Web majors are scratching their heads to stop the increasing email spam-mania as the recent study indicates that around 90 billion pieces of email spam is being sent everyday. In this course, software giant Microsoft have come up with a new idea to fool the spammers; an alternative to the currently implemented Human Interactive Proofs (HIP). According to Kevin Larson, a researcher at Microsoft's advanced reading technologies group, asking the user to identify the subject of a photo like kittens would help them block spam programs. In order to avoid spammers matching the correct response with each photo in the catalog and begin to spoof the system, Microsoft would continually take videos of kitten jumping around a room so that it generates almost an endless series of photos for identification. Jokingly, kittens can become the wave of future!
Security experts have detected a mischievous worm which slips into computers and destroys all MP3 music files. It does no other damage. Graham Cluey of security research firm Sophos said that the worm could be the brainchild of teenaged geeks since it only feeds on MP3 files. It is suspected that the music eater enters computers through USB devices.
The worm, which has been named 'W32.Deletemusic' [Symantec], 'W32/Deletemp3.worm' [McAfee], 'W32/DelMP3-A' [Sophos], does not discriminate between illegally downloaded MP3 files and legally purchased ones. It just eats them all up happily. There are also speculations that some do-gooder who wants to save the music industry from piracy may be the author of the worm. “We need not lose too much sleep over it,” said Cluey. Say that to music lovers.
Mozilla has released a new version of its popular open source browser Firefox three days ago fixing security problems which occur when it is combined with Microsoft's Internet Explorer on desktops.
Secunia, an Internet security firm, had discovered that hackers were using a loophole in Firefox to download malicious data on to the computer. The malware then makes use of the Internet Explorer to create trouble.
The new Firefox 2.0.0.6 version contains a security patch which reduces the risk of malware being passed on.
Mozilla and MS initially blamed each other for the security flaw. However, Mozilla later decided to release a new version of its browser and not just an update. But MS has not done anything to sort out a similar problem in Internet Explorer, though security experts have put the blame on both.
Mozilla has released a new version of its popular open source browser Firefox fixing security problems which occur when it is combined with Microsoft's Internet Explorer on desktops. Secunia, an Internet security firm, had discovered that hackers were using a loophole in Firefox to download malicious data on to the computer. The malware then makes use of the Internet Explorer to create trouble. The new Firefox 2.0.0.6 version contains a security patch which reduces the risk of malware being passed on. Mozilla and MS initially blamed each other for the security flaw. However, Mozilla later decided to release a new version of its browser and not just an update. But MS has not done anything to sort out a similar problem in Internet Explorer, though security experts have put the blame on both.
Dell revealed that the company has finished the manufacturing of their first 'Made in India' PC. The desktop computer from Dell's new plant (near the southern Indian city of Chennai) was delivered Monday to outsourcing company Infosys Technologies Ltd., one of Dell's largest customers in the country.
Dell computers are relatively expensive in India partly because the company ships fully assembled systems into the country, paying more in duties than its rivals who manufacture locally.
Dell plans to achieve the target figure of 4,00,000 PCs per year from this Chennai unit.
VoodooPC, the world's leading architect of personalized, handcrafted high-performance PCs, introduced its 17-inch widescreen notebook PC, the ENVY H:171. The machine is the first notebook to offer a range of next-generation PC technology, including the Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme X6800 processor, a Dual NVIDIA® GeForce® Go 7950 graphics processing unit (GPU), a 1.3 Megapixel integrated video camera and a hard drive capacity of up to 600GB using three 200GB hard drives. This balanced and powerful platform delivers unprecedented frame rates and extreme multitasking capabilities for gamers, content creators and all other mobility power users.
Top software professionals have chosen Internet Explorer as the most influential technology product in the last 25 years. Techies overwhelmingly voted for IE in a survey conducted by the Computing Technology Industry Association recently. The next three places were also occupied by products from the Microsoft stable.
MS Word came second and Windows 95 came third. The fourth place was shared by MS Excel Spreadsheet software and Apple’s iPod. Other technology products that have impressed geeks over the years are Blackberry, Adobe Photoshop, McAfee’s VirusScan, Netscape Navigator, and PalmPilot. The survey was conducted in connection with CompTIA’s 25th anniversary. More than 22,000 companies in 100 countries are members of the association.
Jimmy Wales, the founder of the popular Wikipedia, is now planning to barge into the terrain of search engines. He told a conference of software developers the other day that his company Wikia Inc was planning to launch a community-based search service. Wikia has acquired web crawler Grub to power the search service. But the real power will rest on millions of anonymous users, who will use their spare time to index and collate searches. Like Wikipedia, the search service will depend on humans and not on algorithms which are used by Google and other popular search engines. “We (will) collectively work to free the judgment of information from invisible rules inside an algorithmic black box,” said Wales. He added that the new service may change the balance of power in the search terrain. We can take him at his word.
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