The Dhaka Times Desk The wind of information technology is advancing in tune with the modern era. Therefore, in today's world, it is impossible to think without information technology. Today in information technology brief news (03-02-13) some information technology news of the world has been highlighted.
Samsung brings waterproof smartphone
Samsung is launching the water resistant smartphone 'Galaxy Encover 2', it will be free from dust and sand. The smartphone uses Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system with Motion UI feature. This 4 inch display smartphone has a 1 GHz dual core processor, 1 GB RAM and 4 GB data storage facility. Technologies like 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth will also work in it.
Google's new image search feature is now available
The world-famous search engine Google has launched a new facility to search for images. Apart from this, new design has been added in image search. As a result of this, searching for images on Google will be faster, as well as it is possible to easily find useful images, Google said.
When searching for images on a topic in this method, each image appears as an inline panel. Hover over each image to see the image size and source. To download a particular desired image, clicking on that image opens it separately in a larger size, where the name of the image, source, key size, link to the source from which the image is taken and the original image and its detailed information are available. The user can see the required information of the image as per his wish. Google's associate product manager Hongyi Lee said, 'According to the suggestions of users and webmasters, the new Google image search method has been changed. Hopefully, this will make finding images much easier.'
Users are also happy with this new method which has already been introduced. Google is constantly working to make finding information and images easier. As a part of this, the new feature of image search has been launched. Google also said that more such facilities will be added in the future. Various aspects of the new system can be known at the following address:
Requests to remove information are increasing on Twitter
Governments of various countries are requesting to remove various information from microblogging site Twitter. Between July and December last year, 1,099 requests were received. This rate is about 20 percent higher than the first six months of the year. Twitter published the information in the site's six-monthly mouthpiece 'Transparency Report'. Even a few days ago, a French court ordered Twitter to provide detailed information to those who exchanged unwanted messages. In this situation, the site's legal strategy manager, Jeremy Kessel, said in a blog message, 'We believe that the free exchange of information can bring positive results worldwide. But these requests of the government to publish various information on Twitter can create obstacles to the expression of free opinion.
Hackers will get 3.1 million dollars reward if they can attack Chrome
Search engine giant Google has announced the third edition of Ponium hacking competition. The competition will be held on March 7 at the CanSecWest Security Conference. Google has announced a total reward of 31 lakh 41 thousand 590 dollars on Google's Chrome operating system hack. The prize value has been determined based on the mathematical number pi. Samsung 550 Chromebook uses Chrome operating system. Contestants will receive $100,000 for each bug in its browser or system. $150,000 will be available to fix each bug in its operating system. In order to win the competition, Google has to find out the list of various defects of this operating system. Also show how it can be hacked. In addition, Google has arranged prizes in this competition for other minor issues. As Chris Evans of Google's Chrome security team writes on the Chromium blog, Chrome is different from traditional operating systems. The highest reward is announced for its detection.
Google has already started a massive campaign for this hacking competition. This time the value of the prize is higher than the previous two. In the first competition, the prize money was one million dollars. The prize money of the second competition held in Kuala Lumpur last year was $2 million. This time the prize money has exceeded 3 million dollars. For hackers, the task will probably be more difficult this time than before. Because Google has already fixed the errors from the last two competitions. Besides, its previous competitions were mainly about the Chrome browser. This time with the operating system. The search engine giant claims Chrome as the most secure operating system at present.
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