How To Make Story/Submission On Front Page/Popular On Digg

Digg is one of the best social media platform which is used by users all over the world to submit their stories to get their article popular , in reward they get lots of visitor and back-link to their website which almost fulfill dream of any writer who own blog and website.

Do you think this article is based on What is Digg or Why to use Digg or bla bla...NO.This article is about main problem which is faced by digger every day and every time when they submit article in Digg i.e is How to get article popular in Digg" and Technocage always try to help user in this type of matter so i decided to talk some power digger and make a conclusion which really going to help all digger who wonder to get Popular their article on Digg.

So be patience and read some tips according to power digger which will really going to help you all in getting your article popular which are listed below:

1.Become Good Follower

Try to follow Good follower who don't spam and are active user, Instead who following spammers.

2.Become Good And Active Digger

Try to Digg Good and Latest Stories regularly from those you are following.Don't dugg stories who are 24 hour old ,they are dead stories will effect your profile.

3.Do submission In Gentle Way

Try Maintain a Gap of 4-5 hour in Submission of article and don't sub same site back to back give preference to other website also which are related to your interest.

4.Use Each category Of Digg

If possible try to Submit Article in each category of Digg ,this will really going to boost up you profile and create max chance to get pop.

5.Do Less Promotion If you do

Many of user do promotion for their article on Digg which is not so good but you can do it good way to take advantage of promotion check below tips:

• Promote less and take 60 diggs in 5 hour ,10 vote each hour.
• Try to get more and More Views for you submission.
• Try to get Genuine Comment instead of good ,nice and bla bla bla

Note: Don't exceed your Digg count more then view if this so,you will prove your spamming.

6.Use a Good Title and Description in Your Diggs

Try to add good Title and Description to your submission which attract users,Instead of adding Spamming content.

7.Get Max Diggs from Mutual

If you getting your Diggs from your Mutual then it reflect the image that you are getting diggs from your Followers and friends who read you story daily.

8.Submit Real content from real Source

If you are submitting Real source and from Real website who actually submitting the news then their are max chance of that story to get poped.

10.Try To Submit Popular Keywords

Apple,Window,Gaming,Android,Google and their are lots more which every Blogger know.This also increase the chances of story to get pop because maximum nerds explore about this type of stuff on Digg.

11.Try To Submit Article in related Category

Submit Article in related category which match your content ,if you add Gaming content in Technology section it will be counted as spam and get buried.

12.Get Your Article Published From Different Digg Profile

If your article is submitted by different profile shows that your website /blog is popular among other due to which you website/blog is submitted by different that also give you plus point in get pop on Digg

So if you are user who already using digg can follow this tips to be a good digger and if you are not then be a part of this Social media Website by Registering .And if you get pop your story on digg then don't forget to share that with Technocage.

Asia-Pacific mobile connections to hit 4.2 bn in 2016

Asia-Pacific (AP) mobile connections will reach 4.2 billion in 2016 a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.4 per cent over the next five years, according to Ovum.n a new report, the independent telecoms analyst states that mobile connection growth will largely be driven by the “mega emerging markets” of China, India and Indonesia due to their market size and relatively low mobile penetration levels.  In fact these three markets will have 3 billion connections between them in 2016, accounting for 72 per cent of connections in AP and 38 per cent of the global totalHowever, mobile revenue growth in AP will reach a CAGR of just 2.4 per cent between 2011 and 2016. This is despite the rise of mobile data revenues for telecoms operators, which Ovum expects to reach US$145 billion in 2016 due to the sheer volume of connections and the presence of a number of developed data markets.

Emeka Obiodu, Ovum senior analyst and author of the report, commented: “The global mobile market will experience sustained growth in connections across all regions, but Asia, Africa and the US will be the main drivers and between them will add billions of connections by 2016”. “However, the significant growth in subscribers and the market’s insatiable demand for data services will not be enough to reverse the trend of overall slowing revenue growth in the market as the downward spiral in voice revenues continues to take its toll.”

According to Obiodu, the developed markets of Asia-Pacific** have similar connection growth rates to Western Europe. With the exception of Australia, Singapore, and Hong Kong, all of the developed markets in AP have a lower connection CAGRs than their emerging market counterparts.

Obiodu commented: “This is unsurprising as these markets are made up of countries that have a non-existent prepaid market (South Korea and Japan) or that will have a penetration rate of over 130 per cent in 2016. In addition, all of these markets have low population growth rates. In these markets, some of the main drivers of connection growth (pent-up demand, population growth, and multiple SIM ownership) are absent, while connection growth is stifled by market maturity”.

