AB De Villiers hits fastest ODI 150 in South Africa - ICC World Cup 2015

AB De Villiers took 64 balls to achieve 150, beating the past best, set by Australia's Shane Watson, by 19 balls. He scored unbeaten 162 off 66 balls, setting 408-5 on board for South Africa, the second-highest total in World Cups.

Imran Tahir took 5-45 as West Indies were 151 all-out  with heaviest World Cup defeat by runs.

Just a month ago, De Villiers hit the fastest-ever ODI hundred against the West Indies in Johannesburg, from 31 balls.

In that same innings, South Africa's caption likewise set the record for the fastest fifty in ODIs, from 16 balls.

The Proteas made a lazy begin and were 87-1 after 20 overs, before De Villiers went to the wrinkle in the 30th over with his side 146-3.

De Villiers put on 134 with Rilee Rossouw (61 from 39) and South Africa scored 222 from the last 15 overs, with De Villiers' 73 from the last five an alternate ODI record.

West Indies skipper Jason Holder's last two overs strove for 64 runs, with one over striving for 34. De Villiers completed with 17 fours and eight sixes, more than he had spot balls.

South Africa's aggregate was the most elevated by any group in Australia and just India's 413-5 against Bermuda at Port of Spain in 2007 (which additionally completed in a 257-run triumph for India) is higher in World Cups.

Hashim Amla (65) and Faf du Plessis (62) likewise made fifties for South Africa, while Holder, who yielded only nine runs in his initial five overs, completed with figures of 1-104 off 10, the most lavish in World Cup history.

West Indies opener Chris Gayle, who scored the first 200 in World Cups against Zimbabwe on Tuesday, scored just three preceding he was rocked the bowling alley by Kyle Abbott.

Twitter launched official WordPress plugin

Twitter today reported that its launching its first official Twitter plugin for WordPress that brings a bunch of Twitter functionality to your site effortlessly.

The new plugin brings a plenty of features; it consequently generates Twitter Cards for your pages, empowers Twitter Analytics, embeds videos and adds a tweet button to posts in the administrator interface.

There's a choice that permits you to change the look of embedded tweets on your site, so it coordinates your topic, alongside various features that help clients begin with Twitter advertising.

Features offered by Official Twitter Wordpress Plugin:

• Embedded Tweet - customize backgrounds and color schemes to match your site's theme
• Embedded Twitter video - showcase video uploaded to Twitter
• Tweet button - simple sharing of your site's content on Twitter
• Twitter Cards - highlight your site's content when shared on Twitter
• Twitter Analytics - track impressions and top distributors of your site's content on Twitter
• Follow button - grow your Twitter audience
• Twitter ads conversion tracking - easily track actions on your WordPress site triggered by a Twitter ad or build a custom targeting audience

Twitter's new plugin is accessible now, free of charge.

Source: Twitter Official Blog

Lenovo website hacked, possibly by Lizard Squad

Lenovo's security headaches proceeded with Wednesday as the PC maker's website succumbed to a cyberattack, days after the PC maker apologized for preloading software on some of its PCs that abandons them powerless against malware attacks.

Rather than the commonplace prologue to the organization's items, the website showed a message Wednesday evening showing the site was down for maintenance. Users endeavoring to visit the site prior toward the evening were dealt with to a slideshow that prompted a Twitter record condemning Lenovo for its contribution with the adware Superfish.

Lenovo did not instantly react to an appeal for input however affirmed the security break in an announcement to the Wall Street Journal.

"Sadly, Lenovo has been the casualty of a cyber assault," the organization said. "One impact of this assault was to divert movement from the Lenovo website. We are likewise effectively exploring different parts of the assault. We are reacting and have effectively restored certain usefulness to our open confronting website."

Hacking gathering Lizard Squad asserted obligation regarding the hack on a Twitter account supposedly connected with the gathering. Reptile Squad, a detached aggregate purportedly made out of hackers based out of the United Kingdom and Eastern Europe, additionally was connected to a progression of blackouts that tormented the PlayStation Network and different diversions a year ago.

While it was first imagined that Lenovo's servers had been subverted, it now creates the impression that assailants took control of the site's space recorder and diverted its activity to a free record at CloudFlare, a San Francisco-based security organization. CloudFlare told Bloomberg that it debilitated the record utilized by the assailants.

