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ZTE Is Expected To Announce A Pair Of Ice Cream Sandwich Smartphones, At MWC
Apparently, Android smartphones are big in China. After Huawai teased the tech journalists with invitations hinting to the quad core smartphone powered by the latest Android version, Ice Cream Sandwich to be released at this years’ edition of Mobile World Congress, now the Chinese company ZTE is getting ready to release two more smartphones running on ICS at the same event.
New WordPress ToolsPack Plug-in Based Exploit Causing Issues
Experiencing any troubles of disturbances on your WordPress site? Back in January, hundreds of websites, based on WordPress 3.2.1 ended up being compromised. Back then, the problem revolved around a mysterious attacked who uploaded an HTML page to the standard Uploads folder, thus enabling the page to redirect the user to the Phonix Exploit Kit. At least four hundred sites were reportedly affected.
Graphene – The Wonder Material Of Tomorrow’s Computers
Apparently, we are at the dawn of a new computer era, as scientists explain us how a revolutionary material can be the building block for faster, thinner and even flexible devices. The breakthrough comes from controlling graphene which is a very strong nanomaterial (two hundred times stronger than steel) made out of a single atomic layer of carbon atoms bound in a hexagonal network.
Neonode Beat Apple By Three Years With The Swipe-to-Unlock Patent
A small but feisty Swedish company, Neonode figured out how to integrate a slide to unlock feature in its phones, long before Apple even considering making an iPhone. Jason Mick from DailyTech researched in the patents archives and managed to give us a comprehensive report about his intriguing findings suggesting that “Apple’s “slide to unlock” patents should be invalidated or narrowed both in Europe and in the U.S.”
Intel Announces Energy Efficient Chipsets at International Solid-State Circuits Conference
At this year’s edition of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, which takes place these days in San Francisco tech companies in the industry are expected to captured everybody’s attention with detailed information about the emerging technologies. The attendees expect to hear the latest news in a wide range of interests from integrated digital radio to optical interconnects. However, one chipmakers didn’t wait until the event’s debut to make big announcements.
GoogleTV Finally Rooted By Hackers
The Google TV is the first Smart TV platform from Google and was announced back in May 2010. For this project the search giant partnered up with behemoths like Intel, Sony and Logitech. Of course Google TV integrated Google’s Android OS but also the Linux version of Google Chrome browser to provide an interesting and interactive television experience. In 2011, Logitech dropped out of the deal due to massive revenue loss. Since then Sony seems to have been the one left to pick up the pieces.
Apparently Consumers Want An Amazon Phone More Than A Facebook Phone
Amazon might have a hard time overtaking Apple in the tablet wars, but it is doing a pretty swell job at triumphing over another behemoth – this time from the social media field – and yes, we’re talking about the mighty Facebook. According to a new survey conducted by Baird Equity Research, a majority of U.S. consumers would be interested in purchasing an Amazon smartphone rather than a Facebook one. Some time ago, the social networking giant has announced that it was thinking of designing its own smartphone and feedback was pretty decent back then.
Why A Microsoft Music Store Makes Sense To Customers
Lovers of music rejoice. It has come to our attention that Microsoft might be planning something new and exciting for you, in the form of a new music service, that can be integrated to work with Xbox and a shady upcoming Windows based phone. As we know so far, Microsoft hasn’t had the best of luck in the digital music business. Take for example the Zune service which was pretty much ignored by the general public. I mean, have you heard of a single person who uses their last.fm on the Xbox 360? It does sound a little forced. The company is of course, very unhappy with that, and apparently is making big plans to change it.
Mozilla Will Reveal Its Partner For Boot To Gecko OS (B2G) In MWC
It was a year ago when Mozilla announced its intentions of plunging into the mobile OS market. It was a decision to be expected, but still the disclosure left a lot of questions marks. Will Mozilla be working alone? What would the company be calling it and most importantly, what does it plan to bring new to the table to survive in the jungle of already heated competition?
SAP And Oracle Are Gearing Up To Join The Cloud Computing World
Top enterprise software makers, SAP and Oracle made some bold acquisitions recently that prove that the they are stepping into the next stage of their development and they are interested in finally offering cloud solutions to their clients. Previously, Oracle announced acquiring RightNow Technologies (customer relationship management provider) for $1.5 billion and SAP showed off its new acquisition SuccessFactors (provider of cloud based human capital management) for $3.4 billion.
Inspired by Genetics, First Automated Computer Configurations To Adjust At Cyber Threats
According to studies on cyber threats, inadequate security configurations are blamed for networks vulnerabilities. In the case of the United States Air Force networks, the deficiencies related to security configurations account for up to 80% of the total vulnerabilities. This situation is widespread, as Michael Crouse, graduate student in Computer Science Associate points out. “Typically, administrators configure hundreds and sometimes thousands of machines the same way, meaning a virus that infects one could affect any computer on the same network,” he explained for BizJournals adding that there is a solution to overcome the threat.
Security Tool “HijackThis” Becomes Open Source
Developers who dig around SourceForge for hidden treasures will be able to find from now on the source codes for HijackThis, the popular free security tool. HijackThis gained its popularity for its efficiency in scanning users’ computers in order to find settings that might have been changed by spyware, malware or other programs. Then the security tool generates detailed reports allowing advan ced users to analyze and fix their infected computers. And best of all, HijackThis does it for free.
Internet Explorer Performance Lab To Test the Latest IE Versions
Microsoft managed to put together a small size Internet with 140 computers, ready to perform over 20,000 tests daily to ensure that Internet Explorer 9 is as competitive as the company expects it to be and the upcoming Internet Explorer 10 will be the fastest browser ever.
What Should Android 5.0 “Jelly Bean” Bring To User Experience?
Google has announced the intention of launching the successor of Ice Cream Sandwich. Let’s ignore the fact that the Sandwich can be found on only 1% of Android devices, but nevertheless the search giant, seems determined to push the next OS in the second quarter of 2012. And lots of people are excited. We bet you not wait to have your veins pumping with delicious sugar, so we are here to help and disclose a few details about what’s in stored for you in candy kingdom.
Twitter Data For Sale: “Gnip” – The First To Be Selling Historical Tweets
People can’t imagine their world today, without social media being present in it. Who’s going to this event? Has my friend posted pictures of the party from last night? I should comment on that interesting status my crush displayed today. But have you ever wondered where do these things go when they “expire”, when they are not new anymore? Well, it turns out everything in your Twitter timeline, lets say, gets conserved and archived.
