Facebook planning new search engine.........>

Social networking giant Facebook is reportedly planning to create a new search engine which would help people to navigate on the website better.

A Bloomberg Businessweek report said the firm has deployed two-dozen Facebook engineers onto the ambitious project, which aims to improve the search engine currently available on the social network.

According to the report, the project is led by former Google engineer Lars Rasmussen.

The magazine's unnamed sources said that the project is "to help users better sift through the volume of content that members create on the site, such as status updates, and the articles, videos, and other information across the Web that people "like" using Facebook's omnipresent thumbs-up button".

According to The Telegraph, Facebook has done very little to improve its search engine, which currently lets people find other users, brands, status updates and some wider web results, through a long-standing partnership with Microsoft's search engine, Bing.

It has yet to properly focus its attention on the small search engine box situated at the top of each users' page.

Meanwhile, Facebook has declined to comment on the matter.

World’s ‘lightest 13-inch laptop’ arrives in India.........>

Toshiba launched Protege Z830 ultrabook in India. Weighing just 1.12kg and only 15.9mm thick at its thickest point, Portege Z830 is considered sleekest and slimmest ultrabook in the world at the moment.

However all this sleekness has a rather steep price. Toshiba said that the ultrabook would be sold at an MRP of Rs 96,290. This makes Portege Z830 the most expensive ultrabook in Indian market at the moment. Apart from Toshiba, Lenovo, HP, Samsung, Asus and Acer have also launched ultrabooks in India.

The concept of the ultrabook - slim and sleek design, premium build quality and SSD as storage - was announced by Intel last year. The company, which makes processors that power over 80% of all personal computers, hopes that the slim laptops would allow it to take on tablets like iPad and Galaxy Tab, almost all of which are powered by ARM processors.

Toshiba said that for Portege Z830, consumers would have option to choose from Intel Core i3, i5 or i7 processors. It has a 13.3-inch screen with a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels, 128GB SSD, and a battery life of up to 8 hours. There is provision for up to 6GB DDR3 RAM.

Firefox 11: See what's new.........>

The popular open source browser Firefox has just got a new version: Firefox 11. Following its six-week cycle, the free browser's latest update includes the usual security patches, as well as some other new features for lay users as well as developers.

Here's all that's new and changed in Firefox 11.

* Firefox can now migrate your bookmarks, history, and cookies from Google Chrome

* With Sync enabled, add-ons can now be synchronized across users' computers

* The CSS text-size-adjust property is now supported

* Redesigned media controls for HTML5 video

* The outer HTML property is now supported on HTML elements

* View source syntax highlighting now uses the HTML5 parser

* The Style Editor for CSS editing is now available to web developers

* Web developers can now visualize a web page in 3D using the Page Inspector 3D View

* SPDY protocol support for faster page loads is now testable

* XMLHttpRequest now supports HTML parsing

* Files can now be stored in IndexedDB

* Websockets has now been unprefixed

* Various security fixes

* Firefox notifications may not work properly with Growl 1.3 or later.

"LUWAN OF BRIDA" new fantasy novel/book....>

Set out on your road, It awaits you in the darkness Weak you are but proceed, To linger will be madness.

Brida is a small village in the farthest corner of Inkredia, located at the foot of the great Malingo Mountains. This beautiful village is a brewing pot of troubles. And Luwan plucks out of it a danger that will claim his life, unless he escapes to a safe place. But between him and safety lies a perilous journey.

As Luwan plunges into a thrilling escapade, he explores the wildly fantastical side of his country. Fleeing through unknown regions with enemies chasing him like the wind, he sees the great wonders of Inkredia and the terrible dangers hiding in its dark corners. He meets the most brutal assassins known to mankind and bloodcurdling nonhumans of various kinds.

And... he quickly discovers, that for some reason, they all want him dead.


"Two Impossible choices, One breathtaking adventure."

Official website is: http://www.inkredia.com

Below is the official trailer of this novel and i also recommend to you must see it.

Europe's 'youngest app designer' expelled from school................>

LONDON: A computer whiz kid, who was crowned Europe's youngest application designer, has been expelled for hacking into his school's computer system.

Aaron Bond, 14, was expelled from King Edward VI College in Totnes, Devon for trying to access confidential information about staff and students and even the vice-principal's financial information.

He managed to access details about his peers and edited the IT room booking system and school newsletter before the security breach came to school management's knowledge.

The school's principal, Kate Mason, confirmed Aaron admitted accessing the school's IT system without permission on several occasions.

"I am very sorry and if I had known the consequences I never would have done it," The Telegraph quoted Bond, as saying.

He claimed that he hacked computers after seeing a list of passwords displayed on a white board in the school's IT room, but the school stressed nobody has access to them.

His mother Kate, 36, said Aaron was curious "like any school boy would have been."

