Apple iPhone May be Hacked by Via SMS
Security experts have discovered a security flaw in the iPhone that allows hackers to breach the iPhone through text messages.
researchers Collin Mulliner and Charlie Miller pointed out the vulnerability at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas on Thursday. They explained that the iPhone can be externally controlled by a burst of repeated text messages which are mostly invisible. This process would allow a hacker to gain control of the entire range of iPhone functions including phone, Web browsing, text messaging, microphone as well as camera thus effectively hacking into all personal information of the iPhone user. There is apparently a similar flaw in the Windows Mobile phone too.
According to Mulliner and Miller the attack exploited a security flaw in the iPhone that would keep the code in the text message from embedding an executive file in the memory of the mobile device. If hacked into, the iPhone of the users would get a text message with merely a square in the message.
Miller and Mulliner also claimed at the conference that they had discovered the security flaw in the iPhone almost a month back and had brought it into the notice of Apple which had however reportedly declined to comment on the matter.
TD Canada Trust Kitchener Blues Festival Starts from Next Week
The Canadian town of Kitchener is all set to host its annual Blues Festival around six days from now. The festival will continue for four days from August 6th to 9th and is slated to feature nearly 70 shows by 40 bands.
The TD Canada Trust Kitchener Blues Festival will kick off on Wednesday with a Fundraising Gala followed by dinner and performances by Julian Fauth on the Grand Piano and then an entertaining show by Daddy Long Legs. The next four days will see more than 70 shows on five venues which are the Main Stage, the downtown Big Tent, the Waterloo region Record Market Stage, the Boathouse Workshop stage, the Children’s stage at the Children Museum and the 12 Bar Blues.
The history of the Kitchener Blues Festival goes back to 2001 when the inaugural festival took place on August 18, at the Kitchener City Hall. It featured around six hours of blues with a performance by the city’s own Mel Brown. From then on each year of the festival saw bigger crowds and more famous line-ups.
Kitchener is located in southwestern Ontario and less than one hour’s drive from west of Toronto, the largest city in Canada. To put up, go through www.ooaha.com which has the cheapest Kitchener hotel deals.
Yahoo! and Microsoft Agree on Search and Ad Partnership
Yahoo! Inc and Microsoft Inc, two giants of the cyberworld, reached an agreement on web search partnership on Wednesday in a move which is being seen as an attempt to take on the market leader Google Inc.
The agreement between Yahoo! and Microsoft involves a no-cash deal and is slated to cover a period of ten years. The main terms of the deal require Yahoo! to use Bing, the new search engine from Microsoft, on its sites besides handling some advertising sales for Microsoft. The two companies agreed to share search-related advertising revenues.
Yahoo! executives said that the agreement with Microsoft would prove beneficial for the former and bring in around $500 million in annual operating income for Yahoo. at present Yahoo holds the second position in US Internet search market with a presence of 19.6 percent while Microsoft is third with 8.4 percent. This is way below the market leader Google which controls as much as 65 percent of the Internet search market in United States.
Last year, Yahoo! shook off a takeover bid by Microsoft reputed to be worth $45.7 billion. The move was scuttled last minute by Yahoo co-founder and Chief Executive Jerry Yang who subsequently resigned following widespread criticism.
Travel Through the Loneliest Road in America
One of the most exciting ways to discover the vast landscape of the Wild West is to travel by road. However if that road happens to be the Highway 50 through Nevada in United States, the experience becomes all the more memorable since it is known as the loneliest road in the country.
The 287 miles of Highway 50 pose an interesting challenge to any motorist for it means driving through deserted villages and dreary gas stations. In the beginning of twentieth century however this used to be a very busy since it was one of the earliest roads to run from coast to coast. But a series of misfortunes like fires and mining slumps turned many of the places along the Highway 50 into ghost towns.
Driving through the Highway 50 can be a surreal experience as abandoned buildings, old churches and near-empty bars pass along. The Nevada Commission on Tourism in fact rewards its travelers with a certificate which declares, “I survived Highway 50”. However to attain this, travelers have to stop in the towns of Fern, Ely, Eureka, Fallon and Austin to get their Official Highway 50 Survival Guide validated and stamped by locals.
Along The Highway 50 travelers can stop by Ely to take in the sights and sounds of this place. For best Ely hotel deals in one can check out www.ooaha.com.
Now Internet Offers A Way to Feel Better
Therapy and counseling over the Internet can be as effective in treating depression as conventional face to face therapy sessions says a new study conducted in Australia.
According to findings by researchers of New South Wales University in Sydney, depression can be combated as effectively by therapy sessions over the internet as traditional sessions where the counselor and patient are in direct one-to-one contact. the results appear to run counter to conventional wisdom that therapy sessions work best when the counselor and counselee build up an understanding from face to face meetings.
Researchers of this study believe that the positive effect of internet therapy sessions arose from one basic feature of the medium and that is the anonymity it provides. It may be because patients can free their inhibitions to their counselor over the Internet to a greater extent than they may have been able to do in direct encounters.
Counselors point out how one of the biggest obstacles to effective therapy is the façade that patients often put up in an attempt to show that everything is okay and there are no problems. An impersonal medium like the internet perhaps encourages patients to get over their inhibitions and reveal the problems as they really are.
