Google bring out its Google Fiber broadband(100 times faster) Internet service in USA

Google bring out its Google Fiber broadband Internet service in Kansas City, Missouri, on Thursday, Google promising access speeds more than 100 times faster than some of the fastest available from U.S. cable and telecommunications networks.

The Google Fiber TV service will be priced at $120 a month for a package of major broadcast networks, 1 gigabyte per second Internet speeds and 1 terabyte of cloud storage.For $70 a month the service will not include the traditional TV channels.

The new advanced service will offer features such as the ability to record eight TV shows at a time and store up to 500 hours of high definition programming. The user can use a tablet or smart phone as a voice-activated remote control if the user wants. Google is offering its Nexus 7 tablet with the Google TV app to early users of the service.

Google Fiber TV will allow users to search live channels, Netflix, YouTube, recorded shows and tens of thousands of hours of on-demand programming.

"The Internet is a huge positive force, and yet we are at a crossroad," said Google Chief Financial Officer Patrick Pichette, who has played a lead role in overseeing the Fiber project. He said Internet speeds had leveled out for broadband since around 2000, and Google would making it 100 times faster.

The download speeds would be around 1 gigabyte a second, according to Google executives who were presenting a demonstration.

Google invested in building out fiber in Kansas City, Missouri in 2011 after inviting cities back in 2010 to help identify communities that would be interested taking part in the project.

->Google Fiber plans + a free Nexus 7!!

Google officials said that the construction fee for a single home is $300, so that’s how much Google has to spend to deliver the fiber optic network at your house. And before that you should know that they will give you a free Nexus 7 tablet along with your Gigabit + TV plan.

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400,000 Passwords Stolen in Hack :Yahoo

Yahoo officials confirmed that an older file from the Yahoo Voices (formerly Associated Content) was stolen July 12 by hackers, allowing them to get their hands on more than 400,000 user credentials.

Of that amount, less than 5 percent of the Yahoo accounts had valid passwords, the company told eWEEK. Besides Yahoo email addresses, the list also included email addresses for Gmail, Hotmail, AOL and other services. Users of the Yahoo Contributor Network can sign up using their Google or Facebook IDs, which accounts for the various emails listed.

"We are fixing the vulnerability that led to the disclosure of this data, changing the passwords of the affected Yahoo users and notifying the companies whose users' accounts may have been compromised," a spokesperson said. "We apologize to affected users. We encourage users to change their passwords on a regular basis and also familiarize themselves with our online safety tips at security.yahoo.com."

The breach occurred courtesy of a group of hackers known as "D33Ds Company," which posted a text file with the information online and said they used union-based SQL injection to swipe the information.

"We hope that the parties responsible for managing the security of this subdomain will take this as a wake-up call, and not as a threat," D33Ds said in a message accompanying the leaked data. "There have been many security holes exploited in Web servers belonging to Yahoo! Inc. that have caused far greater damage than our disclosure. Please do not take them lightly. The subdomain and vulnerable parameters have not been posted to avoid further damage."

This is definitely a teachable moment on how not to store passwords in databases, said Marcus Carey, security researcher with Rapid7.

"This should be Application Development 101' at this point not to store passwords in clear text," Carey said.

Ron Gula, CEO and CTO of Tenable Network Security, agreed, noting that if the compromised file had only contained encrypted passwords, the hackers may not have realized what they had obtained.

"As with any type of social network service, if you reuse a password among many different sites, hackers may attempt to reuse these for other sites, such as your bank's Website," he said. "Yahoo is taking the right steps to fix and close this issue and notify their customers."

The Yahoo breach comes on the back of reports earlier this week of a leak affecting social networking site Formspring, which reported that 420,000 password hashes belonging to Formspring users had been posted to a hacking forum.

"Once we were able to verify that the hashes were obtained from Formspring, we locked down our systems and began an investigation to determine the nature of the breach," blogged Formspring founder Ade Olonoh. "We found that someone had broken into one of our development servers and was able to use that access to extract account information from a production database.

"We were able to immediately fix the hole and upgraded our hashing mechanisms from sha-256 with random salts to bcrypt to fortify security," he added. "We take this matter very seriously and continue to review our internal security policies and practices to help ensure that this never happens again."

-->Yahoo Says It Has Closed Security Hole Exploited in Breach:

Yahoo officials say the vulnerability exploited by hackers that compromised about 450,000 emails and passwords has been fixed.

