The Government of India is planning to introduce free 2 mbps broadband for all residents of the Indian subcontinent by 2009. The expected service shall be launched by the government owned telecom operators BSNL and MTNL. Quoting from the article: ‘The government proposes to offer all citizens of India free, high-speed broadband connectivity by 2009, through the state-owned telecom service providers BSNL and MTNL. While consumers would cheer, the move holds the potential to kill the telecom business as we know it.
Archive for April, 2007
$10000 Mac bug can hack Windows too
Published by 1 year ago in Internet, Microsoft and Apple. 0 Comments
It turns out that the vulnerability isn’t in Apple’s Safari web browser after all, but in the interaction between QuickTime and Java.
That’s not an academic issue, as it means that using an alternative browser such as Firefox gives no protection against the exploit. While we are waiting for a fix from Apple, disabling Java in whichever browser you favour seems to be a reasonable precaution. If you need to use a web site that requires Java, decide whether you trust the site before turning it back on, and don’t forget to disable it again when you’ve finished.
The other point is that QuickTime is also installed on a lot of Windows PCs. So it seems likely that the bad quys are trying very hard to replicate Dino Dai Zovi’s work, and they’ll now be looking very closely at QuickTime and Java, especially on Windows.
Yahoo music section adds about 400000 songs
Published by 1 year ago in Internet, Web Services and yahoo. 0 Comments
Yahoo is expanding its online music section to include the lyrics of 400,000 songs, hoping to strike a chord with Web surfers looking for a more reliable alternative to Internet sites that publish the words without the permission of the copyright owners.
Song lyrics have been available through scores of other websites for years, but most of those destinations are technically breaking the law by posting the words without the approval of the publishers and writers that own the rights.
What’s more, many of these unauthorized lyric sites rely on contributions from outsiders, a communal approach that increases the chances for inaccuracies.
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If you want, Google happily tracks your every online move
Published by 1 year ago in Technology and Google. 0 Comments
Google’s latest project is called Web History, and it offers registered Google Account users a chance to peruse not just their account history with Google, but one’s surfing history. “Imagine being able to search over the full text of pages you’ve visited online and finding that one particular quote you remember reading somewhere months ago,” explains Google’s Payam Shodjai, product manager for Personalization. “Imagine always knowing exactly where you saw something online, like that priceless YouTube video of your friend attempting to perform dance moves from a bygone age. Better yet, imagine having this wealth of information work for you to make searching for new information easier and faster.”
The data is available only when the user logs on with a Google account and password, the same account used for other Google services such as Gmail. In order to track web surfing information, the user must have the Google Toolbar installed in their web browser, and have PageRank enabled. The Web History feature can be turned off and on as you like.
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Google buys Marratech video conferencing company
Published by 1 year ago in Internet and Google. 1 Comment
One day after announcing record breaking profits for yet another quarter, Google put some of that cash to work, acquiring video-conferencing software from Swedish company Marratech AB.
Marratech’s video-conferencing software is based on research that began in 1995 at the Centre for Distance-Spanning Technology (CDT) at Lulea university of Technology, Sweden. The software employs a interactive whiteboard and application sharing and works on PCs running Mac, Linux or Windows, according to Marratech’s Web site.
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Even a Mac can be hacked.This was proven Friday by Shane Macaulay who managed to break into a Mac in a contest at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver.
Macaulay, a software engineer, got help from his friend Dino Di Zovie, a security researcher, found a hole in the Mac browser Safari which could be exploited to allow remote unauthorized entry and gain full control of the computer.
For his efforts, Macaulay won $10,000 in the contest dubbed “PWN to OWN”. Initially, the organizers of the conference offered to give a way a Mac to anyone who could break into the computer using a wireless access point while the computer was not running any program.
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Skinning has become increasingly popular over the years. People just seem to like to customize the way their stuff looks, particularly their computer screens.
Last year was a great year for users of skins as a lot of truly excellent ones were made. For the past month, we’ve been going through thousands of different skins, talking to users and skinners to put together a list of the 10 best skins made last year for the 3 most popular skinnable platforms — Winamp, WindowBlinds, and UXTheme (msstyles).[ Best Skins of 2006 ]
5 reasons not to trust Microsoft near Firefox
Published by 1 year ago in Microsoft, FireFox and Mozilla. 0 CommentsMicrosoft has never made much secret of the fact that keeping rival browsers down is a key part of its business plan.
Way back in 1996, Steve Ballmer (then still only the deputy CEO) cheerfully proclaimed: “Every minute of every day, we’ll ask every Microsoft employee to ask themselves, ‘Have I done anything to increase our share of the Internet browser market?’ That’s the business we’re in; driving up our share is incredibly, incredibly important to us.”
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Mozilla releases Thunderbird 2
Published by 1 year ago in Download, Softwares and Mozilla. 0 Comments
A new find-as-you-type feature in the free e-mail client winnows displayed messages on the fly, making searches faster.
Mozilla released Thunderbird 2, its free, open source e-mail client for Windows, Mac, and Linux systems in 30 languages.
The new release boasts improved security and a variety of new features. Chief among them is message tagging, the ability to label and categorise e-mail for easier searching and organisation. In addition to default tags, users can create their own.Thunderbird 2 also features message history navigation, similar in concept to the browser history feature in Firefox.
Microsoft Selling Windows XP, Office Suite to Schools for $3
Published by 1 year ago in Microsoft. 0 CommentsMicrosoft said it will build on existing efforts to bridge the digital divide worldwide and announced several new ventures, including a $3 software package for governments that subsidize student computers.
The software maker said it will sell a Student Innovation Suite,which includes Windows XP Starter Edition and Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007, for $3 to governments that subsidize a certain percentage of the cost of PCs for primary and secondary students for use at home and at school, starting in the second half.
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