Google Australia launched today a new a new feature, enabling you to search content on the internet before it is created.

 

About gDay™ technology

The core technology that powers gDay™ is MATE™ (Machine Automated Temporal Extrapolation).

Using MATE’s™ machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques developed in Google’s Sydney offices, we can construct elements of the future.

Google spiders crawl publicly available web information and our index of historic, cached web content. Using a mashup of numerous factors such as recurrence plots, fuzzy measure analysis, online betting odds and the weather forecast from the iGoogle weather gadget, we can create a sophisticated model of what the internet will look like 24 hours from now.

We can use this technique to predict almost anything on the web – tomorrow’s share price movements, sports results or news events. Plus, using language regression analysis, Google can even predict the actual wording of blogs and newspaper columns, 24 hours before they’re written!

To rank these future pages in order of relevance, gDay™ uses a statistical extrapolation of a page’s future PageRank, called SageRank.

gDay™ and MATE™ were developed in Google’s Sydney R&D centre

More infos on Google page

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To take advantage of the potential of Google's Search engine, it's important to know some of its basic tricks

• Keywords: Quality of the responses depends on the quality of the words chosen. For example, "computer" does not give the same results as "PC".
• Typing words in lowercase give you every opportunity not to miss any important reference.
• Quotation marks (" ") make sure that the search engine takes into account all the words.
• Signs "+" and "-" add constraints to your search.
  For example, you can search for documents on George Lucas who only speak of Star Wars (george lucas + star wars) or on the contrary who do not speak of the film (george lucas star wars)
• Wildcards: Google accepts the use of a wildcard (*) for the location of a missing word in a phrase.
• The tilde (~) allows Google to display not only a word but also its synonyms, in a broad sense, that is to say, beyond the true grammatical synonyms, related terms.

More searching options:

• "site: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx". Returned results will be only from the selected site.
• "author: xxxxx xxxxxx". Identifies latest articles published by the author in question.
• "insubject: xxxxx" Results show the articles on related requested subjet.
• "location: xxxxx" Displays information bearing to the specified eyes.
• "source: xxxxxx" Results extracted from any source.
• "allintitle: xxxxxx" Results show the articles where all searched keywords are available in the title

The search bar includes also a calculator. Type the calculation directly in your search bar and press enter to have the result displayed.

More about Google seach engine: Google Help

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The attacks on Swiss financial institutes with the aim of unjustified enrichment and the threat of the targeted industrial espionage via the internet are the main topics of the fifth semi-annual report of the Reporting and Analysis Centre for Information Assurance.

The report assesses the situation of the first half of the year 2007 in Switzerland and is now available online and clearly shows that the human factor remains the weakest point of ICT security.

Focus areas of issue 2007/I

• Attacks on Swiss financial services
  "Classic" phishing attacks by e-mail with password requests have decreased substantially in Switzerland. Moreover, all such attacks have been unsuccessful. On the other hand, successful attacks with malware have increased. Two-factor authentication systems (e.g. transaction authentication numbers, SecurID, etc.) do not afford protection against such attacks and must be viewed as insecure once the computer of the customer has been infected with malware.

• Industrial espionage and data theft
  The threat posed by targeted state or private industrial espionage continues. Not only the operators of critical infrastructures, the armament industry, or public authorities are threatened. Medium-sized industrial companies as well as manufacturers of luxury articles and fashion are also being targeted. The attacks are carried out by sending targeted e-mails to individual employees which contain malware in their attachments or links to bogus websites.
• Attacks on web servers:
  malware distribution, phishing, data theft Compromising of web servers has increased. The purpose is to use web servers to distribute malware, such as by drive-by infection, to steal data (especially on commercially used servers), to carry out (interim) storage of data (e.g. in connection with phishing), or to distribute messages that are generally political in nature.
• Malware / attack vectors
  Malware is still usually distributed through e-mail attachments or e-mails with links to bogus websites. Using clever social engineering techniques, the victim is deceived into opening the attachment or clicking on the link. Websites installing malware on the computer without any action by the user (drive-by infections) have heavily increased as an infection vector. Vulnerabilities in the operating system, the browser, or other applications are exploited. For a long time now, this no longer only happens on dubious sites, but also on (compromised) serious and well-known sites. Rates of recognition of malware by anti-virus software remain low.

