10,000 Users Affected Because of Facebook Malfunction!

The problem started with the color changing scam trick. The malware gives the opportunity to the user to change the color of the FaceBook profile by downloading it via a site. This time the scam has hit over 10,000 users on FaceBook and all of them are affected by it.

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF: 

FaceBook has faced this problem time and again and it has attacked back all over again! The problem was notified by a Chinese internet Company called Cheetah Mobile I their blog. The scam has been repeated over and over again for the last two years and it has still managed to resurface all over again.

HOWDOES IT WORK? 

In two different ways, the website has managed to create the menace. The process starts with the website advising the user to download an application that would help the user change the color of their profile. They then asks the user to download a token tutorial video. This temporarily helps the hacker get access to all the user’s friends.

If the user refuses to download the video, the site tries to get them to download an unwanted application. If the user is accessing FaceBook via their PC, the user will be connected to a pornographic video and be made to download it. Moreover, if the user is connected to FaceBook via an android device, a warning appears on the screen saying that it is affected by it and will be asked to download an application.

SOLUTION: 

It is not entirely clear how FaceBook hopes to fix this major issue that has affected many of FaceBook’s user over the years. It has hit FaceBook more than once. A lot of people have already fallen victim for it and according to Cheetah Mobile’s blog, it is due to FaceBook’s own lack of protection.

People who have already fallen a prey to this application, the best advice is to uninstall the application as soon as it hits the user.

There is no permanent solution to this problem so it seems as of now. No responses have come from the website. This is a matter of protecting personal details for a lot of users. It is important that some drastic steps are taken by FaceBook about this issue for this is one website that is accessed by a number of user spread all over the globe. According to the experts at Cheetah Mobile, they recommends FaceBook to disable its entire application platform so that this problem is permanently dealt with. But how far this solution is possible is a matter of debate and is still under consideration for this might have an effect on a third party application to rely on FaceBook login.

It is not a simple problem.Thus, it does not come with a simple solution. The matter is still under consideration. No assurance has come from the working board of FaceBook as of now. Hopefully, things will fall in place.

Microsoft and Amazon Rides Together to Ensure A Strong Market Response for Xbox One

In the world of online shopping, amazon.com has been one of the biggest names worldwide. Microsoft, a company whose name is enough to reflect its glory, has set its feet in the field of online retail with a mutual understanding with Amazon. Microsoft has set this bond with Amazon to retail their gaming console which is a patent production from their house. The X-box gaming console can be bought by interested customers only through the internet, and exclusively from Amazon.

For the Xbox one, which has been a revolution in the field of Video gaming on television, Amazon has opened its pre-booking.Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business or the IEB is the division that is responsible for designing and manufacturing the Xbox gaming consoles. These are highly in demand in the market as it is considered to be one of the best gaming devices with its utter perfection in performance. Amazon will make it open for sale on the 1st of September this year.

How this kid of mutuality balances both ends of business. 

Indian e-commerce giant, Flipkart has taken up this business strategy to act as the sole retail partner. They joined hands with cell phone manufacturers like Motorola and Xiaomito retail their handsets in India. These companies will not have them retailed in shops but only through online shopping with the help of Flipkart. This kind of exclusive retailing helps maintain the company’s brand image while securing the profit margin.

They have made it a point to let Amazon handle the entire responsibility of marketing and selling their various Xbox products. Xbox is actually a series of gaming devices and it consists of the Xbox one, the Xbox 360 and the consoles or the game pads that brings a feel into the gamers. Microsoft’s publication of Xbox changes the entire scenario of gaming, and did not take long to build a fan base of its own.

The brand image of Xbox and its sale through Amazon. 

Microsoft has designed the gaming DVDs which are only meant for the Xbox devices only, they have a huge array of games and all of these will be available only on Amazon. If you are interested to buy an Xbox game, you have to get it from Amazon only as it is the only source of buying them. The various Xbox accessories including its stand and wireless gaming consoles will be available through Amazon.
Offers to attract pre-booking and its price in this online forum.

