Facebook Pays Microsoft over $500 Million to Buy AOL Patents, Microsoft Maintains Licenses

Facebook acquires a wealth of patents while forking out millions of dollars to Microsoft.

Facebook gains over 600 AOL patents but, weirdly, pays Microsoft over $500 million

Facebook has gained 650 patents from AOl, but instead of pay AOL paid Microsoft. Specifically, $550 million. The news comes as Facebook’s Initial Public Offering is expecting to happen in May, and could potentially value the company at hundreds of billions of dollars.

The reason Facebook paid Microsoft, despite the patent originating from AOL, is because Microsoft bought them. A Reuters source said they cover a wide variety of areas in the technology industry.

Microsoft purchased AOL patents worth $1 billion, so Facebook has roughly acquired half of the patents. It’s not confirmed whether Microsoft has profited from the deal, but the company said the company has recouped roughly half of its costs from the initial purchase while achieving its goals from the initial AOL auction. Facebook was apparently part of that auction, so this purchase at least represents some success for the social network.

The auction cover AOL’s long-forgotten browser Netscape and its instant messaging service ICQ, among other services.

Not the first cross-company deal

Microsoft always intended to sell the patents, a source said, speaking to Reuters, while Microsoft still keeps a license to the patents despite selling the patents to Facebook. So really, it’s a win-win for Microsoft as they recoup half of the deal’s money while not losing the patents completely.

Facebook said the patent acquisition helped to protect the long-term interests of the business. The company isn’t unfamiliar to patents, having run-ins with Yahoo! who claims Facebook infringes 10 of the patents. Yahoo! says the deal changes nothing, and the company will continue to pursue Facebook.

The deal represents the largest point when the two companies have joined together. Facebook is the largest social network, and Microsoft is the world’s largest software company. Back in 2007 Microsoft invested $240 million into Facebook, which was a significant deal at the time. Facebook had been approached by Yahoo! for a buyout, which Zuckerberg declined.

Facebook also uses Bing in the site’s search results, but is rumoured to be developing on their own search technology. The search capabilities only search for results on Facebook, not the web.

Forgot To LogOut Facebook

Forgot To LogOut Facebook From Public Networks Yeah there may be situations like you forgot to logout from a Cyber café and Colleges. If so there is a chance that someone misuses your FaceBook Account.So lets see what to do in these situations Steps: Log in to Facebook from Home Computer   Click Account Settings -> Security Click Edit  button near to Active Sessions You can see the Active Sessions   End all Sessions by clicking End Activity Hola Your Account Is Safe

On July 9 You May Lose Your Internet Connection [ Warning ]

Search giant Google has issued a warning to its millions of users that they could lose the ability to connect to the internet on July 9 due to a computer virus (DNSChanger malware).

The problem began when international hackers ran an online advertising scam to take control of infected computers around the world. After July 9, infected users won't be able to connect to the internet.Most victims don't even know their computers have been infected, although the malicious software probably has slowed their web surfing and disabled their antivirus software, making their machines more vulnerable to other problems. The malicious DNS servers would give fake, malicious answers, altering user searches, and promoting fake and dangerous products. Because every web search starts with DNS, the malware showed users an altered version of the Internet. By following the FBI guidelines you can protect your data and continue to use the Internet after July 9.

 How Can I Protect Myself from DNS Changer Malware ?

 Visit FBI website and find out if your system is infected and find a solution to fix it.

( This is a cross-post from various online  resources to alert and give awareness about the DNSChanger malware . I request you to share this post on Facebook and alert your friends too)


Please be safe...

RUN Mobile Applications On your PC (Jar And Jad)

Runing your favorate mobile app on your pc can be a great fun. You will need some Emulator for doing so.As the apps are mobile specific it is build in Java Platform So you must have java installed on your pc

Lets Start
First Download  And Install JavaDownload
Then Download KEmulator Lite
Download

Exctract The Zip File
Open KEmulator.exe

Now you will find a screen
Click On Midlet

Click Load Jar And Select Your Application

Now you can run your favorate mobile app on pc

Note: Supported format jar jad, Try others too!