The complete report is available on Melani website in italian, german, french and english.

A complete and useful list of all Internet risks and related protection measures is also available.

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Cory Doctorow wrote this Creative Commons-licensed fiction story for Radar Online magazine.

  Une version française est disponible ici

“Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.” –Cardinal Richelieu

“We don’t know enough about you.” –Google CEO Eric Schmidt

Greg landed at San Francisco International Airport at 8 p.m., but by the time he’d made it to the front of the customs line, it was after midnight. He’d emerged from first class, brown as a nut, unshaven, and loose-limbed after a month on the beach in Cabo (scuba diving three days a week, seducing French college girls the rest of the time). When he’d left the city a month before, he’d been a stoop-shouldered, potbellied wreck. Now he was a bronze god, drawing admiring glances from the stews at the front of the cabin.

Four hours later in the customs line, he’d slid from god back to man. His slight buzz had worn off, sweat ran down the crack of his ass, and his shoulders and neck were so tense his upper back felt like a tennis racket. The batteries on his iPod had long since died, leaving him with nothing to do except eavesdrop on the middle-age couple ahead of him.

“The marvels of modern technology,” said the woman, shrugging at a nearby sign: Immigration–Powered by Google.

“I thought that didn’t start until next month?” The man was alternately wearing and holding a large sombrero.

Googling at the border. Christ. Greg had vested out of Google six months before, cashing in his options and “taking some me time"–which turned out to be less rewarding than he’d expected. What he mostly did over the five months that followed was fix his friends’ PCs, watch daytime TV, and gain 10 pounds, which he blamed on being at home instead of in the Googleplex, with its well-appointed 24-hour gym.

He should have seen it coming, of course. The U.S. government had lavished $15 billion on a program to fingerprint and photograph visitors at the border, and hadn’t caught a single terrorist. Clearly, the public sector was not equipped to Do Search Right.

The DHS officer had bags under his eyes and squinted at his screen, prodding at his keyboard with sausage fingers. No wonder it was taking four hours to get out of the god damned airport.

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Since few days now, iMinR is tracking what's going on this website.

This new service of “measurement of personalized audience” as its creator, Stéphane Guérin, indicates it on his Internet site. The iMinR statistics service makes possible to discover more about visitors of a site in general and, as from now on, this one in particular.

Among statistics provided on the free account version of iMinR we can find :

• Visitors (IP address)
• Visits (per hour, per day,)
• Pages viewed (url, title)Pages vues (url & titre)
• Geographical information (Country, Region, City)
• Web Origin (domain and url)
• Search Engine
• Query String
• Keywords
• Incoming and Outgoing points
• Global duration of the visit
• Time duration per page
• Click stream
• Frequent paths
• Client configuration(browser, operating system, resolution, language, etc..)

About the installation, well it's definitively too easy. You either have to add the provided line of code in your footer's page (also available for secured pages) or, if you are using WordPress, to install, activate and configure the iMinr plugin and that's it.

No update, no maintenance and training required. iMinR is adapted to sites using AJAX and the 100% javascript invisible (free account users are requested to add iMinR logo on their web site) marker works with any HTML pages (PHP, ASP, etc..).

Real time reports can be personalized according your needs and are accessible either on a web page;  using a javascript function or simply from the iMinR web site.

Today the beta 2 version has been released but so far the interface is exclusively available in French. I have not asked, but the English version should follow no ?

To know more about, check the demonstration page.

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I found a funny nice software to help you to login into your computer without have to remember your password. What you need… BananaScreen software (2.3MB for XP only) and a Webcam.

Once installed, teach the software to recognize your face and enter your password. That's it !  

The software is still a beta and some "security issues" such, login using a photo or even a manga type drawing, anyway there are plenty other way to bypass Windows Login system, but at least this one is fun. 

Banana's engineers are still working on the recognition system and hopefully the version 1.0 of the software will only recognize the authorized user.  

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• You're traveling a lot.
• You're spending long boring hours in airport lounges.
• You're often having dinner in solo in unknown cities.
• You never speak with your neighbor during flight.

  Rings a bell ?

Could it be different if you could travel with someone who shares same interest or who works in the industry or even works for the same company than you ? 

So such reasons, PairUp proposes to reinvent business travels by introducing the concept of "Connected Travel" allowing businesspeople for the first time to easily share travel plans and instantly search for potential business connections at their next trip destination or industry event across companies and across booking engines.