Although voice will continue to play the major role in service revenues, accounting for 60 per cent of total mobile revenues in 2016, Ovum predicts that voice revenues will begin to decline in 2014 and will fall from $195.2 billion in 2011 to $193.7 billion in 2016 in AP.

“From 2014, voice revenues in AP will begin to decline as operators struggle to derive new revenues from customers and the significance of the market’s shift towards data becomes even more apparent. In 2016, non-voice revenues will no longer be a supplement to voice revenues. Instead, they will begin to replace them”, concluded Obiodu. NEW DELHI, INDIA: Mobile phone major, Samsung, has announced an investment of $70 million, tripling the manufacturing capabilities in its Noida facility.

With this investment, the company will enhance its production capabilities of 16 different models from the existing 12 million units a year. India is one of its largest R&D centres in the world and the company also develops software for smartphones at its Bangalore facility.

J.S. Shin, president and CEO, Samsung South West Asia, said that they are constantly strengthening their presence in India. “As India has emerged as one of the fastest growing markets for mobile devices in the world, we are working on an innovative mobile portfolio,” he said. Ranjit Yadav, head - mobile and IT at Samsung India, said that with the current investment, Noida centre has become their largest production facility in the world.

Adobe patches Flash bug hackers are already exploiting

Adobe on Wednesday patched six vulnerabilities in Flash Player, including one it admitted is already being exploited by attackers.

That vulnerability, identified as CVE-2011-2444, shares some traits with an earlier Flash flaw that was used to target Gmail accounts in June.

Adobe labeled CVE-2011-2444 as a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability, a class of bugs often used by identity thieves to steal usernames and passwords from vulnerable browsers. In this case, browsers were not directly targeted; rather, attackers exploited the ubiquitous Flash Player browser plug-in.

Like the June Flash bug, CVE-2011-2444 was reported to Adobe by Google's security team.

Adobe also used almost identical phrasing to describe both CVE-2011-2444 and the June vulnerability in its security advisories.

"There are reports that this vulnerability is being exploited in the wild in active targeted attacks designed to trick the user into clicking on a malicious link delivered in an email message," said Adobe in Wednesday's advisory as well as the one it published in June. "This universal cross-site scripting issue could be used to take actions on a user's behalf on any website or webmail provider, if the user visits a malicious website."

Adobe declined to comment on how the CVE-2011-2444 vulnerability was being exploited and instead referred questions to Google. The latter did not immediately reply to an emailed query.

Four of the five other Flash bugs that Adobe patched today could be exploited by attackers to run their malicious code on victimized computers, Adobe said in its advisory.

Wednesday's Flash update was the first since Adobe patched 13 bugs on Aug. 9. Adobe has fixed Flash eight times so far this year, including several emergency, or "out-of-band," updates rushed to users because attacks were under way.

The patched versions of Flash Player for Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris can be downloaded from Adobe's Web site. Alternately, users can run Flash's update tool or wait for the software to prompt them that a new version is available.

Android users must browse to the Android Market to update Flash.

Google silently updated its Chrome browser on Tuesday to include the patched version of Flash Player. Google has been including Flash with Chrome since April 2010, and remains the only browser maker to bundle the plug-in with its own releases.

How to Recover Suspended/Block Google Plus Profile

Google plus is Social media by Google which entered into cyber world few day ago and few of the users are able to use that Social media because Google team was checking response from the user for their new Social media but 2-3 back now it official and anyone can create account their and use it,like we do in Facebook.But this is not the Aim of this article to tell you about What is Google Plus.

Did you noticed that After getting Google plus many users get banned their Gmail profile and associated Picasa,Orkut ,Google buzz and G talk status. According to which you are not able to like any buzz ,not able to vote on Google plus button and your status which you add on Gtalk is also get changed to normal in few sec.Now what is mystery behind getting profile banned on Gmail.

This is All happening because "Google have started enforcing some silly "community standards" for the names and suspending profiles with names that don't comply" which mean that if user profile information feel like fake or incomplete field then they will ban user.Now what to do ?

As I personally faced ban of 2 week and I know how to manage work on mine account,but i don't want suffer other people just for a single hour .So i decided to post an article to tell you "How to get unbanned Gmail profile" and to make that thing happen just follow the simple instructions.

1.First of all visit you Profile and then Go Edit Profile Option.

2.Now fill the Profile which seems satisfied like Original Name and other Information.

