Friday, 23 December 2011

The Problem With Windows 8's Picture Password

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Friday, December 23, 2011 in

"The Windows 8 feature that logs users in if they touch certain points in a photo in the right order might be fun, but it's not very good security, according to the inventor of RSA's SecurID token. 'It's cute,' says Kenneth Weiss, who now runs a three-factor authentication business called Universal...

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Thursday, 22 December 2011

Astronomers Discover Deep-Fried Planets: Two Earth-Sized Planets Around Dying Star That Has Passed the Red Giant Stage

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Thursday, December 22, 2011 in

Artist's rendition of two hot Earth-sized planets orbiting a subdwarf B star. (Credit: Illustration by Stéphane Charpinet/Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie in Toulouse, France) Two Earth-sized planets have been discovered around a dying star that has passed the red giant stage....

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Tuesday, 20 December 2011

Application internet to drive massive IT demand in 2012.

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Tuesday, December 20, 2011 in

"The rise of the "app internet" – in which users' PCs, smartphones and tablets run the business applications – will drive completely different demands from technology next year.That is the verdict of technology industry experts, who predicted fast-shifting pressures on technology from the rise in...

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Firefox 9 Released, JavaScript Performance Greatly Improved

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Tuesday, December 20, 2011 in

Firefox 9 is now available — but unlike its previous rapid release forebears where not a lot changed, a huge feature has landed with the new version: the JavaScript engine now has type inference enabled. This simple switch has resulted in a 20-30% JS execution speed increase (PDF), putting JaegerMonkey...

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Friday, 30 September 2011

Samsung unveils Honeycomb-based Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus

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Friday, September 30, 2011 in

Samsung added another tablet to their lineup today in the form of the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus. As the name suggests, Samsung’s latest Galaxy Tab features a 7-inch PLS (Super Plane to Line Switching) display operating at 1024 x 600 pixels running Android 3.2 Honeycomb and a 1.2GHz dual-core processor,...

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Thursday, 22 September 2011

Adobe's Flash 11 coming soon with GPU-assisted 3D graphics engine

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Thursday, September 22, 2011 in

Adobe's Flash Player is about to receive its largest update since the introduction of hardware-accelerated H.264 video decoding in 2009. Version 11 of the software is set to go live early next month and will reportedly introduce a GPU-assisted rendering API called Stage 3D. Adobe claims...

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Wednesday, 14 September 2011

Google, Intel collaborate to release Android phones early 2012

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Wednesday, September 14, 2011 in

Intel and Google have announced a new partnership that will see low-powered Atom CPUs and their successors running with Google's Android platform as the chipmaker attempts to launch itself into the smartphone market. Intel executives stated at their annual developer conference on Tuesday that...

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Microsoft confirms Xbox Live integration on Windows 8

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Wednesday, September 14, 2011 in

Microsoft has re-confirmed that the company's Xbox Live service will be built into the next version of its desktop operating system. There are few details about the integration at this point, but according to a blog post by Microsoft's Director of Programming for Xbox, Live Larry...

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Monday, 5 September 2011

Lenovo presents IdeaPad A1 tablet with $199 starting price

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Monday, September 05, 2011 in

Lenovo has added a new member to its growing Android tablet lineup. The IdeaPad A1 will be squarely aimed at the budget-conscious market with a starting price of just $199, and though it may not be a cutting-edge device, it offers quite a bit of features for the price. You'll get a 7-inch...

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Sunday, 4 September 2011

Google To Shut Down 10 Products

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Sunday, September 04, 2011 in

Google announced yesterday that it is closing a number of its current products and merging others into similar services. Many of them will continue to be available in the near future to facilitate the transition. The list of affected services includes Aardvark, Desktop, Fast Flip, Maps API for Flash,...

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Wednesday, 24 August 2011

Serious Crypto Bug Found In PHP 5.3.7

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Wednesday, August 24, 2011 in

The maintainers of the PHP scripting language are warning users about a serious crypto problem in the latest release and advising them not to upgrade to PHP 5.3.7 until the bug is resolved. PHP 5.3.7 was just released last week and that version contained fixes for a slew of security vulnerabilities....

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Monday, 22 August 2011

Skype Acquires StartUp GroupMe, Will Provide Group Messaging Service

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Monday, August 22, 2011 in

Skype, the online phone giant, has agreed to acquire New York-based startup GroupMe, a move that will let it enter the group messaging service market. Skype hopes to provide a global multi-modal and multi-platform communications experience. GroupMe's application lets users text and make...

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Google Launches Identity Verification Badge Scheme

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Monday, August 22, 2011 in

CNET reports that rather than backing down after complaints about its insistence that Google+ user accounts be opened under a real name, Google has upped the ante and will pin 'verification badges' on users in an effort to assure people that 'the person you're adding to a circle is really who they claim...

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Tuesday, 16 August 2011

Yahoo, Bing Yield 'Higher success rate' then Google Search: Study

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Tuesday, August 16, 2011 in

While Google sits enthroned as the search engine giant in its market share, Yahoo and Bing are more effective in search results, yielding the highest success rates, according to a search-engine study. Web tracking company Experian Hitwise released its study results, which indicated Google's dominance...

