The No. 2 processor maker wants to make one thing crystal clear: Shanghai is not Barcelona. The latter chip was rolled out in September 2007 to great fanfare only to be delayed a whopping eight months (or more, depending how the delay is calculated) due to production glitches and bugs. The chip was also hampered by speed (core clock frequency) limitations. This gave Intel an opportunity to regain ground it had lost to AMD in the server chip market. "We had some mis-starts in getting Barcelona to market and wanted to bring as much velocity to Shanghai as possible. Learn from our mistakes and, as a company, never do that again," said Pat Patla, general manager of AMD's server and workstation chip business. Shanghai--a quad-core product targeted at servers--will be AMD's first 45-nanometer processor. (Barcelona is 65-nanometer.) Typically, the smaller the geometries, the faster and more power efficient the chip. Intel has been shipping 45-nanometer processors since last year and these processors now make up most of Intel's offerings. |
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
AMD says new 'Shanghai' chip is ready to go
Reliance Money Enters Investment Banking ( Is this the next lehman brothers ?)
Even as global asset managers face a backlash in the wake of the credit crisis,this has not forced a few to retreat from their plans to foray into investment banking. Reliance Money, the retail brokerage and distribution arm of Anil Ambani's financial services firm Reliance Capital, is now expanding into merchant banking. The firm today announced that it has received Category I merchant banking license from the market regulator SEBI. The license allows Reliance Money to offer a range of investment banking services such as issue management, underwriting, private equity advisory & syndication besides corporate finance services in India. The company is infact eyeing atleast 50 fund-raising deals by the end of the current fiscal. Reliance Money director and CEO, Sudip Bandyopadhyay has indicated that one of the key target areas will be small and mid sized firms: "While the main focus of the industry has been on large caps, we see a huge opportunity in serving the small and mid-sized segment, currently being under-serviced." More : Source |
Monday, September 29, 2008
Adobe software threatens video security
NEW YORK, USA: A security hole in Adobe Systems Inc software used to distribute movies and TV shows over the Internet allows viewers to copy movies on some Web sites and avoid commercials on others, threatening the financial success of online video. The problem exposes online video content to the rampant piracy that plagued the music industry during the Napster era and is undermining efforts by retailers, movie studios and television networks to cash in on a huge Web audience. Amazon.com Inc by Friday had fixed a flaw that gave free access to record and copy from Amazon.com's video streaming service without paying. But screen-recording software can still make unauthorized, unprotected copies of Amazon online movie rentals, which could be viewed and copied beyond the rental limits on how and when to view. Adobe said it issued a security bulletin earlier this month about how best to protect online content and called on its customers to couple its software security with a feature that verifies the validity of its video player. "Adobe is committed to the security of all of our products, from our players to our server software. Adobe invests a considerable amount of ongoing effort to help protect users from potential vulnerabilities," it said in a statement. Amazon fixed its Video On Demand service, which offers as many as 40,000 movies and TV shows on its Web site, to stop completely free viewing of movies and television shows recorded with the Replay Media Catcher from Applian Technologies. |
Yahoo's Zimbra e-mail program exposes passwords
Passwords used to access Yahoo mail through the Zimbra client are sent over the Internet in clear text, a Canadian programmer says. Holden Karau stumbled upon this problem while participating in the Yahoo University Hack Day at the University of Waterloo last week. "The Yahoo imap server's used by the Yahoo Desktop don't support SSL and the password was being transmitted in plain text," Karau wrote in a blog post on Friday. "What does this mean for you? If you use Zimbra to access your Yahoo mail, you almost certainly need to change your password and stop using Zimbra immediately (especially if you've ever done so over wireless)," he writes. Not surprisingly, his hack didn't place in the competition. "In retrospect it probably wasn't the best forum to bring up the security defects, but it was the most convenient," Karau says. |
Android phone in Demand T-Mobile stops taking Orders
It looks like T-Mobile customers trying to get one of the initial models of the first phones powered by Google's Android operating system will have to wait a bit longer. "Sorry! Due to the overwhelming popularity of the new T-Mobile G1, upgrades are temporarily unavailable. Please try again later," the T-Mobile pre-order page told people who tried to sign up for the phone on Saturday, according to the Android Guys blog. |
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Is Apple worried of gPhone ? Apple selling unlocked iPhone 3G in Hong Kong
