"Godfather Spam" was sentenced to 51 Months Jail

An actor named Alan spread spam Ralsky (64) who dubbed himself the "Godfather of Spam" was sentenced to 51 months imprisonment and a fine of 250,000 U.S. dollars. He proved jointly conspiring to conduct activities detrimental spamming and using illegal methods.

Ralsky is one the spammers veteran who pioneered the use of a botnet or malware planted on various computer networks to distribute spam. This is the most powerful way to spread spam, but not infrequently causing big losses for the users of the Internet because the information disseminated containing fraud.

"The sentences handed down today to the person who claims himself as the Godfather of Spam, Alan Ralsky, and three others who became the main actors with complex spam scheme offering a" pump and dump ", the court ensures that the theft by abusing the internet will end penalty several years in prison, "the statement Terrence Berg, the Eastern District of Michigan prosecutor said in a statement as reported by PC World.

In the action, conspiracy, aided Ralsky three people sent emails to promote stock-abal abal but with the lure of the false information. When prices rise, the stock will be released with a high price and then allowed to fall. Email spam is sent to the botnet network that spread everywhere so difficult to detect origin. Also spammers forge email headers, poxy computer, domain name, and making false advertising. Ralsky and his accomplice acts first diendus by Microsoft's Internet Safety Enforcement Team in 2004.
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YouTube Recommend Automatic Text Translation

YouTube memeperkenalkan new feature that displays the text of all the conversations in the videos automatically. One of the benefits of this feature to meet the needs of visitors deaf (deaf mute) in order to enjoy the full video.

Text translation to be done with voice recognition technology is now used in Google Voice management services. In its announcement Thursday (19/11) yesterday, Google said the feature will begin to apply this week.

However, for the new will be done on the videos of some of the canal from partners like PBS, National Geographic, and several prominent universities. Google promises to text translator's voice will be applied in the entire video with voice recognition technology improvements are developed.

Hundreds of thousands of videos that appear on YouTube today is already equipped with the text through the service provided. However, to use it must be done manually by the user and added myself to the body of the video. With the number of the incoming video, the current average of 20 hours of video every minute, most of the videos that appear on YouTube has no text.

Even so, Google has updated the manual translation feature that is now with auto timing menu. Users simply make a text file containing the text of all conversations in the video and sound machine translation will match it to appear. Such a move is expected to boost the amount of video that has text.
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This breakthrough Google Chrome OS

Although not the first, Chrome the OS that was carried by Google as a milestone in the rise of web-based operating systems. In its official blog, Google's developers call Chrome the OS with a base of open source operating system for all people who spent almost all his time on the internet.

"With Chrome OS, every application is a web application," said Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management for Google in a press conference in Mountain View, California, USA, Thursday (19/11). So, Chrome OS will not run local applications such as PC operating systems generally. All documents and data is also stored on Internet servers.

This was a key breakthrough that do Chrome OS. All activities carried out by the browser and there is no conventional desktop applications. This means that users do not need ribet to install, manage, and update itself.

The second breakthrough that will be Google in Chrome the OS is a matter of security. Because all roads in the web application, users do not need to think about whether the application is to be trusted or not. Each completed application sandbox (such secret keys) are unique, making it hard malware infects a computer. The operating system will also check and recovery each time you reboot.

In addition, the speed is also an obsession Google in Chrome the OS. Computing processes that do not need to be removed, each operation is optimized and performed in parallel. Accelerating time booting one target with a combination of optimal hardware specifications. "It took seven seconds for the Chrome OS to boot," Pichai said.

Sola application performance should not worry because it runs on Chrome browser that supports HTML5 standard and JavaScript engines that are claimed currently capable of executing Java code to 39 times Internet Explorer 8.

"We want to work very fast, fun system to use. We want you to press the button on to turn it on immediately and quickly surf the web as soon as possible," said Matt Papakipos, technical director of Chrome the OS.
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Chrome OS Source Code Free Downloaded

Although not yet demonstrated the OS Chrome beta, Google has released the source code is the development of the new operating system. The developers who want to taste something like what Chrome can eventually get the OS source code freely, freely downloaded and modified.

"Starting today, the code is fully opened, which means Google's developers will work with the same path with external developers," said Kris Papakipos, OS Chrome's technical director, at a news conference at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, USA, Thursday (19/11) as reported by InfoWorld.

In its official blog, Google says there are still many things that must be refined in the development of Chrome the OS so that the open source community involvement will be a big benefit. Emphasized that the development of OS Chrome will also continue to work with projects other speerti open source GNU, Linux Kernel, Moblin, Ubuntu, and WebKit.

Chrome OS source code can be downloaded at the website Chromium project for the OS code base, user interface, and design documents. Designs that are included are still a rough sketch and Google plans to continue to complete it until ready to be released to prospective users. The software developer can even use the source code to create his own version of the operating system. Interested? Do not be late.
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IMO Release Android Smartphone 2.0

IMO seriously working on platform-based smartphone market Google's Android steal artificial start than any other local vendors in the Indonesia market, especially products from China. However, IMO the first products using the S900 still has not Android 1.5 Android 2.0 which is the latest version now.

"Last year we prepared a Android handset again.'s Use Android 2.0 and Maps," said Sarwo Wargono, President Director of PT content Indomedia Pratama (IMO) IMO S900 at the launch in Jakarta, Wednesday (18/11).

Compared to the previous version, Android 2.0 has features and better performance. Include the availability of the API (application programming interface) only for the synchronization and Bluetooth. Android 2.0 also supports multiple accounts and additional features such as scene on camera mode, digital zoom, color effects, white balance, and macro. Internet browsers are available dalma Android 2.0 also already supports HTML5.

Currently only two vendors that have been using Android 2.0 in their products. First, the new Motorola Droid available in the U.S. market. HTC has also announced plans to release new products Android operating system 2.0.

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10 most influential Internet

International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences in New York, the U.S. returned the Webby Awards announced most important events related to the Internet every year. This time, the Webby Awards list 10 most influential events on the Internet in the last ten years.

"The theme that is always inherent in any list we've ever released is the Internet's ability to change the old system and give more convenience to ordinary people," said David-Michel Davies, executive director of the Webby Awards as reported by AFP.

Debut Wikipedia, Facebook, and Twitter which in a short time became a popular service on the internet included in the list. Interestingly, the use of the Internet to campaign in the U.S. which was won by Barack Obama and use Twitter in a protest in Iran also entered.

Here's a list of 10 most historic events on the Internet in the last decade:
1. The expansion of online ad service Craigslist out of San Francisco that revolutionized the distribution of ads on the Internet (2000)
2. Launch of Google AdWords ads that provide the model for all forms of business (2000)
3. Launch Wikipedia are revolutionizing free as a joint project (2001)
4. Termination of Napster file sharing service that even close but it revolutionized the file sharing services (2001)
5. Google opens stock offering that made him more menggurita (2004)
6. YouTube video of the Revolution (2006)
7. To the public launch of Facebook and Twitter (2006)
8. The first debut of the iPhone is revolutionizing the mobile services (2007)
9. Utilization of the Internet in the U.S. presidential campaign (2008)
10. Use Twitter in the protests in Iran (2009)
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