Android Hack found by a hacker Group.

The hack for Google Android mobile has been found by a group of hackers. Thousands of hackers will be able to break into the Google Android mobile OS. The new software will allow experts to break into Android-powered phones to steal personal information from people who own smartphones which run the OS.

Google will probably offer a patch to protect handsets which use run Android and downloads which will patch software on phones already in the market. That works if people who use Android-based smartphones find out about the problem and take the time to download the patch.

Source: 247wallst

15 Developer/Hacker Women to Follow on Twitter.

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The Seven Hoursemen of the Web Apocalypse!!

Seven people across the world will hold a keycard which when put together will reboot the key part of the World Wide Web should a security breach, natural disaster or terrorist attack disable it.
It sounds like something out of a spy thriller movie or an episode of South Park, but this safeguarding measure is to enable the web to be restarted. 
Out of these seven, only five are needed to come together at a secure location in the US to put together the DNSSEC root key from the fractioned code, which would enable the resetting and restarting of the service. DNSSEC is a new Internet security system, run by ICANN which protects users from online fraud and cyber-attacks.
The experts include Paul Kane, head of CommunityDNS; Norm Ritchie of Canada, Jiankang Yao from China; Moussa Guebre of Burkina Faso; Bevil Wooding from Trinidad and Tobago; Ondrej Sury of the Czech Republic; and Dan Kaminsky, chief scientist at Recursion Ventures in the US. They have been dubbed the “Seven Horsemen of the Web Apocalypse” or the “Fellowship of the Ring.”

This video from Community DNS explains it in detail.

Sources: games.venturebeat.com, zdnet.com, youtube

The First Ever Indian Browser "Epic"

A Bangalore-based Indian software start-up company Hidden Reflex released its first web browser “Epic” from India. Epic browser is based on open-source Mozilla Firefox platform. Epic has filled with several applications and features, which are specially focused on Indians. The target of this browser is to provide a position to India in the world so Indians can feel proud. It is the first completely India made web browser and aim is to give attention on Indian users. The company, Hidden Reflex was founded by the Alok Bhardwas, a US based engineer, in 2007.
Epic is developed by a team of Indian engineers. Epic comes with a unique feature, which is different from the other browsers that it has an inbuilt protection of antivirus. This antivirus and antispyware is powered by ESET. The browser also provides a sidebar with a number of previously installed widgets such as maps, news, skins, jobs, yahoo, gmail, twitter, facebook, orkut, games and many more. Epic developers claims for faster browsing and downloads. Epic gives maximum privacy by its feature of flash cookie deletion, private data deletion. Browsing history is also not stored.
 Epic offers about 1500 applications free of cost and are included in the browser. According to the Hidden Reflex, it supports approximately 12 Indian languages like Gujarati, Hindi, Telgu, Kannada, Malayalam and Tamil. It also offers free word processor. With this browser, a user can access other websites to watch videos in another small window. It also offers over 1500 customized themes and wallpapers for users.

 The browser can be downloaded from here: Epic

Sources: http://www.epicbrowser.com/ , Techtree

The Indian monsoon!!

The monsoon is the most important factor in this agricultural based country,(some will argue about that point). It brings rain much awaited rain without which there will be danger of drought in the area which still depend upon rain gods.
Why I am talking about monsoon is because on the idiot box I saw news of heavy rains in some part of country which has created flood like situation but the place where I am right now that is capital of an Indian state Bihar, it like reverse of what's happening in the whole country. The clouds have made this place as a passage, just like a small local railway station where super express trains not even slow down a bit. It's so dame hot here, it seems like we will have drought if it doesn't rain in few days.
So to just keep myself happy about the monsoon rains, I am sharing some pic's of the monsoon rains with you guys. If anyone of you is feeling more or less same like what I am feeling, then I bet you'll enjoy this!!!!!!!!

Sources: Various images from google search

Web 3.0 & Semantic Web.

What is web 3.0??
Web 3.0 is, among other things, about the Semantic Web and personalization.
The next generation of the Web is Web 3.0, will make tasks like your search faster and easier. Instead of multiple searches, you might type a complex sentence or two in your Web 3.0 browser, and the Web will do the rest. The browser will analyze your response, search the Internet for all possible answers, and then organize the results for you.The Web 3.0 browser will act like a personal assistant. As you search the Web, the browser learns what you are interested in. The more you use the Web, the more your browser learns about you and the less specific you'll need to be with your questions. Eventually you might be able to ask your browser open questions like 'where should I go for lunch?' Your browser would consult its records of what you like and dislike, take into account your current location and then suggest a list of restaurants.

