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iPhone can be hacked with a single SMS!
Aug 1st
Charlie Miller, the hacker who discovered a hole in the new Apple Safari in ten seconds in the Pwn2Own contest, can now take complete control of an iPhone by merely sending a text message. And no, you don’t even have to open it! 
Once taken control, the hacker can exploit the hole to make calls, steal data, send text messages, and do basically anything that the user can do with his iPhone. Miller and his partner Colin Mulliner demonstrated this scary scenario to CNET writer Elinor Mills at the Black Hat Security Conference on July 29, 2009. The two are professional researchers with a security firm and are just showing Apple the many security loopholes in their device.
Twitter members not as live as first thought
Jun 12th
BARELY a tweet is heard from most Twitter members despite the soaring popularity of the micro-blogging service, according to a pair of freshly-released reports.. 
Web analytics firm HubSpot found that nearly 55 per cent of 4.5 million Twitter members monitored have never “tweeted” — fired off concise text messages to others using the micro-blogging service.
More than half of Twitter members have no followers and about 55 per cent of them aren’t following anyone else’s micro-messages, according to a “State of the Twittersphere” report by HubSpot.
Meanwhile, a study by Harvard Business School researchers concluded that 10 per cent of Twitter members account for 90 per cent of tweets.
“A typical Twitter user contributes very rarely,” Harvard MBA student Bill Heil and assistant professor Mikolaj Piskorski said in a university blog post containing the findings.
“Among Twitter users, the median number of lifetime tweets per user is one.”
BSNL WLL Internet with OpenDNS !!??
Jun 7th
Well I think BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limitted – The leading ISP in India) needs to learn alot in the ISP field. 
You know what they used OpenDNS – A internet based DNS server, in the Wireless Land Line (WLL) service, to block different categorized sites. They included proxy, hacking too.. even a slight use any matter related to it will get yourself blocked from it!. Its good to use them to block Adult sites, but they block every server where any of the restricted items are used. Consider if I have a free hosting server, in that server all type of people will be there. Some may use proxy scripts or even their on inventions on hacking, and its more than enough for OpenDNS to block that server including all the good sites comes under their hosting!! 
And my free site hosted @ x10hosting – A really good free hosting provider if you ask me, got blocked too!! I didn’t used anything they listed as “BAD”.
And I tried a bit of my favorite web spots.. hurayy they all are blocked too!! 
I waited for them to change DNS system as I thought they might be testing it, but days passed nothing happened. I got angry on the Administrator of the ISP and mailed him the following : More >
