If you are in Turkey, Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, you are most likely to be hit by a malicious computer attack or virus. While surfing the web in Sierra Leone, Niger, Japan or Togo is the safest. AVG’s research was conducted in the last week of July.

What are your chances of being hit by a malicious computer attack or virus? Worldwide it’s 1 in 73 according to AVG, which looked at data from 100+ million PCs in 144 countries to produce a list of the world’s ‘safest’ and ‘riskiest’ Internet surfers. However, with a 1 in 57 attack rate, Indian web surfers are riskier than the global average. Neighboring countries Bangladesh and Pakistan however fare worse. AVG’s software had to step in to protect 1 in 41 Bangladeshi surfers, giving Bangladesh the fifth spot in the global risk table. Pakistan comes in at no 11, with an attack average of 1 in 48.

Attack rates for India were better than those for the US (1 in 48) and comparable to the UK (1 in 61). Averages for other major Western countries include Australia at 1 in 75 and Germany at 1 in 83.

10 Riskiest Places to Surf the Web

1 – Turkey 1 in 10
2 – Russia 1 in 15
3 – Armenia 1 in 24
4 – Azerbaijan 1 in 39
5 – Bangladesh 1 in 41
6 – Laos 1 in 42
7 – Vietnam 1 in 42
8 – Portugal 1 in 43
9 – USA 1 in 48
10 – Ukraine 1 in 48
10 – Pakistan 1 in 48

10 Safest Places to surf the web

1 – Sierra Leone 1 in 696
2 – Niger 1 in 442
3 – Japan 1 in 403
4 – Togo 1 in 359
5 – Namibia 1 in 353
6 – Belize 1 in 302
7 – Madagascar 1 in 283
8 – Mozambique 1 in 264
9 – Zambia 1 in 262
10 – Slovakia 1 in 254

Average Chances of getting attacked

Globally – 1 in 73
North America – 1 in 51
Europe – 1 in 72
Asia (including Asia Pacific) – 1 in 102
Africa – 1 in 108
S America – 1 in 164

The whole stats need to be taken with a pinch of salt as the time-frame of the whole analysis was very brief. AVG looked at the number of Internet attacks worldwide for the final week of July 2010, as well as the number of AVG installs per country. From this, AVG was able to work out on average the chances of web surfers being attacked. The research involved taking data from over 100 million AVG installations across 144 countries.

Related posts:

1. Facebook Places is Cool but Creepy
2. Top Location Based Services Compared with Facebook Places [Infographic]
3. [How to] Opt out of Facebook Places & Hide Location From Friends
4. Watch FIFA World cup Closing Ceremony Live Online for Free!

© Raju PP for Technically Personal!, 2010. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact us, so we can take legal action immediately. If you are on Twitter you can follow me @rajupp! | Permalink |

One of the worst kept secrets in the recent history of gadgets, Samsung Galaxy tab (GT-P1000) was officially unveiled today at IFA 2010 in Berlin, Germany. This is the first tablet which comes close to be a competitor for Apple’s iPad and definitely the best Android tablet out there in the market currently.

The major selling point of Galaxy Tab is that it can also be used as a phone unlike iPad. Running on Android 2.2 Froyo, Galaxy tab will also offer Multitouch web browsing, including HTML5 and Adobe Flash, email, voice and video calling and all other apps provided by Android market. Weighing 380g, the device is based on Samsung’s Galaxy S smartphone and is designed to be used in one hand.

Much like the iPad, the Galaxy Tab also includes an ebook reading application, call the “Readers Hub”. Powered by Kobo, PressDisplay, Zinio and others, Samsung claims more than 2 million books, over 2,500 magazines in 20 languages and more than 1,600 newspapers in 47 languages will be available at launch.

