08Apr 2014 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

Windows XP operating system’s Support ends Today

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Support for the venerable Windows XP operating system ends this Tuesday. It means that there will be no more official security updates and bug fixes for the operating system from Microsoft. Some governments have negotiated extended support contracts for the OS in a bid to keep users protected. Security firms said anyone else using the 13-year-old software would be at increased risk of infection and compromise by cyber-thieves. Statistics suggest 20-25% of all users have stuck with XP despite the fact that there have been three major releases of Windows since its debut in 2001. Some of those existing XP users have struck deals to get security fixes from Microsoft while they complete their migration away from the ageing code. Anyone currently running Windows XP already faced a disproportionate risk…
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07Apr 2014 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

NASA would develop a ‘GitHub for astronauts’

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If you have studied rocket science, NASA would enable you to make your own space craft! From April 10, the US space agency is set to reveal its enormous database highlighting where to find software for more than 1,000 of its projects. "NASA would offer a searchable database of projects," Daniel Lockney, technology transfer program executive at NASA, was quoted as saying in a Daily Mail report. We have collected a large amount of software projects, everything from design tools to robotic control systems, Lockney added. NASA would develop a 'GitHub for astronauts' by hosting the actual software code in its own online repository, which will be found at technology.nasa.gov. The data can be accessed free of copyright, but special clearance would be needed for anyone who wants to access…
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05Apr 2014 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

Virtual Currency Sales is now allowed on eBay

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To promote a trustworthy marketplace and ensure compliance with applicable regulations, eBay updated its Currency Policy in February. The updated policy clarifies that listings for Bitcoin and other similar virtual currencies must be listed in the Virtual Currency Category in the Classified Ad format. In terms of mining gear and mining contracts, those can be listed as auction or Buy It Now.   eBay, & PayPal, has added a new Virtual Currency  to their sales site, allowing users to sell virtual currency like bitcoin, as well as miners, and mining contracts. The category is sparsely populated right now and the listings are all classified ads, suggesting that eBay wants buyer and seller to hash out their sale outside of the company’s jurisdiction, thereby reducing risk of become liable for scams and fake sales. The company…
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05Apr 2014 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

WordPress Plugins are released now

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Our first set of Wordpress plugins for Twitter Feeds, FaceBook Fanbox, Google Analytics, and QR code is now released and uploaded to our Wordress Plugin Respository here These plugins are developed for social need of any Wordpress Powered blog, so use can use them to increase traffic to their website or blogs. These are free and easy to setup, you can try them and send us your valuable feedback to improve or add new features. We are also doing customization to Wordrpess, Joomla, Magento based E-commerce website and developing Responsive Themes for Wordpress, Joomla, Magento and other popular CMS. Our Themes & Templates are Bootstrap based Responsive and mobile friendly. We make sure that we know every little thing about the company to make sure that we incorporate the image…
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05Apr 2014 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

Is Firefox’s future under threat?

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The survival of her company, which pledges to make the web a better place, is at the mercy of one of its main competitors, Google. If you haven't heard of Mozilla, you almost certainly know - and perhaps use - its most famous product: the Firefox browser. Since 2002, it has been steadily gaining market share against Internet Explorer (IE), Microsoft's pre-loaded, oft-criticised equivalent. It now has about half a billion users, a huge number of which are evangelists for the software. Many even help create it - it is one of the largest open-source projects on the net. Google likes this. So much so, they pay Mozilla millions of pounds every year to secure a piece of prime real-estate on Firefox's default homepage encouraging users to perform a Google…
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04Apr 2014 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

Indo-American Develops Paper Microscope “Foldscope”

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An Indian-origin scientist has developed an incredibly low-cost microscope made almost entirely out of a very unlikely material - paper. The Foldscope, developed by Manu Prakash from Stanford University, contains three stages - a specimen stage in which the slide is placed, an optics stage that holds a ball lens and an illumination stage that contains an LED light. In order to view the specimen sample, users have to place their eyebrow against the paper with their eye close to the lens, in a fashion similar to the use of a traditional microscope. Magnification and image panning are controlled by the user's thumbs, including sliding to view different parts of the image and using a simple flexing mechanism to control magnification, according to 'The Stanford Daily'. Field testing has revealed…
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02Apr 2014 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

Now LinkedIn email addresses exposed

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The email addresses of LinkedIn users can easily be exposed via a web browser add-on tool, it has been revealed. Sell Hack is available as a free extension to the Chrome browser that, once installed, will pop up a "hack in" button on LinkedIn profiles. Users can then find the email address associated with the account even if they are not connected. LinkedIn said it was taking legal action over the plug-in and advised users to uninstall it. Sell Hack insisted that the the tool was created for marketing professionals and that all data is publicly available. On its website it said: "We just do the heavy lifting and complicated computing to save you time, We aren't doing anything malicious to LinkedIn." But the social network for professionals did not…
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31Mar 2014 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

Internet access via Facebook drones

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The Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg  has announced to connect the two-thirds of the world that has no net access, using drones, satellites and lasers.It will put it in direct competition with Google, which is planning to deliver net access via balloons.Both of the net giants want to extend their audiences, especially in the developing world. Details about Facebook's plan were scant but it will include a fleet of solar-powered drones as well as low-earth orbit and geosynchronous satellites. Invisible, infrared laser beams could also be used to boost the speed of the net connections.Last year Facebook and other technology companies launched internet.org to help bring net access to the huge swathes of the globe that are still not connected. Aerospace experts: The social network has already teamed up with telecoms…
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29Mar 2014 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

“Google India” has been fined Rs 1 crore

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Google's failure to provide complete information in response to seven notices sent by the investigation arm of Competition Commission of India (CCI) resulted in its decision to impose Rs 1 crore penalty on the internet major. While deciding to impose the fine, the fair trade watchdog CCI said that Google Inc and Google India Private Ltd failed to comply fully with various notices issued by the Director General (DG) on various occasions. DG, the investigation arm of the fair trade regulator, is probing alleged anti-competitive practices by Google in the Indian market. "Despite reminders and opportunities extended by the DG, the opposite parties advanced frivolous and vexatious pleas to delay and avoid compliance. It may be noted that the period of failure to comply commenced w.e.f. 26.02.2013 in terms of…
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29Mar 2014 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

Joomla! Framework changes to LGPL

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The board of Open Source Matters (OSM) has voted to approve the request submitted by the Joomla! Production Leadership Team (PLT) to change the license of the Joomla Framework from GPL v2+ to LGPL v2.1+. It is important to understand that this license change applies only to the Joomla Framework, and does not affect the GPL v2+ license for the Joomla Content Management System (CMS). This decision by OSM was the final step in a process that started early last year, when the PLT first initiated a public email list discussion and then conducted a survey aimed at the Joomla developer community. When the results of that survey indicated strong support for that potential license change, the PLT requested that OSM research legal issues regarding this potential change for the…
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