Sarah Palin’s Yahoo account was hacked the other day by some hackers. Dozens of e-mail address were posted on WikiLeaks.org.
What’s interesting is not that her account was hacked but the fact that she was using a “hackable” public e-mail service such as Yahoo. Perhaps, this might be foreshadow of what is to come.
What’s interesting is that she’s not using government e-mail such as palin@alaska.gov, which shouldn’t be too hard with all the staff she has around.
Perhaps Palin is still behind in technology, due to her Idaho upbringing and being a leader of an isolated State Alaska.
Well, I don’t want to piss off any people but yes, this incident should never ever happen especially if you are running for vice president. Next time, encrypt your e-mails first before sending it with a 256-bit hex key that’d take at least couple days for hackers to figure out. (Okay, let’s just say that Pail FAILED already.)
“At around midnight last night some members affiliated with the group gained access to governor Palin’s email account, ‘gov.palin@yahoo.com’ and handed over the contents to the government sunshine site Wikileaks.org,” said a message on the site.
Rick Davis, the campaign manager for Sen. John McCain, issued a statement Wednesday afternoon condemning the incident.
“This is a shocking invasion of the Governor’s privacy and a violation of law,” Davis said. “The matter has been turned over to the appropriate authorities and we hope that anyone in possession of these e-mails will destroy them. We will have no further comment.”
WiMAX has been proving itself to be the future of digital communications for its versatility and speed in Asia. While most of us are stuck on slow CDMA speeds with Sprint (which is still faster than AT&T’s 3G), people in Asian countries already have mobile WiMAX, allowing them to surf the web about 10 times faster than us.
We’re pleased to invite you and your company to attend Global WiMAX Summit in China 2008, which is from Sep.18-19, 2008 in Beijing, China.
Global WiMAX Summit is co-hosted by WiMAX Forum & BII. It is the only authorized event by WiMAX Forum to promote WiMAX technology in China for the following three consecutive years. It gains the full support by WiMAX Forum & industry. It has been successfully held three years in China from 2005 and well-known by Chinese industry. On the summit, Chinese government will introduce the latest WiMAX policy and the latest China WiMAX White Paper will be released. Besides, large WiMAX products demo showcase will be held each year…
SearchMe is a Visual Search Engine sorta like iPod Touch and iPhones!
I recently ran into a cool visual search site called SearchMe that lets you search visually using screenshots of search results. It’s really iPod Touch/iPhone browsing applied to a search engine.
The service works pretty fast and it’s pretty neat. I might not use it on regular basis but it seems to have a big future.
For being a good search engine, we gave it our “Web3.0″ tag.
They even have YouTube search, check out this video:
Tikitags are the new revolutionary RFID tags that will change our lives forever through real-life tagging, similar to Web2.0 tagging revolution and blogs.
Basically, you will be able to apply these RFID tags to anything anywhere and also connect them online.
I really like this idea as there’s an inifinite amount of applications and stuff you can think of using with the Tikitags.
I am sure more companies will be creating similar real-world tagging systems that can be connected back online but this one really is the first for us regular consumers.
Demo Conference, San Diego, September 8, 2008 - Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that Alcatel-Lucent Ventures has debuted tikitagsm, a consumer service, at the DEMO Conference in San Diego.tikitag, leveraging innovations within Bell Labs, enables consumers and third-party application developers to increase the value of everyday items by connecting them to online content or applications.The technology that tikitag takes advantage of to establish this connection is Near Field Communications Technology (NFC) - an evolution of RFID that connects electronic devices over short distances.The market for NFC is expected to grow significantly in the coming years.Market consultancy Strategy Analytics projects that by 2012 around 250 million NFC-enabled phones will be sold worldwide.
The tikitag service enables the launching of online applications by simply touching an NFC device such as a cell phone to an item tagged with an NFC chip.tikitag can be used in a variety of environments: for example in an in-home application a father can use tikitag to link his toddler’s teddy bear to an online story about that same bear;in an outdoor environment tikitag makes it possible for a visitor to an art gallery to wave his NFC enabled mobile phone at a painting and then see the painter’s Wikipedia profile appear on the phone’s screen; or in a business/logistics environment a cleaning company can, for example, use it to record that a room has been successfully cleaned through a simple touch of an NFC-enabled mobile phone to a tikitag-linked NFC tag that has been placed in the room
tikitag will be offered as a beta starter package on Oct. 1 through e-commerce Web sites.The package will include a USB-enabled NFC reader and electronic tags, and provide access to a community website where users can create and share new and off-the-shelf tikitag applications.Initial applications available for download include the ability to link tags to URLs or linking tagged souvenirs to photo albums.Teenagers will be able to link a tagged photo to their social network profile at Netlog® or steer an online music services player to perform pre- programmed actions via a tikitagged object.“Sharing gadgets and things linked to your social network profile can enhance both the online and real world experience of communities,” said Lorenz Bogaert, CEO of Netlog, Europe’s leading social portal
“Over the last few years there has been explosive growth in the range and types of online content – much of it related to real world objects, events or activities,” said Anthony Belpaire, General Manager of Alcatel-Lucent’s tikitag venture.“but how do you connect this online content with a person’s business card, for example, or a concert poster, or a work of art, etc….tikitag provides this missing link,” he added.