3.And when you done with it just leave you Account for 24 hour and you will see that you account is not suspended any more.Now you can again use all the feature of Gmail which you are not able to use due to account suspension.OR

You can read great Article on How to Recover Suspended Google Plus Profile

Note: Its recommended by me to all user that if you want to be active use of Google Plus then fill full information about you in your profile and you will never get ban from Gmail

Alleged LulzSec, Anonymous hackers arrested

An Arizona man was arrested today for allegedly stealing data from Sony Pictures Entertainment earlier this year, and two others were indicted on charges of participating in a denial-of-service (DoS) attack that temporarily shut down Santa Cruz County servers late last year.


Cody Andrew Kretsinger, 23, of Phoenix was indicted September 2 by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiracy and unauthorized impairment of a protected computer, the FBI said in a statement. Kretsinger could not be reached for comment.

Separately, 47-year-old Christopher Doyon of Mountain View, Calif., was arrested and appeared before Magistrate Judge Howard Lloyd in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Jose, according to a U.S. Department of Justice statement released this afternoon. Lloyd ordered that a bail study be done and set a court appearance for September 29 at 1:30 p.m. PT.

Doyon, who allegedly uses the alias "Commander X," and Joshua John Covelli, 26, of Fairborn, Ohio, were indicted on charges of conspiracy to cause intentional damage to a protected computer, causing intentional damage to a protected computer, and aiding and abetting by participating in a distributed DoS attack on Santa Cruz County servers December 16, 2010, shutting down the Web site. A criminal summons was issued to Covelli, aka "Absolem" or "Toxic," to appear before Magistrate Paul Grewal in San Jose on November 1.

In the Sony case, Kretsinger is accused of using proxy services via the hidemyass.com site, designed to offer anonymous Internet access, to probe Sony Pictures Entertainment's computer systems in May, according to the indictment, which was unsealed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles today.

He and other co-conspirators looked for vulnerabilities and exploited them by means of a SQL injection attack between May 27 and June 2, the indictment says. They then allegedly compromised the Sony system, making "tens of thousands of requests for confidential data," and released the information from Sony on a public Web site and on Twitter.

Kretsinger permanently erased the hard drive of the computer he used to conduct the attack, the indictment alleges. He is due to make an initial appearance in federal court in Phoenix today. The U.S. government will request that he be transferred to Los Angeles to face prosecution. He faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted.

He is alleged to have used the hacker handle "recursion" and is believed to be a member of the LulzSec hacker group.

The LulzSec group, believed to be a spinoff of the Anonymous group of online activists, had bragged about breaking into Sony Pictures' system, posting a statement on Pastebin on June 2 and proof of their attack. "We recently broke into SonyPictures.com and compromised over 1,000,000 users' personal information, including passwords, email addresses, home addresses, dates of birth, and all Sony opt-in data associated with their accounts," the statement said. "Among other things, we also compromised all admin details of Sony Pictures (including passwords) along with 75,000 'music codes' and 3.5 million 'music coupons.'"

A week later, Sony said that actually personally identifiable information of 37,500 customers had been exposed in the breach. The breach was one of a series of attacks targeting Sony and its affiliate sites globally that started in May following a legal spat Sony had with a hacker who had modified his Sony PlayStation 3.

In the San Jose cases, the indictments allege that the attack on Santa Cruz County servers was orchestrated by the People's Liberation Front (PLF), which is associated with the Anonymous group. After the city enacted a law restricting camping in city limits, protesters occupied the courthouse premises and several were charged with misdemeanors, the Justice Department said. In retaliation, the PLF organized the DoS attack, the statement alleges.

Covelli is also separately under indictment in U.S. District Court for the Northern District for allegedly participating in a distributed DoS attack on PayPal in December 2010. His next court appearance in that case is set for November 1 at 9 a.m. PT before Judge Lowell D. Jensen in San Jose. Neither Doyon nor Covelli could immediately be reached for comment this afternoon.

The Justice Department and FBI said they could not comment on the San Jose cases beyond the indictments and statements, so it is unclear exactly where Doyon was arrested. Earlier today, Fox News reported that a hacker who is believed to be homeless was arrested in San Francisco on charges of participating in attacks allegedly carried out by activist group Anonymous on Santa Cruz County government Web sites, and that search warrants were being executed in New Jersey, Minnesota, and Montana. An FBI spokesman said that the agency does not typically comment on search warrants.