The company confirmed July 12 that hackers had accessed an old file containing the sensitive information belonging to users of the Yahoo Contributor Network. The information was linked to writers who joined Associated Content now known as Yahoo Voices prior to its acquisition by Yahoo in May 2010.

"We have taken swift action and have now fixed this vulnerability, deployed additional security measures for affected Yahoo! users, enhanced our underlying security controls and are in the process of notifying affected users," the company said in a July 13 blog post. "In addition, we will continue to take significant measures to protect our users and their data."

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Pirates of the silicon valley-This is the story of the growth of the personal computer industry

This is the story of the growth of the personal computer industry. The movie while based on historical fact, did alter things a bit for dramatic reasons. The Movie begins with IBM in the early 1980's, the big brother in the computer world that everyone else feared. Everyone dressed alike at IBM, company songs and jingles filled the air, and men in suits were everywhere.

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Facebook Groups Start Showing Exactly Who Saw Each Post :New feature gonna add soon

No need to wonder if your family saw that reminder about dinner or if co-workers noticed you uploaded a PowerPoint, as Facebook Groups will soon display a count and a list of names of who saw each post. For example: “Seen by 2″, and when hovered “Josh Constine | Eric Eldon”. The feature is rolling out to English-language groups starting now.
These “read receipts” is a feature Facebook recently added to Messages and Chat, and that has historically been found in some private email and SMS services. Bringing them to more public social feeds is a bold step.
They’ll certainly simplify coordination in Groups and remove the need for “did you see that?” messages. But will read receipts come to the news feed? Some users might find that very creepy.

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DNS Changer Malware Could Lock Unwary Users Out of the Internet on July9

While the chances of any of your computers having an active DNS Changer malware infection are remote, you should still check to make sure your system is clean and confirm that somewhere along the line your DNS settings didn't get changed.


The DNS Changer malware has been all over the news during the last couple of days, and with good reason. If you haven't checked that your computers are malware-free and fixed an apparent DNS Changer infection, you won't be able to use the Internet very easily come Monday, July 9.

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Virus could black out nearly 250,000 PCs

About a quarter-million computer users around the world are at risk of losing Internet access on Monday because of malicious software at the heart of a hacking scam that U.S. authorities shut down last November.

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How Depressive surf the web

IN what way do you spend your time online? Do you check your e-mail compulsively? Watch lots of videos? Switch frequently among multiple Internet applications from games to file downloads to chat rooms?

We believe that your pattern of Internet use says something about you. Specifically, our research suggests it can offer clues to your mental well-being.
In a study to be published in a forthcoming issue of IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, we and our colleagues found that students who showed signs of depression tended to use the Internet differently from those who showed no symptoms of depression.
In February of last year, we recruited 216 undergraduate volunteers at Missouri University of Science and Technology. First, we had the participants fill out a version of a questionnaire called theCenter for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, which is widely used for measuring depression levels in the general population. The survey revealed that 30 percent of the participants met the criteria for depressive symptoms. (This was in line with national estimates that 10 to 40 percent of college students at some point experience such symptoms.)
Next, we had the university’s information technology department provide us with campus Internet usage data for our participants for February. This didn’t mean snooping on what the students were looking at or whom they were e-mailing; it merely meant monitoringhow they were using the Internet information about traffic flow that the university customarily collects for troubleshooting network connections and such.Finally, we conducted a statistical analysis of the depression scores and the Internet usage data.
There were two major findings. First, we identified several features of Internet usage that correlated with depression. In other words, we found a trend: in general, the more a participant’s score on the survey indicated depression, the more his or her Internet usage included these (rather technical-sounding) features for instance, “p2p packets,” which indicate high levels of sharing files (like movies and music).
Our second major discovery was that there were patterns of Internet usage that were statistically high among participants with depressive symptoms compared with those without symptoms. That is, we found indicators: styles of Internet behavior that were signs of depressive people. For example, participants with depressive symptoms tended to engage in very high e-mail usage. This perhaps was to be expected: research by the psychologists Janet Morahan-Martin and Phyllis Schumacher has shown that frequent checking of e-mail may relate to high levels of anxiety, which itself correlates with depressive symptoms.
Another example: the Internet usage of depressive people tended to exhibit high “flow duration entropy” — which often occurs when there is frequent switching among Internet applications like e-mail, chat rooms and games. This may indicate difficulty concentrating. This finding, too, is consistent with the psychological literature: according to the National Institute of Mental Health, difficulty concentrating is also a sign of depressive symptoms among students.
OTHER characteristic features of “depressive” Internet behavior included increased amounts of video watching, gaming and chatting.
Earlier studies have looked into the relationship between Internet usage and depression, but ours is thought to be the first to use actual Internet data, collected anonymously and unobtrusively, rather than student-completed surveys about Internet usage, which are less reliable.
What are the practical applications of this research? We hope to use our findings to develop a software application that could be installed on home computers and mobile devices. It would monitor your Internet usage and alert you when your usage patterns might signal symptoms of depression. This would not replace the function of mental health professionals, but it could be a cost-effective way to prompt people to seek medical help early. It might also be a tool for parents to monitor the mood-related Internet usage patterns of their children.
Such software could also be used at universities, perhaps installed on campus networks to notify counselors of students whose Internet usage patterns are indicative of depressive behavior. (This proposal, of course, raises privacy concerns that would have to be addressed.)

