Google seems to be looking at bringing you your search results even quicker. Infact they have launched a product called Google Instant that brings you search results as you type. Google infact believes that their new feature google instant achieves search- before -you-type—that is, results for the most likely search given what you have already typed
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Google Announces Google Instant – Search As You Type
Google has finally launched the predicted version of their Search which is the Instant Search where in you don’t even have to press the ‘Enter’ button and still get the web results. The service is useful for those billions of users who search for information using this Search Engine gaint, but the main issue is for the website owners and the Search Engine Optimizers who have been working on optimizing their websites for getting on the top and now with Live and faster results there are chances that the results and search trends would just change.
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Google Instant Launched – Will it Kill Long Tail Search Queries?
Creating a new Google account has now become a one-click-process for Yahoo users, thanks to Google’s decision to use of OpenId for authentication purposes. Though Google still doesn’t support the usage of OpenId for replacing passwords on its own sites but this new feature brings the ability to use OpenId for the Google signup process.
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OpenId Brings Yahoo And Google Closer?
Instamedia Network which owns the blog networking Instablogs.com has announced that it has has secured $4 Million in Series A funding from Times Internet Limited which is a subsidiary of The Times of India Group. This comes 2 years after it had its first round of seed funding from Vishal Gondal who is the founder of Indiagames
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Instablogs Raises 4 Million $ In Funding From The Times Of India Group
One of the masterminds behind the $9 million hack into RBS WorldPay received a six-year suspended sentence in Russia, according to local reports Wednesday. Viktor Pleshchuk, 29, who pleaded guilty to his role in the heist, also got four years of probation and was ordered to pay $8.9 million in restitution
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RBS WorldPay Hacker Gets Suspended Sentence for $9 Million Heist
The federal agency in charge of protecting other agencies from computer intruders was found riddled with hundreds of high-risk security holes on its own systems, according to the results of an audit released Wednesday. The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team, or US-CERT , monitors the Einstein intrusion-detection sensors on nonmilitary government networks, and helps other civil agencies respond to hack attacks
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DHS Cybersecurity Watchdogs Miss Hundreds of Vulnerabilities on Their Own Network
Binyam Mohamed, a British resident, is among five plaintiffs who claim CIA torture Citing the Obama administration’s evocation of the state secrets privilege, a divided federal appeals court agreed Wednesday to toss a lawsuit against a Boeing subsidiary accused of helping the CIA transport detainees to secret foreign prisons where they allegedly were tortured.
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Citing Obama’s State Secrets Privilege, Court Tosses Torture Case
Posted by David Green, Public Affairs Fellow My father was in the Army while I was growing up and I moved around a lot. It was fun and exciting but occasionally a little sad since every two years I packed up my things and said goodbye to my friends. We always promised to stay in touch but as addresses changed and phone numbers got lost we eventually drifted apart
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Military families and digital literacy
Instamedia (formerly Instablogs) can now surely be termed as one of the more successful startups to come out of India. We had heard a rumor last week that Instablogs had closed funding with Times Group, but did not have much details about it then.
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Exclusive: InstaMedia (formerly Instablogs) gets strategic investment of $ 4 Million from Times Group
Mozilla released two new versions of its browser on Tuesday, Firefox 3.6.9 and Firefox 3.5.12 , to close 10 critical security vulnerabilities in each and to help Web site operators block a risk called clickjacking. Firefox 3.6.9 is also available from CNET Download.com for Windows , Mac , and Linux Critical vulnerabilities can let a remote attacker run arbitrary code on a computer. With Web browsers becoming both more important and more powerful, browser makers must constantly watch for new attack possibilities
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Mozilla fixes Firefox holes, curtails clickjacking
An Obama administration policy allowing U.S. border officials to seize and search laptops, smartphones and other electronic devices for any reason was challenged as unconstitutional in federal court Tuesday. Citing the government’s own figures , the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers claim about 6,500 persons had their electronic devices searched along the U.S
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ACLU Sues Over Laptop Border Searches
IPv6 a major catalyst for billions of dollars worth of deals? The Intel announcement of their McAfee purchase for 7.7 billion seems to indicate as much when Dave DeWalt, McAfee CEO is quoted as saying during a conference call, “If we look at the transition from IPv4 to IPv6, we’re seeing an explosion of billions of devices and they all need to be secured.” Then he continues by saying, “The embedded market is a very specific and high-opportunity market for us.” His estimate is that the number of connected devices will grow from one billion to 50 billion within 10 years.
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IPv6: Smart Investments and Smart Grids
India’s Mobile subscriber growth does not stop for anything or anyone – It is kind of become mundane to report such impressive numbers month after month. I have been reporting TRAI number for nearly 2 years now, and except for probably couple of months, the growth numbers have never been less than 10 million a month
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16.92 Million new Mobile Subscribers added in July – Tele-density reaches 58.17 percent
Telecom leader Bharti Airtel’s exit from bulk SMS business has come as a big surprise. Even its competitors must have astonished by this move. For this exit, Bharti Airtel has cited “increasing customer convenience issues arising out pesky calls and SMS”.
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What compelled Bharti Airtel exit bulk SMS business?
I was recently talking to an Indian friend who resides in America – he has been harping about coming back to India (Majority of them do, but very few actually come back). During our conversation, I realized one thing – He (like many others) is not very confident about prospects in India back home
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Foreigners see India as 2nd most preferred destination for investment – What about Indians?
