SimpleGeo Launching ‘Storage’: A Distributed Hosted Database For Location Data

SimpleGeo Launching ‘Storage’: A Distributed Hosted Database For Location Data: "The story of SimpleGeo is a familiar one: two founders — Matt Galligan and Joe Stump — set off to create location-based games, only to find that the tools they wanted to use to build their apps didn’t exist yet. So they switched gears and decided to build what they wished they had: a suite of tools optimized for the creation of location-based services (which was probably a good call given the explosion of location-aware mobile devices)."

Did Microsoft leave Hotmail open for Dictators? | ZDNet

Did Microsoft leave Hotmail open for Dictators? | ZDNet: "“always-use-HTTPS option in Hotmail for users in more than a dozen countries, including Bahrain, Morocco, Algeria, Syria, Sudan, Iran, Lebanon, Jordan, Congo, Myanmar, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan, had been turned off.” This meant anyone using Hotmail in these countries could have their e-mail read by their government-controlled ISPs."

Don’t steal computers belonging to people who know how to use computers.

"When 18-year-old entrepreneur Mark Bao had his MacBook Air stolen from a college dorm lounge in February, he assumed it was gone for good and bought a new one. But a month later, he got the chance to recover his laptop and publicly shame the guy who stole it — by posting a video of the thief’s dance moves to YouTube. How’d he do it?"

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Is Facebook a massive online surveillance program run by the CIA?

Is Mark Zuckerberg a CIA agent codenamed the Overlord?

Facebook: Massive online surveillance program run by the CIA?

Operation Farmville: Pacified as many as 85 million people after unemployment rates rose dramatically?

Twitter: 400 billion Tweets, and not one useful bit of data?

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India card Rupay to replace Visa, MasterCard

"National Payments Corporation has at last finalised the proposed unique India Card which once commercially launched would be an domestic alternative to the global real-time payment processing firms like Visa and MasterCard."

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Microsoft Launches Internet Explorer 9

After months of beta testing, Microsoft has finally released the final version of Internet Explorer 9 to the masses.

The final version of Internet Explorer 9 will be available for download at midnight ET/9:00 PM PT at BeautyoftheWeb.com.

Read the complete story at Mashable

Litti Chokha is becoming famous

Last month, novelist Chetan Bhagat tweeted: “Litti chokha, a Bihari dish, totally needs to be available everywhere. Superb.” Actor Sonakshi Sinha, of Bihari origin, tweeted back, asking him to get the dish from her in Mumbai.

If Bihar becomes a super success story in the next 10 years, what will be the fate of litti chokha? “It will become as common in Delhi and Bombay (Mumbai) as aloo tikkis and bhelpuri,” says Bhojpuri film star Ravi Kissen. “And I’ll start a litti chokha franchise on the lines of McDonald’s.”

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Litti Chokha's fan page on Facebook.

 

The Secret of Victoria’s Secret is out

“I didn’t invent anything. I didn’t invent the bra or stores or the name,” he says. “I just see things differently.” Still, when it comes to how women think about the most pragmatic items they wear, that’s made all the difference.

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Google Circles could be launched at the Google I/O 2011 conference

"Google Circles" codenamed "Google Me" could be launched at the Google I/O 2011 conference in May (10-11th).

According to ZDNet, it is coming this fall (Sept. – Dec. 2011). ZDNet Report

However Google has made some big product launches, including Wave, Chrome Web App Store and Google TV, at the Google I/O conference.

One Report suggests that it is a "False Alarm: Google Circles Not Coming Now–and Probably Not Ever".

Who stands to lose the most in the $45 million fraud trial of Raj Rajaratnam?

The insider-trading scandal that involves the most respected names in business is shaking up the financial world. Who stands to lose the most in the $45 million fraud trial of Raj Rajaratnam?


Rajat Gupta

or

India

or

Goldman Sachs

or

Warren Buffett

Read the complete article in Newsweek: Who stands to lose the most in the $45 million fraud trial of Raj Rajaratnam?

With hacking, music can take control of your car

"But their most interesting attack focused on the car stereo. By adding extra code to a digital music file, they were able to turn a song burned to CD into a Trojan horse. When played on the car's stereo, this song could alter the firmware of the car's stereo system, giving attackers an entry point to change other components on the car. This type of attack could be spread on file-sharing networks without arousing suspicion, they believe. "It's hard to think of something more innocuous than a song," said Stefan Savage, a professor at the University of California."


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