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Google + gained over10 million of request from anticipating users within a span of months from its time of pilot launch
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with Jaguar; code names for the two earlier versions were not well known outside the developer community and were certainly not part of Apple's official marketing message for those releases. Why bring the cat theme back to the forefront now? The answer came on the next slide. The next major release of Mac OS X would be called Lion. Jobs didn't make a big deal out of it; Lion's just another big cat name, right? Within seconds, we were on to the next slide, where Jobs was pitching the new release's message: not "king of the jungle" or "the biggest big
OS X 10.7
cat," but the "back to the Mac" theme Mac OS X 10.7 was first shown to the
underlying the entire event. Mac OS X
public
The
had spawned iOS, and now Apple was
understated,
bringing innovations from its mobile
in
October
presentation
was
2010.
the power within
especially compared to the bold rhetoric
operating system back to Mac OS X.
that accompanied the launches of the
Apple had good reason to shy away from
iPhone ("Apple reinvents the phone") and
presenting Lion as the pinnacle that its
the iPad ("a magical and revolutionary
name implies. The last two major
device at an unbelievable price").
releases of Mac OS X were both
Instead, Steve Jobs simply called the new
profoundly shaped by the meteoric rise
operating system "a sneak peek at where
of their younger sibling, iOS.
we're going with Mac OS X."
Leopard arrived later than expected, and
Behind Jobs, the screen listed the seven
in the same year that the iPhone was
previous major releases of Mac OS X:
introduced.
Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger,
Leopard, famously arrived with no new
Leopard, and Snow Leopard. Such brief
features, concentrating instead on
retrospectives are de rigueur at major
internal enhancements and bug fixes.
Mac OS X announcements, but long-
Despite plausible official explanations, it
time Apple watchers might have felt a
was hard to shake the feeling that
slight tingle this time. The public "big
Apple's burgeoning mobile platform was
cat" branding for Mac OS X only began
stealing resources—not to mention the
Its
successor,
spotlight—from the Mac. 6
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In this context, the name Lion starts to take on darker connotations. At the very least, it seems like the end of the big cat branding—after all, where can you go after Lion? Is this process of taking the best from iOS and bringing it back to the Mac platform just the first phase of a complete assimilation? Is Lion the end of the line for Mac OS X itself? Let's
put
aside
the
pessimistic
prognostication for now and consider Lion as a product, not a portent. Apple pegs Lion at 250+ new features, which doesn't quite match the 300 touted for Leopard, but I guess it all depends on what you consider a "feature" (and what
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that "+" is supposed to mean). Still, this is the most significant release of Mac OS X in many years—perhaps the most significant release ever. Though the number of new APIs introduced in Lion may fall short of the landmark Tiger and Leopard releases, the most important changes in Lion are radical accelerations of past trends. Apple appears tired of dragging people kicking and screaming into the future; with Lion, it has simply decided to leave without us.
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To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community: I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come. I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as
End of a fruitful era for Apples founder Apple has confirmed that Apple COO Tim Cook will replace Jobs as CEO, following Jobs’ own recommendation. Considering that Cook has filled in for Jobs in the times of his medical leaves (including the one he has been on this year), this has been widely expected if and when it came time for Jobs to step down. Also as requested, Jobs has been elected as Chairman of the Board and will remain with the company in that capacity. Cook will join the Board as well.
Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee. As far as my successor goes, I strongly recommend that we execute our succession plan and name Tim Cook as CEO of Apple. I believe Apple's brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role. I have made some of the best friends of my life at Apple, and I thank you all for the many years of being able to work alongside you. Steve
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Social Networks
It soars every single day as the battle for social network supremacy tightens...
Google + gained over10 million of request from anticipating users within a span of months from its time of pilot launch
10 million
It is with quite huge concerns that facebook is now landing yet into another war with the internet giants Google after they launched Google+.With the growth in subscription within a span of few months to over 10 million , as per 15th July 2011, should send an alarm to facebook from which is currently holding the internet's biggest social network share. Google just as smart as they can be have huge surmises in store to their other competitors in the social network industry .Now this will create huge competition among others and also will enable improvement of the social applications as we see them.
it's the giant social network in the universe holding over 750 million users world over its growth is millions of subscription in a month.
