Learn Microsoft Technologies With Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA)

Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) is a learning program from Microsoft which is especially created for learning Microsoft Clout Technologies. You can learn at your own pace by selecting the courses at your own will and then learning and collecting points. These points will ultimately promote you to Bronze, silver, gold or platinum level.

Learn Microsoft Technologies With Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA)

List Of Free Web about Journal of Medicine, articles and ebooks online

 

There are all kinds of goodies available free online. The entire world's Medical literature is at your fingertips. Journal, Searches and abstracts of articles are free. The entire text of articles is free for most journals indexed, all free if you know where to look

List Of Free Web about Journal of Medicine, articles and ebooks online

Japan Earthquake trigger crisis computer chip supplies

Four Japanese factories — Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. Ltd.’s Shirakawa facility and MEMC Electronic Materials Inc.’s Utsunomiya plant — have halted operations. Those four facilities alone make up a quarter of the global supply of silicon wafers used to make semiconductors, according to IHS iSuppli, a research company. Both companies supply wafers to semiconductor companies around the globe.

Japan Earthquake trigger crisis computer chip supplies

Google Silently Patches Flash Vulnerability in Chrome

A recent vulnerability in Adobe’s Flash Player was discovered, to which Adobe replied that a patch would be available within a week. This bug works when you open an Excel file that contains an embedded malicious Flash file (Office 2010 is not affected). However, Google Chrome users can rest easy because their flash player has already been patched. Here’s why

Google Silently Patches Flash Vulnerability in Chrome

Google Mobile iPhone App updated

Google has redesigned its iPhone app on Wednesday bringing with it new features and a new look.
“If you need to do a Google search on your iPhone or iPod touch it's now faster and easier when you use our redesigned Google Search app, formerly Google Mobile App,” says Google in a blog post on the news of the new app hitting the iTunes store.

Google Mobile iPhone App updated

Google Maps' Android app now routes drivers around traffic

Google announced that the Android version of its Google Maps app now automatically routes users around traffic when providing directions.

Google Maps' Android app now routes drivers around traffic

Facebook for BlackBerry Smartphones Hotfix Available Now

Facebook for BlackBerry smartphones 1.9.0.28 app is now available and addresses the following issues:

Facebook for BlackBerry Smartphones Hotfix Available Now

Facebook Photos, now with facial recognition auto-tagging

Facebook, in a continuing drive to upgrade the most popular portion of its site, will roll out facial recognition auto-tagging of photos in the next few weeks -- if you live in the US, anyway.

Facebook Photos, now with facial recognition auto-tagging

Google Releases 3D Maps 5.0 for Android

This Month, Google released 3D Maps for Android phones equipped with Google Maps 5.0, Rather than stitching images together, Google Maps 5.0 uses scaleable vector graphics - a much touted feature of the next generation of web services.

Google Releases 3D Maps 5.0 for Android

Brand New Facebook Messaging

Whoa! The rumors have come true yet again. Mark Zuckerberg just announced a brand new Facebook Messaging product which is a combination of 3 things 

1. Seamless Messaging system – Facebook’s social inbox handles email, but also SMS and IM.
2. Conversation History – the new service will have a single conversation history for all your communication with a person, regardless of whether it comes via email, SMS, IM etc.
3. Social Inbox – Because Facebook knows who your friends are, you can see only messages that are really relevant.

Brand New Facebook Messaging

Developer Reports Major VoIP Bug in iOS 4.2

Toktumi, the developer of popular app called Line2 for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch has sent an email to its customers to inform them about a bug in iOS 4.2, which results in the ringer continuing to ring even after a call is answered when Line2 is running in the background.

Toktumi is advising customers to avoid upgrading to iOS 4.2.

This is the email that was sent to users by Toktumi:

Attention all Line2 iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad users:

Developer Reports Major VoIP Bug in iOS 4.2

CDMA iPhone Hits Final Field Testing Stage

CDMA iPhone Hits Final Field Testing Stage, iPhone 5 Hits 'Engineering Verification Test' Stage?