The episode happened not as much as a week after the Chinese PC maker ended up in high temp water taking after disclosures that a number of its PCs incorporate a software system called Superfish Visual Discovery. Considered either adware or spyware, Superfish tracks your Web pursuits and scanning movement to place extra promotions on the sites you visit. The software additionally introduces its own root certificate that leaves influenced PCs more defenseless against malware attacks.

Lenovo has apologized for the issue and has started work to determine it. "We messed up severely," Peter Hortensius, Lenovo's chief technology officer, said a week ago.

Lenovo's security migraine changed into a legal one final week when a lawsuit documented in government court charged both Lenovo and Superfish with abusing wiretap laws and trespassing on individual property, Ars Technica reported Monday. In an alternate case, a legal firm has propelled a class activity examination over potential claims against Lenovo's activities.

WhatsApp Web client for Firefox and Opera browsers

WhatsApp made waves when it propelled a desktop rendition of its messaging service a month ago, yet it was just good with Google Chrome. Today, the organization has reported it now takes a shot at Firefox and Opera as well. 

Already, on the off chance that you needed to utilize WhatsApp on your desktop, you needed to fall back on outsider customers, for example, AirDroid 3. As of late WhatsApp has made their free messaging application accessible on the web, too, however it was at first confined just to Chrome browsers. Presently the organization has authoritatively reported on its Twitter account that it stretches out backing to Firefox and Opera browsers, too.

Right now, iPhone clients don't have the capacity to output the QR code yet it lives up to expectations for Windows Phone, BlackBerry and Android. Additionally, before going for the new web customer, you have to verify you have moved up to the most recent adaptation of WhatsApp on your phone. After you have checked the QR code from inside the 'WhatsApp Web' area in settings, you ought to get a screen like this on your program: 



You can then decide to turn on desktop notifications, and change your profile and do basically the same things you were doing on your mobile gadget, also. I discover the web interface to be truly neighborly and useful. Also, for my situation, truly accommodating, particularly for those circumstances when my phone is charging in the other room and I can't hear warning sounds.

After you have empowered desktop notifications, you will start getting Desktop Notification on your machine. The webclient looks generally as incredible as the mobile interface, accordingly,  readily prescribe it to anyone out there.

Google launches Android for Work

We've thought about Android for Work for a long while, after Google announced the program at Google I/O 2014. Presently its official, and Google has partnered with various organizations to make the workplace an inside and out more secure spot for everybody.

Android for Work is based on four key technology parts: work profiles, the Android for Work application, Google Play for Work, and in-build productivity tools. Every client needs to set up their own particular work profile on a Lollipop-running device, and will then have admittance to work information because of improved SELinux security implementation. When set up, your IT expert can send or evacuate work-sanction applications to associated devices.

In the event that your device is running Ice Cream Sandwich through KitKat, you can download the Android for Work application. It will convey secure mail, contacts, events, documents and a great deal more, and can be totally overseen by your IT proficient. Here's the full rundown of segments Google has worked into the new program:

1. Work profiles – We've based on the default encryption, improved SELinux security authorization and multi-client help in Android 5.0, Lollipop to make a committed work profile that segregates and ensures work information. IT can send endorsed work applications right nearby their clients individual applications knowing their delicate information stays secured. Individuals can utilize their individual applications knowing their manager just oversees work information and won't eradicate or view their individual substance. 
2. Android for Work application – For devices running Ice Cream Sandwich through Kitkat, or that don't run work profiles locally, we've made the Android for Work application. The application, which conveys secure mail, schedule, contacts, documents, searching and access to endorsed work applications, can be totally overseen by IT. 
3. Google Play for Work – It permits organizations to safely send and oversee applications over all clients running Android for Work, rearranging the methodology of conveying applications to representatives and guarantees that IT endorses each sent application. 
4. In-build productivity tools – For ordinary business assignments, we've made a suite of business applications for email, contacts and schedule, which backs both Exchange and Notes and gives report altering abilities to documents, spreadsheets and presentations.

