Techchrunch is reporting that Yahoo is in the process of moving large numbers of engineering jobs to Bangalore. According to their report “This includes YDN (Yahoo Developer Network, the platform for third party apps to be installed on the Yahoo home page) for the most part. And Yahoo confirms that some California based YDN engineers are being moved to other projects, calling it a “pretty minor internal shift of resources.” But At least two senior engineers were fired outright, we heard (we’re holding the names until Yahoo confirms of denies that).”
Google’s celebration of the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man last week flooded Mozilla’s Firefox support forum with complaints about siren sounds and offbeat music. Most users assumed to be infected by an virus and posted posts for help. On Friday, Google posted a JavaScript-based version of Pac-Man on its main search page as an homage to the 1980 video game.
James Socol, a Web development engineer at Mozilla said “unfortunately, in the initial release [of the game], [the Pac-Man] sounds started playing automatically — an oversight or an homage to , I guess”.
Google added an option of using encrypted algorithm called SSL to daily search, that we do on Google’s search engine. The following feature is not available on regular search engine’s page that we know by address “http://www.google.com”, its available on a new launched site “https://www.google.com“. The new page takes care of privacy concerns that we share during search.
Google in its press-release stated
This secured channel helps protect your search terms and your search results pages from being intercepted by a third party on your network [...] Google will still maintain search data to improve your search quality and to provide better service. Searching over SSL doesn’t reduce the data sent to Google — it only hides that data from third parties who seek it. Continue reading “Google introduces encrypted search with Secure Sockets Layer” »
Google is releasing updates for Chrome at great pace and soon in future, it is destined to reach version 6. You may thing what’s the catch in receiving a version number, it’s the way in which the browser will be programmed to read your clicking habits and thus will automatically forward to a site. This feature is to be known as ‘predictive pre-connections’.
According to Trusted Reviews. Enter a search term and it’ll automatically pre-load in the background the pages you’re most likely to visit, reducing the amount of time it takes to display that Web site should you decide you actually want to go there.
Though it’s not been confirmed, we’re assuming the browser will base its predictions on data gathered from all Chrome users, and not just data harvested from an individual’s browsing habits.
M.J. Keith, a senior security analyst with AlertLogic has detected a new bug in Facebook that facilitate an attacker to modify the content of a user. Ther user is basically made to click on a link where he is forwarded to a malicious site containing a Javascript applet that makes use of cross-site request forgery flaw.
According to the security advisory released on Wednesday by AlertLogic, the bug was spotted last week, and Facebook has been notified of it immediately. Three days later the social network confirms it has fixed it, but additional testing executed yesterday by Keith show that the bug is still present. Continue reading “Critical Facebook bug detected” »
Google has announced that it has officially lifted up the use of invitations to use Google Wave. Instead of waiting for an invite, users can now access the service straight from the Google homepage. Google had said back in 2009, that it wanted to make the service available to all by the end of 2010 so it looks like it is ahead of schedule.
Speaking about the news, Google said: “We began previewing Google Wave with individuals and a handful of Google Apps customers six months ago. Since then, Wave has been used in a great many interesting ways. “It’s clear from the invaluable feedback we’ve received that Wave is a great place to get work done, in particular for teams working together on projects that involve lots of discussion and close coordination.”
Global IP Solutions (GIPS) announced today that Google will purchase the company for $68.2 million in cash. GIPS currently provides voice and video IP communications solutions for Nortel, Oracle, Samsung, Cisco WebEx, Yahoo, AOL, and more.
“The Web is evolving quickly as a development platform, and real-time video and audio communication over the Internet are becoming important new tools for users,” Rian Liebenberg, Engineering Director at Google said. “GIPS’s technology provides high quality, real-time audio and video over an IP network, and we’re looking forward to working with the GIPS team at Google to continue innovating for the Web platform,” he added.
It seems Google is gunning for capabilities enjoyed by Skype and its only a matter of time before Google launches a similar product providing to Skype.
Facebook launched a new text only based version of its mobile website that will be accessible in 45 countries from 50 carriers. The real twist, however, is that the site will be accessible without its users incurring any data charges.
This new, limited version of Facebook, dubbed 0.Facebook.com, will include no photos or videos – merely links to them. If users choose to follow those links to photo or video content, or to follow links to other sites, they will be charged for the data by their carrier at normal rates after confirming their intentions on a notification page. According to Facebook’s Sid Murlidhar, 0.Facebook.com users will be able to “update their status, view their News Feed, like or comment on posts, send and reply to messages, or write on their friends’ Wall just as they do on Facebook.com.”
Facebook has announced a proposed change to its privacy policy that is bound to outrage many users of the popular social networking site. They want to provide send your name, photo, friends list, and any information you’ve made public to third party companies. Facebook’s deputy general says it may be necessary to do so in order to “make way for some exciting new products”.
Google Earth is famous for its ability to display places through images captured by satellites, and few men sometimes go for things which define creativeness or craziness, whatever you may like. A fingerprint measuring around 38 meters has been carved or say gardened on a field by few people which can even be seen from space.
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