We have some new and exciting information regarding two things that we have been hearing about for the past few weeks. First, it's the CDMA iPhone that is touted to arrive on Verizon's network in the near future. The other is about the next generation iPhone.

Boy Genius Report claims that according to a trusted Apple source, iPhone model 3,2, which was until now, widely believed to be the CDMA iPhone headed for Verizon, has just entered the “AP” testing stage, which is the final field testing stage before the device is launched

CDMA iPhone Hits Final Field Testing Stage

Make FaceTime Video Calls on iPhone, Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile with iSeeU and Movicha

iSeeU: iPhone Accessory Allows You To Make FaceTime-like Video Calls on iPhone 3GS

A Korean company, Playmass has announced the launch of an interesting new accessory for the iPhone 3GS. It's called iSeeU, which will allow iPhone 3GS users to make a video call - minus the awkwardness that comes with it.

Since the iPhone 3GS comes sans a front facing camera, making a video call isn’t actually very pleasurable experience even after the arrival of a plethora of apps that allows iPhone 3GS users to do so. iSeeU solves that problem by attaching itself on to your iPhone 3GS.

Make FaceTime Video Calls on iPhone, Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile with iSeeU and Movicha

Steve Jobs Confirms Screen Rotation Lock Will Be Mute Switch From iOS 4.2; Can't Be Customized

When Apple introduced the iPad back in January 2010, it was shown to come with a hardware switch on the side that was labeled as a mute button. At the time of the launch in April however, Apple mysteriously changed the mute switch to the screen rotation lock switch. Many users welcomed this change as they would have used the mute option far less when compared to the orientation lock switch. Some others were however disappointed.

Things were going well until Apple issued a much awaited update to iOS 4.2 beta. In that update, Apple changed the orientation lock button back to a mute button for reasons bets known to them.

This has upset many iPad users who're looking forward to update their iPads. There was however a ray of hope for some people who expected Apple to give them an option to choose what the hardwarebutton on the side would do for them on their iPad - at least when the final version of iOS 4.2 for the iPad arrives sometime in November.

However, that hope seems to have been shattered when none other than Apple CEO Steve Jobs in reply to an e-mail from a customer confirmed that at least for now, you would not be able to choose what you want that button to do for you.

Steve Jobs Confirms Screen Rotation Lock Will Be Mute Switch From iOS 4.2; Can't Be Customized

Fake iTunes Receipt Leads To Malware

Sometimes technology can become a threat to your safety and well-being. Certain popular websites or services can easily be used by hackers to gather personal and valuable information. This kind of scenario took place multiple times up to this date and as technology evolves the abilities and expertise of hackers will as well. PandaLabs has recently announced that it has discovered fake  iTunes receipts which started being sent to users in an attempt to gather and steal personal data

According to PCMag, the attack vector is via Flash, a technology that the  Cupertino-company was reluctant to use for a long period of time, because of its alleged security weaknesses. A while back, Apple’s CEO  Steve Jobs made an official announcement on the company’s website regarding Apple’s products which according to him wouldn’t include support for Flash from Adobe because the technology is believed to be closed, unstable and antiquated. Adobe didn’t seem to be bothered by this and responded that it’ll focus its whole attention on apps for Google’s Android mobile platform. The research division of antivirus company Panda Security, called PandaLabs discovered that users are sent an electronic receipt from iTunes which looks completely authentic.

Fake iTunes Receipt Leads To Malware

Microsoft gives up on Live Spaces

Blogs to be shifted to Wordpress.com

The software giant appears to have decided that hosting blogs isn't the way to get ahead - and is passing its 7m users (and ad revenues) to the blogging company

Microsoft is closing its Windows Live Spaces blogging platform and moving all its users over to Wordpress.com. It's a dramatic move which means that it's giving up a potentially huge slice of advertising business - perhaps because it simply can't make it pay.

Or as Microsoft puts it, "partnering together" - redundant word alert - "and providing an upgrade for 30 million Windows Live Spaces customers".

