Beware !!! Google know all we do on the Internet

Google will launch a new page feature named Account Activity this week, and this will be sent to their user via email. On this page you will know the summarize of your search data in Google Search and sites you have visited.

 

Not only that, Google Account Activity will also record your location via Google Latitude. It will also record your email activity. Later, Account Activity will notify you weekly reports based on data received from the location of the signals obtained via GPS.
 

Addicted to Internet, Teens and Adults spend 15 hours online every week

England internet users is one of the largest in the world. Peoples in this country spend more than 15 hours per week or five hours more than six years ago. Eight out of ten adults are online from various different devices. This figure increased 20% since 2005.

A survey of the media regulator, Ofcom disclose similar data. People spend their time for social networking with the smartphone and PC. Research showed that there are about 59% of adult who have accounts on social networking sites. And two-thirds of those visiting the site every day. This figure is increase one-third than in 2007.

Microsoft: Chrome Defeat Internet Explorer? That is misleading

Internet browser market competition is quite fierce, earlier reports said that Google's browser, Chrome has beat the "king" of Internet Browser market share, Internet Explorer. Statistical data on browser market share lead to positive and negative views of various parties, especially about the validity of the data and the reaction of browser developers. Many have commented positive and negative to browser user statistics that published by StatCounter, as well as Microsoft, the creator of Internet Explorer browser.

Microsoft says that the data generated StatCounter is not true and misleading. Microsoft argued that the calculation of market share by StatCounter is based solely of the users without considering geoweighting.

Sony prepare Chrome OS Laptop

Sony that famous for their VAIO products now is preparing a laptop that will use Chrome operating system. Chrome OS itself is Google's operating system based on cloud computing (Cloud Computing), which is dominated by Google's web browser with high security because it use Linux-based OS.

This report is derived from the documents submitted to the FCC, that Sony is preparing VAIO laptop with Google Chrome OS with an estimated specifications are 11.6-inch screen, WiFi, Bluetooth, USB port, HDMI output and SD card slot.

Facebook is trying to patent three words; Book, Face, and Wall

Facebook is trying to patent the three words : Book, Face, and Wall as their property. Social network website that have a billion users are secretly pinned the three words as a small clause in the consent agreement page. Thus Facebook seeks to protect those three words to be used by another party in the future.

"You can not use our copyrights or trademarks , including Facebook, logo, poke, book, face, and wall," as written on the agreement.

Previously Facebook also has patented at least 70 other trademarks, which are F, F8, Friendfeed, and Facebook Ads.

Microsoft Live Messenger blocked all links from Pirate Bay

The software giant from Redmond, Microsoft, has blocked all links from Pirate Bay site of the service delivered via Windows Live Messenger instant message. The Pirate Bay is known as the largest providers of Torrent files. Torrent itself is a method of file sharing in peer-to-peer (P2P) with the help of software such as BitTorrent, uTorrent or Azureus.

The Pirate Bay is the most popular site for people who want to share their files illegally. Many ISPs (Internet Service Provider) in the world is trying to prevent its consumer to access this site. Microsoft  now do the same thing, blocking all links from Pirate Bay.

AOL Sells 800 Patents to Survive

AOL (America Online Inc.) is global internet service provider company based in New York that are quite popular with their AIM instant message service. Currently AOL is struggling to maintain its existence after its sales shrink in recent years. AOL tried to get a new source income. According to sources from Bloomberg, AOL hired Evercore company to find a buyer or licensee for more than 800 patents owned by AOL.

Since 2009, AOL apart from giant content company, Time Warner. The web company has seen revenue drop by 29 percent. The decrease is presumably due to lower revenues at AOL dial-up service, reportedly, AOL dial-up services revenue fell 18 percent.

Pirate Bay Prepare Flying Server

After several years being chased by the government, Pirate Bay is prepare a plan to design their web server that is floating in the sky. In MrSpock blog, Pirate Bay will be experimenting with a small aircraft that will drive user traffic to secret location.

"We will experiment with sending a small plane that will float a few miles in the air. In this way, our machines must be closed with the plane to turn off the system, "wrote MrSpock.

MrSpock continued, the technology will utilize a simple radio equipment and small computers, such as Raspberry Pi, and will be controlled by GPS.  Modern radio transmitter is able to transfer more than 100 Mbps in more than 50 kilometers away and would be more than enough for the proxy system.

Intel chips for Macbook Air and Ultrabooks

To support slim notebook Macbook Air and Ultrabooks products, Intel is preparing the chips to satisfy vast majority of users who want to upgrade from Core 2 Duo laptop into Ivy Brige processors that well known as Core i-series. Intel seems will focus on power efficient chips for Ultrabooks products. This chips designed with "M" or "U" suffix, and said that will draw less 20 watts than desktop computer.