It is now the highest time that the major competitors in the social industry have to take risks in hand and invest more if they would like to conquer the market and still remain relevant or be outdone as Yahoo was several years ago .Lets be patient and see what Google has in
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store for all of the social networking users.
Recently facebook made a strategic partnership with Skype to add video chat to the social networking site. Skype and Facebook are not new partners in the social networking arena, they already have partnered to develop some instant messaging tools. Skype which is currently in the process of being bought into the already vast Microsoft empire- and Facebook have launched a video call service on the social networking giant’s website.
Zuckerberg, who also revealed that the
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site now had more than 750 million
On the heels of the recent Google+ launch, Microsoft
users (WOW!!!!!!).
“accidentally” published a splash page for what looks like a social
He however said that the total number
application called “Tulalip” on Socl.com, reports Fusible.
of active users was no longer a useful
Since the page was spotted on Thursday, it has since been taken
The new video-call service was launched by Facebook founder Mark
measure of the site’s success. Instead, the amount of sharing – of photographs, videos and web links – was a better indication of how people
down and replaced with “Thanks for stopping by. Socl.com is an internal design project from a team in Microsoft Research which was mistakenly published to the web. We didn't mean to, honest.”This might be true or not true. with the increase in competition in the social network millions of people all around the
engaged with the site, explained Mr
world are now looking for new and style since they have been in
Zuckerberg.
facebook for a while but the biggest worry is whether facebook wil
At launch, Facebook’s video chat
manage to remain standing as times seem to be hard or it will as
service will only be able to connect two
well go into low profile as myspace has in the past few years since
users face-to-face, however Mr
facebook was the latest in thing in the market.
Zuckerberg said that it was likely that
just a few days google + released their statistics of registering
other “premium” Skype functions would
over ten million people within a short span of months whereas
be added in future ( We just have to wait and See). The tie-in was announced a week after
thats the same number that took facebook fans years to join. this means that after having a fantastic time in facebook they now want to break the monotony and diverse to the latest age and interesting era of social networking. Microsoft being a giant in the world of computers can also have
Google officialy announced its own
the intentions of making a hit in the market. Though things aren't
social networking service, Google+.
that clear at the moment let's hope that time will really tell whether it was an attempt or it was a mistake.
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Men’s reign at wikipedia the power within
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Wikipedia is overwhelmingly dominated by male editors, a new study has found, Computer
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science researchers at the University of Minnesota say that only 16 percent of new editors joining the site are female, and that these women made only nine percent of edits. “A January 2011 New York Times article pointed out that Wikipedia's coverage of topics like friendship bracelets or 'Sex and the City' pales in comparison to that of toy soldiers or 'The Sopranos.' We wanted to do the research to see if this disparity was carried throughout Wikipedia.” Not only are far fewer women joining the site as editors, they're making fewer edits. And, found the team, female editors are more likely to stop editing and leave Wikipedia when their edits are reverted as newcomers. It's a surprising finding, given that the gender gap has nearly disappeared – and has in some cases reversed – in other areas of social media. Females now outnumber males on Facebook and Twitter. However, it seems that Wikipedia's gender gap has shown no sign of closing over the past five years. “As Wikipedia continues to be a critical information resource, it is important that all voices be heard. We feel that understanding the challenges caused by Wikipedia's sizable gender gap can be a first step to finding ways to broaden participation.” In addition, the articles females tend to edit are twice as likely to be about controversial or contentious topics. Female editors are significantly more likely to have their early contributions undone by their fellow editors, and are more likely to be indefinitely blocked by fellow editors. sources:http://www.tgdaily.com
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THREE NEW TABS FOR THE ANDROID LOVERS Planet, Nova ,Star Pandigital brings three new Android media tablets, the Planet, Nova and Star. All models are powered by Pcortex A9 processor with embedded hardware 3D graphics engine for faster response time and enhanced performance. However, Instead of tablet-optimized Android 3.0 Honeycomb, these tablets runs Android 2.2 (Planet, Star) or 2.3 (Nova) OS. The Planet, Nova comes with a 7-inch 800×600 LCD display while the Star gets a 7-inch 800×480 screen. Each of them have a sensitive ActiveTouch touchscreen interface with multi-touch support. The former two models have 2GB onboard memory and the latter comes with 4GB. They support WiFi connectivity and comes pre-loaded with Barnes & Noble’s eStore e-book store and GetJar app store. You can also find built-in 2-Axis Accelerometer, mini USB port and mini HDMI connector. Pandigital Planet (R70A200) and Nova (R70F452) are priced at $189 and the Star (R70B200) costs $159. The Planet is available at Amazon.com.
