As Facial Recognition Improves, New Privacy Controversies Await

If you think recently-unveiled products like the Facebook Timeline and Amazon's cloud-powered Silk Web browser have raised privacy issues, an innovation that lies just around the corner could blow them both out of the water.
Facial recognition technology has been around for decades, but until recently it's been slow, inefficient and largely limited to proprietary implementations, such as databases used by law enforcement. That could all be about to change, and the results are bound to send shivers down the spines of digital privacy advocates.
PittPatt, software developed at Carnegie Mellon University (and now owned by Google), is just one example of software that can quickly identify individuals in a photograph, matching their likeness with other images of them found online and then scouring the Web for other information about the person.

Microsoft's Skype acquisition gets EU nod

BRUSSELS: Microsoft secured EU approval to purchase internet voice and video service Skype for $8.5 billion, its biggest ever acquisition.

The European Commission said that its investigation of the takeover showed that the firms' activities mainly overlapped for video communications, where Microsoft is active through its Windows Live Messenger.

"However, the Commission considers that there are no competition concerns in this growing market where numerous players, including Google, are present," it said in a statement.

The deal is expected to lead to new customers for Microsoft's Windows and Office software.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission cleared the deal in June.

India has 33,587,640 Facebook accounts; ranked 3rd after US and Indonesia

Telecommunication Union’s report 'Measuring the Information Society', the United States of America (USA) has been ranked first among the countries having the highest number of Facebook accounts. US has for 154,040,460 accounts followed by 39,568,620 Indonesians and 33,587,640 accounts in India.
The report further says that India has bagged 116th rank in the ICT development index with 2.01 points. The country has climbed up one rank this year, last year India was ranked at 117 position with 1.72 points. The Republic of Korea has topped the list with 8.40 points, while India is ranked 20th among Asia-Pacific countries.

Make Your pdf files to speak

make ur pdf files to speak

This is the shortcuts for listening  pdf files in abobe reader 6.0 or higher

***Enable Read Out Loud, Go to->view->Read out loud->Enable Read out loud"
or simply press SHIFT+CTRL+Y

ctrl+shift+b ---->to hear the whole topic

ctrl+shift+v ---->to hear the page

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A trick to hide your data

Rename any folder with extension {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

eg,

if u've a folder games

press F2,

then type, games.{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

c the magic....

**first do it with an empty folder....