Apple has made an unlocked version of the iPhone 3G available in Hong Kong, letting consumers pick whichever carrier they so choose. This is in sharp contrast to Apple's policy for the almost everywhere else on the planet. Unlocked iPhones are rampant worldwide, but that isn't something that Apple has sanctioned. Freedom doesn't come cheap. The 8GB version is available for about $695 (5,400 Hong Kong dollars), while the 16GB iPhone costs about $798 (6,200 HK dollars), according to Apple's site. http://store.apple.com/hk/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iphone?mco=MTE2NTQs |
Microsoft taps JQuery JavaScript library with its Visual Studio developer
Microsoft said Sunday that it plans to ship the JQuery JavaScript library with its Visual Studio developer tool suite. The software powerhouse said that jQuery would be one of the libraries used to implement higher-level controls in the ASP.net Ajax Control Toolkit, and would also have a role in new Ajax server-side helper methods. The 15KB JQuery JavaScript library will be distributed as is, with no forking, and files will continue to adhere to the JQuery MIT license. In addition, Microsoft said that it would contribute tests, bug fixes, and patches to the JQuery open-source project and that later this year it would extend product support to JQuery. The announcement came in a blog post by Scott Guthrie, a vice president in Microsoft's developer division, who described the library's attraction: A big part of the appeal of jQuery is that it allows you to elegantly (and efficiently) find and manipulate HTML elements with minimum lines of code. jQuery supports this via a nice "selector" API that allows developers to query for HTML elements, and then apply "commands" to them. One of the characteristics of jQuery commands is that they can be "chained" together - so that the result of one command can feed into another. jQuery also includes a built-in set of animation APIs that can be used as commands. The combination allows you to do some really cool things with only a few keystrokes. Guthrie also pointed to a newly posted tutorial on Scott Hanselman's Computerzen blog about integrating JQuery with ASP.net Ajax. |
Corporate war brewing in the Indian IT sector - HCL VS Infosys
Here is a high octane corporate war brewing in the Indian IT sector. Indian tech company HCL Technologies Ltd. has made a direct challenge to Infosys Technologies by offering to buy U.K. software consultant Axon Group Plc. Noida based HCL has offered to pay about 441 million pounds ($814 million) in cash to Axon. This is much higher than 407.1 million pounds which is what Infosys offered to pay Axon on August 25. Interestingly, Axon has issued a statement saying it welcomes HCL's intention to make an offer. "Board is pleased that HCL has recognised the quality of the Axon business and has decided to announce its intention to make an offer." It further said: "Axon has entered into an inducement fee agreement with HCL under which Axon could be required to pay HCL a fee of 1% of the value of the HCL offer." This means Axon will pay HCL Technologies 1% of the offered price if the deal fails. There will now be a 45-day period during which another company can make a bid. HCL has offered to pay 650 pence a share, 8.3% more than the 600 pence offer by Infosys. Infosys, on the other hand, made an announcement: It said it "is considering its position and urges Axon Shareholders to take no action at this time. A further announcement will be made in due course". |
Orkut blocks community supporting terrorists
Google's social networking site Orkut has blocked access to a community on the site that supports Indian Mujahideen, the terrorist group that claimed responsibility for bomb blasts in various Indian cities including Delhi. Google has said the company strongly condemns illegal activities and those that encourage terrorism and violence. |
Google allocates $10 million fund to support ideas that could improve people's lives
As part of its tenth birthday celebration, Google has launched Project 10^100 (pronounced Project 10 to the 100th), under which the company has invited users to send exciting ideas for ways to improve people's lives. Google has also committed $10 million fund to turn up to five of the best ideas into reality. The last date for submitting ideas to Google is 20th October 2008. could-improve-peoples-lives |
BCCI launches its official website BCCI.tv
Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has gone online with the launch of its official website BCCI.tv . The website will offer deferred streaming video and mobile content, live scoreboard, official photographs, player interviews, profiles, schedules, statistics, user interaction and newsletters.
BCCI.tv has been developed by Global Cricket Ventures, a joint venture between NetlinkBlue Holding and Live Current Media , as a part of the 10-year agreement signed between Global Cricket Ventures and BCCI. Under the agreement, Global Cricket Ventures was to build and manage the official IPL site IPLT20.com and the official BCCI site BCCI.tv. IPLT20.com, which is already live, is claimed to have received over 50 million page views during the DLF Indian Premier League season held recently. Read more : Source : http://www.alootechie.com/content/bcci-indian-cricket-board-launches-its-official- website-bccitv |
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Ahmedabad to promote entrepreneurship Govt ready to invest Rs 10 Crore Fund
Ahmedabad to promote entrepreneurship. "Needy young designers desirous of
pursuing their business ideas through incubation route at NDBI can now
avail this Rolling Fund support," said Kamal Nath, Union Minister for
Commerce & Industry.
pursuing their business ideas through incubation route at NDBI can now
avail this Rolling Fund support," said Kamal Nath, Union Minister for
Commerce & Industry.
