Video File Converter

Movavi Online is a online service developed by Movavi Video Converter. This website can make video file conversion easier into format MP4, MPEG, AVI, FLV,3GP, and some other formats and also can merge some video files into one large video file.

Clever Cleaner

CleverCleaner is a free software which can be used to clean up trash files from your hard disk. In addition to remove files in temporary folder, this application can also delete cookies, log files, cache when we are surfing internet using IE, Firefox, and Opera browser.

Tips: If you want to delete other file formats, just add the format to the column "File search masks" by accessing "Options | Advanced".

Operating System: WIN 9X/ME/NT/2000/XP/VISTA

Web Site: http://clevercleaner.esite.ch

Accessing Secure Links

You are clicking a wrong, suspicious link in the internet? Your PC may be intruded by hackers. To protect it, if you are a Firefox or IE user, use a plug-in from Finjan and you may download it from http://securebrowsing.finjan.com. This plug-in will analyze page search results from Google, Yahoo. MSN, and some other sites.

Tips: To check a site manually, you can visit www.finjan.com then copy the site's link and insert it in the "URL Analysis" box in the "Security Center" menu.

Monitoring Amazon's Prices

Some stuffs sold in Amazon are getting cheaper and you don't know? You don't need to worry, use online service from apnoti.com.

This service will monitor price list on every product you want to buy.

Tips: Apnoti.com also provides toolbar for Firefox and IE. If interested in products offered by Amazon, just click "Track this Product" available in toolbar and the selected products will be grouped into "My Watchlist".

Free VideoLAN Player

VideoLan -VLC media player is a free and open source software and now getting into final version 1.0.3 Developers named it "Goldeneye" version. Its special quality is lighter and can accomodate more newest functionalities.

Currently, the aplication has more practicability to play all video and audio file formats including Dolby Digital Plus (E-AC-3), AES3, TrueHD, and Blu-Ray Linear PCM.

In addition, to precord streaming file, you don't need to push many buttons. Just set destination folder, then click "Stream" button.

The other newest feature is Global Hotkey. This feature can be configured from menu "Tool | Preferences | Hotkeys".

Tips #1: For default, the equalizer functionality is not active. To activate it, open Adjustments and Effects window by pushing [CTRL] + [E] buttons, then choose "Audio Effects | Graphic Equalizer" and check "Enable box". Still in the same window, choose "Video Effects" tab and you can set lighting and color from the playing video file.

Apple Recorded Increase In Third Quarter Profit

Technology giant from the United States, Apple, managed to get out from recession with recorded profit increase due to strong demand iPhones, laptops, and desktop computers.

In the last three months ended 26 September 2009, Apple recorded net profit of US$ 1.67 billion or up 47% from the same period in the previous year. The increase was leveraged by increasing sales by 25% which is US$ 9.87 billion.

Apple Earnings Reached New Record

Apple, Monday (19/10) local time, reported its quarterly net profit reached 1.67 billion dollars and the sales of iPhones and Macintosh computers are touching a new record.

Apple's earnings recorded 9.87 billion U.S. dollars during the this quarter ended 26 September and there is an increase compared to last year which was 7.9 billion dollars for the same period.

Apple quarterly profits of 1.82 dollars per share increased significantly compared to the same quarter last year when reported profits are 1.14 billion dollars, or 1.26 cents per share.

GeoCities Is Closing

Are you a GeoCities' loyal user? If yes, you should immediately download your files to your local computer or move your site on GeoCities to Yahoo! Web Hosting.

Exactly on October 26, 2009, GeoCities will be closed . And for those of you who have been using this free website hosting service will not be able to access your GeoCities account.

Yahoo! itself already send email about the Final Notice for its users to quickly move the hosting or download users's files in Yahoo!. If you are late to transfer or download these files then those files will be lost forever and can not be recovered. So make haste to retrieve your files which are still on GeoCities.

The Five Most Popular Video Sharing Sites

Did you know what are the five most popular video sharing sites?

Here they are according to Times Online:

#1. Youtube.com

#2. Dailymotion.com

#3. Vimeo.com

#4. Liveleak.com

#5. Veoh.com

Dirtiest Sites According to Symantec

Below is the list of some of 100 dirtiest Web Sites according to Norton Safe Web. These sites may contain security risks such as phising sites, malicious downloads, browser exploits, and links to unsafe external sites.

17ebook.com (view report)

aladel.net (view report)

bpwhamburgorchardpark.org (view report)

clicnews.com (view report)

dfwdiesel.net (view report)

divineenterprises.net (view report)

fantasticfilms.ru (view report)

gardensrestaurantandcatering.com (view report)

ginedis.com (view report)

gncr.org (view report)

hdvideoforums.org (view report)

hihanin.com (view report)

Wikipedia Launched Applicarion on iPhone

Wikipedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind the Wikipedia, developed specific applications for iPhone. The application developed with open source technology is now available in Apple online store, store.apple.com, to be downloaded for free. With that application, the readers can more easily access Wikipedia from tehir mobile browser. The view in iPhone browsers will certainly smaller than the desktop version.

info: www.apple.com

New Themes For Your Chrome

If you are Google Chrome users now you can download and use new themes for the browser.

