There is prosperous news from Silicon Valley. Co-founder of Google Inc “LARRY PAGE” will tie the nuptial knot with his girlfriend on December 8 at an undisclosed location, according to San Francisco Chronicle reports.

Page’s girlfriend “LUCY SOUTHWORTH” is a bio-medical informatics doctoral student at Stanford University.

Page’s 34, founded Google as a Stanford University computer science doctoral student and is Silicon Valley’s richest bachelor with a fortune worth around USD 20 BILLION.

Many current and former Google employees are expected to attend the wedding.

I wish Mr. PAGE A Very happy and prosperous marriage life.

Google just announced a competition where $10 million dollars has been put out for grabs by the best teams who can develop great mobile applications for the Android platform, possibly for the preparation of the highly anticipated GooglePhone, which Google has kept under wraps for a long time. There are no strings attached and everything to gain as Google has stated on the official page at http://code.google.com/android/adc.html.

50 of the “most promising entries”, as quoted from the official page, will receive $25,000 to further develop the software and a chance to advance even further to the $275,000 and $100,000 awards. This is especially lucrative for companies or passionate individuals that may not know where to start and it is a great opportunity to get them exposed and known in the development world. The panel of judges may prove to be tough as Google’s reputation for their strict standards of quality will make sure that only the best get through.
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Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, better known as MSRA - the deadly superbug which has given so much troubles to schools for having its terrible resistance to antibiotics has been found to be best prevented by an unexpectedly simple habit - having good hand hygiene. This bug is deadly when it enters the bloodstream and it’s something you don’t want to get, since it has even been reported to have a whopping 34% death rate within 30 days of the MSRA infection.

The infection usually starts with a painful bump which can penetrate the skin and deal more severe damage and cause a painful, inflamed area. This deadly bug does not stop there; it is contagious and can easily be passed onto other people and this usually happens in places with close contact such as gymnasiums, locker rooms and cafeterias. Dirty, unwashed laundry can also spread the disease, so don’t just let anyone borrow your clothing.

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Facebook has a clever, new Ad system that could bring them a potentially massive amount of revenue. Leveraging on the trust friends have between each other, it is almost like the most powerful force in marketing - word-of-mouth. Basically, a user who carries out an action that has a relation to an advertiser’s product will have a sponsored advertisement placed in that user’s news feed or profile, which will be exposed to the entire person’s friends.

The problem lies in the fact that they are using the person’s photograph and name, which will appear along with the advertisement. Facebook has an option for the user to decide on whether he or she wants to “share their information” to others. The general question seems to be too vague for the over-zealous lawyers who are complaining about this system. They base upon the aggressive marketing pitch to the advertisers to further comment about Facebook’s possible abuse of the users’ information for the benefit of themselves and the advertisers.

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A HTML/CSS bug in MySpace has been exploited and a few stars’ high-traffic profiles, including Alicia Keys’, has been affected by it. What the hack does is that it creates a link that can be moved anywhere on the profile and covers a substantial amount of space.

When a person clicks on the link, he or she is brought to a page which will prompt the user to install a codec that will allow them to hear music from the artiste. It’s a clever trick because it looks authentic and there is a good chance the user will think it’s some sort of special link to a pre-released song or video of some sort, which will increase the chances that they will download the codec (which is a virus) into their computers.

People with computers that have not applied the latest security vulnerability patch will get infected even more easily because the malware will download in the background, oblivious to the user. Since even legal plugins online get the prompt, those who have the update may still fall for the trick as it everything will seem like its normal.

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Up until now, Google Video’s bigger video size limit has made it the leading video website for larger, higher quality videos. However, YouTube just announced a new windows desktop uploader that will allow the users to upload a large amount of videos each time. The file size limit has also been raised a whooping 900 megabytes (900 MB), which brings it to 1 gigabyte (1GB) per video. Even though the limit has been raised 10 times the previous amount, the maximum duration of each clip remains at a mere 10 minute - so it looks like YouTube will not be competing too much with Google on the longer videos.  This response seems to be in conjunction with a competing video site, Vimeo, which recently allowed High-Definition video uploads.

Even with YouTube’s setbacks on their video length limits, it seems that many people would still rather split their videos just so they can put it on the world’s largest video website - and it is possibly due to the higher exposure they will get. This new limit on video size should bring even more people to YouTube and for the existing members; this will further justify the reasons to stay a loyal user.

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Once again, military technology does it. What it was initially supposed to be was a way to protect soldiers from chemical attacks, and now ways have been found to apply it to our everyday lives. In this technologically advanced era, portable electronics that store our important data is being used at increasing rates in increasing amounts, and protecting these tools is becoming more important.

These small items proved difficult to protect before this technology came about as they had to remain small and the traditional bulky waterproofing methods was simply not viable. This new technology, known as ion-mask, creates a protective layer over virtually any material that is just nanometres thick and it works even with the intricate parts of the electronics that are the circuit boards and processors without causing any damage. This form of protection is achieved via the means of an ionised gas, or “plasma”.

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