Microsoft counting down to the end of Windows XP
Microsoft is counting down the days until it is through with the Windows XP operating system for personal computers.
The US software titan used a blog post to remind the world that in two years it will no longer support the generations-old operating system that people have clung to despite the releases of successors Vista and Windows 7.
"We want to acknowledge the two-year countdown to the end of Windows XP and Office 2003 support," said Microsoft marketing director Stella Chernyak.
"Windows XP and Office 2003 were great software releases for their time, but the technology environment has shifted."
She advised computer users, particularly businesses, to begin "migrating" machines to the latest versions of the programs well before Microsoft puts XP to rest on April 8, 2014.
The US software titan used a blog post to remind the world that in two years it will no longer support the generations-old operating system that people have clung to despite the releases of successors Vista and Windows 7.
"We want to acknowledge the two-year countdown to the end of Windows XP and Office 2003 support," said Microsoft marketing director Stella Chernyak.
"Windows XP and Office 2003 were great software releases for their time, but the technology environment has shifted."
She advised computer users, particularly businesses, to begin "migrating" machines to the latest versions of the programs well before Microsoft puts XP to rest on April 8, 2014.
Apple works on Mac malware fix but takes heat
Apple works on Mac malware fix but takes heatThe cybersecurity community raked Apple Inc over the coalson Wednesday, saying the company had dragged its heels on eradicating malware that experts say may haveinfected up to 600,000 Macintosh computers and can be used to ferret out sensitive user information.
The consumer electronics company said it was working on finding and ridding "Flashback" malware that exploits a flaw in Oracle Corp's Java software. Apple has issued patches and is now developing software to detect and eliminate Flashback, it said on its website. The company declined to elaborate.
But Apple is catching heat for not having quickly addressed the issue, even after Oracle distributed its own patch in February.
Several security blogs accused Apple of having not been forthcoming in the past about security issues, but gave the company credit for stepping forward now.
"Someone in Apple has broken ranks following the recent revelations of a Jolly Big OS X botnet," Paul Ducklin at security specialist Sophos wrote. "Apple has -- apparently for the very first time -- talked about a security problem before it had all its threat response ducks in a row."
Trojans and other malware typically target Microsoft Windows, long the dominant PC operating system. Flashback stands out in that it represents one of the largest-scale invasions of Apple computers, which are gaining ground on Windows PCs.
Antivirus specialists Symantec Corp said the malware surfaced last summer or early fall. It said the number of infected computers, which hackers link into botnets to access private information, had dropped to 270,000 as of this week.
A team of three students from Brac University has developed a massively multi-player online (MMO) game for PCs that can be played by body movements and voice command. They claim that this is the first ever such MMO PC game in the world.
The sight of a vacationing Mark Zuckerberg in Shanghai has sparked a frenzy of online speculation over the possibility Facebook might return to China, even though the site remains firmly blocked.
Excited Chinese bloggers posted photographs of the Facebook founder and his girlfriend at an Apple store and in Shanghai's art gallery district on Tuesday, expressing hopes it might mean access to the popular social networking site.
"Does this mean... Facebook is preparing to be unblocked?" said Kelisisong on the popular Sina microblog service, a Chinese version of Twitter.
Facebook has more than 800 million users around the world and is the leading social network in all but six countries, notably Russia, where local rivals are preferred, and China, where it has been banned since 2009.
Last month the California-based company said it continued to "evaluate entering China" -- the world's largest Internet market -- as it filed paperwork seeking to raise $5 billion on Wall Street.
Analysts say Facebook's chances of re-entering the market of half a billion internet users are slim.
Most of the world is interconnected thanks to email and social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, according to a new poll released on Tuesday.
Eighty five percent of people around the globe who are connected online send and receive emails and 62 percent communicate through social networking sites, particularly in Indonesia, Argentina and Russia, which have the highest percentage of users.
More than eight in 10 Indonesians and about 75 percent of people in Argentina, Russia and South Africa visit social media sites, the new Ipsos/Reuters poll showed.
Although Facebook and other popular social networking sites, blogs and forums, were founded in the United States the percentage of users was lower at six in 10, and in Japan it fell to 35 percent, the lowest of the 24 countries in the global survey.
"Even though the number in the United States was 61 percent, the majority of Americans are using social media sites," said Keren Gottfried, research manager at Ipsos Global Public Affairs.
The fact that more than six in 10 people worldwide use social networks and forums, she added, suggests a transformation in how people communicate with each other.
The app has been developed to give our new generation a new way to learn about the liberation war.
The whole project has been developed with full support from the liberation war affairs ministry. And the technical aspect of the app has been developed by MCC Limited.
The app has six categories- starting from pre-war era, then on March 1971, and the 9 month long bloodshed war presenting the whole liberation history like a virtual museum.
The app also has poster and leaflets from war times, and invaluable role of our freedom fighters.
Currently there are over 200 pictures with descriptions.
A new version will also be added soon with famous audio from the war times and the videos captured during the war.
The app can be downloaded from the Nokia store by all Nokia devices that have the access to the Nokia Store.