Conrad Wolfram has argued that Web 3.0 is where "the computer is generating new information", rather than humans.

"Web 3.0 - the Read-Write-Execute Web". Rajnish Sharma says, Web 3.0 is defined as the creation of high-quality content and services produced by gifted individuals with fater search technology & great reduction in exceution timeusing Web 2.0 technology as an enabling platform.

Futurist John Smart, lead author of the Metaverse Roadmap echoes Sharma's perspective, defining Web 3.0 as the first-generation Metaverse (convergence of the virtual and physical world), a web development layer that includes TV-quality open video, 3D simulations, augmented reality, human-constructed semantic standards, and pervasive broadband, wireless, and sensors. Web 3.0's early geosocial (Foursquare, etc.) and augmented reality (Layar, etc.) webs are an extension of Web 2.0's participatory technologies and social networks (Facebook, etc.) into 3D space. Of all its metaverse-like developments, Smart suggests Web 3.0's most defining characteristic will be the mass diffusion of NTSC-or-better quality open video to TVs, laptops, tablets, and mobile devices, a time when "the internet swallows the television." Smart considers Web 4.0 to be the Semantic Web and in particular, the rise of statistical, machine-constructed semantic tags and algorithms, driven by broad collective use of conversational interfaces, perhaps circa 2020. David Siegel's perspective in Pull: The Power of the Semantic Web, 2009, is consonant with this, proposing that the growth of human-constructed semantic standards and data will be a slow, industry-specific incremental process for years to come, perhaps unlikely to tip into broad social utility until after 2020.
 

Sources: Youtube, Youtube2,Wikipedia, w3

India's own cheap ipad.

So finally we got a 1,500 Rs laptop.... 
It looks like an iPad, only it's 1/14th the cost. The prototype cost $35 (U.S.) basic touch screen tablet aimed at students, which it hopes to bring into production by 2011.
 
India on Thursday unveiled a prototype tablet computer that would sell for a mere 1,500 rupees, or $35, with the price possibly dropping even further as R&D efforts continue.
Kapil Sibal, showed off the super-cheap touch-screen device in New Delhi as part of a push to provide high-quality education to students across the country. The tablet also comes with a solar-power option that could make it more feasible for rural areas.
The Linux-based computer at first glance resembles an Apple iPad and features basic functions you'd expect to see in a tablet--a Web browser, multimedia player, PDF reader, Wi-Fi, and video conferencing ability. It has 2GB of RAM (but no hard disk, instead using a memory card) and USB ports and could be available to kids from primary school up to the university level as early as next year.

Students from several branches of the Indian Institute of Technology co-designed motherboards for the computer, which is likely to drop to $20 and possibly getting as low as $10.
Sibal called the as-yet-unnamed device India's answer to MIT's famed OLPC laptop aimed at children in developing nations, which started off five years ago with a projected cost of $100, but ended up going for $200.

The tablet is part of a larger initiative aimed at improving India's educational system through technology. Nearly 8,500 colleges in the country have already gotten broadband connectivity, according to the Ministry for Human Resource Development, and some 500 Web-based and video courses are available for upload on YouTube and other online portals, with more in the works.

Google Goggles: Is this the new form of search we are looking for?

A picture is worth a thousand words. With Google Goggles for Android no need to type your search anymore. Just take a picture. Find out what businesses are nearby. Just point your phone at a store. Turn on ‘visual search history’ to view or share your pictures at any time. Turn it off to discard them once the search is done. Goggles can also recognize English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish words and allow you to translate into other languages.


According to official help page for google mobile:

Google Goggles lets you use pictures taken with your mobile phone to search the web. It’s ideal for things that aren’t easy to describe in words. There’s no need to type or speak your query – all you have to do is open the app, snap a picture, and wait for your search results.

Google Goggles works better with certain types of queries. Try taking pictures of books & DVDs, landmarks, logos, contact info, artwork, businesses, products, barcodes, or text. Currently, it’s not so good when taking pictures of animals, plants, cars, furniture, or apparel.

For the best results when taking pictures, hold your phone in “left landscape” mode, as shown below, and press the on-screen shutter button with your right thumb.

From: Google