How To Avoid Android Smartphone Malware: Only Install Apps From Google Play Store

Beware: New Android malware is ‘nearly impossible’ to remove. - The Washington Post: "... luckily, there is a pretty easy way to avoid them: Only install apps from Google's official Play Store." (emphasis added)

Here's the "money quote"--

 "Malicious actors behind these families repackage and inject malicious code into thousands of popular applications found in Google Play, and then later publish them to third-party app stores," Lookout noted in a blog post about the malware. That means the victims here were people who went outside of Google's official channels to install the imposter apps."

Buyer beware!

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Tech News: Sony Malware Bomb, Android Auto, Municipal Fiber

Bloomberg’s Mia Saini reports on lessons learned from the hack attack on Sony.


Peter Singer, author of “Cybersecurity and Cyberwar,” and senior fellow at New America Foundation, discusses the hacking attack on Sony Pictures.

State-sponsored or not, Sony Pictures malware “bomb” used slapdash code | Ars Technica: "... But as Cisco research engineer Christopher Marczewski and Williams wrote in a Cisco Talos blog post today detailing their analysis, the wiper malware didn’t have to be very complex to do what it was intended to do. “Data is the new target, this should not be a surprise to anyone,” Marczewski wrote. In addition to denying the victim access to corporate data and doing harm to their business, “wiping systems is also an effective way to cover up malicious activity and make incident response more difficult, such as in the case of the DarkSeoul malware in 2013,” he added. As crudely as it was built, it’s clear that the wiper malware compiled for the actual attack on Sony Pictures was packed with deep intelligence on the company’s network...."

Exclusive: Google aiming to go straight into car with next Android - sources | Reuters: "Google, however, has never provided details or a timeframe for its long-term plan to put Android Auto directly into cars. The company now plans to do so when it rolls out the next version of its operating system, dubbed Android M, expected in a year or so, two people with knowledge of the matter said."

Need for Speed · thewalrus.ca: An Alberta town becomes an unlikely Internet innovator--"... A similar project has arisen in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where the city owns a fibre network that also recently launched 1 Gbps service. In Ontario, the city of Stratford and a group of communities in the east of the province have experimented with building their own networks. In Olds, the institute owns O-Net and the infrastructure, but the majority of funding has come from provincial loans guaranteed by the municipality...."


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Tech News: Mark Zuckerberg Q&A (video), Government Malware

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, sidestepping communication through the media, held his second public question-and-answer session to address users directly. (Bloomberg 12/12)

Antivirus Companies Shouldn’t Have Hidden What They Knew About Regin Government Malware | MIT Technology Review: "Antivirus companies had tracked the sophisticated—and likely U.S.-backed—Regin malware for years. But they kept what they learned to themselves. Last week we learned about a striking piece of malware called Regin that has been infecting computer networks worldwide since 2008. It’s more sophisticated than any known criminal malware, and everyone believes a government is behind it. No country has taken credit for Regin, but there’s substantial evidence that it was built and operated by the United States. This isn’t the first government malware discovered. GhostNet is believed to be Chinese. Red October and Turla are believed to be Russian. The Mask is probably Spanish. Stuxnet and Flame are probably from the U.S. All these were discovered in the past five years, and named by researchers who inferred their creators from clues such as who the malware targeted. I dislike the “cyberwar” metaphor for espionage and hacking, but there is a war of sorts going on in cyberspace. Countries are using these weapons against each other. This affects all of us not just because we might be citizens of one of these countries, but because we are all potentially collateral damage...."

HP Will Release a “Revolutionary” New Operating System in 2015 | MIT Technology Review: "...The main difference between The Machine and conventional computers is that HP’s design will use a single kind of memory for both temporary and long-term data storage. Existing computers store their operating systems, programs, and files on either a hard disk drive or a flash drive. To run a program or load a document, data must be retrieved from the hard drive and loaded into a form of memory, called RAM, that is much faster but can’t store data very densely or keep hold of it when the power is turned off. HP plans to use a single kind of memory—in the form of memristors—for both long- and short-term data storage in The Machine..."


Quartz
The war against Google in Europe is escalating—but will it make any difference?
Quartz
Also yesterday, on another company blog, Google noted the release of a ... That spurred responses from Google, Yelp, and the Microsoft-sponsored ...