Popular Motherboard Manufacturers And Driver Downloads Sites

If you are looking for drivers for your motherboard, e.g. RAID drivers, then this list might be useful.

The most popular motherboard manufacturers and their respective Download Center sites are:

Asus.com
AOpen 
GigaByte Drivers
AsRock Drivers
ABit Drivers
EliteGroup Drivers
BioStar Drivers
Evga Drivers
SuperMicro Drivers
Intel Motherboard Drivers
DFI Motherboard Drivers

Set Up A RAID 0 Drive (Array) in Windows 7 – Example: ASUS Motherboard

1 Step: Open Case And Installing The Hard Drive

Installing the hard drives can take some time, especially if you don’t have the correct brackets and need to make sure the screws are sitting tight!

Step 2: Setup the RAID Within BIOS (Example: Asus M4a89gtd)

Please read your motherboard manual on how to create a RAID setup. In this example I will show you how to do it for the ASUS m4a89gtd pro:

1. When you boot your PC, hit CTRL + F To Enter Raid Setup Mode (time it right, when the system says so)

2. Hit 2 on your keyboard to enter LD View

3. Now hit CTRL + C To enter the RAID Creation Mode

4. Use the arrow keys to select the drives you want to assign to the raid array and then hit Space to assign it

5. Select the Raid Mode e.g. RAID 0 and then hit Space to change it from 0 to 1 or other available Raid modes Raid 0,1,2,3,4,5,6. Look up the different modes on Wikipedia. RAID 1 = Mirroring, RAID 0 = Performance are the most important ones for end-users. I selected Raid 1 to have a mirror copy in case one hard drive fails.

6. Hit CTRL + Y (Use Z on EU keyboards) to save the RAID

If you let Fast Init on ON – you will get the message Fast Initialization Option has been selected. it will erase the MBR data of the disks. This is recommended to clear the old MBR (Master Boot Record)

7. Hit CTRL + Y again and enter a LD Raid Name – this will be the identifier for your RAID array!

8. Press any key to assign the maximum capacity e.g. 2TB in this case to the RAID. If you want to assign another capacity (disk space) then follow on-screen instructions

9. You should now see Functional on the screen – which means the RAID is now working

10. Ok We’re done – use ESC to exit and Reboot

Step 3: Change FROM IDE TO RAID! (ASUS: Storage Configuration

1. Open the BIOS

2. Look for a setting called Storage Configuration OR SIMILAR (this will be different in your BIOS)

3. Change the setting OnChip SATA Type from IDE to RAID

4. If you still want to use some single drives, make sure that some drives can still use IDE or they will not be recognized any longer (they will simply disappear and not be listed within Windows 7). In my case, I was able to set SATA-Port 5 and 6 to IDE and SATA 1-4 to RAID.

Step 4: Make Sure Boot Priority Is Still OK

After installing the hard drives, it is required to change the Boot Device Priority. Within the BIOS, go to the Boot Menu and look for an entry called Boot Device Priority:

Select your main hard drive and move it to the top. It should look like this. If you intend to install an operating system on the RAID drives then make sure the 1st Boot Device is Removable Dev. / DVD so you can insert your Windows 7 DVD and install it.

Important: The main boot Device should NOT be labeled RAID: unless your are installing an OS on the RAID – If all disks are labeled RAID, change some back to IDE

Step 5: Installing The Raid Controller Drivers

Ok, after installing the RAID via the BIOS, I thought sure there are going to be some problems on Windows 7. Well, I’m used to initializing drives myself by now (I keep forgetting it at times and am left wondering where my drives are, fun times!), but apparently that wasn’t the problem, so I opened up the device manager and there was the problem:

As you can see the Raid Controller wasn’t properly installed.

