Google employee plowing Gmail Account Users

Because violation of company policy, Google finally fired an employee who works as an engineer at Google's offices in Seattle, the United States.

"We fired David Barksdale for violating the privacy of Google's internal policy," said Biil Coughran, as senior vice president of Engineering Google.

Coughran did not describe in detail the violation of what his men had done it. But the site Gawker.com reported that Barksdale repeatedly took advantage of his position as a technical team members to arbitrarily access the accounts of users.

In short, Barksdale known to use their office to access your Gmail account from four teenagers without permission.

As quoted by AFP on Thursday (09/15/2010), Barksdale said intercepting a voice call logs from Google's online phone service and even to work on one victim's boyfriend. While Barksdale is not sexual harassment, but his actions clearly violate privacy.

"We will be careful in controlling the number of employees who have access to sensitive systems and we will continue to regularly update security controls," lid Coughran.

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Sex Criminals sued and claimed, Google Losing in Court

Google loses in trial against former sex offenders who had just come out of prison. As a result, the internet giant must pay some money as compensation.

As quoted from the Telegraph, Tuesday (09/28/2010), the high court verdict is handed down in France. Google deemed to have been found guilty of defaming a private individual through public access.

About this incident began when a man from France who is not named, did not receive his name continues plastered every time Internet users to write keywords such as 'rapists', 'devil', 'rape' and 'prison' in the Google search engine.

The man who has been sentenced to three years in prison that claims that Google has done defamation. He also dragged the company based in California, United States, that the local court.

Once found guilty, the company lead by CEO Eric Schmidt was also ordered to pay some money to pay for losses incurred. Not only that, Google was also ordered to delete the list of search suggestions on behalf of the man.

"This search algorithm is determined based on a number of objective factors, including popularity search term or name," Hue Google spokesman defended the company.

"Google does not ever suggest his name. All search results are displayed in autocomplete as it has been typed previously by other Google users," he explained further.

Google's own plans to immediately appeal the decision of the French court.

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17 Steps to Make or rip iPhone Ringtone free

DRM-free songs can be downloaded from iTunes at a price more expensive, but it is usually the result of extraction (ripping) from the CD will be free of DRM as well. Make sure ripping made from legally owned CDs.

Not all people want to buy a ringtone for the iPhone. Many also want to make iTunes songs in his personal collection as a ringtone.

Before proceeding, please note that these tips are intended for beginners.
These tips will utilize a collection of songs that have been owned and is in the iTunes Library. Songs that can be used in this tip is just a free Digital Rights Management (DRM)

Okay, here is a simple way to get free ringtones on the iPhone by exploiting a collection of songs in iTunes:

1. Open iTunes
2. Find songs in iTunes collection who want to be a Ringtone
3. Listen to the song, and find the part you want to use.
4. Record the start time and end of pieces of the song, for example 1:00 to 1:40. (Maximum length 40 seconds)
5. Right click the song title and choose 'Get Info'
6. Click the tab 'Options'
7. Enter the beginning part time who want to take on the Text Box 'Start Time'. For example, 1:00
8. Enter the end time on the Text Box 'Stop Time'. For example, 1:40
9. Click OK
10. Right-click again the title song and select 'Convert to AAC'
11. If successful, it will show duplicate songs in iTunes with a shorter duration
12. Right-click on the results of earlier pieces and select 'Delete'
13. On the menu that appears select 'Keep Files' for iTunes does not remove the song from the hard drive
14. Open the file location before, usually in the folder 'Music> iTunes> iTunes Music' (or like) in a folder with the name of the singer / music group
15. Right-click the last file and rename it with the suffix. M4r (original file will have the suffix. M4a)
16. Double-click the file that has changed akhirannya. iTunes will add the file into its Library.
17. Connect the iPhone and do Sync Ringtone

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Watch out, GPS can cause the fire in the car

Be careful you are GPS users on a car. Because this device can cause the fire in the car.

At least in the U.S., 2 car manufacturers namely Suzuki and Nissan should take back the cars that use GPS device with Garmin brand from market .

Suzuki should take back more than 20,000 car among other SX4 car output 2008-2010, Grand Vitara 2010 and the Equator are equipped with navigation units Garmin Nuvi 750, 760 and 765.

Meanwhile, Nissan took the Altima model back 7, Frontier, Pathfinder, Rogue, Sentra, Versa and Xterra.

Garmin GPS has the potential overheating and could cause a fire in the cabin. Until this has not been no reports forfeiting the car due to fire from a GPS navigation system.

However, to anticipate, instruct the U.S. Nissan Nissan car owners who intended to contact the nearest Nissan dealership to get a replacement.