Google has likewise collaborated with various IT partners to make this all work, including Cisco, BlackBerry, Motorola, Samsung, Box and numerous others. Google clarifies that these partnerships bring a predictable administration stage that permits undertaking administrators to control all Android devices, old and new. These partnerships likewise bring more secure business applications and devices to the program

In case you're keen to know about the program, head to the Android for  Work site.

Govt. should withdraw New Land Ordinance Bill: Anna Hazare

Anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare starts a two-day protest against Land Acquisition ordinance at Jantar Mantar from Monday, on the day the Budget Session of the Parliament begins. Hazare is holding the protest to request the withdrawal of the anti-farmer revisions to the Land Acquisition Act, 2013, which was alteration by BJP Government. 


Hazare said the two-day protest will be trailed by a three to four month long "padyatra" across the country to make individuals aware of the "anti-farmer" provisions made by the Center in the ordinance. Veteran social activist Anna Hazare on Sunday required the Land Ordinance Bill to be taken back, including that the government ought to rather pay special mind to approaches to enhance the condition of the farmers.

While interacting with the mediapersons, he said that the agitation is not against any individual or party however for the profit of farmers. "The BJP tried for an ordinance on land procurement which is not for democracy," he was quoted by ANI. On the issue of AAP speaker Kumar Vishwas joining the agitation, he said that he is welcome to join the agitation however as a feature of public. "In the event that individuals from any political party goes along with us in front of an audience then individuals will surmise that its a party's protest," he included. He further included that Congress was not voted once more to power by individuals in light of the fact that they must have done something incorrectly.

Anna hazare starts discourse at Jantar-mantar against New Land Ordinance Bill. Here is Live Highlights:

• Anna charges BJP for bringing a bill which is anti-farmers and poor.
• New Land Ordinance Bill has uprooted after principle statement:

* No compelling reason to take consent of 70% farmers while gaining land. 
* Now farmers need govt. consent in the witness of approaching court.
* Land not utilized by industrialist even after given time, land won't be come back to farmers according to new bill, making it anti-farmers.

• Now watered land can be effortlessly gained.
• Anna contrast BJP's Land Ordinance Bill and British rules.
• Anna questions "Acche Din" for whom ???, Only for Industrialist not for farmers and poor. 
• Anna requests withdraw of Land Acquisition ordinance and changes if any needed in positive approach to Land Ordinance Bill for better fate of farmers.

* Click here to Read the complete Land Acquisition Bill

Google Buys Softcard's Technology, Gets Deal With U.S. Carriers

Google Inc. has acquired technology and patents from Softcard, a mobile-wallet service sponsored by the three-greatest U.S. remote suppliers, as the Web organization tackles Apple Inc. to offer more payment peculiarities on smartphones.

Softcard is a joint wander between AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile to support NFC based mobile payments in the United States. While Google's unique post on the Google Commerce web journal depicted it as something closer to a partnership, the announcement discharged via Softcard affirms that Google has acquired Softcard's technology.

The deal will see Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile and AT&T pre-install Google Wallet on their Android phones in the U.S. not long from now. Google Wallet permits shoppers to tap their phones to pay at checkout in some block and-mortar stores similarly Apple Pay does. The move likewise includes Google purchasing some protected innovation from Softcard, once known as ISIS. It doesn't give the idea that any Softcard representatives are joining Google as a major aspect of the deal.

Google, which presented its digital wallet in 2011, is searching for better approaches to pull in clients as Apple's mobile-payments service makes strides with purchasers and retailers. Apple Pay as of now records for more than $2 out of $3 of buys utilizing contactless mobile-telephone payments over the three noteworthy Visa systems, Apple said a month ago.

"We've gotten awesome criticism from individuals who utilize this peculiarity and we've kept contributing to make it simple and secure for more individuals to pay with their phones," Google said. "An enormous piece of this is working with different trend-setters in the business to help give a consistent experience over an extensive variety of phones and stores."

While Apple Pay has made strides, EBay Inc's. PayPal payments service remains a top supplier for mobile and Internet payments. In November, Apple Pay represented 1 percent of digital-payment dollars spent, by Investment Research. PayPal, which has been around for a long time and is being spun off by EBay, had 78 percent, while Google Wallet had 4 percent.