Power efficient chips of course will affect its appearance. You can't compare the 17W chip with 25W or 35W chip that usually used by common thick laptops. But after all, the new chip is more than enough to satisfy the user who previously use Core 2 Duo laptop.

Asetek Gaming Laptop with Water Cooling

Desktop computer using water cooling probably is common thing, but gaming laptop with a water cooling? This is just unusual. Water cooling for gaming laptop in demo by Asetek. Asetek is a company that focus in cooling solution for laptop / computer that use liquid cooling or water cooling.

Asetek have debuted for laptop use liquid cooling solution (water cooling) for a gaming laptop, workstation systems and All-In-One (AIO) PC. Ole Madsen, Asetek representative said that a fundamental challenge to provide water cooling solution is the lack of space and proper cooling systems.

Google will penalized Website that implementing excessive SEO

Matt Cutts, head of Google Webspam Team, said that if Google would provide penalties for sites that are too over in implementing SEO. The news was announced Matt Cutts on a SXSW panel discussion between Danny Sullivan, Editor in Chief of Search Engine Land with Microsoft Senior Product Marketing Manager with the headline Dear Goolge Bing & Bing: Help Me Rank Better!

During the discussion a little conclusion can be drawn if Google is working to create a policy in the new action against sites that are over in SEO. According to Matt Cutts, the policy of this new rule will be introduced next month or in a few weeks. He strongly underlined will take action against sites that do not have much content but doing excessive SEO.

Facebook Hacker Cup 2012 Winner List

Facebook Hacker Cup 2012 has started on Saturday (03/17/12) local time. And the event has been going on for three hours. The programmers from around the world gather to compete in solving three problems apart.

Facebook Hacker Cup competition this year is very tight. In fact, the lag time between the winner and second place just one minute later. The first position is occupied by Roman Andreev with time of 1 hour 4 minutes. He has the right to receive trophy plus check of USD 5,000.

Mozilla Thunderbird 11 is finally released

After some time ago Mozilla released their newest internet browser Firefox 11, Mozilla also released Thunderbird 11 today. Thunderbird is open source software that functions as an email client developed by Mozilla. Thunderbird is an email client software that is built using Gecko, the engine is also used by  Firefox browser to create the user interface display and HTML content display.

The same release schedule between Thunderbird and Firefox allow continuous development since both software use of the same components. Because of faster release cycle, the user can see a slight change in each Thunderbird update.

Google servers deliberately hidden in a dark room

Right now, Google is the king on Internet World. There are many people who count on Google. But, do you ever wonder what it is like Google Servers room in Silicon Valley? It is not secret anymore, if there are a lot of techonology company that being paranoid in maintain their server save from competitors, including Google of course.

"There are companies that try to maintain its servers by cover it up. There are a lot of valuable intellectual property here. But i personally appreciate and admire to Google, "said Chris Sharp, general manager of content and cloud Equinix.

Anonymous OS is fake and contain Trojan

Some time ago, there is a news said that hacker group Anonymous has developed and released their own desktop operating system with the name Anonymous OS. Anonymous OS is a Linux distro based operating system Ubuntu 11.10 that supposedly developed by the hacker group Anonymous. Recently it is proved that the Anonymous OS is fake and has nothing to do with hacker group Anonymous.

As quoted from TomsHardware, a report about this operating system is started from a Tumblr account belonging to Anonymous OS operating system. On the page "About" of the blog states that Anonymous OS is created for web security educational purposes. It also means a warning to users not to use Anonymous OS to attack web site.

Anonymous Hacker Group release their own OS, Anonymous OS

Who does not know Anonymous? This hacker groups are so popular because of their action in hacking various websites on the internet. This week, the hacker group Anonymous has secretly released their own dektop operating system. This operating system that used is Anonymous OS version 0.1.

 
As quoted from Slashgear, the hacker group Anonymous is rumored still continue to develop Anonymous OS which has now reached pre-alpha level.This operating system is equipped with many tools for hacking. Anonymous OS operating system is suitable for those who want to join and feel the world of hacking.

Print Good Quality Facebook Photo is now available

Printing photos from Facebook are sometimes a bit difficult because of its low resolution. Seeing the weakness comes a service called CanvasPop. CanvasPop claimed that it was the only service in the world that offers feature that can print photo no matter how small with perfect results. Corresponding name of the service, the printing process uses canvas as a medium.

Facebook is currently the largest photo repository in the world with 150 billion images. Reportedly, each day there are more than 100 million photos dipload in this famous networking site. Wow.

Facebook Ready to Counterattack Yahoo

Feud between Yahoo and Facebook related allegations of patent infringement seems to be more heated. Moreover, the largest social networking site that was ready to counterattack. Previously, Yahoo dragged Facebook to court on 10 charges of patent rights that are violated. However, Mark Zuckrberg claimed have enough evidence to confront the allegations.