Mental health groups have recommended screening in multiple settings as a critical component of preventing mental health problems in young people. We believe that monitoring Internet usage could be part of the solution.

->>>Sriram Chellappan is an assistant professor of computer science at Missouri University of Science and Technology. Raghavendra Kotikalapudi is a software development engineer.
A version of this op-ed appeared in print on June 17, 2012, on page SR12 of the New York edition with the headline: How Depressives Surf the Web.

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The Next Secrets Of The Web

Right now, someone is tinkering with a billion dollar secret they just don’t know it yet. “What people aren’t telling you,” Peter Thiel taught his class at Stanford, “can very often give you great insight as to where you should be directing your attention.”

Secrets people can’t or don’t want to divulge are a common thread behind Thiel’s most lucrative investments such as Facebook and LinkedIn, as well as several other breakout companies of the past decade. The kinds of truths Thiel discusses the kinds that create billion dollar businesses in just a few years are not held exclusively by those with deep corporate pockets. In fact, the person most likely to build the next great tech business will likely be a scrappy entrepreneur with a big dream, a sharp mind, and a valuable secret.
Where are the Secrets?
According to Thiel, there are two types of secrets: those about nature and those about people. Thiel dismisses the former as less interesting because they are less practical. “No one really cares about superstring theory. It wouldn’t really change our daily lives if it turned out to be true.”
But secrets about people have immediately practical applications. I believe secrets about human behavior, which provide insights into the way people act even though they can’t tell you why, are levers for creating user habits and competitive advantage. These kinds of secrets are also relatively cheap to uncover but can be the basis of massive enterprises.
Once, only large companies had the resources to discover monetizable secrets. Throughout the twentieth century, companies like GE, Dupont, Chrysler, and IBM specialized in discovering the optimal form of physical goods and their insights lay largely hidden in the discipline of industrial design. For these companies, uncovering secrets required massive R&D investment to find the best way to create a better, cheaper, or faster product.
But today, as software continues to eat the world, service industries are being upended by upstarts. A new crop of companies like AirBnB, DropBox, and Square exploits secrets gleaned not from industrial design, but from interaction and systems design. These companies remedy old problems by designing interfaces to create new user behaviors.
Change the Interface, Change the World
Whenever a massive change occurs in the way people interact with technology, expect to find plenty of secrets ripe for harvesting. Changes in interface suddenly make all sorts of behaviors easier. Subsequently, when the effort required to accomplish an action decreases, usage tends to explode.
A long history of technology businesses made their fortunes discovering behavioral secrets made visible because of a change in the interface. Apple and Microsoft succeeded by turning DOS terminals into graphical user interfaces accessible by mainstream consumers. Google simplified the search interface, as compared to those of ad-heavy and difficult-to-use competitors like Yahoo. Facebook and Twitter turned new behavioral insights into interfaces that simplified social interactions online. In each case, a new interface made an action easier and uncovered surprising truths about the way users behave.
More recently, Instagram and Pinterest offer examples of companies which capitalized upon behavioral insights brought about from changes in interface. Pinterest’s ability to create a rich canvas of images utilizing what was then cutting-edge interface changes revealed new insights about the addictive nature of an online catalog. For Instagram, the interface change was cameras integrated into smart phones. Instagram discovered that its low-tech filters made relatively poor quality photos taken on phones look great. Suddenly taking good pictures on your phone was easier and Instagram used its newly discovered insights to recruit an army of rabidly snapping users. With both Pinterest and Instagram, tiny teams generated huge value, not by cracking hard technical challenges, but by solving interaction problems.
From Discovery to Domination
Along with capitalizing on behavioral insights discovered from a change in interface, Instagram and Pinterest also shared another key attribute. They both grew to stratospheric valuations because they came to dominate their respective markets through a network effect. Defined as a system where each additional user on the network increases the value to all the other users, the network effect is a common trait among record breaking tech business of the past decade.
But where the titans of twentieth century industry could build competitive advantage in a number of ways owning intellectual property, building a brand, deriving scale cost advantages, and the network effect, for example most young companies today can only afford the last option. The nature of interface-driven innovation is that many of the old competitive advantages don’t work. The byproduct of the massive investment required to building cars and turbines was an increasing market dominance with each sale. Each closed deal spread the fixed costs of protecting patents, building a brand, and manufacturing equipment, thereby making it harder for new entrants to compete.
But today, consumer web startups have no such advantages. They must quickly create habitual users and build a network effect before their competitors do; it’s their only hope. Software production doesn’t offer scale cost advantages, the patent system is a mess startups can’t afford to navigate, and spending on branding prematurely is foolish. Only after a network effect business has secured its place in users’ everyday lives does it make sense to build its brand through advertising. Twitter’s recent foray into television commercials promoting its NASCAR partnership is a good example.
Though we’re living through an age when new insights about user behavior abound, the methods for building a long-term business advantage has narrowed. The kind of secrets that build big businesses today must support a plan to build a network effect business. Without a network effect strategy, secrets don’t stay valuable for long.

