Google Reward Offers for Hackers!

Google has decided to reward hackers found security weaknesses instead of trying to punish. In a blog titled "rewarding web application, security research, the company announced that anyone who reports a security vulnerability in a Google-owned site will be given as a prize, hard cash year. Previously, Google has been a similar program that offers cash rewards for discovering problems with the code that runs Chrome web browser Chrome. Google has commemorated those who have found errors of chromium in a Hall of Fame, which also lists the awards he has received money received to the amount of $ 1,337. Now Google is expanding the range of programs and raising the stakes.

Hackers are encouraged to find violations in any area, including the sites of Google Gmail, YouTube and Blogger - any site that has rewards by faulty information can range from $ 500 to $ 3.1337 for the "extremely sensitive recorded data or accounts. "A particularly serious error. For now, the program extends to client applications like Picasa or Google Android. Google also hopes the program will help maintain security flaws to be published before they can be treated." We that the responsible management of the vulnerabilities is a two way street, "says the company." It's our job to solve the serious problems within a reasonable period of notice and demand in turn, the private notice any problems are discovered .

Google, however, allows hackers to spread their achievements after the problem was fixed. There are also some guidelines established by the piracy of the company. Obviously, Google discourages bug hunters looking for vulnerabilities in other user accounts and asks hackers to test the limits of their accounts. The program also provides for a hacker to charity, with the promise that they will match any award that has just been donated to charity. Happy hacking!

Google Sues U.S by e-mail Contract

Google Inc., insist their work e-mail and expand cloud computing, took government to court in a process of tender for the battery cover for Microsoft rival Google Inc., which had been told to modify working with Microsoft in the country to to make a dent in the desktop software market of $ 20 billion, sued the U.S. Department of the Interior of the alleged exclusion of the offer from Google, its mail system for 88,000 employees of the agency tender. According to the complaint, the department said it would only systems that use Microsoft software, called for the management of e-mail a Google limit considered "unduly restrictive of competition." "On the basis of risk assessments and studies the market," wrote the specifications within the Microsoft software is "the only commercial product that all conditions are met by the department."

The complaint, filed Friday in the Court of Federal Claims United States, interior minister said injured a federal law that mandates to use the competition authorities and in open contracts. Google tries to stop the process before the department is satisfied with this law. "Google is an advocate of competition in the Internet and technology in general," said spokesman Andrew Kovacs Google. "Here, a fair and open process could save taxpayers tens of millions of U.S. dollars and better service." Barkoff, a spokesman for the Federal Agency Kendra said the department could not comment on pending litigation. For several years, Google is fighting to win in the global market for office software and e-mail, a sector dominated by Microsoft for some time with your Outlook and Office. The division that sells Microsoft Office software, the main unit is received on 19000000000 $ turnover this year. To differentiate its offering, Google has always promoted its Internet cloud, an approach that customers run the business e-mail and documents in remote data centers, not a Google server by the companies themselves.

The approach allows customers to save big clouds to make money by outsourcing your own internal e-mail systems. Difficulties, but Google has in their attempt to loosen the noose tight face Redmond, Washington software giant Microsoft in the market for e-mail that includes decades of relationships with some of the biggest companies and international organizations in government. In October 2009, Google surpassed Microsoft to a profile of 7.2 million U.S. dollars contract for High-mail address of the employee of the City of Los Angeles to receive 30 000 supply. But today almost half of the plan is still bogged down in the bureaucratic swamp, while Google is working on safety barriers in the Los Angeles Police Department, which has 13,000 employees removed.

Last summer, Google has in its efforts to its Google Apps for e-mail product to California, which Microsoft ultimately decided for the 200,000 state employees have been thwarted. Google, who were involved in lengthy discussions with the government on contracts for security and ease of use, ultimately decided not to make an offer and complained about what he saw as biased in favor of Microsoft in the tender. The State complains that Google does not place a bid. The Interior Ministry also objected to the safety of Google, according to the complaint. The Ministry requires that any new system cloud their messages on a server that only e-mails from other agencies included.

Facebook Developers Sold User IDs to Data Brokers

After the controversy over the safety of the user identity of Facebook, the social networking site, acknowledged on Friday that some of his company sells data brokers UID. "After considering the circumstances UID accidental transfers, we have several cases in which the data broker UID developers to have found" Facebook engineer, wrote Mike Spring blog. Private users can not be sold, with the spring. Facebook developers for six months suspended. To return to the Facebook developer community, "present their work methods to verify the data in the future, to confirm that they comply with our policies" which he writes.

Facebook has not disclosed the names of the developers involved, except to say they were "a dozen, mostly smaller" for developers who are not among the 10 applications page on the site. Facebook also agreed with the row of data that are the company Rapleaf all user ID and remove Facebook, and stop to perform an activity on the Facebook platform in the future. "Through these steps, we believe, take appropriate measures to ensure that people retain control over their information, while the developer the tools they need to create social experiences," writes the spring. Facebook UID header problem a few weeks, when the Wall Street Journal published an article that the applications for Facebook users, personal information with other advertising networks and Internet tracking company said shares published.