According to the GigaOM technology site sources quoted on Wednesday (3/14/2012), Facebook has all the rights of the patent that claims by Yahoo. Yahoo was previously asked for payment for patent licenses. Of a lot of companies that agreed to pay, just Facebook that refuse. This is what makes Yahoo furious, and bring an action against that biggest social network website in the world.

Wikipedia move domain hosting from Godaddy to MarkMonitor

Wikipedia have moved hosting. They moved from GoDaddy to MarkMonitor. This movement has been officially discussed for months. And on Friday, March 9, 2012, local time, Wikipedia has officially change its domain hosting.
 

During the process of moving hosting and domain, Wikipedia does not have significant problems. The process according to the procedure and does not cause problems on the site. Then what is the reason for Wikipedia to move its domain hosting from GoDaddy to MarkMonitor?

Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook, created online news portal site

Chris Hughes, one of co-founder of Facebook is building an online news portal. This 28-year-old man was rumored to have bought shares of a United States magazine company for the development of his new online news sites. The site will not for commercial aims, but as the news media with quality information for the needs of the community.

The New Republic, is the news media headlines. Keep in mind that earlier in 2009, Chris Hughes is the one behind the winning campaign team of the Republicans that make Barack Obama win the president election.

Similar to Twitter, Facebook release Interest List

The new features is created by Facebook to enrich user experience in social networking. Interest List become Facebook way to group popular topics, so the users can find them easily.

This feature functions like List on Twitter, which is enable users to search for friends or page in accordance with their interests. Interest Lists of topics including technology, arts, entertainment, music and sports.

 
This feature is also similar to Circle in Google + that allows users to follow the person or any particular page in particular. Reported by Digital Trends, Friday (03/09/2012), Facebook users can create their own lists and other Facebook users can follow to subscribe.

Hybrid Drive Facility's Ultrabooks on sale for $600

The innovation of hybrid hard disk drives was hoped can decrease the price of ultrabook products. According to DigiTimes, hybrid hard drives is preferred by vendors to built their latest ultrabook products. A lot of ultrabook vendors arround the world are desperately trying to sell their products for $600 only.

Right now, ultrabooks price normally sold with a minimum price $800. The change in approach hope can reduce the price to increase more customers. The other factor that be hoped can reduce the price is because of Ivy Bridge chip.

Currently ultrabooks is sold in the market with Windows 7 as the bundle. It also blended with several additional portability.

Cut Through Google Security, Hacker got $ 66,000

Not long time ago, Google make a challenge for whoever can find security holes in Google Chrome browser will received prize reward. A hacker managed to answer them, so he will receive $ 60,000. It's a hacker from Russia, Sergey Glazunov who found remote code execution vulnerability in Google Chrome browser.

He demonstrated how to exploit loopholes to pass Google Chrome's sandbox (a system that block hackers who want to control user's device). After passed sandbox, he also managed to run unauthorized code on Windows 7. He showed his skill on Google contest Google Pwnium that held in Canada. At the contest, Google provides cash prizes for the hacker who can broke through the security system. Total prizes provided around $ 1 million.

Google was sued by French Men Due to Google's Street View photos

A 50-year-old man from Mailne village in Loire region, France, in November 2010 was urinating in front of his house. When he urinated in front of his own home, without realizing the Google Street View car through and capture his activities. And because of this photo, he will become the subject of mockery about 3,000 villagers. Because they will see his embarassing photo through Google Maps.

"He is recorded urinating in front of the house. Gate is closed. He found the picture while looking for pictures of his house, "said Jean-Nokl Bouillaud, the lawyer. According to Jean-Nokl Bouillaud, unfortunately the picture is also seen by local people. And the village is a small village. Everyone recognizes it easily.

Kapersky will be installed on all Samsung products

Kaspersky Lab has become Golden Member in Samsung Enterprise Alliance Program. This means that the antivirus application will be available in all the tablets and Samsung smartphones.

"Our membership in Samsung Enterprise Alliance Program will help Kaspersky to be better in developing solutions for mobile devices," said Garry Kondakov, Sales and Marketing Chief Officer of Kaspersky Lab.

 

As part of the agreement, Kaspersky Mobile Security and Kaspersky Security Tablet will be automatically embedded in all Samsung Android based mobile devices, both personal and corporate property.

A Homeless man broke the house to access Pornography

Foreigners who intend to break down a house is usually bad, either robbed or want to harm the occupants. But this homeless man doing it just to see porn content via laptop. The guy named Edward Dugan was arrested after the homeowner complained. Edward himself denied all the allegations and claimed that on that night he was drunk so he does not know anything.

Homeowners testified that he was surprised to see a stranger absurdly in his house. Although feel fear, he tried to figure out what happen. Then he saw Dugan was operating the laptop in completely dark room. It turns out that Dugan was watching pornographic material on the laptop.