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How to browse the web faster with slow internet connection

If you are in remote area where the Broadband networks not available..So try to follow the Tips and Tricks...

1. Turn off web images, the Adobe Flash plug-in, Java Applets and JavaScript from your browser settings as these files are often the bulkiest elements of any web page.

2. Increase the size of your browser cache. If the static parts of a site (like background graphics, CSS, etc) are stored in the local cache, your browser can safely skip downloading these files when you re-visit the site in future thus improving speed.

3. Sometimes the slow DNS server of your ISP can be a bottleneck so switch to OpenDNS as it can resolve website URLs into IP addresses more quickly. If you aren’t too happy about OpenDNS redirecting your Google queries, follow this simple hack.

4. Finch can serve a light-weight version of any website in real-time that is free of all bells and whistles. For instance, the New York Times homepage with all external resources can weigh more than a MB but Finch trims down the size by 90% so the site loads more quickly on a slow web connection.

5. Flinch (mentioned at #4) is good for reading regular websites but if you just need to check the latest articles published on your favorite blogs, use BareSite. This service will automatically detect the associated feed of a website and render content quickly inside a minimalist interface.

6. The Google Transcoder service at google.com/gwt/n can split large web pages into smaller chunks that will download more quickly on your computer (or mobile phone).

7. Monitor your Internet speed to determine hours when you get the maximum download speed from the ISP. Maybe you can then change your surfing schedule a bit and browse more during these "off peak" hours.

8. You can use a text browser like Lynx or Elinks for even faster browsing. It downloads only the HTML version of web pages thus reducing the overall bandwidth required to render websites.

9. When searching for web pages on Google, you can click the "Cache" link to view the text version of a web page stored in the Google Cache. Alternatively, install this GM script as it adds a "cached text only" link near every "Cached" link on Google Search pages.

10. Move your web activities offline as far as possible. You can send & receive emails, write blogs and even read feeds in an offline environment. Also see: Save Web Pages for offline reading.

11.  You can interact with websites like Flickr, Google Docs, Slideshare, etc. using simple email messages. Uploading a new document to Google Docs via email would require less bandwidth than doing it in the browser because you are avoiding a trip to the Google Docs website.

12. Applying the same logic, you may also consider using tools like Web In Mail or Email The Web as they help you browse websites via email. Just put the URL of a page (e.g., cnn.com) in the subject field of your email message and these services will send you the actual page in the reply.

13. Bookmarklets are like shortcuts to your favorite web services. You neither have to open the Gmail Inbox for composing a new email message nor do you have to visit Google Translate for translating a paragraph of text. Add relevant bookmarklets to your browser bar and reduce the number of steps required to accomplish a task.

14. Use the netstat command to determine processes, other than web browsers, that may besecretly connecting to Internet in the background. Some of these processes could be consuming precious bandwidth but you can block them using the Firewall.

15. Use URL Snooper to determine non-essential host names that a website is trying to connect while downloading a web page. You may block them in future via the hosts file or use Adblock Plus to filter out advertising banners on web pages.

