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Kum "Twittering" intimate secrets with children

If you hire a lot of Sunday afternoon, or even slightly adventurous, be careful that your friends know about it and what they write on social networks. Recently, web-heard the case where the best man "footprint" on Twitter all the intimate details of his life kumtsite TechNews Bg says the young man was invited to become a better man of the two lovers, their preparation for marriage, he was flattered, -. . . So flattered that promises to be a better person and a wonderful example for the wedding and during the wedding. And then what? Then man created an anonymous account on Twitter with the sole aim to automate the "report" when a couple has sex. This is no joke! The man took advantage of a close relationship with a young family and placed under the mattress sensor of the bed. Gauge pressure transducer, which makes a statement in the event of pressure loss on the pressure and the pressure data, and "anger" All data is automatically transmitted chirp, as a result, the first post on the anonymous account.

Select a Web browser for Windows

The European Commission adopted a decision that renders legally binding commitments offered by Microsoft to increase competition in the web browser. Commitments in response to concerns that the commission Microsoft, possibly due its web browser Internet Explorer with the Windows operating system for PCs in violation of EU rules on abuse of dominant position.

Experts will discuss safe Internet for children

Conference: "Children and parents with online = Mission (not) possible" will be opened at 09:30 in "Mattie" NPC's participation in the conference will bring all the partners, members of the school and family in the project. , A Bulgarian NGO representatives and experts from the Ministry of Education and Science, the State Agency for Child Protection, the Center for Human Resource Development.

Internet makes older people more intelligent

Researchers from the University of California at Los Angeles found that after a week of extensive use worldwide network of people aged 55-78, shows the best results in tests on the logic and decision-making, announced PCWorld. BG. Participants in the study, researchers conducted a variety of tasks on the Internet, meanwhile, their brain activity was recorded by MRI.

Thief arrested on data from social networks

German was arrested after being slipped in several popular German social networking site, where data is collected, and then tried to blackmail the operators of sites ahead IDG. BG. Unnamed 20-year-old man from the German city of Erlangen, was arrested Sunday on charges that he created the "subversive" program, which "sift" the site StudiVZ, VZ managed networks. Spyware able to outwit the mechanism of protection of a site and automatically downloads the information to public users, such as names, school, sex, age, profile photo, Dirk adds Representative Hensley. A hacker in the west was not good to confidential information not normally available to other users of information such as phone numbers, addresses and e-mail boxes.

Anonymity is the key in cybercrime

The relative anonymity of Internet users is the main problem in combating cyber-crime, said Evgeny Kaspersky, founder of the Russian firm Kaspersky, quoted by IDG. BG. "To build a more secure electronic world, we need better regulation of the Internet, including Internet Passport accreditation for companies, and what I call the Internet Interpol, which will provide a more international police cooperation on cybercrime," said Evgeny Kaspersky.

Yahoo! shut down free hosting

GeoCities free hosting was shut down, said, Yahoo. The company management has decided to give customers more ways to create and host websites on the Internet, today announced TechNews. BG. For example, Yahoo offers users to take advantage of a paid hosting service. It is available for 4.99 dollars for the first year, then cost 9.95 dollars per month. Yahoo! GeoCities decided to close early this year when she began to restructure the program to kill all the unpopular and unprofitable activities.

Historical changes in the Internet

Internet regulator ICANN, is likely to approve this week initiative to support non-Latin domain names, told AFP. The current English system provides 37 ASCII characters, incl. Latin alphabet, Arabic numerals and a hyphen (dash). In some cases it may be obtained from the non-Latin part of the web address of graphical symbols, and the suffix of the domain name is the Latin language, writes TechNews. BG. Keeping the name of which consists entirely of non-Latin characters will be one of the most important developments in the history of the Internet, says the chairman of ICANN, Peter Dengeyt helmet. Individuals, companies and organizations can register the names of the characters in Chinese, Arabic, Korean, Latin, Cyrillic, etc. revolutionary decision will be announced on October 30, the last day of the ongoing conference in South Korea ICANN.

Gays have requested their own domain name

Two gay organizations independent of each other has brought a desire to meet the specific domain area for homosexuals, police TechNews. BG. Dot "Gay Alliance of New York and European dotGay intend to apply for registration of a suffix. Gay in the control ICANN. Both groups have already sent their delegation to Seoul, where he held an international conference ICANN. However, there is no agreement between the American and European organizations, although their goal is the same, writes New York Times. Creating a new domain zone, it seems, ICANN about $ 400. 000. Any new owner of the site pays $ 8 an annual fee to the registry to use the domain name. If IACNN enter the domain zone. Gay , Alliance Dot "Gay Alliance will pay 51% of revenues for the needs of the gay community, said the founder of Joe Dolce. These funds can be an important source of funding for organizations that are fighting for gay rights and participate in other vital activities, says Dolce.