Wall Street Journal
Google pulls Amazon app from Play Store listing
CNNMoney
Amazon and Google are having an app store standoff, resulting in the ... avoiding the standoffs with app developers that Apple (AAPL, Tech30) is so ...
Google Removed Amazon's App From The Play Store - Business Insider

With Amazon Facing $1.5 Billion Income Tax Bill, Bezos Too Busy To Testify
Forbes
Amazon is in quite a tax battle with the IRS. According the Amazon 10-K (downloadable) there is about $1.5 billion in taxes at stake spread over a ...

CNET
Apple under scrutiny in Canada for its contracts with carriers
CNET
Canada's Competition Bureau said Thursday that it is investigating whether contracts that Apple's Canadian unit has with the country's domestic ...


Fortune
Google gives a big 'nyet' to Russian engineering operations
Fortune
The tech publication, which cites anonymous sources, adds that the Google engineers, most of whom are located in Moscow, will have the option of ...

Google Translate Adds 10 New Asian and African Languages
The Next Web
Multilinguals can now learn to say hello in 90 languages using Google Translate, ... You Can Now Shop atApple's Online Store with Paypal ... Microsoft sends out invites for Windows 10 event at headquarters on January 21 ... Mark Zuckerberg is thinking about how to let you 'Dislike' things on Facebook.

Selling Beats to Apple made Dr. Dre 2014's highest-paid musician
The Verge
Dr. Dre made an enormous amount of money in 2014. Forbes puts his single-year payday at $620 million, which is the most of any musician in history.

Google's Android Studio 1.0 Makes Building Apps Easy
Lifehacker
Windows/OS X/Linux: Google's Android Studio is out of beta, replacing Eclipse as the standard for Android application development. Aspiring Android ...

Industry Views: What Does Microsoft Mean for Bitcoin?
CoinDesk
Following Microsoft's decision to embrace bitcoin, CoinDesk surveys thought leaders in the industry for ...Technology ... Microsoft took the bitcoin world by surprise late last night with the sudden announcement that it would allow ...

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FBI Warns of Destructive Malware Attack (video)

FBI Warns of `Destructive’ Malware Attack: Video - Bloomberg:
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Veracode Vice President of Research Chris Eng discusses the FBI’s warning to businesses of a malware released by unknown hackers that can wipe data off hard drives. Eng speaks on “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg 12/2)

Exclusive: FBI warns of 'destructive' malware in wake of Sony attack
Reuters

NBCNews.com
Steve Jobs to Take the Stand in Apple Antitrust Suit
NBCNews.com
Apple is back in the courtroom to defend itself from antitrust allegations and Steve Jobs, the late co-founder of the tech giant, is set to be the star ...
Apple trial to feature unseen Steve Jobs video deposition - CNN
Steve Jobs emails featured in Apple iPod antitrust trial - Reuters
Apple is just now going to trial over the music DRM it killed in 2009 - The Verge


New York Times
To Gain the Upper Hand, Amazon Disrupts Itself
New York Times
Sometime last summer, a quarter-billion dollars went missing at Amazon. Analysts were expecting the usual gangbusters third quarter. But it was ...

New York Times
What Is a True Threat on Facebook?
New York Times
The First Amendment protects all kinds of outrageous and upsetting speech. As the Supreme Court has stated in a long line of cases, the government ...

Forbes
That privacy notice you're posting to Facebook? It won't work
CNET
The main page for "Privacy Basics," a tips and FAQ hub Facebook launched in ... For its part, Facebook said it just owns your activity on the service. ... Privacy policies across the technology industry have been a jumble of legal ... In June, HBO comedian John Oliver joked Apple could put the entire text of ...

Computerworld
Intel gives Google Glass a needed boost
Computerworld
Just weeks after speculation surfaced that Google was abandoning Glass, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that Intel Corp. is going to supply chips for the wearable device. Featured Resource. Presented by Tibco Software. 10 Best Practices for Cloud ...

Mashable
Apple iPod lawsuit will reveal unseen Steve Jobs video
Mashable
The voice of the visionary behind much of the success of Apple, the late Steve Jobs, will be heard once again thanks to a videotaped deposition set to be entered into evidence in a decade-old class action lawsuit. A case filed back in 2005 asserts that Apple's ...

TechCrunch
Microsoft Is Getting Rid Of Clip Art
TechCrunch
There are many things that the next generation of geek won't get to experience. The sound of the 56k modem connecting when your parents are sleeping in the next room. Burning CDs. Being somewhere and not knowing something, and just having to deal ...

