Facebook to get 'enemy graph'.........>

Facebook is not just about reaching out to friends but also foes as a new application allows you to add enemies to your profile.

EnemyGraph is a new application, available for free to all Facebook users, which lets you add enemies to your Facebook profile, including real victims from your friends list, or from other users of the application.

You can also declare 'war' on any product, person or company that has a presence on Facebook. As soon as one has declared someone or something an Enemy, they appear on one's profile on the Enemies list, visible to other users of the application.

Its creator, Dean Terry of the University of Texas at Dallas, describes the application as 'social media blasphemy' and predicted that Facebook would remove the application.

EnemyGraph is an attempt to further define relationships between users and other entities across Facebook's social graph.

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".