When it is first time launched, It has 29e existing template themes in which we may choose on http://tools.google.com/chrome/intl/en/index.html. Google promised to add the number of its themes. Chrome browser that can implement this new theme is version 3.0.195.3.

According to Net Applications report, Chrome now holds 2.6 percent of the global browser market. Chrome perched in fourth place after the Safari (4 percent), Firefox (22.5 percent), and Internet Explorer (67.7 percent).

info: tools.google.com

TWITTER IS GOING TO GIVE PROTECTIONS On PUBLIC FIGURE's ACCOUNTS

In the short future, Microblogging service, Twitter, is going to implement verified users's accounts.

This technique is expected to prevent the emergence of false messages on the web that use the names of famous people, like artists, politicians and organizations.

"Verified Accounts" can be used by government officials, public agencies, the famous artists, or athletes.

FREE ANTIVIRUS FROM MICROSOFT

Free antivirus from Microsoft, Microsoft Security Essentials (codename: Morro), has been available in beta.

Not only its easiness to use, Security Essentials also provides a background scanner to find the virus, rootkits, and spyware.

This will complement the antivirus security features of Windows operating systems that have been there before, namely the Windows Firewall, Windows Defender, and Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool.

GOOGLE GEAR SUPPORTS FIREFOX 3.5

Firefox 3.5 browser users can now re-use the Google Gear's add-on on the latest browser.

Just by updating Google Gear to version 0.5.29.0.

Firefox 3.5 users will have been able to open Gmail or access WordPress by Turbo's facility offline.

B.I.N.G

Did you know what Bing, a new search engine from Microsoft, stands for?

B.I.N.G. ==> "But It's Not Google

Top 10 World's Most Visited Sites

Below is the list of top 10 world's most visited sites according to alexa.com:

1. Google

google.com

Desc:

Enables users to search the Web, Usenet, and images. Features include PageRank, caching and translation of results, and an option to find similar pages. The company's focus is developing search technology.

Details:

Larry Page

2400 E. Bayshore Parkway

Mountain View, CA 94043

US

Employees: 20,222

Revenue: $21.80B

Ownership: Publicly Traded

Ticker: NASDAQ: GOOG

Contacts by Department:

* Sales: 169

* Marketing: 135

* Finance & Administration: 164

* Human Resources: 159

* Support: 46

* Engineering & Research: 213

* Operations: 94

* IT & IS: 202

* Other: 1,427

Contacts by Level:

* C-Level: 43

* VP-Level: 47

* Director-Level: 124

* Manager-Level: 447

* Other: 1,427

Top 20 Most Clicked of Wikipedia's Technolgy Related-Articles

Below is the list of the top 20 most clicked of technology related articles in wikipedia:

1. YouTube

2. Wikipedia

3. Facebook

4. Twitter

5. Windows 7

6. Google

7. MySpace

8. Hotmail

9. Fallout 3

10. Internet

11. Microsoft

12. Xbox 360

13. PlayStation 3

14. Hypertext transfer protocol

15. Google earth

16. iPhone

17. Computer

18. Wii

19. Grand Theft Auto IV

20. Web 2.0

Google's on Fire

The fire that occurred in the British headquarters of Google spread to Twitter directly. Some people began to spread the fire at the site mikroblogging.

"Google UK On Fire, Let's hope no one gets hurt," it's one written tweet Twitter user named selvakumariniya.

Similar pitched tweet posted by many other Twitter users. "Google's on fire! I was there only three weeks ago and two of our team were there today! Hmmm ... coincidence??!"

There is also humor tweet like, "I hope google has a firewall, because they're on fire right now.

Fire incident was reportedly sparked by a barbecue party held by the employee.

There is no loss of life confirmed in the fire

Snow Leopard Equipped With Antivirus

Based on leaked report from the Intego antivirus company, the latest OS from Apple, Snow Leopard, is reportedly vulnerable to malware. In fact, Apple is seriously talking about these security issues related to the OS.

In a recent TV ad, Apple even did 'attack' on PC-related vulnerabilities infiltrated by virus, in which Mac is claimed far more secure. Apple's Anxiety is increasingly asserted then by Intego saying that Snow Leopard will be equipped with antivirus.

Based on the report by Intego, Snow Leopard has indeed detected RSPlug version of the Trojan.

Apple To Push Microsoft

Newest operating system from Apple is ready to launch on August 28, 2009. The certainty of the launch time immediately triggers higher order of This "Snow Tiger".

This soaring is indicated by Snow Leopard pre sale at leading online store, Amazon.

Microsoft as one of the main competitor of Apple even receives the effects. This is because the Snow Leopard is displacing their flagship software, Microsoft Office 2007 from the top row of bestseller lists.

Some analysts also assess that the Snow Leopard is going to record high sales. Analyst Gene Munster of Piper Jaffay institution predicts that the operating system also known as Mac OS X 10.6 is going to sell 5 million copies by the end of this quarter.

Munster added that initial sales of Apple's Snow Leopard advantage over Microsoft. This is because the operating system Windows 7 from Microsoft's newly released on October 22, 2009.