After visiting Asus.com I checked for some RAID drivers and indeed there are some available:

• AMD AHCI Driver V3.2.1540.35 for Windows 32/64bit XP.
• AMD AHCI Driver V1.2.0.164 for Windows 32/64bit Vista.
• AMD AHCI Driver V1.2.0.164 for Windows 32/64bit 7.
• AMD RAID Driver V3.2.1540.35 for Windows 32/64bit XP.
• AMD RAID Driver V3.2.1540.35 for Windows 32/64bit Vista.
• AMD RAID Driver V3.2.1540.35 for Windows 32/64bit 7.

My motherboard is the Asus M4a8 and I went to this site to get the drivers: http://support.asus.com/. If you have another motherboard check the website of your manufacturer for drivers, manuals, etc. – I can and will not provide links to all motherboard manufacturers here, but I created a page for you with a list of the most popular motherboard manufacturers driver download sites

1. Download the Raid Controller Driver

2. In my case I found the driver within a sub-folder. This is the full path:

AMD_RAID_V32154035_XPVistaWin7\RAID\

AMD\Driver\Disk\RAID\Win7\x64

3. Double-click the file ahcix64s.msi if you are on 64-bit. If you are on 32-bit you need the x86 installer

4. Now I tried to install the drivers, but apparently the AMD Catalyst Install Manager is bugged…

I got the error: An unknown error has occured. Please xit and restart Catalyst Install Manager

Open the Device Manager instead and right-click on the device with the yellow exclamation mark, then select Properties

It will show this:

Go to the tab Driver and click on Update Driver

Select Browse my computer for driver software

Click on Browse and locate C:\Downloads\

• AMD_RAID_V32154035_XPVistaWin7\RAID\AMD\Driver\Disk\RAID\Win7\x64 

If you located the CORRECT folder with the .inf file then it will say Windows has successfully updated your driver software

Step 6: Initializing The Raid Array Hard Drive

Enter manage disks into search bar on your Start menu and click the item that pops up to open the Windows 7 Disk manager 

You will see this – select MBR unless you know what you’re doing and have drives larger than 2TB

Right-click on the Disk that is your RAID e.g. Disk 2 (Unallocated) and created aNew Simple Volume

Enter some disk space that you want to assign

Finally, format the Raid drive and enter a volume label for the drive

Success, here is the Raid Drive with 1.81 real TB (2TB label is misleading because if you calculate it correctly, it will be 1.81, so don’t be surprised it’s not a 2TB drive)

Final Tips

If you are installing a RAID, make sure that you do NOT assign all SATA ports to RAID. If you do that and simply boot up the system you will get a blue screen with the error 0x0000007B. On my board I was able to assign port 5 and 6 to IDE. On my board I connected cable 5 and 6 to my OCZ SSD and my backup drive, both are NOT Raid drives. The other 4 SATA ports are now configured as RAID drives. It will take some time to find the best configuration, but simply keep testing.

Another common problem is installing the Raid Controller Driver. It was quite a problem locating the drivers and when I finally located the correct drivers in a sub-sub-sub-folder, the installer was bugged, so I had to install it manually using the Device Manager.

HACK: Find the admin page of a website

To hack a website in most cases admin page is more important.


I will use a simple loop hole in robots.txt

know about robots.txt file 

Yes it is file to spiders of search engines to decide what to crawl and what not to crawl. TheRobot Exclusion Standard, also known as the Robots Exclusion Protocol or robots.txt protocol, is a convention to prevent cooperating web crawlers and other web robots from accessing all or part of a website

Lets start:

First select a website eg:www.google.com
Then after the address add /robots.txt to website adress
Now ur Url will be www.google.com/robots.txt
Now you will get a txt file showing all pages which is disallowed by admin to search engine
If the site admin is a good Administrator he will not allow admin page to be crawled by search engine
Now seach for admin you will find admin page
See bellow

Best Wishes.......