Google, HP raising employees' compensation
In the wake of the global financial meltdown in 2008-09, many companies had resorted to layoffs and salary cuts, as part of efforts to bring down costs.
China launches e-passports.
China has launched its first ever electronic passports that would contain information in microchips.
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Become rich by building your own website
Posted by Jovita Ongels on 04.52
The web is a great leveller. And setting up your own website — for free — is easy and can help reach out to friends, acquaintances and business prospects. All that building your own website requires is patience. Filling it with content and giving it shape is not daunting. Mukesh Maurya, who runs iExtended, a firm that builds and manages websites, says the first step to get a domain name and a host. "The former is the name of the website. In other words, it's the URL of a website. Currently, no free service offers users a proper domain name such as www.xyz.com, but there are several that offer sub-domains such as www.xyz.domain.com," says Maurya.
STARTING UP
First off, it's just fine to have a sub-domain rather than a domain proper. Once a user is comfortable setting up and managing a website, it's easy enough to switch to a paid service. "Domain names are quite cheap. You can have a .com domain for around Rs 500 per annum. Website names that use .net or .org or any other top domains are even cheaper," says Maurya.
Usually, websites that provide free subdomains also allow users to host their websites for free. To do this, one has to first upload the content of your website onto a computer, or in other words, a web server that runs 24X7. "Free services are somewhat feature-limited but for beginners, they are perfect. Usually, you will get 1GB per month bandwidth and 250MB disk space. This is fine if you are planning a website through which you can keep in touch with family and friends or share photographs or files. Even for websites that have better traffic but which are mostly textbased, such as those dealing with news and analysis, the bandwidth requirement is not much,'' explains Maurya.
However, if a user gets the host and domain from a professional firm, the average, low-traffic website costs about Rs 1,500 per annum, he says. "You also get a set of fairly easyto-use tools with which you can maintain your website. Even free hosts provide some Linux or web-based tools through which a web server can be managed. But the functionality is somewhat limited,'' says Maurya.
MAINTAINING IT
Soumya Prasad, a Delhi-based web designer, says familiarity with basic programs like Frontpage is imperative in order to maintain your website successfully. "Though Frontpage has been replaced by SharePoint by Microsoft, it continues to be one of the most basic and easy programs to design a website. It's a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor. WYSIWYG editors are a great help for beginners," says Prasad.
When e-commerce took off, earlier this decade, Google and several other search engines pioneered the concept of contextual advertisement. This means even the ordinary website can be a way to earn money. "While it's not easy to earn enough money to survive from a website, given the reach of Google and Bing which rely on the websites of others to make money from advertisements, it is possible,'' says Ajay Dutta, who started www.techenclave.com, a tech forum in 2005.
Dutta's advice to anyone planning to set up their own website — and earn ad revenue — is as follows: "It's important to pick the right kind of content if you want to make money. Health and finance are two subjects that bring in a lot of ad revenue." But money should be the secondary focus, he cautions. "Concentrate first on the content. Build your website around the subject you are passionate about because if you want a slice of the ad pie, you will have to frequently update you website with quality content."
STEP BY STEP
Register with a website offering free sub-domain and hosting. For example, www.x10hosting.com .
Supply email and other details during registration.
Download and install a WYSIWYG editor like Kompozer .
Design your website's front page using Kompozer. It's easy and requires you to key in the content, select colours, font size, etc. Save file as Index.html
Upload it to www.X10hosting.com
LG, Nokia sued in US
Posted by Jovita Ongels on 04.50
Nokia, Oyi, LG Electronics Inc and chipmakers including STMicroelectronics NV were sued by the California Institute of Technology, which said the companies' mobile phones and components infringe its patents.China launches e-passports.
Posted by Jovita Ongels on 04.49
China has launched its first ever electronic passports that would contain information in microchips.5 Hidden dangers of Facebook
Posted by Jovita Ongels on 04.38
Over the last few years, Facebook’s growth has been phenomenal. The world’s no. 1 social networking site also sometime back beat Google to become the most visited Web site in the US for an entire week at a stretch. However, the site has also lately being receiving lot of flak for its privacy policies.
An expert in online privacy drew attention to the five dangers of sharing information on social networking site Facebook. Joan Goodchild, senior editor of CSO (Chief Security Officer) Online, said that marketing efforts by the company often results in a compromise on account holders' privacy.
Goodchild noted five risks of using Facebook. They are:
Risk 1: Your information is being shared with third parties.
According to Facebook policy last updated on April 2010, "When you connect with an application or website it will have access to General Information about you. The term General Information includes your and your friends’ names, profile pictures, gender, user IDs, connections, and any content shared using the Everyone privacy setting. ... The default privacy setting for certain types of information you post on Facebook is set to “everyone.” ... Because it takes two to connect, your privacy settings only control who can see the connection on your profile page. If you are uncomfortable with the connection being publicly available, you should consider removing (or not making) the connection."
Risk 2: Privacy settings revert to a less safe default mode after each redesign.
In March, private e-mail according to a Gawker report, private email addresses that many Facebook users wanted to keep hidden were revealed publicly on a multitude of Facebook profiles. The glitch was later resolved by Facebook.
Risk 3: Facebook ads may contain malware.
Recently, a Facebook event invitation was reportedly sent to some over 2,300 friends of Jim Breyer, Accel Partners venture capitalist who sits on Facebook's board of directors, asking "Would you like a Facebook phone number?" However, the message was actually a scam and the users who entered their passwords in response to the message in turn sent the whole thing to their friends lists too.
"This was a phishing scam and Jim's account appears to have been compromised," read a statement from Facebook as provided to venture industry news site PEHub.
Risk 4: Your friends unknowingly make you vulnerable.
On May 6th, the popular social network patched a major security bug that allowed users to snoop on their friends' private chats, and view their pending friend requests. The exploit forced Facebook to temporarily disable chat.
Risk 5: Scammers are creating fake profiles.
Earlier this week, 15 privacy and consumer protection organizations filed a complain with the Federal Trade Commission, alleging that the site manipulates privacy settings to make users' personal information available for commercial use.