Dell XPS 13 : $999 Ultrabook with High Specification

Dell has released their first platform through ultrabook product called Dell XPS 13. Dell XPS 13 is an interesting product that interest many people and it is one of the best design Dell laptop that released until now. Ultrabook itself is a platform that was initiated by Intel to bring a laptop that is thin and light but has a powerful performance. Dell XPS 13 offers a solid quality.

Dell offers at price of $ 999 for the XPS 13 with a standard specification. This price is far below its competitors, MacBook Air. As quoted from Cnet, Dell XPS 13 casing is made of carbon fiber. It is strong and very light. So your laptop will keep under 3 pounds.

"Password1" : Employees Office Password Favorites

Password doesn't only found in internet activity in cyberspace. The use of user name and password are also often found in work place. According to reports from Trustwave Global Security Report 2012, one of the major threats in the business is the selection and use of passwords.
 

Trustwave is extremely mention if the favorite officer worker's password is "password1". Very ironic, right? The password is very easy to guess. But why do they choose that password?

Google + Add Mask Effect in Hangouts

Are you one of Google + active users? What Google + features you enjoy? If the feature is Hangouts, now the activity of online hangouts will be more enjoyable. Activities were the use of webcam video conferencing feature that is usually always identic with Skype. Google + with its Hangouts will hit the market of video conferencing. Google + is now adding a special effects in feature Hangouts. With this effect you can modify the faces in such way to use a particular attribute.

In the camera or image (photos) features, there are commonly available image effects menu. And with this effect you can add attributes such as ribbon, fake ears, fake nose, glasses, and so on.

Baidu Add Sina Weibo Real Time Search Results

China's Google, Baidu now will be more social. Now Baidu support real time result, because its now corporate with local microblogging. Weibo Sina is China's number one local microblogging that becoming increasingly popular today. This site become number one social network website when Facebook and Twitter blocked and forbidden in China.

Google themselves have done the same thing like Baidu. Google ever make collaboration with Twitter to deliver real time result in the search results. But Twitter then quit from the project and the feature was not available anymore since 2011 ago. Now, Baidu do something similar to what has been done by Google.

Facebook's new features focus on Merchants

We must have been quite familiar with the features of Facebook Pages. This feature is often used by people who want to promote their products directly on Facebook. This method make the interaction between sellers and buyers easier. That's what Facebook Pages role as a tools to increase our sales and grow our business.

Therefore, Facebook try to maximize their Facebook Pages through new features. The new features were announced by Facebook COO (Chief Operating Officer), Sheryl Sandberg in the FMC (Facebook Marketing Conference) event.

3 Future Technology is Not Just a Dream

The rapid development of technology will make the science fiction that usually only be seen in the film come true. That's the prediction of Google Chairman Eric Schmidt in his speech at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2012 in Barcelona, Spain.

"People who are predicting that the hologram and a car that can run itself will soon become reality is really true," he said as quoted from ABCNews, on Wednesday (29/02/2012).

Megaupload closed, Why Mediafire and 4shared still operating?

Latest news about Megaupload (sharing site that was closed a few months ago) appeared. This time related to the founder, Kim Dotcom. In an live interview conducted by 3news Campbell, Kim explained further about his position

Reporting from TorrentFreak, Kim Dotcom said Megaupload already spent millions of dollars to maintain megaupload site. A lot of experts think that Megaupload have done their best to against illegal file. File that is copyrighted will be deleted, and Megaupload could not be prosecuted for the actions of their users.  

Apple : World's Most Admired Companies

Once again Apple become top of the list of the most admired company in the world of Fortune magazine for five consecutive years. Apple that now led by Tim Cook is considered to meet all the criteria include innovation, resource management, use of corporate assets, social responsibility, quality of management, financial condition and quality of products and services global competitiveness. 

Reported by AFP on Friday (03/02/2012), other than Apple, Google rank on second position, followed by Amazon in third. Google itself has been in second place for three consecutive years, while the Amazon is up from the previous position (7th position).  

The Reason why Facebook need to buy Nokia & Yahoo

Facebook was rumored would be increasingly aggressive in implementing its business strategy after the IPO. Facebook not only acquired small company, but the giant company like Nokia and Yahoo also believed will be their next acquisition target.

Here are some reasons why the site made by Mark Zuckerberg need to buy Nokia and Yahoo:

Reasons to buy Nokia

1. Preparation to challenge Apple and Google who have committed to combine the hardware and software solutions in mobile phone.

In one day Windows 8 Preview reached 1 million downloads

Within 24 hours after the release of Windows 8, Consumer Preview has been downloaded 1 million times. Of course this is a good news for Microsoft, to know their newest operating system is welcome.

Through Microsoft's official Twitter account, Windows 8 development team released the news through a simple tweet on Thursday. "One day later ... one million downloads of the preview consumer," they wrote.