The Fuse Joplin
Samsung Galaxy S4 vs Samsung Galaxy S5: Unnecessary Upgrade?
The Fuse Joplin
Samsung is one of the top companies when it comes to Smartphones. The Samsung phones are among the most common on the market, and this is because of their top qualities. One of the top Samsung Smartphones are the Galaxy S Series. Among the ...

CNET
Macmillan Science and Education Grants Access to NPG Journals
InfoToday.com
Macmillan Science and Education launched a publishing initiative that allows subscribers to 49 Nature Publishing Group (NPG) journals to share the full text of articles with other (non-subscribing) researchers around the world. Researchers can share this ...

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Edward Snowden, Christopher Soghoian and Ben Wizner at SXSW (video)

Snowden, Soghoian and Wizner at SXSW, 10 March 2014 - Edward Snowden speaks about privacy and technology with the ACLU's Ben Wizner and Christopher Soghoian at SXSW Interactive.
Take Action: https://www.aclu.org/immunity4snowden
More information: https://www.aclu.org/nsa-surveillance
transcript
http://blog.inside.com/blog/2014/3/10...
also amazing - the 7 proxy trick
http://www.dailydot.com/technology/sn...

How the NSA Plans to Infect 'Millions' of Computers with Malware - The Intercept: ".... new details about groundbreaking surveillance technology the agency has developed to infect potentially millions of computers worldwide with malware “implants.” The clandestine initiative enables the NSA to break into targeted computers and to siphon out data from foreign Internet and phone networks. The covert infrastructure that supports the hacking efforts operates from the agency’s headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland, and from eavesdropping bases in the United Kingdom and Japan....."

BBC News - Sir Tim Berners-Lee: World wide web needs bill of rights: " . . . He called for vigilance against surveillance by its users, adding: "The people of the world have to be constantly aware, constantly looking out for it - constantly making sure through action, protest, that it doesn't happen." Sir Tim has previously warned that surveillance could threaten the democratic nature of the web. He has also spoken out in support of Mr Snowden, saying his actions were "in the public interest". . ."

25 Years Old, the World Wide Web’s Potential Still Untapped: "This week marks the 25th anniversary of the invention of the World Wide Web. What started as a way for scientists to share research has changed life worldwide forever. In March 1989, British scientist Tim Berners-Lee was working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, in Switzerland. Scientists would come to CERN from all over the world, but others could not view their research because their computers were not compatible. Berners-Lee thought it would be easier if all the computers could talk to one another and swap information directly. So he proposed linking the machines. The response from his bosses to his proposal, titled Information Management: A Proposal? “Vague, but exciting.” Little did they know..."

CLUELESS: MH370: No idea where to look | Astro Awani: “ . . .The biggest problem is just knowing where to look . . ."

Attackers trick 162,000 WordPress sites into launching DDoS attack | Ars Technica: "Security researchers have uncovered a recent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that used at least 162,000 WordPress-powered websites to knock another site offline...."

Everything You Need To Know About pCell - Business Insider: "...Founded in 2011, Artemis is a startup working on pCell, a new wireless standard that it thinks could leapfrog 4G altogether..."

Google’s gigabit gambit isn’t going away - Outside the Box - MarketWatch: "Google Fiber, the tech giant’s experiment as a high-speed Internet service provider, seems poised to make its critics look bad. . . Google Fiber’s gigabit service appears to be gaining momentum. The company said last month it has “invited” 34 cities across nine major metropolitan areas to explore ways to bring the service to their citizens, signaling it’s ready to make a substantial investment in the venture."

Google pushes Chrome app store with more money-making options for devs
Computerworld
The new monetization methods give developers more of the pricing choices they have available to them when they place their work in the powerhouse app marts, Google Play for Android and App Store for Apple's iPhone and iPad. At the same time, Google has ...

Google launches referral program for Apps suite
PCWorld
Google Apps is locked in a tough battle with Microsoft's Office 365 in the cloud email and collaboration suite market and reseller partners are key for both companies. Last week,Google held its annual partner conference where it beefed up its ...

Apple Wants to Stop New Music From Hitting Spotify
TIME
Apple is the biggest music retailer in the world, so this trend is bad for the company's bottom line. The tech giant will likely try to convince record labels that the decline is also bad for them. If listeners stick to the free, ad-supported versions ...

The Flight of the Birdman: Flappy Bird Creator Dong Nguyen Speaks Out | Culture News | Rolling Stone: "How did a chain-smoking geek from Hanoi design the viral hit Flappy Bird - and why did he walk away?"