"Apple promote Mac platform as superior alternative to Windows in terms of the latest technology. The release of Snow Leopard is to keep Mac users get the latest technology rather than users of Windows XP or Vista," added Munster.

Amazon, Microsoft, and Yahoo Versus Google

Three leading technology companies make a joint-effort to fight against Google that is going to create a biggest virtual library in the world. Amazon, Microsoft, and Yahoo will sign an Open Book Alliance pioneered by the Internet Archive.

They oppose provisions of law that can make Google as the main source in most online activities. "Google attempts to make a library-system-monopoly," said the founder of Internet Archive, Brewster Kahle, to BBC News television station , Friday 21 August 2009.

Gmail Gets Top 3

Although still in a beta version, Gmail is able to show very good performance. The email service owned by Google is able to penetrate the top 3 position in the United States.

Latest position in July, issued in the US. by ComScore, Google takes third position with a number of unique visitor up to 37 million. By that number, it replaced the position of AOL, which only accounted for 36.4 million.

After grabbing the third position, Gmail has another ambition, that is replacing the Windows Live Hotmail, which currently is in second place. ComScore said Hotmail successfully has 47 million unique visitors in the US.

However, the competition only occurs in the middle class. As for the top of the electronic messaging service, Yahoo still occupied. The gap between the first and the second or the third is very wide. The Yahoo users are 106 million people.

However, the achievement of Gmail has been very great in the last July. ComScore noted, until July Gmail has a fantastic growth of 25 percent and defeated AOL which had fallen to 22 percent.

Bing Bumped Yahoo

Microsoft Corp only needs to take time less than a week to bump Yahoo Inc. Now its site Bing has become the second largest search engine in the world.

According to the report from StatCounter, Google still dominate the search market in the US by 71.47%, Bing 16.28% and Yahoo 10.22%.

"Steve Ballmer (CEO Microsoft) wants Microsoft to be the second largest search engine in the world in five years, and provide funds as much as US$ 40 billion to acquire Yahoo, but Bing seems to be faster and cheaper than predicted," said Aodhan Cullen, CEO StatCounter.

Bing is the upgrade of Microsoft Live Search. The upgrade, which previously used code name Kumo, provides advanced search by entering Bing Travel, Cashback, and Maps dor Enterprise.

Backed up by its marketing power, Microsoft is confident to replace Google as a market leader.

Yahoo 360 Closed Soon

Feeling unlucky to compete with Facebook, Yahoo will soon close the social network, Yahoo 360. According to its plan, this site will be closed in the coming July.

In fact, Yahoo 360 has been planned to close at the beginning of the 2009. Somehow, finally the closing is eventually delayed until the end of the mid-2009, precisely later on July 17. Thus as cited from PC World, Sunday (31/5/2009).

According to the Yahoo, the service is intentionally closed. Because since for the first time getting introduced in October 2007, Yahoo 360 has been less attracted by the majority of Yahoo users. Moreover, during the beta, there have been many criticisms to this application.

"At this time there is a feature profile on Yahoo 360 preferred by the user. However, we will explore new ways of combining and expressing yourself through your profile," said Yahoo spokesman Daniels.

Besides, many other lacks of the Yahoo 360 such as, it does not give users the rights to download their contents and move them to other popular blogs such as WordPress, blog owned by Google, Blogger.

Basically, Yahoo 360 is a communication portal that combines the features of social networking web sites, blogs, and the photo sharing. A user can create a personal web site, share photos from Yahoo Photos, maintain blog, various local reviews, profile information, and see online friends.

Mac Is No Longer Secure

A trojan is now attacking Apple Mac Computers. This virus is spreading via illegal software iWorks dan becoming limelight as this is the first virus attacking OS X platform, operating system running for Mac. This far, Mac is supposed to be relatively secure from virus attack. But this is more caused by the number of its users are not as much as Windows.

This Mac virus, which has been written in RealBasic, is amateur. The comments in its code's lines explain that the aim of this virus is to create the first Mac OS botnet. This virus is also trying to steal email address, record key-typing and copy itself into onstalled hard-disk.

According to some sources, the virus, which is also called as Tored, is a worm. However some say it as a trojan. The fact is that it is a worm as well as a trojan, or at least trying to become either both. The email stealing action and replication into insatalled hard drive is are like Conficker. But SMTP server which is tried by this virus to send itself is currently not active. Thuis Tored is limited to the trojan-like-attack.

Tored virus is perhaps the first email trojan attacking Mac. Some years ago there were Apple attacking trojans, but this seemingly is the first virus acting as a worm. Eventhough it is not dangerous, its behaviours describe a kind of new attack on Mac platform.

Graham Cluley, a Senior Technology Consultant at Sophos said, many Mac users think that the worm dissemination is not involving man's interfere. That is true that there are some Windows worm like that such as Sasser and Code Red, but many of malwares in which we suppose as worm such as The Love Bug, Anna Kournikova, etc, need man's interfere and quickly spread over.

Probably the most interesting part of this newly virus is the message sending, For Mac OS X: (If you are not on Mac please transfer this email to a Mac and sorry for our fault :)".