Make no mistake, this is dramatic: it means that Microsoft is giving up potentially valuable turf where it could have sold ads, in the manner of Google and the Blogger platform (which generates revenues for Google), and retreating from at least one part of the online space.

Microsoft gives up on Live Spaces

Five new phishing scams to watch out for

Phishing is the term that describes the illegal attempt to steal sensitive information from unsuspecting people, most frequently over the internet.

It often seeks to trick people into submitting their account passwords, banking or other financial information, or the answers to security questions. While some of the scams are clearly identifiable, due to their lack of professional appearance or poor grammar, others are sophisticated enough to create a money-making opportunity for the criminals behind the scams.

Here are some of the newest scams to watch out for.

1. Web Browser Hijacking and Scareware

Hijacking occurs when malicious software that redirects web searches to fake websites is installed on a computer. For example, a pop-up ad that appears to be from a reputable internet security software company may indicate that your computer is under attack. Once the unsuspecting person clicks on the scareware message he is redirected to a fake website offering for purchase special software to combat the threat.

Five new phishing scams to watch out for

Safe Unlock iPhone 3Gs or 3G/4 Running 4.1 and 4.0.2 Safest Jailbreak Method Available Today

According trufan.com/news...

Apple, after pushing IOS firmware update to version unlock iphone 4/3g/3gs 4.1 4.0.2 many owners of iPod touch and iPhone have kept their eyes glued to unlock iphone 3gs 4.1 the web to know when we would come out the jailbreak. The iPhone Dev Team has released the first jailbreak for unlock iphone 3g,3gs the 4.1 aggiiornamento IOS software through the Mac OS platform redsn0w The redsn0w 0.9.6 beta 1 is now the tool will only jailbreak iPhone 3G and the second generation iPod touch. A short version will be released also for Windows redsn0w although a date for the issue has not yet been announced to jailbreak and unlock iphone 3g,3gs 4.1 or 4.0.2.

Recall that the iPhone Dev Team is a team of passionate hackers independent, releases of IOS tools that allow users to jailbreak. Redsn0w 0.9.6 beta 1 for iPhone or iPod touch can be downloaded at this address. Redsn0w 0.9.6 beta 1 for iPhone or iPod touch

As expected, now that the final version of IOS 4 is in the hands of users, the industrious members of the Dev Team have been busy and have churned out an early build of their software to jailbreak. Versa still in beta and is compatible with older models, but developments could come very soon.

Safe Unlock iPhone 3Gs or 3G/4 Running 4.1 and 4.0.2 Safest Jailbreak Method Available Today

Hacker Spoofs Cell Phone Tower to Intercept Calls

A directional antenna is set up for a demonstration
by security researcher Chris Paget, center. (Photo: Dave Bullock)

LAS VEGAS — A security researcher created a cell phone base station that tricks cell phones into routing their outbound calls through his device, allowing someone to intercept even encrypted calls in the clear.

The device tricks the phones into disabling encryption and records call details and content before they’re routed on their proper way through voice-over-IP.

The low-cost, home-brewed device, developed by researcher Chris Paget, mimics more expensive devices already used by intelligence and law enforcement agencies – called IMSI catchers – that can capture phone ID data and content. The devices essentially spoof a legitimate GSM tower and entice cell phones to send them data by emitting a signal that’s stronger than legitimate towers in the area.

Hacker Spoofs Cell Phone Tower to Intercept Calls

Google Encrypted Search

Google users can now run encrypted searches using the company’s flagship search site simply by navigating to https://www.google.com.

UPDATE: Many users are being redirected to the non-encrypted main site — a function of Google rolling this out to all its servers. Also it is necessary to include WWW. Don’t assume your searches are encyrpted, unless the url starts with HTTPS and you see the lock icon.

The move brings the same web security system that protects online banking, website logins and shopping to search — a first for a major search engine.

The encryption makes it incredibly difficult for anyone in between your computer and Google’s servers to see what search terms you use or what results Google sends back. Additionally, when you click through a search result on Google’s new secure page, your browser will not send along “referrer data” revealing the search terms you used.

Google Encrypted Search