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After Geocities, Yahoo is shutting down the social bookmarking service Delicious along with other buzz sites. It’s time to export and backup your Delicious bookmarks now.

A simple tutorial on how to migrate Delicious bookmarks to your Google Bookmarks account is here.

The reminiscent of a by gone era is also bidding farewell. Altavista, one of the pioneer and most popular search engines in its hey days !

Altavista introduced many revolutionary features like free translation service, Babel Fish and propelled the Internet revolution in the late 90’s.

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Exploiting cross-site scripting flaw on Orkut, “Bom Sabado” worm is spreading like a plague on Orkut. Bom Sabado means ““Good Saturday” in Portuguese. It sends “Bom Sabado ” scraps to your friends and automatically joins your profile on some adult communities. It’s a cookie stealing script in action.

Am I infected?

If you have seen “ Bom Sabado! “ scrap on orkut, on your scrapbook or your friends scrapbook, or seen this scrap on Gmail’s web interface, you are infected.

Don’t panic !

What should you do?

• Clear your cookies and cache.
• Change your Google account password immediately by visiting the following link and don’t login to Orkut till Google engineers fix this issue.

https://www.google.com/accounts/EditPasswd?hl=en

• Change the security question too

• Keep your Mobile phone no. updated for getting password reset code.
• Don’t try to open Orkut or messages from Orkut by e-mail. (SMTP & POP users may view the message in plain text)
• Stop visiting the scrapbooks of others till they fix this issue.

How can you help to avoid its spreading?

• Login to mobile version of Orkut http://m.orkut.com from Opera Mobile and delete all “ Bom Sabado! “ scraps

Alternatively,

• Disable Javascript on your browser
• Login to mobile version http://m.orkut.com

Pass this information to your friends. Stay tuned for further updates.

Install and maintain an updated Anti-virus and Anti-Malware like, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware to keep your system free from Key loggers and backdoor trojans.

UPDATE from Google:

Hi all,

This is to inform you all that we’ve contained the “Bom Sabado” virus and have identified the bug that allowed this and have fixed it.

We’re currently working on restoring the affected profiles.

Thanks a ton to each of you who’s made an effort to alert everyone else about this.

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The historic decision of ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) to support non-Latin characters is a giant leap towards the internationalization of the Internet.

Domain Name System came into place to provide meaningful, easy to type and easy to remember domain names to a website. Support for regional languages is another step in the right direction to improve global Internet accessibility.

Arabic has now become the first non-Latin script to be used followed by Chinese.
The days are not so far, you will be typing the domain names in your local language.

"This is the biggest change technically to the Internet since it was invented 40 years ago," : Peter Dengate Thrush, Chairman of the ICANN

The ICANN has put in place a “fast track” system, under which certain requirements will have to be fulfilled by individual countries before making their language systems operational.

C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing), a scientific society (famous for its PARAM supercomputers) is assigned the task of putting up guidelines and policies for Top-Level Domains (TLDs) in local languages of India.

The Devanagari script-based languages (Marathi, Hindi, Konkani, Sanskrit and Nepali), Gujarati, Oriya, Punjabi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Assamese and Bangla will be included in the new language dispensation in phases. It will eventually cover all 22 official languages, including those using Perso-Arabic scripts such as Urdu, Sindhi and Kashmiri.

Most languages will have the equivalent of ‘.Bharat’ as the top level domain name, but it will be ‘.India’ in the case of Tamil, ‘.Bharatam’ in the case of certain languages like Sanskrit and Malayalam and ‘.Hindostan’ in the case of Urdu, if the proposal goes through.

The domain names are in Unicode, a universal encoding system which accommodates the entire range of characters that are used in different languages. Historically domain names could only consist of characters from “a,b,c…,z”; “0,1,2,…,9” and “-“.

source: www.hindu.com

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