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Google entered into an agreement to acquire the mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility for about US$12.5 billion, the company said early August 2011. Google offered about $40 per share in cash, a premium of 63 percent over the closing price of Motorola Mobility shares on the Friday of the sell off week.
Google Buys Motorola Mobility For US$12.5 Billion
Motorola Mobility exclusively ships phones and its Xoom tablet with Google’s Android operating system. The deal will mean that Google now has a hardware manufacturer to work with closely to develop Android, said Carolina Milanesi, research vice president at Gartner. Google will also have control of Motorola’s impressive patent portfolio, Milanesi said. Motorola Mobility said earlier this year that it owns about 24,500 patents. Conflict With Partners? But the deal may also create tension with other mobile phone manufacturers such as HTC and Samsung, which also ship Android devices, she said. Since creating Android, Google has rotated manufacturers with which to release new Android code, releasing the code to others about six months later.
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Google may risk alienating those other manufacturers, but Milanesi said “all these vendors have invested so much in the platform, they won’t quickly walk away from it.” Google may also want to speed up the development of its Android operating system on tablet computers, where it has been slower to catch on than on mobile phones, Milanesi said. The next release for Android, code-named “Ice Cream Sandwich,” will be an operating system designed for tablets and mobile devices. The acquisition of Motorola Mobility will enable Google to “supercharge the Android ecosystem and enhance competition in mobile computing,” according to a news release. Google said the deal will not affect how Android is developed, and the operating system will remain open, Google said. The company will run Motorola Mobility, which has about 20,000 employees, as a separate business, Google said. The transaction is expected to close at the end of this year or early next year. Motorola Mobility, which was spun off from its parent company in early January, is composed of two groups: Mobile Devices, which makes phones, and Home, which makes set-top boxes and other IPTV equipment.
Android smartphone shipments jumps up to 379% Android-based smartphone shipments increased by a staggering 379% (over a year ago) to 51.9 million units in Q2 2011. According to Canalys, growth was bolstered by strong Android product performances from a number of vendors, including Samsung, HTC, LG, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, ZTE and Huawei. Indeed, of the 56 countries the analyst firm tracks around the world, Android led in 35 of them – achieving an impressive global market share of 48%. Meanwhile, with shipments of 20.3 million iPhones and a market share of 19%, iOS overtook Nokia's Symbian platform during the quarter to claim second place worldwide. In doing so, Apple also became the world's leading individual smartphone vendor, stripping Nokia of its long-held leadership position. “The iPhone has been a phenomenal success story for Apple and a watershed product for the market,” explained Canalys principal analyst Chris Jones. “It's an impressive success story, given that Apple has only been in the smartphone market for four years. With the nextgeneration iPhone anticipated in Q3, it's likely that Apple's position will grow even stronger in the second half of the year.”Although Samsung managed to move ahead of Nokia with its flagship Galaxy S II, overall performance in the mobile sector was deemed “underwhelming” by Canalys, especially considering the opportunities offered by the upheaval at Nokia. Nevertheless, Samsung was ranked the largest Android device vendor and the number two vendor overall in the market with shipments of its own-branded devices at 17 million units. Its year-on-year growth of 421% was aided by significant growth of 355% in its bada smart phone shipments. Of course, Samsung also acts as an ODM for the Google Nexus S and TMobile Sidekick 4G – collectively estimated to have shipped 0.7 million units.
