Map Of Internet

This is How the Internet would look like physically on the World Map.

Internet On World Map

 

What better way to convey your company’s obsession with location and the Internet than to draw a giant map of what the Internet would look like if it had physical locations?

Yext, a quiet giant in the business of local searching, did just that at its new office space on 1 Madison Avenue.

We recently toured the company, which has been valued at around $270 million.

 http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-what-a-map-of-the-internet-would-look-like-2013-4#ixzz2Qn3XFZeV

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• A day in the life of the Internet hacked and mapped (guardian.co.uk)

 

‘Google Generation’ Become Brain Dead

Yes , people lose creativity by referring to Google at the drop of a hat , never trying to use their brains or creativity.

People do not know the Multiplication Tables , Fractions even.

In fact I calculate additions and subtraction, Multiplication and Division faster than by using the Calculator(basic, limited to two digits)

Reason .

We studied Tables, rather learnt them by heart.

 

Trevor Baylis, inventor of the wind up radio, has warned the internet is leaving children ‘brain-dead’

‘One of Britain’s leading inventors has warned that  a ‘Google generation‘ who rely on the internet for  everything are in danger of becoming ‘brain-dead’.

Trevor Baylis, who invented the wind-up radio, said children are losing creativity and practical skills because they spend too much time in front of screens.

The 75-year-old said he fears that the next generation of inventors is being lost, with young people often unable to make anything with their hands.

‘They are dependent on Google searches. A lot of kids will become fairly brain-dead if they become so dependent on the internet, because they will not be able to do things the old-fashioned way.’

Recalling how his career had its roots in the very different world in which he grew up, he said he was  about five or six years old when he began to invent devices. ‘During the war, when I was not at school I used to go out and collect the rubbish,’ said Mr Baylis.

‘One day I was out and went to this house around the corner  from where I grew up in Southall, Middlesex, and this lady said, “I’ve got a box of stuff for you Trev, you’d better get a wheelbarrow.” So I picked up this thing and on the way back I was intrigued and I looked inside and it turned out to be a huge Meccano set.

‘If I wanted to make a five-wheeled motor car then I could, or a forklift truck. And that’s really what it is about, because that stays with you all of your life.’

The inventor, who was awarded the OBE in 1997, believes that  simple challenges in schools  using tools such as Meccano  model kits would give children invaluable skills.

He said: ‘With Meccano you could do your own reproduction of, say, the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

‘If you brought Meccano back into primary or secondary schools then you’d have class one against class two – you’ve got four hours  to make the Sydney Harbour Bridge and we’ll see which one is the strongest.’

Many of Mr Baylis’s inventions have been gadgets to help the disabled.

He recalled how much of his motivation came from an accident when he was working as a circus stunt man.

He said: ‘I did an underwater escape act in a Berlin circus in 1970. When I was in the circus I had a very passionate affair with an aerial ballet star, a lovely girl from Vienna.

‘One night, she bounced off the net and hit the side and died halfway through the show and it broke my heart.

‘I suddenly realised disability is only a banana skin away.’

Mr Baylis still has a workshop  where he works on his inventions at his home in Twickenham, south-west London. He is currently lobbying the Government to do more to protect the intellectual property of inventors.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2253170/The-internet-leaving-children-brain-dead-Inventor-warns-Google-generation-spend-life-screens-losing-creativity-skills.html

 

Who Owns Google ,Who Google Controls?

I have blogged on the Media ownership in India,US aware of the fact that, in a Democracy who controls information decides power equation.

 

This morning it struck me that I never bothered to check on the ownership pattern of Google.

 

While Googling, the information I obtained was very meager and sanitized.

 

I did a search with Bing, with slightly better results.

 

After going through the material, I feel that if you r to be secretiveness, you have something to hide.

 

You try talking to some one in Google office India, you would be surprised that how people can refuse to part with any information without being offensive-even if the information you ask for is very mundane.

 

Standard answer ‘Google it’

 

Now Read on .

 

Google search: seen by a smaller proportion of UK desktop users in October 2012.

 

‘That being said, I have noticed how little users actually know about Google. We all use it everyday, but when it comes to who owns it or what the company does own-people are sometimes clueless. With the recent merger talk of Yahoo and Microsoft, I saw countless questions as to if Google already owned Yahoo. The answer of course is no, but Google does own so much more. The company is said to own over 500 domain names some bought by Google themselves, others bought by companies that were bought by Google.

As for the acquisitions Google has-the list is endless. According to mydigmedia.com, Google owns:

Deja.com

Pyra Labs-Blogger

Neotonic Software-for CRM

Applied Semantics-for search

Kaltix Corp-for context sensitve search

Genius Labs-for blogging

Ignite Logic-web templates for law firms

Picassa-digi photo management

Keyhole Group-digital mapping

Where 2 Technologies-digital mapping

ZipDash-maps and traffic for mobile devices

2Web Technologies-spreadsheets

Urchin-metrics/analytics

Dodgeball-mobile social networking

Reqwireless Inc.-Java browser

Current Communications Group-broadband internet

Android-software for mobile phone o/s

Transformic Inc-search engine for deep/invisible web

Skia-graphics software engineering

DMarc Broadcasting-digital radio broadcasting

Measure Map-analytics for blogs

Upstartle-Writely, document editor for the web

@Last Software-SketchUp 3D modeling

Orion-Referral search engine

Neven Vision-automatic information extraction from jpgs

Jotspot Ind-wiki platform for websites

YouTube-online video company

Endoxen-geomapping software

Xunlei-filesharing app for the web

Adscape Media-in-game advertising

Gapminder’s Trendalyzer-presentation software

Doubleclick-ad platform for the web

Tonic Systems-document conversion technology

Marratech-video conferencing technology

Green Border Technologies-secure web browsing tech

Panoramio-photo site sharing for Google Earth

Feedbumer-RSS feed distribution analytics and management

GrandCentral-mobile voice management

Postini-communications security and compliance

As you can see, Google does not own Yahoo. That can of course change in the upcoming months. Google has a lot of initiatives still to come. They recently released what they refer to as Android operating system, which very well could take over the Iphone market as well.

