"Reboot" - Upcoming Hacker Movie, Will Blow Your Minds Off

Rosa Entertainment and Jan-Ken-Po Pictures just announced that their cyberpunk thriller short film “Reboot” will launch with a Sneak Preview at DEFCON.

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Written and Directed by Joe Kawasaki, and Produced by Sidney Sherman, the film stars a bevy of hot up-and-coming actors including Emily Somers (Gabriele Muccino’s upcoming “Playing the Field”), Travis Aaron Wade (“War of the Worlds”), Martin Copping (Australian series “Neighbours”), Sonalii Castillo (“NCIS”), and Janna Bossier (Slipnot’s “Vermilion").

Set within a dystopian world that
is a collision between technology and humanity, “Reboot” touches upon many of the current social and political concerns
that arise from becoming more and more intertwined with the virtual. In contemporary Los Angeles, a young female hacker (Stat) awakens from unconsciousness to find an iPhone glued to her hand and a mysterious countdown ticking away on the display. Suffering from head trauma and with little recollection of who she is or what is happening, Stat races against time to figure out what the code means and what unknown event the pending zero-hour will bring.

The recent launch of their ARG (Alternate Reality Game) has caught the attention of hackers and cyberpunk fans via Twitter. Basically, some Easter Eggs are hidden in the film trailer for viewers to find. When a player thinks they have found anything, they simply send a direct message to@reboot_film on Twitter for confirmation. As players find things they are awarded points and the Top Ten players will be awarded some cool prizes. For more ARG details, please go to:www.rebootfilm.com/scoreboard. To view the trailer: www.rebootfilm.com/trailer.

The film is the product of a successful Kickstarter campaign and has been building momentum ever since it was first announced on kickstarter.com in August of last year. Kawasaki said, "It (the film) was originally designed to simply be a great little ride, but as real world events keep developing around us (regarding issues of cyber-freedom, online privacy, security, etc.); the connotation of the film evolves and changes with it."

"Reboot" is a co-production of Sherman's production shingle, Rosa Entertainment, and Kawasaki’s Jan-Ken-Po Pictures; and the filmmakers are aiming for international film festivals like Cannes, Locarno and Toronto, as well as distribution via the internet.

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Google unveils 'augmented reality' glasses

Google Inc is getting into the eyewear business with a pair of thin wraparound shades that puts the company's web services in your face. The experimental "augmented reality" glasses - from the same team that is developing self-driven cars - can snap photos, initiate videochats and display directions at the sound of a user's voice.

The prototype digital glasses, unveiled on the company's Google+ social network on Wednesday, are still being tweaked and tested, and are not available in stores yet.

"We're sharing this information now because we want to start a conversation and learn from your valuable input," Google wrote in a post on a Google+ page devoted to Project Glass.

The spectacles are being developed by Google, the secretive group working on advanced research projects such as self-driving cars.


The Google+ page featured a 2-1/2 minute video, shot from the perspective of someone wearing the glasses.

The wearer goes about his day walking through New York City while speaking commands to the glasses to do things such as take a photo and post it to Google+, get block-by-block directions and weather conditions and get a pop-up alert when a friend is nearby.

The Google posting is intended to show "what this technology could look like," the company said.

Mock-up images of the glasses on the Google+ page depict a stamp-sized digital display that seems attached to a pair of glasses and sits at the top corner of one of the lenses.

The post asks people to submit their suggestions for what they would like to see in the glasses.

Google, the world's No 1 search engine, is famous for letting its employees work on ambitious projects that don't always have a direct relation to its business.

Those projects have not always sat well with investors, who worry about Google's spending on projects with uncertain returns.

Google chief executive Larry Page has cut down on many of the projects and products underway at the company since taking the reins a year ago. But he has defended Google's commitment to working on "speculative" projects that could one day turn into "billion-dollar businesses," though he has stressed the company isn't "betting the farm" on such efforts.

The glasses could provide a way for Google to more closely entwine its advertising-supported online services, including web searches, maps and email, into people's daily lives.

