The concept evolved from the movie “Minority Report”. In which, Tom Cruise’s character enters a mall and finds that retinal scanners identify him and prompt personalized ads that greet him by name. But the technology is not very far to implement. Now watch an advertisement on a video screen in…
According to the reports from tech2.com. Western Digital (WD), one of the leader in the world for external storage solutions has revealed its new external hard drive for Mac Users. The cute & good external drives are named as “My Passport for Mac portable drive” and “My Book Mac Edition…
According to the reports from Engadgets.com, Samsung has revealed its new NC20 Netbook. This amazing netbook has already got good apreciation & reviews from Italy and russia. The new thing that Samsung has targetted is high battery life. NC20 can sustain for about 6 hours of battery life. Good battery…
“Businesses lose $1 trillion due to loss or data theft and other cybercrimes“, says McAfee Inc. The security and antivirus company, McAfee studied about this and said most of the company lose $1 trillion because of their data theft. The McAfee launched the survey after detecting a rapid acceleration of malicious software,…
Gmail labs have been working on this feature to enable Gmail to work, even when the user is not connected to the internet. Enabling this feature, Gmail will load in browser even if the user does not have internet connection. You can read, flag, star, lable, compose and lable your mails….
The iPhone gaint Apple, now has a strong weapon against its iPhone competitors. Steve Jobs wins iPhone US patent for touch screen feature. US Patent 7,479,949 is awarded to “(Steve) Jobs et al” for a method of “detecting one or more finger contacts with the touch screen display” to command…
Major Job seeker site Monster.com warn about breach of its user database. Warning that online intruders made off with an unspecified number of job seekers’ names, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, log-in names and passwords. Monster.com, an NewYork-based Monster Worldwide warns about scant information on breach, but said there was no confidential informations…
Obama’s first weekly address since being sworn in as the 44th president of the United States on Tuesday, available on Youtube “White House” channel and White House website, whitehouse.gov. Its a five minute video, where Obama expressed his views on economic stimulus plan, had a traffic of more than 210,000 views and 1,000 comments that…
The worm, known by several names including Conficker and Downandup, has been spreading by taking advantage of a flaw in a Windows Server service that Microsoft patched during the month of october. These worms are more targetting the computer networks in Asia and Latin America. It seem to have infected between 6…
Software giant Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer has supposedly sent an e-mail to its employees on Thursday, as the company announced poor earnings and major layoffs. From: Steve Ballmer Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 6:07 AM Subject: Realigning Resources and Reducing Costs In response to the realities of a deteriorating economy,…
Hackers has attempted to steal £229m from the japanese bank Sumitomo Mitsui. Hackers used keyloggers to gain password information put failed to fill out electronic transfer forms correctly, court told. Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and its group companies offer a broad range of financial services centered on banking. Hackers are seems to be…
CIOL has reported that Intel Corporation disclosed on Wednesday its plans to close or stop production at five of its manufacturing facilities, which could affect nearly 6,000 employees of the organization. The world’s largest semiconductor company said it would ‘restructure some of its manufacturing operations and align its manufacturing capacity…
The storage gaint Seagate has recieved lots of complaints following firmware update that made many 500GB hard drives in its Barracuda 7200.11 range completely stopped working. Seagate customers used official forums for raising their compaints towards firmware update that put their harddisk under trouble. Forum thread that was spanning more than 20 pages…
Company anti-spam czar Mark Risher made a posting on Tuesday focusing on Yahoo’s new plans towards spam protection. “At Yahoo, we take spam seriously,” said Risher. According to the posting, “It’s a huge challenge and the bad guys are always out there trying to make a buck with their scams, but we’re committed…
Beware of Fake Obama Websites that can put your computer into severe problems. Hackers are more intellegiant, ever before. Yes, hackers developed Fake Obama Websites to spread the virus. As per the reports from Panda Security firm, hackers are using dozens of fake websites that are linked to Barack Obama’s…
The websites in the internet had never seen such a traffic before. Yes, this happenned during the Inauguration Ceremony of President Barack Obama. The day was very busy for the websites. Reports from famous companies that deliver internet video. Akamai Technologies Inc. said “7.7 million people watched the video streams…
Credit and debit card transaction processing company Heartland Payment System warned that it had found evidence of a network breach that had compromised consumers’ credit-card numbers. Heartland Payment System Credit and debit card transaction processing company serving more than 250,000 customers worldwide. A week back auditors hired by the company found malicious…
Microsoft Inc. has released fixes for Windows. Totally three bugs has been fixed. Among them two are ‘critical’ and one is ‘moderate’. Microsoft last week released patches for three vulnerabilities in the Server Message Block (SMB) file-sharing protocol in Windows. Schultze said the critical bugs are very serious that can exploit them…
Outblaze, a Hong Kong based online messaging and collaboration services firm will be taken over by IBM. IBM is happy to announce the acquire of the outblaze assests. Last week, IBM announced “Outblaze” will be used in IBM LOTUS’s Bluehouse project, which is an online business social-networking and collaboration service,…