Text Messaging at Wheel Poses Grave Risk to Drivers, Finds Study
Text messaging while driving raises the motorist’s risk of a crash by twenty-three times, a new study by American researchers has found out.
The study conducted by Virginia Tech’s Transportation Institute found out that truck drivers who text messaged while driving took their eyes off the road for an average of 4.6 seconds over an interval of 6 seconds. This was the longest period of distraction faced by motorists to have been caused by a mobile device. Researchers explained that this was the same as running with eyes closed the length of a football field at 55 miles per hour.
Results of the study also revealed that talking or listening to mobile phones while driving posed lesser risk of accidents for drivers as compared to text messaging since the former scenario allowed motorists to keep their eyes on the road. Still the risk of an accident for motorists while speaking or listening on a mobile phone was 1.3 times higher than in case of drivers who were not similarly distracted.
The study was conducted to reveal the impact of mobile phones in actual driving situations rather than in simulated environments. Results of the analysis were compiled from data acquired through cameras and tracking equipments placed in the vehicles of the participants.
Herge Museum Showcases Life and Works of Famous Artist
Among the many attractions Belgium boasts of is a museum dedicated to the life and works of the famous illustrator Herge, best known as the creator of the boy-reporter character Tintin.
The Herge Museum is actually located in the small town of Louvaine-la-Neuve which is around 30 kilometers from the Belgian capital city of Brussels. The Museum is a repository of the works of famous Belgian artist whose real name was Georges Remi and who created the comic series of Tintin and his adventures. Spread over 3600 meters square the Museum not only houses drawings, sketches and printed plates by Herge but also shows his development as an artist through his works.
The Herge Museum has been designed by well known French architect Christian de Portzamparc and is a marvel of contemporary design befitting to the memory of a visionary artist. Its construction was in fact privately funded by Fanny Rodwell, Herge’s widow who contributed twenty million dollars needed to build the Museum. Besides showcasing Herge’s work the Museum also houses temporary as well as permanent exhibition areas, studio storehouses, shops, a video projection room and a cafeteria.
To visit the Herge Museum, one can take a train or bus from Brussels. Visitors from foreign countries can also check out www.ooaha.com for best Brussels hotel deals.
Amazon Says Sorry for Deleting E-books on Kindles
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos issued an apology on Thursday after the company deleted copies of e-books on customers’ Kindles last week.
In the apology posted on company site, Bezos admitted that the move by Amazon was “stupid, thoughtless and painfully out of line with our principles.” Amazon had removed copies of e-books from its customers’ Kindles in an attempt to control illegally sold works on Kindles. However the step resulted in a huge outcry of protest from customers and a barrage of criticism on the way Amazon had handled the issue.
Among the novels deleted from customers’ Kindles reader were Animal Farm and 1984 both works of mid-twentieth century British novelist George Orwell. The fact of Amazon arbitrarily deleting e-books which were themselves based on the evils of repressive societies added a further irony to the whole issue. Some customers also complained that Amazon had deleted copies of other novels as well from their Kindles like those by Ayn Rand and some of the Harry Potter series.
Close on the heels of its public relations mess, Amazon also released its second quarterly earnings which fell far below Wall Street expectations and consequently suffered a 7% drop in share value on the stock market.
New Zealand’s Volcanic Landscape
Travel portals describe New Zealand as the youngest country on earth since it was the last landmass to be discovered and people started arriving on it only a thousand years ago. Yet this country boasts of spectacular landscapes and is a favored destination for nature lovers.
One striking aspect of the diverse New Zealand landscape is its volcanic feature. Lying on the southern tip of the Pacific Rim of Fire, New Zealand has been shaped by volcanic activity which is evident in its peaks, craters, springs and lakes. One of the country’s largest cities, Auckland, is in fact built on volcanic fields. It is dotted with around 50 volcanic cones and though all of them today lie dormant, some of the neighboring paths and hill slopes are still warmed by underlying thermal activity.
One of Auckland’s famous landmarks, the Rangitoto Island, owes its origin to volcanic activity. Though lying dormant now, Rangitoto’s landscape is witness to its fiery birth and in fact the best view of the Auckland city is to be had from Rangitoto’s summit which is a volcanic peak.
Visitors must not miss this amazing landscape if passing through New Zealand. They can also check out www.ooaha.com for best Auckland hotel deals.
A New Customizable Home Page for Yahoo
Yahoo will be launching its new home page on Tuesday, said a company announcement touting it as the first major change in its main website since the start of the company.
The most important aspect of the new Yahoo home page is that it will be customizable. This means that users will be able to view news, social networking sites as well as other services they use most often right on the home page. This can be done by going to a pane called My Favorites on the left side of the new home page and then customizing the links from there to the most-frequently used services, either on Yahoo or elsewhere.
The change is crucial to Yahoo’s future since in recent times it has been losing ground as the most important entry point to the Web. Users now are increasingly directly accessing a range of individual services like Google, Twitter and Facebook instead of going through Yahoo home page. The links to the most popular sites on Yahoo’s home page will allow Yahoo to maintain its importance as the gateway to the Web and charge advertisers accordingly.
The new Yahoo home page will initially be available only o users in the US in the beta test form and then later to those in parts of Europe and India.
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