With that and otvadnoto

Togo, has perpetuated the memory of members who have died, while maintaining their profiles to "live," said Max Kelly, director of security in the company, which cites the IDG. BG. Social Network now has a page that can be brought to the administrators of the death of the user. "When a profile is maintained, we tune the access to it so that no one has added any friends to have access to such registration, including through the Internet search," said Max Kelly.

Three candidates for the operator. BG areas

Three candidates are operators. BG region, said TechNews. BG. The presence of multiple applications, however, can slow down the approval process. BG, familiar with the case said the regulator ICANN. "The requirement of ICANN has no hesitation and contradictions in the country," said Elias Bazlyankov, President Uninet. Uninet Association is one of the applicants. BD operator. The rest of the Register. BG and the public Internet Directory Prime Minister Dimitar Ganchev. Earlier today, ICANN announced that it will soon be possible for a complete Internet addresses to be written in non-Latin characters. Bordat organizatsiyata Chamber e NA odobril T. Nar. "Internationalized Domain Names accelerated process", koyto shte otprishti registratsiyata imena N. domeyn vsyakakvi ezitsi. This is the biggest technological advances in the 40-year history of the Internet, said ICANN President Peter Dengeyt helmet. Expedited process is the first step to enrich the Internet address of 100. 000 characters of different languages.

On Google Maps found a non-existent city

Roy Bayfild Edge Hill University was opened in Google Maps nonexistent city Argleton, supposedly located in the county of Lancashire, says PC World. BG, referring to The Daily Telegraph. The city was discovered by a colleague Bayfild, but when the latter decided to check the location on a map, where as Google Maps is Argleton, there is nothing but an empty field. How to log search for the word Argleton achievement for vacancies in the city, other services and offers to buy the house. In fact, all these proposals are realistic, but do not apply to Argleton, but the city postcode L39. Experts believe that Google is deliberately non-existent on the map published by the city to attempt to cross a copyright infringement. Such cases - it had a fictional cartographers street maps. For his part, said representatives of the Google Maps map drawn by Dutch company Tele Atlas and in principle could be wrong.

Free IP-addresses ending in 2010 -

According to research by the European Commission, only a small number of companies are ready to transition from the current Internet Protocol IPv4 to more advanced IPv6, reports PCWorld. BG. Experts warn that over the next two years can make a new web address, if more companies did not move to IPv6. Ipv4 has existed since 1981 and is the basis for a Internet business today. IP-address of this protocol consists of 4 bytes and is usually represented as four numbers separated by periods. Thus can be obtained about 4.3 billion addresses. IPv6 is the capacity of 3,4 x10 38-degree and address.

Google Dashboard - or what Google knows about us?

Google launched a new service that shows all the data collected from the products of Google, which uses the user, according to IDG. BG. Service called Google Dashboard. It includes data from Gmail, Docs, Web History, YouTube, and many other products of Google. For example, in the category of information as a Gmail offers by e-mail in the mailbox, how many are sent and received and how many calls are made via chat kilenta. Google Dashbord submitted and place in which it has links to other personal settings on applications that use a specific user. It can be easy to manage personal information. However, no data on the wave, analytics and search for books.

Bulgarian data center will serve as the NBA

Statistics of games the U.S. National Basketball Association (NBA) will be considered in the Bulgarian data center Daticum. It became clear after the U.S. company Synergy Sports Technology, providing statistical and analytical information for basketball games, has chosen a Bulgarian company, which is part of Sirma Group Holding. In accordance with the contract together is 95% of the system Daticum Synergy Sports Technology. The U.S. company is developing the largest platform for sports statistics in the world and currently serves as the NBA and all of the individual clubs in it. Members of the analytic platform themselves coaches the team, which directly receive the processed information, analysis meetings, preliminary conclusions, projections and set the tactics of the enemy, as well as analysis of specific game situations.

Google will double the speed of Internet

Google is developing a new Internet protocol, which will accelerate the performance of Web services, applications and Web sites, announced TechNews. BG. SPDY (pronounced "Speedy") is an application layer protocol for transmission of content over the Internet, the company explains on his blog. The protocol is designed to minimize the delay through features such as multiplexed streams, prioritize applications, and header compression of HTTP. First SPDY tests in the laboratory are encouraging. Google has created a prototype Web server and browser client, which supports the new protocol. In charge of 25 popular Web site reported an increase in the rate of 55%. Google plans to double the speed of the Internet. The protocol is still at an early stage of development.