In India, Amazon will launch the Xbox one for sale this September 23rd, 2014; that is a few days after the products will be online. If you are looking for the Xbox one without a Kinect, you should be ready for a pocket pinch of Rs. 39,990 and if you can extend you r budget with another Rs 6000, you can have it with the Kinect. An amazing deal offered by Amazon and Microsoft will pull a huge list of pre-booking, as they offer a free Fifa 15 game for pre-bookers.

Apple VS Samsung: An End of the Never Ending War

The never resolving issue between the Smartphone giants Apple Inc. and Samsung electronics comes to a final closurewhere both the companies decide to give a rest to all the charges against each other in the countries outside US. What seemed to be a far-fetched idea that these litigations will continue was resolved much quicker that it was anticipated. This will bring peace in the economy of the countries like Australia, France, Japan, Italy, South Korea, Netherlands and United Kingdom.

Issues leading to the Dispute: 

The beginning of the economic dispute was started back in 2011 between the millionaire companies Apple Inc. and Samsung, when both the companies started accusing and backstabbing each other for their technologies being used. There might be various reasons behind it, but the major premonitions were the copying of each other’s technologies without permission. Apple blamed Samsung for the use of their iPhone design while Samsung blamed Apple for using their wireless-transmission technology and the camera’s system design.

The dispute intensified to a global scale when Apple blamed Samsung – the Korean electronics giants have copied certain features, thereby producing damage for them worth estimated to be $1 billion.
Apple Inc. and Samsung are holding the flags of the Smartphone market and they have tried to block each other’s sales in different countries in the past years, an unfair mean to gain popularity, and trying to be the dominated leader in the revolutionized electronics market.

The Rise and Downfall of Economy of the Giants: 

Both the giants Apple and Samsung in order to glorify the dispute have drained millions of dollars to raise a battalion of lawyers to commence the proceedings of the cases. This has caused a huge economic shortfall in the countries like UK, Netherlands, and France etc. where the disputes have been put to an end.

Sparks started in the federal court in San Jose, California where Apple won victories in two verdicts worth $930 million in 2012 and $120 million in 2014.However, the last trial was embarrassing for Apple since they received far less than they expected.

Economists and Lawyers find the situation deeply intriguing. Law professor of Villanova University, Pennsylvania Michael Risch considers the situation to be just a precursor of the commencement of the next skirmish. He considers that the end of litigations is just a pause of the law battles.

Business Breakdown of the Giants: 

Samsung targeted for the economically backward countries so as to gain maximum profit of their inputs. Samsung shipped 74.5 million smartphones in the 2nd quarter of the previous year thereby claiming 25% of the market share. Apple however shipped only 35.2 million smartphones thus claimed only 12% of the market shares. This huge setback for Apple made it furious enough to sue a charge against Samsung.

However, both the firms have dropped their charges against each other in May 2014 to stop the patent-infringement dispute. But they didn’t agree to cross-license each other’s patent. Rockstar Consortium backed Apple while Google, HTC, Morotola backed Samsung in the case of infringement of Android-related patent products.

The final verdict was passed on 6th August 2014 and both the Smartphone giants Apple Inc. and Samsung close their dispute outside USA.

More security to Facebook with PrivateCore

The biggest social media on Earth – home for at least 1300 millions of people is now providing more security to its users worldwide as it buys PrivateCore.

Facebook lays its hand on the cyber security companyPrivateCore in an expectation to reduce the malware threat and encryption threat during startup.

The reasons for opting PrivateCore: 

PrivateCore, a Palo Alto, California based cyber security company finalizes their tie up with Facebook on 8th August 2014, to mark the enhancement of security they provide to their users. The company has struck a deal with TEEC Angel Fund and Foundation Capital and has received an investment of $2.3 million from them for the sole beneficiary of them as well as for Facebook.

CEO and founder of PrivateCore, Oded Horowitz, previously a senior engineer at VMware considers this situation to be a boon for their company expresses his huge overwhelming happiness to work with the social media giant Facebook to bring about revolutionary impact in the world of virtual security.
Both the companies finalized their deal on 8th August 2014 which marked the beginning of the malware protection era.

Abrupt change of Social Security: 

Facebook users are rapidly becoming concerned about their data and information – and they are trying to maintain the privacy as much as possible. Therefore, the founder of Facebook – Mark Zuckerberg buys the cyber security startup PrivateCore to ensure safety and privacy of their users.