The glasses also could help Google match some of the buzz that rival Apple Inc has generated with its latest iPhone and the built-in Siri digital assistant, which takes spoken commands to do such tasks as schedule calendar appointments and get weather forecasts.

A Google insider said it is unclear when the glasses might be commercially available, but noted that the philosophy of Google group is to develop technologies that can be used in a relatively short period of time, rather than dreaming up creations that won't be possible for 10 or more years.

The glasses, under development for two years, will be tested in public by members of the Google team, according to the Google insider.

Shares of Google, which reports its first quarter financial results next week, fell about 1.2% to close at $635.15 on Wednesday amid a broad market sell-off.

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FACEBOOK VIDEO SCAMS! HOW TO REMOVE THEM?

Few months back, this ' kind-of ' scam spread on Facebook in which almost everyone noticed some of their friends posting different types of video links in their walls. These are not videos actually.

What actually happens is that when someone clicks the video, it takes you to a link where it seems like you can see but it actually install one add-on or extension to the browser. As a result of the extension, the scam video link gets shared automatically in your friends' walls.

This can be embarrassing to the users as a number of videos that get shared are pornographic or they show some girl's picture with blood all over her face. This is actually one kind of scam trick. There is also one video scam which gets malware into windows and mac. These can be harmful for the user and can hamper their privacy.

To remove these, all you have to do is tweak some browser settings. For Mozilla Firefox And Google Chrome, we have to go to TOOLS, then ADDONS and select EXTENSIONS, then we will have to remove the extension named "YouTube Premium".

In this way, we can remove it. But it is certain that this only happens to the people who CLICK on the link. So if these types of links show up on someone's wall, think before you click them.

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ANOTHER MESSAGE FROM BANGLADESH CYBER ARMY FOR BOTH BANGLADESHI AND INDIAN GOVERNMENT

Just when it seemed like the war ended, Bangladesh Cyber Army released another video message in Youtube. In this message, Bangladesh Cyber Army mainly mentioned how their demands are being considered by the Indian Government. The war has resulted in a few changes. Indian Government probably considered the matters like, BSF brutality and broadcasting of Bangladeshi channels in India and tried to fix them.

In the message, BCA also requested Indian Government to consider their other demands as well. They even mentioned that they would not stop the war otherwise.

Message in the video:

Greetings to the people of Bangladesh.

We are Bangladesh Cyber Army. The first and largest hacking group of the country.
You all know that we are in a state of war against India for a few days now.
The war started in order to protest against the BSF brutality and other unjust activites of India which go against the interest of Bangladesh.
We also put forward some of our demands regarding all these which are as under-

1. Stop hacking Bangladeshi websites and stop all types of access to Bangladeshi Cyber Space completely...
2. Stop killing innocent Bangladeshi citizens at BD-India borders...
3. Stop Tipaimukh Dam...
4. Sign the "Teesta Water Sharing Treaty"...
5.Either stop broadcasting of Indian Media in Bangladesh or let Bangladeshi Media enter India...
6. Stop all Anti-Bangladesh activities of BSF and punish all offenders for their deeds against Bangladesh...
7. Last but not the least, India has to stop all activities which go against Bangladesh in any possible way...


We can see and observe that our demands are now under consideration of the Indian Government.

Firstly, BSF was warned by Human-rights commission to maintain International rules and stop their killing.
Infact, 8 members of Border Security Forces of India were sentenced to 3 months prison because of their brutality towards Bangladeshi citizens.


Secondly, Bangladeshi TV channels are now being published in Kolkata once again.
Two Bangladeshi channels are now being broadcasted in Kolkata.
It has also been assured that other channels of Bangladesh will also be broadcasted soon.

We hope the Indian Government will very soon consider the other demands as well.
It is our request that they would not overlook those demands and bring them under their consideration.