Samsung Galaxy Tab Specifications

OS: Android 2.2 (Froyo)
Display: 7.0 inch TFT-LCD, WSVGA (1024 x 600)
Network: 2.5G (GSM/ GPRS/ EDGE) : 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz
3G (HSUPA 5.76Mbps, HSDPA 7.2Mbps) : 900 / 1900 / 2100 MHz
Processor: Cortex A8 1.0GHz Application Processor with PowerVR SGX540
RAM: 512 MB
Memory: 16GB/32GB internal memory with up to 32GB external memory via MicroSD slot
Camera: 3 MP Camera with Auto-Focus and LED Flash, 1.3MP front camera for Video Telephony
Connectivity: 30 pin connector, 3G HSPA connectivity, 802.11n Wi-Fi, & Bluetooth 3.0
Sensor: Gyroscope sensor, Geo-magnetic sensor, Accelerometer, Light sensor
Size: 190.09 x 120.45 x 11.98mm, weight 380g
Battery: 4,000mAh (7 hours movie play)
GPS: A-GPS
Video: Full HD (1080p) Video Player & Recorder (720 x 480) @ 30fps
3.5mm Ear Jack & speaker
MP3, AAC, OGG, WMA, AMR-NB/WB, FLAC, WAV, AC3, MIDI
Integrated E-mail: Gmail, MS Exchange ActiveSync
Google Maps, Latitude, Places | Google Maps Navigation (Beta)
eReading: Newspaper Book , Magazine
Adobe Flash 10.1 player support

Samsung Galaxy Tab – Release & Availability

The Samsung GALAXY Tab will be launched in Europe (most probably in ITALY first) in mid September, and in other markets including Korea, the US and Asia in coming months.

Samsung Galaxy Tab – Price

Pricing details will be announced nearer to the launch date. We don’t even have some believable rumors about the pricing. We guess Samsung is simply playing a waiting game without deciding the pricing upfront.

Would you buy one when its available? What’s the maximum price you would like to shell out?

No related posts

© Raju PP for Technically Personal!, 2010. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact us, so we can take legal action immediately. If you are on Twitter you can follow me @rajupp! | Permalink |

The above screenshot tells you the story. Apple has just announced the brand new iPod Touch with stunning features like Front & Rear camera, FaceTime, Retina Display, HD Video recording, 3-axis gyro & Apple A4 chip.

New iPod Touch – Features

• Retina display – 4x the number of pixels of the old screen, 326 pixels per inch, 24-bit color, LED
• Apple A4 Chip
• 3-axis gyro
• iOS 4.1 with Game Center
• Front facing camera with face time!
• a rear camera, with HD video recording!
• 40 hours of music playback

New iPod Touch Prices

• 8 GB model will go for $229,
• 32 for $299, and
• 64 for $399

All of the new iPods will be available next week. Pre-orders go live today, with shipments starting next week.

Related posts:

1. iPod Touch 4G with 2 MegaPixel Camera Leaked
2. iPhone 4 Video Calling With FaceTime
3. Download Sn0wBreeze 1.7 to Jailbreak iPod Touch 3G 4.0 & iPod Touch 2G 4.0
4. Downgrade iPod Touch 3G/2G from 3.1.3 to 3.1.2

© Raju PP for Technically Personal!, 2010. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact us, so we can take legal action immediately. If you are on Twitter you can follow me @rajupp! | Permalink |

Apple has just released iOS 4.1 for iPhone 4, 3GS, 3G & iPod Touch 3G & 2G. This was announced by Steve Jobs at the ongoing Apple Music event at San Fransisco.

iOS 4.1 Features

• Bug Fixes – Proximity sensor, bluetooth bugs, iPhone 3G performance bugs
• Game Center
• TV Show Rentals
• High Dynamic Range (HDR) photos
• ability to upload HD video over WiFi

So what are High Dynamic Range photos? Well, when you take an image, it actually takes three separate photos, one with highlights, shadows, and midranges, and it combines them together to make HDR photos

iOS 4.1 will be available next week for the iPhone and iPod touch

iOS 4.2 for iPad – Sneak Peek

In addition to the announcement of iOS 4.1, Steve Jobs gave a sneak peek at iOS 4.2 which is supposed to come out in November 2010 and gonna be a free upgrade for iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone.

• Wireless Printing for iPad
• AirPlay – stream music, AND photos/videos over WiFi to your iPad
• multitasking for iPad

and more!

More details coming soon.

