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.

No facebook and twitter for Manchester United players

Rival British football clubs Manchester United and Manchester City have recently banned their players from using Twitter. The players were banned from using social media services after many number of fake accounts were unceoverd recently, reports The Manchester Evening News.

Bill Gates' Blog on the web

After his arrival on twitter and almost a mayhem about it, Bill Gates has officially announced his next step into the social media world, his brand new blog, The Gates Notes.

For Pornography Crackdown, China to Scan Text Messages

Chinese mobile providers are up with a new way to keep China free from unhealthy content. They will now monitor all the text messages in the nation for "illegal or unhealthy content" and will immediately suspend service when any customer sets up such a red flag, according to a report in The New York Times.

All that you should know about Windows Mobile 7

Mobile World Congress is now just a few weeks away as it starts on Feb 15. Enthusiasts around the world are expecting newer version of Windows Mobile, version 7 to be launched. Rumors have been heard about the potential improvement over the current version 6.x codebase. A developer has recently commented that the new version is far distant from its earlier version and all the current WinMo apps are about go extinct.

First, WinMo 7 is essentially a copy of the Zune HD’s kernel. It comes in one screen size and will work best on OLED devices. Microsoft will give official specs to hardware makers and force them to comply or else refuse them access to the OS. This includes a regimented screen and RAM size as well as a minimum processor speed.

Disputes lead to Android launch postpone by Google in China

No clash of titans may go farther than the recent major world issues - Google vs China. The problems between Google and Chinese Government are not on a downfall but will rise even more with the Google's latest announcement regarding the Android phones. After deciding to stop censoring its Google.cn results, Google has stepped up its offensive with the announcement that two Android phones -- one from Samsung and one from Motorola -- which were to make their arrival on China Unicom on Wednesday have now been postponed. Google says if China plays it good then the launch will just be postponed and if not, then its "never gonna happen".

China has the world's most-populous mobile phone market, with more than 700 million accounts and increasingly prosperous customers who readily pay for the latest technology and services.

Microsoft Threatens, Switch from IE and risks will increase

Head of Security and Privacy for Microsoft UK has recently commented that users who did wander away from Internet Explorer, after the recent headline actually land up on a browser which is definitely less secure than IE.

France and Germany both started advising their users to leave IE and find a better option, which created a problem for Microsoft. But Micrisoft has not still ruled out the possibility that the vulnerability might be used out against the later versions.

Sony Memory Sticks now with Wireless TransferJet Technology

TransferJet Technology, many of us might be familiar with this and many may be not. But there are very less things more epic than this technology of recent times. Maybe thats the only reason why Sony is eager to adapt it into their memory sticks.

Internal Sabotag involved in Google attack - Rumour or Truth?

Google is investigating whether one or more employees may have helped facilitate a cyber-attack from China that the U.S search giant said it was a victim of in mid-December.

Google, the world's most popular search engine, said last week it may pull out of the world's biggest Internet market by users after reporting it had been hit by a "sophisticated" cyber-attack on its network that resulted in theft of its intellectual property.

HP TouchSmart tm2 tablet released, upgraded dv6t and dv7t with Core i5

HP has released the much awaited and soon to be apple of everyone's eye - the TouchSmart TM2, its ready for shipping in for near about $950, and will be empowered with a 12-inch capacitive multitouch display, a somewhat senescent SU7300 1.3GHz ULV processor, and 3GB of DDR3 memory.

"Square" payment dongle for iPhone

Wonder what it would be like after a Digg and Twitter copulation?? Ok, dont stress your minds as we already got the first result of it, The iPhone payment dongle. Square is Jack Dorsey's (Twitter co-founder) new startup that now has Kevin Rose (Digg founder) on board as an investor and YouTube pitch man for the prototype payment device that plugs directly into the iPhone's headphone jack.

Steady Hand is what required by N 97's Brain Maze

Now its obviously understood that not everyone in world has NeuroSky's Mindset brainwave interface headset, but if u do, and also got Nokia N 97 -- this could finally be your ticket to a sharper wit, improved hand-eye coordination, better-smelling breath, and frankly, a whole new you.

'Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars' Released in US

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars was finally released into the Apple App Store yesterday evening. As far as the graphical quality is concerned this game for iPhone lies somewhere between the DS and PSP versions but if u take pure GTA gameplay into concern, everything seems to be intact.

Much like other versions of the game, screenshots barely do it justice. Liberty City in motion on the iPhone is amazing, and all the jagged edges in the screenshots quickly fade away when you're racing down a street, under elevated train tracks, and through alleys as you escape the police. The realtime clock in-game also changes the lighting of the city, shifting from the orange glow of a sunset to the street lights turning on at night. It really looks awesome.

Apple blocking VoIP, but WHY????

Here are few questions to be wondered about :
Why Skype hadn't enabled Push Notifications in their latest iPhone update, and more importantly, why we couldn't use Skype, or any voice over IP service, over 3G?

Peter Parkes, a Skype blogger, wrote in to clarify that they are working on the Push notifications and its surely coming. Also, the reason they can't enable VoIP over 3G isn't a limitation by AT&T.