HAPPY GURPURAB...

Wishing you all Happy Gurpurab. May Guru Nanak bless all with lots of happiness and joy and guide you the right way throughout your life.....

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Indian teens spend 86% time on Facebook daily: Survey..

NEW DELHI: Indian teens spend 86 per cent of their time daily on Facebook followed by 54 per cent on Twitter, a survey by McAfee today said.
"On a daily basis, the surveyed Indian teens spend 86 per cent of their time on Facebook followed by 54 per cent time on Twitter," McAfee's 'Secret Lives of Teens' survey said.
It added that 97 per cent of teens have access to social network, while there is a growing digital divide between teens and their parents. The survey showed that 70 per cent of the teens responded that they should not reveal their address on the interest, but 40 per cent did it anyway. On the other hand, 21 per cent parents polled by McAfee believed that the teenagers would do so.
"This divide is attributed to the fact that Indian teens are growing up as digital natives, with increasingly active online lives but lack of parental assistance," the survey said.
The research commissioned by McAfee was carried out in seven cities -- Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Pune and Chennai comprising a sample size of 757 teenagers and 750 parents.
"Close to half of surveyed teens (45 per cent) are now using their smartphones for internet access. On an average, they open an account at the age of 13," it said.
The survey said there is an evident discrepancy between parental perception and actual reality regarding the online activities of the teenagers.
"...while parental concerns prevail, teens do end up sharing more dangerous information online, contrary to their parents belief," the survey said.
It added 89 per cent teens believe social network is safe whereas parents are less believing at 71 per cent.
20 per cent of the surveyed teens revealed they access porn/nudity online willingly several times a day, while 32 per cent parents think teens willingly access it only a few times a year.
"It's very challenging for parents to educate their technology savvy children. We hope this study provides Indian parents with some key insights and learning's on how to protect their children online," McAfee Consumer Marketing Director (APAC) Melanie Duca told reporters here.
The survey said 38 per cent teens have witnessed cruel behaviour online, whereas only 16 per cent parents are aware of this. 87 per cent of this behaviour has been noticed on Facebook, 31 per cent on Twitter and 23 per cent on email by teens. McAfee also revealed 70% of the polled parents completely trust their teens to tell them everything they do online, while 58% polled teens strongly believe that they know how to hide their online activities from their parents.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/social-media/Indian-teens-spend-86-time-on-Facebook-daily-Survey/articleshow/17333098.cms

Google in talks with Dish to build wireless network, report says..

The talks are preliminary but raise the prospect of Google becoming a wireless service provider
 It already sells phones and tablets, provides a wealth of online services and has been laying high-speed fiber to people's homes. Now Google is apparently considering a wireless network service as well.
Google has been in talks with satellite TV provider Dish Network over a possible partnership to build out a wireless service that would rival those from carriers such as AT&T and Sprint, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
The talks are at an early stage and could amount to nothing, and Google is just one of many companies Dish is talking to, according to the Journal, which cited anonymous sources. But it raises the prospect that Google might expand its business in a new direction.
Dish has been buying spectrum that could support a wireless service, although it still needs regulatory approval to set one up. In an interview with the Journal Thursday, CEO Charlie Ergen said the partners Dish is talking to include companies that don't currently have a wireless business.
Google declined to comment on the report, the newspaper said.
The move would take Google in another new direction and could support its goal to make high-speed Internet service more widely available in North America.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9233741/Google_in_talks_with_Dish_to_build_wireless_network_report_says

SMILE AND BE KIND....

A smile costs nothing, but it gives much.
It enriches those who receive it without impoverishing those who give it.
It happens in a flash and memories of it may last forever.
none are so rich that they can get along without it, and none so poor that they cannot be richer for its benefits.
it creates happiness in the home, fosters goodwill in a business, and is the countersign of friends.
it is rest to the weary, daylight to the discouraged, sunshine to the sad and nature's best antidote for trouble.
yet it cannot be begged, bought, borrowed or stolen, for it is something that worth nothing to anyone until it is given away.
In the course of day, some of our acquaintances may be too tired to give you a smile.Give them one of yours.nobody needs a smile so much as those who have none left to give.

(From The Best of ....Bits and Pieces, Economic Press, Fairfield, NJ, 1994, p. 170)  

GREAT THOUGHTS...

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

                                                                                       - Elbert Hubbard

The price of Greatness is Responsibility

                                                     -  Winston Churchill

For evil to flourish, Good people have to do nothing and evil shall flourish

                                                                                                    - Edmund Burke

Adobe, now 'married' to Microsoft, moves Flash updates to Patch Tuesday..

Will sync Flash security updates with partner's monthly schedule
Adobe on Tuesday announced that it will pair future security updates for its popular Flash Player with Microsoft's Patch Tuesday schedule.
At the same time, Adobe issued an update that patched seven critical Flash vulnerabilities, and Microsoft shipped fixes for Internet Explorer 10 (IE10), which includes an embedded copy of Flash.
But the move to synchronize Flash Player updates with Microsoft's monthly patch schedule was the bigger news. "Starting with the next Flash Player security update, we plan to release regularly-scheduled security updates for Flash Player on 'Patch Tuesdays,'" Adobe said in a statement yesterday.
Under MAPP, for "Microsoft Active Protections Program," Microsoft provides select security vendors pre-patch information to give them time to craft detection signatures for upcoming exploits or malware. In July 2010, Adobe began using MAPP to deliver vulnerability information about its products to security firms.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9233342/Adobe_now_married_to_Microsoft_moves_Flash_updates_to_Patch_Tuesday