"Rs 10 crore Rolling Fund at National Design Business Incubator (NDBI)"
this was announced by Union Minister for Commerce & Industry .
NDBI was started in 2005 and provides two kind of incubation options. First
is physical incubatees, who can pursue their innovative ideas to transform
them into business at NDBI, Ahmedabad.
The government has also agreed to permit the NID faculty to have a share in
their consultancy work.,
New MacBooks with aluminum.
New MacBooks have been expected for months now as the MacBook design gets a
little long in the tooth. The last time new details surfaced on the
notebooks, October 14 was targeted as the introduction date.
little long in the tooth. The last time new details surfaced on the
notebooks, October 14 was targeted as the introduction date.
One interesting part of the report also suggests that Apple plans to drop
the Firewire 400 port and the DVI-I ports currently found on the MacBook
Pro in favor of a Firewire 800 port and a mini-DVI port..
The MacBook redesign is just around the corner, and further proof has
surfaced that it's going to look a lot like its siblings.
Source : Cnet . Read more :
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10051086-37.html
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer : 'I don't like not being No. 1'
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said his company may be
the only one with a chance to rival Google in search over the long term,
but acknowledged that it will take several more years and a whole lot of
money.
"It's going to take us a while," he said, during a speech at the Churchill
Club. "We've got a lot to do."
the only one with a chance to rival Google in search over the long term,
but acknowledged that it will take several more years and a whole lot of
money.
"It's going to take us a while," he said, during a speech at the Churchill
Club. "We've got a lot to do."
Venture Capitalist Ann Winblad, who was moderating the talk with Ballmer,
noted that when Ballmer addressed the club in 2006, he said search was a
five-year battle.
"It's a five-year task," he said, with a smile. "It's a long-term task."
To succeed, he said, the company will have to find a way to fundamentally
change the experience and the economics of search. "You have to redefine
the category," Ballmer said. "We've taken some steps in that direction."
"You don't really brute force your way into any market," he said. (I looked
around, but I didn't see anyone choke on their water over that one.)
On the antitrust front, Winblad asked Ballmer if he had any advice for
Google's executives. "I'd probably keep that advice to myself," he said.
Read more on Cnet : http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10051743-56.html
Wi-Fi a must for all . Free for
Dozens of countries participated in this year's "One Web Day," an
international holiday for the Internet. In San Francisco, teams of
volunteers fanned out across a low-income neighborhood with the goal of
providing free, wireless Internet access to 1,000 residents. CNET's Kara
Tsuboi tagged along and has the story.
Cnet : http://news.cnet.com/1606-2_3-50003853.html
international holiday for the Internet. In San Francisco, teams of
volunteers fanned out across a low-income neighborhood with the goal of
providing free, wireless Internet access to 1,000 residents. CNET's Kara
Tsuboi tagged along and has the story.
Cnet : http://news.cnet.com/1606-2_3-50003853.html
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Yahoo!!!!! Changing its home page
Yahoo is planning to release its new home page. Right now its in Beta, in
the sense that Yahoo starts inviting people who are randomly selected.
Depending on the feedback , its will soon release its new face. Yahoo
claims that its home page is having the maximum hits in the entire web ,
approximately of 300 million / month.
the sense that Yahoo starts inviting people who are randomly selected.
Depending on the feedback , its will soon release its new face. Yahoo
claims that its home page is having the maximum hits in the entire web ,
approximately of 300 million / month.
The New page is some what customizable . Its planning to have all in a
single page, mail , messenger, social networking ...etc.The good this is
Yahoo also plans to let third parties produce little programs that can sit
in the application bar. The invitation is send to users from the UK,
France, India and the US
We hope they are in a new hope as , Yahoo rejected the bid even after it
was raised to $47.5bn . As Yahoo signed a deal with Google to use the
search giant's advertising technology, we can expect much more from Yahoo.
