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spy plane

United States military action in Iraq plagued by local militants who do hack on unmanned reconnaissance aircraft Predator. Armed with a simple software, the rebels reportedly stole successfully recorded video feeds from Predator.

With inexpensive software called SkyGrabber, the cracker action cybernya refine targeting these sophisticated devices. Cracker possibility of using telecommunication links in the system unprotected aircraft.

Honestly this news prompted fears about the fragility Predator security systems. Because the access video from Predator, the militants could find a region which the U.S. military espionage.

Quoted from IBTimes, Wednesday (23/12/2009), the disclosure of this cracker action known after U.S. troops get files contain video recordings of the Predators. Files found on laptops seized from the militants.

Military officials insisted the security hole was fixed. It is believed that the weakness has long been known, but unexpectedly the enemy can exploit.

Developers who develop SkyGrabber admitted not knowing how the program can be used to manufacture mengintersep video feeds from Predator.

“This software is developed for mengintersep music, photos, videos, programs and content that other users downloaded from the Internet,” said Andrew Solonikov, one developer SkyGrabber.

tracking santa

North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) to provide specialized services to enliven the Christmas joy for children. These services form a special website to track the existence of Santa Claus.

The children who impatiently waiting for Santa to know the latest update to find out where the bearded man nan was nice.

NORAD claimed that they put all the sophisticated equipment to follow and track where Santa and his reindeer, deer go around the world to deliver presents.

Telegraph, Thursday (24/12/2009) launch, the tradition of tracking Santa Claus existence NORAD has conducted since 1955. NORAD who was named Director of Operations at Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) provides a special telephone line for children waiting for Santa.

Head CONAD then instructed his staff to provide the latest information about the existence and position of Santa Claus. So since then, so was born the tradition of tracking Santa’s presence in Colorado.

At that time they were encouraged to call the hot line number provided to find information CONAD existence of Santa Claus. The enthusiasm of children who wanted to see Santa make phone calls CONAD traffic booming and even experienced an error.

Now times have changed, Santa tracking technology was no longer using the phone. Now NORAD offers Santa tracking service to the children throughout the world using Google Earth Map service. This service provides information in seven languages including English, Spanish and China.3

To convince the kids, they mention NORAD uses radar and satellite technology to track the infrared light signals emitted from Rudolph the red nose, one of the faithful reindeer with Santa Claus distributing gifts around.

www.noradsanta.org

blackberry-mail

Clear Hard Work RIM fixing Blackberry Email

Research In Motion (RIM) expressed apology for the Blackberry email service disruption. RIM tried to convince users that they are qualified to continue work currently handles Blackberry email delivery delays.

Blackberry users in North and South America experiencing delays in email delivery problems in their Blackberry.

Based on RIM reports, the users complain because they can not send or receive messages via email. However, telephone service and a brief message to function properly.

The users even spill their resentment through networking site Twitter and share information about the handling of this issue. Some are some are mentioning their Blackberry can not connect to the Internet.

“Engineers continue to work to handle this problem. RIM apologize for any inconvenience experienced by consumers,” says RIM spokeswoman Jamie Ernst is quoted from CNet, Wednesday (23/12/2009).

Ernst declined to explain in detail about the cause of this problem. He did not mention the number of users affected and the time Blackberry email service back to normal.

bing microsoft

After reaping the problem because mikroblogging Plurk tracing service, Microsoft is now tripping the new case. This time involving their search engine, Bing.

Software company was sued by a small company in St. Louis, because the name Bing claimed that the company had used a long time. St. Louis small firm claims his name is Bing, a long time. Company called Ars Technica, believes the name of Bing will be theirs forever.

“Bing name used by Microsoft has caused confusion in society and markets. We would sue over this issue,” the statement Ars Technica, Cnet quoted, Tuesday (22/12/2009).

Meanwhile, Microsoft refused to denounced as profiteers Bing’s name. Indeed earlier, the search engine’s name was Bingo, but for commercial reasons they remove his letter O.

“Microsft believe that Bing did not cause confusion in the marketplace, in relation to complaints about Microsoft’s name Bing,” said a spokesman for Microsoft

firefox 3.5 vs ie7

The development of Mozilla as a browser developers increasingly haunt Microsoft. Although until now, Microsoft browser, Internet Explorer (IE) still dominates the browser market, Mozilla at least endeavored to erode the dominance of IE.

StatsCounter latest data reveal, the number of users Firefox 3.5 browser to pass the number of users of Internet Explorer 7. Similarly ITPro launched on Monday (21/12/2009).

StatsCounter shows globally Firefox 3.5 user control 21.9 percent of the market, while IE7 is only 21.2 percent. Meanwhile, two other versions of IE, IE6 and IE8 which mastered each 13.9 and 20.9 per cent. Clear that if seeing In total number of users of IE6, 7, and 8 are still dominant.

IE, according to StatsCounter United States dominate the market, while Mozilla Firefox is more dominate the European market. In continental Europe, Firefox 3.5 dominates approximately 28.4 percent of the market while IE 8 over 21.6 percent. The Americas is happening is the opposite, in which IE8 over IE7 followed by 25 percent, 21.8 percent and Firefox 3.5 with 21.7 percent market domination.