Change is Constant

One thing that I've noticed that never changes all through our lives is - Change. There is always something or the other around us that just keeps on moving back and forth. Isn't it rightly said that we are vibrational beings? We keep on changing in form, shape, location and so happen with the things around us as well. The only change that we notice the most is - Time! My life is also no exception to this rule. It has been a roller-coaster ride......

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So Much For Bouncer: New Android Malware Uses Facebook To Spread

Even though Google recently introduced a malware-blocking system called Bouncer to keep the Android Market safe from malicious software, crafty spammers and fraudsters are still managing to find ways around the restrictions to get their software onto users’ phones. The latest example? A malware program disguised, innocuously, as an Android app called “any_name.apk.” And it appears the malware is using Facebook’s app on Android phones in order......

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Microsoft Releases A Font Update For The Indian Rupee Symbol

The Indian Government approved the Indian Rupee currency symbol in July last year and within a span of less than three months, the symbol officially made it to the Unicode Standard. The Indian IT department had initially proposed that the character code U+0971 be assigned to the Indian Rupee sign, as the code was within the range of Devnagri characters, but the Unicode Consortium approved the code U+20B9 which is the same range that is used for......

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File Hosting Status Updates

After Megaupload is taken down by the FBI, the rest of the file hosting services are just as anxious as the prior because they could be the next victim of this process. Here's the status updates from the rest of the file hosting i got from Fiohnel Fiver on Google+: MegaUpload - Closed. FileServe - Closing does not sell premium. FileJungle - Deleting files. Locked in the U.S. UploadStation - Locked in the U.S. FileSonic - The news is arbitrary (under FBI investigation). VideoBB - Closed! would disappear soon. Uploaded - Banned U.S. and the FBI went after the owners who are gone. FilePost -......

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Firefox 10 Released

It's February 1 and a new major release of Firefox has just been released. Firefox has now reached version 10. It's now available from auto-update mechanism that was built in into the product itself. If you happened to use a package from your Linux distribution, an update will come out soon enough since many packager disabled the auto update feature. What's new on this release? According to the release notes, this version brings several new features such as: CSS 3D Transforms Anti-Aliasing for WebGL Invisible Forward button (will be visible when you press the Back button) Full Screen API IndexedDB......

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