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Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts

Did you explore the new Google Trends Visualize Hot Searches?

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Google is like gold mine when it comes to flow real data. Know what people are searching, Google it. Know what people are viewing, Google it. Know what your favorite Celebs likes, Google it.... Its hard to imagine internet without Google and its products in this Digital age.

Google Trends is a product of Google which lets you know what people are searching and what hots on internet. The new avatar of Google Trend is very intuitive. Right in its homepage, it displays the hot topic for the day and its previous day.

Osama Bin Laden's last words to be posted online by US Army's Combating Terrorism Center.[UPDATE]

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  • A selection of documents seized in last year's raid on bin Laden's house in Pakistan will be posted online Thursday by the Army's Combating Terrorism Center at the US Military Academy.
    The correspondence shows a leader revered but sometimes ignored by field commanders, who dismissed him as out of touch even as he urged them to keep attacking US targets.
  • Mr John Brennan, White House counter terrorism Chief, says that bin Laden wrote of his worries that his leaders were being killed so quickly the group would not survive.
Via NDTV, Source AP

UPDATE:
You can read the documents(Laden's unspoken words) from this Combating Terrorism Center's site.

MIT and Harvard, two of the World’s Top Universities, join hands in a new partnership to offer courses online and for free.

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  • MIT and Harvard, two of the World’s Top Universities, join hands in a new partnership to offer courses online and for free.
  • An initiative called edX, an online learning system which allows students to acquire knowledge across various course from a distance, has been initiated.
  • Harvard and MIT each committed $30 million to the project, which will be overseen by a not-for-profit group based in Cambridge.
  • Anant Agarwal, who led the development of MITx and directed MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, will be edX's first president. 

Facebook starts Translating, powered by Bing???

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Today, when I logged into my facbook account, I noticed something unusual under the status update of my foreign friend. I saw new option “See Translation”, seemly integrated. And no surprises, it was powered by Microsoft Bing. It was earlier reported that facebook was testing  Translate Button and few screen shots were surfaced online. 

Facebook is now available on evey Java enabled phone.

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As Google inching closer to make Google plus available to every one, facebook now want evey one, having java enable phone to get closer to facebook. In an effort to this, Facebook has released an application that will run on over 2,500 Java enabled mobile phones.

In order to keep them engaged, this java app includes Facebook's most popular features, such as, News Feed, Inbox, and Photos. It also allows users to upload photos to Facebook and find friends from the phonebook.

Fifty day hacking spree come to an end with a note from its member dissolving LulzSec.

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So, at last it seem that the hack-flick come to an end with announcement of dismantling. With the announcement comes their the last release, a data dump internal AOL Inc and AT&T documents.

LulzSec, a rouge hacker group attend fame and as well as wrath from fellow hacker groups and as well as from big private and public organisation like Sony Corp, the CIA and a British police unit among other targets, said in a statement that it had accomplished its mission to disrupt corporate and government bodies for entertainment.

New Record set for data transmission using single laser @ 26 terabits per second.

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Can you imagine the whole data available in the entire Library of Congress collections can be transferred any where in just 10 sec with the new data transmission tech, developed by researchers form Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany.

This new technique is described in the journal Nature Photonics, uses "fast Fourier transform".

The new developed technology uses "fast Fourier transform" to unpick more than 300 separate colours of light in a laser beam, each encoded with its own string of information.

Symantec reports accidental leaks of personal info to 3rd party apps by facebook.

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Symantec, makers of security softwares for computer had said in their blog that the personal info from Facebook users' could have been accidentally leaked to third parties, in particular advertisers, over the past few years.

Third-parties would have had access to personal information such as profiles, photographs and chat, and could have had the ability to post messages, Symantec's web blog said.

U.S.A's Dept of Homeland Security asks Mozilla to remove add-on(s) which encourage piracy.

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In recent months, we had seen a number of seizure of domains of file sharing sites by US Govt, accused of promoting piracy.

Now Mozilla feels the heat of US Govt over removing add-on which promote similar piracy by letting visitor to visit the site which was seized by Govt, existing under other addresses.

But is said that Mozilla, developer of the Firefox Web browser, is holding off on complying with a government request to remove one of such software tool until it receives court order or any such similar legitimate legal order.

It's Microsoft, not facebook which dials skype.

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We heard a lot of rumors about facbook's desperation to include Audio/Video in it's site with skype integration, but now, this is not possible. Tech giant Microsoft now gets full control over VOIP leader, Skype.

