Software giant Microsoft and search engine Yahoo! have been giving the go signal by American and European regulators to form an alliance. The former rivals will form a team in an effort to compete with Google, which is dominating the search engine wars.

The approval ends seven months of anxious waiting for both Microsoft and Yahoo!, which had toyed with the partnership idea as early as 2006. Microsoft even attempted to buy Yahoo! in 2008, but later reconsidered its $ 47.5 billion offer.

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A new type of computer virus, a dangerous new ZeuS botnet has reportedly infected almost 75,000 computers in 2,500 organizations around the world, including user accounts of popular social network websites.

“Kneber botnet“, based on a username that linked the infected systems, gathers login credentials to online financial systems, social networking sites and even email systems from infested computers then reports the gathered info back to the “hackers”, said NetWitness.

The discovery of the new virus was dated back in January this year during a routine deployment of the NetWitness advanced monitoring solutions. Further investigation by the Herndon, Virginia-based software security firm revealed “an extensive compromise of commercial and government systems that included 68,000 corporate login credentials, access to email systems, online banking sites, Facebook, Yahoo, Hotmail and other social networking credentials, 2,000 SSL certificate files, and dossier-level data sets on individuals including complete dumps of entire identities from victim machines”.

If your receiving an error stating that Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded, when you run a script on your website or blog, just know that you are not alone. By default, most servers are set to this 30 second execution time limit. In the following simple solution, I will show you how to increase the execution time limit, hopefully allowing you to finally execute your script successfully.

How to increase the Maximum execution time:

Increasing the maximum execution time of server side scripts can assist in giving a script enough time to run.

1. Using an FTP client, navigate to the directory where your website is being hosted or where the script causing the problem is being run.
2. Download the php.ini file to your desktop. If no php.ini file exists, simply download the php.ini file from the root of your server.
3. Open the php.ini file using your favorite text editor and find the following section:

max_execution_time = 30

4. Change 30 to a higher value. For example: 90 and then save the file.
5. Upload the modified php.ini file to the directory where your script is being run and then go test your script.

If all goes well, your script should now complete before the timeout.

Enjoy!

Citrus fruits are acidic, which helps their juice to conduct electricity, therefore can be used as batteries. All you need is a little knowledge and a great deal of patience.

Watch the video below to know how many orange slices you need to charge an iPhone.

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New Delhi: The Kids entertainment channel Cartoon Network has decided to offer a unique service to the mobile users. The comic characters would be available on mobile handsets, thanks to Cartoon Network. Comics such as ‘Ben 10′, ‘Powerpuff Girls’, ‘Johnny Bravo’ and ‘Dexter’ will be now available on mobile handsets.

The comic characters will be available on the mobile handsets through telecom operators – Airtel, Idea, Reliance and TATA DoCoMo. Cartoon Network has tied up with mobile value added service company Nazara Technologies to manage and distribute this service.

Mobile phone users can download Cartoon Network comics at a very nominal price – Rs 1 per day, Rs 10 per week and Rs 30 per month.

New Delhi: According to the Times of India (TOI) reports, India will soon have over 500 million mobile phone users – second largest in the world after China. While only the number of mobile subscribers will touch the 500 million mark, it will be much higher, if we take into account the number of fixed line subscribers.

The overall mobile phone and fixed line connections have gone up to over 550 million in India till date. While 97 percent in urban India have mobile phone subscriptions, just 18 percent people in rural India have the access to mobile phones.

“India was at 488.40 million (wireless) subscribers at the end of October 2009″, said the TOI report. Ironically, only 7.5 million people in India have access to broadband Internet connectivity.

Nokia N97 Mini Features, Specifications & review : We loved the Nokia N97 but it wasn’t perfect. So it was with great enthusiasm we received the Nokia N97 Mini – basically the same as the original but smaller, better looking and with updated software. Really, it’s what the Nokia N97 should have been, although we’re sorry to report that Nokia missed the opportunity to sort out some of the N97’s problems.

The Nokia N97 Mini is, we’re told, 8% smaller than the original N97. It certainly fits nicely into your palm, but it does mean the screen has shrunk from 3.5 inches to a still perfectly acceptable 3.2 inches. What has really suffered is the internal memory, which has been knocked down from 32GB on the N97 to just 8MB on the Mini.

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How To Setup Gmail On Your S60 Device:

1. Enable IMAP in your Gmail account settings.
2. Select ‘Messaging’ > ‘Options’ > ‘Settings’ > ‘E-mail’ > ‘Mailboxes.’
3. If you have never set up email on your phone before, select ‘Yes’ to define a new mailbox. If you already have other mailboxes, select ‘Options’ and then ‘New mailbox.’
4. Select ‘Start’ to begin the setup wizard.
5. Select ‘IMAP4′ and then ‘Next.’
6. Enter your Gmail username (including ‘@gmail.com’) as the email address and select ‘Next.’
7. Enter ‘imap.gmail.com’ as the incoming mail server and select ‘Next.’
8. Enter ’smtp.gmail.com’ as the outgoing mail server and select ‘Next.’
9. Select the appropriate access point and then ‘Next.’
10. Enter a descriptive name for the email account mailbox name.
11. Once your mailbox is set up, select it from the email mailbox settings screen.
12. Select ‘Connection settings’ > ‘Incoming e-mail.’
13. Enter your Gmail username (including ‘@gmail.com’) and password.
14. Select ‘SSL/TLS’ for your security (ports) and define your port as ‘993.’
15. Select ‘Back.’
16. Select ‘Outgoing e-mail.’
17. Enter your Gmail username (including ‘@gmail.com’) and password.
18. Select ‘StartTLS’ for your security (ports) and define your port as ‘587.’
19. Select ‘Back’ and change any other settings according to your preferences.