We thank the Human Rights Commission and Cable Operators for accepting our demands.
We want all our demands to be accepted. And for that, we will keep fighting. The war will continue until all the demands are accepted by the Indian Government,


United as a single ONE
Divided by ZERO
Our works are for our country
Our demand is proper justice.

We are,
Bangladesh Cyber Army.

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The Work Culture at Google

Google has come a long way since Sergey Brin and Larry Page networked a few computerstogether at Stanford. What started as a modest project is now a multibillion-dollar global organization that employs more than 19,000 people around the world. Brin and Page are still very much involved with Google's operations -- they're Presidents of Google's Technology and Products divisions, respectively.

In September 2008, Google'smarket capitalization figure (Google's stock price multiplied by the number of outstanding company shares) was more than $145 billion. Google's stock is listed in NASDAQ as GOOG, and in late 2008 Google had more than 314 million outstanding shares in the marketplace [source: Google Finance].

Google's headquarters are in Mountain View, Calif. Google cheekily calls its campus the Googleplex -- a combination of the words "Google" and "complex" and a play on the term googolplex: One followed by a googol of zeroes. Life at the Googleplex is pretty sweet. Here's just a small list of the amenities you can find there:
Several café stations where employees can gather to eat free food and have conversations
Snack rooms stocked with goodies ranging from candy to healthy foods like carrots and yogurt
Exercise rooms
Game rooms with video games, foosball, pool tables and ping-pong
A baby grand piano for those who enjoy tickling the ivories

In addition to these amenities, Google employees receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes not only medical and dental coverage, but also a host of other services. These include tuition reimbursement, a child care center, adoption assistance services, an on-site doctor, financial planning classes and lots of opportunities to gather with coworkers at special corporate events. Google's philosophy also places importance on nonprofit work, and so Google will match up to $3,000 of any employee's contributions to nonprofit organizations.

Google has asserted itself as one of the most dominant forces on the Internet. Still, the company says its mission is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" [source:Google]. With a goal that lofty, it's a good bet that the people behind Google feel their work is just beginning.

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All about Google: Google Equipment

Back in 1998, Google's equipment was relatively modest. Co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin used Stanford equipment and donated machines to run Google's search engine duties. The equipment at that time included:
Two 300-megahertz (MHz) Dual Pentium II servers with 512 megabytes (MB) of memory
A four-processor F50 IBM RS6000 computer with 512 MB of memory
A dual-processor Sun Ultra II computer with 256 MB of memory
Several hard drives (some of which were housed in a box covered in LEGO bricks) ranging from 4 to 9 gigabytes (GB) for a total of more than 350 GB of storage space [source: Google Stanford Hardware]


Today, Google uses hundreds of thousands of servers to provide services to its users. Google's strategy is to use relatively inexpensive machines running on a customized operating system based on Linux. A program called Google File System manages the data on Google's servers [source: Google Cluster Architecture].

Google uses servers for different tasks. Web servers receive and process user queries, sending the request on to the next appropriate server. Index servers store Google's indexes and search results. Document servers to store search summaries, user information, gmail and Google Docs files. Ad servers store the advertisements Google displays on search pages.

Google divides the information on each index server into 64 MB blocks. There are three copies of each block of data, and each copy is stored on a different server running on a separate power strip. The blocks of data are distributed semi-randomly so that no two servers have the exact same collection of data blocks. That way, if there's a problem with one server, the data will still exist in other machines. Using multiple copies of data to prevent an interruption in service is called redundancy.

A master computer manages each set of servers. The master computer's job is to keep track of which servers hold each block of data in the event of a catastrophe. If one server goes down, the master computer redirects all traffic to the other servers containing the same data.

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Why are the keys arranged the way they are on a QWERTY keyboard?

In 1874 Remington & Sons manufactured the first commercial typewriter, called the Remington Number 1. This typewriter was designed by Christopher Sholes and used the "QWERTY" keyboardwe are all familiar with.

This early typewriter used a mechanism with characters on the end of a bar. When a key was struck, a linkage would swing the bar into a tape coated with ink. When the character struck the tape, the impression of the character was transferred onto the paper, which was positioned behind the tape.

