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Is your site Mobile-Friendly?

Is your site Mobile-Friendly? This is what the Google is looking for. I just want to re-post this topic, which was posted last year as a reminder to check if your site is Mobile-Friendly.

The new Google algorithm that launched a couple of weeks ago, is revolutionizing the way that mobile search results will give preference to mobile ready websites over non-mobile ready websites.

The mobile device searches are increasing day-by-day, as it’s very easy to find and buy products, buy vacation tickets, book hotels and so many online activities, just while on the go. Mobile_Friendly

So, the Google is favoring the mobile search by boosting the ranking of mobile-friendly pages on mobile search results as now searchers can more easily find high quality and relevant results, where text is readable without tapping or zooming, tap targets are spaced appropriately, and the page avoids unplayable content or horizontal scrolling, according to Official Google Webmaster Central Blog.

With the mobile search growing faster than the desktop, businesses that don’t have mobile ready sites are losing their rankings and traffic. More than 40% of Fortune 500 companies’ websites are not mobile-friendly, which will have a big impact with the new Google’s algorithm.

Our website, DMG Weblabs is mobile-friendly. Is your site mobile-friendly, if not, it’s time to think.

Check if your site is mobile-friendly with the Google’s Mobile-Friendly Test.

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Source: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.ca

Humanoid Robot can also interact with people

A humanoid robot, known as ‘Han’ can smile, wince, wink, frown or even act drunk with the touch of a button using a mobile phone app. ‘Han’, which can mimic human expressions greeted visitors on April 18 at a Hong Kong electronics fair.

Han can also recognize people’s face, gender and emotional feelings like happy or sad and will interact with them by holding conversations with the help of about 40 motors and several cameras inside it’s eyes and chest.

A unique feature of Han is his human-like skin, which is created by a patented material called “Frubber”, or “Flesh Rubber”, an elastic polymer.

The developers Hanson Robotics hope androids like Han could have uses in hospitality, health care and entertainment Industries where communication is vital with different approaches of welcoming & entertaining people and showing care for older people.

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Source: www.businessinsider.com

Apple launches new 12-inch MacBook

Apple launched a new MacBook of 12-inch at their March 9^th event in San Francisco.

The MacBook weighs just 2 pounds and is Apple’s lightest and thinnest Macbook so far, it is 24% thinner than 11-inch MacBook Air. It features the company’s ultra high resolution with 2304 X 1400 Retina-display, a full-size much thinner keyboard with a new Force Touch trackpad, incredibly compact USB-C port, video out, single connector charging, and a day-long battery life. The device will be available in multiple colors like silver, grey and gold.

The new MacBook is the future of the notebook,” said Apple’s senior vice-president of worldwide marketing Philip Schiller.

The new MacBook pricing will start at $1,299 and will be powered by Intel’s new Mprocessor.

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Source: http://www.timesofindia.com

Blackberry Touch Screen Phone

Blackberry has announced a touch-screen phone, Blackberry Leap, without physical keys, at the Mobile World Congress trade show.

The midprice of Blackberry Leap will retail for $275 and has a 5-inch display will be available next month in some countires. The Leap is aimed at ” young professionals and businesses that value security and privacy for the “career-building” and are more accustomed to a touch-screen keyboard.

Ben Wood, from the CCS Insight consultancy said, “Blackberry will find it tough to compete with the iPhone and Android devices, but the Leap will be essential to offer a more rounded portfolio of phones.”, though Blackberry is falling in it’s sales.

Blackberry is planning to launch three more devices in this year, along with Leap.

Blackberry also briefly teased the last device for this year, a more distinctive device at its press conference, a curved-screened phone with a keyboard that slides out from below its screen, though its name & further details are not provided.

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Source: http://www.bbc.com/; http://www.wsj.com/

Electric car by Apple

Apple is planning to build an electric car with an electric car project, Titan, in five years, which might compete with Tesla Motors, Nissan Motors, General Motors, Ford Motors & other companies.
Though Apple hasn’t officially announced the electric vehicle, it hired few hundred people including some new hires from the auto industry including experts in technologies such as batteries and robotics, on a skunkworks project to do the early development of an electric vehicle resembling a minivan.
The company is probably looking at several options and would be more likely to engineer the software that controls autonomous-driving cars or rethink the human control of today’s cars, said Jon Bereisa, CEO of consulting firm Auto Lectrification LLC who worked on the Chevy Volt program.

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Source: http://www.timesofindia/

What’sApp Privacy is ‘broken’

What’sApp privacy settings can be bypassed by a simple software, though on one hand, the makers of the app are endowing the app with privacy controls and encryption to secure the messages, usage pattern, profile picturse and status messages; claims the Dutch Student, Maikel Zweerink.

A tool, Whatsspy is developed by him that can track every move of any WhatsApp user.

Maikel Zweerink claims that “the Whatsspy is Proof of Concept that What’sApp is broken in terms of privacy.”

