Report: Google in Talks to Acquire Twitter

⊆ Thursday, April 23, 2009 by kris | ˜ 1 comments »


San Francisco - Responding to rampant speculation that his company is in talks with potential suitor Google(NASD: GOOG), Biz Stone, the co-founder of microblogging service Twitter on Friday did little to quell the rumors. "It should come as no surprise that Twitter engages in discussions with other companies regularly and on a variety of subjects," Stone wrote in a blog post. "Our goal is to build a profitable, independent company and we're just getting started." TechCrunch reported that Google is currently in "late stage" talks to acquire the company, which recently was valued at $250 million.

The news comes just a few months after Twitter turned down an acquisition offer by Facebook, believed to be worth around $500 million.

Other sources believe that the discussions may lead to a partnership between the companies.

All Things D reported, citing "a number of sources close to the situation," that the companies are merely engaged in "some product-related discussions."

Twitter currently has just over 30 employees and works out of a loft in San Francisco's SoMA neighborhood.

 

Intel shows off next-gen Atom processor

⊆ Thursday, April 23, 2009 by kris | ˜ 0 comments »


Intel used the first day of the Spring IDF in Beijing to show off its Moorestown integrated processor, which is expected to replace the current Atom CPU and chipset later this year or early 2010. The company also introduced two new Z-series Atom processors.

It was the first time that a Moorestown chip was shown live to the public.

What makes this processor special is the fact that it integrates graphics and all other chipset components on-die, which will make it substantially smaller and apparently less power hungry than today’s Atom generation.

Moorestown is promised to run at ten times less idle power than the current Atom platform. Intel declined to reveal how much power the chip will actually consume and, at least for us, it is difficult to estimate that number. Today’s Atom relies on a 45 nm processor as well as an older chipset design, based on an updated i915 version, which is called System Controller Hub (SCH) as part of the Atom platform. The SCH is manufactured in 130 nm and simply too power hungry and too large to be used in small mobile devices such as smartphones.

Moorestown is expected to become Intel’s second serious attempt to make an impact in the cellphone market – the first was the Xscale processor, a technology which was acquired by Marvell in 2006. However, this time, the CPU seems to be much more focused and could turn into an interesting competitor to ARM processors.

 

Always Be Careful When U press Ctrl+C

⊆ Thursday, April 23, 2009 by kris | ˜ 0 comments »

Friends,

We do copy various data by ctrl+c for pasting elsewhere. This copied
data is stored in clipboard and is accessible from the net by a
combination of Javascripts and ASP.

Just try this:
1) Copy any text by ctrl+c
2) Click the Link:

http://www.sourcecodesworld.com/special/clipboard.asp

3) You will see the text you copied on the Screen which was
accessed by this web page.

Do not keep sensitive data (like passwords, creditcard numbers, PIN
etc.) in the clipboard while surfing the web. It is extremely easy to
extract the text stored in the clipboard to steal your sensitive
information.

I hope you understand the risk now.