Thursday, 2 June 2011

Facebook adds Send button for closed group

Facebook adds Send button for closed group
Agence France-Presse, Hindustan Times
San Francisco, April 26, 2011
First Published: 21:43 IST(26/4/2011)
Last Updated: 21:45 IST(26/4/2011)
 
Facebook on Monday began letting members of cozy cliques formed at the social networking service share website links or photo albums without all their friends knowing about it. A “Send” button that lets people share website links with selected cadres instead of all Facebook friends was among enhance
ments being rolled out to a “Groups” feature launched in October of last year.
More than 50 million groups have been created at Facebook since the option became available.
“A year ago, we launched the ‘Like’ button, which gives you a quick way to share the things you find on the Web with all your friends,” Groups team engineer Elliot Lynde said in a blog post. “But there are times when you find something that you only want to share with a few specific people.”
New Send buttons, which were at 50 popular websites and expected to spread to others, let Facebook users share links to pages with fellow members of specific groups or individual friends at the online social network.
For example, someone could send a link to information about a rock concert to roommates and a link to an interesting business journal article to workplace peers.
The Groups feature lets Facebook members set up private online havens for clusters of co-workers, family, teammates, or others.
Enhancements to Groups included being able to poll members on topics ranging from timing of upcoming meetings to locations for social outings. Group members are also being given the option of uploading entire photo albums for sharing.
An added control feature prevents new members from being added without approval of group administrators.

 

Hackers infiltrated personal Gmail accounts, Google says

Hackers in China launched a phishing campaign that obtained access to the personal Gmail accounts of hundreds of people, including U.S. government officials, Google said in a blog post on Wednesday.
The Internet company said it was able to "disrupt" the scam but believes the hackers were able to monitor the accounts of Chinese political activists, officials from several Asian countries, journalists, military personal and U.S. government officials. The hackers were able to obtain passwords to Gmail accounts and change settings to have the accounts grant access to other users or have emails forwarded to another account.
Google said the breech was not the result of internal system failures or a security problem and that it has notified victims and relevant government authorities of the account breaches.
Following the blog post, the White House said it had no reason to believe any U.S. government officials' email accounts had been improperly accessed, according to a Reuters news report.
Google listed several steps Internet users can take to better protect their private information. Among them was switching to Chrome, Google's own web browser.
"Review the security features offered by the Chrome browser. If you don’t already use Chrome, consider switching your browser to Chrome," Google said in its blog post.

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Photo: An employee at Google's office in Seoul. Credit: Truth Leem / Reuters

Thursday, 26 May 2011

Virtualization solutions

Please visit http://virtual-portal.blogspot.com for virtualization solutions.

open source tesing solutions

Please visit http://open-hub.blogspot.com for free and open source testing solutions

Sunday, 8 May 2011

Cloud computing

Cloud computing uses the network as a means to end user devices (terminals) to resources that are located in a data center to connect. The data center can be accessed via the Internet or a corporate network, or both. In many cases, access to a cloud service may consist of a variety of endpoints, such as a mobile phone, PC or a tablet to do. cloud services can be designed to be vendor agnostic and work equally well with Linux, Mac and PC. You can also access related Internet from any location, enabling mobile workers to enterprise systems remote access to telework and define the range of business services available for outsourcing. more.........

Thursday, 5 May 2011

Mobile testing

What is the difference between TDMA and FDMA?

TDMA is Time Division Multiple Access. In TDMA technology each user in the channel owns the channel bandwidth for some time in a round robin fashion. All GSM handsets use this technology.
FDMA is Frequency Division Multiple Access. In FDMA many users are allowed to transmit through the same channel at the same time. So each user at any particular time uses part of the bandwidth. CDMA handsets use this technology.

What will be the common test case for SMS and Mp3 player applications?

There are a few common test cases for SMS and MP player:
TC-I:
1. For SMS: For entering text for SMS, you need to open Text editor.
2. For MP3: For entering/editing play list names, text editor should be opened.
TC-II:
1. For SMS: It uses UDP protocol
2. For MP3: Audio streaming also uses UDP protocol
So, the test cases written for text editor can be used for both applications. more..........