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Tech Business Microsoft has made a huge surprise to all its website loggers. Currently trying to access Microsoft.com you are going to receive a page error, while trying to log onto Microsoft-sony.com you will receive a redirection to Bing search for the term ‘Microsoft Sony’. This has brought aboard whether the two major rival companies in the game industry could be merging to form a cooperate unison which is a question unanswered. The two domain names are pointed to be registered on the Thursday of 14th July 2011 by the corporatedomains.com, a company tht specializes in the registration of corporate domains.
phone 7 was to be on the next release of sony ericsons smart phone, something which also raises eyebrows pertaining on the recent move from Microsoft in which the deal was cancelled. Significantly wilder speculation could include an attempt by Microsoft to start some sort of merging at the other end of the scale some sort of collaboration in the gaming arena between the two rivals. But you never know.
Is Microsoft Merging With Sony?
It is also observed that earlier on that windows
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Mid July citrix.com made an impressive $200 million acquisition of Cloud.com. Redpoint’s record is so uniquein1 that the firm is having a good year despite the fact that they’re not in one of the big five: Zynga, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, 0r Groupon. The company’s innovative CloudStack™ product line helps providers of all types deploy and manage simple, cost-effective cloud services that are scalable, secure, and open by design. This acquisition further establishes Citrix as a leader in infrastructure for the rapidly growing cloud provider market. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Ipad Dominates in Enterprise Android may be making an earnest dent in Apple’s tablet stranglehold, but there is one market the iPad is still absolutely killing. It’s the enterprise market. That is, companies who buy tablets in bulk and give them to their employees or clients are far and away buying the iPad over anything else. According to a company called Good Technology, which helps companies manage their mobile device network, and works with 49 of the Fortune 100 companies, 95% of new
tablet activations for enterprise customers were for the iPad. Good analyzed all of its mobile device activations and broke them up into four categories – iOS smartphones, iOS tablets, Android tablets, and Android smartphones. In June, about 70% of such activations were phones and around 30% were tablets, symbolizing just how important tablets are becoming in every facet of daily life. But of those 30%, there really was only one player. The iPad accounted for
27.2% of new tablet activations for enterprise customers. Android tablets, despite there being far more options like the Xoom, Galaxy Tab, etc, only took a measly 3.1%. The data did not include Blackberry, which is really the bigger story in the enterprise market shift. It used to have an absolute monopoly on enterprise phones. It seemed almost inconceivable that any company would ever use anything other than Blackberries.
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to it since it allows artists to pull usually as they
WACOM INKLING PEN CAPTURES YOUR HAND-DRAWN MASTERPIECES
would if they were doodling divided in their blueprint book. There’s no need for special paper, we do not have to pierce the coop around upon a clunky inscription interface, etc. The usually locate is which we contingency insert a special clip, or receiver, to the sketchbook or square of paper you’re sketch on. That receiver will constraint the movements of the pen, though Wacom stresses which we do not unequivocally have to be concerned about that. Everything is operated by rechargeable batteries in the coop and receiver, and Wacom says any can final 8 hours prior to wanting to be recharged. Artists have prolonged struggled with the plea of bringing traditional, hand-drawn
Thanks to this new gadget, artists no longer have to
art to a digital environment. Something
select between formulating sketches upon paper or
regularly seems to get mislaid in translation.
formulating them digitally.
For hulk existence film studios, there have been
Wacom, which specializes in the niche marketplace
good advancements in the commercial operation of
of artist-tailored tablets and pens for computers,
capturing artist creations to computers, though for
has introduced the Inkling pen. It looks and feels
the rest of us, the usually options have been rsther
usually similar to a unchanging ballpoint coop
than clunky. It looks similar to the Inkling might shift
though inside it has all sorts of modernized circuitry.
that.
