Mark Zuckerberg wants Facebook's minimum age limit to go

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants kids younger than 13 years on Facebook.

 Speaking at NewSchools Summit in the US, Zuckerberg said that younger children should be allowed on the site for education purposes.

According to a news report on Fortune, the Facebook CEO said that in the future, software and technology will enable people to learn a lot from their fellow students.

Presently, Facebook allows only people aged 13 and above to sign up for the site. However, it is quite esay to get around this as Consumer Reports recently reported that there are approximately 7.5 million underage kids on Facebook. However, Zuckerberg seems determined to change this. 'That will be a fight we take on at some point,' he said according to Fortune. He said that his philosophy is that for education one needs to start at a really, really young age.

He pointed out that due to restrictions we haven't even begun this learning process. According to

the article, he says that if allowed, Facebook will ensure that kids are safe on Facebook. 'If they're lifted then we'd start to learn what works. We'd take a lot of precautions to make sure that they (younger kids) are safe,' he reportedly said.

Interestingly, Facebook chief technology officer Bret Taylor recently appeared before US Congress, where he was grilled about underage kids on the site.

In March in a statement, Facebook said that it removes about 20,000 profiles from the site per day for a variety of policy violations, including spam, inappropriate content and underage use.

Lets meet youngest hacker,Jake Essman,14 year old Self Taught Hacker

Jake Essman a 14-Year-Old Self Taught Hacker is a New York native. A student at the United Nations School, teamed up with fellow engineers Jesse Leone, William Li, and  Feliks Beygel to create “buyby”,a shopping search engine. BuyBy is fairly simple—you use the site to find where a product is located at a store. So you could search for a ‘Red t-shirt’ and the search engine will not only show you a list of online stores that have that product, But it will also show you stores that sell the product nearby your location by considering your physical location based on your IP address.

Essman, who has been coding since he was ten, says that he decided to come to the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon(held at New York on 22^nd May 2011) at the urging of his Mom., Essman says that coding is a hobby, and this isn’t the first site he’s created. “RantingOutLoud” ,a forum where anyone can can complain about anything, is a also Jake Essman project. What’s more, he essentially taught himself how to code.

But for Essman, coding is still just a hobby and at this point, his career aspirations lie in the field of medicine as his goal is to become a doctor.

More information:

 http://ve.s76lqt75.vesrv.com/

RantingOutLoud: http://rantingoutloud.com/index.php

IIT Delhi Golden Jubilee Lecture by Mr.Steve Ballmer (CEO of Microsoft) on 26th May 2011

Hi Delhi guys,

Here is an exciting chance for you to meet CEO of world's Biggest Software company.

I.e Microsoft's Co founder,CEO Steve BallmeIIT Delhi Golden Jubilee Lecture by Steve Ballmer (CEO Microsoft) on 26th May 2011

If you happen to be in and around the NCR region, here's a great opportunity for you to hear the IIT Delhi Golden Jubilee Lecture by Steve Ballmer (CEO Microsoft) on 26th May 

2011.

Be a part of an exclusive session with Steve Ballmer as he talks about emerging technologies and the importance of research and innovation.

May 26th 2011, 3:15 PM to 6:00 PM  Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Dogra Hall, Hauz Khas, New Delhi - 110 016. INDIA

Time: 4 PM - 6 PM

26-May-2011

Venue: IIT Delhi,Delhi

Register here:

https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-IN&EventID=1032487116&IO=OgDUQWH7MVHqplvYC9MGCA%3D%3D

Event ID: 1032487116

Register for Event

Starts: 26 May 2011 15:15 Ends: 26 May 2011 18:00

A Device that gives patients virtual view beneath the skin to see how injury looks inside....!

A Virtual View beneath the Skin
A device that projects anatomical images onto the body could help patients "see" their injuries—and encourage them to do their exercises.
Microsoft researchers have developed a handheld device that gives physical-therapy patients a virtual view beneath the skin to see what an injury looks like inside. The hope is that this will make them a little more eager to keep doing their therapies.

