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3 Rivers
Advantage Communications
Andhra PradeshAirtel
AT&T Wireless
Bell Mobility
BPL Mobile
Chennai RPG Cellular
Chennai Skycell / Airtel
Cingular
Comviq
DelhiAritel
DelhiHutch
Dutchtone / Orange
EMT
Fido
Goa BPL Mobil
Gujarat Celforce
Kerala Escotel
Kolkata Airtel
Kyivstar
LMT
Maharashtra BPL Mobile
Maharashtra Idea Cellular
Meteor
Microcell
MiWorld
Mobileone
Mobilink GSM Pakistan
Mobility
Mobistar
Mobitel
Mobtel Srbija
Mumbai BPL Mobile
Mumbai Orange
NB Tel
Netcom
Nextel
Nextel
O2
One Connect
Optus Mobile
Orange
Oskar
P&T
Page Mart
Page Net
Paktel Pakistan
Paktel GSM Pakistan
Personal Communication
Plus GSM
Primtel
Rogers
SCS-900
SFR France
Smart Telecom
Sprint PCS
Sunrise Mobile
Swisscom
Tamil Nadu BPL Mobile
Tele2
Telenor
Telia Denmark
T-Mobile
Ufone GSM Pakistan
Uraltel
Verizon
Vesotel
Vessotel
Vodaphone
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Yahoo Video Search

It's been around about 7 whole days that I checked out this cool Yahoo! Video Search!
Oh boy! Do i love it! (check it out http://video.search.yahoo.com )

Be it RAM, WMV, MPG or AVI... I discovered that the search displays a picture that is "NOT" the first frame of the video! And yet, it's got this BIG BIG archive of videos... I wouldnt be surprised if someone said its the biggest VIDEO link+pic archive in the world!

I wonder how Yahoo!'s bots managed to download all those videos on their servers to get a frame shot for the searcher... Or maybe they just streamed first X number of frames, got the pic, got the file size, got the link and then WASTED.... Yups, thats what I would have done...

"If" (<- yeah I hate em!) I had a strong internet link to the Internet, I might have left Google and Yahoo! way behind (yeah right :P!)... Right now as I type this, I see my younger brother having fun downloading these F16 and Boeing videos off Yahoo!

Conclusion: Well, ill call it a great service... One thing that bothers me is, with this copyright infringements would increase... RIAA's drive against P2P would be left useless! Besides this, all those webmasters out there... You might as well want to take off ur useless Videos from your web servers or be ready to pay extra to your hosting company for extra bandwidth usage!

SMS Khelain...

Awrite, here I am... It has been one whole week that I sat in my new office. I shouldnt be writing this from here, after all I have much more important work to do :P. But since i'm my own new boss, I just thought I would take out some time to promote the current scenario of the mobile industry of Pakistan. It might as well help me launch my first product.

Ok, so I hear 2 more mobile operators popping in our territory making the total service providers in the near future going upto 7(including Paktel TDMA and GSM). So can Pakistan handle the load? Mobilink just cut down its air time charges to Rs4.75/minute (anywhere in Pakistan).
Paktel competes with a 3.75/minute and a Re.1/minute late hours for love birds (Only on local Paktel to Paktel)! Maybe, love really is blind! Who would use Paktel when the Government has taken care of all the needs of those young love birds? They can chat all they want for free on their land line after midnight....and For some reason Ufone still would like to stick with its Rs.5 per minute totally depending on its GPRS service as the competitive advantage.