For sure the "about PairUp" speaks only about business opportunities as it's "Made in USA" but it could also be used to meet people sharing same non-professional interests.

Once logged on, the workflow is rather simple:

• Add information about your trip itinerary
• Select confidentiality level (who can know about your trip, i.e people of your industry, in your network, attending same event, etc..)
• Select your Networking interests for this trip (activities, business opportunities, professional networking, companion seating, etc..).

Then, search (with narrowing options) to have your "Confirmed Connections" and "Potential Connections" displayed and easily contact any person of interest.

Sounds easy no ?

Now, is anyone use, or already used, this flying social network ?
What were the results?

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European curriculum vitae format

Personal information

Name		Cedric
Address		Not Available on the online CV
Telephone		Not Available on the online CV
Fax		Not Available on the online CV
E-mail		click on this link to get it

Nationality

Swiss

Date of birth

Not Available on the online CV

Work experience

• Dates (from – to)		1996 – Present day
• Name and address of employer		International Committee of the Red Cross , Geneva, Switzerland
• Type of business or sector		International Humanitarian Organization
• Occupation or position held		Information & Communication Technologies – Regional Coordinator 2005 – current : Asia & Pacific based in Bangkok, Thailand 2002 – 2004 : Great Lakes area, Eastern & Southern Africa based in Nairobi, Kenya 1999 – 2001 : Americas based in Bogota, Colombia 1997 – 1999 : Western Africa based in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire 1996 – 1997 : Commonwealth of Independent States based in Moscow, Russia
• Main activities and responsibilities		Coordination of telecommunication & computer networks activities of the ICRC Design & follow-up of ICT regional & institutional projects Technical adviser for ICRC executives Technical support to ICT field engineers Technical support & user training Financial & administrative tasks related to ICT systems Negotiations with national & regional providers, telecom authorities, etc.. Human resources management Implementing institutional ICT policies
• Dates (from – to)		1993 – 1995
• Name and address of employer		International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, Switzerland
• Type of business or sector		International Humanitarian Organization
• Occupation or position held		Information & Communication Technologies – Field Engineer 1993 : Sudan 1994 : Angola, Rwanda 1995 : Angola
• Main activities and responsibilities		Installation and maintenance of radio communication & computer networks User training & support
• Dates (from – to)		1992 – 1993
• Name and address of employer		Placement d'Électriciens Bernard Marchon Sarl., Neyruz, Switzerland
• Type of business or sector		Employment agency
• Occupation or position held		Geneva & Lausanne Branch Director
• Main activities and responsibilities		Human Resources Customer Relations Administrative & financial related tasks.
• Dates (from – to)		1988 – 1991
• Name and address of employer		Placement d'Électriciens Bernard Marchon, Neyruz, Switzerland
• Type of business or sector		Employment agency
• Occupation or position held		Geneva Branch Manager
• Main activities and responsibilities		Human Resources Customer Relations
• Dates (from – to)		1986 – 1988
• Name and address of employer		Placement d'Électriciens Bernard Marchon, Neyruz, Switzerland
• Type of business or sector		Building Trade
• Occupation or position held		Specialized electrician
• Main activities and responsibilities		Breakdown interventions Telephone & computer cabling systems
• Dates (from – to)		1986 – 1988
• Name and address of employer		EggTelsa Électricité Téléphone S.A, Geneva, Switzerland
• Type of business or sector		Building Trade
• Occupation or position held		Electrician
• Main activities and responsibilities		Breakdown interventions Small & medium construction projects