The partnership takes after Samsung Electronics Co's. declaration not long from now of a deal to purchase LoopPay Inc. to pick up a bigger foothold in mobile payments. LoopPay makes cell phone frill that let 90 percent of Visa payment gadgets accept mobile payments, Samsung said.

LoopPay makes cell phone adornments that let 90 percent of Mastercard payment gadgets accept mobile payments, Samsung said.

Google launches YouTube Kids on Android and iOS

It's been rumored for some time, yet now its official: Google has launched YouTube Kids.

The organization says its been working with parents over the previous year to make an all the more family-friendly version of YouTube . The new application is intended to be easier for kids offering a brighter and greater interface.

As you may expect, the choice of features on the platform is restricted for what Google considers "appropriate for the entire family." Parents and kids can skim four channel and playlist classifications: Shows, Music, Learning and Explore.

Obviously, you can basically look for substance you're searching for too, and it backings voice seek, on the off chance that your kid can't spell or type. Some illustration substance incorporates DIY arts and specialties, math lessons and youngsters' shows. Furthermore clearly, a great deal of train features.

The application additionally offers various parental controls, including:

• A timer that gives you a chance to breaking point your kids' screen time
• Sound settings to turn off ambient sounds and sound impacts to keep things quieter
• The capacity to turn off hunt to confine features to only those on the home screen
• A committed feedback segment to permit parents to give conclusions on the application and its substance

The application was initially rumored to be Android-just at launch, however it will likewise be landing on iOS today, also kids' tablets Kurio and nabi later on. You can head on over to the Google Play Store or the iOS App Store to try the new applications out.

No statement on a desktop version yet we've reached Google and will redesign in the event that we hear more. 

Source: Youtube Official Blog

Online education: the next big thing in India

The education sector in India is no more bound to simply classrooms. On account of new start-ups and higher internet and smartphone penetration, the online learning space in India is growing multifolds.

The e-learning market in India is assessed to be around $3 billion. The central government's efforts to make digital learning accessible to understudies in every corner of the nation is additionally supporting the sector.

At present, online preparing in India concentrates just as on both school and college-based courses and additionally mid-level professional courses.

For instance, Bengaluru-based Entranceindia gives practice papers to all building and therapeutic passageway tests in India. The organization intends to help understudies concentrate on the right subjects and substance as opposed to swim aimlessly in a sea of study materials accessible crosswise over diverse media. Likewise, they concentrate on comfort based preparing in light of the fact that online ability empowers understudies to get access to subjects at whatever time and anyplace.

As indicated by industry specialists, the fate of education in India will rely on upon online courses.

"A real set again of Indian education framework is the deferral to upgrade syllabus. Subsequently, in future, instead of acquiring a three-year degree course from a tier-1 or tier-2 city in India, there will be more takers for a professional course that is overhauled with the current industry demands," said Krishna Kumar, founder of an online preparing start-up Simplilearn.

Bengaluru-based Simplilearn offers more than 200 affirmation courses in project management, data innovation administration management, Microsoft accreditation, quality management and monetary management.

The organization has more than 300 courses over 150 nations, with more than 600 workers and has prepared more than 200,000 professionals over the globe.

Another company which is leading the way for online education in India is EduKart. EduKart was started in 2011 by Ishan Gupta, alumnus of Stanford University (USA) along with a passionate team of founders.

“This is a very crucial juncture for online education. While the development of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Content) has completely revolutionised the accessibility of education, the sector is looking forward to more engaging and interactive platforms for students to learn. Another challenge is to provide the aspirants with a range of choices so that they can make an informed career decision,” said Ishan Gupta, CEO EduKart.

The company is trying to bridge this gap by providing a range of choices to the aspirants, both in terms of the courses and course providers. As a marketplace, the company offers more than 1000 degree, diploma and certificate courses from 30+ national and international course providers.

The Learning Management System of EduKart, known as EKampus, provides the students with a great platform to learn and develop various skills.

Intellipaat, started in 2011, gives online preparing to IT professionals including corporate preparing, and paced toward oneself courses and offers more than 80 innovative courses crosswise over distinctive spaces. As indicated by CEO Diwakar Chittora, the organization is seeing just about a 1,000% augmentation as far as growth. The organization panders to corporates like Genpact, Ericsson,Sony, CISCO, TCS, Wipro, and Tata Communications among others.