How to remove the Facebook ticker

If you have checked Facebook recently, you have probably noticed a sidebar ticker has been added to the right-hand column of the newly redesigned News Feed, along with complaints and snarky comments about the new News Feed and this ticker. About the ticker, Facebook says:

Ticker, on the right-hand side of your account, lets you see all your friends' activity in real-time. When you hover over an item on ticker, you can see the full story and join the conversation as it happens. Ticker updates itself as stories happen. This gives you a more complete picture of what your friends are doing, right now.

To my eye, this ticker needlessly busies the News Feed page. It's a Facebook news feed inside a Facebook news feed. It reminds me of the joke about there being so many Starbucks that the coffee giant started opening new Starbucks stores inside existing Starbucks stores.

Facebook doesn't allow you to close the ticker, stating:

You can't close ticker, but you can make it smaller by moving the horizontal bar between ticker and chat. Slide the bar up to hide ticker and make your chat list longer. Pull the bar down to show more of the ticker and hide chat.

Thankfully, there are quick and easy ways in both Firefox and Chrome to get rid of the ticker.

In Chrome, simply install the Hide Facebook SideBar Ticker extension and the ticker will vanish.

In Firefox, you will need to install a user script. To do so, first install the Greasemonkey add-on and then install this user script. When prompted, restart Firefox and the ticker will be gone. Do note that this user script removes the entire right column of Facebook, including the ticker, event invitations, ads, sponsored stories, friends' photos, and so on.

How To Enable Facebook Timeline Right Now

Yesterday, Facebook announced Timeline, a crazy (and kind of creepy) omnibus look at everything that has ever happened in your Facebook lifespan. It’s like a story book of your life from the very beginning your joined Facebook

If you are impatient and want to experience the Facebook Timeline, you can turn it through the developer section of Facebook. The process is simple, takes a few minutes, and will require some patience as Facebook tidies up any lingering issues and bugs. Read on.

1. Visit the Facebook Developer page, and enable it for your account. If you aren't currently logged in, you will be required to do so.

2. The button to create a new app can be found in the top right corner of the Apps page. Make sure to give your app a display name and name space when requested (it doesn't matter what you enter here, no one will see this app, just make something up and continue). Accept the Platform Privacy agreement by checking the box. You will have to have a verified Facebook account, meaning you have either a credit card or phone number on file.

3. After the app has been named and terms accepted, you will then be taken to your shiny new apps' settings screen. You will see an Open Graph option on the left-hand side. Click on it.

4. You will need to define an action for your new app. You can enter whatever you like; no one is going to see this app when all is said and done, so don't fret too much over the details. (We entered "People can 'high five' a 'video'" as our action). Click on Get Started once you have entered your action.

5. Once you are presented with the screen above, you don't actually have to do anything, just scroll to the bottom and select Save Changes. You may have to do this on a couple different screens; just remember to scroll to the bottom and select Save Changes.

6. After you are taken back to the Dashboard for Open Graph, you have completed the setup process. Give it a few minutes, then go back to your Facebook home page. You should then see a big invite to enable Timeline. If you don't see it right away, give it a few minutes

That's it. Once you click on Get It Now, you will then be redirected to your new Timeline. Your Timeline is private, by default, for the time being. You can either edit it until you are ready to publish it, or you can ride it out and let Facebook publish it for you on September 29.

One more note: if you access your Facebook account from another computer, your Timeline is turned off. To get it back, enter the follow URL into your browser: http:www.facebook.com/[yourusername]?sk=timeline. Make sure to replace [yourusername] with your actual Facebook username.

Irritating Restriction On Number Of Daily SMS

The Telecom Regulatory of India (TRAI) has decided to restrict SMS Usage to 100 messages per day from September 27. The TRAI's Per Day per Sim rule has asked telecom service providers to remove SMS service packs allowing customers to send more than 100 SMSes every day.

Speaking to Hindustan Times, Rajan S Mathews, Director General, Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) said, "We have written to TRAI against this many times. We feel it infringes on the right of speech of consumers. It will give them a tough time, especially during festive occasions such as Diwali, when people send out several hundred wishes in a daySome of the customers feel the restriction doesn't augur well for many reasons.

"As long as we pay for the SMS, it should not be a problem with anyone how many we send. Aren't we a democratic country?" says Manoj Arora, 25.

"It is our right to choose whether to send 10 messages or 100. Texting is so much cheaper and we can even do so while we are in class," says Akshit Tuteja, 21.

23-year-old Shalini Seth feels, "Bulk SMSes played a key role in campaigns such Anna Hazare's protest. Besides, what if I cross my 100 mark one day and need to send an urgent message? What happens then?"
There are also many in favour of the limit. "If this blocks the hundreds of promotional SMS we get in a day, it's a great idea" says Swati Bhalla.

