Category: Tech

Acer now founding itself grappling with data breach, it has reportedly cost in the details of over 40,000 customers. The details includes their names, emails addresses, phone numbers, addresses, also names of products purchased by the customers. As Hacker News said that the Hacking group are from the Pakistan Cyber Army is a well-known hacking outfit. Still the attack is unclear, hacker themselves have assured that for a press conference.

Japans NHK Science & Technology Laboratories has announced a new animated translation system to help get important news for deaf viewers. While televised subtitles may work for those who understand the language, people who are born deaf and learned sign language from an early age can significantly more difficulty. The system unveiled at Technology Open House 2011, bypasses this problem by automatically comparing Japanese text to sign language, converting equivalent words into animated onscreen gestures, and replacing differing words with appropriate synonyms. The ultimate goal is to create a system that could be used during emergencies or natural disasters, allowing deaf people to receive urgent broadcasts as instantly as their hearing competitors. Dont forget to look at the video

Twitter announced its own integrated photo-sharing service, will launch over the next several weeks, and lets you upload the images and attach it directly to tweet from Twitter. The functionality is going to hit the mobile apps soon. The service is parented through the Photobucket to actually host the photos. The Twitter also announced the complete new version of Twitter Search is related to photos and videos that will be displayed nest to your results. Hit on the demo video.

Last week I migrated some schemas from 11g database (11.1.0.6) to 9i database (9.2.0.8). I used to export the 11g schemas using oracle 9i binary & exported successfully. While importing 11g schemas into 9i database I faced below issues.Error: import done in US7ASCII character set and AL16UTF16 NCHAR character setSegmentation Fault (coredump)

The Security nightmare just continues, plenty of Sonys executives beginning to wish someone would pinch them already. It taken a PR and financial beating over the PSN breach, now the Greek site of Sony BMG has been hacked and account info of thousands of users has been posted online. According to Naked Security, the attack does not appear to have been particularly sophisticated and was carried out using an automated SQL injection tool that demands more patience and skill. The dump reveals usernames, real names, and email addresses of Sony registered users (SonyMusic.gr customers), other fields including passwords, telephone numbers are either empty or contain fake data suggests that hack was not entirely successful.

The first standardized and hardware platform for peer-to-peer automobile communication called C2X, the module inside is the product of Choda Wireless and near-field communications at NXP, and it uses 802.11 Wi-Fi to let equipped cars see another around blind corners, through other vehicles, chat with traffic signals up to a mile away. Pocket-lint got a look at the technology during Automotive week, and its a good idea of when we expect the tech; NXP says it will begin rolling out in 2014 and hopes every cars will get it by 2020. For more details read the press release.

D-Wave One is the first commercially available quantum computer, its 128-qubit processor can only handle very specific tasks and is easily outperformed by traditional CPUs, it represents a revolution in the field of supercomputing. D-Wave scale up to thousands or tens-of- thousands of qubits, complex number theory problems, and cryptographic systems can crumble before the mighty power of quantum annealing. The Price seems to be large at $10,000,000. Hit one the source link to know more about D-Wave One

Last week, I worked on schema refresh in 11g database from one box to another box using data pump. There are two methods to achieve this. We will see them in this article.

Researchers from the University of Minnesotas Center for Distributed Robotics, makes the robotsz able to roll around on the ground with relative ease, then prop itself up to take flight like any other robotic helicopter. Those thinking about trying their hand at a DIY version may want to think twice, it is not simple as it appears. The researchers spent $20,000 just to develop the folding rotor mechanism. Dont forget to look at the video

The members of Poitiers basket 86 testify that amusement park rides improved the teams spatial orientation and helped them defeat top ranked Chalon. It had be different if the robots were teaching them perfect free throw or helping them walk, but PB86 is known for its innovative advertising, it seems like quirky example. Dont forget to check out the video.

How can we find the corrupted object list?One of my database, blocks are corrupted few months ago.At that time i have written a dynamic script for each block id & find the corrupted block list.

The 3,000 movies from Universal, Sony and Warner Bros were added to YouTube yesterday. The same library is also pushed to Googles newly announced Movies service. Anything purchased or rented through Google Movies will be available to consume through YouTube and vice-versa.