Flickr's co-founder Caterina Fake (left in the picture) has announced that she will join new startup called Hunch.
In her blog post on the matter, Fake says that she will be joining Hunch as Chief Product Officer. She said
"What is Hunch? Well, as you might assume, it is a consumer internet application, it will have a lot of user participation, and it is more than a little fun. Beyond that, we’re still making it up."
And this doesn't explains properly what actualy Hunch is about.
Kevin Mitnick, Famous hacker and cracker, who spend his five years in jail for his criminal hacking activities, now talks about his ways of stealing private data by social engineering.
Hacker, who is now operating a security firm, said that the weakest link in security system is user himself who have the information and if user pay attention to his own security, it would not be easy for hackers to steal there identity.
Identity Theft and Cyber crime are very dark part of Bright and shiny internet but following there 5 simple tips can be evert useful for security of your own data on internet and elsewhere.
(via Future Bells)
Sony have released PlayStation 3 Firmware update version 2.42 – but it's minor fixes all the way so don't expect anything game changing.
Following the problems with v2.40, you would imagine that Sony has been fairly careful in making sure that this minor update does not break thousands of PS3s but that isn't going to stop people advising users to wait a while and let someone else try things out.
T3 has idealized in these graphics that how a coffin of a "fanboy" can be.
Granted, these choices aren't actually on offer from Creative Coffins, however the environmentally-friendly company promises a full bespoke service, where they're able to "create almost any design from the dignified and beautiful to the quirky or humorous". What about from Halo 3's Master Chief, to a GTA IV-inspired design, though? We mocked up six images of coffins we'd love to be buried in, take a look through the gallery on the right.
Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Yahoo are partnering for cloud computing research and education in order to advance the development and adoption of large-scale, data-intensive Internet-hosted applications and related IT infrastructure.
By banding together, the trio of computer industry titans hopes to foster collaboration among vendors, universities and government agencies around cloud computing, whose progress is hampered by "financial and logistical barriers," the companies said Tuesday.
ntel, Yahoo and HP are forming the Cloud Computing Test Bed, which they describe as a global, multi-data center, open-source effort designed to promote research on software, data center management and hardware for large-scale, Internet-hosted computing.
Partners in the initiative include the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the National Science Foundation and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany
Read full article at InfoWorld
So affordable! India is developing a $10 laptop for higher education applicants.
D. Purandeswari, Minister of State for Higher Education India said
Research on the new low-cost laptop is being carried out at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and the Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai. This measure will help raise the quality of higher education in India.
Specifications of this laptop are not revealed yet. And its unsure that it will be sold with expected price tag after manufacture.
India Government is trying to make distant learning common with such campaigns. They are also planning to make low power and low cost devices and also to provide free internet for educational purposes (India's internet rates are already cheapest in the world).
India's Internet penetration is currently very low. The country had 4.38 million broadband subscribers at the end of June for a population of over 1.13 billion. Many giants of sofware industry have already outsourcied in India that performing active part in development of country's sofware industry.
PC World has recently published a list of Top 10 Ultra portable notebooks. Holy potatoes! Macbook Air is not in the list. Darren Gladstone of PC World says
Ideal for the mobile professional, these notebooks stand out for their low weight and small footprint. Ratings and rankings can change due to pricing and technology changes, so check back frequently for the latest info.
I found this funny comics on Joyoftech.com that explains about some funny reasons for which Mac Book Air can save the day!
Here's a very interesting post by Michael Podrazik making a calculated guess that Java is going to be the next language for Google App Engine. And he has very valid points supporting his prediction, he says:
you are only allowed to write C++, Java, Python and JavaScript code at Google. So if Google is going to go with something other than these it would have to be the result of an explicit change in policy.
There's no chance for C++, so we minus that and we're only left with JS and Java. Churning out JavaScript for an App Engine tailored to run in a Server Side environment? eh.... not a good idea afterall.
So delightfully, Java comes out as the ONLY sensible choice Google will make for its next support language for App Engine. Uptil now, Google has cast shadows over any future announcements for App Engine, so whats going on inside their labs is pretty much secret for the outside world. They have a culture of secrecy at Google, anyone disagrees?
And by the way, this is going to be revolutionary in the sense that it will unleash opportunities for the Java developer community to Churn out applications to be hosted on App Engine, the first ever wide-scale Java hosting support environment!
I will keep following the developments and keep you posted.
A former Google employee(who worked as a search index leader) named Anna Patterson and her husband (Tom Costello) has launched a new search engine named cuil (Pronounced "cool") .The two, president and CEO, respectively, met at Stanford. Russell Power is third co-founder, who also worked in google on search indexing, Web rankings and spam detection, is the vice president of Engineering.
Cuil indexes 120 billion Web pages and can provide results organized by ideas with complete privacy for users.(Google has lately discovered 1 trillion unique web pages but have not mentioned the number it indexes).