Sholes' original prototypes had a problem with the bars colliding with each other and jamming. So the story goes that he arranged the keys with the most common letters in hard to reach spots, to slow typists down and try to avoid this problem.


Whatever the reason for the QWERTY layout, it seems pretty unlikely that one of the first keyboard layouts invented would be perfect. The QWERTY keyboard is very different from the Dvorak keyboard layout. The Dvorak keyboard layout tries to minimize the distance traveled by the fingers. It also tries to make the typist alternate hands on consecutive letters as often as possible.

The Dvorak layout places all of the most commonly used letters in the home row so your fingers don't have to move at all to hit these keys. The left hand has all of the vowels and some consonants and the right hand has only consonants. So there are very few words in the English language that can be typed with only one hand on the Dvorak keyboard (two are "papaya" and "opaque"). Both "pumpkin" and "minimum" can be typed with one hand on a QWERTY keyboard -- give it a try.

This site shows the layout of the Dvorak keyboard. If I had typed this article on a Dvorak keyboard, my fingers would have traveled 30 meters versus the 54 meters they traveled on the QWERTY keyboard I use.

Some argue, however, the Dvorak keyboard is no more efficient than QWERTY. An independent study in 1956 showed that QWERTY typists and Dvorak typists had about the same rate of speed, and continued studies don't show a clear winner between the two. This may explain why QWERTY is still the standard.

If you want to see for yourself, you can switch your keyboard to a Dvorak configuration just by changing a setting on your computer's operating system. Depending on your keyboard, you may even be able to pry off the keys and rearrange them in the Dvorak layout.

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Does adding more RAM to your computer make it faster?

One topic you might hear people discussing when they're talking shop about computers is how much random access memory (RAM) they need to add to their computer. Up to a point, adding RAM will normally cause your computer to seem faster on certain types of operations. RAM is important because it eliminates the need to "swap" programs in and out.

When you run a program such as a word processor or an Internet browser, the microprocessor in your computer pulls the executable file (.exe) off the hard disk and loads it into RAM. Large programs like Microsoft Word or Excel use large amounts ofmemory. The microprocessor also pulls in a number of shared dynamic link libraries (DLLs) -- shared pieces of code used by multiple applications. The DLLs take many more megabytes.

Then the microprocessor loads in the data files at which you want to look, which might total several megabytes if you are looking at more than one document or browsing a page with a lot of graphics. So a big application can easily take 100 megabytes of RAM or more, which can slow your system down significantly if there isn't enough memory. On your machine, at any given time you might have the following applications running:

• ­­­A word processor
• A spreadsheet
• An e-mail program
• A drawing program
• Three or four browser windows
• A fax program
• A Telnet session

Besides all of those applications, the operating system itself is taking up a good bit of space. Everything together may need more RAM than your machine has. Where does all the extra RAM space come from?

The extra space in your computer's RAM is created by an important operating system component called the virtual memorymanager (VMM). The VMM looks at RAM and finds sections that aren't currently needed. It puts these sections of RAM in a place called the swap file on the hard disk. For example, let's say you have your e-mail program open, even though you haven't looked at e-mail in the last 45 minutes. The VMM moves all of the bytes making up the e-mail program's .exe, DLLs and data out to the hard disk. That's called swapping out the program. The next time you click on the e-mail program, the VMM will swap in all of its bytes from the hard disk, and probably swap something else out in the process. Because the hard disk is relatively slow compared to RAM, the act of swapping things in and out causes a noticeable delay.

So should you just keep adding more RAM until your pockets are empty or your computer can't hold any more? If you have a very small amount of RAM (say, 256 megabytes), then the VMM is always ­swapping things in and out to get anything done. In that case, your computer feels like it is crawling. As you add more RAM, you get to a point where you only notice the swapping when you load a new program or change windows. Once your computer has more RAM than the software running on the machine uses, the VMM has plenty of room and you should never see it swapping anything. After that, adding more memory would have no effect.

