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Once again,people type the most common words that has become  a trend online ” did Justin Bieber Molests Fan,” ?

Answer will probably be No. The story unfolded when Bieber posted a photo from the set of CSI of himself in jail jumpsuit and handcuffs on Sunday, tweeting that he was a “bad man” and how he had “such a great day” during his first TV acting gig. Little did he know that his perp walk photo would go from TV to salacious web rumor in just minutes.

Before Bieber knew it, a Twitter rumor was born, and “Justin Bieber Molests Fan” was number one on Google Trends.

Lol, as they say, there is no day off for a celebrity. Not also from rumors!

Its been reported that Justin Bieber You tube video’s being hacked by hackers and being redirected to pornography websites.
“An XSS flaw made it possible for hackers to insert JavaScript and HTML code into the comments section of a YouTube page and redirect fans to pornography sites and post a fake message about the singer’s death.”

According to Informationweek, Google has confirmed to them about the issue adding  “We took swift action to fix a cross-site scripting vulnerability on YouTube.com,” Google said in a statement e-mailed to InformationWeek.

Information is now being floating online that a site named Ebaums is behind You tube hack. Earlier it was said that 4chan website is the root for hacking. Later, 4chan declined through message in their website that ” They are not behind the hacking but the users is involved in the hacking”.

To prevent all this stuff, You tube has decided to stricken the security.

While the hole in the Earth’s protective ozone layer is slowly healing, its recovery might have a downside, scientists say: Climate change could change wind patterns and send ozone from high in the atmosphere down to the surface, where it is a major component of smog.

The discovery of a hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica was announced by a team of British scientists in 1985. The cause of the hole was attributed to ozone-depleting chemicals like chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which were primarily used in cooling units and propellants. When CFCs reach the ozone layer, they release chlorine atoms that rip ozone apart and peel away layers of Earth’s natural sunscreen.

Simulations of life without the ozone layer, which is located in the Earth’s stratosphere, are not pretty. The stratosphere (the second layer of the Earth’s atmosphere, just above the one in which we dwell, the troposphere) contains 90 percent of the Earth’s ozone at altitudes between 6 and 31 miles (9.6 and 50 kilometers) above us, where it traps most of the sun’s harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays before they can reach the Earth’s surface.

Without this shield, we’d be sunburned within 5 minutes of exposure, according to NASA’s Earth Observatory.

The Antarctic ozone hole is the closest real-life glimpse at a world without UV protection. Since its discovery in the 1980s, it has spread over parts of Australia, New Zealand, Chile and South Africa where the threats of skin cancer, cataracts, and damage to have raised concerns.

Major efforts have been initiated to speed up the ozone hole’s recovery, including the 1987 Montreal Protocol and the phasing out of CFCs. Even so, a study by Guang Zeng and her colleagues from New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research shows that that the recovery, in concert with climate change, may do harm as well as good.

The study, detailed in the May edition of Geophysical Research Letters, revealed that variations in atmospheric circulation due to climate change will cause a 43-percent increase in gas exchange between the stratosphere and the troposphere, the layer of Earth’s air at the surface and our air supply. As more and more ozone is replenished in the stratosphere it will also have more opportunities to seep into the air we breathe.

Some ozone is currently present in the troposphere, though mostly as smog from car emissions and other pollutants. It can be harmful to human respiratory systems and the environment.

If carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere increase as expected from unabated emission, Zeng said the ozone layer will cool off, blurring the temperature boundary that separates it from the troposphere. Within the next century, more ozone than ever before will surge into our air, her computer model study predicts.

Zeng hopes that future studies of the impacts of climate change will account for the atmospheric composition of both the stratosphere and troposphere, as well as the movement of ozone between the two, to paint a better, more accurate picture of the Earth’s environmental future.

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SAN FRANCISCO—Google Inc. said that its Web search service in mainland China was partially blocked Wednesday, the deadline for the company to extend its Internet operating license in the country.

The company said the blockage appeared to affect only search queries generated by mainland China users of the company’s Google Suggest function, which automatically recommends search queries based on the first few letters a user types into the search box.

Google Says Web Searches Are Partly Blocked in China

“It appears that search queries produced by Google Suggest are being blocked for mainland users in China. Normal searches that do not use query suggestions are unaffected,” the company said in a statement.

Google declined to speculate why only Google Suggest searches were being blocked. The blockage affected only searches conducted from within mainland China, not those from Hong Kong.

The blockage was first noted on a Google Web page, google.com/prc/report.html, which reports on the availability of the company’s services in mainland China. The page listed the Web search service as “partially blocked” as of Wednesday. Google’s Web search had previously been listed as “fully or mostly accessible.”

Other key services such as Gmail, News and Images remained “fully or mostly accessible.”

Google said Tuesday it would no longer redirect Chinese users to an unfiltered search site in Hong Kong automatically but would instead add a link on its main Chinese Web page to direct users to its Hong Kong search engine.

Google made the switch after the Chinese government objected to the automatic redirect and threatened to take away Google’s Internet operating license.

But it isn’t clear whether China’s government will find the change sufficient and extend the company’s license.

The standoff between Google and China appears to be reaching a pivotal moment three months after the company said it would reroute search traffic to Hong Kong, a move that enabled the Internet search giant to evade mainland China’s censorship laws.

