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One Mosque, Two Jamaah

Unlike fine view, harmony is essential. This spirit is reflected in the Great Mosque of Surakarta, Solo, Central Java.

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Science academies hand climate change body a recipe for reform

Tuesday, 31 August 2010 22:56 World Friend Indonesia

In the wake of a few high-profile errors found in the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment report, the organization asked the InterAcademy Council, a coalition of national science organizations, to examine its structure and procedures in order to identify potential weaknesses. The IAC's report came in today, and it more or less indicates that the IPCC has been a victim of its own success. Because so many people, from policy makers to critics, pay attention to the IPCC's reports, the IAC suggests that fundamental reforms are needed to improve the transparency and rigor of the organization.

VoIP company Vopium raises $16.5 million in bid to challenge Skype

Friday, 25 June 2010 13:16 World Friend Indonesia

Danish VoIP technology company Vopium has received a $16.5 million capital injection, expanding its group of owners with telecom investor Raghuvinder Kataria, one of the early backers of what is now Bharti Airtel (one of the world’s largest telecommunication service providers).

With the investment, Kataria now owns the majority of shares in Vopium, which will use the funding to expand internationally in an effort to challenge VoIP juggernaut Skype.

Said Kataria, ambitiously:

“Vopium has developed its own new market. The ground-breaking technology will reach millions of users all over the world in the next few years. Our expectations are reflected by the significant amount of money that we have invested in the company and we expect 10 million Vopium users in a few years.

We believe that the market demands an alternative mobile solution to Skype and the fast market penetration of smartphones opens up new and more intelligent ways of communication. Vopium’s solution is unique because it offers the best conversation quality and is easy to use.”

Fighting words, but Skype of course has legions of users, and the company has made it abundantly clear in recent times that it aims to stake its ground on portable devices like mobile phones and tablet computers alongside desktops, so an easy feat it won’t be.

Vopium was established in Copenhagen back in 2006 by a group of people, spearheaded by Pakistani entrepreneur Tanveer Sharif. According the press release announcing its latest funding round, Vopium was originally intended for immigrants who were looking for cheap telephony solutions to get in contact with family and friends in distant countries.

Now, the company has expanded this target group to anyone who wants to make international phone calls over VoIP for the lowest price possible (which I think means pretty much everyone on the planet). Using its mobile application, users can make calls across borders for the same quality but at a fraction of the cost of what traditional phone companies can offer, the company says.

Vopium also offers IM support for Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Apple devices, including the iPhone and iPod touch. The application offers free calls to Skype, Google Gtalk and other Vopium users, while chats on Skype, MSN, Yahoo! Google Talk, AIM, ICQ and MSN are also available, with additional support for Twitter.

The application is free to download and works with over 900 handsets on the market, including devices from Nokia, Sony-Ericsson, Samsung, HTC and Motorola.

Vopium’s applications have today been downloaded and installed 1 million times, and the company adds that 250,000 users in 49 countries are currently using the solution. Its self-reported biggest markets today are Scandinavia, the UK and Australia.

Solaris still sorta open, but OpenSolaris distro is dead

Tuesday, 24 August 2010 14:37 World Friend Indonesia

An internal Oracle memo that was released last week provides a detailed summary of the company's plans for the Solaris operating system, which Oracle obtained when it acquired Sun. The memo offers a mix of good and bad news for Solaris enthusiasts. It reveals that Oracle is strongly committed to advancing the Solaris platform and intends to increase the availability of resources for Solaris development. The bad news is that Oracle plans to discontinue Sun's community-centric OpenSolaris distribution.

Content providers phishing for demographic data via logins

Thursday, 10 June 2010 02:07 World Friend Indonesia

There has been a steady flow of academic studies into the insecurity of the username/password authentication system (a number of which we've covered at Ars) that suggest it's doomed to failure: humans have a limited memory capacity for unique strings of random characters, which is precisely what most experts recommend as a secure password. A pair of academic researchers from Cambridge have analyzed the use of passwords by many prominent online sites, and found that many sites require passwords as a sort of security theater, requiring them in contexts that are superfluous and failing to do their part to secure the information on their end. The end result, they argue, is a tragedy of the commons, with the commons being the finite memory of the average user.

The paper in which the duo make this argument was presented at the Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, and the paper itself is an interesting mix of economic arguments and security analysis. We'll go through the latter first before tying it back together with the former.

The researchers review the extensive literature on passwords, describing how security experts have identified a series of best practices, such as long passwords that contain non-alphanumeric characters and are changed on a regular basis. They then discuss how users have consistently failed to implement them, and instead settle on shorter, memorable passwords, and typically reuse a small set of them. Alternate systems have their own issues—mnemonics are subject to dictionary attacks using quotations and song lyrics, while leveraging humanity's ability to rapidly recognize images runs up against the reality of the finite ways we have of presenting images.

Safari 5 tested: Chrome, Opera still have JavaScript edge

Friday, 11 June 2010 11:08 arstechnica.com

Apple released the latest major version of its Web browser, Safari 5, earlier this week. Along with several new features—one of them somewhat controversial—the update was said to pack a number of performance improvements, including DNS pre-fetching and optimizations to Safari's Nitro JavaScript engine. "Safari continues to lead the pack in performance," Apple SVP of worldwide marketing, Phil Schiller, said in a statement. We decided to put those claims to the test, pitting Safari against leading browsers on both Mac OS X and Windows 7.

Included in our tests are a number of JavaScript benchmarks, including the WebKit team's SunSpider, Google's V8 Benchmark, and Mozilla's Dromaeo. We also took a look at graphics acceleration performance using Microsoft's HTML5 "Flying Images" speed demo. The tests were run on the latest stable versions of Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and Opera on Mac OS X 10.6.3 running on a 3.0GHz, 8-core Mac Pro with 10GB RAM and two ATI Radeon 2600XT GPUs. The tests were also run on Windows 7 on a 2.67 GHz Core 2 Duo PC with 4 GB of RAM and an ATI 4830 GPU. On our Windows 7 rig we had a recent development build of Chrome (as opposed to the latest stable version), and we also ran the tests using IE8 and a developer preview of IE9.

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