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Google sued by PayPal over stealing

Former PayPal employees Stephanie Tilenius and Osama Bedier announce the launch of Google Wallet in New York, Thursday. PayPal is suing them, and Google, for stealing its trade secrets.
Former PayPal employees Stephanie Tilenius and Osama Bedier announce the launch of Google Wallet in New York, Thursday. PayPal is suing them, and Google, for stealing its trade secrets.

Recently you must have witnessed the launch of all new mobile payment service “Google Wallet” by Google Inc. Now PayPal is suing Google over bad practice. According to PayPal, Google steals their employees and secret trade practices which may have led to the development of Google Wallet. Well nobody can confirm it right now but PayPal had filled a lawsuit in San Jose, California.

The employees namely Stephanie Tilenius and Osama Bedier launched the Google Wallet. Previously both of them are employees of PayPal. The lawsuit is filed on the same day of the launch of the Google Wallet.

Google in it’s statement said that they will fight the lawsuit. The main person under scanner is Osama Bedier who until now was working at PayPal and also was a key person in the deal between Google and PayPal to use PayPal as one of the payment processor on Android Market. According to PayPal Bedier as an executive was not eligible for interviewing at other companies but he was giving interview for a new job at Google and then resigned from PayPal.

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Beware of Cookiejacking: Internet Explorer’s new problem

With the rise of Facebook and Twitter the problem of Cookiejacking is also rising.

So the question is

What is Cookiejacking?

Answer: Cookiejacking basically refers to the hacking or stealing of the user’s cookie from their browser particular Internet Explorer(all versions) which is basically responsible for signing in into the facebook or twitter platform.

Which versions are effected?

Answers: According to research all versions of IE are effected.

Is it so easy to still a cookie?

Answer: In one word answer is NO. To steal user’s cookie from their browser, the hacker must persuade users to interact with some sort of application built for this particular purpose. The application can be common facebook apps like games etc.This sounds difficult. Isn’t it?

What is Microsoft’s response to this problem?

Answer: According to Microsoft this is not a high level risk as without persuasion it is nearly impossible for the hacker to steal cookies from one’s browser.

What can you do to save yourself from Cookiejacking?

Answer: Never ever visit suspicious websites and never allow your facebook account access to potentially unsafe application.

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Hostgator is now officially launched in India

The world’s most popular hosting company is now officially launched in India. In case you are from India and wanted to have a reliable hosting than Hostgator India is a great option for you.You can visit them at Hostgator.in

Hostgator, a worldwide leader in Web Hosting industry had been testing thier Indian operation from past six months and after that they launched it officially.

Hostgator will have their hardware located in an Indian Data center which means ping or latency from Asia will be considerably less than that of USA. They are still charging their Indian clients in USD but they will soon offer their Web Hosting prices in Indian Rupees.

There is a thread at one of the Web Hosting Discussion in which the officials from Hostgator are giving some insights about thier Indian venture. You can visit that thread by clicking here.

Payment methods include:

  • credit cards
  • wire transfer
  • and also you can pay with your Debit Card because they are going to support the most popular Indian payment gateway that is CC Avenue

 

 

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World’s first dual core phone LG Optimus 2X now available in India

Yes it’s true, the world’s first dual core is now available in India at a very attractive price tag of Rs. 28,000 only. IMHO it is a steal at that price. This is the world’s first smart phone powered by a dual core chip ARM cortex A9. Other features are listed below:-

  • IPS Panel LCD capacitive touch display of 4 inches
  • 480 x 800 resolution
  • 8 Mega Pixel Camera with LED flash and a secondary camera of 1.3 Mega Pixel
  • Geforce GPU
  • Tegra Chipset

It initially comes with Android 2.2 but is upgradable to 2.3

But wait a minute!!!!!!

There are some negative points and known problems with this device. Problems that may come into action are listed below:

  • Blank and unresponsive screen
  • random restart and shutdown
  • High temperature during recharging
  • Android 2.3 not fully compatible with dual core chips

Again i want to bring this to your notice that above problems are known problems and they are being discussed in greater detail xda-developer forum

This article is written by Rajiv Gupta of Uniting Borders community

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How to allow or deny ip addresses using .htaccess

The file .htaccess always comes useful whenever we need more protection for our website. Among all the capabilities of .htaccess we are here going to discuss it capability of allowing or denying IP address. I need this function because there are some directories on my server which are critical to my business and hence want to protect these from evil eyes.

Let us say you have a directory HOME which you want to protect. Just follow the instructions given below to protect the given directory:

  1. First of all create a new file in the given directory and name it as .htaccess
  2. Open this file in any editor.
  3. Write this line the newly created file deny from all
  4. After than write allow from xxx.yyy.zzz.qqq
  5. In the above statement xxx.yyy.zzz.qqq is the IP address which you want to allow
  6. In case you want to allow a range IP address than simply leave the block which is dynamic or variable in your ip address. For eg.
  7. allow from xxx.yyy
  8. In case you just want to deny just one IP address, than simply write deny from xxx.yyy.zzz.qqq

Though this method is perfect for blocking  individual ip addresses but it is not efficient enough to block a particular range of IP address. By efficient i mean that we cannot make a particular range of IP address to block using this method