Related posts:

1. iPhone HD Photos Leaked Just Before Steve Jobs’ Keynote at WWDC 10
2. [How to] Copy Photos from Digital Camera to iPad Directly
3. New iPad Video ad Released
4. Jailbreak iPhone 4.0 Beta Video Released by iPhone Dev Team

© Raju PP for Technically Personal!, 2010. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact us, so we can take legal action immediately. If you are on Twitter you can follow me @rajupp! | Permalink |

To be fair, SkyFire mobile browser transcodes Flash into HTML5 in real time and hence theoretically at-least, must stand a chance to come through the app store filters. The developers are fairly confident that Apple will accept their submission soon enough and we definitely hope they do.

The company maintains that the app has been developed with significant oversight and feedback from Apple and that it adheres to every guideline put forth by Apple regarding HTML5 video playback for iOS. The process of transcoding Flash to HTML5 will allow Apple users to play millions of Flash videos on Apple devices without the technical problems for which Jobs banned flash.

Skyfire is pretty similar to Opera mini for iPhone in the way it operates, basing its Web-browsing capabilities off of a Webkit browser core shared with Safari and using cloud-computing to transcode Flash into HTML5 in real time.

Skyfire also avoids the concerns raised in Steve Jobs’ recent essay regarding Flash on mobile devices. By optimizing Flash for iPhones and network conditions in the Cloud, Skyfire improves performance and maximizes battery life while playing video. The browser also avoids alternate runtime environments and other security vulnerabilities.

It will be interesting to see if Apple approves SkyFire in one go, or come up with new restrictions and reasons to reject it.

[via]RWW

Related posts:

1. HP & Adobe Take a Dig at Apple iPad with Flash Demo
2. Apple Adds Explicit Category to iPhone App Store
3. Apple App Store Hacked?
4. Hulu Plus for iPad, iPhone, PS3 and More at Just $9.99 pm

© Raju PP for Technically Personal!, 2010. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact us, so we can take legal action immediately. If you are on Twitter you can follow me @rajupp! | Permalink |

Comments are like fuel to run the blogging vehicle. Your comments have always helped us to get better and with Disqus we hope that your commenting experience on TechPP is enhanced.

For all you loyal TechPP readers, you can still comment in the same way as you used to before by simply providing your name and email address. But now, you can also subscribe to all the comments without logging in, either by email or by RSS feed, and all of these in just 1 click!

Having a Disqus profile helps you track and manage your comments on various website better, but if you choose not to have it, you can still log in with Facebook Connect, Twitter or Yahoo.

Another cool feature which comes with Disqus is when you log in with a Disqus Profile, you can reply by email. When you receive the email notification that a new comment has been posted, you can just reply directly to that email to reply to the comment.

Personally, I would recommend Disqus for other webmasters and bloggers. I found Disqus to be very simple to setup. It imported several thousands of comments from the WordPress local within minutes and also provides sync back option so that no comment is lost in case you decide to get rid of it at a later time. You can customize the comment display easily, though the default options should be good enough.

We hope you enjoy our new commenting system. Feel free to post your comments below if you have any questions related to Disqus.

Related posts:

1. Follow TechPP on Facebook!
2. TechCrunch’s Clarification on Comments Deletion
3. TechPP Google Wave Invites Giveaway!
4. TechPP Turns One! Happy Birthday!

What is Gmail Priority Inbox?

Priority Inbox is like your personal assistant, helping you focus on the messages that matter without requiring you to set up complex rules. Gmail has always been top notch when it comes to classifying certain messages as spam. But now, with this experimental feature, it will help you classify and prioritize the non-spam messages as well.

Priority Inbox splits your inbox into three sections: “Important and unread,” “Starred” and “Everything else”. As messages come in, Gmail automatically flags some of them as important. Gmail uses a variety of signals to predict which messages are important, including the people you email most and which messages you open and reply to. And as you use Gmail, it will get better at categorizing messages for you.

Users can help improve the feature by customizing it to their needs and it will learn with the time. Those who have been using the already available star message feature can now be sure that these important mails remain visible in your inbox and won’t get pushed to the next page and out of sight by new mail.

Can’t See Priority Inbox Feature yet?

