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.