New Jersey blocks Tesla sales in state
New York Business Journal
The New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission passed a ruling today that will block the sale of Tesla Motors Inc. vehicles in the state, according to Bloomberg, which could ding the company's growth plans. The rule would require an auto dealers franchise ...

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Microsoft now considers US government an "advanced persistent threat" like malware and cyber attacks

Red, white and blue anyone? Microsoft (and everyone else in tech) is now treating NSA like a virus, malware or cyberattack --

Microsoft TechNet Blogs: "... [US] government snooping potentially now constitutes an “advanced persistent threat,” alongside sophisticated malware and cyber attacks. In light of these allegations, we’ve decided to take immediate and coordinated action in three areas: · We are expanding encryption across our services. · We are reinforcing legal protections for our customers’ data. · We are enhancing the transparency of our software code, making it easier for customers to reassure themselves that our products do not contain back doors...."

Microsoft to encrypt data in its services in bid to prevent snooping

Washington Post
Microsoft plans to encrypt data flowing through all of its communication, ...into the private communications links of Google and Yahoo as information flowed ...

Wall Street Journal (blog)

Apple desktops overtake Dell on shoppers' holiday wish lists | Apple - CNET News: "It appears Dell has lost its multiyear edge on Apple as US consumers' most-desired desktop computer brand. Apple also beats out Roku for streaming media devices and Samsung for smartphones."

Apple said to ink deal with China Mobile, adding 760 million potential iPhone ...

Register
Apple has reportedly signed a deal with the world's largest mobile phone service provider, China Mobile, although a conflicting report says that the telco giant is "still negotiating" with Cupertino. The original report comes from The Wall Street Journal, citing ...

Apple Stock Yawns As Icahn Renews Unrequited Buyback Push

Forbes
Without fail, when Carl Icahn tweets, the internet reacts with a flurry of retweets, favorites, and breathless articles about the billionaire's 140-character (or less) ...

MiamiHerald.com

Google's mystery barge in San Francisco Bay under investigation

Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The agency that oversees development in the San Francisco Bay in California has begun a formal investigation into the ...

Times of India

Apple desktops overtake Dell on shoppers' holiday wish lists

CNET
It appears Dell has lost its multiyear edge on Apple as US consumers' ... 4 for gaming consoles, Amazon's Kindle for e-readers, and Samsung for flat-panel TVs.

The Mac Observer

Here's Why Microsoft's New Mobile Strategy Will Help It Overtake ...

Forbes
The latter description, as you probably suspect, aptly portrays Microsoft ...So why does all of this help Microsoft to dominate Apple mobile devices in three years ...

Moneycontrol.com

Amazon brings WorkSpaces virtual desktop app to the iPad

ZDNet
Although Amazon's virtual desktop kit, WorkSpaces, is still in limited preview, ... that extends its subscription-based Windows 7 virtual desktop toApple's tablets.

TabTimes

Amazon Publishing Launches StoryFront

Wall Street Journal
(NASDAQ: AMZN)--Amazon Publishing today announced the launch of StoryFront, a new imprint offering high-quality short fiction across genres and home of ...

Android Community

Microsoft, University of Melbourne launch high-tech research centre

The Australian
The Centre is being jointly funded for three years with Microsoft, the university and the Victorian government contributing funding. The break down of the funding ...

The Australian Financial Review

Amazon loses a battle but still fights the war on state sales tax

Fortune
FORTUNE -- For Amazon, it's not a matter now of whether the company will collect sales tax in many states, but when. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court let ...

Christian Science Monitor

Apple's iPad Strength On Black Friday Weekend Could Portend ...

Forbes
Localytics analyzed over 1 million new devices over the two three day periods and found that Apple's iPads and iPhones took 6 of the 8 top positions for mobile ...

TechnoBuffalo

Pod Of Pilot Whales Stranded Off Everglades Nat’l Park « CBS Miami: "...NOAA, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the Marine Animal Rescue Society out of Miami, and Marine Mammal Conservancy, along with the aid of the National Park Service, are all assisting in the attempt to save the stranded whales. When the crew arrived, six of the whales were dead on scene and 45 were swimming in the shallow waters, according to Mase...."
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Malware 'was not from factories'

Malware 'was not from factories'
BBC News
Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit has said that malware was not being installed in factories, contrary to earlier media reports. Several outlets, including the BBC, reported that harmful software was being pre-installed on PCs at the manufacturing stage.

