Mobile numbers, addresses on Facebook 'a security risk'

Facebook

A security expert has warned that users should remove their home addresses and phone numbers from their Facebook accounts.


Graham Cluley said the website now gives third parties access to that information.


The website said in a blog post at the weekend that it would give developers of applications access to the contact information of users who install their apps.


"These permissions must be explicitly granted to your application by the user via our standard permissions dialogs. Please note that these permissions only provide access to a user's address and mobile phone number, not their friend's addresses or mobile phone numbers," the Sydney Morning Herald quoted Facebook's Jeff Bowen as saying.

Tips to speed up your Operating System (OS) (Updated.....)

Tips to speed up your Operating System (OS)

Here i am sharing some tips which are useful to speed our Operating System by using the utilities (tools) of the Operating System (Windows family). I have been using them they really works.

• Don't be hurry while the Operating System (OS) is loading (Booting) the files and icons. Wait until it loads all the files and icons i.e. Do nothing while the cursor is like
• Delete Temporary, recent and prefetch files before shutting down the OS

1. Start > Run > %temp%
2. Start > Run > Recent
3. Start > Run > Prefetch

The thinking car: How future vehicles will make drivers redundant

Thinking Car

Berlin: Get in, lean back, relax - travelling in a car could one day be as easy as that. Scientists in Germany are conducting experiments that may lead to driverless vehicles and in a few decades transport might be possible without the need for human oversight behind the steering wheel.

Tinosch Ganjineh has a vision of a country full of taxis. Ganjineh is a researcher at Berlin's Free University and he believes that some time in the future individual modes of transport will become a thing of the past.

Text: IANS
Images courtesy: www.autonomos-labs.de