Facebook will be using PhotoDNA Tool to Fight Against Child Porn

Facebook has got the licensed photo scanning technology that is developed by Microsoft to fight child porn on its platform. Facebook is one of the leading social networks in the world with more than 500 million users who have uploaded that to as many as 50 billion images till date. The company requires scanning the platform for cleaning out images of child porn and other unsuitable photos.

The company prepares to exercise the PhotoDNA image scanning tool, which is developed by Microsoft Research and Dartmouth College professor Dr. Hany Farid, to scan the platform and delete the most horrible and terrible images of child pornography from the platform.

The PhotoDNA platform is at the present possessed by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), which runs a program that helps online service providers to undertake child pornography using the software.



The platform, which has been incorporated in Bing, Windows Live SkyDrive and Hotmail, has assisted Microsoft scan more than 2 billion images. The company establishes 1,000 positive matches in SkyDrives and 1,500 matches in Bing by means of the software.

“PhotoDNA recognized horrendous images on our services that we would have on no account establish or else. Recognizing graphic of child pornography in a sea of content is an intimidating assignment, nevertheless PhotoDNA is serving to locate the recognizable indicator in a haystack,” Bill Harmon of Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit, said in a declaration.

IBM Announces Virtual Desktop for Users (Hub or flix or other)

IBM India declared the wide-ranging accessibility of IBM Virtual Desktop in the country down with an approach to take on market leaders such as Citrix and Vmware during a channel approach.

The Virtual Desktop meant for Smart Business selection, which consists of VERDE software re-licensed by IBM from Virtual Bridges, will be sold as a software appliance model, say IBM India executives.



“IBM Virtual Desktop is a foremost in Series of Integrated Solutions for midmarket selling. VDI, is expanding thrust and we look this as the accurate suitable time” said Anoop Nambiar, Country of  IBM India and South Africa, says that “Jointly with our partners, we're conveying the power of virtual computing in the direction of mid-sized companies looking for superior suppleness while emancipation up significant IT resources.”

“Each physical core of CPU, we are capable to hold on two to times more virtual machines contrasted to competition like Vmware and Citrix” he added.

Nambiar said that IBM will be sets free a host of marketing operations to help partners produces leads, and would go subsequent to number of verticals such as ITES, retail, BFSI among others.

Mobile Users to Connect Facebook without Net Connection

Mobile users can't resist chatting with friends on facebook and love to hang about connected on social networking?  At the present users need not to agonize about costs of money on internet usage. Singapore based software applications developer, U2opia Mobile, has developed a novel application for mobile phones that will permit them to access Facebook on all categories and brands of handsets, devoid of paying for a data connection.



Unstructured Supplementary Data (USSD) is the technology worked out by telecom players to launch alerts to their users. The technology to assist users to launch and scrutiny updates on their friends’ Facebook walls. U2opia announced this application on Tuesday with telecom major Bharti Airtel.




Airtel has announced for its customers that from now onwards they can update their Facebook status via this USSD service free of cost, but Rs1 per day will be charged for accessing the full-feature application, which allows screening news feeds, commenting on or liking news feed stories, posting on friends’ walls, authenticating friend requests, seeing notifications and adding friends.

India has not still able to digest the Smartphone hype as such and that is the main reason that internet on mobiles is limited to key cities and many users are debarred from accessing their Facebook accounts through mobile phones.

Facebook, HP and OpenStack Join Open Invention Network (OIN)

Internet and Technology giants Facebook, Hewlett-Packard and OpenStack have made available for membership with other 74 companies for the Open Invention Network (OIN) this quarter.

The Open Innovation Network (OIN) is a group of organizations committed to protect Linux and its open-source offshoots from legal assaults.

OIN said that Facebook, HP and OpenStack as well as with Fujitsu,Rackspace, and Juniper had approved to turn out to be licensees.



OIN members guarantee not to instigate a legal attack on the origin of their patents based on Linux and also take delivery of access to Linux patents to be in the right place to partner companies exclusive of
legal consequences.

The Open Innovation Network was founded back in 2005 by IBM, NEC, Novell, Phillips, Red Hat and Sony. The conglomerate at the present owns 300 patents related to Linux and access to 2,000 other Linux patents fitting in to licensees.

In spite of many companies sustaining the OIN, the consortium’s CEO Keith Bergelt considers that Linux persists to be in danger.

“It's actually presently anybody who supports proprietary platforms and has a huge patent assortment that it likes to carry on to exercise to be competent to depress choice. There will always be those who will be appearing at Linux capacity intimidating their livelihood, their technique of existence,” he told.