The good news is, according to Cluley, Tored is not a serious treat, and maybe no one experiences it. The more serious attack to Mac users is a trojan which is put on websites offering interesting downloads.

On January, trojan hiding in the copy of iWork '09 and Adobe CS4 for Mac infected about 5000 computers. Although it couldn't spread independently, this trojan has been thought as the first Mac botnet

Brain-Twitter Enables You To Send Messages Just By Thinking

Adam Wilson, a doctoral-program student of biomedichal engineering department at the University of Wisconsin developed a tool called Brain-Twitter that allows Twitter's members to post messages through the electrical stimulus generated by the power of mind. 

Brain-Twitter application replaces the role of keyboard for typing messages. With a red hat containing an electrode and functions to monitor brain activity to be translated to text. What is in the brain will be then delivered directly to your computer and written on the screen. 

"The development of this device can be used to help the people with "locked-in syndrome", where they generally have a normal brain but they can not speak or move due to illness or injury," said Wilson, as quoted by CNN, Friday (24 / 4 / 2009). 

The idea to create this came out when a listener at a radio station put forward a statement that it will be very exciting if Twitter's users can send messages only by thinking. Wilson quickly invited his colleagues, Justin Williams to bring this breakthrough into reality. 

But Williams doesn't know yet when this invention can be marketed specifically for people with locked-in syndrome. He only said  very happy and proud of this invention.

BBC Launches New A Application For iPhone and iPod

After successfully serving television broadcast service on mobile phones, now BBC is releasing an application which can present radio and television channel list on touch screen IPhone and iPod Apple. This application is called Radio Times.

This newly software owned by BBC Worldwide spoil its users to do browsing and searching information on broadcast schedule as many as 400 channel either television and radio station. This application can be downloaded from Apple's iTunes Application Store at a price of 1.79 Pounds.

"We are very proud to launch the Radio Times. This application spesific to iPhone and iPod can expand the coverage in the area of mobile and hopefully can give the impressive experience to its users," said Kathy Day Director of the Radio Times Publisher, as launched by Telegraph, Wednesday.

In addition to offering access to watching TV and listening to the radio, this application also provides a complete description of the events, one-touch access to Wikipedia, and trivia the popular television show. 

There is also a video clip from YouTube clips and the official trailer and the link to the broadcast TV service iPlayer owned by the BBC. 

"We know that customers do not just want to watch TV and listen to the radio during their journey, but through this application they want to know what things are available for them that can be accessed at any time, " she said.

Twitter Can Demoralize Someone

The researchers reemingly are in race in revealing the bad sides of networking sites.

The flood of information and continually update of the networking sites such as Twitter can be said to demoralize someone.

It is a claim of a study at the University of Southern California, United States. The study presumes that if a human brain is flooded by informations can affect the development of emotion, particularly on young people.

According to the researchers that involved 13 volunteers in the research, pepople can not react appropriately when bad news continue to come in so quickly.

This makes people not so sensitive to the psychological condition and sufferings of others. At the ends, the researchers claim that it can reduce the values of human's moral.

This study says, people take 6 to 8 seconds to respond well to a story with emotional. But the flood of informations via networking site does not enable it.

Conficker Attacks Stiil Continue On University of Utah

Conficker virus attacks have not stopped yet. Hundreds of personal computer (PC) at the University of Utah become the victims of the virus. 

Not less than 700 computers in this prestigious educational institution have been infected by conficker. Initially, this virus was detected since thursday, 9 April. However, suddenly in the next day, conficker spread very quickly, from the hospital of the campus, school of health, faculties of pharmacy and nursing and health. 

Consequently, more data have been lost because of damaged and stolen. "The virus attacks the desktop, and stole important data such as credit card numbers and other bank information," said spokesman of Utah University, Chris Nelson, as quoted Associated Press, Tuesday (14/4/2009). 

From data collected, most likely if the virus has been spreading through the digital camera and intelligent mobile devices  of employees and staffs in the environment around the campus. 

Pentagon Prepares USD 100 Millions For Anticipating Viruses

Serious cyber attacks targetting the network of US government get serious attention. 

It is true that the increase of attacks through virtual world is increasing in the US. Therefore, The US Department of Defense is ready to channel funds up to USD 100 million. 

The money will be used to strengthen the external network to prevent computer viruses. 

"A lot of news say that many viruses have been capable of crippling the computer system. In fact, even the military network," said the commander of the Pentagon Jhon Davis, as released by AFP on Wednesday (8/4/2009). 

Davis also added that the money is also used to clean the network in order to prevent any future attacks. It is far better to prevent than to repair post-attack

All in One Security Solution By Norton Is Available

Norton 360 version 3.0, an all-in-one security solution to protect your PC and your online activity, is now available. This new version includes all the performance and security improvements to Norton Internet Security 2009, such as  Norton Insight and pulse  update, as well as new full version web site rating service , Norton Safe Web. 

