New Ways to Use Computers with Chrome OS

In time soon, Google will introduce Chrome the OS as a new way of using a computer. According to the software giant, the user is not the time anymore to use computers the way older versions. According to Sundar Pichai, Vice President of Google, Chrome OS is a platform for the service. That's because all Chrome users can open OS such as documents, photos, emails, and online anywhere called cloud computing.

In Google's vision of a world in which all computers that run on OS Chrome, people can walk into any computer with Internet connection and get access to all their information. Google says Chrome the OS will become clearer by the end of the year, when the company will introduce a netbook computer that runs on Chrome the OS later this year. Although Google refused to give details of the device. It is expected that the OS will be produced by other companies and branded by Google, similar to how Google released a phone Nexus, which runs on Android.

Google has high hopes for Chrome, and as too many companies that rely on search advertising as a revenue, Pichai have described Chrome as one of Google's new business with huge potential. With Chrome OS, Google is once again stepping into the territory of rivals such as Microsoft and Apple, which both make operating systems and widely used desktop software like Microsoft Office, Apple's iPhoto and iTunes. The software will not work on Chrome computer. Conversely, users of Google Chrome will use Web-based products, such as Docs, Gmail and Picasa for word processing, email and photos.

Mobile Applications for Skin Cancer

Australia has the highest ranked skin cancer in the world, more than 1,850 people who died of it, more than the number of people killed in an accident on the street. Two out of three Australians diagnosed with skin cancer at the age of 70 years. "We found that many people are using the temperature and weather to predict when they need sun protection, but actually the problem exactly is ultraviolet (UV) itself," said Sue Heward manager at the Cancer Council's SunSmart Manager.

To counter this, the Cancer Council's developed a free application that provides daily weather forecasts, including predictions maximum level of UV light. The application has a warning function and using the global positioning systems (GPS) to automatically adjust the location of the user, it can indicate the time when sun protection is required as automatic warning UV and other features. SunSmart application is now available to be downloaded before gratis.Cancer Council has also given widget UV Alert to organizations such as sports clubs.

Saturn's Atmosphere has a Lot of Oxygen

Moon Rhea

A recent study found that Saturn's atmosphere turned out to contain oxygen and carbon dioxide that a lot. The aircraft from NASA's Cassini has detected the atmosphere when it flew toward the moon Rhea in March last. This discovery also marks the first for an atmosphere rich in oxygen content on the Saturn satellite.

Atmosphere containing oxygen are known to exist in the natural satellites in our solar system. For example, Europa and Ganymede, two of Jupiter's moon, is also rich in oxygen content in the atmosphere. "We have seen this before in the planet Jupiter, and we have confirmed that there is oxygen in the atmosphere of Saturn's satellite," said study leader Ben Teolis of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected oxygen levels in the atmosphere on the moon Europa and Ganymede in the 90's. In both satellites of Jupiter, the oxygen out of the water ice surface, which is divided into hydrogen and oxygen under the original particles from Jupiter.

A Malaysian Hackers Sell the Stolen Credit Card Numbers

A Malaysian citizen, was accused of hacking U.S. computer networks of the Central Bank or the Federal Reserve and a defense contractor, was arrested several Secret Service agents when he sold the stolen credit card numbers with the price of 1,000 U.S. dollars at a restaurant dinner in New York. Court documents released by U.S. prosecutors claimed the man, identified as Lin Mun Poo (32 years) was arrested several hours after he arrived in New York. He was indicted by a board of judges with four charges, including paved the U.S. central bank's branch system in Cleveland, Ohio.

"In a statement after the arrest, the defendant admitted he was hacking into computer servers of companies and major financial institutions," wrote U.S. prosecutors in Brooklyn in a letter to District Judge Dora Irizarry, responsible for handling the case. He acknowledged that exploit the vulnerability he found in the bank's computer system, said Lin. "Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Ohio, has confirmed one FRB computer network hacked around June 2010, so that the bank suffered a loss of thousands of U.S. dollars, and the act is affecting 10 computers or more," according to the in the indictment.

The process of examination by the judge will consider the delay request the government to continue holding Lin. No new date scheduled. Lawyer Lin, who appointed the court, was not willing to give comment. Lin is a Malaysian who do not have jobs or relatives in the United States.  He arrived at John F. Airport Kennedy, New York, from Europe to the tickets back and forth, and plans to return on November 22.

"Within a few hours after Lin arrived at JFK, the Secret Service agents watched it when he sells a credit card with the price of 1,000 U.S. dollars at dinner in Brooklyn and he was arrested not long after that," the letter to the judge. U.S. Attorney's office, Loretta Lynch  in Brooklyn said that all accusations against Lin hacking computer systems include the U.S. Defense Department contractors who help take care of military transport operations.