"People are notoriously bad at sticking to their physical therapy regimens," says Amy Karlson, of Microsoft Research's Computational User Experiences Group in Redmond, Washington. Between 30 and 50 percent of patients with chronic conditions fail to comply with their recommended therapies, she says. As a result, conditions can take longer to heal or can get even worse.

Karlson says the more information that patients have about their injuries, the more likely they are to comply with physical therapy regimens. The new tool, called AnatOnMe, aims to give patients that extra bit of information. The device projects an image of the underlying bone structure, muscle tissue, tendons, or nerves onto the skin, giving patients a better understanding of the injury, and of what they need to do to help the healing process, says Karlson.

The prototype device comes in two parts. The first contains a handheld, or pico, projector, an ordinary digital camera, and an infrared camera. The second contains a laser pointer and the control buttons. "The technology is somewhat low-tech," says Karlson, who presented the device this week in Vancouver at CHI 2011, the Association for Computing Machinery's Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Instead of using a complicated autocorrection system to map the image of the internal injury precisely onto the patient's exterior, the therapist simply points the projector and lines it up by eye. And with the prototype, the images displayed are not actually taken from scans of the patients but come from stock graphical images used to show one of six different types of injury.

Even so, it appears to be very effective, says Karlson. Controlled experiments of the device carried out by two physical therapists suggest that the device encourages patients to stick to their therapies.

A doctor or therapist could also use AnatOnMe to project images onto a nearby wall. The user interface also works this way, says Karlson, with the menu options projected onto a surface. Options are selected using the laser pointer, which is detected by the infrared camera.

E. Anne Reicherter, a member of the American Physical Therapy Association at the University of Maryland-Baltimore School of Medicine, says physical therapy compliance is a major problem, partly because it usually involves exercise, and partly because it involves changing a habit or forgoing a behavior that may have caused the injury in the first place.

"But most patients are very interested in understanding what's going on in their body, so something like this that can visually assist them in truly understanding would be a real benefit," says Reicherter. Although, she adds, a certain portion of the population, particularly older patients, may find such visceral detail a bit of a turn off.

99% Android phones 'leak' personal data

According to University of Ulm researchers Bastian Konings, Jens Nickels, and Florian Schaub, Android smartphones leak login data for Google services, and could allow other access to information stored in the cloud. The researchers reportedly made the discovery while watching how Android phones handle login credentials for Web-based services. Almost 99.7% Android-based smartphones potentially leak user data which, if stolen, could be used to get information they store online.


Ulm Researchers say that the problem is in the way applications which deal with Google services request authentication tokens (several applications installed on Android phones interact with Google services through an authentication token). This token is essentially a digital ID card for that app, which once issued removes the need to keep logging in to a service for a given length of time.

Ulm Researchers discovered that many a times these tokens are sent in plain text over wireless network. This makes the tokens vulnerable to eavesdropping(To listen secretly to the private conversation of others.) by criminals on Wi-Fi networks. And once stolen, criminals can pose as the particular user with the token and extract his/her personal information.

As says the researchers in their research blog, "The implications of this vulnerability reach from disclosure to loss of personal information for the (Google) Calendar data. For Contact information, private information of others is also affected, potentially including phone numbers, home addresses, and email addresses. Beyond the mere stealing of such information, an adversary could perform subtle changes without the user noticing. For example, an adversary could change the stored email address of the victim's boss or business partners hoping to receive sensitive or confidential material pertaining to their business."

Here's what Android users can do to prevent this data leak:

• Update to Android 2.3.4. Update your phone to the current Android version as soon as possible. However, depending on your phone vendor you may have to wait weeks/months before an update is available for your phone. Hopefully this will change in the future.

• Switch off automatic synchronization in the settings menu when connecting with open WiFi networks.

• The best protection at the moment is to avoid open WiFi networks at all when using affected apps.

Cloud Developer Conference-May-14,Bangalore

Cloud Developer Conference
                               The future lies in the Cloud. Set your foothold in the Cloud today.Right now, top-flight developers are innovating at the leading edge of cloud computing using powerful platforms, APIs, and services that you may not even know exist.


