20 May 2012
Silicon Valley is a treasure chest which benefits the talented and dedicated. Competition in the market is so stark that talented techies can be poached from right below your nose. Employers understand this trend and therefore we see some entry level software engineers being paid obscene salaries. This is just a technique to hook the [...]
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20 May 2012
Setting the stage for the much-awaited trading of Facebook, its founder Mark Zuckerberg today rang the opening bell at the Nasdaq stock exchange.Zuckerberg rang the bell from the headquarters of Facebook in California. The popular social networking site would be the largest US company at its debut with a market value of $104 billion. Standing [...]
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27 April 2012
Now, you can store innumerable videos and any number of pictures in your Gmail without much worrying about space. Google has increased the free storage in Gmail to 10 GB from 7.5 GB. Wow, that is almost a 10-fold increase in the Gmail storage since its launch in 2004. GoogleGoogle’s Official GMail Blog stated: “Today, [...]
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19 March 2012
Members of IEEE are working around the globe to deliver on the promise of cloud computing by helping enterprises of all sizes address the barriers that can potentially reduce the adoption rates of this game-changing technology. Some believe that 2012 could be a tipping point year for cloud adoption, particularly if large enterprises can serve [...]
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19 March 2012
It is believed that Google might launch a 7-inch Nexus tablet in the coming months. “The Asus MeMo 370T that was revealed at CES has been scrapped after Google contracted with Asus to produce their ‘Nexus tablet’,” a report from Android & Me said, adding that it would be priced around $149-$199. Google and Asustek, [...]
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18 March 2012
Microsoft’s process for sharing information about security vulnerabilities in its products came under fire Friday after a roadmap for exploiting a severe, recently discovered flaw appeared on a hacking website in China. The guideline, known as “proof-of-concept” code, most likely leaked from one the more than 70 security companies that get advance warnings from the [...]
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02 March 2012
Apple is now worth more than Poland as its stock market value hit over $500 billion for the first time on Thursday, the Daily Mail reported. Apple is now worth $506 billion – in contrast Poland, with a population of 38 million people, has a GDP figure of just $497 billion. The company, co-founded by [...]
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21 February 2012
Microsoft on Friday announced that it was redesigning the logo of Windows software, making a fundamental change to the iconic four-colour Windows logo users have been used to for 20 years. Meshing with the Metro design of Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8, the new logo is a slightly-angled blue block with a thin white cross in [...]
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19 December 2011
IT security and control firm,Sophos,is cautioning computer users to be careful while typing the URLs, following the results of a Sophos study into the scale of ‘Typosquatting’.Typosquatters register misspellings of popular websites in the hope that they will be able to make money out of traffic from unintentional typing mistakes made by internet surfers. Sophos [...]
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19 December 2011
Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, an investor in some of the world’s top companies, on Monday unveiled a $300 million stake purchase in fast-growing microblogging site Twitter, gaining another foothold in the global media industry. Alwaleed, a nephew of the Saudi king with a personal net worth estimated by Forbes magazine in March to [...]
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19 December 2011
Beware. Katrina Kaif is beautiful but she is the most dangerous celebrity in the Indian cyber space, followed by Deepika Padukone. That’s according to internet security company McAfee’s the ‘Most Dangerous Indian Celebrity’ study. Commenting on the findings of the report, Venkatasubrahmanyam Krishnapur, senior director, McAfee India, said, “In a celebrity crazy country such as [...]
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18 December 2011
Chip major Intel has recently signed a deal with MasterCard to help ‘discern’ the identities of those engaging in transactions from various computing devices like smartphones and notebooks. Speaking on the sidelines of the recently concluded Intel Cloud Summit in Mumbai, Intel Technology India and South Asia sales director R Ravichandran said that the new [...]
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18 December 2011
IT security and control firm, Sophos, is cautioning computer users over the careful use of USB memory sticks, following the results of a Sophos study into the contents of lost drives. Sophos’ Australian office conducted the experiment by purchasing a job-lot of found USB sticks from a lost property auction run by major transit authority [...]
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18 December 2011
There has been a dramatic decline in the spam volume during year 2011 finds the Cisco Connected World Technology Report (Part 3). According to Cisco Security Intelligence Operations (SIO), spam volume dropped from more than 379 billion messages daily to about 124 billion messages daily between August 2010 and November 2011—levels not seen since 2007. [...]
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18 December 2011
Researchers have successfully transmitted 186 gigabits of data per second (GBps), accomplishing a new world record and helping usher in the next generation of high-speed network technology. The rate is equivalent to moving two million gigabytes per day, fast enough to transfer nearly 100,000 full Blu-ray discs – each with a complete movie and all [...]
