This news comes as a great relief to the paypal users, particular belonging to the Indian subcontinent. Recently Paypal had suspended all its services to withdrawal money directly to the local bank accounts of the users. This was due to some legal conflict between Paypal and Reserve Bank of India.
This suspension caused huge panic and chaos between Indian paypal users as Indians are into providing maximum services online to the western merchants. Due to this suspension, other services like Xoom came into action in providing easy service to withdraw money to India.
However, today paypal announced that its problem with RBI has resolved and that it will resume services for withdrawal to local banks in India. However, an additional field of information needs to be filled in before withdrawing the money.
Read the announcement by Paypal here: https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2010/02/resuming-local-bank-withdrawals-to-india/
Most of the Web hosting users prefer, rather get fascinated by cloud computing and many of the companies couldn’t stop themselves from joining the bandwagon and one such biggie is the telecoms behemoth, Vodafone, who has now entered the marketplace. Vodafone has joined hands with Decho Corporation which a small firm of EMC which produces a selection of cloud-based services for both consumer and customer based businesses.
In support of remote working David Pratt, Chief Operating Office of IT services at ThinkGrid said that, “cloud computing really changes the game”.
David Pratt continues, “Management burdens are reduced with the services as well as hardware and software failures are lowered to such a point that operations will only be affected if a device stops working entirely and loses connection to the internet”.
“Even in the event of total device failure, any other internet-enabled device can be used to carry on working,” he added.
Joomla, which was preferred and accepted by many advanced web hosting users, will now be rejoicing when the new version 1.6 will be released. This is said to be a massive step forward for the project.
Kristoffer Sandven, who is a professional search engine optimization and a consultant for Joomla says that the new version of Joomla will have a significantly enhanced internal security system, he wrote this for CMSWire. He further added that, administrators will be able to set up groups and assign content as well as functionality to them.
He continues by stating an example a group that can produce articles, weblinks and almost anything one can create on Joomla. By giving users in such a group global “create” permission, but not the “edit state” one, administrators can prevent them from publishing the content, Mr Kristoffer added.
Ron Severdia while writing on the Joomla blog admits that the organization has not been particularly forthcoming with keeping its milestones for version 1.6. this will be a small step towards adding various new features that could make their way onto the new Joomla system according to Ron Severdia.
Many of the advanced web hosting users will be rejoicing by the announcement made by the WordPress team about their back-porting security hardening changes for the 2.8 branch. The main motive of the WordPress team behind this development is to help the users so that they can make their sites as safe as possible. The decision was made during the features development process for WordPress 2.9.
The most important change worth mentioning is a fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that has recently been seen along with the removal of areas within the code where php code in variables was analyzed.
The file upload functionality has been included for all users including administrators and is “white listed” whereas the two importers of Tag data from old plugins have been retired.
Peter Westwood from the WordPress team said, “We would recommend that all sites are upgraded to this new version of WordPress to ensure that you have the best available protection.” He wrote this on a company blog. During the last month, the organization revealed that a worm was making rounds on an old, – version of WordPress – a news which might interest those users who are using web hosting packages.
Antonio Gulli had quit Ask.com 10 days ago, after having headed the European Research and development Technology team for nearly 4 years. The latest report is that Antonio has decided to continue his research activities in Search engine, but this time its for the Microsoft Bing. Yes you heard it right!
He is to join Microsoft soon to head the European UX and verticals engineering development, primarily focusing on Microsoft’s Bing Technology and its recently launched user interface. He shall operate from Microsoft’s london office nearby the Carnaby street.
Gulli’s surprising comments about the availability of resources came as a stunner. He clearly said that NOW he has resources that are required to build up and evolve the Search engines. Does that mean he is trying to say that Ask.com did not have enough resources for the same?
That was interesting remark from Antonio, however, All the best for your new job Gulli!
The current “developer preview” of Google Wave is going to hit nearly 100,000 consumer users by the end of next month, September 30. Isn’t it amazing and this is not all according to Google, “included in this group of early testers will be some of the businesses using Google Apps.” In the anticipation of this extensive release we got some news from the Google Wave team.
It’s an exciting — possibly breakthrough — product that eludes simple categorization. Google Wave comes with lot of potential in it and has to do much more than we expect. It is all about a cultural adaptation obliged by it. The users may have to get used to communicating in a kind of layered environment that Wave allows and requires.
Google Wave looks more like an email client. But with Wave it permits multiple users to interact in real-time with each other. It is a blend of email and IM with some Twitter and iGoogle mixed in it. Talking about iGoogle, Wave will generate a developer ecosystem and permits existing Google Gadgets and the new social gadgets to work within it. In simple words, developers can build apps and users can access or import them within the same platform and individual conversations.
With Google Wave you can also drag and drop photo sharing. This is one cool feature which allows full screen slideshow of images added by any user participating in a wave. Lately, Yahoo has been taking a lot of interest towards developing something like this with a series of Yahoo Mail up gradation taking place every now and then.
Google Wave
Google Wave can also act as a Twitter client or embed Twitter clients (and can be assumed to be like Facebook too). Wave can also be assumed as a feed reader for news. The third party developer efforts will enable Wave to grow and change indeed, built around basic functionality of real-time communication and collaboration. It also goes without saying that Google Voice and Google Talk will also be integrated into Wave, and so on.
It might be too early to discuss this but the key to the mainstream appeal and adoption of Wave will be its ability to incorporate existing email accounts and function as traditional email client. Most emphasis was on enterprise or B2B collaboration during the demo.
It seems like the teens would recognize this as a social tool and a potential successor to IM. Google’s Rasmussen conveyed an anecdote about a test with Sydney (Australia) 3rd graders who used Wave and apparently had a great deal of fun with it. Eventually, Wave is something which can be used by both developers and 3rd graders equally.
As and when Wave rolls out more and more people will get exposed to it and eventually we can see whether it has potential and the ability to expand the list of scenarios.
Knol was launched by Google almost a year ago and the big worry back then was that Google might favor Knol in terms of search rankings. We did a search and stopped at various places on the web to expose this idea back then, but we failed to expose it and the idea itself got debunked now.
Google Knol did not receive any special favors or advantage in Google’s rankings. When Knol was launched some people did get this doubt and they asked about it. We did an extensive search around the web and said that Knol would not receive any special benefits in the scoring or ranking search. This was 6 months ago and now with the benefit of 6 months worth of observation everyone can now agree that Knol doesn’t get any special boost or undue advantage in Google’s rankings.
So can definitely call that idea completely debunked now.
Now that Knol is a year old it is trying new strategies to come up in the field. In a recent announcement on the Google Blog, the Public Library of Science is starting up a new website on Knol to publish research results about influenza. Influenza will be moderated by an expert group of researchers. With H1N1, it is important to communicate preliminary results, and this new site provides a way to do that.
The most amazing fact about the Knol which impressed all of us and is one of the Knol’s strengths is that it made easier to add knowledge to the web. For instance, we haven’t seen many documents over the internet written in Arabic language. But with the Google Knol’s project there is a stack of informative pages added to the web in Arabic language.
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