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White Print identifies anonymous email senders by analyzing writing patterns
Google enables site blocking for its users
LG G-Slate given a video preview by LGgirl
Skype completely removed from HTC ThunderBolt?

White Print identifies anonymous email senders by analyzing writing patterns

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 12:46 AM PDT

Email is one of the fastest ways of communication nowadays, but as you know, email is often used by cyber-criminals for all sorts of illegal purposes. Although email provides a certain amount of anonymity, researchers have found a way to ‘ID’ anonymous email senders.

Researchers from Concordia University with Benjamin Fung as their leader, have found a way to identify anonymous email senders with a 80% to 90% accuracy. In order to ID the sender, they analyze the unique writing patterns such as the style, grammar, and spelling using the special algorithm called White Print. According to them, White Print can tell them about the sender's age and even education. In addition, they have tested White Print with 200,000 emails from 10 subjects and they've got 80% to 90% successful identifications.

This looks like a revolutionary method, this is one of those examples where I never thought a machine could outsmart the human brain, but will it be enough to identify cyber criminals? Only time will tell.

[via Ubergizmo]

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White Print identifies anonymous email senders by analyzing writing patterns

Google enables site blocking for its users

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 02:47 PM PDT

Not a while ago, Google released a Chrome extension that allows its users to block certain sites from showing up on their search results. This was a great extension, but now, Google has decided to add a blocking feature without any additional extension needed to all of its users.

This extension works great, but it was limited only to Chrome users, therefore, Google decided to add support for all users using their service, no matter what browser they are using. Now in order to block useless sites from your search results you don't need Chrome browser or any apps. You just need to find a site that you wish to block in your search results and click the ‘Block all’, and you'll never see that site in your results again.

This feature is great, since you'll be able to block harmful or spam sites from your search results, but there's a single requirement. In order to use this feature, you'll have to have to be signed in to Google, and have a Google account.

[via Ubergizmo]

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Google enables site blocking for its users

LG G-Slate given a video preview by LGgirl

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 01:33 PM PDT

TheOfficialLGgirl, the girl who was chosen recently to shoot an advertisement for LG’s upcoming Tablet – G Slate on T Mobile, was given a G Slate for her after the shoot. She has used this cool gadget and now she is out with a video of her experience with the LG Slate along with the gadget in the video.

Nobody knows, if it was a sponsored or paid commercial from LG or her real experience, but she’s done a great job attaining the attentions of many. The video showed off everything that the new Android tablet can do. It included surfing the web, shooting 3D content with its stereoscopic rear cameras (also capable of shooting 1080p if you don’t fancy 3D) etc. The Android 3.0 HoneyComb tab runs on a dual core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor and is capable of showing 3D content (of course 3D glasses needed) and output onto any big screen through its HDMI port.

There's still no official release date (besides the very vague spring 2011) and price, but hopefully T-Mobile / LG can clear the air soon.

[via UberGizmo]

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LG G-Slate given a video preview by LGgirl

Skype completely removed from HTC ThunderBolt?

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 02:49 AM PDT

One of the main selling point of HTC Thunderbolt (when it was first announced) was supposed to be its ability to support Skype video calls. But now, as the device is too near to its release, Verizon has mentioned that Skype wouldn't be ready in time for its launch.

Tommorow the phone is going to be officially announceed and Skype is not avaible on that Android Phone. But wait, it seems that it would never get Skype support. All the web pages and content online on HTC's and Verizon's sites have removed all mentions of the Skype feature – as if it was never meant to be on the phone in the first place. They have not given any explanation for this embrassing news. Is this a clash between Verizon and Skype? Well to me, it means there is not much use for the front facing camera thats in ThunderBolt afterall.

[via UberGizmo]

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Skype completely removed from HTC ThunderBolt?