Some applications -- like Photoshop, many compilers, most film editing and animation packages -- need large amounts of RAM to do their job. If you run them on a machine with too little RAM, they swap constantly and run very slowly. You can get a huge speed boost by adding enough RAM to eliminate the swapping. Programs like these may run 10 to 50 times faster once they have enough RAM.
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Google: How it Generates it Revenue

Unlike some Internet companies, Google has multiple ways of generating revenue beyond private investment or selling shares of its stock. Google uses three methods to partner with merchants and advertisers: Google Checkout, Google AdWords and Google AdSense.

Google Checkout is a service designed to make online purchases easier for both the consumer and the retailer. On the consumer end, users create a free Google Checkout account. Part of the account creation process includes entering a credit or debit card number, which Google stores in a secure database. When the user visits a retailer that subscribes to Google Checkout, he or she can click on the checkout option and Google facilitates the transaction. This means that the user doesn't have to enter a card number every time he or she makes a purchase.

Retailers can set up Google Checkout accounts for free, but as of August 2008, Google charges a 2 percent plus 20-cent fee per transaction. For example, if a customer buys a $10 item from a merchant, Google will charge that merchant 40 cents for that transaction.

Another way Google generates revenue is through a pair of Web advertising services called AdWords and AdSense. With AdWords, advertisers can submit ads to Google that include a list of keywords relating to the product, service or business. When a Google user searches the Web using one or more of those keywords, the ad appears on the SERP in a sidebar. The advertiser pays Google every time a user clicks on the ad.

AdSense is similar, except that instead of displaying ads on a Google SERP, a webmaster can choose to integrate ads into his or her own site. Google's spiders crawl the site and analyze the content. Then, Google selects ads that contain keywords relevant to the webmaster's site. The webmaster can customize the location and color of the sidebar containing the ads. Every time someone clicks on an ad on the webmaster's site, the webmaster receives a portion of the ad revenue (Google gets the rest).

With both AdWords and AdSense, Google's strategy is to provide targeted advertising to users. Google believes that by providing advertising relevant to the information for which the user is already searching, the chances of someone following the ad are greatly increased [source: Google].

Google Trivia: Google isn't just famous for creating and providing useful services -- it has also bought a few innovative companies and integrated them. These include YouTube (a video-sharing Web site), Blogger (a weblog service), Picasa (a photo-sharing service) and Jaiku (an SMS and micro-blog service).

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The Killswitch : They can remotely modify your Window 8

Last year,a Finnish software developer, was cruising Google’s Android Market for smartphone apps last year when he noticed something strange. Dozens of best-selling applications suddenly listed the same wrong publisher. Google uses a little known kill switch, to forcibly removing the malicious code from more than 250,000 infected Android smartphones. It’s a powerful way to stop threats that spread quickly, but it’s also a privacy and security land mine.



With the rollout of the Windows 8 operating system expected later this year, millions of desktop and laptop PCs will get kill switches for the first time. Microsoft has confirmed that they have remote kill switch installed in to Windows 8 apps. using this access, they can disable and even remove an app entirely from a user’s device. This piece of information was released along with other details of the upcoming Windows Store for Windows 8.

Anyone worried about Microsoft having complete access to your computer can rest easy for now. The company has stated that they can only “kill” programs downloaded from its new Microsoft App Store. This is what the company has to say about it in official terms: -“In cases where your security is at risk, or where we’re required to do so for legal reasons, you may not be able to run apps or access content that you previously acquired or purchased a license for,”.

Any software loaded from a flash drive, DVD, or directly from the Web will remain outside Microsoft’s control. Still, the kill switch is a tool that could help Microsoft prevent mass malware infections. “For most users, the ability to remotely remove apps is a good thing,” says Charlie Miller, a researcher with the security company Accuvant.

