Crazy, Cool and Weird Stuff

Hi. Yesterday i couldn't read any of the news related to my field of interests because of the field trip that was compulsory for all PG students. Today there should be one more, but screw the field trip and lets talk about technology news. Among all the news that i read, these are 4 news that sort of got my attention as the news are quite important for us to know. Anyway, just continue reading the news below.

1. G-Slate, The Competitor for iPad

G-Slate developed by LG

As Steve Jobs said, 2011 will be the year where a lot of Apple ideas are being used by other company as to put up to the market competition of Apple's products. Well, apart from the Samsung Galaxy Tab which Apple is starting to sue for intellectual property theft, LG came out with their own version of tablet PC which is claimed to be the competitor of iPad. Nevertheless, the review done by the public stated that this tab is too expensive as compared to iPad. Despite of the features such as cameras and a very high quality graphic images, iPad is still considered as the favorite among the public as the price is cheaper. Read the review of the G-Slate here.

2. Botnets moved to P2P

I believe not that many of you know what botnets are. By definition, botnets are a little piece of codes\ that allows computer manipulation over the network. Criminal use this botnets in order to steal personal information such as credit cards and pins. Traditionally, botnets depended on small group of controlled computers in order to send the instructions to do dirty work on thousands of computers. This method has one giant flaw, which is it depends on central computer too much. Thus, kill the central computer and the botnets will die.

Example of how botnets are distributed

Because of this property, botnets has grow up in terms of code. These new botnet has extra codes that allows  it to pass along the instructional information. With these so called P2P networks, it will not depends on central computer anymore and thus, is harder to kill compared to the old one. Researchers have put out efforts, money and time in order to understand the botnets and design a way to kill them. Hopefully the right side of the law will develop a way to kill this kind of botnets first before the left side came out with a better botnets.


3.Tracking Device in iPhone and iPad

iPad and iPhone

Well, i know not that many knows about this too. Yeah, it's because non of the person who uses these devices know how to discover it. But Dr Alasdair Allan, a researcher from University of Exeter found out that there apple's product are keeping track of the movement and whereabout of their owner and save it in a file on the device. Pretty shocking, isn't it? So far the reason why this device is there is questionable, and no one is yet to figure out if there's any conspiracy thingy out of this.