“The goal of DEMO is to introduce a broad audience to cutting edge ideas. tikitag is sure to get people excited about novel ways to integrate the Internet and online applications with physical items,” said Chris Shipley, DEMO executive producer
tikitag features a flexible API that will enable third parties to customize and embed tikitag functionality into their offerings – either seamlessly extending their existing applications or creating new applications to enable interaction with tangible things.At the same time they can promote their applications on the tikitag website.
The NFC technology uses transmitters, called Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags, which can be easily and unobtrusively attached to virtually any object and, when activated by a reader in a mobile device or a computer, send back a unique identifying signal.
At the core of the tikitag service is the tikitag Application Correlation Server (ACS), which manages the link between an NFC tag and a corresponding action to be initiated. When an NFC-enabled device (PC, Mac or NFC enabled mobile phone) touches the NFC tag, it automatically connects with the tikitag ACS. The ACS then directs the Internet-enabled device to access the appropriate online content and applications.
Pricing and availability
StartingOct. 1 consumers can start using tikitag by purchasing a beta tikitag starter kit that consists of an NFC reader, 10 NFC tags, and access to the tikitag community site, through third-party e-commerce Websites including Amazon.com.Beta pricing is 49.95 USD.(www.tikitag.com).
Chrome-Hacks.Net - Google Chrome Hacks Blog Launched!
For the mother of God and for whatever reason, we just launched another new blog, of course it’s called Google Chrome Hacks Blog.
Basically, the blog will cover all kinds of tips, hacks, and news about the new Google Chrome Browser.
It took us exactly 2 hours to sign up for a domain name at godaddy, stuff it with Wordpress plugins and themes, write 5 blog posts. (Not too bad of a start ey?)
New blogs are always great opportunities to pounce on, especially if it’s new technology.
Under the hood, we were able to build the foundation of a browser that runs today’s complex web applications much better . By keeping each tab in an isolated “sandbox”, we were able to prevent one tab from crashing another and provide improved protection from rogue sites. We improved speed and responsiveness across the board. We also built V8, a more powerful JavaScript engine, to power the next generation of web applications that aren’t even possible in today’s browsers.
This is just the beginning - Google Chrome is far from done. We’ve released this beta for Windows to start the broader discussion and hear from you as quickly as possible. We’re hard at work building versions for Mac and Linux too, and we’ll continue to make it even faster and more robust.
Basically, Google is trying to make a new browser that will compete against the likes of Firefox and IE. On top of entering the highly competitive browser market, Google is determined to bring Web2.0 apps that use AJAX, javascript, and other popular languages to load faster.
Google is also trying to make the most “memory-efficient” browser ever by using multiple-threading. Threading is a common term used in computer hardware and software to divide CPU power among different programs.
After installing, I did load up some of my blogs to see how fast it loads. Surprisingly, this browser processes CSS much like Firefox except everything seems to run faster.
I did discover another thing about the Google Chrome and how it makes new “threads”. If you press Ctrl+Alt+Del key (the same one you press when you get Windows blue screen of death), you will see “Chrome.exe” running as processes in your computer.
The strange thing is that there are multiple of these processes, not one. This is the multi-threading feature of Google Chrome. Multi-threading is also known as forking in terms of unix.
It’s a really simple idea really, having multiple processes run 1 single program for maximum efficiency and to protect against memory lock-ups.
What Google did is apply a simply computer theory into Firefox. (I believe Google’s browser is based on the same open source project as Firefox)
In conclusion, you can see that there are multiple Chrome.exe’s running at 10 to 20K of memory while Firefox grabs 144K with 1 process.
This type of multi-threading is pretty simple to do and I think it might get applied to Firefox and IE very soon.
(Screenshot of a New Tab on Google Chrome)
You might be surprised to find that the Google Chrome will bring up small screenshots of the most recent websites you visited. (Another simple feature that Google applied. Simple but geninus.)
Right now, it’s too hard to tell how many people will start using the Google Chrome Web Browser but in my quick 5-minutes test, it looks really good. (Who knows, maybe in 5 years we will have Google Chrome and Firefox, no more IE and Bill Gates)
The thing I do like most about Google Chrome is that it’s completely open-source, just like Firefox. Google is really doing the next step, taking over every PC in every home. Before Google was only a search site, now they will be more once Chrome goes popular.
Yahoo Search is now officially available on the iPhone as a customized web app on the iPhone. I think they were a little late but better late than never.
In response to Google’s popular app for the iPhone, Yahoo announced today that it has launched its own online iPhone search that not only lets you search the Web, but includes Search Assist and SearchMonkey to add even more functionality to a well-designed solution.
Here’s a cool site called, KinetiCast, that will allow you to create online presentations with twist of media such as YouTube and other cool neat features not found in MS Office.
* Easy to use…create and send in minutes
* Add PowerPoint slides, pictures, links & video
* No programming, downloads, or designers required
* Instantly track who has viewed each message