Another accusation against Lin includes ownership of more than 400,000 stolen credit cards and debit cards in a laptop computer seized by Secret Service agents. "The defendant through his career as a hacker, among others, the server computers of financial institutions, defense contractors, and large companies, and sell or trade the information stored there ...," Loretta said in a statement. Loretta said the defendants allegedly planned to get more financial information from other hackers, who would he invite transaction. If found guilty, Lin faced a maximum possible prison sentence between 6.5 to eight years.

Hackers Modify Microsoft Kinect

Kinect, enhancements for the Xbox 360 gaming console, not only to attract consumers' attention. Hackers around the world were interested in tweaking a new toy made by Microsoft's. Technology carried Kinect indeed recognized its superiority. How could I not, with this device people can play games without a joystick and stay moving his limbs like in the movie Minority Report. Unfortunately, Kinect only designed to work on the XBox 360. This is what makes the hackers are interested in reverse for Kinect can be used in other devices without being limited platform.

Even a company in New York, Adafruit Industries offered a reward of 3,000 dollars for the first time anyone could make open source drivers for Kinect for free use for anything. Hector Martin of Spain successfully meet these challenges, the six days since launched 4 November 2010 Kinect ago. Martin successfully demonstrated the use of Kinect on his laptop. He is recording a video when Kinect used to record VGA quality bideo and moved closer to the camera as his hand formed a line with color changes from green to red. Uniquely, Martin did not have XBox 360. Adafruit have confirmed the code that made Martin.

AlexP of CodeLab and NUI Group was first demonstrated Kinect driver for use on Windows 7. However, hackers are hoping more by going to donate up to $10,000. dollars so do not get the prize Adafruit. In fact, he can only $457, dollars which is then donated to Martin to continue the full open source project Kinect. The presence of drivers for Kinect which is open source allowing developers and konusmen to utilize these devices more choice. Oliver Kreylos from the University of California, Davis, the U.S. already use it to record video in the format of three-dimensional (3D) with Kinect from his laptop. Kinect even reportedly been able to work on Mac OSX notebook premises.

Responding to the action of these hackers, a spokesman for Microsoft said that any modification to the homemade device is not recommended because the use of hardware and software components have been designed for these devices to work stable. Microsoft will attempt to continue to improve the stability function and prevent misuse by parties other homemade devices. Although resistance emerged from Microsoft, in fact the device sells. In 10 days, has sold one million units and is predicted to sell up to 5 million units by the end of the year.

Indonesia's First Gold Medal of the Dragon Boat

Indonesian contingent finally won the first gold medal of the dragon boat sport number 1,000 meters son Asian Games 2010 which took place at the Dragon Boat Lake in Zengcheng, China, Thursday. At the same time, female athletes Indonesia presents a silver medal, also the number 1,000 meters.

In the men's, Indonesia made it to the finish fastest and ensure the gold medal with a record time of 3 minutes 32.016 seconds. Myanmar won the silver medal with a time of 3:34,542, then South Korea won bronze with a time of 3:37,254. Chinese team had to settle for fourth with a record time of 3:38,448. Chinese Taipei and Iran is ranked fifth and sixth.

The Indonesian women's dragon boat team got silver only a quarter of an hour later after the men's team to ensure the first gold for Indonesia. The song "Indonesia Raya" ultimately reverberate in Zengcheng, Guangzhou, accompanied the flag-raising. Dragon boat is one of Indonesia's superior numbers from the originally targeted the gold medal.

Air India Express Sleep Pilot killed 158 Passengers

Pilot in Air India Express flight from Dubai to Mangalore, southern India, was blamed for the accident that killed 158 people in May 2010.  The results prove the Indian government investigation, a pilot from Serbia named Zlatko Glusica was disoriented because of falling asleep on a flight for 3-4 hours. Indian government officials said, reports the results of the investigation will be announced after India presented to parliament. Investigation team said the pilot Glusica too late to react and not follow some standard operating procedure when landing. Meanwhile, the airlines do not provide feedback about these findings.

Indian Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel acknowledged that the ministry had been receiving reports about it on Tuesday, November 16, 2010. He said the government would take action after studying the report. Incidents in Mangalore is the worst plane crash in India since November 1996. At that time, 349 people died in a plane owned by Saudi Arabian airline collided in the air of New Delhi with a cargo plane from Kazakhstan. This report adds to concerns around the world about the dangers of pilots that work fatigue due to heavy work schedule.