16. If you don’t want to spoil your web surfing experience by stripping images and other graphic elements from  a web page, get Opera Turbo. It will first fetch the requested web page on to its own server and then send it to your machine in a compressed format. Opera Turbo won’t change the layout of a web site but can lower the image resolution so that they load faster on slow Internet.

17. Change the user agent of your desktop browser to that of a mobile phone like Apple’s iPhone or Windows Mobile. This will help you browse certain web sites like Google News, WSJ, etc. much faster because they’ll serve you a light-weight and less cluttered mobile version of their sites thinking you’re on a mobile phone.

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Top 1o Bloggers in india and their revenue

 1.Amit Agarwal 

->  Blog - Labnol.org

->  Alexa Rank of Labnol.org – 2000

-> Estimated Adsense Revenue per month – $ 36,000 / Month

About – In the year 2004  amit quit his lavish job at Goldman sachs and turned a full time blogger. He writes about software and internet tools. IIT passout amit now drives Honda CRV and lives life his size in New Delhi  the way he want, with his adsense and affiliate income.

2. Name – Amit Bhwanai

-> Blog – AmitBhawani.com

-> Alexa rank of AmitBhawani.com –  4500

-> Estimated Adsense revenue – $15,000 Per Month

About – Amit bhawani started writing on his tech blog in year 2007 and pumped 

up different topics like career, health and travel in his blog. His blog has 

continuously jumped up in alexa ranking over due course of time. He now runs his 

own SEO firm in Hyderabad..

3. Harsh Agrawal

-> Blog – Shoutmeloud.com

-> Alexa Rank of Shoutmeloud.com – 3900

-> Estimated Adsense Revenue – $8,000 / Month

About :20 Something Harsh Agrawal quit his job at Convergys to become a professional  blogger. He now writes on bloging, wordpress, tips and ways to make money online. He now lives in New Delhi and blogs regularly to earn his income blended with freedom.

4. Raju PP

-> Blog - techpp.com

-> Alexa Rank – 7900

-> Estimated Adsense revenue – $7200 / Month

About :Raju from Bangalore quit infosys to start a life based on blogging and made it big. He blogs on gadgets and tech related stuff to pull googlers to his portal.

5 .Srinivas Tamada

 –> Blog - 9lessons.info

-> Alexa rank of 9lessons.info - 8,000

-> Estimated Adsense revenue - $6500 / Month

About - Srinivas is a 20 something programming freak and his blog revoles about programming. He is one of the blogger who don’t pay a penny for hosting charges and domain name booking and is earning a handsome sum form Google.He is currently perhaps the best blogger blogging about programming and design tutorial  in India.

6.Jaspal Singh

-> Blog – Savedelete.com

-> Alexa Rank – 10,000

-> Estimated adsense revenue - $4000 /Month

About – Satpal is a  mechanical engineering graduate who took his blog at the peak of success in less than a year with his sheer dedication and ability to blog like a maniac. His other hobby is hitting the gym once his fingers get stressed.

7 .Arun Prabhudesai

-> Blog – Trak.in

-> Alexa rank of Trak.in – 13,000

-> Estimated Adsense Revenue – $3800 / Month

About – Arun writes about business trends and startups and is an avid internet geek. He started his blog in 2007 and has gradually moved up the ladders to become one of the best business bloggers in the blogging arena.

8. Nirmal

-> Blog – NirmalTV.com

-> Alexa Rank of Nirmaltv.com – 20000

-> Estimated Adsense Revenue – $3200 / Month

About –  Nirmal is a Civil engineer  by education and IT professional by profession. He writes about freeware reviews, internet tips and tricks. Coming from a small town named kochi,  Nirmal has changed his life through blogging.

9.Rahul Bansal

–> Blog – devilsworkshop.org

–> Alexa rank of Devilworkshop.org – 21,000

-> Estimated Adsense Revenue – $3000 / Month

About – Rahul Bansal is a computer engineer turned full time blogger and writes about Tech trends and web 2.o . His have changed his life and every bit from it from adsense money and evolved into an Entrepreneur.

10,Honeysingh

-> Blog – honeytechblog.com

-> Alexa rank of Honeytechblog.com – 20,000

–> Estimated adsense Revenue – $2400 per Month

About – Honeysingh is a fresh grad out of college and is a full time tech blogger. He has opened his company Mediaredefined and constantly writes for his successful blog.

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