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10 December 2011
Hackers broke into the Congress party website and replaced Sonia Gandhi’s profile page with sexual innuendo, apparently timing the attack with the party president’s 65th birthday on Friday. It was not clear when the attack took place and Congress party leaders were not available for comment. The official website(www.congress.org.in/) was inaccessible to the public at [...]
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09 December 2011
Scientists have created an interface that will help Facebook users to keep their personal information secret. Signing up for an app or game, Facebook users could override their global privacy settings. But now Penn State University researchers have devised a sign-up interface to tackle the problem, the Daily Mail reported Monday. Researchers claim that many [...]
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24 November 2011
Finally, Google is bidding bye to Google Wave. After a year-long tickers and notifications on wrapping up the social network site, Google today announced that Wave will be shut down on January 31, 2012. The official statement read: “As of January 31, 2012, all waves will be read-only, and the Wave service will be turned [...]
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24 November 2011
Whenever idiotic passwords are discussed, the following story always comes up: five years ago, a group of Slovak hackers breached Slovakia’s National Security Bureau (abbreviated NBU), which stores tons of classified information. It was an easy hack. The NBU’s master login/password was simply nbusr/nbusr123. After cracking it, the hackers publicized the information, much to the [...]
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10 October 2011
India’s new telecom policy will bring cheer to consumers with the government Monday proposing to remove roaming charges for subscribers within the country, exponentially increasing broadband availability and speed and allowing for mobile numbers to be ported to any part of the country. According to the draft of the New Telecom Policy unveiled by Communications [...]
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01 October 2011
World’s thinnest nanowires will drive computers super fast in the near future using light, a new research claims. Nanowires will use a ‘photonic chip’ at its core to perform functions in computing and electronics. Researchers from Swinburne University of Technology and the Australian National University engineered a nanowire thousand times thinner than a human hair [...]
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01 October 2011
Jack Ma, the founder and CEO of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, is keen on buying Yahoo Inc if the opportunity presents itself and has held discussions with other potential buyers about options. Asked whether Alibaba might like to pick up the ailing US Internet company, Ma told an audience at Stanford University that he would [...]
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30 September 2011
Facebook faces regulatory scrutiny in Ireland, site of its European headquarters, over its handling of personal information, the Financial Times reported on Friday. The newspaper said the Irish data protection commissioner is to conduct a privacy audit of Facebook’s activities outside the United States and Canada after complaints by European and U.S privacy campaigning groups [...]
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30 September 2011
Google Inc has bought Zagat, the popular dining recommendations and ratings authority, jumping into a niche Web market alongside the likes of OpenTable Inc, Yelp and Yahoo Inc. The shares of restaurant-booking service OpenTable, which also publishes reviews and ratings, were down more than 8 percent to $57.50 in midday trading after hitting a low [...]
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30 September 2011
A deluge of malicious e-mail-borne malware has left a clear mark on the threat landscape for September. finds Symantec Corp. in its ‘September 2011 Symantec Intelligence Report’. Approximately 72 per cent of all e-mail-borne malware in September could be characterized as aggressive strains of generic polymorphic malware, first identified in the July Symantec Intelligence Report. [...]
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30 September 2011
IT security and data protection firm, Sophos, has cautioned Skype users to be careful following the discovery of an automated attack, designed to spread fake anti-virus software. Skype users receive unsolicited calls in the form of a computer-generated voice message warning users that their computer security is not up-to-date, directing them to a specific website [...]
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14 August 2011
The Mac operating systems has surpassed Linux in popularity as a development environment in North America according to the recently released Evans Data North American Development survey. Mac LinuxAlthough Windows remains overwhelmingly the most popular operating system for development with over 80 percent of developers using it, Linux has slipped to third place with only [...]
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29 July 2011
British police arrested a teenager believed to be a leader of computer hacking groups that boasted attacks on the networks of the CIA, Sony and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. The arrest of the 19-year-old man, who UK police said goes by the hacker nickname “Topiary,” may be the most significant to date in a global [...]
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29 July 2011
If some latest reports from the American media on a purported statement by the US Treasury are anything to go by, Apple Inc. has more cash than the US government. “According to the latest daily statement from the US Treasury, the government had an operating cash balance of $73.8 billion at the end of the [...]
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27 July 2011
Symantec Corp. today announced the publication of its July 2011 Symantec Intelligence Report, now combining the best research and analysis from the Symantec.cloud MessageLabs Intelligence Report and the Symantec State of Spam and Phishing Report. This month’s analysis reveals a significant increase in activity related to what may be described as a aggressive and rapidly [...]
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