This is opposite than many consumer products prior
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Lenovo w MacBook ThinkPad Accordin epitomiz slated to near futu Lenovo w space and in a confe "You'll se ability t
Google's added a new layer to its Google Maps application, displaying
current temperatures
and conditions around the globe. The weather layer can be added via the list of options in the upper right-hand corner of Google Maps. Different icons denote sun, rain and cloud coverage. Sun and moon icons show whether it's day or night. "Clicking on the weather icon for a particular city will open an info window with detailed data like current humidity and wind conditions, as well as a forecast for the next four days," says user experience designer Jonah Jones.
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It's also possible to change the units of wind speed from miles per hour to kilometers per hour, and temperature can be shown in Farenheit or Celcius. If the clouds are getting in the way, they can be disabled. The app competes with thousands of others, many of which show far more detailed information - including weather.com's own, to which Google Maps links. It looks as if Google isn't that serious about becoming a weather forecaster in its own right.
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wants to take on Apple's sleek and sexy k Air with devices like the Windows-powered d X1. ng to Lenovo COO Rory Read, the ThinkPad X1 zes the slick, (Intel-based) Ultrabook design o hit mainstream price points sometime in the ure will invest in innovation to be a leader in that nd that will drive demand. No doubt," Read said erence called transcribed by CNET. ee us introduce over the coming quarters the to reach mainstream price points with
[Ultrabook] solutions that were only 18 months ago in premium segments. That's just a natural evolution of the space." Interestingly enough, Read was somewhat tightlipped about mainstream pricing, as he didn't specify an actual range, which typically hovers around (or under) $1,000. "I wouldn't say [this will happen] by the end of the year necessarily but... [it's] definitely going to happen.”
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Softwares and web applications Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled unveiled a new service called "Places" that will let users share their location with one another and more easily discover what's around them from within the social network. The feature, which I Tech caught wind of ahead of its launch, will begin rolling out to users on Thursday 18th August, and centers around
Facebook Is Now Mapping You
mobile devices, which Facebook members can use to send their location to Facebook the same way they'd post an update. Included are privacy controls that let users choose who can see it, which by default will be set to friends only. Along with telling people where you are, users will be able to include who they're with--that is, as long as they're all friends on Facebook.
with its new service
This information gets pushed out along with the Facebook update and
called "Places" you are
uses the same tagging system that Facebook employs for its photo-
now due to get
hosting service.
mapped and be
Once it's been made, a place becomes a permanent part of Facebook,
traceable from the
though it can be deleted by whomever made it in the first place. In the
location which you
case of businesses, business owners will be able to claim it, though
are facebooking from
during the briefing Zuckerberg did not go into details about whether that granted any administrative controls. There lies a big security question on the users of the social network wheather this is a secure service to be trusted with ones privacy and security or its a tracking device. It comes with both good and negative aspects but for the security questions that it raises one has to be conscious while activating it in their accounts
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There are roughly 250,000 apps available for Android, but how many of them ever gain an attention? A new report sheds some interesting light on the subject, pointing out that the top 100 apps for Android make up 61% of all app usage on the platform. This study comes with looking at the increasingly fascinating and data-intensive mobile environment.
Most Android apps are overlooked
The main focal point here, though, is how it justifies why many developers struggle to find value in the Android platform. Even though there are millions upon millions of faithful Android users now, they're just not as app crazy as their iPhone counterparts. And even when they do download apps, it's only those that make the biggest buzz. Another case in point is to look at the number of user ratings for apps on the Android Market compared to the iTunes App Store. The most popular Android Market apps get a lot of traction, with more than 10,000 user ratings. That's even more than the App Store, where the top apps only get about 5,000-6,000 ratings. Move down the list, though, to the 100th most popular app or so. The Android Market only shows a few hundred ratings, while App Store titles still get thousands of hits.
With Sumsung you can now ChatON
"With ChatON, Samsung has vastly simplified mobile communication by allowing users to connect to our upcoming feature phones and all major smartphones in the market," said Samsung rep Ho Soo Lee. "Users around the world can now enjoy easier and richer interactivity with whoever they want, in the format they want—this is mobile communication reinvented and democratized." ChatON will eventually be available on all major smartphones, tablets, notebook PCs and Samsung phones. Although Samsung is throwing its hat into the same arena as Skype and Google Chat it does not seem if the company is really offering users any real reasons to switch to ChatON. Clearly, Samsung is definitely trying to gain a competitive edge by reaching out to a wider audience of mobile device owners. And while the ability to share across multiple plaforms and between feature handsets and smartphones is nice, Skype and Google Chat already do that well - at least on smartphones. So will this turn out to be a waste of coding effort for Samsung? Only time will tell.
