Eight account electronic mail Yahoo belonging foreign journalists working in China and Taiwan hacked (hack) during recent weeks

Eight account electronic mail Yahoo belonging foreign journalists working in China and Taiwan hacked (hack) during recent weeks. This causes Yahoo forced shut access entering inbox accounts these.

“Us confirming eight cases peretasan account electronic mail belonging journalist in China and Taiwan, several accounts Blocked by Yahoo on March 25 ago,” Thus conveyed club Correspondent Foreigners China (FCCC) via official assertion like quoted pages PCWorld.

Beside in-hack, settings in one accounts modified so letter incoming forwarded to address electronic mail other. FCCC said Yahoo yet answer their questions associated attacks hackers these.

This group appealed members to changing keywords to unlock their inbox. “Members also should use other ways making appointments interviews or affairs other sensitive,” said FCCC.

Parties Yahoo itself yet give comment.

Beginning March ago, account electronic mail foreign journalists in China become soft target malware. Attacks disguised in promissory from press section Shanghai World Expo and contains PDF document dangerous.

Similar attacks occurs told Gmail account belonging fighters human rights in China on December ago. This, plus with rules sensors search results, makes Google interesting self from China mainland and run operating from Hong Kong.

Twitter Change the front Display

Pages micro blogging Twitter alter pageview Advances they for provide better services on Tuesday, March 30th 2010. One change namely launching sexy ‘See who’s here’ which shows celebrities or specific brands existing within Twitter unto them Newly registered on Twitter.

Addition, front page This also now contain ‘Downloadable Tweets’ that contains Tweet-Tweet attract most new. Pages Mashable reported that front yard was last updated on summer last year.

Moment, p. added is search engine located at upper homepage Twitter. Machinery searchlight’s indeed give good service however unable introduce Twitter perfectly.

“Changes this design conducted to explains that Twitter is network place information exchange happened with time quickly,” said creative director Twitter, Doug Bowman like quoted pages PCWorld.

Although popularity Twitter continue rocketed during recent years largely users yet can understand how Twitter working. Survey conducted BarracudaLabs indicates that only 21st percent Twitter users truly active.

facebook using paypal for the payment method

Facebook and PayPal today announced a strategic partnership. With such cooperation, PayPal will become a key service in the field of advertising and Facebook development system. As part of the relationship, advertisers from around the world will be able to use PayPal to pay through Facebook Ads Facebook’s advertising tools. For entrepreneurs in the region where the payment process can be a difficult and expensive, the availability of payment options through PayPal makes it easy for advertisers. Especially small-scale international companies that do business on Facebook.

As an illustration only, this time Facebook has reached 400 million people with 70 per cent are users who live outside the United States. PayPal will also be a payment option for Facebook Credits, which is currently tested in several games and applications for Facebook. The purpose of Credits Facebook is allowing users to quickly they can buy virtual goods on Facebook. Including items from Facebook Gift Shop.

“We want to provide fast and reliable way to make payments to people who use Facebook as well as advertisers and application developers,” said Dan Levy, Director of Payment Operations Facebook, in his statement, February 19, 2010. “With the growth of our business, offers a variety of payment methods become increasingly important for advertisers who want to buy Facebook Ads,” said Levy. “Cooperation with PayPal, the world’s major players in the field of online payment allows all of this,” he said.

Simply, Levy said, the business is in the field of PayPal payment. “We allow travelers to send and receive money online in 24 currencies in 190 countries around the world,” said Osama Bedier, Vice President of Emerging Technology Platform and PayPal. “We have become part of the Facebook developer ecosystem,” Bedier said. “Now we are delighted to expand our partnership with Facebook directly related to helping advertisers grow their businesses and application developers,” he said.