The facts indicate, almost 60% of sites identified unsafe by Norton Safe Web was found to contain threats that can infect PC users even though not to download nor install files. Norton Safe Web provides ratings that most recent and most accurate  using the Targeted crawling technology, a unique Aging Internet algorithms and  20 million members of Norton Community Watch. Norton Safe Web also provides a site rating information to help provide security to the user during the online shopping transaction with an online vendor. 

Meanwhile, Norton Identity Safe manages your online identity, saves your username and password for convenient shopping, banking and browsing online, and prevents programs like keyloggers to steal your personal information. Backup management is done via Windows Explorer Norton Backup Drive. While Backup Source Selection and File Type Management provide convenience in storage. You can also save files to different storage/place such as a USB flash drive, iPod, CD / DVD, Blu-ray media or online media. 

In addition there is the Diagnostic Report provides a comprehensive description of the system and also the tips so that the PC you are working with the best performance. 

Google Will Take Over Twitter?

Biz Stone one of the founders of microblogging site Twitter, denied hot rumor that saying the possibility of the search engine giant Google takes over for the site.

Stone says that Twitter will continue to become an independent company. "It is not surprising that Twitterr has been involved in discussions with other companies," Stone said in a post on his blog site.

On his blog post titled 'Sometimes We talk', Stone said that his company has conducted discussions with other companies on Friday. Stone did not specifically mention which company to talk with Twitter.

However, Stone continues, that the idea of Twitter is "to build a company that can generate profit, and independent." He admitted that the hype rumor about Twitter takeover by Google.

Stone said that his own inbox has been flooded by such questions. However, Stone always declines. "We just started this company, currently we have 30 employees," said Stone.

The company is now looking for opportunities to work together with other firms for a strategic advantage for Twitter to reach their goals. However, whether Google will become one of strategic partners, it still needs to be discerned.

Google itself refused to comment on the issue. However, the issue has said that the Twitter founder Evan Williams and Stone have met with Google to discuss the possibility of acquisitions.

The two people ever had experience working in the environment of Google because their company Pyra Labs, which makes the Blogger, a blog service, was taken over by Google in 2003.

Acquisition of Twitter by Google, will actually provide for the rapid progress of Twitter, either in the case of search engine and in the case of a profit through online advertising.

Chrome Won Browsers Security Competition

Chrome browser is the most resistant of hackers' attacks this year. At least that is the result of Pwn2Own, a competition that tests network security experts to penetrate the security system on 16-20 March in the CanSecWest Security Conference in Vancouver, Canada. 

In the competition this year, Charlie Miller who had been also the winner of the competition last year successfully broke the safari's security system within 10 seconds only. He who is also the security analyst at Independent Security Evaluators admits that he found the vulnerability in Safari since a year ago. 

Although through a fairly difficult process, the attacker can directly attack the security just by waiting for the computer users to click a link to a malicious url. In the competition, IE8 and Safari security system can be penetrated within 12 hours. 

While for Chrome, the participants are actually able to find a bug in the system security. However, the bug can not be exploited further because the browser has a Sandbox feature. Also, there is cooperation with the operating system to provide the best protection. 

Chrome's victory is quite surprising because the browser was newly launched in the second half of last year. Google Chrome's portfolio has been increasing after getting big impressions and recorded as the most downloaded software in 24 hours and immediately grabbed 1 percent of the market share. 

The competition this year is  divided into two-class technology, web browser and mobile phone. This competition is sponsored by TippingPoint, a network security company. Web browsers involved on the competition this year are Internet Explorer 8, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. While for the mobile phone are Blackberry, Android, iPhone, Nokia / Symbian, and Windows Mobile. 

Rewards offered are good enough, 5000 US dollars per bug in the web browser, and 10,000 US dollars per bug on the mobile phone. Participants can also bring home a laptop that is used to penetrate the security system for free, that is, the Sony Vaio or Macbook as long as the participant became the first person who can show you the bug. 

Participants were also required to sign an agreement, stating that they can not distribute a bug that they founnd. With this competition, it is expected that the web developer is able to know what bugs are in their web browsers and they immediately patch them.

YouTube For Mobile Launched

Google has made its users keep easier to enjoy YouTube video through their mobile phone screen, releasing specific YouTube application  for mobile phone handset.

Although some Symbian based mobile phone already supported flash, Google now provides YouTube application for almost all Symbian mobile and Windows mobile.

"We worked hard so that YouTube application can rech more devices and able to provide speed, quality, and good performance, said Google in its official blog, posted by Google Mobile Product Manager Andreas Tuerk, and Software Engineer Stephen Spence.

This new application is now compatible to some mobile phones based on Windows Mobile and Symbian 60 3rd edition like Nokia XpressMusic 5320, 5630, Nokia 6110 Navigator, 6120 Classic, E51, E71, E90, N81, N82, N85, or N95.

According to Google, YouTube application has the ability in searching, loading time, and faster access time, with sharper video quality and sclearer sound quality. 

Google also claims, this application has a sophisticated video buffering system so that it can still run even though the network connection is getting weak. 

Before Google provides this application, only a few mobile phones are able to play YouTube with the view that is adjusted with the mobile phone screen, such as the LG Viewty or the HTC Touch Diamond. Those YouTube-equipped mobile phones were designed by the vendor concerned. 