Samsung has launched a mobile instant messaging tool. Dubbed ChatON, the new free service supports the sharing of text, images, hand-written notes and videos across any mobile phone.
Can you think of any reason that you'd switch Samsung's ChatON if you already use Skype or Google Chat?
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In recent months, long-time hackers have
rankmyhack.com RANKMYHACK LETS HACKERS COMPETE FOR SUPREMACY
quickly establish the calibre of hacker they
become just a little miffed with some of the
are talking to."
new kids on the block and their automated
Points are scored for the difficulty of the
DDoS attacks - script kiddies, they mutter,
hack, as well as the size of the website. There
darkly.
are bounties for racist sites, as well as for
And one UK hacker, Solar, has become
those belonging to universities, the military
annoyed enough to launch a new website
and governments.
aimed at separating the men from the boys.
Right now, Mudkip is top of the leaderboard
RankMyHack does just what it says. Hackers
with a claimed hack of the Huffington Post,
- and around 700 have joined up so far -
followed by Blackfan for an attack on Google.
must submit evidence that they've actually
Once players have amassed enough points,
carried out the attack they claim by planting
they can take part in duels.
a code somewhere on the compromised
"The dueling system was designed to
website.
increase the competative element of the
"Up until now, when you met another hacker
website and to provide a hacked with the
on an IRC or forum, there was no way to
ability to challenge other hackers' abilities
indicate if that hacker had any skills
and damage their opponents' online
whatsoever, RankMyHack.com was built to
reputation," says Solar.
give a clear indication of a hacker's general
The site's probably pretty popular with law
abilities," explains Solar.
enforcement, too.
"It also serves the purpose of tracking a hackers hacking achievements under their current alias, allowing for other hackers to
Nokia's warning developers that its developer discussion forum has been hacked, and has closed the site down.
NOKIA’S DEVELOPERS WEBSITE HACKED
It says that a vulnerability in the bulletin board software allowed an SQL Injection attack to be carried out last week, giving hackers access to a database table containing developer forum members' email addresses. "Initially we believed that only a small number of these forum member records had been accessed, but further investigation has identified that the number is significantly larger,"says the developer website team. The database table records includes members' email addresses and, for some,either birth dates, homepage URL or usernames for AIM, ICQ, MSN, Skype or Yahoo. However, says Nokia, this applies to fewer than seven percent of members, who chose to include
HACKING & SECURITY
them in their public profile. "However, they do not contain sensitive information such as passwords or credit card "However, they do not contain sensitive information such as passwords or credit
details, and so we do not believe the security of forum members' accounts is at risk. Other Nokia accounts are not affected," says the team.
card details, and so we do not believe
Nokia says it's not aware of any misuse of the accessed data, and says it reckons the
the security of forum members' accounts
only effect will be spam email. It's closed the website down while it carries out further
is at risk. Other Nokia accounts are not
investigations.
affected," says the team.
The attack has been claimed by pr0tect0r AKA mrNRG, believed to be based in India. It redirected users to a third party web page with a picture of Homer Simpson. "Owned by pr0tect0r AKA mrNRG. LOL, Worlds number 1 mobile company but not spending a dime for a server security! FFS patch your security holes otherwise you will be just another antisec victim. No Dumping, No Leaking!!, read a statement on the page.