Hiroshi Lockheimer, Google’s vice president of Android engineering, says the search company reserves the use of the kill switch for “really egregious, really obvious cases” of harmful content. Microsoft’s Biggs says the company has used the functionality in its smartphones only for “technical issues and content issues.” Apple declined to comment. Amazon did not respond to several messages.

Nonetheless, a “kill switch” for curators of online applications marketplace is common as companies try to protect users of the platforms they develop from malware or hacking attempts implemented through applications.

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Windows 8 to Have 8 Versions

Remember how annoying it was that there were six versions of Windows 7? Well, you’ll be glad to know there aren’t six versions of Windows 8! … There’s eight.

One of the biggest annoyances with Windows 7 was that when you went to buy a system, you had to look at which version of the operating system it came with.  Then you usually ended up having to look at a chart to remember why each version was different.  It was a bit of a pain, and one that you hoped might go away in Windows 8.  Sadly, Windows 8 Beta has learned differently.  After digging around in the Windows 8 Consumer Preview that was released the other day, they found screenshot you see above.  In short, there will be eight versions of the next iteration of the Windows operating system, and they include:

• Windows 8 Enterprise Edition
• Windows 8 Enterprise Eval edition
• Windows 8 Home Basic Edition
• Windows 8 Home Premium edition
• Windows 8 ARM edition
• Windows 8 Professional edition
• Windows 8 Professional Plus edition
• Windows 8 Starter edition
• Windows 8 Ultimate edition

If you’ve installed the Consumer Preview you can locate this list at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Component Based Servicing\PackageIndex\Product.

The only one that puzzles us a bit is the Enterprise Eval edition which we suspect may be short for “Evaluation,” and may be more like trial software.  We just don’t know yet.

What we do know, however, is when you head out to buy a Windows 8 machine once they are launched, you may want to take a comparison chart with you of all the features.

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Google offers $1 million reward to hackers who exploit Chrome

Google has pledged cash prizes totaling $1 million to people who successfully hack its Chrome browser at next week's CanSecWest security conference.

Google will reward winning contestants with prizes of $60,000, $40,000, and $20,000 depending on the severity of the exploits they demonstrate on Windows 7 machines running the browser. Members of the company's security team announced the Pwnium contest on their blog on Monday. There is no splitting of winnings, and prizes will be awarded on a first-come-first-served basis until the $1 million threshold is reached.

Now in its sixth year, the Pwn2Own contest at the same CanSecWest conference awards valuable prizes to those who remotely commandeer computers by exploiting vulnerabilities in fully patched browsers and other Internet software. At last year's competition, Internet Explorer and Safari were both toppled but no one even attempted an exploit against Chrome (despite Google offering an additional $20,000 beyond the $15,000 provided by contest organizer Tipping Point).

Chrome is currently the only browser eligible for Pwn2Own never to be brought down. One reason repeatedly cited by contestants for its lack of attention is the difficulty of bypassing Google's security sandbox.

"While we’re proud of Chrome’s leading track record in past competitions, the fact is that not receiving exploits means that it’s harder to learn and improve," wrote Chris Evans and Justin Schuh, members of the Google Chrome security team. "To maximize our chances of receiving exploits this year, we’ve upped the ante. We will directly sponsor up to $1 million worth of rewards."

In the same blog post, the researchers said Google was withdrawing as a sponsor of the Pwn2Own contest after discovering rule changes allowing hackers to collect prizes without always revealing the full details of the vulnerabilities to browser makers.

"Specifically, they do not have to reveal the sandbox escape component of their exploit," a Google spokeswoman wrote in an email to Ars. "Sandbox escapes are very dangerous bugs so it is not in the best interests of user safety to have these kept secret. The whitehat community needs to fix them and study them. Our ultimate goal here is to make the web safer."

In a tweet, Aaron Portnoy, one of the Pwn2Own organizers, took issue with Google's characterization that the rules had changed and said that the contest has never required the disclosure of sandbox escapes.Pwn2Own will commences on Wednesday, March 7.