BSNL Likely To Scrap 15m Line GSM Tender

Loss-making state-run telco BSNL is likely to scrap its 15 million line GSM tender due to the poor response from private vendors to the estimated Rs 5,000-6,000-crore equipment supply contract.

"The 15 million GSM tender floated by state-run BSNL is likely to be scrapped as only two or three private vendors have shown interest in the e-tender process," a Department of Telecom official said. According to telecom market experts, the 15 million GSM line tender is estimated to be worth around Rs 5,000-6,000 crore. "One of the reasons for the low interest shown by the private parties could be that BSNL divided the whole country into six zones for this tender... (and interested parties) will bid for this in a segregate manner, rather than for pan-India," the source said.

However, when contacted, BSNL CMD R K Upadhyay said, "As of now, there is no such plan to scrap the tender... The process is evolving." BSNL had floated this tender in July on an e-tendering reverse auction basis. A reverse auction is a type of auction in which the company that floats the tender fixes the upper limit of the contract and interested parties participate in a series of rounds in which they submit offers lower than the ceiling contract value and those of the previous round until a single party emerges as the lowest (L-1 ) bidder.

This is not the first time that a BSNL tender for GSM lines has been cancelled. Earlier, BSNL had cancelled a tender for 5.5 million GSM lines. It had cancelled a 93 million line tender worth Rs 35,000 crore prior to that, amid controversies over the lack of competition in the auction process and complaints from various quarters that the capacity addition was high for the company.

Cool Apps for Co-Working Professionals

Co-working by involving shared working environment has become a popular trend these days. Every organization is looking for innovative, creative working methods and apps fits right into the bill. There are apps made specially to help co-working professionals through which one can experience a different work environment altogether.

American Express OPEN Forum has listed some apps for co-working professional to get good productivity in the work space.

Cobot Cobot is created to free coworking space managers developed by Co.up in Berlin, offers the service of invoicing, membership agreement and other resources for membersFreshBooks FreshBooks is designed to help businesses get paid by their clients with ease. This service works with a number of different payment providers, sending online invoices to your clients.

This service is ideal for people who get paid for their time and expertise, like artists, designers, developers and writers. HipChat HipChat is a hosted private chat service for your company or team. You can invite colleagues to share ideas and files in persistent group chat rooms.

You can even access your chat room through a desktop, web or mobile application, so it's easy to connect no matter where you're working. iTeleport iTeleport is a great iOS app for accessing your home base computer remotely. Whether you switch between desktop and laptop to iPad or iPhone, you'll never be without
your needed information and documents. Loosecubes Loosecubes able you to cowork, even when you're miles away from your home coworking space, is a great perk of this global community.

Loosecubes is a great marketing tool for coworking space, constantly attracting new coworkers. Mavenlink Mavenlink is a Google app for product management that works flawlessly with your other Google extensions, streamlining group collaboration, budget tracking and file
sharing. Ohours For freelancers and small business folk looking to connect with experts in their fields, Ohours is a great way to find people.

The service is also used to arrange face-to-face meet ups. Open office hours are a great way to learn about new industries, without investing in a grueling crash course. Socialcast Socialcast is a micro blogging and sharing platform connecting people in real discussions. Industry professionals can engage in messaging, town hall meetings and polling.

Facebook iPhone

David Kirkpatrick the author of The Facebook Effect posits that Facebook could bully Apple. The iPhone and other iOS devices have covered towards a unique level of convergence and the Facebook users present an overwhelming challenge to Apple.

Facebook ever built its own device or mobile operating system it could transform the iPhone device into The Facebook iPhone. The basic idea as it applies to Apple is the development and rollout of multiple HTML5 applications which would allow Facebook to create a range of mobile applications without having to adhere to the rules and toll charges imposed by Apple's app-store.

Facebook is determined to get onto iPhone, Android and any other major mobile platform too. It will either build its own lingua franca for mobile via HTML5, or it will build an entire fleet of apps. Facebook simply improve upon its current iOS app and not fragment the experience. Or it may develop its own mobile operating system like Android.

Preview Microsoft Social/Design Project "Tulalip"

Facebook ,Google Plus What Next...Wanna guess ok leave will tell you,Software giant "Microsoft" is working on a social/design project called Tulalip,Its not a prediction by Technocage basically that happen accidently .But according to me its not accident its all gamble play bye Microsofts to create curiosity among the users who love to be part of Social media.And Now question raised in mind that Are You ready for Next Social Media after Facebook and Google plus.

