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Thursday, November 10, 2011
Have you Googled on your Birthday?
11:08 PM
Khyati
Have you Googled on your Birthday? Now you might be thinking, what sort of wielder question is this. What is the connection of Google and your Birthday?
Ok, for those who don't know let me unveil the mystery.
Everybody knows that Google uses special logos (or doodles) to honor famous personalities, especially artists and scientists, on their birthdays. But you might be surprised to know that they do something very similar on your birthday as well.
Never miss a chance to visit the Google homepage on your birthday. Because Google would be waiting for you to surprise you with a special Birthday logo. And when you hover the mouse over that logo, it will greet you with some personalized text.
Now you might be wondering what is the magic trick behind this?
Its very simple. You provide your Birth date while creating Google Profile. And Google uses this data to know your birth date.
Note:
You must be logged in to your Google Account before Googling anything to see that birthday logo.
Google has introduced this feature for an year. But if you are also "Late Latifs" like me, then dont forget to remember visiting Google.com on your next birthday.
Ok, for those who don't know let me unveil the mystery.
Everybody knows that Google uses special logos (or doodles) to honor famous personalities, especially artists and scientists, on their birthdays. But you might be surprised to know that they do something very similar on your birthday as well.
Never miss a chance to visit the Google homepage on your birthday. Because Google would be waiting for you to surprise you with a special Birthday logo. And when you hover the mouse over that logo, it will greet you with some personalized text.
Now you might be wondering what is the magic trick behind this?
Its very simple. You provide your Birth date while creating Google Profile. And Google uses this data to know your birth date.
Note:
You must be logged in to your Google Account before Googling anything to see that birthday logo.
Google has introduced this feature for an year. But if you are also "Late Latifs" like me, then dont forget to remember visiting Google.com on your next birthday.
Posted in: NewsFriday, August 26, 2011
Android Eats other Smartphone Shares
When it comes to smartphones in the U.S., Android and Apple keep growing at the expense of other mobile platforms like RIM, Windows Phone, and Nokia’s Symbian. The latest mobile subscriber numbers are out from comScore. Android leads the pack with 40 percent market share of U.S. smartphone subscribers as of June, 2011, up 5.4 percent from March, 2011.
Android is also widening the gap compared to Apple, which ended the period with 26.6 percent share. But Apple did grow 1.1 percent from March, whereas RIM (23.4 percent), Microsoft (5.8 percent), and Symbian (2.0 percent) all lost share.
Apple’s share did not budge compared to May, 2011, but Android gained 2 points in share in just one month. It definitely is showing momentum, according to this set of data. Expect to see this trend continue until a new iPhone comes out, perhaps in September. Raise your hands if you are waiting for it to come out before you buy your next phone.
Posted in: NewsFriday, August 5, 2011
Now Facebook will reveal your real identity
Facebook's online privacy woes are well-known. But here's an offline one: its large database of profile photos can be victimised to determine you as you're travel walking the street.
A Carnegie Mellon University researcher today described how he built a database of nearly 25,000 photographs expropriated from students' Facebook profiles. Then he set up a desk in one of the campus buildings and asked few volunteers to peep into Webcams.
The results: face recognition software put a name to the face of 31 percent of the students after, on come, lower than trey seconds of rapid-fire comparisons.
In a few years, "facial visual searches may be as popular as today's text-based searches," says Alessandro Acquisti, who presented his development in cooperation with Ralph Receipts and Fred Stutzman at the Black Hat computer conference.
As a check of idea, the Carnegie Mellon researchers also formed an iPhone app that can position a exposure of someone, piping it through facial recognition software, and then exhibit on-screen that person's canvas and essential statistics.
Few of the professor from Carnegie Mellon University belive that this could be an ominous risks for privacy of any individual.
In another test researchers compared 277,978 Facebook profiles against nearly 6,000 profiles extracted from an unnamed dating Web site. Here also the success rate of software was 40 percent match. Funniest part in this tests are, almost 1 in 10 of the dating site's members--nearly all of whom used pseudonyms--turned out to be identifiable name. Now, this can be a risk for guys dating multiple girls.
Facial recognition technology, which has been developing in labs for decades, is finally going mainstream. Face.com opened its doors to developers last year; the technology is built into Apple's Aperture software and Flickr. Google bought a face-recognition technology in the last few weeks, and Facebook's automated photo-tagging has drawn privacy scrutiny.
Acquisti is the first to admit that the technology isn't perfect. It works best with frontal face photos, not ones taken at an angle. The larger the database becomes, the more time comparisons take, and the more false-positive errors arise.
On the other hand, face recognition technology is advancing quickly, especially for nonfrontal photos. "What we did on the street with mobile devices today will be accomplished in less intrusive ways tomorrow," he says. "A stranger could know your last tweet just by looking at you."
Read more here
Posted in: NewsFriday, July 1, 2011
Nokia Reinvents Older Generation Mobile phones
Well there’s something new in Nokia’s sac. Nokia is reinventing the older generation mobile phones. Now this is what a good news for all older generation mobile phone user. Nokia will be definitely appreciated for this good move. Nokia has announced firmware updates for their Symbian 3.2 and Symbian 5 platforms. Few refreshing changes for handsets are also being announced.
Few of the changes which are expected:
New emoiticons in MMSes.
Upgrading to Nokia browser v7.3: This browser is available for Latest Symbian Anna running smartphones. Nokia claims that this will result in faster, better browing experience and it will also support for International Domain Names (IDN).
Updates in OVI Maps: Symbian 3.2 handsents will have OVI Maps 3 SR4 and Symbian 5 mobile phones will receive an update to Ovi Maps 3 SR6. SR4 has various features like Indoor positioning through WiFi as well as travel and recommendation services. Whereas SR6 will add public transport lines and check-in services to social networking sites.
As of now updates will be available for Nokia C6-00
and Nokia 5230
. And this will be rolled out in progression for the rest of the handsets slowly and steadily. Here’s a list of the handsets that can be upgraded:
Symbian 3.2
Nokia E72
Nokia E52
Nokia E5
Nokia C5-00
Nokia 6700 slide
Symbian 5
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic
Nokia 5530 XpressMusic
Nokia 5230
Nokia 5235
Nokia 5250
Nokia C6-00
Nokia C5-03
Nokia X6
Nokia N97 mini
So, if you own any of these handsets and have upgraded your firmware then please let us know about your experience through the comments.
Posted in: News