London: Google may soon be able to deliver search results to its users even before they know that they want the information.

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After the announcement to support high definition 720p and then 1080p, YouTube has now announced that it is providing a new resolution for video display. Yes it is 4096p or 4K (4096 x 3072 pixels). The extreme high resolution is often used when making commercial films.

“We always want videos on YouTube to be available in the highest quality possible, as creators intend.” said Ramesh Sarukkai in the official blog.

“At 4096 x 2304 pixels, 4K is over four times the size of 1080p” continued the YouTube engineer. “To view any video in a source resolution greater than 1080p, select ‘Original’ in the video quality pulldown menu:”

To achieve such a high quality image, it must obviously meet two criteria. Firstly, the amateur filmmaker must be equipped with a camera capable of recording content in such a definition. For now, these devices remain out of reach of many of us.

London: A 26-year-old British Internet surfer has recognized Christ’s image as he trawled the Google Earth site looking for holiday destinations.

The bearded messiah can be seen clearly in satellite pictures of a field on farmland near Puspokladany in Hungary, The Sun reported Monday. Zach Evans, a sales assistant from Southampton who spotted the outline, said: “I’m not a religious person looking for images of Mary or Jesus in everything, but this is obvious.”

In recent years, a number of people have claimed to have seen the face of Jesus. Last week nurse Alex Cotton, 38, spotted the face of Jesus in a drainpipe stain in Coventry, Britain. Toby Elles, 22, from Salford, Manchester, has found it burned into pan fat. It was in the grain of an Ikea toilet door in Braehead, Scotland, and on a burnt iron in Massachusetts.IANS

Microsoft has another reason to worry about. Its internet explorer is already losing ground to Google chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Now IBM has just given one more blow to Internet Explorer, by issuing a statement to its more than 400 000 employees from this time, the browser Mozilla is to be adopted by default on all machines of your company.

Bob Sutor, IBM’s vice president for Division Linux and open source software, said in his blog that “Firefox is stunningly standards compliant, and interoperability via open standards is key to IBM’s strategy. Firefox is open source and its development schedule is managed by a development community not beholden to one commercial entity. Firefox is secure and an international community of experts continues to develop and maintain it. Firefox is extensible and can be customized for particular applications and organizations, like IBM. Firefox is innovative and has forced the hand of browsers that came before and after it to add and improve speed and function.”

London: Pop singer Kylie Minogue, currently staying in London, relies on web chats to speak to her family in Australia.

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Belgrade: Suspected Kosovo Albanian hackers attacked the website of Serbia’s state-run Radio Television Serbia (RTS) and uploaded headlines and bylines related to Kosovo, a media report said.

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It is being reported by multiple sources that Verizon webmail system is completed down. The users of the nation’s largest carrier are having difficult time accessing their email account because of the outage which has disabled the login process on Verizon Central.

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Beijing, June 27 (IANS) With low prices, discounts and the ease of buying, online shopping has attracted more than 100 million netizens in China in recent times, and with it a lot of “phishing”.

“Phishing” is a fraudulent process in which a fake website attempts to acquire a user’s passwords or credit card information by disguising itself as a trustworthy entity.

People can find most of the things they want without stepping out of their doors. But as the business flourishes, it has created opportunities for an increasing number of swindlers, the Global Times reported.

Despite the same logo and format, it is hard to tell the difference between actual online shopping sites and the fake ones, apart from some slight changes in the address.

Once shoppers decide to pay online, they can easily fall into the trap set by the swindler, the report said.

The website induces a customer into its own payment system with false bank links. Without noticing, shoppers often expose their bank account details and personal information to the imposter. This process is called “Phishing” in internet parlance.

“Phishing takes up more than a third of the internet complaints we’ve received this year,” Li Hong, vice director of the Internet Complaint Centre, was quoted as saying.

An online shopper named Xu said: “I bought clothes costing one yuan on a website that looked the same as Taobao. But after I paid for them, I found 1,000 yuan had been deducted from my account. I couldn’t reach the seller from then on.”

And getting the money back is almost impossible. One thousand yuan is too small an amount to be investigated by the police, making phishing more attractive to thieves.

Palermo: One of Italy’s most wanted mafia fugitives, arrested in the South of France, managed his business affairs over the Internet and even had a nickname for a Skype account, a police official Saturday said.

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Beijing: Chinese trade and Internet experts have criticized Google’s move to declare the country’s Internet restrictions a trade barrier, saying it was another move by the Internet search engine to politicize itself. Read the rest of this entry »