Education and training

• Dates (from – to)		2001
• Name and type of organization providing education and training		Universitat Ramon Llull – Enginyeria y Arquitectura La Salle, Barcelona, Spain Cisco Network Academy Program
• Principal subjects/occupational skills covered		WAN & LAN Networks, Ethernet Standards, Routing Protocols, Network design, Security policies, Router configuration, IP addressing, Transport protocols, Network Management, Troubleshooting.
• Title of qualification awarded		Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
• Dates (from – to)		2001 – 2002
• Name and type of organization providing education and training		Universitat Ramon Llull – Enginyeria y Arquitectura La Salle, Barcelone, Spain Master in Network & Services of Telecommunications (MXST)
• Principal subjects/occupational skills covered		Telecommunication networks & services, Network Management, Project Management, Mobile communications.
• Title of qualification awarded		Master in Network & Services of Telecommunication (Màster en Xarxes i Serveis de Telecomunicació).
• Dates (from – to)		1981 – 1985
• Name and type of organization providing education and training		EggTelsa Électricité Téléphone S.A, Geneva, Switzerland & CEPIA (Professional school) Electrician Apprenticeship
• Principal subjects/occupational skills covered		Electrical installation & maintenance. Telephone & Alarm systems installation & maintenance
• Title of qualification awarded		Federal Proficiency Certificate of Electrician (Certificat Fédéral de Capacity) Mention : Good
Other professional training		Managing & Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 environment (IT TrainingAcademy, Geneva 2005) Implementing & Supporting Microsoft Windows XP Professional (Global Knowledge, Geneva 2003). Lotus Notes R5 Domino Server Administration (Digicomp, Geneva 2001) Linux Suse Network Configuration (www sistemas, Bogota 2001) Linux Suse Administration (Acis, Bogota 2000) Administration & Technical Support of Microsoft Windows NT 4, TCP/IP interconnection (Digicomp, Geneva 1999) English Advanced (Australian College of English, Sydney 1997) Project Management (ESMT, Dakar 1996) Effective Presentation Technics (Marchstore Ltd, London 1995) Training of Trainers (Cegos, Paris 1995) Local Area Networks (Digicomp, Geneva 1995) MS-Dos 6.2 (Digicomp, Geneva 1995) Codan HF Radio Module (Codan UK, Farnham 1995) Novell Netware 3.1x Administration (Digicomp, Geneva 1995/99) Novell Netware 3.1x Installation & Configuration (Digicomp, Geneva 1995) Lotus Notes R3 Administration 1 (Digicomp, Geneva 1995) Lotus Notes R3 Development 1 (Digicomp, Geneva 1995) Lotus Notes R3 Basics + Technical User (Digicomp, Geneva 1995) Computer Security (Digicomp, Geneva 1995) Windows Ressources (Digicomp, Geneva 1995) Sales Technics & Customer relationship (CAFI, Lausanne 1991) Alarm & Security systems (Rochat, Geneva 1990) MS-Dos 5 (Bernard Marchon, Geneva 1990) Telepax PABX Systems (Telepax, Geneva 1990) Hasler Integral 2 PABX system (PTT, Bern 1989) Ericsson GDX/GFX PABX Systems (PTT, Bern 1989) Telephone installation 2 (CIS, Geneva 1987)

Personal skills and competences

Mother tongue

FRENCH

Other languages

		ENGLISH    -   SPANISH   –  PORTUGESE
• Reading skills		Excellent   –  Excellent    -      Basic
• Writing skills		Good         -    Good      -        nil
• Verbal skills		Good         -    Good      –        nil

Social skills and competences

Team Work: I have the chance of experiencing team working on both national and international level with colleagues of various nationalities. Intercultural Skills: As working & living on permanent basis abroad since 1993,  I have the opportunity to collaborate with international and intercultural teams on daily basis, mostly aimed at the regional management of an international humanitarian organization.

Organizational skills and  competences

Management of technical national & expatriate staff at regional level. (more than 40 employees). Regional ICT project management (in more than 15 countries) Regional yearly ICT seminar organization & professional courses (about 25 participants) ICT Budget preparation & follow-up. Assets management Head of ICT regional Emergency Response Unit Promotion & auditing institutional ICT policies.

Technical skills and competences

Competent on electrical, telephone, lighting/grounding & 2-way satellite systems. Competent on wired & wireless telecommunication, HF/VHF/UHF radio communication & computer networks. Competent on various Microsoft operating systems (Windows NT4, XP Professional,  2003 server). Competent on design, installation, maintenance & troubleshooting of computer systems. Good knowledge of Lotus Notes/Domino R5 workflow environment Good knowledge on MS Office tools, computer security systems. Good knowledge on power supplies (generator, solar & wind power) Some web-building, graphic editing, Linux & MS SQL experience. Some Cisco routing & switches experience. Some competences on various PABX systems

Artistic skills and competences

Amateur Photographer, Photo-editing, Web-publishing

Other skills and competences

Driving licence(s)

Swiss & International driver license (light vehicle & motorbike up to 1235 cm3)

Additional information

Annexes

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