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Facebook World Hacker Cup second anual announced today
Facebook world hacker cup opened today
Facebook world hacker to coders and programming from around the world was opened today to challenge’s prize for $5,000.
Facebook world hacker come back to challenge hackers from around the world to try out their skills on 20 January.
To challenges, Facebook world hacker will be opened with the qualifying round for 72 hours and three rounds, where the hackers will be filtered until left 25 finalists are flown directly to the Facebook headquarters in California on March.
The winner of Facebook world hacker cup, received for $5,000 cash and may also be employed by Facebook, such as Google world hacker last year, Petr Mitrichev from Rusia, that now, he was appeared to wear a badge as Google employees.
It seems that technology-based companies like Facebook or Google’s use of intelligence hackers to find weaknesses in the system of their algorithms. This is to test the system before they release of their products into the market.
The first round Facebook world hackers start for 24 hours on 28 – 29 January and then advanced to second round contestants to select as many as 500 people.
The second session of Facebook world hackers during in the three hours on February 4 for as many as 100 contestants were selected and awarded trophies.
After that, they will be selected again on lap three the remaining of 25 peoples on 11 February. The semi-finalists selected as many as 25 people will be directly flown to Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California.
Besides that, the semi-finalists of Facebook world hacker also got the cost of replacing a visa expense to enter the U.S. for $ 100, but Facebook will not reimburse the cost of the passport.
The final season of Facebook world hacker cup will be held on March 17 for grand prize $ 5,000 for the winner, second prize for $ 2,000, third prize for $ 1000, while the fourth prize is only getting $ 100 and T shirts.
So, if you have the qualifications, you can register for Facebook world hacker cup at Facebook.
Posted on January 5, 2012 |
Xbox sold 57 million units, Microsoft claims
Xbox sold about 57 million units worldwide, according to Microsoft Inc.
Micrososft also revealed more than 35 million Xbox users who access to the Xbox Live service at least once within a three-month’s period.
Unfortunately, Microsoft does not divulging secrets about the number of Xbox Live users who registered and paid as a gold member. The Xbox users whom a listed as a gold member can be connected to internet service at a cost of $ 600 yearly.
Ross Honey a General Manager of Xbox Live Entertainment mentioned that about 40 partners content providers have to wait for a new platform for Microsoft’s Xbox game console. The content providers such as Disney’s online, Hulu Plus, the British Broadcasting Company, ESPN3 service, Comcast, YouTube and Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Microsoft released the party claimed to be ready-made applications them at all times. Ross Honey admitted her side are currently processing the cooperation with a number of content providers for the Xbox.
She said, ”The development of a new Xbox-related technology with the entertainment industry it takes a long time, the current development of new Xbox application is early stages.”
Posted on December 6, 2011 |
iPhone 5 specs have been leaked by Cincinnati Bell
Apparently, in addition to several other leaks over the weekend, the people of Cincinnati Bell on a criminal list by Apple, because they have leaked a little information about the iPhone 5 and seems premature.
Although the pages were removed after being discovered, in fact, the iPhone 5 specs with a 32GB, it did not exist. With 8-mp camera installed, and “4G” is unsuitable as a key leakage.
In fact, the leak of iPhone 5 specs by Cincinnati Bell is inaccurate and bizarre, or even no. Do you believe that ?
Posted on October 2, 2011 |
Dell Released of Dell EqualLogic Storage Solutions
Dell introduced and released of Dell EqualLogic storage solutions to support their product, to help customers to manage data in data center and virtualized.
The new solution represents the evolution of sustainable solutions with Fluid Data Architecture from Dell is designed to help customers more effectively to manage valuable business information in virtual data centers.
Darren Thomas a Vice President of Dell Enterprise Storage said the new storage and virtualization software can help customers to manage the data center more efficient and optimized.
According to Darren Thomas, it is done by automating the configuration and improve performance without an upgrade.
The ability of the Dell EqualLogic marks a step in the evolution of Fluid Data Architecture and extending Dell’s leadership in virtualized IP-based storage solution that is easy to manage.
to support increased storage of customer demand, Dell EqualLogic PS6100 and PS4100 introduced families to the virtualized storage offerings, IP based.
With Dell EqualLogic firmware version 5.1, Dell offers customers the next-generation storage solutions from EqualLogic that integrate into environments that are available without experiencing downtime or major overhaul.
It’s certainly helping the customer to focus on managing the storage they have and do not perform the upgrade manually infrastructure.
The launch marks the introduction of 2.5-inch drives support for EqualLogic product line, by providing greater density that allows users to save less than the allocated places.
Dell EqualLogic PS6100 Series is designed to provide medium-sized customers with a scalable environment storage up to 72 TB in a single array and 1.2 PB in the single group, and can accommodate an alternative high-performance drivers and and high capacity.
Dell PS6100 Family is ideal for customers who looking for storage solutions in support of storage on demand data center environment with high virtualized. Where the movement and protection of virtual machines, applications and data are crucial.
Posted on September 11, 2011 |
Mozilla and Microsoft updated all SSl certificates in Dutch
Two giant browser Mozilla and Microsoft released an update for all SSL certificates signed by DigiNotar products, including the mediator in accordance with PKIoverheid, the certificate’s authority (CA) to serve Dutch government.
Once the vulnerabilities in the exhibition, led by hundreds of hackers who take the DigiNotar SSL certificate. Google, Microsoft or Mozilla has unprecedented size of the root CA certificate issued in each Dutch product.
But, the seller did not give the black list DigiNotar PKIoverheid, as intermediate CA that issue’s certificates to the Dutch government signed.
Decision the root certificate as a certificate of independent publishers did not harm the process is maintained.
However, after the revision of the Dutch government and change the previous assessment were announced on Saturday morning that PKIoverheid no longer trusted for this certificate.
Google will initially respond by issuing an update to Chrome Black PKIoverheid CA certificates. Mozilla and Microsoft soon followed by the release of a Firefox 6.0.2 and Internet Explorer (IE) patch that KB2607712 respectively.
Microsoft will take further steps to ensure that DigiNotar SSL certificate is not used in Internet Explorer.
Microsoft’s decision can affect a hundreds of Netherlands’s legitimate sites, including the government.
Organizations which using Diginotar certificates need to obtain new certificates in order to avoid a possibility serious disruptions about the services.
Iranian hackers are behind the mass violations.
Posted on September 7, 2011 |
