wi-tribe live-streams the Google Technology User Group event held at SZABIST at Islamabad hosting a number of live streaming projects under the umbrella of wi-tribe LIVE. Themed around “Google Outreach and Innovation”, the event aimed to promote Google’s latest technology amongst budding developers and technology evangelists. Speakers at the event included Ahmad Hamzavi, Head of New Business Development, MENA & Central Asia, who spoke on the subject of innovation at Google, and TilekMamutov, New Business Development Manager, Central Asia and Central South Asia who spoke about Google outreach.

“GTUG is a great event that imparts knowledge about the latest Google technology. The event provided a great learning opportunity to Pakistan’s young and aspiring developers. With wi-tribe LIVE, our aim is to widen the outreach of such informative sessions, making them available online to as big an audience as possible. At wi-tribe, we pride ourselves on providing and promoting platforms that can act as key enablers for the development of Pakistan’s future technology leaders,” said Ali Fahd, Director of Marketing, wi-tribe Pakistan.
 
By taking such initiatives, wi-tribe aims to open doors of new possibilities for the diligent youth of the country. By creating limitless access to events like GTUG with live streaming, wi-tribe envisions a more technology advanced Pakistan where the youth becomes the driving force behind ICT development.

For more information on wi-tribe LIVE, please visit wi-tribe.pk/live

Mozilla Foundation had recently awarded a 12-year bug hunter with an award of $3,000 after the boy had discovered a serious malicious code execution in the browser, which was caused due to buffer overflow and memory corruption emergence in Firefox browser. The flaw was identified as CVE-2010-3179 which executes itself using the document.write() function in the code.

What this Bug can do actually ?

This bug infects the users PC as the tricks potential victims when the user visits a special page from the browser which crashes the browser and allows the malicious code to get executed on the users computer.

Mozilla reports the issue:

Security researcher Alexander Miller reported that passing an excessively long string to document.write could cause text rendering routines to end up in an inconsistent state with sections of stack memory being overwritten with the string data. An attacker could use this flaw to crash a victim’s browser and potentially run arbitrary code on their computer.

Alexander Miller is a 12-year old boy who studies in grade seventh and was awarded with a check worth $3,000. Miller use to research on bugs after Mozilla announced the campaign earlier this year to award bug finders with some cash. Listening this, Miller stuck to his PC trying to locate some bugs from the browser and get paid for it. Miller spent 90 minutes a day for about 10 days and finally he was succeeded discovering a bug.

Miller was excited receiving handsome amount from Mozilla Foundation, where he plans to buy a new computer and Christmas gifts for his family, and also aims to make a donation to animal rescue organization.

In my previous post i have discussed about Mozilla Firefox 4 which should be available in couple of weeks, but today Mozilla have just released the stable version of Mozilla Firefox 4.0 Beta 1, the update includes a complete re-designed user interface which can also be used on Mac & Linux platform.

The latest browser enables you to view HD videos with the help of HTML5. Firefox have also worked on the security which hides the browse history, and authorize persons are only allowed to view the previous browser history.

Some other great features which includes in Firefox 4 is the Synchronization mode. Through this mode you can synchronize you private settings, passwords, saved data, history and other so that you carry you Firefox where where ever you go and continue you browsing experience on other device with same features.

The download is available at Mozilla’s official website or if you are not interested in downloading the demo you can wait and watch Firefox 4 demo in action.

Download FireFox 4 Beta 1 via Geeky-Gadgets

My Firefox browser is getting I’ll day by day as it gets stuck when many tabs are opened simultaneously, i think the browser knows that a new browser update has been added to its family. Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta has been released out and available for download.

Although the version is still under development phase and its beta, but this download is for geeky lovers who wants their first hand on latest release and updates. The final release of the browser is expected very soon which is available on Mozilla’s FTP server. As soon as the official announcements are made we well inform are readers.

Download Mozilla Firefox 4.0 Beta

For Mac and Linux users

FIFA 2010 has just started and the football fans are just with their respective teams supporting them on the ground and on the web. It looks that Firefox is also celebrating the FIFA 2010 World Cup as they have launched amazing persona theme for the browser and you can apply your favorite team theme.

Try out the best theme we have collected and apply to your browsers:

FIFA World Cup 2010 South Africa

SudaAfrica 2010

FIFA World Cup 2010 Cerulean

FIFA Soccer World Cup 2010- South Africa

World Cup free design

South Africa 2010 POR

South Africa 2010 ARG

FIFA WM 2010 South Africa

Brasil – Africa do Sul 2010

Cristiano Ronaldo CR9

This post was brought to you by WebTrickz. In-order to apply the FIFA 2010 World Cup you must have pre-installed Firefox 3.6, just select your desired theme and click Wear to apply the theme on your browser.