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Android threats leapt 76 percent during the second quarter, according to the latest report from security consultants McAfee, making it the most attacked mobile operating system. With around 12 million unique samples for the first half of 2011, 22 percent up on last year, this has been the busiest first half-year in malware history, says McAfee. Android OS-based malware overtook the Symbian OS as the most popular target for mobile malware developers. The rapid rise in Android malware indicates that the platform could become an increasing target for cybercriminals. Though in the past, the Apple platform has been unaffected by fake anti-virus software, McAfee says it's now being affected - although the company does expect fake AV in general to drop off over time. Stealth malware, though, is on the increase, with a number ofhigh-profile attacks such as Stuxnet. And though spam is still at historic low levels, partly because of the Rustock takedown, McAfee still expects to see a sharp rise in
Android now worst platform for malware
activity over the coming months. The company even gives an approximate price list for email addresses, used to spread spam: in the US, it says, the going rate for a million emails is $25, whereas in England 1.5 million emails are worth $100.
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NEW AGE BLACKBERRY
New Blackberry phones can play Android apps
There is a lot more coming to Research
intuitive design. It is one of the few
in Motion's next batch of Blackberry
things RIM has done right since the
phones than just a new operating
explosion of the iPhone and Android.
system.
Some are worried it might be too little
About 250,000 apps, to be exact. The
too late, and others say that even
new Blackberry phone models will be
though QNX is a refreshingly nice
able to run Android apps thanks to a
operating system, RIM has still failed
groundbreaking partnership between
to keep up with its competitors.
RIM and Google.
Indeed, the company had a "too big to
This isn't the first we've seen of the
fail" mentality, and when everyone -
two companies working together. RIM's
both consumers and large business
flagship tablet device, the Blackberry
customers - started abandoning the
Playbook, pioneered the idea of an
Blackberry brand, RIM had no idea
Android "app player," giving users
what to do. It has sloughed off market
access to the massive collection of
share at a rate that's almost
Android Market content.
unprecedented in the mobile industry.
The new version of Blackberry's mobile
The first QNX-powered Blackberry
OS is called QNX and is a radical
phones will hit the market in 2012,
overhaul of the standard Blackberry
and may be the last chance RIM has to
interface, which users have become
prove it can remain relevant in today's
accustomed to for more than a decade.
smartphone landscape. The ability to
QNX has garnered a lot of critical
run Android apps will be a huge step
praise for its clean look and feel,
in accomplishing that goal.
strong multitasking capabilities, and
Apple is reportedly preparing to kick off trial production of its next-gen iPad in October 2011. According to the Wall Street Journal, Cupertino has already ordered key components
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such as display panels and chips as it readies for an iPad 3 launch in early 2012. The next-gen tablet is expected to boast a high-res display - 2048x1536 compared to the iPad 2's current resolution of 1024x768. As AppleInsider points out, the WSJ's report seems to confirm a previous analysis by Ming-Chi Kuo of Concord Securities. Although Kuo was unsure when the iPad 3 would actually hit the market, he did note the tablet would feature a 9.7 inch IPS panel with FFS (fringe-field switching) technology, which enables a wider viewing angle and clearer visual quality in direct sunlight. At 2048x1536, the iPad 3 would offer higher resolution than the 17-inch MacBook Pro and would actually be closer to Cupertino's 27-inch, 2560x1440 LED Cinema Display. Indeed, the iPad 3's high-density display is capable of rendering existing tablet apps at full fidelity, while allowing optimized apps to draw images, text and other content with razor sharp detail - at a pixel density where individual dots begin to vanish from view.
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Phone & Gadgets LG Optimus [LG Sol (LG-E730) ] LG Electronics has added the more affordable LG Sol (LG-E730) to its Optimus lineup, which boasts many of the same features as other Optimus handsets. The smartphone is dubbed Sol because of its high clarity display which allows the user to read content on the screen even if it's bright outside.
"The Optimus Sol stands out from its competitors as the
The handset uses an improved idle-based power
most affordable 1 GHz Android smartphone with an
regulation system that extends battery life by 20 to 30 AMOLED display," said Dr. Jong-seok Park, president and percent. When the Dark UI is being used, the Optimus CEO of LG Electronics Mobile Communications Sol displays less white light so that the battery life lasts Company.
longer.