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INTERPOL BROUGHT DOWN BY ANONYMOUS AFTER THE ARREST OF 25 HACKERS POSTED

25 members of famous hacking group Anonymous have been arrested in different places of the world. According to Interpol, the hackers were arrested in Argentina, Chile, Columbia and Spain. Around 250 computers and other devices of hackers ranging between 17 to 40 years of age were seized by the officials. The reason of the arrest was that Anonymous is growing more powerful everyday and recently, a lot of high profile websites were shut-down by them as a protest of shutting down Megaupload.

As a retaliation to this, the website of Interpol which is interpol.int was brought down by Anonymous. The website was unavailable for half an hour on Wednesday. This Distributed Denial-of-Service attack was co-ordinated using a botnet and the message was published in Twitter. Though the website is back online but the it is taking a comparatively longer time to load.

The Anons demand the hackers to be released and probably they will strike again very soon if that is not done.

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Google: Not just an ordinary search engine

Image ©Google Earth mapping service/NASA/TerraMetrics 2007 The Google Earth application

Google offers a popular tool calledGoogle Maps, an online mapping service similar to MapQuest. Google uses map sources from companies like NAVTEQ and TeleAtlas, as well as satellite data from DigitalGlobe and MDA Federal, to create interactivemaps. You can use Google maps to view an address' location or get driving directions to a particular destination.

Google Maps has several view modes. The map view is a basic road map, satellite view overlays a road map on top of

satellite photos of the region, terrain view creates a topographic map with a road map overlay, and the traffic viewuses red, yellow and green to indicate congested major roadways in the area. Street view mode is available in several U.S. cities. Selecting street view in such locations as Orlando, Fla., gives you the option to view photos taken from street level. You can navigate through the city by clicking on arrows in the photographs, and you can rotate your view 360 degrees.

Google Maps can also integrate business information. You can use Google Maps like a search engine to find a business, such as "HowStuffWorks, Atlanta, Ga.," which will show you our office's location. You can also search for general businesses. If you're in the mood to eat sushi in San Francisco, Calif., you can type "sushi, San Francisco," and with a click of the Search button, Google Maps will display a map of the city with several sushi restaurants tagged.

A product related to Google Maps is Google Earth, an interactive digital globe. It uses the same satellite images licensed for Google Maps, but you must download the application and install it on your computer to access all of its functions. Google Earth requires an Internet connection to be fully functional, though you can still view locations on the globe even if you aren't connected. A scaled-back, Web-based version is also available -- you can even embed it in existing Web sites. To learn more about this program, read "How Google Earth Works."

The Google Toolbar is another handy add-on available for Firefox or Internet Explorer users. The toolbar has customizable buttons. Each button maps to a particular function, which can include anything from viewing a Web site's PageRank to translating a word from one language to another.

The Google Desktop application

Google Desktop is another application you can download for free. This program lets you search your computer the way you would search the Internet using the Google search engine. You can also choose to download Google Gadgets, computer programs that integrate seamlessly into your desktop. Each gadget does something different. Gadgets include clocks, calendars, news feeds and weather reports.

SMILE, YOU'RE ON STREET VIEW!

Some people feel that Google's street view function is a violation of privacy. For example, homeowners who were behind in their yard work became worried that anyone viewing pictures of their home through Google would see a messy house, making it harder to sell the property in the future. Several individuals and communities have filed lawsuits against Google, demanding that the company remove images of certain areas from street view.

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What does Google offers: Google services

As Google has grown, the company has added several new services for its users. Some of the services are designed to help make Web searches more efficient and relevant, while others seem to have little in common with search engines. With many of its services, Google has entered into direct competition with other companies.