Bulgaria can not get the domain. BG

It is not known whether. "BG" is our national code when creating an Internet domain alphabets other than Latin. The Ministry of Transport said that Bulgaria is one of the first countries expressed their willingness to participate in this proceeding in June 2008, according to an official letter to the president of the International Organization for Internet Names and Numbers (ICANN). Then, after consultation with the Bulgarian region of the Internet community ". Bd" was added to the national code in the Cyrillic alphabet, but will he stay or residence of another depends on a number of technical requirements in June 2008 has not yet approved. The Ministry of Transport said that the register Internet domain names in the Cyrillic alphabet in Bulgaria will be cited by the Bulgarian government.

Firefox crossed the 25 percent threshold

The market share of Firefox first overcome the barrier of 25 percent, according to the latest Net Applications, quoted in TechNews. BG. Last week, worked with Firefox 25.1 percent of all Internet users around the world. Increase due to Internet Explorer, which was reduced, but remains the most popular browser with a share of 63.3%. Meanwhile, Mozilla has released a beta version of Firefox 3. 6. The new edition features increased performance when working with JavaScript, is less than the response time to user requests, the speed of loading pages and the system reports that the installed plug-ins need to be updated. Firefox hit the scene five years ago, November 9, 2004.

Tracker Pirate Bay has stopped all

The world's largest torrent site The Pirate Bay announced on his blog that permanently closed the torrent tracker. Instead it will use the so-called "magnet" links, which are supported by most torrent clients communicate with PCWorld. Bg. These links allow you to move at all without a tracker, because the files to which they lead are removed through a decentralized network. law enforcement and other such parties can not stop file sharing, as a decentralized network head tracker which copyright owners may be affected. reminded that the basis of lies torrent networks use a central server (tracker), which connects the computers of different users, so they can share information. Meanwhile, thanks to the use of technologies such as DHT (Distributed Hash Table) and PEX (Peer Exchange), a torrent client can find each other and without the tracker.

Microsoft released the beta version of Office 2010

At PDC 2009 developer conference, Microsoft announced the launch of a public beta version of office suite, Office 2010 and Office Mobile 2010, according to PCWorld. BG. At the same time, they were presented to the beta version of SharePoint Server 2010, Visio 2010, Project 2010 and Office Web Apps applications for corporate clients. The main feature of Office 2010 is the ability to work with files, not only with software installed on your computer or laptop, but also through the phone's browser or mobile phone.

Google has demonstrated its operating system

Google opens source code for its operating system, Google Chrome OS, which was reported back in July. While the system is not ready for the end user - and the developers of the project, Google partners and the open source community, emphasizes the PCWorld. BG. Chromium OS project includes all source code, development, affecting the user interface and some design options for future development. In general, the official Google blog system is characterized as "the first strokes, which will be issued next year." For consumers, the new system will be available in 2010 So what is Google Chrome OS? "A system for the people they spent most of his life - this is how Google positions its product in bold.

UniNet asked the operator. BG areas

Bulgarian Association of UniNet announced her candidacy for the operator of the national domain names in Cyrillic. BG. The American Organization of ICANN, which manages scarce resources on the Internet (domain names and IP-address) accepts applications from 16 November to a special procedure called "Fast Track", to create a level area for languages ​​that do not use the Latin alphabet. While the applications were submitted, Egypt, Russia, China, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, Tunisia and others. countries. The main conditions for receipt of applications indicated in the applicant country to have a consensus on key issues - what is the national domain that it controls. The only country without such a consensus, and Bulgaria are expected to ICANN to obtain at least two candidates. The organization allows all interested parties in the country to submit their applications if they have broad public support and prayers from the government.

French Writers Sue Google

French writers and publishers gave Google the court for "illegal digitization and publication of books on the Internet. List of plaintiffs includes Publishers Association (SNE), which brings together 530 members, the Society of Writers (SGDL), forward TechNews. BG, citing" AFP ". They are strongly call for Google to pay 15 million euros compensation and a fine of 100. 000 euros for each day of service of Google Books, in which "illegal digital" books are available for consumers. However, Google's lawyer questioned the competence of the French court in this matter, because the service is regulated by U.S. law. Case scheduled for December 18. French publishing house Seuil in France and the court of Google by Google Inc in June 2006, but still claims not covered. company claims that the Google Books without her permission has published more than four thousand books. Government France and Germany are unhappy not only that of Google Books for copyright infringement, but see it as a competitor of the project Europeana.

Stealing passwords a new hit

The number of cyber threats aimed at stealing passwords, dramatically increased by 400% last year, according to a new report by McAfee, said TechNews. BG. Cybercriminals monitor any user interaction with the new programs that make a screen shot (screenshot) when you enter a password or other data. New technologies cybercrime can get account information, which is hidden by asterisks to other users. Attackers also penetrate sites and create a pop-up notes podezhdashti McAfee. The survey reveals several trends approaches cybercriminals. New Trojans and worms in addition to the theft of passwords and keep their doors for future attacks. The most common is to steal passwords to online games, according to the survey. Curious conclusion that the malicious code more difficult to detect by antivirus programs.