Physical Office RIM Indonesia is Still a Mystery

Although it has been inaugurated, the Blackberry manufacturer, Research in Motion (RIM), refused to tell the location of their offices in Indonesia (PT. RIM Indonesia) . "Sorry, for now we can not notify our office location, for security reasons," said Oliver Pilgerstorfer, Senior PR Manager RIM Southeast Asia, after the inauguration of PT. RIM Indonesia at the Hotel Dharmawangsa, Jakarta.

Unfortunately, Oliver did not explain details about the reasons of security in question, which resulted RIM will not tell me the location of their offices in Indonesia. "Clearly, there are in South Jakarta, Central Jakarta," he said.

RIM's silence related to the location of their office raised doubts of its own. Even the issue said that RIM has just pocketed a company name but do not have a physical office at all in Indonesia. "We do not hide or make it a mystery. We have an office. All is ready. It's just not ready time to convey to the public," said Oliver.

RIM's office will occupy a location in the area of Central Jakarta. As the person in charge, RIM appoint Andrew Cobham who was President Director. Establishment of PT RIM Indonesia following information about the 36 authorized service centers Blackberry which will start operating in late 2010. This service will support a 24 month warranty is given to customers who have purchased the Blackberry smartphone.

E-mail Invitation Nobel Prize Contain Viruses

A fake e-mail invitation to the event the Nobel Peace Price in 2010 recently circulated and carry viruses that can infect computers anyone who opened it. Originally from Oslo Freedom Forum, a group that had nothing to do with the Nobel committee events, e-mail that includes a PDF file attachment, could make the hackers take over computers 'victims'. This report Contagio Internet security blog.

"Dear Mr. / Ms in place, I attach a letter from the founder of the Freedom Forum Oslo, Thor Halvorseen, invite you to join him on 11 December for the award ceremony. Please tell me if you have any questions," so writing in an e-mail invitation. Ceremony of the Nobel Peace Prize 2010, which is dedicated to Liu Xiaobo, Chinese dissident activist who was imprisoned by his government, will be held in Oslo on 10 December.

"We do not know who launched a cyber attack, or who they target," said computer security group F-Secure on their website. According to online newspaper Aftenposten, meanwhile Geir Lundestad, president of Nobel Institute, was the target of cyber attacks through an e-mail. E-mail is reported to have a link that asks Lundestad to type his name and password, but Lundestad suspicious and warned the internet on Norwegian data security agency.

"There is someone who tries to infect the Nobel Institute," said Christophe Birkeland, head of the Norwegian Computer Emergency Response Team. "There are many indications that the same people behind this attack," he added. Nobel Peace Prize website www.nobelpeaceprize.org also become targets of cyber attacks two weeks ago, with the address of the originating IP address from the National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan.

However, it is not possible cyber attacks also came from there, because a hacker usually use multiple computers to hide their tracks.

Google Employees' Salaries Increase 10% Next Year

Google shows that they know how to make employees feel special: Around 23,300 employees raised their salaries by 10 percent starting next year. Internet giants of the world is also changing its employees an annual bonus with regular pay check. This notice posted to all employees through an internal memo sent by the CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt. Bonuses were also not included in the salary increase of 10 percent.

This is a step 'indulgence employees' the umpteenth. Google has long been known to feed its employees for free and pamper them with additional bonuses that are categorized as a luxury for most employees in general. However, the company began to attract a bonus, the bonus in late 2008 and early 2009 to have to terminate the employment of several hundred employees, so the company can continue to run in times of recession the U.S. economy in the past.

This year was a good year for Google. Google revenue up 23 percent to reach USD21 million in the first nine months in 2010. Their confidence increases, because this year Google has added 3,500 employees expand its workforce by 20 percent. Google also did a lot of investment in data-centers that run their online services. Eric saw the policy of salary increase as compensation to the 'best people in the world', but the move was analyzed by many as a prevention for its employees do not move to Facebook.

Competitive world of internet today is increasingly becoming aggressive, especially after Google's top sales executives Sheryl Sandberg, hired by Facebook as chief operating officer at Facebook. "We believe that the plans that competitive compensation is important for the future of our company," said Google spokesman, Jordan Newman.

The Latest Version of Firefox 4 is Lighter

Mozilla significantly improve the performance of their browser from the latest beta version 7 of Firefox 4. What are the advantages? Overall, the Mozilla add a new iteration called JägerMonkey (JIT) JavaScript compiler, which is the support for hardware accelerated graphics for OS X and Windows. This feature allows the ability to display 3D images without the need to plug in via WebGL.

"With Firefox SpiderMonkey JavaScript now combines new JägerMonkey JIT compiler, which along with enhancements to existing TraceMonkey JIT and SpiderMonkey's interpreter, adding up to speed really show off kay Web applications,  you'll see this faster start-up time, increase page load speed and performance of web applications," explained engineer at Mozilla Jay Sullivan.

