Paypal changes rules to follow RBI guidelines

Paypal has decided to change its rules w.e.f. 1 March 2011, and very generously has granted a month long prior notice to its Indian users to act fast accordingly. This changes are purely made up to follow the RBI guidelines. A blogger at IGoogledit explains why these changes have been made and what do they actually mean.

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Google censors swear words on Nexus One

Google has confirmed it's censoring bad words on the Nexus One as part of the voice/text input feature.

The search engine made a big deal about the fact you can now speak your text and emails rather than tapping them out (which sounds to us suspiciously like phone calls) but it's also now confirmed that it will be hash-ing out them cuss-words.

Chinese Human Rights Sites Hit by DDoS Attack

Five Web sites run by Chinese human rights activists were attacked by hackers over the weekend, as a separate row continued between Google and China over political cyberattacks.

The Web site of Chinese Human Rights Defenders, an advocacy group, was hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that lasted 16 hours starting Saturday afternoon, the group said in an e-mailed statement on Monday. A DDoS attack involves the attacker ordering a legion of compromised computers all to visit a certain Web site at once, overwhelming its server with requests for communication and leaving the site inaccessible to normal visitors. The group said it could not confirm the origin of the attackers but called the Chinese government the most likely suspect.

Service Pack 1 by Youtube???

Youtube has rolled out a series of upgrades to their video player, including HTML5 support, improved video resolution controls, an opt-in feature for a new streamlined “Watch” page, a music discovery service and a movie rental service.

8-Foot drop during weird stunt, and still iPhone survives

Now we all know the hell lot of list of iPhone features. But it seems we surely did come across this one recently which was actually not included in the list.
David Fermin, a pro MMA fighter who apparently forgets that he has an iPhone in his pocket when he swings from his exercise pipes, eight feet off the ground. Right guess, yeah, his iPhone takes a fall and survives it.

Siemens magic, hits 500Mbps with white LED lights

What can be more better than wireless power? Frankly, Nothing. This is the age of wicked fast transmission just through thin air. The recent breaking news is such that, Researchers from Siemens have broken their own record for wireless data transfer using white LED light, by hitting an enormous speed of about 500Mbps while working in collaboration with the Heinrich Hertz Institute in Berlin.