Microsoft had agreed to pay $8.5bn (£5.2bn), making it Microsoft's largest acquisition ever.

Skype has around 663 million users world wide.

Users updates on socio-networking sites are worth $30 Million a day

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According to the research made by Penn State, real-time content sites updates like updates on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and others could be worth more than 30 million a day, or nearly 10.9 billion dollars a year, to advertisers.

"Real-time content is particularly interesting because it's a window into a person's world at a particular moment in time," said Jim Jansen, associate professor, information sciences and technology.

China steal terabytes of sensitive data from US computers.

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According to secret diplomatic cables made available to Reuters by third party, China had increased its hand in cyber-espionage and said to have gained accessed to sensitive user names and passwords and terabytes of classified documents.

And at the moment, many experts believe China may have gained the upper hand.

According to US investigators, China has stolen terabytes of sensitive data - from usernames and passwords for State Department computers to designs for multi-billion dollar weapons systems. And Chinese hackers show no signs of letting up. "The attacks coming out of China are not only continuing, they are accelerating," says Alan Paller, director of research at information-security training group SANS Institute in Washington, DC.

Theortically, Microsoft's Bing could overtake Google in search arena by 2012

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According to latest data released by Experian Hitwise, Google may no longer be Search Engine king and may lose it's throne to Microsoft's Bing.

According to the data, Google was responsible for 64.42% of searches in the U.S. in March, 2011. Where as it's rival Bing-powered search (search.yahoo.com + bing.com) accounted for 30% of U.S. searches.

Suspected Chinese hackers might hacked in Australian govt officials system which includes PM and MPs

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With the tip-off from the US Intelligence agency, Australian government came to know about the security breach. The alleged hacker had targeted the system of Autralian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's parliamentary computer and those of at least two senior ministers which includes Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd and Defence Minister Stephen Smith are suspected of being hacked, according to a newspaper report.

It is reported that several thousand emails may have been accessed from the computers of at least 10 ministers.

US Military secretly working on a software to rig social networking site in their interest.

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In order to show their and power and influence thing in order to make every thing under their control, US military has awarded a contract to California based tech firm along with with US Central Command (Centcom) to develop an "online persona management service", a software that will allow it to manipulate social websites like Facebook and Twitter to spread pro-US propaganda.

The Guardian reported that the 'sock puppet' software creates fake online identities to influence internet conversations and then spread pro-US propaganda.

How did Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg's got interest towards tech.....

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According to Mark Zuckerberg's father who is a dentist by profession, said in a radio interview that an early exposure to computers inspired his son's interest in technology, and he encouraged parents to support their children's strengths and passions with a balance of "work and play."

His father said that his kids grew up around the office which were well exposed to computers. Zuckerberg said he computerized his offices in 1985. His son Mark Zuckerberg, cofounder and CEO of Facebook, was born in 1984 and was raised in the house where his father's dental offices are located in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., in suburban Westchester.

With a few clicks on eBay, a 7 year old almost buys a real fighter Jet.

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A fighter jet Harrier, which was part of Britain's arsenal in the 1982 Falklands War, which was being sold by Britain-based Jet Art Aviation on e-Bay, was accidentally brought by a seven-year-old British boy for $113,515 via online shopping.

The boy hit the 'buy it now' button to purchase the fighter jet, which was put on sale at the online store eBay.

In this Era, Revolution start and gets fueled at Social Networking Sites.

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The Status Msg(facebook) which sparked the Successful revolution by 26-year-old woman is "People, I am going to Tahrir Square". The message may be given credit for the successful Egypt revolution, a movement to oust Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

The Facebook appeal by Asmaa Mahfouz led to popular protests that saw tens of thousands gathering at Tahrir Square to demand an end to Mubarak's 30-year rule.

Facebook new comment platform may dominate Web World.

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Soom we may see a comment section on major websites dedicated to get many views, good for the website and for the Facebook. With the soon to be launch Facebook's third-party commenting system, the way comments are viewed will be change with max views.

The company is actively in talks with major media companies and blogs to partner with it for its launch.

Now you can keep an eye on vehicle via Web Browser.

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A Tech company from Qatar, Qatari IT service provider, had developed a low-cost Internet-based GPS vehicle tracking system which will be costing your normal GSM roaming rates.

Named as the T-Qat vehicle tracking system consists of a monitoring system which has a web server developed in Qatar and has an Internet-based Global Positioning System (GPS) tracker customised for local users.