"I think the security of the school computer system should be a lot better. A 14-year-old boy should not have been able to get into the system.I don't see why they can't give Aaron a second chance," she added.

Bond, who has designed six applications used on smartphones and is the managing director of his own web design company. He was among hand-picked delegates at the 2011 Apple conference.

Google Chrome hacked in five minutes...........>

WASHINGTON: Hackers have defeated Google Chrome for the first time in an annual competition to test the security of the most popular web browser.

A group of French hackers were able to bypass Google security features to gain control of a Windows PC in less than five minutes at the Pwn2own competition in Canada.

Chrome had stood undefeated in the 2011 competition but a French firm, Vupen defeated it this time.

"We wanted to show that Chrome was not unbreakable. Last year, we saw a lot of headlines that no one could hack Chrome. We wanted to make sure it was the first to fall this year," The Telegraph quoted firm's research head Chaouki Bekrar, as saying.

Bekrar said his team had worked for six weeks ahead of the competition to explore vulnerabilities.

He added that his company had also devised a procedure to hack into Firefox and Internet Explorer, but wanted to first demonstrate that Chrome was not invincible.

Vupen had earlier used two previously unknown vulnerabilities to beat Chrome's security, which is perceived to be stronger than rivals Firefox and Internet Explorer because of its use of "sandboxing".

Vupen said it would keep details of how it bypassed Google's sandbox technology private "for our customers".

Apple's new iPad comes with ‘retina display’, better camera..........>

Apple on Wednesday announced a new iPad to replace iPad2. The new tablet sports a 9.7-inch 'retina display' with 2047 x 1536 pixels and is powered by A5X, a processor with two CPU cores and four GPU cores. The new iPad will go on sale on March 16 with price starting from $499 in the US and nine other countries.

In India, the tablet is likely to be launched in a few months. Apple also announced that iPad 2 will remain in the market and its price will be cut by $100. This means that the basic model of iPad 2 will now cost $399.

"Everyone's been wondering who will come out with a tablet that is better than the iPad 2? Everyone's been wondering this," said Tim Cook. "Well, stop wondering. We are."

The company said that the tablet would support LTE connectivity (4G) when it is available. However, despite LTE being a more power-hungry technology, Apple said the iPad would still offer at least nine hours of battery life.


The tablet also comes with an improved rear camera that will be able to record full HD (1080P) videos. Called iSight, the camera will shoot pictures in 5 mega pixels.

Forrester Research claimed on Tuesday Apple has 73% share in tablet market. "No other brand has more than a 6% market share. When we asked consumers which brand of tablet they are considering buying, 61% said Apple, while 24% named Amazon," noted the research firm.

How to hide your secret data in jpg image............>

Yes we can hide our files, folders, movies, whatever you want in a jpg image. There are some commands used with command prompt by which we can hide our data in any jpg image.

Steps:

1] Choose one image file of your choice and copy it on the desktop.

2] Make new folder on the desktop and copy your data in it, then convert it into .rar file. After crating it(.rar) delete previous folder not rar file.

3] Click on 'start' then click on 'run' and then type 'cmd' and hit enter. Then type 'cd desktop' and hit enter. A desktop prompt will appear like this desktop>.

4] Now type in 'copy /b picturename.jpg + foldername.rar outputfilename.jpg'.

5] Now there should be the output file name with a .jpg extension on the desktop.
( Do not close Command Prompt just yet. )

6] Check your output file image size, it must have increased than your original one.

7] When your done looking, and want to view the hidden files
Type: ren outputfilename.jpg outputfilename.rar

Now you’re done!

Google's open offer: Hack Chrome browser, get $1m.........>

NEW YORK: Internet search giant Google has announced that it would pay up to one million dollars in prizes to hackers who can expose bugs and vulnerabilities in their Chrome browser.

Calling it a "big learning opportunity," Google staffers Chris Evans and Justin Schuh unveiled three ways in which hackers can win the cash by finding flaws in their technology.

A top prize of 60,000 dollars will go to each hacker who can find a "Full Chrome exploit", a flaw that exists exclusively in Chrome.

The next prize of 40,000 dollars will be paid to those who can find a "Partial Chrome exploit", a bug or flaw in Chrome that may also exist in other programs.

Lastly, Google will give 20,000 dollars "Consolation rewards" to hackers who expose bugs of "exploits" that are not specific to Chrome, but affect users of all Internet browsers, The New York Daily News reports.

"We will issue multiple rewards per category, up to the 1 million dollar limit, on a first-come-first served basis," the Google Chrome Security Team said in a blog post.

Each winner will also score a Chromebook, the report said.

The social networking giant began giving out "White Hat Bug Bounty Program" Visa cards last year, doling out thousands of dollars to hackers who found flaws and paying them on an exclusive debit card, which can be used just like a credit or ATM card.