21991128
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kai_hiwatari writes:
With the presence that Google has in the internet, it receives a lot of requests from governments around the world to remove certain offensive contents and hand over user information. Google keeps a record of these requests and publishes them, with certain limitations, every six months.
The report is a good source of information on things such as which Google product runs into problem the most, which country has the most problem with Google etc. To make it easier to interpret the data, we have represented in graphical form. Let us take a look.
21979428
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kai_hiwatari writes:
According to an email in the Ubuntu-Devel mailing list, this feature is now available for Ubuntu 11.10 “Oneiric Ocelot” and Ubutnu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" as well — although it is in the testing phase for now. Developer Till Kamppeter sent an email to the mailing list inviting testers to test out his patch that enables AirPrint in Ubuntu.
21949090
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kai_hiwatari writes:
Google today silently launches a new internet service WDYL.com. WDYL stands for “What Do You Love?” The basic idea of the new service is to offer a single point search across different Google Products. The service is live, though seems it will take some time for it to work properly. You can notice "wdyl.com" does not work as it returns a 404 error, so use www.wdyl.com instead .
21854616
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kai_hiwatari writes:
Google has announced that Google Talk calls will now use the Jingle protocol as the primary signaling protocol. Right now, Google Talk calls from GMail, iGoogle and Orkut are already using Jingle. Google will release an update for the Google Talk Android app as well to support the protocol. However, Google has mentioned that they have no plan of updating the Google Talk desktop client for Windows.
21788094
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kai_hiwatari writes:
Last month, Google released an open-source project called WebRTC which aims to enables Real-Time Communications capabilities in the web browsers through simple JavaScript APIs. Now, they have taken the first step towards having WebRTC built into Chrome.
With WebRTC, developers will be able to build voice and video applications using nothing more than HTML and JavaScript. This is a powerful technology which can challenge services like Skype.
21775642
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kai_hiwatari writes:
Microsoft have rolled out the all new HTML5 version of SkyDrive today. The new SkyDrive, built using HTML5 technologies, has replaced the older version which was built using Silverlight.
Microsoft has put in a lot of work to make the new SkyDrive "faster, easier to navigate and look more beautiful to look at photos". Microsoft claims SkyDrive is much faster now and actions such as navigating into a folder now takes 100-300 milliseconds instead of 6-9 seconds which it usually takes.
21628004
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kai_hiwatari writes:
At the Inside Search event being held at San Francisco, Google has announced a new addition to its search features — Search by Image. The Search by Image feature is something like Google’s image search application for mobile devices – Google Goggles — but for the desktop.
21436930
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kai_hiwatari writes:
Mozilla Labs has introduced its concept of a desktop replacement called Webian Shell. The Webian Shell basically consist of a browser which will replace the traditional desktop, and where the web applications are given more importance than the native applications. Right now, the prototype of the Webian Shell is nothing more than a full screen browser with a dock which holds the tabs and the clock.
20726712
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kai_hiwatari writes:
In what can be termed as one of the most disastrous online incidents, hackers have managed to get pass the "whatsoever security" implemented by India's leading payment gateway — CCAvenue. It is being said that the hack has been made possible by "Hidden SQL Injection".
Here is what all the hackers have laid their hands on:
- All administrative passwords at CCAvenue
- list of databases
- some information on tables within the databases
18595894
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orion writes:
There is no doubt about Mark Shuttleworth's aim for Ubuntu (see Bug #1), but this should come as a pleasant surprise to many – Canonical is launching a Ubuntu Developer Portal. This shows that Canonical is planning to market Ubuntu as a viable platform for application developers. They already have the Ubuntu Software Center, which supports paid applications from Ubuntu 10.10, as a platform to sell the applications.
18381230
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kai_hiwatari writes:
If you try to use Sandy Bridge under Linux, it is simply broken. We tried to test an Intel DH67BL (Bearup Lake) with 2GB of Kingston HyperX DDR3, an Intel 32GB SLC SSD, and a ThermalTake Toughpower 550W PSU. At first we tried to install vanilla Ubuntu 10.10/AMD64 from a Kingston Datatraveler Ultimate 32GB USB3 stick. The idea was that it would speed things up significantly on install.
17734398
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kai_hiwatari writes:
Today the Symbian Foundation announced that they will be shutting down the websites. The Foundation will now be responsible for licensing software and other intellectual property, such as the Symbian trademark. The development of Symbian will now be taken over by Nokia.
17623094
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kai_hiwatari writes:
With new cool hacks for Kinect coming up every other day, Microsoft has taken an u-turn from their earlier decision. Around two week ago when Adafruit announced a bounty for developing an open-source driver for the Kinect, Microsoft made it clear that they condone it.
Now Microsoft seem to have realized the potential of their device and has made an u-turn. Alex Kipman, Xbox Director of Incubation, now says that they left the Kinect open by design.
This is what Alex Kipman said:
"What has happened is someone wrote an open-source driver for PCs that essentially opens the USB connection, which we didn’t protect, by design, and reads the inputs from the sensor."
16059684
submission
kai_hiwatari writes:
Excerpt:
"Now Oracle's lawsuit threatens to undo all the good will that has been built up in the years since. Programmers will justifiably steer clear of Java when they stand to be sued if they use it in some way that Oracle doesn't like. One of the great benefits of free software is that it allows programs to be combined in ways that none of the original developers would've anticipated, to create something new and exciting. Oracle is signaling to the world that they intend to limit everyone's ability to do this with Java, and that's unjustifiable.
Oracle once claimed that it only sought software patents for defensive purposes. Now it is using them to proactively attack free software. It's not the first company to make this about-face, and unfortunately it probably won't be the last."
15612700
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kai_hiwatari writes:
Canonical planned on introducing Btrfs support in the upcoming Ubuntu release, i.e. Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat. They even said that it might be the default filesystem in Maverick. However, according to a recent update in the Ubuntu Btrfs Support blueprints, Btrfs will not make it to Maverick, instead it will most likely come in Ubuntu 11.04, which is scheduled for release in April 2011.
