Showing posts with label Corporate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Corporate. Show all posts
Google Turns 14 Today :: Happy Birthday Google
Google turned 14 Thursday and celebrated its birthday with a doodle of a rich chocolate cake. Google was inscribed across the cake and seconds after opening the site, the 14 candles atop the delicacy get extinguished. A click on the doodle displayed a list of Google products.
Private Messages leaked by Facebook in France
Hackers leak the Source Code for Symantec Product
A group calling itself the Lords of Dharmaraja posted an Adobe document online Wednesday that it claimed was a glimpse
Warner Bros. to deliver movies on Facebook !
Warner Bros. is apparently hoping to attract new fans by offering movies for viewing on Facebook.
The movie studio announced this evening it would begin testing a program that would offer movies for sale or rental for a brief period through its fan pages on the social-networking giant.
Beginning tomorrow, Facebook users can use Facebook Credits to rent "The Dark Knight" through the movie's official fan page on the social-networking site, Warner said in statement. The movie can be rented for 30 Facebook credits or $3, and Facebook users will have access to the movie for 48 hours through their accounts on the social network.
Facebook Credits is an alternative payment option for more than 150 games and applications on the social network. It's supported by games such as FarmVille and Mafia Wars, as well as Bejeweled Blitz and Madden NFL Superstars. Most titles still allow gamers to pay with credit cards, but it's Facebook's hope that eventually, users will buy all virtual goods with Credits.
The studio sees the social network as fertile ground for video on demand--considered a key revenue source for Hollywood studios grappling with falling box office receipts.
"Facebook has become a daily destination for hundreds of millions of people," Thomas Gewecke, president of Warner Bros. Digital Distribution, said in a statement. "Making our films available through Facebook is a natural extension of our digital distribution efforts. It gives consumers a simple, convenient way to access and enjoy our films through the world's largest social network."
Facebook representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In addition to being able to pause the movie and resume it at their leisure when they log back in to Facebook, Warner Bros. said users will still be able to post comments on the movie and interact with friends on the network while watching their selection.
The program is currently available only in the U.S., and additional titles will be added on a regular basis over the coming months, Warner Bros. said.
Google buy Reverse Engineering Company Zynamics (German security firm) !
Google has just acquired a small German software company called Zynamics. The company, which was founded in 2004, focuses on reverse engineering — that is, analyzing software (malware in particular) for which no source code is available.
It’s an incredibly interesting and complicated problem to try to solve, which makes the Zynamics team and product a perfect fit for Google, a company that’s known for tackling interesting and complicated problems.
A Google rep said in an e-mail, “We’re delighted to have the Zynamics team aboard and hope their tools and skills in fighting malware will help us better protect Google’s users.”
While we’re not completely sure what the fate of the company will be, we do know that its goals and expertise line up particularly well with Google’s aims in online security.
Currently, Zynamics’s offerings focus on the needs of information security specialists and malware analysts. Its products are allegedly both innovative and time-saving.
The company’s products include BinDiff, for analyzing executables; BinNavi, for analyzing binary code; PDF Dissector, for analyzing PDF malware; VxClass, for sorting malware into families; and BinCrowd, which is a central database for sharing reverse-engineered information.
In addition to these products, Google is also acquiring a brilliant and experienced team — just the kind of engineers Google is renowned for hiring.
We’ll see what the future holds for Zynamics, and we’ll keep you updated as details about this deal emerge.
Link : http://zynamics.com/
It’s an incredibly interesting and complicated problem to try to solve, which makes the Zynamics team and product a perfect fit for Google, a company that’s known for tackling interesting and complicated problems.
A Google rep said in an e-mail, “We’re delighted to have the Zynamics team aboard and hope their tools and skills in fighting malware will help us better protect Google’s users.”
While we’re not completely sure what the fate of the company will be, we do know that its goals and expertise line up particularly well with Google’s aims in online security.
Currently, Zynamics’s offerings focus on the needs of information security specialists and malware analysts. Its products are allegedly both innovative and time-saving.
The company’s products include BinDiff, for analyzing executables; BinNavi, for analyzing binary code; PDF Dissector, for analyzing PDF malware; VxClass, for sorting malware into families; and BinCrowd, which is a central database for sharing reverse-engineered information.
In addition to these products, Google is also acquiring a brilliant and experienced team — just the kind of engineers Google is renowned for hiring.
We’ll see what the future holds for Zynamics, and we’ll keep you updated as details about this deal emerge.
Link : http://zynamics.com/
Asian Scalpers Are Wiping Out Apple's Supply Of iPad 2s In New York
Asian Scalpers Are Wiping Out Apple's Supply Of iPad 2s In New York
Chinese scalpers are lining up at Apple's flagship New York store on 5th avenue, buying up all the iPad 2s and then charging twice as much or sending them to China, where the device isn't sold yet, says the Post. The story quotes a "Manhattan event planner" who is angry at this and says they should be ashamed, but here's another way to look at it.
It's always amazing to see entrepreneurs take advantage of an arbitrage opportunity—and beat Apple's supply chain in the process. Clearly, there are some people who are willing to pay $2,000 to have an iPad 2 right now and these scalpers are catering to that demand. Scrappy traders have been a source of wealth for China for millenia and there's poetic justice in them bringing the iPad 2 back to China where it is made. Kudos!
And if you're angry that you can't get an iPad 2 right this instant and are unwilling to pay the market price (these traders are, after all, matching supply and demand, so it is a market), take a deep breath and relax. Believe it or not, it's not the worst thing in the world.
Facebook to open sales office in Hong Kong..
Facebook to open sales office in Hong Kong
Facebook, the world's largest social-networking site, will open a sales office in Hong Kong, in a move to tap the region's booming Internet scene, local media reported on Wednesday.
The Hong Kong office will service brands, companies and agencies in Hong Kong and Taiwan that want to advertise or launch marketing campaigns on its website, the company said in a statement posted on Asia Media Journal's.
Attackers target world's busiest stock exchanges
Attackers target world's busiest stock exchanges
British and US stock exchanges enlisted security services to thwart cyber attacks.
British and US stock exchanges enlisted the help of the security services after finding out they were the victims of cyber attacks. The London Stock Exchange is investigating a terrorist cyber attack on its headquarters last year, while US officials have traced an attack on one of its exchanges to Russia.
The Times said that was told by ‘well-placed intelligence sources' that the London Stock Exchange was trying to find the source of the attack, while a cyber security expert is reported as saying that the threat is ‘advanced and persistent'.
British govt. computers under cyber Threats
British govt. computers under cyber attacks from hostile states
British Foreign Secretary William Hague has said that cyberspace is allowing criminals and hostile intelligence agencies to attack the British government.
During a conference in Munich, Hague not only talked about how government computers were infected by a virus last year, but also detailed an attempt to steal data from a UK defence contractor. He stressed that someone in disguise of an employee of another defence firm had designed to steal information, the BBC reports.
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