Here is a Eye Opening claim by a leading advocacy group that Google's Street View project may have collected personal information of members of Congress, including some involved in national security issues.
Google admitted it mistakenly collected information, transmitted over unsecured wireless networks, as its cars filmed locations for mapping purposes.
Google said the problem began in 2006.The issue came to light when German authorities asked to audit the data.The search giant said the snippets could include parts of an email, text, photograph, or even the website someone might be viewing.
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China renew Google Internet licence.
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I don't know what China wants to prove with renewal of Google's licence to operate in China, the internet giant has said.
Google gave no details of the licence renewal.
There had been speculation China would revoke the licence after Google began redirecting Chinese users to its unfiltered search site in Hong Kong.
But last month, Google said it would no longer automatically redirect users in a conciliatory move towards Beijing.
Google gave no details of the licence renewal.
There had been speculation China would revoke the licence after Google began redirecting Chinese users to its unfiltered search site in Hong Kong.
But last month, Google said it would no longer automatically redirect users in a conciliatory move towards Beijing.
Pirate Bay Hacked by Argentina Hacker.
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An Argentinian hacker named Ch Russo claims that he and two associates have found several SQL injection vulnerabilities in The Pirate Bay’s database, which granted him access to all user information, including usernames and e-mails.
According to KrebsOnSecurity, who spoke with Ch Russo on the phone, the hackers did not modify the user data or give it away to a third party. They did, as they say, consider how much this info would be worth to various anti-piracy outfits such as the RIAA.
“Probably these groups would be very interested in this information, but we are not to sell it. Instead we wanted to tell people that their information may not be so well protected,” Ch Russo said.
According to KrebsOnSecurity, who spoke with Ch Russo on the phone, the hackers did not modify the user data or give it away to a third party. They did, as they say, consider how much this info would be worth to various anti-piracy outfits such as the RIAA.
“Probably these groups would be very interested in this information, but we are not to sell it. Instead we wanted to tell people that their information may not be so well protected,” Ch Russo said.
CNN Senior Editor loses job for praising Lebanese cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah.
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Senior Editor of Mideast Affairs Octavia Nasr agreed to leave the company after tweeting that she “respected” Lebanese cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, who is often credited as being an inspiration for the Hezbollah militant movement.
The tweet, “Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah… One of Hezbollah’s giants I respect a lot,” erupted a slew of reactions on Twitter. Two days after the tweet, Nasr tried to explain her tweets and apologize in a blog post.
The tweet, “Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah… One of Hezbollah’s giants I respect a lot,” erupted a slew of reactions on Twitter. Two days after the tweet, Nasr tried to explain her tweets and apologize in a blog post.
Internet Explorer gaining its share steadily.[PIC]
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In the Browser war, Mozilla and Opera having a stable hold, Safari moving upwards, and Chrome building its market share. Mozilla Firefox is the leader with it's market share, if the statistics is to be believed, firefox is loosing its share and its being captured by Microsoft's IE.
Internet Explorer having a potential growth of approximately 0.5% from May to June. That's not all; the graph also shows Firefox losing half as much what IE gained, and Opera giving room of rest of the percentage to IE.
Internet Explorer having a potential growth of approximately 0.5% from May to June. That's not all; the graph also shows Firefox losing half as much what IE gained, and Opera giving room of rest of the percentage to IE.
Check out the Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta 1[VIDEO]
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So here is the new overhauled firefox, the most popular and widely used open source browser in the world.
Whats new ?
Google revamps YouTube for Mobile Devices.[VIDEO]
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Google has announced that it has updated Youtube for mobile so that there would be seamless stream on video.
In its blog it stated that "YouTube consumption on mobile devices has also grown considerably: playbacks were up 160% in 2009 over the previous year. And we’re excited to announce that YouTube Mobile now receives more than 100 million video playbacks a day. This is roughly the number of daily playbacks that YouTube.com was streaming when we joined forces with Google in 2006."
It also brought of the report stating that Mobile devices will overtake Desktops for the accessing of internet.
Justin Bieber to tour of North Korea?
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Just kidding there is no way that Kim Jong-il will allow him to visit his base :).
Recently, Justin Bieber's Twitter page has become embarrassment for himself.
A public vote on the Canadian singer's My World Tour page asked users which country he should tour next, with no restrictions on the nations that could be voted on.
This spurred users of imageboard website 4Chan to nominate North Korea, with the vote now turning viral.