According to Jay, support for hardware accelerated graphics also help to optimize and improve the performance of the browser.  "It allows websites to load and respond faster to a rich and interactive content such as web, game or photo application. In Windows, including Windows XP, hardware acceleration is done by using DirectX technology in Mac OS X, it is done using OpenGL," said Jay.

Adisutjipto-Yogyakarta Airport was Closed

Residents who fled look past the intersection Kaliurang, Kentungan, Yogyakarta, Friday, November 5, 2010. Center for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation Disaster expand safe distance to 20 kilometers from the summit of Mount Merapi after the volcano erupted again early in the morning. Displacement was transferred to a number of places, such as Maguwoharjo Stadium.

 Due to the rain of volcanic ash eruption of Mount Merapi, which occurred flights to and from Adisutjipto Airport, Yogyakarta, was closed for a while. A number of flights to Jakarta, Surabaya, Makassar, Balikpapan, Batam, Denpasar and postponed to an undetermined time. As a result of this temporary closure occurs accumulation of passengers, well ahead of the departure gate and inside the passenger waiting room.

As reported, early this morning, Mount Merapi erupted again. This time the eruption of Merapi is more powerful than previous days. Even with a frightening roar. 73 stroke victim's body arrived at Merapi pyroclastic Installation of Forensic Medicine Dr. Sardjito Hospital, Yogyakarta. The death toll was expected to rise a lot because there are dozens of victims who have not evacuated.

While the burn victims are now being handled in the Custom Installation Burns and Emergency Unit. In Klaten, Central Java, there are also many burn victims are treated. They were mostly from areas Manisrenggo, Gendol river.

President SBY is Based in the City of Yogyakarta

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) to ensure he will soon fly to Yogyakarta to ensure the condition of victims of the eruption of Mount Merapi. Not only that, SBY was intended to offices in the city of Yogyakarta. "I will stay at the State House to ensure that all decision-making. Do not let the decision was taken a long time," Yudhoyono said at a news conference at the Presidential Palace today.

Step State House presidential office in Yogyakarta is a second time. Because when a great earthquake pounded the province, the President also has offices in the building to control and supervise the evacuation, reconstruction, and rehabilitation of earthquake victims.

Merapai horrifying eruption occurred early Friday morning. Current information not less than 89 people listed as dead and hundreds injured. The number of refugees had reached hundreds of thousands that included local citizens district of Sleman, Magelang, Klaten, and Boyolali.

Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) provides instruction for people away from Merapi, with a radius of 20 Km safe. Residents are also reminded to stay away from the river flows are tipped at Mount Merapi.

Catastrophic Eruption of Mount Merapi

The eruption of Mount Merapi 5 Novemver 2010 is quite terrible and almost the same eruption that occurred in 1872. "The eruption that occurred about the same as in 1872," said Kurniadi, the office of Investigation and Development Technology Center Volcano (BPPTK).

But he did not explain in detail due to the explosion that happened last night. "If the explosion that destroyed a peak in 1872. And last night has not been seen since the eruption of Mount Merapi conditions are still covered by cloud," he said.

Meanwhile, the volcanic activity was still visible until this afternoon following a hot clouds and earthquakes. "Its activities are still visible in the form of ramps hot clouds and earthquakes 20 times and avalanches. But not high," he said. And to pyroclastic this far south in the direction he leads precisely to the direction of Kali Gendol, Argomulyo Village, District Cangkringan.

Your Donation is Very Meaningful for Victims of Mount Merapi

The eruption of Mount Merapi in Yogyakarta, has not been stopped, and the eruption of Mount Merapi has been very worrying. Blast of hot clouds increasingly widespread and can reach 20 km, and wind-borne volcanic ash had reached 250 km. This is proven by the thick dust that stuck to roof houses, swimming pools, cars in several other cities far from the location of Mount Merapi.

Hot clouds of Mount Merapi has killed many people, I see many victims whose bodies turned black, scorched by the hot clouds that have temperatures reaching 500 degrees Celsius.

I am very saddened and deeply moved to see the victims who survived with some parts of the body on fire like the head, hands and feet, they groaned in pain from burns on their bodies because of a hot cloud.

Events Merapi volcano erupts in the early morning to make people around the slopes of Mount Merapi are unable to save themselves. To relieve the burden on the victims of the eruption of Mount Merapi, Yogyakarta, we invite you to donate a little of your treasure and pray to Indonesia for the eruption of Mount Merapi disaster is coming to an end, and any donation you give is very meaningful for victims of the eruption of Mount Merapi.