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"Sexy" scams attract men on Facebook

According to a recent survey, men are more likely than women to be scammed on Facebook, especially if the predator is a sexy female. The study – commissioned by anti-virus software company Bitdefender – surveyed a group of 1,649 men and women with adequate online security knowledge in the US and UK. The study found 64.2 per cent of women rejected unknown Facebook friend requests compared to 55.4 per cent of men. Men were even more likely to hit the ‘confirm’ button if there was an attractive female profile picture. On the flip side, women showed no noticeable difference when presented with a fetching photo of their target sex. Furthermore, about 24.5 per cent of men allow their profiles to be searchable by strangers, compared to just 16 per cent of women. Culturally speaking, the man/woman disparity is not completely surprising. Bitdefender’s social media security manager George Petre explained that women’s reservation in accepting offers of strangers predated not just Facebook and social networking, but the Internet as well

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Google to make text jump off the page

Google has acquired multimedia company Apture to bring users beyond the realm of 2D in Chrome. Founded in 2007, Apture’s technology is designed to help users make ‘contextual searches’, where relevant information and text ‘jumps off the page.’ “We’ve always believed that by transforming flat web pages into interactive multimedia experiences, we could enable readers to see, hear and truly experience the ideas on the page,” Apture said. Apture’s in-page search technology gives users instant access to additional information including text, images and video from sources across the web without leaving the page – a feature that, when powered by Google , could prove an incredibly useful resource for Chrome users. The feature also gives publishers an added opportunity for revenue – for example, a mention of a local sports team on a webpage could prompt an Apture search of that team and return results for videos, images, and ticket sales. Apture’s past customers have included the New York Times, Financial Times and Reader’s Digest. Google has yet to disclose financial details of the merger or whether Apture will move from its headquarters in San Francisco to Mountain View

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Chrome Exceeds 20 Percent Globally in June

Watch out Firefox and IE, Chrome’s gaining users. For the first time since its launch in 2008, Google Chrome exceeded 20 percent of the worldwide internet browser market in June 2011, according to StatCounter Global Stats.

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Google Warns Webmasters About Bad Links Pointing to Websites

Since January, Google has notified webmasters via email whenever it discovers and penalizes a website with bad links pointing outwards, or for selling links. Now, the search giant is informing webmasters of the opposite: when it detects links pointing to a site, or for purchasing links.

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SmarterTools Solutions, Integrate with Google Chrome

The entire suite of SmarterTools’ web-based software products, are designed to integrate with search engine, Google’s new Chrome browser platform.

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Google Debuts Chrome Open Source Browser

Officially launching the beta version of its new open source browser, as a streamlined web application, called Chrome – is Google.

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