Simple Thoughts (Technology) – Newsletter for December 10, 2010

Dutch police arrest teenager over pro-WikiLeaks hacking incidents

AMSTERDAM – Dutch authorities have reportedly arrested a 16-year-old teenager over his alleged involvement in the pro-WikiLeaks hacking attacks on the Visa and MasterCard websites.

The Wall Street Journal quoted a spokesman for the Dutch prosecution office as saying that police have arrested the suspect at his home in The Hague late Wednesday night, adding … Original article on : Dutch police arrest teenager over pro-WikiLeaks hacking incidents.

SalesForce Buys Ruby Based Platform For $212 million

SalesForce has announced the acquisition of Heroku, which is a very popular cloud platform for the development of Ruby Web apps. They reportedly paid $212 million by cash purchases.
Marc Benioff the CEO of SalesForce said
The next era of cloud computing is social, mobile and real-time. I call it Cloud 2. Ruby is the language [..] Read the original article: here.

You Tube Increases Upload Time For User Videos

The annoying videos of You Tube may get even longer. The premier video channel has increased its upload time limit.
The YouTube blog says that the users who have a previous and presumably long history of complying with the guidelines set by the community will not be limited to the draconian 15 minutes upload limit. …. Source article on Gaea Times at  : You Tube Increases Upload Time For User Videos.

Google Announces Tools That Backs up Email with Gmail

Google has announced the launch of the Message Community, a cloud based enterprise to enable them to back up corporate email in the case Microsoft Exchange goes down. The product is being powered by Google’s 2007 acquisition of Postni. This focuses on providing the companies another access point of their email accounts.
This new solution [..] Read the original article: here.

Foursquare Launches New API

We reported Yesterday that Foursquare had surpassed 5 million subscribers. Today it has made its new API and now the developers have access to it. The new version “APIv2″ has been fine tuned by the start ups. The focus is on speed, consistency and clarity.
However the new API drops the support of XML so … Original article on : Foursquare Launches New API.

Facebook Founder Gives Away Half Of His Wealth To Charity

Mark Zuckerberg is known around the world as the youngest Billionaire in the world. This time he wants to be in the news by giving a portion of his immense wealth to charity. He is the latest in the line of billionaires to join Bill Gates and Warren Buffets initiative known as “Giving Pledge”.
The …. Original article  : Facebook Founder Gives Away Half Of His Wealth To Charity.

Gingerbread Keyboard Comes Knocking in Android 2.2

One of the most improved section of the Android’s Gingerbread update, the incredibly intuitive and elegant keyboard is getting a release on the current generation of Android based phones.
The stock keyboard of the Android was widely criticized for being a bit messy to used. The Gingerbread upgrade saw a complete overhaul and now the … Read this article on Gaea Times at : Gingerbread Keyboard Comes Knocking in Android 2.2.

US acting like ‘retrogressive Pak’ in its attempts to censor WikiLeaks: Pak editorial

ISLAMABAD – The WikiLeaks-Assange episode indicates that the ‘backwardness’ of underdeveloped countries like Pakistan, which was called ‘retrogressive’ for banning social networking site ‘Facebook’, has now spread to the developed world, an editorial in a …. Source article  : US acting like ‘retrogressive Pak’ in its attempts to censor WikiLeaks: Pak editorial.