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Submission + - PayPal Announces NFC Payment Support For Android (digitizor.com)

Submitted by dkd903 on Thursday July 14, 2011 @11:47PM

dkd903 writes: NFC has decided to ease off every thing for the customers who think its enough to use their wallets. The technology has once again taken a major leap with PayPal’s announcement of support for NFC on the Android phones.

Submission + - IBM Contributes Symphony To Apache OpenOffice.org (digitizor.com)

Submitted by kai_hiwatari on Thursday July 14, 2011 @05:29PM

kai_hiwatari writes: IBM has surprisingly thrown its weight behind OpenOffice.org in the OpenOffice.org vs LibreOffice fight. Tomorrow IBM will announce the donation of the source code of their free office suite – IBM Lotus Symphony – to the Apache OpenOffice.org. Now, the ball is in Apache’s court. They will consider IBM’s offer and if they think that it will help OpenOffice.org, they will accept it. If they think otherwise, well, they continue as before.

Submission + - Adobe released 64-bit Flash for Linux (digitizor.com) 1

Submitted by kai_hiwatari on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @08:05PM

kai_hiwatari writes: Adobe has been taking quite a bashing from Linux supporters of late. First, there was the issue of them dropping AIR for Linux and then came the bashing because of the lack of updates on the experimental 64-bit Flash for Linux.

Well, guess what! They have just released Flash 11 and it includes native 64-bit support for Linux as well. When they discontinued their experimental 64-bit Flash earlier this year, Adobe promised to release a 64-bit version of Flash for Linux when they release the next major version. They have kept that promise.

Comment Re:Didn't quit (Score 4, Informative) 284

by kai_hiwatari on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @10:13AM (#36748204) Attached to: Zuckerberg Quits Google+ Over Privacy Concerns

Yes, his profile is still visible at https://plus.google.com/104560124403688998123/about . Only the details like number of followers, followings etc has been made private.

Comment Re:But.. (Score 5, Informative) 107

by kai_hiwatari on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @02:11PM (#36737596) Attached to: Chris Dibona On Free Software and Google

He is the Open Source Manager at Google. Former Slashdot editor, I think.

Submission + - New Lenses Change Color on Demand (gizmag.com)

Submitted by Zothecula on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @10:04AM

Zothecula writes: Most will be familiar with photochromic lenses that darken when exposed to UV light, but now a researcher at the University of Connecticut has developed lenses that can quickly switch color based on the amount of voltage passed through them. While sunglasses manufacturers are expected to employ the technology to create color-changing sunglasses, it has also apparently captured the attention of the U.S. military who see it as a way to potentially assist soldiers to see clearly in rapidly changing environments.

Submission + - Google: Android is the Linux Dream Come True (digitizor.com)

Submitted by kai_hiwatari on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @08:23AM

kai_hiwatari writes: Chris DiBona, who is the Open Source Manager at Google, has said that Android is the Linux dream come true. He described Android as “the ultimate success story of Linux”.

Do you agree?

Submission + - GM of CO.CC: Deindex Facebook and Blogspot (digitizor.com) 1

Submitted by kai_hiwatari on Monday July 11, 2011 @02:17PM

kai_hiwatari writes: "A few days back, we reported that Google has removed more than 11 million .co.cc websites. Today James Kim, the General Manager of CO.CC, has taken to the Google Webmaster Forum saying that Google made a mistake because 99.99% of the co.cc websites are clean. He also commented that Google ought to remove Blogspot and Facebook if they want to be fair."

Comment Do not make much sense right now (Score 1) 441

by kai_hiwatari on Monday July 11, 2011 @09:32AM (#36719504) Attached to: Firefox 8 20% Faster Than Firefox 5

Firefox 8 is not even in the alpha. It will change a lot by the time it reached the users. So, i think there is no point in statements such as "Firefox 8 is 20% faster than firefox 5".

Comment Re:Well (Score 5, Informative) 127

by kai_hiwatari on Sunday July 10, 2011 @06:19PM (#36714840) Attached to: Google Blocks co.cc From Search Results

.co.cc is not an officially recognized second level domain. It is just sub-domains given out by a Korean company that owns the domain http://co.cc/ So, Google is actually removing just one domain with 11 million sub-domains. (source http://digitizor.com/2011/07/06/google-removes-cc-domains/ )

Submission + - Yahoo! To Shut Down Site Explorer Later This Year (digitizor.com)

Submitted by dkd903 on Sunday July 10, 2011 @01:51AM

dkd903 writes: As a part of the merger of Yahoo!’s search backend with Bing search engine, Yahoo! has announced the shut down of it’s Site Explorer tool from the Yahoo! Search service. Webmasters will now be required to use the Bing Webmaster Central for both Yahoo! and Bing search.

Comment Re:Hey, cool! (Score 2) 64

by kai_hiwatari on Saturday July 09, 2011 @06:27PM (#36707708) Attached to: Google: Orkut Will Co-Exist With Google+

Not in India anymore. I do not know anyone who still uses orkut. Everyone has moved to Facebook.

Submission + - Yahoo to scan emails users send and receive (digitizor.com)

Submitted by kai_hiwatari on Friday July 08, 2011 @06:51PM

kai_hiwatari writes: Yahoo! has updated its Additional Terms and Conditions and now they have got the right to scan user communications without any restriction. The change in the ATOS, noticed by Which?, is under Section c of Acceptance of Terms of Yahoo!’s Additional Terms of Services.
According to the ATOS, it is the responsibility of the Yahoo! user to warn his contacts that Yahoo! will scan their messages.

Submission + - Google search removes 11 million .co.cc domains (digitizor.com) 2

Submitted by kai_hiwatari on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @08:52AM

kai_hiwatari writes: In what might possibly be the largest websites ban ever in its history, Google has removed more than 11 million domains from its search result.

Google's decision to ban these websites is because of the huge number of spam and phishing websites hosted at this domain. According to a recent report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group, the .co.cc domain hosts around 5000 phishing websites.

Submission + - US Claims Jurisdiction of .com & .net Websites (digitizor.com)

Submitted by kai_hiwatari on Tuesday July 05, 2011 @04:31PM

kai_hiwatari writes: According to the ICE, they have jurisdiction over any website which has a .com and .net TLD. The DNS index for these websites are routed through Verisign, a company based in Virginia USA. According to the ICE, that naturally gives them jurisdiction over all the .com and .net websites.

If a website breaks some US law, the ICE wants to try the owner according to the US laws. To them, it does not matter if a website is hosted in the US or not, it does not even matter even if what the website owner is doing is legal in his country.

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