                           That’s because the next generation of cloud development is being invented fast and furiously by a slew of companies, big and small, delivering key technologies ranging from tiny but key single-purpose services to large and powerful platforms in the cloud.
This Conference brings together leading cloud technology companies and the developer community to exchange notes in an open and friendly forum.
We are lining up some of the best speakers and the sessions & networking will be of the highest order. You'll experience a complete technical immersion, shared with a developer community that is passionate about all exciting developments in the Cloud world.

Venue
Nimhans Convention Centre
Near Diary Circle
Bangalore - 560029

Contact
SiliconIndia
No. 124, 2nd floor,
Surya Chambers,
South Block Airport Main Road,
Murugeshpalya
Bangalore-560017. Tel: +080 43112120
Email: events@siliconindia.com


Track- 1:

9.00 AM to 9.45 AM: Session 1
Collaboration in the Cloud
The next era of IT ecosystem in which the networked cloud transforms the way we live, work, play and learn has arrived. Having a comprehensive cloud strategy, along with the collaboration tools available on the cloud is key to improved operating efficiency with globalized and mobile work force. “Any device, any service, anywhere” is the way forward!
Speaker
Dr. Vivek Mansingh, President- Collaboration & Communications Group, Cisco India

9.45 AM to 10.30 AM: Session 2
Building Powerful Web Applications in the AWS Cloud
This presentation will provide you with an introduction to the Amazon Web Services from a business and technical perspective. You will learn how AWS can be used to build robust, cost-effective, secure, and high-scalable applications. Learn how to build a Simple LAMP-based web application in the AWS cloud and then apply all the attributes and latest features of the cloud to turn it into an Auto-scalable, highly available, highly scalable, fully-monitored edge-cached application that is not only easier to develop but also easier to maintain.
Speaker
Janakiram MSV, Technology Evangelist, Amazon Web Services

10.30 AM to 11.15 AM: Session 3
Cloud Bursting for Fun and Profit
Own the base, rent the spike. Cloud bursting helps to control costs and increase efficiency. Cost benefit analysis shows that an external cloud at 4x the cost of the internal cloud still yields economic benefits in dealing with the spikes. If the cost of the cloud is half of the internal cloud then it makes no sense to run anything internally. Lower the investment in infrastructure to focus on the business intelligence. A case study on eBay and Cloud bursting.
Speaker
Rajesh Ramachandran, GM - Head, eBay India

11.15 AM to 11.45 AM: Morning Break
A chance to meet up with your friends and have a cup of coffee!

11.45 AM to 12.30 PM: Session 4
Application Platform -Spring / v Fabric
Speaker
Sudharshini HS, Senior Systems Engineer, VMware India



12.30 PM to 1.15 PM: Session 5
Integrated financial applications using Intuit’s PaaS Solution
Want to build a cloud-based application that consumes financial data without worrying about billing, authentication etc.? Come and learn how to do this using Intuit Partner Platform (IPP). Intuit Partner Platform (ipp.intuit.com) is Intuit’s PaaS solution that targets the Small Business Owners community. It provides the fastest and easiest way to build hosted apps that integrate well with Small Business data and helps developers sell these apps to millions of small business customers. In this talk, you can hear about how Intuit is able to create an App Store with applications that provide SSO and expose data in a canonical form.
Speaker
George Chiramattel, Software Architect, Intuit

1.15 PM to 2.00 PM: Lunch
Break for lunch on the house and a chance to catch up with each other!

2.00 PM to 2.45 PM: Session 6
Building developing on Windows Azure Application
In order to take full advantage of Windows Azure and SQL Azure, you need to know more than just how to write the code. You need to know how to incorporate your application in a team environment, deploy, monitor, manage and retrieve diagnostic information back from the cloud. In this session, you will learn everything you need to know to be successful with a project that utilizes Windows Azure and SQL Azure including setting up your development environment, automating build, unit test and deployments to different deployment environments from staging to production, and managing credentials and user roles using the Windows Azure Portal.
Speaker
Saranya Sriram, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft India

