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Google ‘may pull out of China after Gmail cyber attack’
Jan 13th
Internet giant Google has said it may end its operations in China following a “sophisticated and targeted” cyber attack originating from the country.
It did not accuse Beijing directly, but said it was no longer willing to censor its Chinese search engine – google.cn.
This could result in closing the site, and its Chinese offices, Google said.
Chinese rival Baidu called the move “hypocritical” and financially driven. In US trade on Wednesday Baidu’s shares were up 10%, and Google’s down 1.5%.
Google said the e-mail accounts of Chinese human rights activists were the primary target of the attack, which occurred in December.
The search engine has now said it will hold talks with the government in the coming weeks to look at operating an unfiltered search engine within the law in the country, though no changes to filtering had yet been made.
Google launched google.cn in 2006, agreeing to some censorship of the search results, as required by the Chinese government.
It currently holds around a third of the Chinese search market, far behind Baidu with more than 60%.
New site not indexed on search engine? Here’s what to do
Jan 12th
One of the most popular problems among webmasters is not being able to get indexed by search engine despite search engine submissions and long waiting. Search engine takes time to index some new sites and this can be frustrating. But most of the times, the reasons for search engine not indexing your site is from your side, although not many people realize it, and hence to frequent complaint. So if you have a new website and is awaiting indexing by search engine, here are a few things that you might want to consider in the first place.
Checklist for search engine indexing.
1. Check if your CMS has an opt in option where, it blocks search engines.
Well technically they shouldn’t but some CMS’s like WordPress has a default option which will be checked already where it will block all search engines from crawling the website. This is to make sure that your website is not indexed while you are only setting up the site. But when you forget to uncheck this option, the CMS adds a Nofollow meta tag to the pages whereby search engines will not crawl the site.
2. Check if you have set the correct Robots.txt
Robots.txt files are used to control (not fully though) search engines crawling the website. Make sure you have not blocked bots from crawling parts of your website. Read the rest of this entry »
Microsoft Word and Office ’sales ban’ begins
Jan 11th
Microsoft Word
A ban on Microsoft selling certain versions of its flagship products Word and Office has begun.
The software firm was made to change elements of the software by US courts after a patent dispute with Canadian firm i4i. Microsoft said that it had complied with the court’s ruling and would now offer “revised software” in the US. The court ruling means that Microsoft must also pay i4i damages of $290m (£182m).
However, the firm said on 8 January that it had filed another appeal against the injunction. The firm wants a panel of 11 judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to review the case in the hope of overturning the original judgment.
Microsoft has already challenged the ruling once. But in December last year, a panel of three judges rejected its arguments and upheld the original decision of a Texas court that ruled that Microsoft had infringed a patent belonging to i4i.
The disputed patent relates to the use of XML, a language that allows formatting of text and makes files readable across different programs. XML is used in recent versions of Microsoft’s word-processor Word.
Microsoft has now removed the disputed feature from all available versions of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Office on sale in the US from today. “This process will be imperceptible to the vast majority of customers,” the firm said in a statement.
Despite the firms compliance, Microsoft has said it will still challenge the case.
Kevin Kutz, director of public affairs at Microsoft, said the latest appeal had been filed because the firm believed the decision in December conflicted with “established precedents governing trial procedure and the determination of damages”.
“We are concerned that the decision weakens judges’ authority to apply appropriate safeguards in future patent trials,” he added.
Courtesy : BBC.co.uk
Turn a Pizza Box Into a Solar Oven
Jan 10th
Guys n Girls lets join hands together by going green and save our planet. Just check out Video where HowCast has described how we can turn an ordinary looking pizza box to a Solar Oven believe me I have two Solar Oven for my self and it works superb. The wow factor of the Solar Oven is it’s best turned out of waste 
Step 1: Draw a square
Using the ruler and black marker, draw a square on your pizza-box lid, leaving a 1-inch border from the edge of the box to each side of the square.
Chrome Sets Browser Security Standard, Says Expert
Jan 10th
All browser makers should take a page from Google’s Chrome and isolate untrusted data from the rest of the operating system, a noted security researcher said today.
Dino Dai Zovi, a security researcher and co-author of The Mac Hacker’s Handbook , believes that the future of security relies on “sandboxing,” the practice of separating application processes from other applications, the operating system and user data.
In a Wednesday entry on Kaspersky Labs’ ThreatPost blog, Dai Zovi described sandboxing, as well as the lesser security technique of “privilege reduction,” as “[moving] the bull (untrusted data) from the china shop (your data) to the outside where it belongs (a sandbox).”