14374740
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kai_hiwatari writes:
Jolicloud 1.0, a Linux based OS for netbooks, was launched a few days back. In this new release, the developers have completely replaced the old interface based on Ubuntu Netbook Remix in favor of a new one based on HTML5. Jolicloud 1.0 also features a new syncing feature using which you can sync installed applications across all your systems running on Jolicloud. Other interesting features includes new app center, social stream etc.
14306740
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kai_hiwatari writes:
Mozilla has discovered a Firefox add-on that steals the user passwords and send them to a remote location. The add-on is called "Mozilla Sniffer" and has been downloaded around 1800 times. After its discovery it has been removed and put in the blocklist. The add-on was in the experimental section so users are warned that it has not been reviewed when they download it.
This incident, along with the Google Chrome extension that steals user details, only goes on to show that whatever they might have done to make the browser secure, the biggest factor is still the user knowledge.
14008552
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kai_hiwatari writes:
According to Digitizor, "Indian ISP Sify Technologies is planning to leverage its already existing 1200+ cyber cafes to offer a suite of cloud computing applications aimed at users who do not own computers or have internet access at home. The service is branded as “Sify mylife”."
Sify is also planning to offer commonly used applications such as word processors, spreadsheet etc. in a SaaS model. For the vast majority of the people in India who do not own a computer, this seems like a good move.
12420458
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kai_hiwatari writes:
Wikipedia, the largest online encyclopedia, has just updated its site design to a new cleaner and more appealing design. Not only that, they have introduced a lot of new features designed to make editing and navigation easier.This is the first major initiative between the Wikimedia Foundation and its millions of volunteers on the usability front for Wikipedia. However, they have already been rolling out new design and features in Wikinews and Wikimedia Commons for about a year.
11617688
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rubyonrailsuser writes:
Today when I tried to access the Ruby on Rails website, all I saw was a page full of ads. I googled it and saw this article which says it might have been hacked or the domain might have expired. Anybody have any idea if it has been hacked or not?
11245118
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kai_hiwatari writes:
Sometime back Canonical decided to change the default search in Firefox that comes Ubuntu 10.04 to Yahoo! from Google. In a surprising turn-around, Canonical have decided to ditch Yahoo! for Google. Rick Spencer from Canonical announced that Google will now be the default Firefox search in Ubuntu 10.04, not Yahoo! as was previously decided.
This flip-flop by Canonical between Yahoo! and Google raises the question if there is some sort of bidding going on behind the scene or if it has anything to do with the partnership that Yahoo! entered into with Microsoft earlier.
10355914
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kai_hiwatari writes:
Twitter has had lots of problems with phishing attacks recently. These phishing attacks uses URL shortening services to hide their actual URL and trick users into clicking them. Apparently, many Twitter users are not so internet-savy and these attacks has resulted in accounts of a lot of Twitter users getting hacked. Waking up to this problem, Twitter has decided to launch its own URL shortening service. The new service will route all links submitted in Twitter so that they can detect, intercept, and prevent the spread of bad links across all of Twitter.
10115578
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kai_hiwatari writes:
In what may be the biggest visual change since it started in 2004, Ubuntu has finally ditched its brown theme and has come up with a purple-ish theme, which reminds me of Mac OS X. According to the Ubuntu Brand Wiki, the new style of Ubuntu is driven by the theme “Light”. The boot screen has also received a major overhaul in the looks department.
The Ubuntu logo has also got a new designed.
The new design is to be shipped with the upcoming Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx due in April this year.
10061136
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kai_hiwatari writes:
The Windows Browser Ballot, the browser selection screen that is being offered to Windows users in Europe starting this month, is already coming under fire. Slovakian IT news site DSL.sk decided to test the ballot and found that its distribution was very peculiar, with Internet Explorer appearing in the rightmost position almost 50 percent of the time when the ballot was viewed from within IE.
Notable ODF proponent and IBM employee Rob Weir took a closer look at the ballot to determine why it was acting in this way. It turns out that the problem is more likely than not a bad programming decision rather than some deliberate ploy by Microsoft to pick a particular spot.
9984494
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a googler writes:
Google seems to be having a very tough time in Europe this month.Now another trouble seems to be brewing with its Street View feature in Google Maps. EU regulators have concerned e about Google's retention policy for Street View images. They want to shorten the retention period to 6 months. As taking Street View pictures is no doubt expensive, a Google privacy lawyer said that the company had reason to hang on to its Street View images for a year. Concerns were also raised about Google retaining unblurred Street View images internally. EU also wants Google to pay for notifications in local newspapers in the areas to be imaged.
9888160
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kai_hiwatari writes:
Users visiting YouTube on IE6 (or some other old browsers), will will now see an interstitial warning them that support for their browser will be dropped by 13 March. It also gives a links to some browsers that the user can use. The interstitial will appear every two weeks to remind any users still on older browsers to upgrade to the most recent version of their browser. While users on these old browsers will still be able to watch the video, Google says that some new functions that they will be rolling out will not be supported in these browsers.
9387468
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kai_hiwatari writes:
The official website of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India's largest IT company, was hacked yesterday morning. A "For Sale" sign with a email id sign been put up in the company's website. Althought the hack appears to be a DNS Hijack, it is bound to send a very bad impression of a billion dollar company which makes softwares for other companies.
Details of the hack are also reported in Digitizor and Techie-Buzz.
9319632
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uneuser writes:
Digitizor reoprts that the Ubuntu developers have dropped OpenOffice from the default installation of Ubuntu Netbook Edition (UNE) 10.04 and repleed it with Google Docs. Documents in Ubuntu Netbook Edition will now be opened in Google Docs by default.
I don't think Google Docs can be a worthy replacement for OpenOffice and would still prefer to use OpenOffice. What do you think?
9059300
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crazypanda writes:
Apple has updated its iPhone developer SDK to allow for VoIP over 3G network. With the latest SDK VoIP for the iPhone and iPod Touch now enable unrestricted free local and long distance calling over 3G data networks. A VoIP app called iCall has already been approved by Apple.
Hopefully we will see Skype soon enough.
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kai_hiwatari writes:
Facebook has started using Google AdWords to try and overtake Orkut in India. India is one of the few countries where Orkut is still popular than Facebook. It is ironic that Facebook is using AdWord, a Google service, to overtake Orkut, another google product. Currently, the ads are visible only from Google's India portal, google.co.in.
