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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Intel Hacked at Same Time As Google
Daily Mail
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KOMPAS.com - Intel has revealed that it was targeted by a "sophisticated" hacker attack this year at about the same time as a spying probe that hit Google. Intel disclosed the attack in a regulatory filing late Monday. It doesn't necessarily mean that Intel was infiltrated or that the attackers were the same ones that targeted Google.
Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy said Tuesday that the attack on Intel wasn't broad-based like the one that hit Google. He said Intel isn't aware of any intellectual property being stolen.
Intel, like other major corporations, faces constant computer attacks. Mulloy said the company was only pointing out there was a connection in terms of the timing of the Google attacks as part of a disclosure to investors about the company's risks.
The disclosure comes amid heightened fears of state-sponsored espionage targeting corporate computer networks. Google revealed last month that its network was attacked from inside China and that the intruders stole intellectual property — an attack that Google says could cause it to leave China.
Google said at least 20 other companies were targeted as part of the attack, but those companies weren't identified. Software maker Adobe Systems Inc. and Rackspace Inc., a Web hosting service, have acknowledged being targets.
Intel is the world's largest maker of microprocessors, the "brains" of personal computers and servers, with about 80 percent of the worldwide market for those chips.
Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy said Tuesday that the attack on Intel wasn't broad-based like the one that hit Google. He said Intel isn't aware of any intellectual property being stolen.
Intel, like other major corporations, faces constant computer attacks. Mulloy said the company was only pointing out there was a connection in terms of the timing of the Google attacks as part of a disclosure to investors about the company's risks.
The disclosure comes amid heightened fears of state-sponsored espionage targeting corporate computer networks. Google revealed last month that its network was attacked from inside China and that the intruders stole intellectual property — an attack that Google says could cause it to leave China.
Google said at least 20 other companies were targeted as part of the attack, but those companies weren't identified. Software maker Adobe Systems Inc. and Rackspace Inc., a Web hosting service, have acknowledged being targets.
Intel is the world's largest maker of microprocessors, the "brains" of personal computers and servers, with about 80 percent of the worldwide market for those chips.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Google Donates USD 2 Million to Wikipedia
WIKIPEDIA
KOMPAS.com - Google, the Internet's most profitable company, is giving $US2 million ($A2.2m) to support Wikipedia, a volunteer-driven reference tool that has emerged as one of the Web's most-read sites.
The donation announced Wednesday matches the largest grant made so far to Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit group that oversees the 7-year-old Wikipedia. Ebay founder Pierre Omidyar also donated $US2 million to Wikimedia six months ago through one of his investment arms.
The latest largesse has catapulted Wikimedia beyond its $US10.6 million revenue target for its fiscal year ending in June. That goal had looked ambitious, given that it represented an increase of more than 20 percent from $US8.7 million a year earlier.
But the worst recession since World War II evidently didn't dampen support for the Internet's most popular encyclopedia, which has more than 14 million entries written and edited by some 100,000 unpaid contributors in about 270 languages.
Wikimedia, which gets most of its revenue from donations, has collected contributions from more than 240,000 individuals so far this fiscal year, mostly in small sums.
The outpouring has allowed Wikipedia to expand while keeping its Web site commercial free, spokesman Jay Walsh said. "We intend to keep it that way, too."
Wikimedia, based in San Francisco, plans to spend about $US9.4 million of its revenue this year, mostly to pay salaries and benefits to a staff of more than 30 people. The second-biggest expense is for operating Wikipedia's Web site.
The donation is a pittance for Google, which ended December with $US24 billion in cash. Google makes much of its money from ads that run alongside Internet search results, many of which send people to Wikipedia.
In a statement, Google co-founder Sergey Brin hailed Wikipedia as "one of the greatest triumphs of the Internet".
The donation announced Wednesday matches the largest grant made so far to Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit group that oversees the 7-year-old Wikipedia. Ebay founder Pierre Omidyar also donated $US2 million to Wikimedia six months ago through one of his investment arms.
The latest largesse has catapulted Wikimedia beyond its $US10.6 million revenue target for its fiscal year ending in June. That goal had looked ambitious, given that it represented an increase of more than 20 percent from $US8.7 million a year earlier.
But the worst recession since World War II evidently didn't dampen support for the Internet's most popular encyclopedia, which has more than 14 million entries written and edited by some 100,000 unpaid contributors in about 270 languages.
Wikimedia, which gets most of its revenue from donations, has collected contributions from more than 240,000 individuals so far this fiscal year, mostly in small sums.
The outpouring has allowed Wikipedia to expand while keeping its Web site commercial free, spokesman Jay Walsh said. "We intend to keep it that way, too."
