthly Windows Update offerings, Microsoft has announced a trio of speed and reliablity updates to be available this tuesday. These updates would be offered through Windows Update.

These fixes are anyway also gonna get added to the Service Pack 1, whcih the company announced would be release anytime in the first quarter of the coming year.

Now, this is the second time after august that Microsoft has included Vista performance and reliablity hotfixes with Windows Update offerings. Seriously, this looks great, as the proverb goes “With great competition, comes great products” (yep, i just made it ;)). With Microsoft losing another percent in the desktop market to Apple, they have really geared up and are already on their heels. I believe, we would be seeing some more reliability and sped-boosters before SP1 is out.

Well, other updates that would be offered includes a multi update that:

• Extends laptop battery life.
• Improves the stability of wireless network connections.
• Shortens recovery time after exiting hibernation or sleep.
• Deals with compatibility problems with some antivirus software.

There are other fixes too, related to USB issues and an update to the Windows Media Centre. According to Nick White(Microsoft Vista’s Product Manager), the USB rollup fixes problems that have caused 1% to 2% of all reported Vista crashes.

[Credits : ComputerWorld]

Yes, its true, contarary to the concept that Apple boasts of about its products being “solid as rock“, its iPhone and iPod Touch aren’t rock-solid enough.

Recently, a hacker had publicized a TIFF vulnerability found in Apple iPhone which could easily compramise any iPhone, irrespective of its firmware version. But this Apple enthusiast cum