While Garmin in the explanation on the official website tells potential fire could arise due to the use of batteries supplied by a third party battery manufacturers on some models by Garmin nüvi PCB (Printed Circiut board) specific.

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Microsoft held Funeral of iPhone and BlackBerry

Microsoft is so confident the operating system Windows 7 Phone able to talk a lot, even beating the OS rival . Just look at their activities recently by holding a unique procession to 'bury' the Apple iPhone and BlackBerry.

Yes, to celebrate the birth version RTM (release to manufacuring) WP 7, Microsoft employees held a show at their headquarters in Redmond, USA. They carry the iPhone and the BlackBerry-sized replica of a giant on crutches like to be buried.

While running the funeral procession, tens of employees who demonstrate the dance a la Michael Jackson in his famous song, Thriller. Apparently, this event was pretty well prepared.

With this event, Microsoft seems to send a message that Windows 7 Phone is ready to bury the existence of the iPhone and BlackBerry. But the question arises why not look 'funeral' for Android based phones. Does Microsoft have admitted defeat on the Google OS?
certainly this performance aims to promote the publication of Windows Phone.

Bureau research firm Gartner estimates the market share of Windows OS will fall from 4.7 percent this year to 3.9 percent in 2014. The presence of Windows 7 Phone is not expected to have much effect. Awaited interesting how Microsoft's future performance on the market.

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Android beats BlackBerry and iPhone Power

The growth of Android-based phone market share continues to rise. On the other hand, performance is increasingly eroding the power of Android the iPhone and BlackBerry.

Android market share jumped 42% in the United States within the period of three months. Now, the Google OS that has mastered 17% of smartphone market share in the land of Uncle Sam, from the previous 'only' earned 15.1%.

While the weight of two competitors - BlackBerry and the iPhone - despite still being on top of the league is slowly but steadily declining market share. According to ComScore, the BlackBerry market share is now 39.3%, having previously had reached the figure of 41.1%.

Larger decline in the Apple device which gained 2.7% shrink. Even so, they remain in second position with 23.8% market share.

As for Windows Mobile had to settle for fourth position with 11.8% of the power. Meanwhile, HP's new webOS - Palm - still survive on 4.9 percent rate.

The researcher ComScore did not elaborate further on the figures but estimated the count was related to the launch of Motorola and Samsung Galaxy Droid X S are based on Android.

It is estimated, the launch of the iPhone 4 has not been able to stem the onslaught of HTC, Motorola and Samsung who are both carrying Amdroid.

In the general category of mobile phones, RIM had to settle for fourth with the percentage of 9%. Meanwhile, South Korean vendors, Samsung, became pemuncak with 23.1%. Underneath there is LG and Motorola followed. While Nokia getting dimmer by the percentage of 7.8%.

U.S. smartphone market share for the period April 2010 and July 2010:

1. RIM (41.1% to 39.3%)
2. Apple (25.1% to 23.8%)
3. Google (12.0% to 17.0%)
4. Microsoft (14.0% to 11.8%)
5. Palm (fixed 4.9%)

General mobile phone market share in the U.S. for the period April 2010 and July 2010:

1. Samsung (22.1% to 23.1%)
2. LG (21.8% to 21.2%)
3. Motorola (21.6% to 19.8%)
4. RIM (8.4% to 9.0%)
5. Nokia (8.1% to 7.85%)

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KaraoBird SLP, Easy way for Karaoke on YouTube

Widely available on YouTube video clips of music tracks from various artists. In fact, the Google owned video sharing site that has made a special page on YouTube.com music / music.

But, not all the clips showing the lyrics of the song is displayed. Yet sometimes when watching music clips, there is a desire to participate singing.

Now, the desire for a karaoke that can be realized easily via an extension for Firefox.

Extension was called Scrolling Lyrics Player (SLP). But may also be referred to as KaraoBird accordance with the engine used on the back.

SLP installation steps KaraoBird:

1. Visit SLP Add-On at Mozilla.org
2. Click Add To Firefox
3. In the window that appears select Install
4. Restart Firefox will ask to enable SLP

How to use the SLP:

1. Visit YouTube.com / Music
2. Find a music video that wants to sing
3. Automatically on the video page will appear a box containing the lyrics
4. Adjust the offset (plus or minus) at the beginning of the song by scrolling the mouse over the box lyrics
5. Sing as we pleased.

Note:

1. Song Lyrics taken from the site YouTubeLiric.com
2. Synchronize songs with lyrics not going as smoothly as a professional karaoke video
3. Adjusted synchronization with the video being played, if video is not finished buffering lyrics will go stagnant
4. For popular songs SLP KaraoBird not much trouble, is somewhat different to the tune of 'rare'
5. SLP is based on KaraoBird, an add-on for Songbird (Open Source software to play music).

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