Posted in E-Week on July 30th, 2010 by E-Week
HTC, with its popular Android-running smartphones, blows past estimates with second-quarter net profits of $269 million and shipments of 5.4 million handsets. - Like rival Motorola, HTC is finding that
closely aligning its smartphone strategy with Google's Android mobile operating
system makes good business sense.
When releasing HTC's second-quarter
results July 29, company officials said earnings rose 33 percent year over
year, and they announced a n...
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Posted in E-Week on July 30th, 2010 by E-Week
Microsoft said it is challenging the Japanese Fair Trade Commission's acceptance of Yahoo Japan's search deal with Google. Google is powering Yahoo Japan's search and search ad platform while Yahoo is switching to Microsoft Bing. - Microsoft July 30 said it planned to challenge the
Japanese Fair Trade Commission's acceptance of Yahoo Japan's search deal with
Google.
Yahoo Japan July 27 agreed to let Google power its search and search advertising platform despite
the fact that its U.S.-based investor Yahoo is switching to M...
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Posted in Uncategorized on July 30th, 2010 by Microsoft Sec Notification
Posted by Microsoft on Jul 30
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Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for August 2010
Issued: July 30, 2010
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This is an advance notification of one out-of-band security bulletin
that Microsoft is intending to release on August 2, 2010.
The full version of the Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance
Notification for August 2010 can be...
Posted in E-Week on July 30th, 2010 by E-Week
Microsoft plans to release a beta version of its upcoming Internet Explorer 9 browser sometime in September. Better performance, “same markup” and improved Acid3 test scores are expected. - Microsoft
plans to release a beta version of its upcoming Internet Explorer 9 browser
sometime in September.
Speaking
at the Microsoft
Financial Analyst Meeting on July 29, Microsoft Chief Operating Officer
Kevin Turner said the company will be moving ahead with a beta of the next
generatio...
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Posted in Uncategorized on July 30th, 2010 by ASTALAVISTA Forum Feed
Hi members,
Im looking for a simple keylogger that loads all keys from another computer. Something i can attach to a jpg/ any file type send through a chat program from my personal computer to somone elses. Then load all of there keys and send it to my email simple easy to use and hard to detect. If its easy to detect via anti virus scan i dont mind either.
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Posted in E-Week on July 30th, 2010 by E-Week
Microsoft is pursuing a strategy of Windows 7 tablets in a bid to counter the Apple iPad. But one analyst suggests that could result in cannibalization of the traditional Windows 7 PC market. - If Microsoft pursues its strategy of Windows 7-equipped tablets, one analyst
suggests the company could risk cannibalizing the traditional Windows 7 PC
market.
During Microsoft's July 29 Financial Analyst Meeting, Microsoft CEO
Steve Ballmer acknowledged that the Apple iPad had a substantial ...
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Posted in Uncategorized on July 30th, 2010 by schneier
Selling fear:
The Vivos network, which offers partial ownerships similar to a timeshare in underground shelter communities, is one of several ventures touting escape from a surface-level calamity.
Radius Engineering in Terrell, Texas, has built underground shelters for more than three decades, and business has never been better, says Walton McCarthy, company president.
The company sells fiberglass shelters that can accommodate 10 to 2,000 adults to live underground for one to five years with power, food, water and filtered air, McCarthy says.
The shelters range from $400,000 to a $41 million facility Radius built and installed underground that is suitable for 750 people, McCarthy says. He declined to disclose the client or location of the shelter.
"We've doubled sales every year for five years," he says.Other shelter manufacturers include Hardened Structures of Colorado and Utah Shelter Systems, which also report increased sales.
[...]
The Vivos website features a clock counting down to Dec. 21, 2012, the date when the ancient Mayan "Long Count" calendar marks the end of a 5,126-year era, at which time some people expect an unknown apocalypse.
Vicino, whose terravivos.com website lists 11 global catastrophes ranging from nuclear war to solar flares to comets, bristles at the notion he's profiting from people's fears.
"You don't think of the person who sells you a fire extinguisher as taking advantage of your fear," he says. "The fact that you may never use that fire extinguisher doesn't make it a waste or bad.
"We're not creating the fear; the fear is already out there. We're creating a solution.
Yip Harburg commented on the subject about half a century ago, and the Chad Mitchell Trio recited it. It's at about 0:40 on the recording, though the rest is worth listening to as well.
Hammacher Schlemmer is selling a shelter,
worthy of Kubla Khan's Xanadu dome;
Plushy and swanky, with posh hanky panky
that affluent Yankees can really call home.
Hammacher Schlemmer is selling a shelter,
a push-button palace, fluorescent repose;
Electric devices for facing a crisis
with frozen fruit ices and cinema shows.
Hammacher Schlemmer is selling a shelter
all chromium kitchens and rubber-tiled dorms;
With waterproof portals to echo the chortles
of weatherproof mortals in hydrogen storms.
What a great come-to-glory emporium!
To enjoy a deluxe moratorium,
Where nuclear heat can beguile the elite
in a creme-de-la-creme crematorium.
Posted in ISC on July 30th, 2010 by ISC Handler
Microsoft is planning to release an out of band patch addressing the Shortcut vulnerability. The patch is scheduled for release on Monday, August 2nd, at 10am PDT.
As confirmed by Microsoft, a number of malware families started incorporating the vulnerability in their exploit repertoire. For more details, see the Microsoft Technet blog post [1]
[1] http://blogs.technet.com/b/msrc/archive/2010/07/29/out-of-band-release-to-address-microsoft-security-advisory-2286198.aspx
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Posted in Uncategorized on July 30th, 2010 by SearchSecurity.com Staff
Posted in E-Week on July 30th, 2010 by E-Week
A special master appointed by a judge ruled that Intel's business practices, including giving OEMs discounts to limit their use of AMD products, did not harm consumers, and in some cases those discounts were passed onto consumers. He denied the request for class-action status for the lawsuit. - Intel got a rare win in court when a special master in a case filed by
consumers ruled that he had found no evidence that consumers had been hurt by
the giant chip maker's business practice of giving discounts to computer
makers.
Special Master Vincent Poppiti, ruling on the case, which was
fil...
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