Recently, Google decided not to censor search results in China even if it means to lose $250 to $500 million in 2010. Here is the time line of recent spat between Google and China that lead to Google’s exit from search in China. Mid-December 2009: Cyber Attacks on Google From China It all probably [...]
High Energy Proton Beams Collide at CERN LHC
March 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Scientists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) successfully collided two proton beams first-time ever at a record high energy of 7 TeV. At CERN, researchers accelerated two proton beams containing billions of protons to 3.5TeV in opposite directions in LHC and made them collide at 7TeV. Such a collision would recreate the conditions that existed [...]
Gmail to Get File Transfer
March 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Google gave a face lift to iGoogle chat; Google’s personalizable homepage (and Orkut) by adding file transfer option. If you are chatting with a friend and want to send a picture or a file you can send it right from your chat window. You dont have to switch to Gmail anymore. In its blog Google [...]
Google Fiber Mania in Numbers
March 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Earlier in February, Google announced a project called Google Fiber, a grand experiment to improve and provide 1 gigabit per second fast broadband connection. Google invited communities to be part of the plan and benefit from this ultra fast internet connection. Google Fiber drew lots of attention among the public and communities and a number [...]
Nature Makes Online News Content Free
March 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Nature, one of the high impact weekly scientific journals, makes its news content freely accessible to everyone. Nature News Online contains latest news on science, technology, and articles about the research published in Nature. Till now, the news content was free only for a few days before the publication. One can also access the news [...]
Finger Points to a New Human Species
March 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Fossilized finger bone found in a Siberian cave, called Denisova Cave, point to a new extinct human species in a research published in the journal Nature this week. In 2008, Russian scientists excavated a piece of finger bone in a cave where artifacts/tools used by Neanderthals: modern human’s extinct closest relative, were found earlier. German scientists [...]
Most Riskiest/Dangerous Cities to be Online in US
March 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Symentec, the leader in providing security solutions has ranked riskiest cities in US to be online by analyzing 50 largest cities in the US. Symantec used its data on cyberattacks, malware infections, and third-party data on WiFi hotspots and online shopping to rank the cities. Custom Search The Most Dangerous City Prone to Cybercrime The [...]
What Gmail Can Do to Improve the Security Further?
March 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Google has improved Gmail security by adding more features. The new feature can detect unusual activity in your Gmail account and warn you about it. It is commendable that Gmail keeps adding more features to its security. This new feature definitely helps increasing the Gmail security. However, Gmail can easily do more to beef up [...]
Gmail Detects and Tells You Suspicious Gmail Activities
March 25, 2010 By 1 Comment
Gmail has added a new feature to its security that tells you if there is an unusual activity in your Gmail account. For example, if you live in US and your hijacked Gmail was accessed from somewhere in Europe, Gmail will warn you that there was an unusual activity in your Gmail account. The warning [...]
What’s the Fate of Google China Employees?
March 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Google announced that it is stopping stopped censoring Google search services; search, news and images in China and redirecting China traffic to Hong Kong. However, it is not clear what Google is planning on Google China employees. A number of questions remain on the fate of Google China employees. Google China to Protect its Employees [...]