Now Windows Mobile and Symbian 60 3rd Edition users can complement their mobile phones with YouTube, downloading the application through the site m.youtube.com. 

"Once the application is installed, it no longer requires additional configurations outside of the application," Google said in a written notice. 

When installed in the mobile phone, YouTube will automatically display the video in horizontal or landscape format. In addition, the application can also adjust the best video quality, based on the ability of mobile phones and network conditions that are used by users.

IE 8 released today

Microsoft Corp. launches Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) web browser  today (03/19/2009). This application can be downloaded from the Microsoft site since 09.00 o'clock Pacific time. 

This new version of the most widely-used browser in the world is freely available for those using licensed Microsoft Operating System. IE8 was undergoing testing prior to public for beta version for a year. 

Microsoft, the largest software company in the world, says IE8 will run with Windows Vista, the latest Microsoft Operating System , Windows XP, which is also still widely used. 

As published by Reuters, based on the latest survey by an information technology consultant Janco Associates Inc., the Internet Explorer has the market share 72.2 percent, far above Firefox from Mozilla Foundation  with 17.2 percent. While Chrome from Google Inc. has the market 2.8 percent, and Safari owned by Apple is less than 1 percent. 

Microsoft recently is hit by antimonopoli policies in the United States and Europe due to bundling the browser with the operating system. 

Last month, Google joined with Mozilla and Opera protested against Microsoft dominance in the browser market. In January, European submitted formal charges against Microsoft on the bundle between Windows and Internet Explorer, which is used in 95 percent of personal computers. 

IE 8 accommodates the expectation of the developers with the presence of Developer Tools, which can be tailored to  Visual Studio 2008. Software developers will take more benefit of this feature when creating and debugging a web application. Other feature that attracts is a good and interesting Tab Grouping

April 1st, A New and More Dangerous Conficker Comes Out

Worm Conficker has spread so widely and  new more dangerous variants have come out. This was told by security experts, Ben Greenbaum,  Symantec's Senior Research Manager. 

  

"The Conficker  creator have strengthened the ability of it so that it can control the infected computers to connect to 50 thousand domains," said Geenbaum as quoted from CNet site. 

  

The new worm called Conficker C is able to block the security software, block omputers' connection from the security site, and download trojans. It is also programmed to start connecting to 50 thousand domains on April 1st, to receive updates or new programs. While the previous versions contact only 250 domains. 

  

Some large companies like Microsoft, Symantec, and others, have been trying to prevent the worm by locking the domains that have been used by the worm in distributing its updates. 

  

Conficker is first detected in November 2008, and believed to have infected more than 15 thousand computers. A new variant, Conficker B, has been detected since a month ago. This worm has the ability to spread via network and USB by the autorun function. 

  

Some victims were even military agencies of a country. This worm even caused an advanced fighter aircraft failed to take off. 

  

One of the domains which has been targeted by Conficker is Southwest airline. However, spokesperson of Southwest said as of now there are no signs of damage due to the malicious program. 

  

At the same time, security experts recommend that computer's users  update their patch and anti-virus software. Microsoft offered the prize of about US $250 thousand for any information leading to the perpetrator behind Conficker

Watch out of Kido

Kaspersky Lab detects a new modification of Kido, a.k.a conficker virus. This latest variant is different from the previous because it adds a Trojan function to the previous version of the dangerous program. 

Net-Worm.Win32.Kido.ip, Net-Worm.Win32.Kido.iq, and other variants are modified forms of Kido, which can prevent the antivirus products on the infected machine. 

Vitaly Kamluk, senior expert of the Kaspersky antivirus, said so far the new version of Kido does not indicate a spreading threat. "However, if the current version of Kido is replaced by the latest variant, it is very difficult to fight the maker of this dangerous program," he added. 

The Kido worm has a functionality of Trojan downnloader, meaning it sends a dangerous program to infect computers. The infection of Kido was first detected in November 2008.

Bill Gates Is Back To Be The World's Richest Man

Microsoft Corp. founder, Bill Gates, goes back into the world's richest man. Gates took over the position of the US investor, Warren Buffett, who last year got the position. 

Collectively, the riches of the world's top rated billionaires decreased, as cited Forbes magazine and Reuters, Wednesday (03/11/2009). 

Gates, last year occupied the third position with riches of US $58 billion,is now in the top position with the riches only US $40 billion. In the second position is Warren Buffett with the riches of US $37 billion. While in the previous year when occupying the top position, Buffett's riches reached US $62 billion. 

Telco conglomerate from Mexico, Carlos Slim, is in the third position with the riches of US $35 billion, down from the second position in the previous year with the riches of US $60 billion. 

Collectively, the three world's richest billionaire lost US $68 billion compared to last year as of February,13, 2009 when Forbes gathered data for preparing the list of richest people in the world which is released yearly. 

According to the Executive Director of Forbes magazine Steve Forbes, the decline of the billionaires' riches is not good for the world economy. 

"The billionaires are not worrying about their wealth. But if their wealth are getting lower and you do not create new billionaires, that means the whole world does not work correctly, " he said. 

