YouTube cracks Adobe’s Flash video format and transfers videos To WebM Format

In an attempt to develop the feature of its video streaming service YouTube, search engine giant Google schedules to transcode most accepted videos on the web site to its WebM format.By now almost thirty per cent of the web site has been transformed to the WebM format which by the way exercises an open compression technology and is also royalty free. While the alteration of the complete catalogue might take years, the fact that most popular videos have been transformed fundamentally and that the latest format covers almost 99 per cent of YouTube viewing.



This decision by Google comes at a time when they have stopped using the H.264 standard from its Chrome web browser. The H.264 standard is reportedly preferential by technology majors Apple and Microsoft at the same time as Google it seems is at the present appears at chasing an open standard.

This move will directly or indirectly also is expected to unfavorably influence the popularity of Adobe’s Flash video format while Google schedules to transfer the entire old videos present in Flash format to the WebM standard.



As all knows that there is supremacy of YouTube in online video streaming market, over time the reputation of Flash is going to take a noteworthy hit, more so with YouTube firming up strategy to increase its own HTML5 video player.

Indian Govt Prohibits Nokia's Push Email Service in India

Indian government need to know what's in your emails and this has been a controversial issue in the present scenario.

Recently, we all have witness the ongoing problems between RIM (Research In Motion) and the Indian government, where the government of India is trying its best to gain monitoring rights over Blackberry messaging service (BMS). With that issue still being unanswered and unsettled, the government has now also posted its rifle over Nokia's new push email services.

The government has barred Nokia's push email services in anticipation of the security agencies are given full access to monitor all emails negotiating via the network.



To get the permission, Nokia had also arranged a local Indian server to help the government to check and seize emails, but still Ministry of Home Affairs, India has ordered mobile operators not to declare Nokia's projected pushmail/powermail service devoid of launching the monitoring facilities.

This is going to be nightmare for the users of Nokia's E Series devices push email services by the ban. Four months ago, when RIM was intertwined in the security issue, Nokia had been gently advertising Exchange ActiveSync for its smartphones.



With the Blackberry disagreement still infusing exclusive of whichever signs of resolutions of the same in coming future, Nokia requires to do something fast and resume its push mail services, which it had already been advertising in the market.

Opera Browser for Tablets – Sounds New Beginning

Norwegian company Opera Software has made public the foremost public sample of its browser for tablets at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

The browser for Tablets will be helpful to People who use Opera browsers for PCs and Smartphones. Clicking the Opera icon gets hold of the user to begin screen with the company's Speed Dial feature, which gives immediate access to preferred web sites using nine tiles. The clip also reveals the technique of how a page can be changed by just flicking the finger from left to right or right to left. Also using two fingers users can zoom in and zoom out the page.

Opera isn't the simply browser developer that has set its sights on tablets. In December, Skyfire announced Flash friendly browser had been allowed for implement on Apple's iPad, where it contends with the standard Safari browser.


All browsers have an analogous and same touch that permitted user interface, which is also including a menu bar on top of the screen with buttons for navigation and tab management and a search turf.

Tablets based on Android are conventional to be one of the enormous features at CES, with Android tablets unsurprising from Lenovo, Motorola, NEC, Stream TV and Toshiba.

Security flaws in iOS browser is very dangerous

The new browser security defects in iPhones, iPods, and iPads could be more hazardous than originally assumed. The susceptibility comes from the way the jailbreak software, released on Sunday, uses the mobile Safari browser in its place of involving that the device be connected  to a computer. Jailbreaking the phone permits it to run apps not accepted by Apple. But this error could be used to launch an exploit if the user were to surf to a Web site hosting a malicious PDF, giving unobstructed access to the device.

The same PDF develop used to jailbreak the device could also be used to install impressive malicious. Apple said on Wednesday it is functioning on a secure for the problem. But until then all iOS devices are at jeopardy. Now researchers are coming up with diverse ways to get an iOS device user to visit a Web page hosting the exploit, which is imperative for an attack to happen as expected and not essentially unproblematic to do if trying to attack a stranger.

Kershaw, who wrote the open-source Kismet Wi-Fi sniffer, has predicted numerous attack methods. They are hypothetical at this point, at least he hasn't heard of anyone attempting them, but that doesn't mean someone hasn't tried or won't. Person having iPhone would be very worried about using it out in public.
The attacks might sound far-fetched as owner need to trust company's security to the devices as they stand. One way to alleviate these threats is to turn off Wi-Fi.

          

Several attack methods tried by Kershaw are:

1. An attacker could burlesque a wireless access point.
2. An attacker could use a tool christened Metasploit Airpwn to capture unencrypted Web traffic and pretend to be a Web server that an iOS device user is endeavoring to visit.
3. An attacker armed with so-called "IMSI-catcher" equipment, used to sneak on GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) phone calls, could imagine being a cell tower. Because the radio software in the device doesn't support data, the device is forced into voice-only mode and will change to wifi automatically.

The attacker could then send the user a text message, appearing to come from the carrier, that directs the user to a Web page hosting the malicious exploit, or even revert at this point to either method one or two.