Facebook Inc. is expanding a service called Facebook Credits that gives it a 30 percent cut of sales from tractors

Facebook Inc. is expanding a service called Facebook Credits that gives it a 30 percent cut of sales from tractors, fish food and guns in online games, according to four people who have held discussions with the company.Facebook is already testing the payment option in at least 17 games, including “Happy Aquarium” and “Restaurant City.” The company will make the service available in more games ahead of its annual developers conference in April, said the people, who declined to be named because the plans aren’t public.After relying on advertising for almost all of its revenue, Facebook is moving to take a bigger piece of the market for virtual items bought in games, which may quadruple to $3.6 billion in the U.S. by 2012, according to ThinkEquity LLC. Today, almost all of those sales go to the game developers, such as Zynga Inc., creator of “FarmVille,” and Electronic Arts Inc.’s Playfish unit.

“It will likely be a significant revenue stream,” said Jeremy Liew, a managing director at Menlo Park, California-based Lightspeed Venture Partners who invests in social games. “They’ll keep working on it until it makes economic sense for developers.”Facebook, the most popular social-networking site, allows outside developers to offer games to its 400 million users. The games are free, and players can pay for items that advance their progress, such as a $3.33 tractor in “FarmVille,” a $5.95 helicopter in “Mafia Wars” or a $4.89 box of fish food for “Happy Aquarium.”
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The Palo Alto, California-based company is seeking to take advantage of the popularity of online games, a market that has already blossomed in Asia. Shares of Tencent Holdings Ltd., a game company in Shenzhen, China, tripled in the past year, giving it a market value of $35 billion. Facebook is also taking a page from Apple Inc., which gets a 30 percent cut of sales from iPhone apps.Today, gamers on Facebook can either buy Facebook Credits to obtain items in games, or pay for them through third-party services. Of the $3.6 billion in U.S. virtual goods sales in 2012, about $2.2 billion will be on social networks, with 80 percent on Facebook, said Atul Bagga, a ThinkEquity analyst in San Francisco. If all payments on the site use Facebook Credits, that would mean $530 million in revenue for the company, he said.

‘Trust Factor’

“It’s the trust factor,” Bagga said. “You trust Facebook more than you would trust any other payment company.”EBay Inc.’s PayPal unit said yesterday that it will become a payment option for Facebook Credits, allowing PayPal customers to buy the site’s virtual currency. Players can also use credit cards or their mobile phone to buy credits.Payments and virtual currencies will likely be a focus of Facebook’s developers conference, which is scheduled to start April 21 in San Francisco, said three people who have had discussions with the company.

“We are continuing to look at ways to extend our virtual currency Facebook Credits  via a small alpha test with a handful of developers,” Facebook said in an e-mailed statement. “The test started in May and is exploring ways for people to use their Facebook Credits with third-party applications.”Allowing Facebook’s users to buy a single virtual currency that can be spent on all games will probably increase sales for developers, said Vish Makhijani, chief operating officer of San Francisco-based Zynga, the largest creator of games on the site.

‘Additional Liquidity’

“Facebook Credits will drive more people to become buyers,” Makhijani said. “That additional liquidity or ability to spend in more places clearly would be more attractive to a consumer than something you can only spend in one place.”

In rolling out Facebook Credits, the company may still allow players to buy goods using other payment services. Developers would prefer to have Facebook Credits as an option rather than being the exclusive payments provider  because purchases made with Facebook cost them more, said Vikas Gupta, chief executive officer of Jambool Inc., also known as Social Gold, which offers an in-game payment system.“Facebook Credits comes at a pretty high tax,” said Gupta, whose San Francisco-based company charges developers 7 percent to 10 percent per purchase. Still, he said Facebook Credits “will help grow the overall ecosystem so you’ll see more people pay for goods.”

