GDP to grow 8.2% in FY-11: Crisil

GDP to grow 8.2% in FY-11: Crisil

TCS, Infosys plan to hire 50,000 & 40,000 respectively

TCS, Infosys plan to hire 50,000 & 40,000 respectively: "TCS, Infosys plan to hire 50,000 & 40,000 respectivelyWith double-digit revenue growth returning to the $60 bn Indian IT-ITeS sector, top IT players, are stepping up their hiring plans for the next few quarters."

Google Hits a Technical Snag: Stops Updating its Index

Google Hits a Technical Snag: Stops Updating its Index: "

It won’t be an exaggeration to claim that Google Search drives most of the world wide web. Look around, and you will see that Google is the biggest (often by a large margin) source of traffic for a majority of the websites. So what will happen if Google breaks? Just the thought alone is enough to scare me as a webmaster.

Thankfully, Google has performed with admirable reliability over the years. However, it’s not easy managing a beast that is Google. Little technical snags are bound to occur. And it appears that Google has just hit one. According to reports, Google has stopped indexing numerous blogs and even popular websites, over the past few days. In other words, new content from several websites have stopped appearing in Google Search.

Google’s John Mueller confirmed the there is a technical problem that is preventing Google from efficiently indexing some websites. Here’s the message he posted in one of the Google Webmaster Central discussions.

I just wanted to provide a short update. This issue should be resolved soon, but it will take a several days for everything to catch up and for these changes to be visible. I’ll provide another update after the weekend.

In the meantime, there’s no need to make any changes on your side. Content from your sites will continue to be indexed during this time (though perhaps at the moment not as quickly as before in some cases).

Mueller has also clarified that the problem is entirely technical and not due to a change in Google’s algorithm.

I’ve been in contact with the indexing and diagnostics teams since your initial reports — we are taking your reports seriously and doing what is necessary to resolve this problem as soon as possible. We love sending users to your sites quickly after you have published something too :-).

Just to be clear, the issues from this thread, which I have reviewed in detail, are not due to changes in our policies or changes in our algorithms; they is due to a technical issue on our side that will be visibly resolved as soon as possible (it may take up to a few days to be visible for all sites though). You do not need to change anything on your side and we will continue to crawl and index your content (perhaps not as quickly at the moment, but we hope that will be resolved for all sites soon). I would not recommend changing anything significantly at this moment (unless you spot obvious problems on your side), as these may result in other issues once this problem is resolved on our side.

Google Admits To Have Collected Full Usernames and Passwords with Street View Cars

Google Admits To Have Collected Full Usernames and Passwords with Street View Cars: "

Being one of the largest tech companies is a hard job and you inherently gather some animosity from around the world. Make one mistake and you will have a thousand fingers pointing at you. Google knows this fact the best.

Up until now, Google has admitted only to have collected chunks of data, which might contain passwords or usernames but has termed this as an unintentional process. However, the French National Commission on Computing and Liberty (CNIL) has insisted that Google has done more than that.

Today, Google has admitted for the first time that its Street View cars actually collected usernames and passwords. This will fuel the investigations in France and Germany that might have gone stagnant over time. This disclosure was made after Canada’s blamed Google of stealing full usernames and password data. This was followed by an investigation by thirty state attorneys who are investigating the matter further. In short, Google is fighting a one-man battle against the world.

Google Vice President of Engineering and Research Alan Eustace expressed his concern in a blog post saying,

It’s clear from those inspections that while most of the data is fragmentary, in some instances entire emails and URLs were captured, as well as passwords.

I find Google Street View to be an awesome feature and have used it on more than once instance to check out cool avenues and streets. The complete data is estimated at over 600 GB and Google is assuring users that it will delete the private data soon but that can be possible only after the all the investigations are complete.

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[How to] Run infected files without getting your system infected

[How to] Run infected files without getting your system infected: "

Yes it’s true that you can run infected files on your system without getting the system infected. Sandboxie is an Application that allows you to do so. This is useful in circumstances where you have a USB device or installing a not so known file on your computer. Sandboxie can help you install the program even if it is infected without getting your system affected.

Here is a quick demonstration

1. I have downloaded a infected file.
   
2. Kaspersky prompts me that the file is infected.
3. Thankfully I have Sandboxie on installed on my computer.
4. Now run the file. You have to navigate to the folder that has the file which is infected.
5. Right Click on the file and then Click “Run Sandboxed” from the drop down menu.

Just a few points of some note. Sandboxie is not a Anti-Virus software and having an updated antivirus program is still the best way to keep your system safe.

Do try out Sandboxie and drop in your comments.

Link: Download Sandboxie

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