Sergey Brin and Larry Page both started Google while in their twenties. The two met in the science program at Stanford. They dropped out of school and started Google from a friends’ garage in 1998. Brin currently serves as president of technology at Google and Page heads product division. The two are said to be worth $18 billion.

Google controls the majority of the Internet. I happen to think this is not a bad thing. They seem to be innovative, responsible, generous and just plain brilliant. I think if anyone can keep moving technology forward, it is Google. I would not mind them controlling the net. They seem to be doing an excellent job so far. Only time will tell though as far as the future is concerned. I, for one, look forward to seeing what Google controls or comes up with next!”

Read this apt comment.

 

“Anything this powerful is a threat to liberty. They can do what they like, and are intruding more and more into our personal information. Now I’m told by Google that the ad I was running with Adwords is not being allowed because my site lacks enough content and too many ads! The site is a business site and provides the information to visitors I wish it to. It has pages of content and only two small square box ads apart from the Google adsense skyscraper! Yet they claim it ‘violates’ Googles policy of too many ads to content as if it’s just an ad farm which it isn’t.

It is no business of Google’s to judge sites. It’s arrogance, and it’s what you get from the too-powerful. Forget governments, Google could become the police state all on its own, it is gathering vast amnounts of information, holds archives not just of websites but of our searches. It is inherently dangerous and I don’t share the writer#s sanguinity or optimism. Facebook is showing the same tendency to megalomania.”

 

Will some body from the IT Industry send me information on Google ownership?

 

http://wrytestuff.com/swa300671.htm

 

‘The first funding for Google as a company was secured on August 1998 in the form of a $100,000USD contribution from Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, given to a corporation which did not yet exist.^[24](wiki)

 

Look at the above-’ given to a corporation which did not yet exist”

 

List of Companies acquired by Google.

 

There are 119 Companies. Visit.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_acquisitions

 

 

An Exploratory Journey Through Historical Journeys.

Please visit this site to relive the Epic Journeys from Magellan, Columbus to Trans Siberian Railway.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2nUKED/:X@YkM.yw:5X8_D!r0/awesome.good.is/features/011/Wanderlust/index.html/

 

Hacker Infects His Computer With Own Virus!

Crackpots come in all hues!

Cyber-security experts turned the tables on an alleged hacker by using his own malware to film him through his own laptop webcam.

Specialists from Georgia’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-Georgia) tricked a man they claim has been targeting their networks by hiding the virus inside a file titled ‘Georgian-Nato Agreement’.

After the attacker stole that archive from an infected PC in their lab, they were able to seize control of his computer and capture video of him at work.

The team also claim to have found out his home city, internet service provider and email addresses, as well as information that links him to Russian security agencies and other hackers in Germany.

CERT-Georgia’s experts had been investigating a botnet which had infiltrated the computers of politicians, civil servants, banks and NGOs in Georgia, the U.S., Canada, Ukraine and several other countries.

They found that the attackers had planted malicious links to install the malware on specific news-site webpages that would be of interest to the kinds of people they wanted to target.

‘[The] threat was highly encrypted and used contemporary stealthy techniques, so that none of security tools could identify it,’ the team said in a 27-page report into their investigation.

Once installed, the virus seized control of the targeted computer, rifling its hard drives to search for Word and .pdf documents containing sensitive words like ‘USA‘, ‘NATO‘, ‘Russia’ and ‘CIA’.

The Hacker who Infected His Computer,

_WHAT IS A BOTNET?

A botnet is a collection of internet-connected computers over which a hacker has seized control.

Each compromised machine – known as a ‘bot’ – is created when a computer is infected with malicious software (malware) which allows the hacker to direct its activities remotely.

These infections can be accomplished by luring users into making a drive-by download, exploiting web browser vulnerabilities, or by tricking the user into running a Trojan horse program, which may come from via email.

This malware will typically install modules that allow the computer to be commanded and controlled by the botnet’s operator.

Depending on how it is written, a Trojan may then delete itself, or may remain present to update and maintain the modules.

The malware also scanned the computer’s local network for find other hosts to infect, took screenshots, and took control of embedded webcams and microphones on machines to eavesdrop on targets.

The investigation found the infiltration began as early as March 2011, with the virus undergoing a series of modifications as hackers tried to stay one step ahead of whatever security measures were used against it.

CERT-Georgia’s experts found that whenever they were able to trace the botnet’s command and control servers, to which files were being uploaded, the hackers would switch the destination country and IP address.

To fight the infections, the team blocked these IP addresses as soon as they were detected then cooperated with anti-virus software companies and foreign intelligence agencies to develop countermeasures.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2225743/Alleged-hacker-caught-camera-cyber-security-experts-infect-HIS-OWN-virus.html#ixzz2AsramxIF