This apparently includes the 10 applications on Facebook, and Rapleaf. Facebook said late UID encrypted future. On Friday, Facebook, said the Data Protection Directive "confirm that the UID can not leave its application, or any other infrastructure, code and services to create and run the application" for Spring wrote. Services such as Akamai, Amazon Web Services, and other options allow analysis "provided these services are confidential, UID of its application." This week, Facebook will also start an anonymous manner to third parties, such as content partners, customers and other service providers to identify. The developers are required to the mechanism by January 1.

Apple Vs Motorola ( Apple Claiming Their Rights Via Lawsuit)

Apple launched its countersuit against Motorola which is to protect what is arguably among the most important rights of the technologies Apple: Apple Costumes multitouch patents specifically mentioned, the company violated the nine units were sold by Motorola. The first two clearly asserts Apple, Apple, Motorola that compared six different patents. The complaint filed before the courts for the Western District of Wisconsin, read a sentence that prevent further violations and seeks damages, legal fees reimbursement levels. Droid affected phones, Druid 2 Druid X CLIQ CLIQ XT, Backflip, A555 Shuffle, Shuffle i1, and magic.

A variety of applications, again mainly between Apple and Android thrown handset manufacturers seem almost ridiculous. However, they can have profound effects on future losers. In fact, we are surprised that Apple calls multitouch rights of the study. Who uses the first generation iPhone users know that a model of smart phones today are very similar, if not identical. It will be interesting to see if Apple can defend its patents to convince a judge thereof, to confirm the violation of one or more patents. Current claims processing for several years, given the current revenue massive get smart.

It is very important to win for Apple that the iPhone is already bearing activity 39%, 8% IPAD and iPod touch in the range of 3% to 8% of the total turnover of the company, whichever is later Apple 10 - to present a K Multi-Touch is a key technology products that responsibility for more than 50% of Apple's revenue - $ 30,000,000 over the past 12 months. Moreover, it is unlikely that the company is about to let him go. According to IDC, Apple has become the fourth largest mobile operator with 14.1 million units sold in the third quarter. Nokia is the market with 110.4 million units, followed by Samsung and LG dominate with 71.4 million with 28.4 million euros. BlackBerry maker Research In Motion is the fifth with 12.4 million handsets shipped.

People turn into wireless hub - Scientists

Scientists at the Institute of the Queen of electronics, communications and information technology working on a new project to make people in the base stations of mobile communications. The study, based on the science of technology-centered communication in the body, involves the development of advanced sensors that can be used by individuals.

The sensors can convert the body into an Internet-platform wireless broadband, ultra-high. Scientists believe that technology is a huge social impact on individuals with whom you have games to enjoy for mobile health monitoring and real-time training for the sport. Research team dipping into the implications of linking the sensors to create in each person's body is too large wireless networks.

Simon Cotton, a scientist involved in the research, said in a statement to The Hindu, "The availability of mixed networks, great benefits, including significant health improvements through the use of sensors for use in controlling body could bring to the systematic and treatment of diseases outside medical equipment. "

3G Coverage at The Peak of Mount Everest.

Only if to welcome you to Grandma video call when they are finally to the summit of Mount Everest, you are lucky! .Now the 3G mobile phone service has reached the peak of mount everest. Yes, we can hear today, even from up there.

A group of telecommunications nThis Nepal, a subsidiary of Swedish TeliaSonera giant, said that people can have video calls and surf the Internet on their mobile phones through a base station will broadband telephony to an altitude of 17,000 feet Gorakshep near the village in the Everest region. NThis video made the announcement Friday at 17 388 feet.

Previously, the climbers had to rely on the satellite phone, to show his doctorate. About 1,400 climbers reach the summit each year. Nearly 800,000 people use the metro daily DC. I have never, ever 3G coverage as it passes through the center of DC to the red line.

Firefox 4 Delayed

Mozilla has delayed the release of Firefox 4 until early next year, saying development of the popular open source browser has taken longer than expected.

Mozilla engineers and contributors to the open source browser had been scrambling to get it ready for a November release. However, despite "strong progress" in development, delays in completing the feature-complete beta 7 version of Firefox, along with the amount of work remaining to prepare the software for release, made it impossible to meet the release date, Mozilla announced Wednesday.

"Completing this work is taking longer than initial estimates indicated as we track down regressions and sources of instability," Mike Beltzner, product manager for Firefox, said in a blog post on Mozilla's developer site. "As part of our commitment to beta users, we will not ship software before it is ready."

Beltzner said Mozilla would continue to release "beta milestones" through the end of December, with a release candidate shipping in early 2011 and the final release close behind.

However, Beltzner said even the latest timetable could change. "Please note that, as always, this schedule is subject to change based on feedback from users and community members."

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LimeWire Ordered To Shut Down

A federal judge has issued an injunction against LimeWire that essentially puts the music file-sharing site out of business, five months after it lost a copyright-infringement suit filed by the record industry.
U.S. district judge Kimba Wood in New York issued the permanent injunction Tuesday, ordering LimeWire to disable the "searching, downloading, uploading, file trading, and/or file distribution functionality" of the software it distributed to users to access and share files through the peer-to-peer service.

In addition, the judge said in the 17-page ruling that LimeWire must notify its workers, investors, and customers of the injunction. Wood also ordered the site to file a progress report in meeting all conditions of the order within 14 days.
The injunction essentially shut down the site, which on Tuesday posted on its homepage a legal notice saying that it had been ordered to stop distributing and supporting its file-sharing application. "Downloading or sharing copyrighted content without authorization is illegal," the post warned. More info ...