There are now almost half a million votes to send Bieber to the secretive communist nation.
Recently, Justin Bieber's Twitter page has become embarrassment for himself.
A public vote on the Canadian singer's My World Tour page asked users which country he should tour next, with no restrictions on the nations that could be voted on.
This spurred users of imageboard website 4Chan to nominate North Korea, with the vote now turning viral.
There are now almost half a million votes to send Bieber to the secretive communist nation.
YouTube gets hacked.
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Members of the Internet communities 4chan and others hacked YouTube using a vulnerability in the site’s comment system. Hack was used on a variety of videos, striking music videos featuring teen pop idol Justin Bieber was the most popular activity.
Twitter was flooded with complaints about the problem, Google support got some concerned posts on its forum, and we received tips in our inbox. The event caused quite a Sunday-morning stir.
The bug allowed users to inject HTML (the code that most websites are built with) that could be executed on the site, whereas HTML within comments is supposed to be restricted. The hackers did everything from force pop-up messages to appear over the site declaring that it had been hacked to redirecting Bieber video pages to sites hosting pornography and malware.
Twitter was flooded with complaints about the problem, Google support got some concerned posts on its forum, and we received tips in our inbox. The event caused quite a Sunday-morning stir.
The bug allowed users to inject HTML (the code that most websites are built with) that could be executed on the site, whereas HTML within comments is supposed to be restricted. The hackers did everything from force pop-up messages to appear over the site declaring that it had been hacked to redirecting Bieber video pages to sites hosting pornography and malware.
Google Enter the Travel and Airlines Market.
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Search engine giant Google has entered the travel market after acquiring flight information firm ITA Software.
ITA provides software that organises fares, flight and journey times that are used by airlines, travel agents and flight comparison sites such as Orbitz.
Google paid $700m in cash for the US-based company, founded in 1996 by a team of MIT computer scientists.
"What we're going to do is build new flight search tools that focus on end users," said Google chief executive Eric Schmidt.
ITA provides software that organises fares, flight and journey times that are used by airlines, travel agents and flight comparison sites such as Orbitz.
Google paid $700m in cash for the US-based company, founded in 1996 by a team of MIT computer scientists.
"What we're going to do is build new flight search tools that focus on end users," said Google chief executive Eric Schmidt.
70,000+ People Get Facebook Tagged in Panoramic Photo
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Glastonbury Festival, the legendary UK music and performing arts event, a huge photo was taken of 70,000 enthusiastic fans.
This photo is being circulated around the web and tagged via Facebook Connect. The panoramic photograph has already been tagged with thousands of people and is, in all likelihood, the most-tagged photo in existence.
The Glastonbury Festival is the largest open-air music and performing arts festival in existence. Although Glastonbury is best known for showcasing musical groups, it also features dance, cabaret, theater, comedy, circus and other types of acts.
Foursquare Raises $20 Million, now its worth $95 Million.
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This news has been anticipated for some time, especially following a tweet from Co-founder Dennis Crowley late last week that included a link to Flickr photos of Foursquare’s soon-to-be upgraded New York office space.
This news puts to rest rumors that Foursquare would be acquired by Facebook or Yahoo.
Founders of File Sharing Site Piratebay Splits
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Marcin de Kaminski, a founder of Piratbyran, which means "piracy bureau" in English, told BBC News "we don't feel we are needed" any more.
But the group also decided to close following the death of a co-founder.
A spokesperson for the Swedish computer games industry said the decision showed "the discussion has moved on".
Piratbyran first emerged in 2003, as a response to the Swedish body Antipiratbyran (anti-piracy bureau), which works to counter the sharing of copyrighted materials on-line.
But the group also decided to close following the death of a co-founder.
A spokesperson for the Swedish computer games industry said the decision showed "the discussion has moved on".
Piratbyran first emerged in 2003, as a response to the Swedish body Antipiratbyran (anti-piracy bureau), which works to counter the sharing of copyrighted materials on-line.
FIFA World Cup Bringing Down Twitter?
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CNN.com’s Twitter buzz counted more than 300,000 World Cup-related tweets during the first game, and some data we just received from Trendrr also shows a huge spike, with up to 150,000 tweets per hour during the game (note: the time line on the graph below is MST).
Mark Ghuneim from Wiredset, the agency behind Trendrr, told me a few days ago that he expects the World Cup to be record-breaking. “It will be the largest conversation in social media,” he said.