Microsoft will soon launch a new generation of Internet Explorer (IE), IE9 next month

WASHINGTON Microsoft will soon launch a new generation of Internet Explorer (IE), IE9 next month. According to schedule, will be introduced at the IE9 annual conference Micorosoft MIX 10, which will dihelat at 15 to March 17, 2010 in Las Vegas. At the conference, which became the focus of Microsoft’s mobile platforms IE9 and the latest generation of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 7. Unfortunately Microsoft still reluctant to mention a more detailed specification of IE9. In his blog, Microsoft promised to announce more details when IE9 conference in Las Vegas next month. Softpedia launched, Wednesday (17/2/2010), as General Manager, Dean Hachamovitch responsible for the development and release of IE. So no wonder, he was appointed as one of the speakers at the MIX10 event, especially for IE9 present.

“Dean will discuss the changes and development that has made Microsoft the PDC IE9 since 2009 some time ago. There will be many surprises at the launch later,” wrote one of the team MIX 10 in his blog. Microsoft IE9 demonstrate for the first time on the PDC 2009, November 2009. At that time, Microsoft is showing the early development of these browsers and announced the main objectives IE9 release. Dean never mentions, IE9 intended to provide better support for modern web standards, improve performance especially when used for JavaScript, as well as supporting hardware speeds. At PDC 2009, the developers only shown IE9 demo. At MIX 10 conference later, Microsoft promised a free download IE9, so the browser can immediately taste.

Hackers mimic Huffington Post's by the Twitter feed

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SAN FRANCISCO   A Huffington Post spokesman says the left-leaning news and opinion Web site was not hacked when a Twitter social network feed emerged in its name and began issuing insults with a conservative bent.
Mario Ruiz tells The Associated Press in an e-mail Saturday that the account isn’t operated by The Huffington Post, but was set up to appear as though it was. He followed up later Saturday to say that Twitter had suspended the account.

Some Twitter subscribers earlier Saturday mistook the mimicked feed for The Huffington Post’s own commentary when they were alerted to it by other Twitter users. The feed included mostly unpublishable insults about political and media figures, including President Barack Obama and MSNBC commentator Keith Olbermann.There also was an admonition to “Vote McCain” in 2012.(AP)

Facebook, Twitter Will Face More Hacker Attacks in 2010

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McAfee said that social networking sites will become “increasingly vulnerable to attacks that spread malicious applications on their networks.” Criminals Internet users would abuse the trust of their friends on social sites, and make them activate the links that should be treated with more heart caution.

Companies based in California is also predicted there will be increasing security threat to the bank and also increase the attachment to an e-mail that contains software destructive nature.

hackers have briefly blocked from twitter

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Hackers briefly blocked access to the popular Internet messaging service Twitter, steering traffic to another Web site where a group reportedly calling itself the “Iranian Cyber Army” claimed responsibility.Users trying to reach Twitter early Friday were redirected to a Web page that CNN reported had a picture of a green flag and a message that said, “This site has been hacked by the Iranian Cyber Army.”

There was no evidence the hackers are actually linked to Iran. Web sites like Twitter and Facebook helped bring attention to the Iranian opposition during the country’s crackdown after its June elections, with users posting minute-by-minute updates and amateur video.

Twitter later Friday posted a message on its blog that said its Domain Name Systems’ records “were temporarily compromised but have now been fixed.” The site says it will update with more details “once we’ve investigated more fully.”

Facebook have gives change for users more privacy controls

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NEW YORK  Facebook is giving users better control over who sees information on their personal pages.The online social network is launching new privacy settings Wednesday that are designed to simplify the cumbersome controls that have confounded many users.

Users will be able to select a privacy setting for each piece of content, such as photos or updates, that they share on the site. The choices are “friends” only, “friends of friends” or “everyone.”

All users will be asked to review their settings.The site is also getting rid of its geographic networks, because many of them – take “New York” or “Australia” – have gotten too big.