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“He’s a classic Aussie in the sense that he’s a bit of a male chauvinist.” That quote comes at the end of a piece on the recent escapades of Julian Assange, founder and chief spokesman for Wikileaks . It seems apt, because it’s becoming increasingly clear that an organisation which aspiries to transparency and the high ideals of open information is going to have problems going forward if it continues to entertain an individual who lacks transparency and whose private life is alleged by his female accusers to be be riddled with low ideals.
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Can Wikileaks afford to back the undiplomatic Julian Assange?
Till recession hit globally, India had grown phenomenally at more than 8% per year for couple of years. This was possible due to the growth of many sectors primarily among them – Telecom, IT, Manufacturing to name a few. And this phenomenal growth also led to the ballooning of CEO salaries across organizations across various sectors.
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Government Panel to decide on CEO Salaries – Is it right ?
A trusted source has confirmed that French-blogging platform, Overblog , will soon be part of the Wikio family. Rumor has it that the growing Luxembourg-based news portal is apparently trying to develop European Google News for blogs. For anyone who isn’t familiar with Wikio, all you really have to know is that it’s a news portal founded by Pierre Chappaz in 2005 after his previous company, Kelkoo , was acquired by Yahoo in 2004 for some 475 million euros.
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Overblog marries Wikio to breed a European Google News for blogs
On one hand you can see Steve Jobs’ keynote on “Apple TV” which is a revolutionary step towards Web-TV integration and on the other you can find Indian TV producers experimenting with local content to make interesting programs.
Finally, Blackberry Issue seems to have been resolved – Research in Motion has bowed down to the demands of Indian Government and offered to setup their messaging / Email servers here in India . They have promised to offer full monitoring access to Indian security agencies. They will also have a review in 60 days time
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Weekly Wrap-up: Blackberry issue, DTC calculations, $35 tablet, Most Trusted brands, telephony price war, Internet usage, 3G allocation & more..
I teach high school. I love all of high school, including high school sports, and including the fun that students have at Friday night (or Thursday night this week for us) football. So I understand the intent of the following headline in The Denver Post
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Dear Denver Post – You’re the Disappointment
At the outset I would like to point out that I don’t have anything against Air India, Economic Times or AC Nielsen. I got the idea of this post after reading the recent article about Air India being voted as the most trusted brand in Indian aviation by the Economic Times survey of Most Trusted Brands. Yes you heard it right – Air India is the MOST TRUSTED BRAND IN INDIAN AVIATION ! To be honest, I don’t buy it, but before I say that let us first analyze the survey a little.
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Air India – Most trusted brand in Indian aviation? Are you serious ?
Posted by Mike Yang, Associate General Counsel (Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog ) Long, complicated and lawyerly—that’s what most people think about privacy policies, and for good reason. Even taking into account that they’re legal documents, most privacy policies are still too hard to understand. So we’re simplifying and updating Google’s privacy policies.
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Trimming our privacy policies
The Android-powered Samsung Galaxy S handsets have only arrived the United States for one and a half months, but they have already proved a great hit among smartphone users. According to the company’s press release, more than 1 million units were sold across the country since their launch in mid July. The impressive sales figure was contributed by the two released variants, the Samsung Vibrant from T-Mobile and the Samsung Captivate from AT&T.
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Samsung Galaxy S Smartphones – 1 Million Shipped in the U.S.
A BlackBerry with a new form factor may be on its way to the smartphone arena. A newly-published patent application filed by Research in Motion (RIM) presents us a unique design concept of a physically rotatable keyboard that can be used in both portrait and landscape layouts
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RIM’s Latest Patent Reveals Innovative Keyboard Design
A phone-hacking scheme involving British royals and reporters working for one of Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid newspapers went far beyond what was previously disclosed and prosecuted, according to The New York Times . Andy Coulson, currently media advisor to British Prime Minister David Cameron, is accused of having encouraged the hacking during his tenure as editor of Murdoch’s News of the World paper. According to the N.Y
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Murdoch Reporters’ Phone-Hacking Was Endemic, Victimized Hundreds
Posted by Mistique Cano, Manager, Public Policy Communications YouTube’s Margaret Gould Stewart recently gave a TED talk about how YouTube’s Content ID system cross-references over 24 hours of uploaded content a minute with our rights holder database to give copyright owners choices. In the video, she shows how the Content ID technology works and explains, “The scale and speed of the system is breathtaking… We’re talking about over a hundred of years of video a day.
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Content ID explained at TED
It has been an extremely exciting week again for tech news and moreover for me personally as I got a chance to open up my Sony Dash and it is a very cool addition to my desktop as it allows me to view my photos and take advantage of widgets of all kinds which among other thinks allow me to see the pandas at the San Diego Zoo. This handy gadget has a slew of communications, social networking and calendar features as well but for now, I just want to see the pandas.
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Apple, Sony, Microsoft, Google and ITEXPO News September 1, 2010
After a daylong standoff, authorities shot and killed an armed man wearing an explosive device who had taken three hostages at the Discovery Channel’s headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, just outside the District of Columbia. Most of the hundreds of employees, including children at an on-site daycare center, had already been evacuated, police said. The station was airing its normal broadcast
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Police Kill Hostage Taker Who Besieged Discovery Channel