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Google bought Motorola Mobility for $12.5B

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Tuesday, August 16, 2011 in

Google bought Motorola Mobility for $12.5B, getting 17,000 patents plus another 7,500 in the process of being granted, most of them related to communication. Android gets more litigation protection, but Google is now a hardware manufacturer, unsetting the balance in the Open Handset Alliance, the organization...

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Monday, 8 August 2011

HP Drops Price Again For Its WebOS-Based iPad Challenger

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Monday, August 08, 2011 in

Hewlett Packard reduced the price of its TouchPad tablet computer again, highlighting the uphill battle manufacturers will need to overcome as they go head-to-head against the dominant Apple iPad line of tablets. Much of a tablet's success is based on the ecosystem of apps that is available to the...

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Thursday, 4 August 2011

YouTube Converter: How to download YouTube to iPad/iPad 2

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Thursday, August 04, 2011 in

A) So fancy about some videos on YouTube website and wanna to watch it on your iPad/iPad 2 over and over again? B) Want to watch YouTube/FLV videos on your iPad or iPhone or iPod without WIFI or Internet? C) Wanna download some funny videos from YouTube and want to put them on your new iPad, iPad...

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Google Patches 30 Chrome Bugs, Adds Instant Pages

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Thursday, August 04, 2011 in

Google patched 30 vulnerabilities in Chrome, paying out the third-highest bounty total ever for the bugs that outsiders filed with its security team. The company packaged the patches with an update to Chrome 13, adding Instant Pages to the "stable" channel of the browser. The feature, which Google...

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Microsoft To Pay $200k Prize For New Security Tech

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Thursday, August 04, 2011 in

In the face of mounting external pressure to begin paying bug bounties,"In the face of mounting external pressure to begin paying bug bounties, Microsoft is instead launching a new program that will pay a $200,000 top prize to a security researcher who develops the most innovative defensive security...

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Tuesday, 2 August 2011

Open any file format

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Tuesday, August 02, 2011 in

As number of file format increasing, it’s mess to manage all the software for different file formats. To solve this problem A tool is developed called Free Opener, it is a freeware tool which can open most of the files and it support approximately 70+ different file formats. Now you don’t need to download...

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The Art of Magnetic Writing

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Tuesday, August 02, 2011 in

Schematic of a magnetic bit fabricated by sandwiching a thin ferromagnetic Co film between Pt and AlOx layers. Current pulses injected through one of the Pt strips switch the magnetization from up to down and vice-versa depending on the sign of the current. (Credit: Image courtesy of Institut Català...

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Brain waves make a fast brake

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Tuesday, August 02, 2011 in

In a fast-moving car, the brain can hit the brakes faster than the foot. By relying on brain waves that signal the intent to jam on the brakes, a new technology could shave critical milliseconds off the reaction time, researchers report online July 28 in the Journal of Neural Engineering. The work...

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Android Trojan Records Phone Calls

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Tuesday, August 02, 2011 in

A new Android Trojan is capable of recording phone conversations,according to a CA security researcher. While a previous Trojan found by CA logged the details of incoming and outgoing phone calls and the call duration, new malware identified this week records the actual phone conversations in AMR format...

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Monday, 1 August 2011

Indian origin scientist designs nanosized batteries

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Monday, August 01, 2011 in

A schematic shows nanoscale battery/supercapacitor devices in an array, as constructed at Rice University. The devices show promise for powering nanoscale electronics and as a research tool for understanding electrochemical phenomenon at the nanoscale. (Credit: Ajayan Lab/Rice University) A team...

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Sunday, 31 July 2011

Ipad 2 Review – The Apple Ipad Sequal

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Sunday, July 31, 2011 in

In these next few paragraphs i will be outlining the features and some of the pros and cons of the apple ipad 2. If you are thinking for purchasing the new ipad it is essential that you read this ipad 2 review. Well Apple have done it again with the ipad tablet. Featuring its fast speed, sleek design...

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Chinese Firm Launches Cloud-Based Mobile OS

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Sunday, July 31, 2011 in

China-based company Alibaba looks to take on the might of Apple and Google with a cloud-based operating system. According to the company, its Aliyun OS will be based on the Linux kernel, and will also be compatible with Android apps. Launched alongside the K-Touch Cloud-Smart Phone W700, Alibaba is...

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Facebook To Pay Hackers For Bugs

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Sunday, July 31, 2011 in

Facebook is going to pay hackers to find problems with its website — just so long as they report them to Facebook's security team first. The company is following Google and Mozilla in launching a Web 'Bug Bounty' program. For security related bugs — cross site scripting flaws, for example — the company...

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New Photonic Crystals Have Both Electronic and Optical Properties

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Sunday, July 31, 2011 in

In an advance that could open new avenues for solar cells, lasers, metamaterials and more, researchers at the University of Illinois have demonstrated the first optoelectronically active 3-D photonic crystal. Using an epitaxial approach, University of Illinois researchers developed a 3-D photonic...

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Magnetic waves bake the sun's corona

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Sunday, July 31, 2011 in

Why the sun's outer atmosphere is so blazing hot SUN BURN Loops and holes in the sun’s superhot atmosphere are easily seen in this combination of ultraviolet images. Recent measurements suggest that temperatures in these regions may spike in part because of magnetic waves. Scientists are getting...

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