How Twitter & Facebook Fake Account is Generated?

There are many offerings that sells Twitter or Facebook followers to boost marketing campaign or to make people appear important. Although the advantage is appealing, the fake account might also dispute someones reputation when it is detected. Justin Bieber (singer) and Mitt Romney (politicians) are some examples that were claimed to have many fake followers but it wasn't clear who purchased them. 

The fake account can be created by software that is easily available on the net (e.g by typing "buy facebook likes" in the search engine). These software works by sending data to the social network program through proxy IP addresses. The program will generate fake names and user names by randomly replicate existing profiles but with random information, pictures and spellings. 

To provide advertisers with realistic user numbers, Twitter said that they worked hard to purge fake and spam accounts in the months before its IPO filing.

BlackBerry Surrender. Can't compete with IOS or Android.

BlackBerry has raised their white flag and acknowledged that they just can't compete with Apple and Android. The brutal market for consumer smartphones has forced BlackBerry to shift their focus towards business consumer market. This is due to individual consumer prefers devices with access to the broadest number of applications, such as those available in the iOS and Android environments. As part of the change, the company is reducing its smartphone portfolio from six devices to four  (two high-end devices and two more-affordable models).

Source: CNET

How to Fill PDF Form without Adobe Acrobat License

Forms in Portable Document File (PDF) format are commonly distributed since it can  be used across platforms, offer security level and able to compress large file. However not all  the PDF forms are fillable since the full Acrobat product is needed to create interactive forms. Normally, people will print the pdf form then fill it manually using pen or pencil. But, you can also put text on the PDF file using the free PDF editor or PDF form filler like fillanyPDF, PDFescape, Blueberry.

Waterproof iPhone is not a prank?

Unlike the Sony Xperia Z and Galaxy S4 Active, the iPhone originally isn’t waterproof. There was a prank circulating on the net that claims that the iPhone will be waterproof when you update the OS to IOS 7. The fake ad said that the emergency shut off feature of the IOS 7 will be triggered when the phone is submerge into water. This will prevent any damage to the iPhone’s circuitry. Though the ad is fake, the waterproof iPhone is not fake when it is coupled with waterproof case like Atlas Incipio or OtterBox, the iPhone could be submerged under water  and users can use their camera to capture underwater images. Another way to make it waterproof is by applying protective coating like what Liquipel offered.

Research: How to Navigate Without GPS?

The Global Positioning System (GPS) was initially intended for military applications, but it has been embedded in many commercial devices these days. One common use of GPS is for navigation. Though the GPS can be used almost everywhere, it doesn't work well when the signal is unreachable such as inside most buildings, in caves and other subterranean locations, tunnels and underwater. In this case,  Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) will be able to offer a new navigation perspective. SLAM is the process by which a mobile robot can build a map of an environment and at the same time use this map to compute its own location. It will be able to solve the current GPS navigation problem by imitating how human and animal navigate. Typically human use their eye sight to determine its current position by relatively positioning themselves with respect to another object's location before being  directed from one place to another. To get to a specified location X, a subject might be asked to find Landmark A on their left, Landmark B on their right and Landmark C ahead. Based on these landmark they can decide to turn left or right and proceed with the next landmark. Therefore, despite of using GPS, an on board sensor such as camera can be used as an alternative way to navigate. The SLAM process will involve image recognition technique to recognize (and associate) the landmark and estimation technique to estimate the position. When the SLAM is fully functional, you can aspect to easily find a specific outlet in a shopping mall, study the navigation behavior of a sea turtle underwater for conservation purpose and construct the world map automatically. 

BitTorrent is Legal? Back into the Google Search Suggestions

BitTorrent is a form of P2P (peer to peer) file sharing protocol that uses a swarm-like approach to file sharing. Due to how Google deals with infringement, BitTorent was once block by Google search engine's auto-complete suggestions. But now if you type "bitt", the "bittorent" pops up again. 

BitTorent works by splitting large files into hundreds of small bit of files and then sharing those bits across a "swarm" of dozens of linked users. The advantage of torrents is that the users themselves do the actual file serving. The torrents ensures that downloads contain only what they claim to contain by filtering out corrupted and dummy files. Its never been illegal for people to use torrent for example to download Linux distribution software or to download virtual machine for VMware. Music, movies or video games can also be legal since many indie bands and game developer are willing to distribute their works for free just to be heard rather than being ignored. Torrents becomes illegal when their distribution did not receive the owners permission. 

BBM for Andriod and iPhone - Android just have to wait a little longer

The leaked version of BBM for Andriod and iPhone has been reported to have more than 1.1 million active users in the first 8 hours. BBM fans with Android however have to wait  a little longer due to problems with the unreleased Android version.Customers who have already downloaded BBM for iPhone will be able to continue to use BBM.