Both the Middle East and India has gone Internet silent, not because of some political restrictions nor any kind of terrorist activity. The reason is they’re no longer connected to the internet. They’re having a small problem: they have been disconnected because of two damaged undersea cables in the Mediterranean.
There was disruption to 70% of the nationwide network in Egypt, and India suffered up to 60% disruption.
UK firms such as British Airways have told the BBC that call centres have been affected by the outage.
Industry experts said it could take up to one week to repair the damaged cables and resume full service.
International telephone calls, which have also been affected, are being rerouted to work around the problem.
Not to worry though as the repair team are on their way to make the internet service available to the affected parties. Soon you’ll be able to get through them again.
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Ooh� and who said the internet isn�t exciting? RBN (Russian Business Network), a notorious Russian online gang which has recently closed their St. Petersburg IP address (but has apparently established themselves elsewhere in cyberspace, yet continuously moving to avoid detection), is said to be linked to a November iFrame injection attack of Monster.com an online employment service company. The attack, caused by a NeoSplit or a malware tool, inserted code into pages that then caused systems to download a virus. Monster.com has reported that they�ve already cleaned all the affected Web pages and is now working with law enforcement on the matter.
Source: eweek.com
The information search engine, Ask.com has released AskEraser, a new tool that can be considered as the first step (of many) in handing over the rightful control of privacy to its users. According to EPIC’s Marc Rotenberg, this cool tool prevents from storing any search data. It can completely delete search queries and any other associated information from the site�s servers. This includes complete texts of queries, IP addresses, user ID�s, and session ID�s. Users can find the link for the AskEraser tool on the upper right corner of the search engine’s homepage and search results pages and can be turned off anytime. AskEraser is available now in the U.S. and in the UK — and will be deployed globally in 2008.
Source: Newsfactor
I remember how excited and at awe I was when I first had internet connection installed to my PC. Of course, it was still dial-up and was prone to a lot of disconnection (not to mention long downloading time). That was only years ago but major IT development later, many people, companies, and institutions now have broadband connection. It has almost become indispensable. Here enters the importance of interoperability so web applications are developed so that different platforms can interact and work together. By using web services to applications, its function can then be published to practically anywhere in the world.
The OGC Web Processing Service (WPS) is intended to normalize the way that GIS calculations are being presented in the Internet. It can identify any calculation or processes along with its inputs and outputs. It also activates its implementation as a Web Service. WPS aids continuous exposure of processes through GET, POST and SOAP. Thus, it allows customers to have an option to choose the best interface mechanism. The processes that the WPS implementation provides are dependent on the implementation owner. Even if it was made more functional with spatially-based data, it can also work for any kind of data.
What do web services actually do? One is for reusable application components. I�m sure that all of us, in one way or another, have used an application more than once. For example, since I transact business abroad, I often use currency converters to know how much money I need to deal with. My friend who�s learning Chinese turns to online translators when she needs a little help. Web services can offer application components that can be used over and over again. Web services also connect existing software by giving different applications a way to connect to their data despite using different applications and platforms.
Is anybody here familiar with Salesforce.com? It�s a company that offers CRM or customer relationship management services. It does everything from sales force automation to partner relationship management, marketing, and customer service.
Well, this enterprise recently launched a feature in its Web site. It lets users share data with partners much like how it happens in Facebook. Salesforce.com wants business partners to connect and link-up information without the bother of integrating an application. It also enables Salesforce partners to distribute and exchange leads, and custom objects with partners, employees, resellers, distributors, suppliers and anyone else can be included in the network if the user pleases.
Dell, which has signed a major deal with Salesforce.com is the technology behind this.
Source: E Week
