Posted by on under csv file, export tool, lger, singular goal, google, orkut, liberati, tool works, frt, flock, bil, email addresses, india | 
Orkut continues to undermine Google’s
Data Liberation Front, whose singular goal is to "make it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products". Earlier this month the Orkut friend exporter, which makes it easy to export your friends' contact information to a standard CSV file, was mysteriously
broken due to a bug. The timing of the bug was more than a little suspect — Orkut has been
hemorrhaging users lately in India and Brazil as people flock to Facebook, which takes advantage of Orkut's friend export tool to help users make the switch. Now Julio Vasconcellos over at
Armchairfounder has noticed how Orkut managed to fix their bug while still making it harder for members to switch to Facebook: the tool works, but it no longer includes your friends' Email addresses.
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Posted by on under power outages, last thursday, google, 60 minutes, hackers, bil, brazil |
An anonymous reader writes "A week ago, 60 Minutes had a story (we picked it up too) claiming that hackers had caused power outages in Brazil. While this assertion is now believed to be in error, hackers were inspired by the story actually to do what was claimed. Last Thursday, they broke into ONS, the operator of the grid (Google translation; Portuguese original). DarkReading has specific details on the SQL injection vulnerabilities the hackers probably used."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Posted by on under jersey man, custody battle, digg, father and son, bil, holidays, brazil |
A New Jersey man and his 9-year-old son were reunited Thursday in Brazil after a five-year international custody battle, and immediately headed home to spend the holidays in the U.S.
Tagi: jersey man, custody battle, digg, father and son, bil, holidays, brazil
Posted by on under fifa world cup, goldman sachs, danske bank, massive computer, world cup prediction, jp morgan, slashdot, computer power, financial markets, ubs, bil, banks, england |
pdcull writes "We all read on Slashdot about the investiment banks using their massive computer power and clever modelling techniques to predict the FIFA World Cup outcome. Now that Goldman Sachs's, UBS's and Danske Bank's favorite, Brazil, has been eliminated, and with JP Morgan's England long gone, the question that begs to be asked is: can we really trust these guys to predict the financial markets any better than they did World Cup?"
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Posted by on under tourism boom, sex tourism, bil, attempts, extent, brazil, thailand |
An investigation has highlighted the extent of child prostitution and sex tourism in the north-east of Brazil. The country is overtaking Thailand as a destination for sex tourism and on attempts to curb the problem.
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