Canonical announces Ubuntu OS for Smartphones

Ending a long time rumor Canonical announced that it is going to release smartphone version of its OS Ubuntu.

This OS is currently the number three desktop operating system with 20M users, and about 30,000 downloads per day. 2012 was a great year for this popular Debian-based Linux distribution with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS as the most popular release in the history of Ubuntu.

"We expect Ubuntu to be popular in the enterprise market, enabling customers to provision a single secure device for all PC, thin client and phone functions. Ubuntu is already the most widely used Linux enterprise desktop, with customers in a wide range of sectors focused on security, cost and manageability," said Jane Silber, CEO of Canonical. "We also see an opportunity in basic smartphones that are used for the phone, SMS, web and email, where Ubuntu outperforms thanks to its native core apps and stylish presentation."

Smartphone interface is entirely based on Ubuntu's unity interface which was made default interface since 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) release.

Every edge of the phone has an interesting purpose...

Swiping up the left edge brings the app launcher similar to in desktop. Using top edge you can search your phone and the internet. A swipe from the right edge takes you back to the previous app you are in. Swiping up from the bottom edge of the phone reveals app controls. 

I personally think this option enables faster switching between apps than any other smartphone. And also the global search feature enables easy finding of content, apps and different products.

The OS will have both web-based HTML-5 apps as well as native apps.

Ubuntu OS has support for both ARM and x86 processors. This means it could be made to run on most, if not all, of today's Android-powered smartphones without too much effort.

The OS starts with a artistic welcome screen.

Shuttleworth confirmed that universal version of smartphone OS will be available in April 2014 with Ubuntu 14.04.

2012 Most viewed Articles on Wikipedia

Wikipedia The worlds largest community-written encyclopedia is no doubt a great source of information with more than 4M articles in English only and an overall 5.7+ B visits a year.

The most interesting thing is Wikipedia is a Non-profit organisation under WikiMedia which survives purely on donations.This online encyclopedia collected $20M in 2011 with Google as its biggest contributor of $2M. In 2012 it raised tp $25M.

Do you want to know what are the most viewed articles in 2012 ?
Here are the top 10 viewed articles

Page name                              View count

1. Facebook                             32,647,942

2. Wiki                                    29,613,759

3. Deaths in 2012                     25,418,587

4. One Direction                       22,351,637

5. The Avengers (2012film)      22,268,644

6. Fifty Shades of Grey             21,779,423

7. 2012 phenomenon                20,619,920

8. The Dark Knight Rises          18,882,885

9. Google                                 18,508,719

10. The Hunger Games             18,431,626

Here is a list of 100 articles Toolserver

PSY's Gangnam-style becomes Youtube most-viewed video of all time

South Korean over-night pop sensation Psy's "Gangnam Style" on Saturday became YouTube's most-watched video of all time passing Justing Bieber's "Baby" by recording more than 805M views. Now it is 810,795,387  and counting. Recently it was awarded the Guiness world record for the most likes in its youtube official account(Currently it has 5,394,454).

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'TITAN' The fastest Supercomputer on Earth with 20 petaFLOPS

Oak Ridge National Laboratory on 29th Oct2012 made operational the worlds fastest Supercomputer ---the Titan supercomputer is a Cray machine made of nearly 19,000 processing units stitched together with 710 terabytes of memory.

Claiming the first place it made 'Sequoia' second-most-powerful supercomputer with a crunching performance of 20 petaFLOPS.
i.e this machine can perform 20 thousand trillion calculations per second.

The Cray Titan is expected to be number 1 on the TOP500 list November 2012 update in a supercomputing conference in Salt Lake City.

DNA: The New Digital Data Storage Device

From photos and videos to text to tweets, Worlds digital data is more than doubling every two years.To accumulate this exponential growth we really need a challenging storage medium.Surprisingly, Researchers found that DNA can accommodate this growing need.  

DNA, What is known to be the building block of life can now be used as a Digital storage medium.Without doubt DNA can fix this issue with its two amazing features

 it is long lasting and
 it is very much denser medium to store data.

Gauss: Stuxnet Like Worm Spotted Stealing Banking Information

A new cyber weapon which is believed to be linked with Stuxnet,Duqu,Flame in its operation (i.e to  target Iranian nuclear facility) has been discovered which was aimed at stealing financial information from customers of a series of Lebanese banks.

Like Flame, Gauss is also discovered by ITU (International Telecommunications Union) as part of its mission to maintain world cyber-peace.
Kaspersky said

“Gauss is a nation state sponsored banking Trojan which carries a warhead of unknown designation”. Besides stealing various kinds of data from infected Windows machines, it also includes an unknown, encrypted payload which is activated on certain specific system configurations.

It shares some functionalities with Flame, such as the USB infection subroutines.

Kaspersky made some analsys on this Trojan and released a technical paper  which contains several details about the worm.

New Google Search to affect Copyright offenders

Google today announced that it will update its search Algorothm to ignore or lower the search results of web domains with high number of copyright removal notices.

Starting next week, we will begin taking into account a new signal in our rankings: the number of valid copyright removal notices we receive for any given site.

Since last year the company has been gathering data(complaints) from Copyright owners.  Couple of months back Google published this data in its Google Transparency Report .

At this moment the Top 10 affected domains are ..