Joomla Security Update v1.5.14

Only a week back, the Joomla JSST team released v1.5.13 Security Update that covered two security issues, Joomla had today released another security update that solves mailto component issue. This severity of this security issue is low, though.

Joomla states that, in the mailto component (com_mailto), it was possible to bypass timeout protection. The bug was reported on the 28th of this month and the same was solved yesterday. All prior versions are vulnerable. (more…)

Facebook India gets a Mobile Number

Facebook, now lets you update your status, poke your friends, message them, search for friends right from your mobile phone as a text message for free! The service was first limited to Tata Indicom and they were asked to send messages to a service number (51555). This has been made available for other networks with partnership with SMSGupShup, India’s largest Social Messaging platform. The coolest part is that you don’t have to pay for this, as the number to which you’ll send is a 10-digit mobile number rather than a service number (similar to Google India’s SMS Service). If your network still charges for National SMSes, you’ll obviously have to pay their nominal SMS fee (Rs.1–2 per message). The number to which you’ll these short codes is 92FACEBOOK (9232232665) – easy to remember, isn’t it? (more…)

Samsung S9110 TouchScreen Watchphone

Samsung has launched the new S9110 watchphone that resembles a wrist watch and has almost all advanced features of a mobile phone. The S9110 works on GSM Technology and features 1.76inch 262K color TFT TouchScreen display of 176×220 pixels with a thickness of just 11.98 mm thus claiming to be the world’s thinnest touchscreen phone. The phone measures 58 mm in width and 41 mm in height and weighs 91 grams. (more…)

Nokia Launches 6700 & 6303 in India

Nokia has today launched two new camera-centric mobile phones in India – Nokia 6700 Classic & Nokia 6303 Classic priced at Rs.14,000 and Rs. 8,000 (INR). Nokia 6700 Classic, being a mid-range phone, features a 5MP autofocus camera and LED flash that can take shots at 2592×1944 pixels and is equipped with future-ready 3G HSPDA of an whopping 10Mbps data transfer. The phone comes with an integrated A-GPS and Accelerometer sensor. Nokia 6303 Classic is a budget phone featuring a 3.15MP autofocus camera and is equipped with LED flash as well, but lacks 3G. Both 6700 & 6303 sport a stainless-steel body and weighs 116 and 96 grams respectively. The phones are equipped with 16M color display, Flash Lite 3, a 3.5mm audio jack and stereo FM with RDS. (more…)

Twitter Corrects Spammers & Follower Count

If you are a regular Twitter user with a large quantity of followers, you should have noticed a drop in your ‘Following’ and ‘Follower’ counts. Twitter today announced that it will purge Spam accounts and correct data inconsistencies. So far, you should’ve been noticing an incorrect value in the ‘Followers’ and ‘Following’ counts, and this issue will be solved now, meaning, you’ll be shown an exact value. (more…)

World’s First 256GB Flash Drive from Kingston

Kingston, the world leader in Flash Drives, launches the first of its kind High Capacity Flash Drive of an whopping 256GB storage just in the size of a 2GB Flash Drive. The DataTraveller 300 has got better looks than its predecessors which used to have easy-to-lose Caps. :)

DataTraveller 300 comes packed with Password Traveller software which allows you to create a password-protected “Privacy Zone“. You don’t have to be a user with admin privileges to access this Zone. It also comes with ReadyBoost Feature for Windows Vista and Windows 7 users. The saddest part (you’ve got another one near the end of this post) is that the password-protected Privacy Zone will NOT work properly if ReadyBoost Cache is enabled. This is what Kingston says regarding Privacy Zone + ReadyBoost (more…)

Joomla Security Update v1.5.13

The Joomla Security Strike Team has come up with a Security Update for the 1.5 Stable release. The 1.5.13 version will cover 2 security holes, one being moderate and the other is a critical security update. All the versions of 1.5x series up to v1.5.12 are vulnerable. (more…)

Google Wave will go live from September 30

Two months after its launch at Google IO Conference, Google announced that its new ‘Wave’ will open up for the public from the 30th of September 2009. So far, Google Wave was restricted to 6000 of its Developers and they are working to offer the service to an additional 20000 developers. If you are a developer interested in building with Google Wave API’s, here’s where you should go. For the rest of us, Google will offer its Wave preview for 100,000 users and there’s no info on the selection process. Futhermore, Google Wave will also be available to those who chose to send Error Reports and Bugs to Google on its sign-up page.

“We’ve already rolled out roughly 6,000 developer accounts and we’re working through an additional 20,000 requests over the course of the next month”

says Dan Peterson, Product Manager at Google Wave, on his Google Wave Development Blog.

“In other news: this morning we announced that we plan to start extending the Google Wave preview beyond developers on September 30th. This will take place on wave.google.com rather than the separate “sandbox” instance we are currently using, and we plan to involve about 100,000 users. In addition to the developers already using Wave, we will invite groups of users from the hundreds of thousands who offered to help report bugs when they signed up on wave.google.com.”

Peterson added.

The team is now focussing on improving the speed, stability and usability of Google Wave and to expand its APIs. He also added,

“Leading up to that rollout, we’re focusing on improving the speed, stability and usability of Google Wave. This includes of course addressing many of the issues highlighted by the developers in the sandbox thus far (thanks for your feedback!). We’re also continuing to expand the Google Wave APIs, and we’d love your feedback on the forum. As we have mentioned in the past, our goal is that extensions built by third parties feel fully on-par with Google Wave’s native features to users. We know we have some way to go and really appreciate your help in getting there.”

You can keep checking out wave.google.com for updates and to sign-up for the beta test.