So if you were Yasir, what would you choose? One happy evening while I was chatting and messaging from my Mobilink connection that I had kept for around 3 years now. As I walked through the Mobile Market, next to regal at Saddar - Karachi, i came accross this sign board "Ufone connection only Rs.99 ($1.5)". Tng Tng.. Tick Tick...CLICK CLICK yes GPRS clicked! i did not wait, knowing I would have GPRS access at Rs.15/MB (i had yet to buy some eye candy mobile set to impress the chicks :P), International SMS at Rs.1.5/minute (0.025 cents) and not to forget the 50 free SMS with every connection. Was it worth it? Oh boy was I excited! But now with this busy network, am I dissapointed. I remember, everyone getting Rs.30 for free credited to their Mobilink numbers as the government fined it for its busy network and down times... So where is the government now? Ooops, i forgot, i'm sorry... my fault :P... Ufone is a government owned subsidery and we live in this "Pak" istan... The land of the purest (lies)


And here, Instaphone; once said to be taking a major major share of the market, now seems to be dissapearing from the market altogether... Just now, I checked my phone book... Where were all my Insta friends?? I was shocked to note, I only had 1 insta number in my 250+ phone list! I have not seen any Insta hosted IM shows on Indus Music lately nor have I seen any new advertisments comming from them. Still, the market remains very much fruitful? Why did it run away? Maybe because the owner of Insta also owns Paktel, and handling half of the Mobile companies of Pakistan seemed too much to handle (btw I wouldnt mind, if someone asked me to handle Insta)


The next news is, Mobilink is shifting to 1800Mhz from 900Mhz previously allotted... I figure, it is doing this so it may get a bigger band from PTA to start GPRS... Plus they need their custommers to get new SIM cards in order to go ahead with their GPRS launch... People seem to be ignoring this when they run after that JAZZ... which may later sound like ZAAAPP!...

(to be continued)

First defacement in the history of Google; Picasa hacked...

Just found out, that the brazilian hacker "Xfaulz" just defaced the
Picasa website run by Google. XFaulz in this attack used the
"highlight parameter processing vulnerability" in php bb2...

I remember seeing an exploit for this at packet storm...

There, so now Google joins the club of defaced websites with Yahoo!
and Hotmail that were defaced back in 1996 and 2000...

Microsoft says "Bofra" inside the jar now...

Breaking its usual security update schedule, Microsoft has released a
critical patch for a vulnerability in Internet Explorer that could
allow hackers to gain user privileges on vulnerable machines.

The flaw centres on an unchecked buffer in Explorer's processing of
HTML. If a user visited a specially designed web page, the hacker
would be able to transfer code to the victim's PC.

Users of Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Exchange Server 2003 are
not affected, but all other users are being urged to download the
patch as soon as possible. It is available here.

Microsoft usually releases patches on the second Tuesday of every
month, but will break the cycle if it believes the patch is serious
enough to warrant early release.


http://www.vnunet.com/news/1159817

Microsoft says "Blogging is huge"

Microsoft just rolled out MSN Spaces; a blogging site

I didnt find the site too amazing with not too good templates, and a
little complicated interface. The site with all its complicatedness
didnt offer to much help to any new bloggers...

Scobleizer; one of the Microsoft Geeks says he's not shifting
Scobleizer

SCO Defaced: We own all your code, pay us all ur money...

I was following this for some time now, here are my comments...

Dont understand why the administrators just dont learn... They got a warning exactly 1 week back....

Its was Nov 22, 2004
Today the SCO Group (www.sco.com) website went down for prolonged period denying any web requests. Netcraft promptly commented, that its among many domains that have went down... Probably a Distributed Denial of Service Attack

The latest news is, that the site is back up with a temporary domain www.thescogroup.com, while admins figure out a prevention for the DOS attack

- YSM

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Nov 29, 2004...
Today the http://www.sco.com website is defaced... With a company like SCO... DOS attack one week back, today its defaced from the roots? No comments...

Today the site reads SCO: We own all your code, pay us all ur money...

Lets contribute to a DOS Attack...

Love it when this happens!
Lets contribute and install the Screen Savers to cut the crap in our inboxes....
Lycos people just introduced this screensaver that pings/requests content from all the major spammers for nothing... For what I understand thats arounf 4 MB of data for each of the users having the screen savers...
It is reported that the spammers have already started going down...
But spammers dont seem to be too happy! They plan to repel the attack and start attacks against the screen saver company Lycos...


Source

//YSM