BBC News

Space shuttle Endeavour heads west on new mission as museum piece, leaves NASA ...
Washington Post
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Endeavour embarked on its new life as a museum piece Wednesday, leaving behind its NASA home and heading west on the last ferry flight of its kind. Bolted to the top of a jumbo jet, NASA's youngest shuttle departed ...

Apple's iPhone 5 launch weekend: 8 million units or bust?
ZDNet
Summary: The reviews for Apple's iPhone 5 are glowing and now it's time for those launch weekend guesstimates. Anywhere from 6 million to 10 million units will move between Friday's launch and Monday, one analyst says. By Larry Dignan | September 19, ...

ZDNet

Virgin Mobile accounts vulnerable to attacks
Fox News
"If you are one of the six million Virgin subscribers, you are at the whim of anyone who doesn't like you." That's according to independent developer Kevin Burke, who warned Virgin Mobile USA customers about a glaring security hole in the phone ...

Rackspace Hands Over Keys To Open Source Cloud
Wired
By Klint Finley When Rackspace and NASA started OpenStack — a collection of open source tools for building Amazon-style clouds in any data center — Rackspace shouldered the responsibility for organizing the community. But as that community grew, ...

Wired

Northeast ocean temperatures reach record high
Wall Street Journal
AP The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Tuesday that the average sea surface temperature for the Northeast continental shelf ecosystem, from North Carolina to Maine, was a little over 50.5 degrees for the first half of 2012.

Apple wants $3B in damages from Samsung, says report
CNET
The iPhone maker is looking to triple the $1 billion in damages awarded to it in the recent patent infringement case against Samsung, says the Korea Times. by Lance Whitney Apple will reportedly request $3 billion in damages from Samsung for patent ...

Gigantic Roman bathtime-fun mosaic found under Turkish field
Register
By Brid-Aine Parnell • Get more from this author Bone-bothering boffins have uncovered a massive Roman mosaic in southern Turkey, proving that the ancient Empire's influence reached far into the area. The humungous mosaic, uncovered by a farmer in his ...

Google Updates Android Maps App as Apple Moves On
New York Times (blog)
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER Google plans to add new features to its Google Maps app for Android phones on Wednesday. Conveniently, it is the same day that Apple's latest mobile operating system is due to be released, the one that kicks Google's maps off the ...

New York Times (blog)

The verdict on the Apple iPhone 5
Fox News
It doesn't go on sale until Friday but it already has a new nickname and more than 2 million committed users. The iPhone 5, comically dubbed The Longphone, is the revamped Apple smartphone users have longed for since the iPhone 4 started to show its ...

Heroku Heats Up Its Java Service
Wired
By Klint Finley Heroku is what's known a platform cloud, and some people see platform clouds as little more than online service where developers tinker with software code. But Salesforce.com — the company than now runs Heroku — hopes to change that ...

Wired

New PlayStation 3 console slims down for the holidays
PCWorld
By PCWorld Staff Sony is releasing a slimmer, smaller, and lighter PlayStation 3 console in time for the holidays featuring either 250GB or 500GB of hard disk drive storage, a boost from the current 160GB and 320GB models. The new PS3 console will be ...

Vimeo debuts paywall options & 'tip jar' to reward video creators
VentureBeat
Popular video-sharing service Vimeo has introduced new ways to reward the creators of videos posted on the site, with the ability to put videos behind a paywall and a new “tip jar” so people can contribute to video artists. Vimeo has made a lot of big ...

VentureBeat

Report: Microsoft Surface Tablet Costs at Least $300 to Make
Tom's Hardware Guide
If Digitimes' information is correct, it is rather unlikely that Microsoft will be selling its highly anticipated Surface tablet for less than $200. The Surface RT hardware is estimated to cost somewhere between $300 and $400. The sources suggest that ...

Dar Al Gani 1058 moon rock heads to auction
SlashGear
The chances of you having ever heard of the Dar al Gani 1058 moon rock, which is a lunar meteorite, is slim. However, this moon rock is notable because it's the largest ever put up for auction. Auction house Heritage Auctions believes that the chunk of ...