Hyderabad-based Learnsocial is a six-month old organization and deals with an aggregator model. It intends to coddle both mid-level professionals and understudies alike.

"We need to turn into the Amazon of online learning. We need to give a large number of posts on learnsocial.com, totaling substance from different specialists, substance houses or colleges," says founder Raju Vanapala. Learnsocial has near to 200,000 clients and has prepared more than 1,100 learners. 

As indicated by studies, India and China will lead the growth in project management roles, creating around 4 million and 8.1 million roles, separately, by 2020. Subsequently, the business looks to grow from here on out.

An alternate reason why online preparing will pick up energy is a direct result of the requirement for re-skilling, For instance, around a decade back, all that a software professional was obliged to know were programming languages. Presently these professionals need to upgrade themselves on different viewpoints like big data analytics and cloud processing. Better pay treks and advancements are likewise the reasons why individuals embrace new courses.

A great deal of start-ups are now setting their foot in what they think will be the following big thing in India after e-trade. While a few organizations like Simplilearn and Intellipaat look to produce content, particularly going for mid-level professionals, others like Learnsocial plays a greater amount of an aggregator part. These organizations additionally offer mixed classes, coordinating both online and disconnected from the net experience, alongside take toward oneself courses.

In spite of the fact that a dominant part of their clients are from India, these entryways have seen countless from abroad too.

BlackBerry OS 10.3.1 update begins rolling out to users

BlackBerry revealed a significant software update on Thursday, permitting users of its whole suite of BlackBerry 10 devices, for example, the Z10, Q10 and Z30 to get to Android applications, and a host of different features, including Blend.

The organization said the BlackBerry 10 OS 10.3.1 gives users the capacity to get to both the BlackBerry World appstore and the Amazon Appstore that gives access to a host of Android applications already occupied on the BlackBerry stage.

Furthermore, BlackBerry said the new software will permit its users to get to its new BlackBerry Blend offer that awed numerous, when it was divulged last year.

The Blend gimmick lets users get message notifications, read and react to work and individual email, text and different messages, while likewise getting to records, logbooks, contacts and other media, on whatever gadget one is utilizing. It meets expectations over a host of working frameworks including Apple's Mac OS, Microsoft's Windows stage and tablets fueled by Google Inc's Android software.

The software update will likewise present the new BlackBerry Assistant, an advanced assistant that can be utilized with voice or text order to help users oversee email, contacts, datebook and different applications. It matches offerings, for example, Apple's Siri and Samsung's S Voice.

BlackBerry said subject to carrier acceptance, the software overhaul will start to take off to clients around the world, beginning Thursday.


Source: Reuters

Millions of computers may be compromised by US spyware - Kaspersky report

The US National Security Agency (NSA) has figured out how to conceal spying software profound inside hard drives made by top PC manufacturers, permitting the agency to spy on most of the world's computers, as per cyber researchers and previous operatives.

The nearly protected system was found by Kaspersky Lab, the Moscow-based security software creator that has uncovered a progression of Western cyber-secret activities operations.

Kaspersky said it discovered PCs in 30 nations contaminated with spying projects, with the most infections seen in Iran, emulated by Russia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, Mali, Syria, Yemen and Algeria.

The targets included government and military establishments, telecom organizations, banks, vitality organizations, atomic researchers, media, and Islamic activists, Kaspersky said.

The firm declined to publicly blame the US for being behind the spying crusade, however said it was nearly connected to Stuxnet, the NSA-drove cyberweapon that was utilized to attack Iran's uranium enhancement office.

A previous NSA representative told Reuters that Kaspersky's investigation was right, and that individuals still in the spy agency esteemed these surveillance programs as exceedingly as Stuxnet.

An alternate previous intelligence agent confirmed that the NSA had added to the prized method of disguising spyware in hard drives, however said he didn't know which spy efforts depended on it.

NSA representative Vanee Vines said the agency was mindful of the Kaspersky report however would not remark on it publicly.

Kaspersky on Monday distributed the specialized subtle elements of its exploration on Monday, a move that could help contaminated foundations catch the spying projects, some of which follow back the extent that 2001.

