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2011

The Obama Robbber strikes again

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The Obama disguised thief robbed a bank in the town of Handenberg in Upper Austria just before the bank closed at 6:00 pm (2230 IST), police said in statement.  A man who robs banks wearing a rubber mask of US President Barack Obama has struck again, Austrian police said today 

Obama Robbery Thief strikes again

Police believe this is the same man, disguised by his Obama mask, carrying out such bank raids for the past two years. The robber made off with a amount at 10,000 euros (USD 13,500) as per the daily Kronenzeitung, in its online edition.

 

You can get a Barack Obama Mask from Amazon  here –>   Smiling President Barack Obama Adult Mask But please do not use it for the wrong purposes

 

Norton Security threats update

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Today  Norton’s security offered a 2011 update  and  the resulting new screen looked quite nice and professional and organized.  A new interesting feature of the new Norton Internet  security is the display of threats in your own countries  and other countries that are updated on the go.

Top city’s with cybercrime activities

Here are a few snap shots showing the security threats currently happening in Australia and INDIA , check out the count of the threats in comparison to Australia and India its quite interesting to see which  cities are more unsafe than others.

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These maps below show the “top cities with cybercrime activity” happening ratios over the continent

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Cybercrime Threats in Australia as above as per Norton 2011 ( NIS)

Sydney – 1562 threats

Melbourne – 1061 Threats

Brisbane – 852 Threats

Perth – 531 Threats

and in our neighboring country in Auckland – 758 threats ( possibly not enough computers there)

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Cyber crime Threats in Mumbai comparison for cities below

Mumbai – 4366 Threats

New Delhi –2815 Threats

Chennai – 2491 Threats ( which indicates that too much IT literacy in India can also bring its own problems)

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New Norton Internet security 2011 update (above)

 

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Here is another ticker (above)that shows you the  update on the latest viruses that are being unleashed on the internet and are spreading. The pic above says w32.wapomi.clinf , packed.generic.315 , infostealert.gen2 and wapomi.c are the latest virus threats happening.

Norton Now scans facebook WALL as well

 

Facebook has become a top social site on the web. More and more people spend a lot of time on Facebook, and this gives cybercriminals the opportunity to use Facebook to propagate malware. This feature lets users scan their feed for malicious URLs using Norton Safe Web. You get a report of the scan, which you can choose to share on your Facebook Wall.

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Now  this is good to know about what is happening around the world , but wonder how much of my internet bandwidth it is eating, it probably wont make much  difference to me , but possibly would make a difference to some people in third world  or still developing countries  where internet bandwidth can be quite expensive. To explore more features and a review that are included in this new release have a browse – > over here

Embed playlists of different videos from you tube , Daily motion Etc With a nice Video player

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Did you wish you could  have your own video player look on your website , something that looks better than the you tube video player  or the my space or dailymotion video. Well now you can thanks to embedr.com.

This sites pulls the video from  these major video sharing sites like  YouTube, MySpace, Vimeo, DailyMotion and more and you can mix and match videos from these websites to make yourself a nice playlist of videos or then just a better looking video player with your video displaying on your website or blog.

The new Video embedding website on the block – embedr.com

Embedr does not host any videos. Embedr simply let’s you take your favorite videos from all over the web and make them into a playlist. Most of the top video sites like YouTube, MySpace, Vimeo, Dailymotion, and Blip.Tv work with Embedr right now. Here is a complete list of all Embedr compatible sites.

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Embed your You tube Videos with a nice looking Video player

Take a look at this example  at of of India’s leading local newspaper mid-day.com or then a few other playlist created by users at this website like  most-watched-music-videos-vevogo-com ,lsome indonesioan my-video-playlist_19707 , worldwide-water-conspiracy-theory-with-jesse-ventura

embed videoplayer for you tube playlists other videos 

This website can embed videos in  two ways , A Standard Playlist is made up of a list of specific videos you choose in the order you specify or the  you can go for the smart playlist , A Smart Playlist is a playlist of YouTube only videos that is constantly changing depending on a list of keywords you specify. The playlist can pull videos from all of YouTube, or from a specific YouTube User ID. Both relevant to the keywords you specify. What videos display in the playlist depends on how the date the video was created and how highly rated it is.

In the websites own words here are how they describe themselves  “Embedr is a free service that lets anyone create a custom playlist of videos from the top video sites on the web. Now start building that playlist of the best 80s music videos that are spread throughout YouTube, MySpace, Vimeo, DailyMotion and more”. » Learn More About Embedr

the emails wars to begin

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First it was yahoo mail  and hotmail at war , then came gmail  to add to the competition  and if rumors turn true the biggest tech 2 website explosion on the internet “facebook” could be joining the ranks to get a big slice of one of the biggest share of this technology on the internet.

Faebook rumoured to enter email business

If facebook gets it right , it could immediately pull a big chunk off the email market  from its rivals  from whom it has already been able to pull internet time off users , by becoming one of the most popular  website on the internet.

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Internet is buzzing with reports that Facebook is all set to launch its GMail rival next week. According to Techcrunch, Facebook’s secret Project Titan — a Web-based email client is launching on coming Monday alongside personal @facebook.com email addresses for users.

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Is facebook email launching ?

The current Facebook messaging service is not he best  and not regarded as a proper email tool by many as apparently it takes a lot of time to delete or manage e-mails.
Recently, Google blocked Facebook from accessing its API, preventing users from importing contact information from Gmail to Facebook.

Rumors are that facebook are going to upgrade thier email service  to make it more useful and easy for people to use it as a full blown email service right from their face book portal. This could flag a new email wars on the internet.