Wikimedia, based in San Francisco, plans to spend about $US9.4 million of its revenue this year, mostly to pay salaries and benefits to a staff of more than 30 people. The second-biggest expense is for operating Wikipedia's Web site.
The donation is a pittance for Google, which ended December with $US24 billion in cash. Google makes much of its money from ads that run alongside Internet search results, many of which send people to Wikipedia.
In a statement, Google co-founder Sergey Brin hailed Wikipedia as "one of the greatest triumphs of the Internet".
Chinese Schools 'behind Cyber Attacks on Google'
AP
Claims: Cyber attacks on Googles Gmail accounts have been linked to two educational institutes in China, according to reports
KOMPAS.com - The cyber-attack on Google’s computers which may result in the search giant pulling its Chinese operations has been traced to two Chinese schools. Two education institutions – Jiaotong University and Lanxiang Vocational School, which has links to the Chinese military – were involved in the internet attacks on Google and up to 30 other U.S. companies, according to the New York Times.
Its report claims security investigators have traced hacking to computers at the institutions. The Shanghai Jiantong University is one of China's top academic institutions.
Officials told the Times they had not heard about the Google attacks being traced back to their computers but indicated a willingness to investigate.
A professor at the school didn't rule out the possibility that the attacks came from the school, but said they might simply have been someone ‘experimenting with their hacking skills’.
A professor at the school didn't rule out the possibility that the attacks came from the school, but said they might simply have been someone ‘experimenting with their hacking skills’.
Adobe and Rackspace have confirmed they were also targeted in the attacks, which may have begun in April 2009 - earlier than previously believed.
In January, Google revealed it had been victims of a ‘highly sophisticated and targeted attack’ involving an attack to hack the Gmail accounts of human rights activists in China.
In January, Google revealed it had been victims of a ‘highly sophisticated and targeted attack’ involving an attack to hack the Gmail accounts of human rights activists in China.
It responded by threatening to pull out of the country unless it was able to operate uncensored. Google has said it is prepared to close its China-based operation including shutting its offices in the country.
However, the Chinese government has denied any involvement in the cyber-attacks, said to have exploited a security weakness in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser. Officials have publicly insisted Google obey its restrictions against showing links deemed to be subversive or pornographic. Google’s Chinese search engine remains in operation and its results are still censored.
Google Doodle Manyambut Vancouver 2010
Untuk pertama kalinya Google mengubah tampilan homepage bukan sekedar pergantian logonya (atau Google Doodle). Halaman utama Google secara global kali ini dihiasi dengan latar belakang memanjang bertema pembukaan Olimpiade Vancouver atau 2010 Winter Olympics atau Vancouver 2010. Huruf “l” dari logo Google digantikan dengan obor olimpiade sedangkan di sebelah kiri logo Google terdapat logo Olimpics.
Hari ini, 12 Februari 2010 merupakan hari pembukaan Olimpiade Vancouver sebagai Olimpiade ke 21 yang diselenggarakan di Vancouver provinsi British Columbia di Canada.
Bukan pertama kali kalo Google ikut memeriahkan Olimpiade, tahun 2008 yang lalu dengan Google Doodle bertema Olimpiade Beijing 2008 yang dibuat secara berseri setiap hari berganti-ganti dengan tema Beijing 2008 mulai pembukaan sampai penutupan. Seri Beijing 2008 dapat dilihat di SINI. Kita tunggu aja apakah seri pembukaan (opening) ini diikuti dengan tema yang lain besok?
Untuk melihat Goggle Doodle Day By Day dapat dilihat di Facebook yang terbagi dalam 4 album antara lain:Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 dan Part 4 atau kalau di blog ini di dalam kategori Google Doodle.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
DON'T BOTHER TO LEARN FOREIGN LANGUAGES: Google to Launch Smartphones That Will Translate for You in Real Time
Alamy
Babel Fish from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. In Douglas Adams book the fish was put into the ear to translate
KOMPAS.com - A mobile phone that can act as an interpreter is being developed by Google. The firm says its device will convert spoken words into another language almost instantly.
Franz Och, Google's head of translation services, said: 'We think speech-to-speech translation should be possible and work reasonably well in a few years' time.
'Clearly, for it to work smoothly, you need a combination of high-accuracy machine translation and high-accuracy voice recognition, and that's what we're working on.'
While early versions of Google's website translation software sometimes produced little more than gobbledegook, an ever-growing database has enabled it to achieve far greater accuracy.