2.45 PM to 3.30 PM: Session 7
The Yahoo Cloud: Challenges in deploying multi-tier applications on the cloud
This talk will cover an overview of the Yahoo cloud and the goals of why we need cloud. We will see some of the unique challenges that come with the kind of scale that Yahoo throws. We will segue into looking into the unique challenges of deploying a multi tier web app in the cloud. We will talk about the Yahoo approach to solving these challenges
Speaker
Binu Raj, Senior Director - Engineering, Cloud Computing, Yahoo!

3.30 PM to 4.00 PM: Afternoon Break
Some time out for you to grab another coffee and a well earned rest.

4.00 PM to 4.45 PM: Session 8
Realtime BI in the Cloud
As cloud adoption gets main stream, enterprise IT solutions are spread across the intrranet and the extended extranet leveraging web based infrastructure/platforms and SaaS solutions. IN this very heterogenous and distributed solution landscape, business intelligence offers some opportunities and challenges. This session will deliberate on some of the opportunities now possible for realtime business intelligence, visibility and control in the cloud.
Speaker
Ramesh Loganathan, VP Products & Center Head, Progress Software


4.45 PM to 5.30 PM: Session 9
Cloud Computing for Business
Enterprises have diverse landscape of computing environments and multiple data centers. Federated Cloud Computing provides a structure that enables enterprises to utilize different cloud environments and internal resources according to their business needs for a seamless computing experience. This session will provide insights into this seamless experience through the cloud journey of evolution of the architecture and its business alignment that will finally lead the audience to Cloud Mediation Services, which will be THE FOCUS in the Cloud, moving ahead.
Speaker
Bharati Lele, Head - Innovation Labs, L&T Infotech

Track - 2:

9.00 AM to 9.45 AM: Session 1
Cloud security desiderata and user centric identity management for cloud systems
Speaker
Dr. Srinivas Padmanabhuni, Head- Software Engineering Research lab, SETLabs- Infosys


9.45 AM to 10.30 AM: Session 2
Deploying and Managing an On-premise IaaS Cloud
This session will discuss the tools and techniques to help you deploy and manage your own enterprise-ready on-premise IaaS cloud. We will start by defining the features and deployment models that define an on-premise or private cloud, followed by an overview of the main components and architectures of a private cloud. Additionally, we will provide a look at an enterprise-grade IaaS cloud. We will conclude with overview of two popular on-premise cloud use cases: dev/test and scalable Web applications.
Speaker
Vishal Mathur, Global Solutions Architect-Strategic SI Development, Citrix Systems Inc

10.30 AM to 11.15 AM: Session 3
Architecting the Cloud: How EAs should think about Cloud Computing
Most of the information about Cloud Computing today comes from vendors. As a result, it skews toward purchasing software and hardware, and away from making balanced decisions in the enterprise. The Enterprise Architect must counterbalance vendor spin and place Cloud Computing into the proper context: among the many deployment options available, with its own unique advantages and disadvantages. This session outlines the primary issues an EA must consider in order to make appropriate decisions about various Cloud-based options, how to put together a Cloud roadmap, and how best to communicate the position the Cloud should take in the greater context of agile Enterprise Architecture. Delegates who attend this session will learn: A vendor-independent context and definition for Cloud Computing, as well as Cloud service and deployment models
Speaker
Pratheesh T, Senior Manager- Practice Lead and Principal solution Architect, Capgemini


11.15 AM to 11.45 AM: Morning Break
Some time out for you to grab another coffee and a well earned rest.

11.45 AM to 12.30 PM: Session 4
Cloud Systems Automation
We are now living through a paradigm shift in the Enterprise IT systems and infrastructure. Business is getting impatient with IT in provisioning and managing solutions rapidly. This talk will be focused on exploring how the essential agility and scalability in managing the cloud systems can be achieved with automation and managed autonomy.The talk will focus on a few key issues in managing the cloud system and present approaches to solve them, especially in hybrid cloud systems, combining private and public cloud services.
Speaker
Sundara Nagarajan, Director R&D- Storage Works Division, HP

