Wednesday, 7 December 2011

Facebook flaw: the photos of Mark Zuckerberg hacked

Mark Zuckerberg is the victim of a security problem on its own social network. Many of her private photos were found published after the discovery of a vulnerability in Facebook profiles.

Published on the forum site of bodybuilding, the method of access to private photos is very simple. Just see the pictures of a person as spam (even if you are not friends with her). Facebook proposes to report the offending photos and displays the images of the private individual.

It was enough that the principle is applied directly to the profile of Facebook founder and several of its private photos can be found posted on the Web.

Tuesday, 6 December 2011

LG Xnote Z330: ultrabook to the tunes of MacBook

LG announces first Ultrabook, the Xnote Z330. For this first foray, the Korean manufacturer does not take the risk and provides a machine (too?) Resemblance to Apple's MacBook.

Aluminum hull, separate keypad, large touchpad, but also an outline of black screen that is reminiscent of the MacBook Pro. This same screen displays give an area of ​​13 inches for a definition of 1366 x 768 pixels. Side measurements, better than the LG Ultrabook already on the market. We had been admiring of 1.35 kg and 17 mm thickness of the Acer Aspire S3. When it is discovered that LG has managed to compress a 13-inch computer in 1.2 kg and a shell of 14 mm thick, one can appreciate.

Firefox: the soon-compatible joysticks

Mozilla developers have found ways to use a joystick in the Firefox browser. Using a programming interface called GamepadAPI, they hope to create new uses for the software.

A demo video was released showing a Firefox browser running and responding instantly to commands passed to it via a joystick Xbox 360 connected to the computer. This demo is particularly interesting that Google announced last week wanting to engage in a similar field, making Chrome compatible with joysticks. Many have imagined then that the publisher would bring Chrome straight into the world of online games. A rumor resurfaced now with Mozilla.

Cymax

Cymax an ecommerce retailer started off in the year 2004 and began specializing in audio and video furniture. The company steadily grew and expanded into different categories of furniture and turned out to be the industry leader in customer services. Cymax even reached a sales target of $100 million in the year 2010 and was listed officially by Internet Retailer as one of the top 500 online businesses. The company is equipped with young team, great culture, dedicated retail excellence, combined with great service and the inclination for continued innovation of a top rated online retailer. With more than 100 online stores, they are well stocked with the largest selections of products all across the web.

Monday, 5 December 2011

Cookies on Mobile: Carrier iQ, Apple responds


In the aftermath of the case Carrier iQ makes loud noise, the main actor was keen to respond. The company behind this program capable of analyzing most of the actions of users of mobile (Nokia, Android, BlackBerry, iOS) held to deny categorically "record, transcribe and transmit any kind of personal information." According to Carrier iQ, their program would be used only for telephone operators to diagnose potential network problems.

Manufacturers have lined up to distance themselves vis-à-vis the process (HTC, Google, RIM, Microsoft and others), which is the latest non-Apple: "We have stopped using Carrier IQ with iOS 5 in most of our products and we will remove it completely in a future update.