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Typosquatting, also called URL hijacking, is a form of cybersquatting which relies on mistakes such as typo errors made by users while typing a website or URL name. If a user accidentally enters an incorrect website address, they may be led to an alternative website owned by a cybersquatter.

McAfee released a research report on this “What’s In A Name: The State of Typo-Squatting 2007″ which says about how a typo sqatterer registers domains using common misspellings of popular brands, products and people in order to redirect consumers to alternative Web sites.

The report gives the example of iPhone mania as a recent example of typo-squatting saying that even though Apple’s new phone appeared on the market just a few months ago, its likely that atleast 8,000 URLs using the word “iPhone” by the end of this year will be available. Some will be fan sites or rumor sites, while others will be run by hackers and scammers. The only common thing among these sites is that they have no affiliation with Apple.

McAfee’s Key findings include:

• A consumer who misspells a popular wesite URL has a 1 in 14 chance of landing at a typo-squatter site.
• The heavily targetted sites are that of Children’s. The typo-squatters take advantage of typing errors to expose children to pornography. In fact, 2.4 percent, or more than 46,000 of the typo-squatter sites tested, include some adult content.
• Automated ad syndication services enable many typo-squatter sites to make money; In fact one popular search engine’s ads show up on 19.3% of all suspected typo-squatter sites in this study and another search engine shows up on 4.4% of all suspected typo-squatter sites
• The five non-U.S. countries most likely to have popular sites squatted are: the United Kingdom, Portugal, Spain, France, and Italy.
• The five non-U.S. countries least likely are: the Netherlands, Israel, Denmark, Brazil and Finland

Bangalore is set to offer unhindered wireless Internet access to the entire Greater Bangalore within 18 months. With this, Bangalore will be the second wireless city after Taiwanese capital Taipei.

“Project Unwired Bangalore has just been launched as we strongly believe mobility in terms of personal computers and laptops,” said M.N. Vidyashankar, Secretary to Government (Information Technology and Biotechnology), here on Friday.

He was speaking after inaugurating a five-year integrated M.Sc. course in biological sciences of the Bangalore University on its Jnana Bharathi campus here.

Stating that the 21st Century belonged to wireless and nano technology, Mr. Vidyashankar said Karnataka, being the pioneer in information and biotechnology, had planned well to be ahead of others in these fields.

Wireless Bangalore was one among the two major initiatives of the Government while focus on nanotechnology was the other, Mr. Vidyashankar said.

Unrestricted Internet access will be offered in the entire 743-sq. km. area of Greater Bangalore under the unwired Bangalore project, which requires an investment of over Rs. 900 crore.

To give fillip to nano technology, the Government has constituted a vision group for the sector under the stewardship of scientist C.N.R. Rao. On the lines of IT.IN and Bangalore Bio, “Bangalore Nano” is slated to be held in Bangalore on December 6 and 7, he said. Mr. Vidyashankar said that the IT and BT sectors had been witnessing 35 and 40 per cent annual growth respectively.

The biotechnology sector, particularly agri-bio and pharma-bio sectors in Karnataka, had been witnessing a phenomenal growth of 170 per cent as against the national average of 20 per cent, he pointed out.

Commending Bangalore University for taking up the initiative to start an integrated course in biological sciences, Mr. Vidyashankar said students who complete the course would have a bright future.

Bio-technology industries in Karnataka had taken the initiative of setting up a finishing school that would start functioning in February next, he added. Source: Hindu

Dunnington, the exclusively India-designed-and-developed multiprocessor (MP) Xeon server from Intel will be out in the second half of 2008.

Coming over two years since an earlier chip, codenamed Whitefield after the IT hotspot in Bangalore was abandoned by Intel, Dunnington is expected to add fillip to the country’s claim as a global chip design and development destination.

“The new Xeon chip is targeted at the high-performance segment and is the most sophisticated design of any independent family of processors,” told Thomas M Kilroy, vice-president and general manger, Digital Enterprise Group at Intel Corporation.

The MP segment may be small in numbers but strategically it is very significant with companies looking at virtualisation and other technologies as future growth areas which Dunnington is expected to address.

But then Dunnington is the not the only feather in Intel Bangalore’s cap. The recently launched series of 45 nm chips have a major contribution from the Bangalore centre which employs close to 2700 engineers.

The centre has been helping out with the chip-set and server designs and has contributed significantly to the Penryn which is akin to reinventing the transistor itself giving Moore’s Law a new lease of life, Kilroy said.

Intel launched 16 new server and high-end PC processors, which the company claims are eco-friendly, faster and cooler thanks to the new 45 nm technology using hafnium-based high-K metal gate transistors.

In addition to increasing computer performance and saving energy use, these processors also eliminate eco-unfriendly lead, the company said announcing the launch last week.

Dubbed the biggest “transistor advance” in the past 40 years, these processors are the first to use Intel’s Hafnium-based high-K metal gate formula to bundle millions of transistors in a smaller geographical area. This is also the first time the world’s biggest chip-maker has used the 45 nm manufacturing process, thereby boosting performance and lowering power consumption.

The new processors accommodate twice the earlier transistors apart from being 20 per cent faster in switching speeds and reduce switching power by 30 per cent, Kilroy said.

Initially, 12 Quad core Xeon 5400 processors, along with three Dual Core processors and a Core 2 Extreme processor for the desktop, are being shipped in the initial launch.

The entire line of Penryn processors for desktop and mobile platforms will begin rolling out from Q1 of 2008, he said.

Ultimately, Intel will crossover to the 45 nm process by the second half of the year. However, given that it has market leading products based on the 65 nm, chips based on silicon dioxide will continue to ship for a least another year, he said.

Asked about future plans for Bangalore, Kilroy said there will be no major additions to the numbers at the centre while the emphasis will be on efficiencies and output. Source: dnaindia