So far it covers 52 of the world's estimated 6,000 languages, the latest being Haitian Creole. Google admits speech will be an even tougher challenge than text but says a customer's phone would adapt to its user by 'learning' their style of talking.
'Everyone has a different voice, accent and pitch,' said Mr Och. 'But recognition should be effective with mobile phones because by nature they are personal to you.'
And as with automatic text translation, what may begin as a fairly primitive technique will, Google hopes, become more sophisticated with the help of millions of users around the world. However language experts believe the prospect of such technology supplanting the ability to speak a foreign tongue is a distant one.
David Crystal, honorary professor of linguistics at Bangor University, said the problems of dealing with speed of speech and range of accents could prove insurmountable.
'No system at the moment can handle that properly,' he added.
In Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the Babel Fish was a small yellow creature capable of translating any language when placed in a person's ear.
It sparked a bloody war because everyone became able to understand what other people were saying.
Franz Och, Google's head of translation services, said: 'We think speech-to-speech translation should be possible and work reasonably well in a few years' time.
'Clearly, for it to work smoothly, you need a combination of high-accuracy machine translation and high-accuracy voice recognition, and that's what we're working on.'
While early versions of Google's website translation software sometimes produced little more than gobbledegook, an ever-growing database has enabled it to achieve far greater accuracy.
So far it covers 52 of the world's estimated 6,000 languages, the latest being Haitian Creole. Google admits speech will be an even tougher challenge than text but says a customer's phone would adapt to its user by 'learning' their style of talking.
'Everyone has a different voice, accent and pitch,' said Mr Och. 'But recognition should be effective with mobile phones because by nature they are personal to you.'
And as with automatic text translation, what may begin as a fairly primitive technique will, Google hopes, become more sophisticated with the help of millions of users around the world. However language experts believe the prospect of such technology supplanting the ability to speak a foreign tongue is a distant one.
David Crystal, honorary professor of linguistics at Bangor University, said the problems of dealing with speed of speech and range of accents could prove insurmountable.
'No system at the moment can handle that properly,' he added.
In Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the Babel Fish was a small yellow creature capable of translating any language when placed in a person's ear.
It sparked a bloody war because everyone became able to understand what other people were saying.
Friday, February 5, 2010
Goojje Pesaing Baru Google Dari China
Ancaman walk out Google dari China, ternyata disambut baik, terbukti dengan adanya search engine baru yang dibuat untuk menyaingi Google. Nama search engine Goojje, menjadi tambahan dari deretan reputasi China yang senang meng-copy banyak item seperti desainer pakaian, DVD, dan search engine Google. Goojje sendiri sudah mulai beroperasi sejak 14 Januari lalu.
Sementara dari Google Inc menyatakan bahwa 2 hari sebelumnya bahwa mungkin Goojje akan menjadi pengganti portal Gogle.cn dan menarik Google.cn dari China. Nama Goojje sendiri merupakan nama yang asing, mengingat lafal "jje" seperti berasal dari bahasa China yang berarti ‘kakak perempuan’, sementara "gle" dari Google jika diartikan dalam bahasa China berarti ‘adik laki-laki’.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Google Chrome Operating System
Setelah dibilang sukses dengan meluncurkan browser google chrome, kali ini google kembali mengeluarkan produk barusnya yaitu Google chrome operating system. Os ini dikalim sebagai sistem operasi yang open source dan ringan, sesuai dengan namanya yang diambil dari nama browser milik google sendiri dapat diartikan bahwa os ini ditujukan untuk para pengguna internet yang menginginkan kecepatan dalam mengakses internet. Untuk saat ini os tersebut masih ditargetkan untuk notebook.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Google Book Downloader
Source : http://www.kasurkotor.com/2009/04/google-book-downloader.html#ixzz0dvzTRHtr
Google Redesign YouTube, Bisa Puter Film Paling Panjang
Google telah meluncurkan desain minimalis yang baru untuk halaman pemutar video YouTube, yang diklaim lebih bagus untuk content lebih banyak yang di-upload dari user, juga untuk film yang berdurasi panjang. Dengan mematikan (mute) “voice“ desain YouTube yang lama, YouTube berharap dapat membuat video ‘berdiri‘ sendiri di halamannya. User dapat switch versi YouTube ke desain yang baru, dengan mengklik link khusus (sebuah link di kanan atas dapat digunakan switch kembali).
Friday, January 29, 2010
Google Update Chrome dengan 1.500 Fitur Baru
SAN FRANSISCO - Google baru saja merilis update terbaru untuk browser Chrome, Chrome 4.0. Pembaharuan ini menjanjikan tambahan 1.500 fitur baru, dan performa browser lebih cepat serta aman.
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