Indeed, the device boasts a thickness of only 9.8mm and offers a full-fledged web browsing experience due to its
The phone also features a few other goodies that will
1GHz CPU. It also handles Flash 10.1 on a 3.8-inch
attract techies, like a 5.0MP camera that supports rapid
WVGA Ultra AMOLED display with a wide range of visual
picture taking, DLNA and Wi-Fi Direct.
colors.
Blackberry Curve The Curve 9350, 9360, and 9370 are all
Documents To Go Premium pre-installed. It
virtually identical, but they each have
also has Blackberry Messenger, which many
different specifications to run on various
loyal Blackberry fans still use.
mobile networks around the world.
Perhaps most intriguing is its support for
The new Blackberries all have a 2.44-inch
NFC technology, which means the phone
display, a 480x360 resolution, an 800 MHz
will be able to be used as a contactless
processor, a 5-megapixel camera, and 512
payment option - users can tap the phone
MB of internal storage. The 9370 is slightly
at a store's credit card terminal instead of
more powerful with 1 GB of storage.
swiping a physical credit card.
Additionally, the new Curve models are
Nevertheless, it won't be until next year
powered by Blackberry OS 7, the newest
when RIM starts offering QNX-powered
version of RIM's smartphone software which
Blackberries that interest in the fledgling
unfortunately didn't exactly garner a lot of
phone brand even has the possibility to be
positive reviews.
reignited.
Nevertheless, the Curve does have full access to Microsoft Office files with
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Sony Ericsson is hoping its new Walkman-branded phone will be the
seamless and integrated part of the
music equivalent of what its Xperia Play
device.
device was supposed to be for gaming.
With a 3.2-inch display, a 1 GHz single-
It's called "Live With Walkman," and
core processor, and a 5-megapixel
unlike the Xperia Play, which was unable
camera, the technical specs aren't
to use the "Playstation" name, there is
nearly as impressive as what we're used
no question about what the purpose of
to seeing on the latest high-concept
this phone is.
phones.
Users will be able to have one-touch
But that means the Live With Walkman
access to music services, including a
will most likely debut at a consumer-
pre-loaded MP3 player and a portal to
friendly price. That detail has not been
Sony's Qriocity platform. Qriocity
allows
users
announced, but most likely it'll be to
stream
unlimited amounts of music for a small
Sony Ericsson Walkman phone
entertainment apps, making it a
priced at under $200 if it hopes to make a splash in the market.
monthly fee; it acts kind of like a
And after the unfortunately sluggish
premium version of Pandora, wherein
sales of the Xperia Play, Sony Ericsson
users can actually download tracks as
needs to make a splash. The company
opposed to only being able to listen to
has been aggressively trying to make a
them.
name for itself after it became an
Social networking is also a big deal to
exclusive Android manufacturer, and
the Live With Walkman. Users will be
we're sure to see even more unique
able to connect to Facebook from within
devices as it continues to push forward.
any of the phone's numerous media and
Not too long ago Motorola was
phone with support for Sprint’s
teetering on the brink of
WiMAX 4G. Included accessories
viability, but along came a little
are light: you simply get a
green robot and the company’s
microUSB cable and the AC
fortunes have changed
adapter.
drastically. Sprint’s situation
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isn’t quite as bleak, but its
To be honest, the Photon 4G
hoping that their renewed
takes a lot of its design cues
partnership with Motorola helps
from the RAZR V9m. From the
turn the tide for the nation’s
dark gunmetal housing around
number three carrier. They’re
the 4.3” display to the soft touch
kicking things off with a bang
feel of the battery door the
with the Motorola Photon 4G, a
Photon 4G resembles the RAZR a
beastly phone with a massive
lot. Being one of the most
spec sheet. Some of the
beautiful flip phones ever it is
highlights include a 4.3” qHD
not a bad source of inspiration.
display, 1GHz dual core Nvidia
The Photon 4G is definitely its
Tegra 2 processor, 8-megapixel
own phone though. It is large
camera with 720p video
an unapologetic, but very well
capabilities and a kickstand.
constructed and comfortable to
The Photon is also a world
use.
We have monopolize good services appealing designs that catch the eye professionalism
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