The riches of the world's billionaires are down from US $4.4 trillion to US $2.4. While the number of them are down from 1125 to 793. 

"This is the first time since 2003 we lost billionaires. And we had never lost them as much as this," said Forbes senior editor, Luisa Kroll. 

New York City replaced Moscow as a home for billionaires with the number of 55 people. While the number of billionaires living in Russia has decreased from 87 to 32 people, a shocking decline.

Can Wolfram Alpha Kill Google?

Google's dominance in the segment of the search engine is not shaken yet even though the competitors continue to roll out. Now a scientist from the UK is trying his luck to bring a new search engine which is hope to conquera Google. 

Professor Stephen Wolfram, founder of software company, Wolfram Research Wolfram, creates a site named Wolfram Alpha which will be coming soon. Wolfram Alpha presents a new paradigm in online search. 

As Quoted from Vnunet, Tuesday (03/10/2009), search engines such as Google or Yahoo go through billions of web pages to find answers that approximately match the users' request. 

That is in contrast to Wolfram Alpha  that is able to exactly answer questions submitted by users. 

For example if the user asks the question 'Why is the sky blue? " or 'How many bones in the human body', Alpha Wolfram claims to ansewer  accurately. 

If there is no obstacle, Wolfram Alpha will be launched in May 2009. Can this search engine conquer Google, or otherwise collapse? Time will tell.

detikinet, wcn

Facebook's Spammers can be fined millions of dollars

Action of distributing spams in Facebook can finally be stopped, along with the seizure of three spammers who disrupted the comfort of Facebook members.

"They violated the rules by sending a message which is not important to every member in the Facebook wall. This action is categorized as fraud crimes throuh computer, antiphishing and policies on Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act or commonly called as CAN-SPAM , "said a legal counselor of Facebook, Sam O'Rourke , as cited by PC Magazine, on Tuesday (03/10/2009).

Spammers Vs Facebook battle pointed to three spammers that successfully penetrated to every member of Facebook accounts. They are Sanford Wallace, Shaw Arzoomanian, and Adam Scott.

The three men worked quite quickly. At first they sent an email to some members of Facebook that contained a site link. If the victim clicks on the link then automatically the spammers can control the personal accounts of the victims and will send an similar email to friends in their network.

Reportedly, the three spammers get dollars from each account infected. If found guilty, they will be fined millions of dollars, in accordance with the laws of CAN SPAM

Before the court held, the three spammers are prohibited to use their Facebook account and their account are also blocked. The court will take place on March 23.

okezone.com, wcn

US is The Largest Spam Origin

Almost 200 billion electronic messages each day are spams or "garbage messages." This number is equivalent to almost 90 percent of email all over the world. The United States become a country with the largest spam donating 17.2 percent. That is a report from Cisco in 2008, an internet network company. 

Meanwhile, other countries which are also the origin of spam are Turkey (9.2 percent), Russia (8 percent), Canada (4.7 percent), Brazil (4.1 percent), India (3.5 percent), Poland ( 3.4 percent), South Korea (3.3 percent) and Germany and the UK (each (2.9 percent). 

Patrick Peterson, Fellow and Cisco's Chief Security Researcher sees that the increasing number is in line with the findings of new ways to commit a crime over networks and the Internet. "Organizations can reduce the risk of spam by improving control access and patch possible vulnerabilities to remove opportunities for hackers to enter the network infrastructure. It can be done by upgrading applications, the endpoint system and network devices," said Patrick in the press news in Jakarta, Thursday (3/5/2009). 

Endpoint system is a protection on the end of devices, such as personal computers, flasdisk or  can be in the form of a mobile phone.

Computer Sales Is Predicted Down To A New Record

The computer industry will face a very big challenge in 2009 related to the global economic crisis. 

According to Gartner, a research bureau, 'only' as much as 257 million PC units will ship in 2009, which means it is the largest decline in history. 

For, it means a decrease of 11.9 percent compared to the year 2008. Compared to the previous largest decline occurred in 2001 that was only 3.2 percent, the figure is also 3 times larger. 

"The Slow GDP growth will weaken the demand," said George Shiffler, a Gartner research director as quoted by Vnunet Wednesday (4/3/3009). 

Even the popularity of the netbook, which is increasingly higher, will not help much. Netbook shipments are predicted soaring to 21 million units in 2009 from the previous 11.7 million in the year 2008. 

However, according to Gartner, it can not help stimulate the computer market conditions as a whole this year.

Netbooks are prey for cracker and Virus

For those who already bought netbook and like to surf in the internet world seems to be more careful. Netbooks have a weak defense against viruses, which continue to threaten.

Why netbooks become targets? The cheap price of netbooks make the producers give not-good-enough firewalls and antivirus softwares.  To create brands positioning anything is done to attract customers, including the lowest possible price with the expense of other factors. 

This insecurity is more experienced by those who love surfing in i=the internet where the internet is the main entrance for malicious programs. Unfortunately, many netbook's users turn off the security program for improving the speed and performance. 

Samson Hu, from the pioneer netbook ASUSTeK suggested, everyone should be alert to the issue of internet security when they are connected with any network. 