The Chinese government told Google that the rerouting was “unacceptable,” according to a company blog post on Monday. Google said it was told its Internet license wouldn’t be renewed if it continued the practice.

The escalating dispute with China was sparked in January when Google complained that it had been the victim of a major cyberattack in which hackers stole some of the company’s proprietary computer code and spied on Google email accounts of Chinese human rights activists.

What is the use of map quest driving directions?

To begin with,  The map quest driving directions helps a person to locate any address they are looking for.

Its like Google map. All you have to do is check the place and follow the directions from the map.

If you go to the official website of map quest, you can see United states map. You can click on any city and check the route in and out of the city.

At the left hand corner of the web site screen, there will be tags like  Country, Region, City and Street.

If you click city, all the route for the city is shown in the map. And if you click the street , you can see the exact street of your area.

Apple iphone 4 has just been released and boy, it lands up in  various issues and dissatisfaction from the customers. Tut, tut, this time it didnt worked for Apple.

It seems that customer are really facing issues with iphone. So here is a post which tells you 5 big flaws of the apple iphone 4 (source : Yahoo)

Here are five bruises on the new Apple iPhone that may engender complaint.

No. 5: A Skimpy Camera

As smartphone challengers like HTC, Motorola (MOT – News) and Nokia (NOK – News) embrace the megapixel race with 8-megapixel and 12-megapixel cameras, Apple’s new iPhone keeps it cheap with a 5-megapixel model.

This will be a bigger point of contention this week when Verizon (VZ – News) and Motorola unveil the Droid X Wednesday, the newest Google (GOOG – News) Android phone, which features an 8-megapixel camera. Android phone giant HTC has also been generous with 8-megapixel cameras in its Droid Incredible and Sprint’s (S – News) EVO.

Meanwhile, Apple, always the laggard in cameras, won’t enter the 8-megapixel class until next year when it debuts a sweet Sony (SNE – News) camera in its 2011 iPhone. But by then, who knows where the rest of the pack will be?

No. 4: No Swype

If you’ve seen Swype or used it, you know why this omission makes the list. Typing on a touchscreen is a challenge as the flat glass surface offers few clues to where your fat fingers are precisely making contact. It’s an error-prone process that gives one a longing for the raised keys of the BlackBerry keyboard from Research In Motion (RIMM – News).

But the Swype keypad software helps tame the new medium. Swype follows the pattern of your finger movements to type words or predict words without the usual hunting and pecking.

Apple did wonders with the touchscreen, but Swype makes it more useful for those among us who like to type.

No. 3: Video Calling

Okay, it’s not totally bait and switch, but Apple’s hot new iPhone video calling feature, FaceTime, comes with lots of asterisks and a limited applicability.

Say you want to video chat with someone using the Apple iPhone 4. That someone has to have a WiFi connection and he has to use the same application on his own iPhone 4. You’re looking at a small club of people — not exactly an application of global Skype-like proportions.

No. 2: iPhone 4 Shortages

Strong demand is only half the story for Apple’s iPhone sales debut. Limited supply is the other. A shortage of in-plane display panels, the crucial part of Apple’s touted retina display screens, has forced Apple’s contract manufacturers to cut production rates in half to 1 million iPhones a month.

This means there won’t be enough iPhones on hand to meet the presumably high demand. Though it’s not a terrible problem to have if you are a gadget maker, sellouts and delivery delays will mar Apple’s big iPhone 4 debut. The frustration could push buyers toward other phones.

No. 1: No Verizon iPhone.

A new iPhone is big. But a new iPhone at Verizon? Much bigger.

Apple’s exclusive partnership with AT&T (T – News) has been a point of discord among iPhone owners and it has tarnished the public perception of both companies. It also has done almost nothing for AT&T’s stock.

Investors have been waiting for the Verizon iPhone. But that’s apparently not going to happen until next year, if ever.

So Apple fans who want the new iPhone have to lock in for another two years with AT&T. This scenario is not particularly pleasant considering that AT&T’s new subscriber plans put penalties on people (like iPhone users) who happen to be heavy data users.

(source : Yahoo)

HTC Aria World's First Sense Phone

AT&T Wireless has just announced the HTC Aria, the second Android phone to join the network’s lineup this year. The Aria is AT&T’s first device to run Android OS 2.1 and the first to include the HTC Sense UI.

Sense aims to streamline and enhance the mobile experience and offers features such as the Friend Stream, which integrates Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr updates into a single mobile social-networking experience. AT&T is positioning the Aria as a petite powerhouse–it measures just a bit more than 4 inches long and weighs just 4.05 ounces. A “soft touch” back cover eliminates sharp edges and make the Aria comfortable to hold.

The device has a 3.2-inch HVGA, a capacitive touchscreen display, and a 5-megapixel camera, plus an optical joystick designed to make navigation easier. The full suite of Google Android applications is included, such as GMail, Google Maps, Google Navigation, and Google Search, plus YouTube and the Android Market.

Other features include HSPA for faster downloads and Wi-Fi wireless networking; customers will also have free access to AT&T’s more than 20,000 WI-Fi hotspots nationwide. The HTC Aria will be available on June 20 for $129.99 after a $100 rebate with a new two-year agreement.