Basically day by day we reading to much rumors about this Social media called Tulalips,And that make me write an article about this on Technocage,As their are many website where you can find news about Tulalip like Mashable,venturebeat and more but i don't want to make mine reader feel bad by not writing about this Hottest keyword.So without wasting no second let we read about on which this article is posted.

What is Tulalips?

Tulalip is Microsoft social/design project which is presently under development mode,its not officially announced by official but all proved according to details from a splash page that was accidentally published to Socl.com.

"“Thanks for stopping by. Socl.com is an internal design project from a team in Microsoft Research which was mistakenly published to the web. We didn’t mean to, honest,” the message states."

Now i think nobody need any announcement about this hidden project its all clear.

Some Feature of Tulalip According to Splash Page

1.Tulalip Is Social media Website like Facebook and Google Plus.

2.It will help users to find what you need and what you want to share with your friends.

3.Help to know everything easier than ever.

4.Get a real experience of chit chat like siting face to face.

Aim of Tulalip

Tulalip is the company product which is owned by bilgates and they want to compete in a social media world after showing complete dominance in field of Operating system and Software and want to stand in front of Facebook and Google + which already dominating social media from long time, that is in a continuous growing.

How to Connect with Tulalip

Since every social media provide it register and login option but here is another to more option like Facebook and Twitter which you can use to login on this social media According to the page that show accidenlty few day back.

Since till we have only this information about this social media and Technocage will still update about any new information about this media ASAP we get,Lets see Is Microsoft's going to get response like they got for Review of Window 8

Anonymous Declares 'Day of Vengeance' on Sept. 24

Hacktivist group Anonymous is planning to hold a special "Day of Vengeance" in several cities around the U.S. on Saturday.

Late last night, Anonymous--or at least people claiming to be from Anonymous--posted a press release on Pastebin, saying that Saturday will be marked by peaceful protests in cities across the U.S. combined with cyberattacks on "various targets, including Wall Street, Corrupt Banking Institutions, and the New York City Police Department."

The group suggests following Twitter account @PLF2012, which it says will publish “ongoing reports” throughout the day.


The full press release:

Wednesday – September 21, 2011

On September 17, 2011 approximately 15,000 peaceful demonstrators
in dozens of cities around the USA gathered, marched – and occupied
public space to protest the unjust policies of the US government
and the corruption in our financial institutions. The central
protest site was in the financial district of New York City, where
peaceful protesters faced phalanxes of heavily armed paramilitary
police officers from local and federal jurisdictions. The arrests
began almost immediately, many for violating the 1845 so called
“mask” laws.

Later that day, and according to plan – many of these protests
ended with a peaceful occupation of public space. Again, the
central occupation occurred in NYC. More arrests continued to take
place. All of this was expected, it is part of progressive
activism. Anonymous was content to challenge these stupid “mask”
laws in court. Not only is the Guy Fawlkes mask covered under
freedom expression as a symbol of our movement, but we believe that
everyone has a right to protest anonymously using bandanas, masks -
etc.

But then on Tuesday – September 20, 2011 everything changed in a
flash of police instigated violence. As rain began to fall on the
NYC encampment, heavily armed police moved in; Removing tarps used
to cover media equipment, arresting independent journalists,
confiscating media equipment – and using excessive force against
and arresting innocent peaceful protesters, several of whom were
abused and injured.

http://youtu.be/dyvbI6Eq-qA

This year, we heard President Barack Obama and Secretary Hillary
Clinton say over and over in country after country from the Balkans
through the mid-east to Africa that the right to peacefully protest
and occupy public space is a right that MUST be respected in every
instance. And they are correct, and this also applies to the USA.
In fact, even more so. In the USA of all countries in the world,
the police should have been deployed to PROTECT the protesters -
not a giant brass bull that is the ultimate symbol of greed and
corruption in America. And yet we were treated to the grotesque
picture of dozens of armored police surrounding this brass bull,
while thousands more police were deployed solely to harass, arrest -
and abuse peaceful protesters.

http://bit.ly/qdvYAj

Anonymous & the other cyber liberation groups around the world
together with all the freedom loving people in the USA will NOT
stand for this. We will peacefully yet forcefully resist the abuses
of the NYC Police Department. And so Anonymous announces a
nationwide “Day Of Vengence” to take place in dozens of cities
across the USA on Saturday – September 24, 2011 at High Noon.