Netbooks, since launched in 2007, have been becoming something really sensational. The sales growth is increasing repidly, making almost all PC manufacturers, such as Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Acer and Lenovo have been attracted of 

producing netbooks.

Mobile Phone User Surge in Developing countries

Mobile Phone seems to be integral parts of society's life. From day to day the number of mobile phone users continues to increase. 

In fact, based on the UN report, six out of ten people in the world now have a mobile phone. This indicates that the mobile phone has become the choice for communication, especially in the developing countries. 

International Telecommunication Union until the end of the year said that it is estimated to have 4.1 billion subscribers around the world. Approximately 2/3 of the total mobile phone subscribers in the world is in developing countries. 

Not only the mobile phone users are incresing but also  internet users have doubled.

Gadgets Which Bring You Happiness

Nintendo Wii console wins votes as the first place for bringing happiness to users. In the second position is the music player from Apple iPod, following iPhone in the third place. 

This is revealed in the survey, by the UK consumer company, Gadget Helpline on 2500 callers. Wii place in 1st position showed the game console as more and more popular entertainment of all ages. 

In addition, Xbox 360 consoles have a fourth and Nintendo DS in the eighth. But somehow, Playstation console doesn't come up in the list. 

Wii is a favorite among all ages since launched, from children to parents because the game has a unique method. In the UK alone, it is estimated that 5 million households have a Wii. 

"With the world as if in our hands, the more we despise socializing with other people. But the success of the console game shows there is still great interest to share the time and place with the beloved people," said spokesman of Gadgets Helpline. 

Here is 10 great gadgets that are considered bringing most happiness to the users: 

1. Nintendo Wii 

2. iPod 

3. iPhone 3G 

4. Xbox 360 

5. Blackberry 

6. Sky + 

7. Mac Book 

8. Nintendo DS 

9. Tom Tom 930 Satellite Navigation System 

10. Sony Reader PRS-505

Big Changes on Yahoo Management

The new Yahoo CEO, Carol Bartz,is bringing clear impacts. Bartz even now prepares to make large-scale renovation on the structure of Yahoo management in order to be competitive in the internet business.

"I launched a new management structure that I believe make Yahoo grow more rapidly. OAll is simplified. We will make decisions more quickly and on the customers," said Bartz as quoted from the AFP,Friday (27/2/2009). 

One of the indications, Chief Financial Officer of Yahoo, Blake Jorgensen quit from his position. Bartz also chose a new executive as head of North American region. While the position of Chief Marketing Officer will be filled by Elisa Steele starting in March. 

"This is a good sign. He chose people that he wanted and kicked out those who can not work with him. You should see a CEO selecting people who are loyal to him," said analyst Rob Enderle of Enderle Group's. 

Bartz also strengthens customer service by creating a Consumer Advocacy Group. In addition to responding the needs of consumers, this group is also expected to learn what the market's desired products are.

Bartz has analyzed what happens to this company and why it has been in haste in the competition. He surprised with some of the complexities in Yahoo. Bartz said that Yahoo failed to play the role. 

At this time, Yahoo is far behind Gooogle in online search business . Google has 61 percent of the market and Yahoo 21 percent.

Hacking Competion

The competence of hackers is tested in a hacking competition. For hackers who win the challenge given, deserves prizes to US $10,000. 

This year, the annual contest, titled Pwn2Own is challenging hackers to exploit the mobile-phones that run the Android operating system, Symbian, and Windows Mobile, and BlackBerry and iPhone. 

The participant who successfully exploits to attack emails, SMS, website browsing, deserves to bring home the prize of US $10,000. All devices have been patched before. 

In the second competition, hackers are demanded showing their best ability in attcking the web browsers. IE 8 browser, Firefox, and Google Chrome will be installed in a Sony Vaio running on Windows 7, while Safari and Firefox will be installed on the MacBook with OS X. 

For every bug which is successfully exploited, the contestant will be granted US $5000.

This contest is the third time held and will take place in Vancouver, BC, Canada on 18-20 March.

Opera Mini Users Reached 20 Millions

Opera Mini users in the world reached 20 million unique users. While in Indonesia, the user's browser for mobile devices is soaring 312 percent in one year. 

The data is part of the report from State of Mobile Web in January 2009. 

Reportedly, Indonesia is a country with the highest  growth of Opera Mini users among the top 10 countries. 

Meanwhile, countries with the highest growth of Opera Mini Users is Armenia which increased more than 2800 percent. Followed by Nigeria (1854%), Egypt (1391%), Philippines (570%) and Kazakhstan (419%). 

Indonesia is one of the biggest web page readers via Opera Mini in the world. Armenia leads with an average 669 pages per user. Followed by Ukraine (530), Indonesia (507), Kazakhstan (482) and Russia (416). 

Top 10 Web sites which are accessed by Opera Mini in Indonesia: 

friendster.com 

google.com 

facebook.com 

yahoo.com (up from position 7) 

peperonity.com (up from position 6) 

gamejump.com (down from the position of 4) 

my.opera.com (up from position 8) 

getjar.com (up from position 9) 

gratisindo.com (re-entry in this list) 

digg.com