The tool can be run on a phone which is not connected with What’sApp. The What’sApp user’s online/offline status (even privacy set to ‘nobdoy’), profile pictures, privacy settings and status messages can be tracked with this tool. Even it can show a timeline that shows when users have been online and how long they were online.

This latest flaw in What’sApp privacy settings, however, raises fresh concerns over it’s security policy.

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Source: http://www.timesofindia/

A Glossary of a hacker’s dictionary

++++Term++++	+++++++++++++++++Definition
Advanced persistent threat (APT):	A strategic cyber attack that infiltrates a system and persists over a prolonged period of time, potentially undetected. APTs may be carried out by a nation state or criminal organization to steal sensitive data or compromise a target system.
Botnet:	A large network of virus-infected computers that can be used to generate spam, spread viruses, perpetrate click fraud or conduct attacks on other systems.
Bug bounty program:	A program where software companies offer cash rewards to hackers to find and report exploitable vulnerabilities before they can be used by cyber criminals. Facebook, Google, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft have been known to offer thousands of dollars in return for bugs.
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack:	An attack designed to disrupt a computer system or website service by bombarding the site with so much web traffic that it crashes. Botnets are often used to carry out DDoS assaults.
Ransomware:	Malicious software designed to block access to a system or account until a sum of money is paid.
Social engineering:	Non-computer methods of manipulation to obtain sensitive personal information, such as birth dates, or social security numbers. Personal knowledge often used to bypass passwords.
Special phishing:	An email masquerading as being from a trusted source or person you know sent with the goal of obtaining sensitive information, often by downloading data-sniffing and computer-controlling malicious software.
Zero-day exploit:	A previously undetected software vulnerability that is used to hack into affected system before developers or manufacturers can address or fix the problem.

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Source: The Globe and Mail

Twelve big hacks

Some of the largest hacks in history, by records exposed :

#	Name	Hacks	+++++++++++++++++Expose
1	NYC Taxi & Limousine	173 million	Hack exploits poorly anonymized trip details and personal information of drivers
2	Adobe Systems	152 million	Hack of company systems exposes informations related to customer orders
3	Shanghai Roadway	150 million	Firm may have illegally bought and sold customers’ information
4	eBay	145 million	Hack exposes names, encrypted password and personal information
5	Unknown South Korean Firms	140 million	North Korean hackers expose e-mail addresses and identification numbers
6	Heartland	130 million	Hack/malicious software exposes credit cards at processor
7	Target	110 million	Hack exposes customer information by targeting point-of-sale systems
8	Korea Credit Bureau	104 million	Insider fraud exposes 104 million credit cards
9	TJX	94 million	Hack exposes credit cards and transaction details
10	TRW	90 million	Hack exposes credit-reporting database
11	JPMorgan	83 million	Hack exposes names, addresses, phone numbers and e-mails of the holders of household and small business accounts
12	Home Depot	56 million	Hackers use malware to steal debit and credit card data from point-of-sale systems

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Source: The Globe and Mail

Facebook creates ‘Safety Check’ tool for disasters

A tool that push users notify friends and family that they are safe during or after natural disasters like Tsunami & Earthquake, is launched by Facebook.

The tool, called ‘Safety Check’, which includes the basic “feature” phones many people still use to access Facebook, will be available worldwide to the social network’s users on computers and mobile devices, especially in developing countries.

Though the people already use Facebook to tell people they are “OK” after earthquakes and other disasters, the Facebook’s Safety Check tool will make it easier. This tool was created in 2011 by Facebook engineers following the Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan as a disaster message board.

Once users activate the tool, it will determine their location using the city they have listed in their profile, the last location they’ve shared or the city where they are using the internet. If they are in an area affected by a natural disaster, Safety Check will send them a notification asking if they’re safe.

If they say yes, their Facebook friends will be notified. There’s no option to say no. Users can also mark their friends as safe, but the friends have to approve it.

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Source: “http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/44834579.cms?intenttarget=no”

Ex-Googlers launch an app to make people talk

An app called Cord, developed by two former Google employees, Thomas Gayno and Jeff Baxter, is hoping to let people quickly record and send their brief voice messages lasting no more than 12 seconds to one or several people at the same time with just a single tap.

“Over the past decade, people are speaking to each other less and less,” Gayno told AFP.

“Increasingly they communicate by text — either by SMS, email or instant messaging. We want to tackle that and get people speaking to each other again.”

To transmit the voice with Cord, users will simply tap on the face of a visible contact placed in a circle, pressing once to listen to a message or to respond without the requirement of any number or text.

This voice enabled app will certainly play a key role in controlling new devices, from smartphones to wearables and other connected objects, as said by Thomas Husson, an analyst with Forrester Research. “However, I doubt that a service based on the promise of voice-services alone can scale – it will have to embedded among other features in an open way to control new devices.”

The two Google Veterans are hoping that this innovative new app will trigger a renaissance in an increasingly unfashionable method of human communication: talking.

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Source: “http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/Ex-Googlers-launch-an-app-to-make-people-talk/articleshow/44500960.cms”