The revelation could hurt the NSA's reconnaissance capacities, officially harmed by enormous holes by previous foreman Edward Snowden. Mr Snowden's disclosures have vexed a few US partners and impede the offers of U.S. innovation items abroad.

The presentation of these new spying instruments could prompt more prominent backfire against Western innovation, especially in nations, for example, China, which is as of now drafting regulations that would oblige most bank innovation suppliers to proffer duplicates of their software code for assessment.

Peter Swire, one of five individuals from President Barack Obama's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology, said the Kaspersky report demonstrated that it is crucial for the nation to consider the conceivable impact on exchange and conciliatory relations before choosing to utilize its learning of software flaws for intelligence gathering.

"There can be not kidding negative consequences for different US engages," Mr Swire said.

As per Kaspersky, the spies made a mechanical leap forward by making sense of how to cabin malicious software in the dark code called firmware that dispatches each time a PC is turned on.

Apple Records Highest Ever Market Share in Japan and S.Korea

Apple's iPhone is having some fantastic luck in various vital Asian markets, as per another report from Counterpoint Research (cap tip to the Wall Street Journal for detecting this).

The iPhone hit a record high sales market share in South Korea, representing 33 percent of month to month sales in the country in November. The stronger shipments of the iPhone in South Korea appear to have agreed with a huge slip for Samsung:

iPhone hits record sales market share in South Korea, grows to 51% in Japan

Tom Kang, Counterpoint's research executive in South Korea, says that Apple has figured out how to pass a notable development. "No foreign brand has gone past the 20 percent market share stamp in the history of Korea's smartphone industry. It has dependably been ruled by the worldwide smartphone player, Samsung. Anyhow iPhone 6 and 6 Plus have had any kind of effect here, marking the opposition's phablet sales. Korea being the world's most astounding entered phablet market (handsets with 5" above screens) truly required a huge screen iPhone for very much a period and now this thirst has been extinguished."

Kang clarifies that if Apple's supplies weren't so compelled directly after the iPhone 6 dispatch in September, its numbers might've been ever stronger in South Korea – it "could have moved to the 40 percent level," he includes.

Japan Boost

In Japan, the same report saw the iPhone sale increased to 51 percent market share in November. That was the most elevated figure all year, demonstrating that the colossal swarms queueing for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in September interpreted into a sales bonanza.

Rival brands like Sharp and Fujitsu confronted slow decreases for the vast majority of 2014.

The 51 percent figure isn't a record high for the iPhone in Japan. That was likely attained to promptly after Docomo began to offer iPhones, following quite a while of reckoning. The repressed interest saw the iPhone hit 69 percent share of sales towards the end of 2013, as indicated by information refered to by Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer.

NOTE: The information originates from Counterpoint Research's Monthly Market Pulse report. It checks month to month sales figures. It doesn't reflect market share of dynamic telephone clients. 

Source: WSJ , Counterpoint Research

Housing.com plans to Acquires Real Estate Data Product PropEquity

Online real home portal, Housing.com is in converses with obtain Delhi-based real domain data product PropEquity for an arrangement measure of Rs 80 crore.

According to a TechCircle (VCCircle) report, Housing.com offered around Rs 80 crore for the company which recorded revenues of Rs 13.7 crore in 2014 and misfortunes of Rs 70 lakh.

PropEquity was begun by founder and CEO Samir Jasuja, it is an online subscription based real home data and investigation stage covering more than 45,000 tasks of 8,200 designers crosswise over more than 40 cities in India. The firm includes pretty nearly 500 undertakings consistently. As of now, the company has more than 250 representatives.

Housing was propelled in 2012 by twelve of IITians including Advitiya Sharma. As of late, it had made a tie up with Tata Value Homes to offer homes online utilizing its website, further it dispatched another gimmick 'Slice View' to give home purchasers an intelligent investigation of a venture before making a booking.

Till date, Housing.com has secured an aggregate subsidizing of over USD 121 million in 5 rounds of financing. In December 2014, the Japanese venture company SoftBank had affirmed driving a USD 90 million round, with investment from Falcon Edge Capital in Housing.com. As of now, it gives seeks in 45 cities with a vicinity in western and southern India.