Saturday, October 30, 2010

Simple Thoughts (Technology) – Newsletter for October 30, 2010

Saturday, October 30, 2010


Top 10 Ways To Protect Yourself From Phishing

There were approximately 126,700 phishing attack in the second half of 2009. A criminal organization called the Avalanche was responsible for more than 24% of the aforesaid attacks. All they did was to target a group of individuals who were not technologically equipped, and people who were left in a lurch like an unemployed … Read more : Top 10 Ways To Protect Yourself From Phishing.

Oracle Claims that Gogle Copied the Java Code Directly

Oracle amended their original?? lawsuit by claiming ‘approximately one third of Android’s Application Programmer Interface (API) packages’ are ‘derivative of Oracle’s copyrighted Java API packages’ and related documents”. The company initiated the first lawsuit in August due to the fact that a section of Google’s mobile OS platform violates Java-related copyrights that Oracle …. Original article on Gaea Times at  : Oracle Claims that Gogle Copied the Java Code Directly.

3G Mobile Internet Reaches Mount Everest

NEPAL (GaeaTimes.com) — Technology has reached the pinnacle of Mount Everest! Nepali mobile network Ncell has successfully installed the first 3G station at the summit of Mount Everest. This will enable the visitors, climbers and people living in the Khumbu valley to make calls and access internet wirelessly.

As a testing measure of the … Read more : 3G Mobile Internet Reaches Mount Everest.

Detectives in UK to get lessons on using Facebook, Twitter

LONDON – Detectives in UK will now be trained to use social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter to catch killers and other criminals.

Student investigators will be shown how they could trace wanted people on Facebook and Twitter, where they might leave posts revealing valuable clues.

Around 3,500 student detectives take the initial crime investigator’s development … Read more >>>.

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