Please note that GMail priority inbox is in beta right now and Google is slowly rolling it out and might take a week or so to reach everyone. Keep looking for “New! Priority Inbox” link in the top right corner of your Gmail account.

[via]Gmail Blog

Related posts:

1. [How to] Hide/Remove Google Buzz From Your Gmail Inbox
2. [How to] Manage RSS Feed Overload?
3. Use GMail to send mails from other Email IDs
4. GMail not Loading – GMail Problems and Possible Solutions

The axe hanging on top of RIM of a possible Blackberry ban in India has been averted as the Indian government has given RIM 60 days after being promised “lawful access” to the encrypted data.

The ongoing fiasco is because India says it wants the means to fully track and read BlackBerry’s secure email and instant messaging services that officials fear could be misused by militants.

RIM had till now maintained that they cannot provide the complete access to the encrypted data as requested by the Indian government which had prompted many of the Indian companies to look for alternatives for BlackBerry’s secured data communications. There are over 900 corporate houses and companies and about a million subscribers who use BlackBerry services in India.

Though it is not completely clear as to what agreement has been reached by both the parties, the Indian government said at the end of a meeting of Indian security agencies that the telecom ministry will also study the feasibility of running services through a server located in the country.

India, being one of the fastest growing wireless markets in the world, could not afford to ban BlackBerry as it could have easily jeopardize the growth drastically. At the same time, the government was dead sure about getting the access to the encrypted data.

Other services like Google voice, Google Talk & Skype have also got notices over the same security issue.

Related posts:

1. BlackBerry India Ban Looms – Apple & Nokia Look to Gain Share
2. After BlackBerry, Google & Skype Might get Blocked in India
3. Get Live Online Results of Indian Lok Sabha Elections 2009
4. More Facts About $35 Indian Tablet [Hands on Video]

© Raju PP for Technically Personal!, 2010. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact us, so we can take legal action immediately. If you are on Twitter you can follow me @rajupp! | Permalink |

The top Indian telecom and security officials are currently meeting in New Delhi to discuss the Blackberry security issue which could essentially mean the end of Blackberry services in India if at all the standoff comes to a deadlock as predicted by many.

The Indian government had warned earlier this month that it would start blocking emails and instant messages sent on BlackBerry smartphones unless the company came up with a way for security agencies to decode the encrypted traffic by August 31.

Now that the BlackBerry Ban seems imminent, several Indian companies have started mulling alternate options to BlackBerry services, which would mean a huge gain in share to RIM rivals like Nokia and Apple. According to Reuters, companies like GE India & Infosys have already started discussing options to switch to other services.

India, which has 1.1 million BlackBerry users, would be the first country to curb its services. But RIM is also facing a threatened ban by the United Arab Emirates and is negotiating with Saudi Arabia on security issues.

Related posts:

1. After BlackBerry, Google & Skype Might get Blocked in India
2. BlackBerry Averts Indian Ban, Given 60 Days Reprieve
3. iPhone 4 Coming to India in October!
4. Google India in Dock Over PoK Maps Controversy

Great news for all the movie buffs out there. You can now watch Hollywood and Bollywood movies online for free on Youtube! No more torrents and pirated stuff. Well, to start off there are around 400 full-length movies, in English & Hindi and in different categories like Action & Adventure, Animation & Cartoons, Bollywood, Classics, Comedy, Crime, Documentary & Biography, Drama, Family, Horror, Mystery & Suspense, Romance, Science Fiction, Spanish Language, Sports and The Screening Room.

Last year Youtube had launched the Youtube Shows section with some TV shows and classic movies. So, it is no surprise that they have come out with set of mainstream movies. It’s just a beginning, so my claim of “end of piracy” is bit far fetched as of now.

So check out Youtube Movies section and let us know which favorite movie is in there and if possible throw in the link as well for the benefit of others who love suggestions!

Related posts:

1. Watch and Download Movies Online for Free!
2. Watch Movies Online for Free Without Downloading
3. Now watch Free Movies and TV Shows on IMDb!!
4. 10 Ways to Watch Glee Full Episodes Online for Free!

© Raju PP for Technically Personal!, 2010. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact us, so we can take legal action immediately. If you are on Twitter you can follow me @rajupp! | Permalink |