Hope the news page looks like this :)
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Warren Buffet having and ownership of 10% in Goldman ($5 billion)
Best time to Buy some thing from Goldman Sachs
Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathway will invest $5 billion in Goldman Sachs. Berkshire Hathway will invest $5 billion in preferred stock at a 10 per cent dividend and Goldman has the right to repurchase the preferred at any time by paying Berkshire a 10% premium.Berkshire will also receive warrants worth $5 billion whch can be converted into common stock any time during the next five years at a strike price of $115 a share
Goldman Sachs will raise at least $2.5 billion in common equity in a public offering. The deal comes at a time when the Wall Street is going through the worst crisis in its history. Over the last month, Wall Street went through a series of events like the US government's taking over of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, 158-year old Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.' filing for the bankruptcy under chapter 11. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York
Fake News that Expedia acquired majority stake in TravelGuru for $17 million
VC circle a News portal has earlier published a news that the Expedia , one of the leading Online travel company , for their operation in India they acquired majority of their stakes for an $17 Million . It seems as without having an authenticated report they published the same. As this news spread they have deleted the like ( Thats a Great thing they did)
Oh No... Google's Phone lacks support for Flash videos as iPhone
The G1, the Google's phone support for Flash videos – the sort of video clips we use on our Telegraph website, for instance – because of the type of processor chip used in the phone. And despite having a three-megapixel camera (still a paltry amount considering that Samsung recently launched an eight-megapixel cameraphone, but still a whole megapixel better than the iPhone, nonetheless), the G1, like the iPhone, can’t record videos.
Annoyingly, the G1 lacks a standard 3.5mm headphone jack, so I’m afraid you can forget about using your hideously expensive Bose noise-cancelling headphones with it – you’re stuck with HTC’s proprietary earphones.
The most interesting thing that I noticed , and which I liked is the GPS , and touch screen for Google's Application .
Android Market is still in the beta, or test, stage, there’s already a healthy selection of really excellent applications that suggest a great deal of innovation in this platform in future.
E-mail, photo programs stripped from Windows 7
Microsoft has decided that Windows 7 won't include built-in programs for
e-mail, photo editing, and movie making, as was done with Windows Vista,
CNET News.com has learned.
The software maker included Windows Photo Gallery, Windows Mail, and
Windows Movie Maker as part of Vista, but later chose to offer separate
downloadable Windows Live programs that essentially replaced those
components with versions that could connect to online services from
Microsoft and others.
Microsoft told CNET News late Monday that it has decided to remove those
features entirely from Windows 7 and instead offer only the
service-connected Windows Live versions as optional free downloads. Earlier
on Monday, Microsoft had declined to say how it was handling things.
In a follow-up interview on Monday, Windows Vista general manager Brian
Hall said Microsoft made the decision to remove the tools from Windows for
several reasons, including a desire to issue new operating system releases
more quickly than it has in the past. The move also removes the confusion
of offering and supporting two different programs that perform essentially
similar functions.
"It makes it much cleaner," Hall said.
Lastly, he said, making the Windows Live tools completely separate from the
operating system paves the way for Microsoft to work selectively with
specific partners.
"We can do things with specific partners to enable really great experiences
that might be hard in Windows," Hall said.
Antitrust rules make it hard for Microsoft to tie operating system features
to specific services.
Microsoft last week rolled out the latest "Wave 3" releases of its Windows
Live programs, adding Windows Live Movie Maker to the mix of programs,
which includes Windows Live Photo Gallery and Windows Live Mail as well as
blogging tool Windows Live Writer and instant messaging program Windows
Live Messenger. While Windows XP and earlier releases had an instant
messaging program built in, Microsoft took out that feature in Windows
Vista.
e-mail, photo editing, and movie making, as was done with Windows Vista,
CNET News.com has learned.
The software maker included Windows Photo Gallery, Windows Mail, and
Windows Movie Maker as part of Vista, but later chose to offer separate
downloadable Windows Live programs that essentially replaced those
components with versions that could connect to online services from
Microsoft and others.
Microsoft told CNET News late Monday that it has decided to remove those
features entirely from Windows 7 and instead offer only the
service-connected Windows Live versions as optional free downloads. Earlier
on Monday, Microsoft had declined to say how it was handling things.
In a follow-up interview on Monday, Windows Vista general manager Brian
Hall said Microsoft made the decision to remove the tools from Windows for
several reasons, including a desire to issue new operating system releases
more quickly than it has in the past. The move also removes the confusion
of offering and supporting two different programs that perform essentially
similar functions.
"It makes it much cleaner," Hall said.
Lastly, he said, making the Windows Live tools completely separate from the
operating system paves the way for Microsoft to work selectively with
specific partners.