Google began beta testing Google Wave

Launched a public beta testing of Google Wave. Access to the pre-beta gets 100,000 testari beta from different countries, according to IDG. BG. Wave combines elements of e-mail, instant messaging, system of electronic encyclopedias, blogs, file-sharing technology. In the future, will be added to other options. For the first time Google has shown its service in May this year. "The wave has become something we are all accustomed to something we all know. Said Lars Rasmussen, one of the sponsors." New tools need to make online communication more efficient and productive. "

D-Link has released a business blog in Bulgarian

D-Link has introduced a new online project aimed at the Bulgarian consumers - a corporate blog with a focus on the business proposals of the company. In http://dlink. BG / blog accessible archive this topic in different categories related to the project D-Link, in the case of a company environmental policy and the implementation of "green" technology in the practice of companies from various industries and segments. The content category, and availability of consumer-oriented label in accordance with its interests. There is also a function for searching the archives of the blog, and subscribe to the RSS-feeds and receive messages directly to your inbox.

Bulgaria is at the forefront of improving broadband net

Despite the recession, the quality of broadband services to improve the world, shows publicized study Cisco. With regard to the degree of penetration among households, however, Bulgaria is second last in Europe. 62 out of 66 countries surveyed have improved the quality of broadband services in the past year. At the same time, new data show deepening divisions as digital services between urban and rural areas. The global average download speed of traffic has increased by 49% to 4. 75 megabytes per second (Mbit / s), in accordance with the Broadband Quality Study 2009. The average rate of global downstream traffic actually increased by 69% to 1. 3 Mbit / s. The global average latency (delay) is reduced by 21% to 170 milliseconds. South Korea is the leading country in 2009, which relates to the use of high-speed Internet. Adding to the highest broadband penetration in the country, South Korea ahead of Japan in terms of ranking for broadband leadership in 2009 did the Swedish high-quality Internet in Europe.

U.S. to relinquish control of Internet

Internet regulator ICANN has announced that it has signed a new agreement with the Ministry of Trade, under which is an independent organization outside of government control, forward TechNews. BG. ICANN needs to provide detailed public reports on its activities at least once a year for its members. The U.S. government, however, will continue to participate in the corporation, as the Ministry of Commerce will receive one of the places in the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) of ICANN. GAC control over the activities of ICANN, giving different advice. The committee includes representatives from over 80 countries. ICAAN is a nonprofit organization based in California, which gives the names and addresses on the Internet. In his duties shall maintain the reliability and stability of the Internet, the coordination of technical management functions of Domain Name Servers (DNS) and others.

Bulgaria supports the independence of ICANN

Deputy Minister of Transport, Communications and Information Technology Parvan Rusinov welcomes declared its independence from the organization to manage the allocation of domain names and IP-addresses (ICANN), the press service of the Ministry. The new status of the organization as a result of termination of the agreement between ICANN and the U.S. government. Thus, the organization will be carried out with the participation of all stakeholders: the private sector, civil society, governments, consumers.

IBM Launches Web Mail

IBM launched LotusLive iNotes - e-mail, calendar and contact management system, according to IDG. BG. The product competes Gmail and Microsoft Exchange, announced by the company. Cost is $ 3 per user per month, which is lower than the price of Google Apps Premier Edition - $ 50 per user per year. There is also a 30-day trial period. The service is aimed at large companies that want to move the mail system on SaaS (Software as a Service). LotusLive iNotes for small companies that are interested in software solutions for business, but felt that they could not deal with security and management services.

"Sleep" Trojan own bank accounts drained

New Trojan in the system draining the bank accounts of victims. Open malware steals the money, and the user performs operations on the account, notice of the security company Finjan. URLZONE chosen each time so that the volume of illegal transfer, it can not be detected by the system to protect against fraud ahead TechNews. BG, referring to the BBC. This malicious program is distributed in the traditional way - by email or infected Web sites. URLZONE use the security holes of the most popular browsers. It is sufficient that the user clicks on the link and fraudulent Trojan will be downloaded to your computer. After installation, URLZONE rest until the user visits certain banking sites, where the Trojan is activated automatically. Typically, the malware is not completely emptied the accounts of victims and stealing small amounts.

Hotmail passwords have been compromised

Microsoft has announced that passwords belonging to users of e-mail service Hotmail, has been compromised, as quoted in TechNews. BG, referring to Reuters. They were published on the website, which, however, was removed from the network. The company did not specify how many users are affected by the case. According to some publications were listed in the list of passwords of about 10,000 "customers." "We know that some of the user credentials from the Windows Live Hotmail was acquired by illegal means phishing, and then published on the website," says the laconic comment redmantskata representative of the company.

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