Twitter already had some availability issues earlier this week, leading to a complete outage of about 90 minutes on Wednesday,
Mark Ghuneim from Wiredset, the agency behind Trendrr, told me a few days ago that he expects the World Cup to be record-breaking. “It will be the largest conversation in social media,” he said.
Twitter already had some availability issues earlier this week, leading to a complete outage of about 90 minutes on Wednesday,
Google’s Bots can understand some Javascript Code.
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Google told Forbes that Google now has deeper interaction with JavaScript, and its bots can even “understand some JavaScript.” This could make indexing rich content a great deal easier on the world’s largest search engine.
As Forbes points out, having a program understand JavaScript isn’t a simple affair. No algorithm “can be applied to any program, at any point, and tell whether or not that program continues ad infinitum.” However, if Google’s bots could execute JavaScript themselves, it would solve some of those difficult issues.
The Googlebot is getting smarter and faster, thanks to Google Caffeine.
As Forbes points out, having a program understand JavaScript isn’t a simple affair. No algorithm “can be applied to any program, at any point, and tell whether or not that program continues ad infinitum.” However, if Google’s bots could execute JavaScript themselves, it would solve some of those difficult issues.
The Googlebot is getting smarter and faster, thanks to Google Caffeine.
China bans its soldiers from blogging.
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A new regulation prohibits the People's Liberation Army (PLA) from creating websites or blogs, citing confidentiality concerns, the official Xinhua news agency says.
China operates vast internet censorship, dubbed the "great firewall of China".
Websites deemed sensitive by the government are routinely blocked.
"Soldiers cannot open blogs on the internet no matter (whether) he or she does it in the capacity of a soldier or not," Xinhua quoted Wan Long, a political commissar of the PLA, as saying.
China operates vast internet censorship, dubbed the "great firewall of China".
Websites deemed sensitive by the government are routinely blocked.
"Soldiers cannot open blogs on the internet no matter (whether) he or she does it in the capacity of a soldier or not," Xinhua quoted Wan Long, a political commissar of the PLA, as saying.
Twitter Sets New Record: 3,283 Tweets Per Second.
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Twitter’s biggest tweets per second record to date was during last week’s NBA finals. That record was shattered yesterday as Twitter users published 3,283 tweets per second at the close of Japan’s victory over Denwark in the World Cup.
Previous record of 3,085 tweets per second was for NBA.
Both of these recent records are staggering given that Twitter — during normal daily activity — averages roughly 750 tweets per second. The Japan-Demark World Cup figure means that activity swelled 438% above average.
Previous record of 3,085 tweets per second was for NBA.
Both of these recent records are staggering given that Twitter — during normal daily activity — averages roughly 750 tweets per second. The Japan-Demark World Cup figure means that activity swelled 438% above average.
Salesforce sues Microsoft.
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The world's biggest maker of Web-based software charged that Microsoft is infringing five Salesforce patents in programs, including in the Windows Server operating system and the widely used .Net platform.
"Microsoft's continuing acts of infringement have caused and are causing irreparable harm to Salesforce.com," the complaint said.
Salesforce is seeking unspecified damages in the suit, which was filed in US District Court for the District of Delaware on Thursday.
The battle began on May 18 when Microsoft sued Salesforce in federal court in Seattle, alleging its rival uses its technology in software menus, toolbars and graphical interface features.
"Microsoft's continuing acts of infringement have caused and are causing irreparable harm to Salesforce.com," the complaint said.
Salesforce is seeking unspecified damages in the suit, which was filed in US District Court for the District of Delaware on Thursday.
The battle began on May 18 when Microsoft sued Salesforce in federal court in Seattle, alleging its rival uses its technology in software menus, toolbars and graphical interface features.
Now Pakistan follows the Chinese way, Censor the Internet.
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Pakistan will start monitoring seven major websites, including Google and Yahoo, for content it deems offensive to Muslims.
YouTube, Amazon, MSN, Hotmail and Bing will also come under scrutiny, while 17 less well-known sites will be blocked.
Officials will monitor the sites and block links deemed inappropriate
YouTube, Amazon, MSN, Hotmail and Bing will also come under scrutiny, while 17 less well-known sites will be blocked.
Officials will monitor the sites and block links deemed inappropriate
Mysterious “Horse Boy” on Google Stree Maps creates buzz on internet.
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According to the BBC, Horse Boy who was captured on film standing by a wall in Aberdeen, Scotland — has become a phenomenon among denizens in the country.
BBC news claims Horse boy website story has had more than 800,000 hits.
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