"We can do things with specific partners to enable really great experiences
that might be hard in Windows," Hall said.
Antitrust rules make it hard for Microsoft to tie operating system features
to specific services.
Microsoft last week rolled out the latest "Wave 3" releases of its Windows
Live programs, adding Windows Live Movie Maker to the mix of programs,
which includes Windows Live Photo Gallery and Windows Live Mail as well as
blogging tool Windows Live Writer and instant messaging program Windows
Live Messenger. While Windows XP and earlier releases had an instant
messaging program built in, Microsoft took out that feature in Windows
Vista.
Source : Cnet :
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10048142-56.html?tag=newsLeadStoriesArea.0
Monday, September 22, 2008
Google co-founder Sergey Brin says he is at risk for Parkinson's disease
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SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Google co-founder Sergey Brin has started a blog,
candidly telling of being at risk for Parkinson's Disease and plugging his
wife's genetic testing start-up firm.
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Google co-founder Sergey Brin has started a blog,
candidly telling of being at risk for Parkinson's Disease and plugging his
wife's genetic testing start-up firm.
While Brin is no stranger to news-making webcasts and online press
announcements, he made a blogging debut Thursday by sharing personal
musings in a post at the Blogger weblogging website Google bought in early
2003.
Brin wrote of his mother being diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease and how
testing by 23andMe, a company started by his wife Anne Wojcicki, shows he
has a gene mutation that "markedly" increases his chances of getting the
illness.
"This leaves me in a rather unique position," Brin wrote.
"I now have the opportunity to adjust my life to reduce those odds. I also
have the opportunity to perform and support research into this disease long
before it may affect me."
Brin told of working with The Parkinson's Institute and the Michael J. Fox
Foundation to combat the disease and provided links to the organizations'
websites.
"I feel fortunate to be in this position," Brin wrote.
"Until the fountain of youth is discovered, all of us will have some
conditions in our old age, only we don't know what they will be. I have a
better guess than almost anyone else for what ills may be mine and I have
decades to prepare for it."
Brin wrote of comparing his genes with those of relatives and of checking
whether his DNA links him to others with his family name.
Founded by Wojcicki and Linda Avey two years ago, California-based 23andMe
offers genotyping for a price of 399 per person.
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Google co-founder Sergey Brin has started a blog,
candidly telling of being at risk for Parkinson's Disease and plugging his
wife's genetic testing start-up firm.
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Google co-founder Sergey Brin has started a blog,
candidly telling of being at risk for Parkinson's Disease and plugging his
wife's genetic testing start-up firm.
While Brin is no stranger to news-making webcasts and online press
announcements, he made a blogging debut Thursday by sharing personal
musings in a post at the Blogger weblogging website Google bought in early
2003.
Brin wrote of his mother being diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease and how
testing by 23andMe, a company started by his wife Anne Wojcicki, shows he
has a gene mutation that "markedly" increases his chances of getting the
illness.
"This leaves me in a rather unique position," Brin wrote.
"I now have the opportunity to adjust my life to reduce those odds. I also
have the opportunity to perform and support research into this disease long
before it may affect me."
Brin told of working with The Parkinson's Institute and the Michael J. Fox
Foundation to combat the disease and provided links to the organizations'
websites.
"I feel fortunate to be in this position," Brin wrote.
"Until the fountain of youth is discovered, all of us will have some
conditions in our old age, only we don't know what they will be. I have a
better guess than almost anyone else for what ills may be mine and I have
decades to prepare for it."
Brin wrote of comparing his genes with those of relatives and of checking
whether his DNA links him to others with his family name.
Founded by Wojcicki and Linda Avey two years ago, California-based 23andMe
offers genotyping for a price of 399 per person.
Google Android phone launch
Google Android phone launch
To keep up with the news as it happens, check out CNET News where we'll be
blogging live from the press conference held by T-Mobile at 10:30 a.m. EDT
(7:30 a.m. PDT) in New York City.
T-Mobile USA will be the first mobile operator to offer a phone that uses
the open-source Google Android operating system. The device made by HTC has
been widely anticipated. And on Tuesday morning, T-Mobile and Google will
finally unveil the phone, which is expected to go on sale in October.
I'll be at the event, live blogging the announcement with a host of other
CNET folks. So make sure to follow all the action on the CNET News Wireless
Blog and come back to CNET News later in the day for video and photos of
the new device. CNET Reviews will also be posting a First Look of the
device, and I'll be joined by Natali Del Conte of CNET TV, who will also
share her initial thoughts on the big news.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
The microchip turns 50
London, Sept 12 (ANI): The microchip, used in devices from cookers to computers to mobile phones, is 50 years old today.