Chief Security Officer of Facebook Joe Sullivan states in his report that people like to care for their data they provide in the social networking sites like Facebook. So Facebook finalizes their deal with the PrivateCore to offer more strategic security against threats like malware intervention during startup.

Security offered by PrivateCore: 

PrivateCore was founded by ex-VMware and ex-Google seniors. It focuses on securing cloud applications and servers with the aid of OpenStock and Puppet.

The sole aim of the PrivateCore is to ensure protection to cloud based and server based applications. Using their latest vCage Technology, they have promised to provide protection during start-up of Facebook servers from the threat of potential malware access, thereby ensuring privacy to the outsourced and cloud environments. This high-level security turns to be beneficialas it prevents malicious malware threat in the Smartphone and tablet devices running on iOS or Android OS.

Cloud computing ensures to run devices using thousand of computers with their connected nodes scattered all around the globe. If privacy is tampered at any location, it could bring atrocious consequences to the entire cloud server. With the vCage and offered by PrivateCore, a complete top-notch security can be assured to the users.

Foundation Capital and TEEC Angel Fund has the maximum funding in PrivateCore. The strategic decision of acquiring their hold was declared by PrivateCoreon 7th August 2014 Thursday afternoon, when the stocks of Facebook were up by 0.97%, and bought the shares with a profit of $73.17, thereby tactfully making a revolutionary impact in the world of social networking and share market.

Process of Software Development

Software are the computer programs that are built by the several short programs compressed together in one bundle. Software are very significant to us as they not only decrease the human work load but they also perform the task with great efficiency and accuracy. And some of the calculations performed by them are beyond our limits so software has great impact on our general life and as well as professional life. Just like a product that is manufactured in the industry has to undergo lot of process one by one similarly the software created has to undergo several phases. So the development of the software is basically known as “Software Development Life Cycle” also known as SDLC.

Software development life cycle or SDLC is basically the architecture of the software development that includes various phases and when a proper structure is imposed using the SDLC then the software development takes place. The various phases of software development are as follows:

Planning,

Designing,

Coding,

Testing,

Documentation,

Deployment,

Maintenance.

So all the software undergoes the above mentioned phases and when all of these are executed properly then software is finally developed and is launched in the market. So let us discuss the development phases one by one:

Planning: It is the first phase of any software development where the ideas are put up. The needs of user or customer is identified and explained to the developers. This phase is very important because the developers get to know that what kind of software has to be developed and what all features are required to that project. One all the requirements are collected the analysis of scope of development is done which is known as scope document. So this is basically a communication phase for developers.

Designing: One all the user requirements are finalized then the designing is done. This includes the decision of the hardware requirements that the software will meet. The programming language that has to be used is also decided. Operating Systems are also taken into consideration for designing the software. The overall software is represented as block diagram and the working is defined that how is software going to look. User interface is also designed in this phase that will allow the user to interact with the software.

Coding: This is the most important phase in any software development process. Here the basic programming is done using the programming languages like java, object oriented C++, C language etc. The user interface is developed and the database if required is also connected and linked to the system. In this phase the website is also developed if in case the promotion has to be done using website. So overall coding phase plays key role in the success of the software.

Testing and Documentation: When software is finally coded then the testing phase is started so that the errors and bugs can be tracked and removed. All the bugs are removed and software is made error free and now it is ready to work on the real life platform. The software is also tested for a week or a month to check its efficiency because it has to be very fast when it is implemented by the user.

Documentation involves the analysis of the models that are used to develop the software. It also includes the writing of external or internal API. Software is managed here.

Deployment and Maintenance: Now finally software is bought into market and is implemented in the real life work. The users start using the software in their professions. Example:Bank software implemented in bank or Library management software implemented in library.

Maintenance involves updating the software from time to time according to customer requirements. Customer needs may change from time to time hence updating the software is also very important. This also help developers to keep in pace with the current technology.

So this is all about the process of development of software and in later posts we will discuss about some models that are followed by the different companies to develop the software like waterfall model or V-model etc. So stay connected.