From Twitter to advertising treasure

The Twitter phenomenon, in which anybody can tell his or her followers anything — in 140 characters or less — now has a payoff that can go beyond the thrill of self-publishing.A handful of companies are offering to pay Twitterers to gain access to their followers — so they can send them Tweets containing ads. The more followers you have, the more money you make.Dr. Drew Pinsky cut a deal with one such company, Ad.ly, of Beverly Hills, California, which describes itself as “an instream advertising platform that connects top-tier Twitter publishers with top-tier brands.”Pinsky is a television and radio personality, an internist and an addiction specialist, but Ad.ly considers him a publisher.The lone advertisement that Ad.ly sent to Pinsky’s 1.5 million Twitter followers was for the NBC program “Community,” a comedy about a lawyer who has lost his license and is trying to get his life together at a community college. Chevy Chase and Joel McHale star.

“I’m delighted to support the show; Joel McHale is a friend of mine,” Pinsky said.”If someone wants to offer me some money to talk about something that I feel strongly about on Twitter — and I don’t feel it’s diminishing in any way my messages — I don’t see why not,” he said.But Pinsky said he was not sure he would do it again. “It’s treacherous,” he told CNN in a telephone interview. “I don’t want people to think I’m exploiting my followers.”Concern about a possible backlash from those followers has led him to reject suggestions for other ads, Pinsky said. “It’s something I would only do very, very occasionally and really has to be something that I already feel I would support.”He cited advertisements about vaccinations or certain screening programs as possibly acceptable, but said even then he would be concerned about turning off his followers. “On the one hand, I have got to send my kids to college; on the other hand, I don’t want to damage my relationship with my audience,” said the father of teenage triplets.

CEO Sean Rad, 23, founded the company that sold Pinsky on the idea in May. “We were basically looking at Twitter early on and we’ve watched it grow from this place where people were kind of playing with content creation to this very powerful platform where people are using Twitter as their main platform for content creation and content discovery,” he told CNN in a telephone interview.”We view every Tweet as valuable content,” he said. “It takes time and thought to produce. Everywhere else, where you generate content you get compensated. Same for a lot of these celebrities on Twitter. Their time is money, yet they’re not getting compensated. We’re answering a demand we saw with all these publishers.”All he needs to monetize Twitter posts is to match the publisher with an advertiser and everybody wins, Rad said. “The advertiser gets as close as possible to an audience and that publisher gets compensated.”

The company launched its service in late September, and Rad said it has already signed up eight of the approximately 50 individual twitterers who have more than 1 million followers.In addition to Dr. Drew, Ad.ly’s clients include Kim Kardashian, Nicole Richie and Joel McHale, he said.But it’s not just for celebrities. “We have thousands of mid-tier and top-tier publishers; we’re growing rapidly,” he said. Anyone can sign on and, depending on how many followers they have, start approving ads and earning income, he said.Advertisers include Universal Pictures, Dell, Maserati, Hilton Hotels and “a bunch” of other national brands, he said.Though Pinsky said he did not know how much his one deal netted him, and Rad would not divulge it, the tech entrepreneur did say a single Tweet could net the publisher a sum in the five figures.

Rad downplayed Pinsky’s concern that his followers could feel exploited. “If I’m Dr. Drew and getting paid for activity on Twitter, I’m going to take it more seriously,” he said. “So the audience gains because, when you pay somebody to do something, they typically do a better job — higher quality content. The artist now can justify the time on Twitter.”Each publisher is limited to one Tweeted advertisement per day, he said.Rad said Ad.ly’s model — or Ad.ly itself — could help Twitter cash in on its own success. He said his company’s model would be one way for Twitter to monetize. “Obviously, an acquisition from Twitter would be awesome,” he said.

But that wouldn’t be the only way. “I would pay for a premium stream that had no ads in it,” said Francine Hardaway, a marketing specialist and partner in Stealthmode Partners.”Maybe that’s Twitter’s own monetization model,” she said in a posting on scobleizer.com, a blog. “And I also like content providers to be paid. But the more indirectly the better.”Twitter Director of Media Partnerships Chloe Sladden told CNN in an e-mail, “We generally aren’t commenting on our monetization plans at the moment.”