Poster – http://t.co/BSuXCdRR

Video – http://youtu.be/2svRa-VSaOU

In coordination with these protests across the USA on September
24th, Anonymous and other cyber liberation groups will launch a
series of cyber attacks against various targets including Wall
Street, Corrupt Banking Institutions – and the NYC Police
Department. We encourage the media to follow the Twitter feed
@PLF2012 for ongoing reports throughout the day.

We Are Anonymous – We Are Everywhere – We Are Legion – We Never
Forget – We Never Forgive

EXPECT US — Anonymous

Adobe Luanches Attack on HTML 5 with Flash 11

Adobe has announced the next version of its Flash Player, repositioning its media platform for a mobile world where it is being increasingly shunned.

The company today unveiled the Flash Player 11 and the Flash-based runtime AIR 3, with a heavy emphasis on 3D gaming both in the features and in a roll-call of customers endorsing the duo.

Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 are scheduled for release in early October. Adobe didn't give the date, but you should expect release at Adobe's annual Max conference, between 1 and 5 October.

Both support full hardware acceleration for 2D and 3D graphics, which Adobe claims provides rendering performance 1,000 times faster than Flash Player 10 and AIR 2.

There's also something called Stage3D from Adobe's Labs, built to provide more detailed graphics. Stage3D renders "hundreds of thousands" of z-buffered triangles at 60Hz compared to thousands of non z-buffered triangles at 30Hz in earlier versions of Flash.

H.264 hardware decoding is now available for AIR applications on Apple's iOS, while Flash now works with 64-bit on Windows, Mac and Linux and in the browser.

Installation has been simplified: developers can now automatically package AIR runtimes for Android, Windows, and Apple's OS and iOS so the user doesn't have to download.

The news comes gift-wrapped in endorsements from Zynga, EA Interactive, Ubisoft and Pro 3 Games, among others.

Adobe calls Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 "the game console for the Web"; the emphasis on fine-grained rendering, hardware acceleration and H.264 is deliberate.

Gaming looks like it has become one of the niches that Adobe has bet on for the future survival of its software in a world where – at least when it comes to mobile computing – the days of defaulting to Flash for graphics or media content are coming to an end.

Windows 8 has become the latest tablet operating system to block Flash, through Microsoft's Metro UI. A version of Flash for Windows Phone, meanwhile, is still missing. The problem is Microsoft's browser, Internet Explorer, the PC version of which is now being built for the phone and tablet.

You can blame Apple's Steve Jobs, who started things by blocking Flash from the iPhone and then the iPad and then began championing HTML5, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and Javascript as the future of online programming. Sounding a lot like Jobs, Microsoft's IE chief Dean Hachamovitch blogged on the Metro UI news:

Running Metro style IE plug-in free improves battery life as well as security, reliability, and privacy for consumers. Plug-ins were important early on in the web's history.

But the web has come a long way since then with HTML5. Providing compatibility with legacy plug-in technologies would detract from, rather than improve, the consumer experience of browsing in the Metro style UI.

It's not all over for Flash on tablets or smartphones, with Flash running on Android and Blackberry machines. Flash can also run on iOS via AIR, it just can't run natively.

Announcing Flash Player 11 and AIR 3, Adobe let rip its standard ubiquity statistic of more than 98 per cent of internet-connected PCs supporting Flash, with some added numbers on the mobile front. Adobe expects that more than 200 million smartphones and tablets including iOS devices will support Flash-based applications via Adobe AIR. By the end of 2015, the number of devices that will support AIR is expected to increase to one billion.

As for the Microsoft question, Adobe reckons it will bring Flash to the Metro UI in the same way it landed on iOS, via the AIR runtime.

Jobs, it has to be said, cynically hyped HTML5 – a spec that is not even finished – and obfuscated what it really is. Jobs's anti-Flash thrust focused greatly on media and presentation; on the HTML5 video codec; the rendering afforded by CSS that is not a part of the core spec; and on using both HTML5 and CSS with Javascript – which comes from completely outside of the HTML family.

But history is written by the victors, and during the time Jobs blocked Flash he convinced Microsoft to dump its own proprietary plug that it built to challenge Flash, a plug-in called Silverlight, for HTML5. Also during this time, HTML5 has been continuing to evolve as a standard – even though it is still not finished – and it has become something even more people in the industry can claim to be aware of.

And while Adobe is talking tough on Windows 8, Flash will have to co-exist on Metro AIR along with Javascript and HTML, a fact that will compound the overall problem for Flash rather than make it go away or reverse its fortunes.

