Friday, February 27, 2015

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

AB de Villiers South Africa World Cup 2015 Record
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 Plugin for Wordpress
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

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Lenovo website hacked, possibly by Lizard Squad

Lizard Squad hacked Lenevo Website
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 for PC
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: 



Whatsapp Web Opera Firefox Chrome
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.

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Google launches Android for Work

Google Launches Android for WorkWe'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

Land Acquisition Bill Report
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:

Land Ordinance Bill - Anna Hazare
  • 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 buys SoftCard
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.