12.30 PM to 1.15 PM: Session 5
Cloud Security Challenges Today and Tomorrow
Speaker
Bikram Barman, Senior Engineering Manager, RSA- The Security Division of EMC

1.15 PM to 2.00 PM: Lunch
Break for lunch on the house and a chance to catch up with each other!

2.00 PM to 2.45 PM: Session 6
Storage Service Automation for Cloud
Speaker
Sreedhara Narayanaswamy, Senior Engineering Director, NetApp R&D

2.45 PM to 3.30 PM: Session 7
Bullet Proof Your AWS Cloud Deployment
Given the recent outages on the Amazon Cloud, it is important to revisit the best practices in deploying applications on the cloud. I would be dealing with various strategies that can be effectively used to create your Cloud Infrastructure setup that will help you to quickly recover from any disasters. * Machine Image Creation for Applications * Application Deployment on AWS across Availability Zones and Region * Multi Cloud strategy * Best Practices in database Deployment and Recovery * Automation, Orchestration of Application Deployment * Disaster Recovery, Durability and Business Continuity
Speaker
Ezhilarasan Babaraj, Director, CSS Corp Labs


3.30 PM to 4.00 PM: Afternoon Break
Some time out for you to grab another coffee and a well earned rest.


4.00 PM to 4.45 PM: Session 8
Design for Failure: High Availability (HA) Architectures using AWS
Every cloud expert will acknowledge that Mantra for successful architecture in AWS is “Design for Failure” methodology and yet we observe that many applications do not adhere to that rule and fail miserably during outages. In this session, the speaker walks you through the art of building Highly Available applications in the AWS, shares the best practices, insights and designs for achieving HA in a multi-tiered application. This is a attend session for systems architects and develops who want to design highly available applications leveraging strengths of AWS.
Speaker
Harish Ganesan, CTO, 8K Miles

4.45 PM to 5.30 PM: Session 9
Integration in the cloud – Leveraging best of OnPremise and Cloud
Speaker
Rajasekar Shanmugam, CTO, AppPoint

Internship @ PlayCez

 PlayCez is an hottest start-ups in the country and finalist of Business Plan competition organized by IIT Bombay (Eureka) and IIM Bangalore (The Next Big Idea).PlayCez makes local reviews and trip planning simple, fun and more personal. Checkout www.playcez.com for more details.

Details of internship Internship period – March 2011 – May 2011.

At PlayCez you will get a chance to work with our amazing core team consist of people from IITs and BITS. They have experience in working at companies like Google and Deloitte.

Due to overwhelming response for internship, we have put an elimination task to filter out influential community leaders. Please note that it is an essential quality you have as you will represent us in your campus throughout the year.

You need to complete following elimination task, in order to qualify -

A- Invite your friends: Invite your friends to application (http://apps.facebook.com/playcez/) personally by following methods -
1- Send a mail to your friends asking them to try the application.
2- Put a posting in your college newsgroup/Facebook page or online forum asking people to join the application.
3- Put a posting in Facebook groups etc..

Key Projects -
Social Media and it\’s practical use in product marketing

How to Apply ?

1. Add PlayCez Facebook App –apps.facebook.com/playcez

2. Use the app and collect 1000 points (Chrome, Firefox, Safari)

3. Answer 3 simple questions –www.bit.ly/internatplaycez

4. Send us your Resume – playcez.com@indianinternship.com

Perks -
1. Experience certificate on successful completion of the project
2. Stipend for top intern
3. Cool giveaways for all interns

Students will be interviewed over phone and final decisions will be communicated over email and phone. Limited opportunities are available currently.
Desired profile:

Education – Students of BA, BC0m, BBA, Journalism, Mass Media, Bsc. etc. can apply.
Experience – No prior experience required.

Duration of internship – 1.5 to 2 months.