Flash might not be dead yet

Adobe does seem to have accepted that Flash is going to lose ground to HTML5. In a recent blog post, tools group product manager Andrew Shorten essentially called talk of Flash's death greatly exaggerated, but he also reckoned it was incumbent upon Adobe to focus on where Flex – the software development kit for building Flash-based apps – "provides unique value in the marketplace".

"There are countless examples where, in the past, Flex was (rightly) selected as the only way to deliver a great user experience. Today, many of those could be built using HTML5-related technologies and delivered via the browser," Shorten wrote here.

Where does this leave Adobe? It is not giving up. Shorten continued: "That doesn't mean, however, that HTML5 is the right choice for all use cases – the performance, framework maturity and robust tooling provided by Adobe are cited as critical factors by enterprise customers as to why they continue to select Flex."

Instead, we're seeing Adobe position Flash as something for gaming because of the fine level of detail you can get in graphics or because of the rendering speeds. Also, Adobe is punting something that is missing from HTML5: the ability for games' authors to do things like control where their games are published – meaning, ultimately, they will get paid. In other words: digital rights management (DRM).

In the meantime, Adobe is going to embrace HTML5 through its tools. Shorten said: "We will provide tooling to help designers and developers create those experiences – Edge and Muse are two such examples."

Flash 11 and AIR 3 couldn't have arrived at a period of greater uncertainty for Adobe. Thanks to Jobs, it is easy to forget that HTML5 isn't actually a product, it is a spec – and there are plenty of tooling and features missing that you would rely on tech vendors to deliver.

Also, HTML5 isn't just the video or associated graphics capabilities hyped by Jobs; the core spec remains bread-and-butter page markup while there are interesting new possibilities in areas such as offline data access.


For the future that Adobe might wish for Flash, we should perhaps look to Microsoft and Silverlight – once hailed as a plug-in usurper to Flash. Now Microsoft can't admit to having de-prioritised Silverlight and instead talks of its player being suited for use on a case-by-case basis.

Microsoft Secure Boot Firmware may Block Linux Booting

Computer scientists warn that proposed changes in firmware specifications may make it impossible to run “unauthorised” operating systems such as Linux and FreeBSD on PCs.

Proposed changes to the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware specifications would mean PCs would only boot from a digitally signed image derived from a keychain rooted in keys built into the PC. Microsoft is pushing to make this mandatory in a move that could not be overridden by users and would effectively exclude alternative operating systems, according to Professor Ross Anderson of Cambridge University and other observers.

UEFI is a successor to the BIOS ROM firmware designed to shorten boot times and improve security. The framework, a key part of Windows 8, is designed to work on a variety of CPU architectures.

If the draft for UEFI is adopted without modification, then any system that ships with only OEM and Microsoft keys will not boot a generic copy of Linux. A signed version of Linux would work, but this poses problems, as tech blogger Matthew Garrett explains.

Garrett writes:

Firstly, we'd need a non-GPL bootloader. Grub 2 is released under the GPLv3, which explicitly requires that we provide the signing keys. Grub is under GPLv2 which lacks the explicit requirement for keys, but it could be argued that the requirement for the scripts used to control compilation includes that. It's a grey area, and exploiting it would be a pretty good show of bad faith.

Secondly, in the near future the design of the kernel will mean that the kernel itself is part of the bootloader. This means that kernels will also have to be signed. Making it impossible for users or developers to build their own kernels is not practical. Finally, if we self-sign, it's still necessary to get our keys included by ever OEM.

There's no indication that Microsoft will prevent vendors from providing firmware support for disabling this feature and running unsigned code. However, experience indicates that many firmware vendors and OEMs are interested in providing only the minimum of firmware functionality required for their market.

Garrett concluded that there is no need to panic just yet.

The upshot of the changes is that considerable roadblocks might be placed in the way of running alternative operating systems on PCs. Anderson describes this as a return to the rejected Trusted Computing architecture – which at that point involved force-feeding DRM copy-protection restrictions – which may be far worse than its predecessor.

The professor said:

These issues last arose in 2003, when we fought back with the Trusted Computing FAQ and economic analysis. That initiative petered out after widespread opposition. This time round the effects could be even worse, as 'unauthorised' operating systems like Linux and FreeBSD just won’t run at all. On an old-fashioned Trusted Computing platform you could at least run Linux – it just couldn’t get at the keys for Windows Media Player.

The extension of Microsoft’s OS monopoly to hardware would be a disaster, with increased lock-in, decreased consumer choice and lack of space to innovate.

Anderson concludes that the technology might violate EU competition law in a rallying call on Cambridge University's Light Blue Touchpaper blog here.