Consisting of a strip of germanium with one transistor and other components all glued to a glass slide, the first working microchip, or integrated circuit, was demonstrated at Texas Instruments by one of the company's newest employees, Jack Kilby, on September 12, 1958.
His rough device, measuring seven 16ths of an inch (11.5 millimetres) by one 16th of an inch, revolutionised electronics, and the world.
The microchip virtually created the modern computer industry, and the Internet would be unthinkable without it.
"Integrated circuits are so woven into our lives that it would be hard to imagine a world without them. The integrated circuit is the engine of the information age," TimesOnline quoted Jim Tully, chief of research at the technology analyst Gartner, as saying. (ANI)
Source : Yahoo : http://in.news.yahoo.com/139/20080912/393/ttc-the-microchip-turns-50-today.html
Consisting of a strip of germanium with one transistor and other components all glued to a glass slide, the first working microchip, or integrated circuit, was demonstrated at Texas Instruments by one of the company's newest employees, Jack Kilby, on September 12, 1958.
His rough device, measuring seven 16ths of an inch (11.5 millimetres) by one 16th of an inch, revolutionised electronics, and the world.
The microchip virtually created the modern computer industry, and the Internet would be unthinkable without it.
"Integrated circuits are so woven into our lives that it would be hard to imagine a world without them. The integrated circuit is the engine of the information age," TimesOnline quoted Jim Tully, chief of research at the technology analyst Gartner, as saying. (ANI)
Source : Yahoo : http://in.news.yahoo.com/139/20080912/393/ttc-the-microchip-turns-50-today.html
Government to issue guidelines to Internet service providers
New Delhi, Sep 16 (ANI): The Union Government is planning to issue guidelines to Internet service providers to secure wireless fidelity (WiFi) networks so that terrorists do not use it to send threatening e-mails.
"We are always in constant talks with the Department of Telecom on security issues. We might take some action soon," Department of Information Technology Special Secretary R Chandrashekar said.
The move comes on the heels of a group called Indian Mujahideen using an unprotected WiFi network to send emails almost at the same time of the serial blasts in Ahmedabad and Delhi.
"We cannot blame anyone if we forget to lock our own rooms. The ISPs should provide all these features of password and password protection," said a Ministry of Communication and Information Technology Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERTC-in) senior official.
CERTC-in is preparing detailed guidelines for Internet service providers, which will be issued soon.
"We will soon issue guidelines to the ISPs after consultations with DoT and DIT," the official said.
Source : Yahoo
Facebook fills photo security hole
Facebook has filled a hole that allowed strangers to view members' photos through the mobile version of the site, a spokesman said Tuesday after being alerted to the problem by CNET News Monday night.
"Today, we learned that certain photos could be viewed by unauthorized users who employed a complicated hack," a spokesman wrote in an e-mail. "Once we were notified of the issue, it was resolved within hours. These photos are no longer available to unauthorized users. We encourage security researchers examining Facebook to practice responsible disclosure."
Basically, someone who knew the serial number of a Facebook user, which is easy to get, and knew a trick for rejiggering the URL, could see private photos of that user. Small photos could also be changed to display in a larger size. The vulnerability only could be exploited with Firefox browsers.
Source : CNET
Monday, September 15, 2008
Hey what is this... HP to slash 24,600 jobs
Hewlett-Packard on Monday announced plans to cut tens of thousands of jobs over the next three years as it digests its recent purchase of EDS.
The company expects to replace roughly half of these positions over the next three years to create a global workforce that has the right blend of service delivery capabilities to address the diversity of its markets and customers worldwide.
HP announced plans in May to acquire the computer services firm for $13.9 billion. The deal closed in August. The company said that, once it has finished with the cuts, it expects the moves to save $1.8 billion in costs annually. It said it does plan to reinvest in other areas.
Source : CNET
The company expects to replace roughly half of these positions over the next three years to create a global workforce that has the right blend of service delivery capabilities to address the diversity of its markets and customers worldwide.
HP announced plans in May to acquire the computer services firm for $13.9 billion. The deal closed in August. The company said that, once it has finished with the cuts, it expects the moves to save $1.8 billion in costs annually. It said it does plan to reinvest in other areas.
Source : CNET
Microsoft's Social Networking say Bye Bye.....
Social network called Wallop has shut its doors. When we open the site we can see "
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