Orkut’s revamped look is the talk of the town. It has decided to woo back it’s users from Facebook, one of its toughest competitors, by adding a horde of new features.

Besides a new look, it has a UI or homepage which is much easier and faster to use as the user does not have to open new pages to view videos or post scraps.

Video chatting along with Google chat is in, while you scroll down to look for more friends on line.

Around 30 million photos are uploaded daily on Orkut. To encash on this, Google has introduced a host of exciting features with a view to generate more traffic.

With the introduction of features like photoslider, sharing your most cherished moments with friends has become much easier as photographs can be uploaded much faster and in bulks.

The new Orkut is initially not open to all. It will be shared with selected users only through invitation. But soon it shall be made available to other users as well.

At present Orkut has around 80 to 100 million users all over the globe. Orkut, being the second largest market after Brazil, has plunged in this most competitive networking business, with this changed look to lure more of them.

“Orkut is a fun thing. It provides seamless experience to users,” said Rahul Kulkarni, Google product manager.

Innovative ways of cheating and fraud are becoming more and more sophisticated and rampant with the advance in technology, and cyber crime heads the list.

Fred Touchette, a senior security analyst has informed of yet another scam, where a legitimate looking replica of a popular site has been created and people are being tricked into providing their passwords, thus downloading a virus which can steal their financial data.

 The security analyst at AppRiver announced that a notice on the popular ‘facebook’ site has been put up informing people through their mail boxes that their passwords need to be filled in to help them update the log-in system on their site. On clicking the ‘update’ button the user is directed to a fake log in screen on facebook where the user name and password is required to be filled.

 One click on the update button and you have passed off all your financial information and personal data to the ‘Zeus bank Trojan’.

 6 million e-mails have been captured by AppRiver, realizing that these messages are being received at a rate of 30,000 messages per minute.

 The researchers informed that fake ‘Facebook Password Reset Confirmation’ e-mails were being distributed by a botnet, Bredolab. As many as 730,000 Bredolab Related e-mails had been intercepted by Cloudmark, a security provider on Wednesday night.

 All the users of Smartphones with Facebook application should be extremely cautious, while accessing such e-mails for protection against such phishing attacks.

Also a tip-off to the Facebook users informing them of no such account update might help.

 In case of doubts, the best option is to close the e-mail and access the official site for any notice.

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Steve Jobs the co founder and CEO of Apple and Pixar is the most respected and admired entrepreneur amongst the teenagers in U.S. A survey conducted by Junior Achievement rated him above celebrities like Oprah Winfrey, Mark Zuckerberg, Tony Hawk, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen.

He firmly believes that, “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

And it was this quest for innovation which was always the driving force behind him. Apple, iPod, Pixar, and Next are his contributions to the world. His innovations have changed the face of the world and affected the lives of millions.

At the age of 21, Steve founded the Apple Computer Company in 1976, in his garage. It was here that he made his first computer which was sold for $666.66 and by 1980 three more improved versions of Apple were launched in the market by him. It was a wild success which made him a millionaire although a tiff at Apple led to his resignation.

He then ventured into hardware industry. Result? A new company, called the NeXT step and a new product, the NeXT Computer. It was a commercial washout. He then started Pixar Inc. and produced animated movies which made him the most sought after in Hollywood. He has films like, Toy story, A Bug’s Life, Toy story 2, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo and the Incredibles, all time favorites in animated films, to his credit.

After Pixar, it was the music industry. The iPod and iPhone his new creations brought about a revolution followed by iTunes a digital jukebox, a craze the world over. With so many feathers in his cap and so much for the Gen- Next, he is bound to be the most respected and sought after icon amongst teenagers. And by choosing Jobs over Oprah the young teenagers have clearly shown their choice of science over showbiz.

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If you are a student waiting desperately for the HP Board results, then you will be happy to hear that the results have been declared finally. The Himachal Pradesh Board of School Education has declared the Supplementary board results.

The HP supplementary board results 2009 for Class 10th, 11th and 12th are available at www.ExamResults.net and http://results.himachaleducation.net.

Students will have to visit the following links to get the result, The HP board results were announced on Monday evening.

Results are also available on the mobile. Students will have to type Result space HPClass(eg10,11,12) space rollno and send it to 56263.

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