Google's specialized searches are an extension of its normal search engine protocol. With specialized searches, you can narrow your search to specific resources. You can enter keywords into Google and search for:

• Images related to your keywords
• Maps
• News articles or footage
• Products or services you can purchase online
• Blog entries containing the keywords you've chosen
• Content in books
• Videos
• Scholarly papers

For these searches, Google has created specialized indexes that only contain relevant sources. For example, if you search for the term "Planet Earth" in the news category, the results will include only news articles that contain those keywords. The results will look very different from Google's normal SERP.­

In the last few years, Google has unveiled services that don't relate to search engines upon first glance. For example, Google's Gmail is a free Web-based e-mail program. When the service first launched, Google limited the number of users who could create accounts. The first group of users could invite a limited number of people to join the service, and so Gmail invitations became a commodity. Today, anyone can sign up for a free Gmail account.

Gmail organizes e-mails into conversations. This means that when you send an e-mail to someone and he or she replies, both e-mails are grouped together as a thread in your inbox. This makes it easier to follow the flow of an e-mail exchange. If you reply to your friend's response, Google will attach your message to the bottom of the thread. It's easy to navigate through the e-mail program and follow specific conversations.

Another free service from Google is Google Docs, a storage database and collaborative productivity software suite. It includes word processing, spreadsheet and presentation programs. Creating a Docs account is free and allows you to store up to 5,000 documents and images online. Each document can be up to 500 kilobytes, and each embedded image can be up to 2 megabytes. You can share documents on Google Docs, which allows your friends to view and make changes to documents. You can also store all of your documents on Google's servers and access them wherever there's an Internet connection.

GOOGLE ON THE GO AND ADVANCE SERVICES

You can perform a Google search with any short message service (SMS) compatible cell phone, even if you can't access the Web with your phone. Simply text your query to 466453 (which spells GOOGLE on a phone pad). Google will send a response back within a couple of seconds.

With an advanced search, you can use Google to retrieve the most relevant results for your keywords. You can search for documents written in a specific language or saved in a particular file format like .pdf or .rtf. You can tell Google where to look for the keywords, such as in page titles or headers. Google even allows you to limit searches to a single domain name. Try typing in "site:howstuffworks.com 'cloud computing'" in the Google search bar to see how it works. Each choice you make tells Google which index to use when returning your search results.

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Google : The Search Engine Giant

Google's search engine is a powerful tool. Without search engines like Google, it would be practically impossible to find the information you need when you browse the Web. Like all search engines, Google uses a special algorithm to generate search results. While Google shares general facts about its algorithm, the specifics are a company secret. This helps Google remain competitive with other search engines on the Web and reduces the chance of someone finding out how to abuse the system.

Google uses automated programs called spiders orcrawlers, just like most search engines. Also like other search engines, Google has a large index ofkeywords and where those words can be found. What sets Google apart is how it ranks search results, which in turn determines the order Google displays results on its search engine results page (SERP). Google uses a trademarked algorithm called PageRank, which assigns each Web page a relevancy score.

A Web page's PageRank depends on a few factors:

• The frequency and location of keywords within the Web page: If the keyword only appears once within the body of a page, it will receive a low score for that keyword.
• How long the Web page has existed: People create new Web pages every day, and not all of them stick around for long. Google places more value on pages with an established history.
• The number of other Web pages that link to the page in question: Google looks at how many Web pages link to a particular site to determine its relevance.

Out of these three factors, the third is the most important. It's easier to understand it with an example. Let's look at a search for the terms "Planet Earth."

As more Web pages link to Discovery's Planet Earth page, the Discovery page's rank increases. When Discovery's page ranks higher than other pages, it shows up at the top of the Google search results page.

Because Google looks at links to a Web page as a vote, it's not easy to cheat the system. The best way to make sure your Web page is high up on Google's search results is to provide great content so that people will link back to your page. The more links your page gets, the higher its PageRank score will be. If you attract the attention of sites with a high PageRank score, your score will grow faster.

Google initiated an experiment with its search engine in 2008. For the first time, Google is allowing a group of beta testers to change the ranking order of search results. In this experiment, beta testers can promote or demote search results and tailor their search experience so that it's more personally relevant. Google executives say there's no guarantee that the company will ever implement this feature into the search engine globally.­

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