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.