Serious Crypto Bug Found In PHP 5.3.7

Wednesday, August 24, 2011 in Tech News

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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Skype Acquires StartUp GroupMe, Will Provide Group Messaging Service

Monday, August 22, 2011 in Tech News

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

Monday, August 22, 2011 in Tech News

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

Tuesday, August 16, 2011 in Tech News

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

Tuesday, August 16, 2011 in Tech News

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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HP Drops Price Again For Its WebOS-Based iPad Challenger

Monday, August 08, 2011 in Tech News

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

Thursday, August 04, 2011 in Applications

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

Thursday, August 04, 2011 in Tech News

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

Thursday, August 04, 2011 in Tech News

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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Open any file format

Tuesday, August 02, 2011 in Applications

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

Tuesday, August 02, 2011 in Tech News

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

Tuesday, August 02, 2011 in Articles

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

Tuesday, August 02, 2011 in Tech News

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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Indian origin scientist designs nanosized batteries

Monday, August 01, 2011 in Tech News

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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