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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.

Submission + - Dolphin Browser Has Leaked Thousands Of Emails Of (digitizor.com)

Submitted by kai_hiwatari on Monday July 04, 2011 @12:07PM

kai_hiwatari writes: In emails sent out to the private beta testers of Dolphin Browser 6, they have included the emails address of everyone who have signed up for the beta. According to those who have received the email, the number of email addresses included in the email numbers in the thousands.

Submission + - Google Transparency Report (digitizor.com)

Submitted by kai_hiwatari on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @05:22PM

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.

Submission + - Ubuntu 11.10 & 11.04 To Support Apple AirPrint (digitizor.com)

Submitted by kai_hiwatari on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @07:49AM

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.

Submission + - Google Launches Multi-Search Portal - WDYL.com (digitizor.com)

Submitted by dkd903 on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @04:35AM

dkd903 writes: Google has silently launched a new internet service WDYL.com. WDYL stands for “What Do You Love?” and the basic idea of the new service is to offer a single point search across different Google Products. Multi-Search, you may say.

Submission + - Google launches WDYL.com (digitizor.com) 1

Submitted by kai_hiwatari on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @04:22AM

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 .

Comment Re:So long as aptitude is still there I don't care (Score 1) 360

by kai_hiwatari on Thursday June 23, 2011 @07:05PM (#36548566) Attached to: Synaptic Dropped From Ubuntu 11.10

Aptitude hasn't been a part of the default installation since Ubuntu 10.10. http://www.webupd8.org/2010/06/aptitude-removed-from-ubuntu-1010.html

Submission + - Google Talk switches over to Jingle protocol (digitizor.com)

Submitted by kai_hiwatari on Thursday June 23, 2011 @06:51PM

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.

Submission + - Google Chrome To Have Real-Time Communications (digitizor.com)

Submitted by kai_hiwatari on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @10:28AM

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.

Submission + - Microsoft Reinvents SkyDrive With HTML5 (digitizor.com)

Submitted by kai_hiwatari on Monday June 20, 2011 @09:07PM

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.

Submission + - Google Launches Search By Image (digitizor.com)

Submitted by kai_hiwatari on Tuesday June 14, 2011 @03:18PM

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.

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