SlashGear

Elop running out of time to turn Nokia around
Reuters
* Flagship launch problems build pressure on Elop * Holiday phone sales crucial for success * Market dominated by Apple and Samsung By Tarmo Virki and Harro Ten Wolde HELSINKI/FRANKFURT, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Stephen Elop only has a few months to show he ...

eBay sellers: iPhone 5 is yours for a mere $1600
CNET
People are selling the iPhone 5 at a premium on eBay in yet another sign that demand for the smartphone is high. by Greg Sandoval Those trying to cash in on the iPhone 5 craze have taken to eBay to sell off iPhone 5 devices even before they've gone on ...

NASA Actually Working on Faster-than-Light Warp Drive
TIME
By Matt Peckham | @mattpeckham | September 19, 2012 | + You know that scene in the film Contact where the “Machine” is spooling up, its three spinning rings kicking out crazy light and an electromagnetic field powerful enough to pitch nearby Navy ...

TIME

Americans reportedly spent $6B on broken iPhones
tuaw.com
by Kelly Hodgkins Sep 19th 2012 at 9:00AM Warranty provider SquareTrade queried 2000 iPhone owners and discovered that they have dumped an estimated US$5.9 billion into repairing their iPhones over the past five years. This price includes repair costs, ...

A New Fitness Tool and Easy Citations for Students
Fox Business
By Ann Hynek The makers of the Fitbit Ultra have two new ways to help you keep your fitness goals on track. A new offer for Time Warner Cable Internet customers means free TV. This big toy store has a great deal for kids who love to listen to music ...

Germany urges public to stop using Internet Explorer
Reuters
By Harro Ten Wolde and Jim Finkle | FRANKFURT/BOSTON (Reuters) - The German government urged the public on Tuesday to temporarily stop using Microsoft Corp's Internet Explorer following discovery of a yet-to-be repaired bug in the Web browser that the ...

Kindle Fire 2 HD review: With (AAPL) Apple's iPad on top of market, can the ...
WPTV
Even as Google's new Nexus 7 challenges the Kindle Fire for dominance in the small-tablet category, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Thursday introduced a new, 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD. Copyright 2012 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved.

WPTV

Teens learn the real distractions of texting while driving
WLFI.com
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) - Students at West Lafayette Jr./Sr. High School got a real taste of what it is like to text while driving. It wasn't on the open road, it was in the safety of their school. Students were able to get behind the wheel of a ...

Apple Inc. (AAPL) iPhone 5 Sales to Soar Through March Q: Barclays
ValueWalk
By Jacob Wolinsky Apple Inc. rolled out the iPhone 5 last week, and despite some initial hesitation, it seems the sell side really likes the phone. Analysts think the phone will give a big boost to Apple's earnings, along with many other suppliers.

ValueWalk

More images of HTC 8X leaked again ahead of press event, shows Kid's Corner ...
LiveSide
Following yesterday's image leak of an actual HTC 8X device, today more images of the device has leaked to the internet, just a few hours ahead of the HTC press event scheduled to begin at 11am EST. The images came from PhoneArena again, and appears to ...

Quantum teleportation tipped for Nobel Prize: Thomson Reuters
Reuters
By Chris Wickham | LONDON (Reuters) - Researchers who wrote the rule book for quantum teleportation, described as "spooky" by an exasperated Einstein, are among the 2012 Thomson Reuters tips to win Nobel prizes for science. Nobel prediction expert David ...

ZTE Hoping to Launch Mozilla Phone Early 2013
Gizmodo
Rumors have been circulating about the imminent arrival of a Mozilla phone for some time. Now the Wall Street Journal and Reuters are reporting that ZTE is planning to launch a Mozilla-powered phone in the first quarter of 2013.

Astronaut Sunita Williams completes triathlon in space for kicks
msnNOW
Way to make us feel like lazy wastes of boring old Earth space, Sunita Williams. The US astronaut and commander of the International Space Station just finished a triathlon in space. The overachieving space dweller completed it as people took part in ...

Talk Like a Pirate Day: The 5 best buccaneers to mimic
ChicagoNow (blog)
By Joe Grace, today at 7:46 am After a long year's wait, International Talk Like a Pirate Day once again is here. And while – since I just finally watched The Dark Knight Rises last night – I'd probably prefer International Talk Like Bane Day, ...

ChicagoNow (blog)

Asus Transformer Pad 3G tablet debuts for Rs 43999
Times of India
NEW DELHI: Asus has announced the launch of Transformer Pad TF300TG tablet in India. Transformer Pad TF300TG is powered by quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 4-Plus-1 1.2GHz processor. The 3G tablet comes with a 10-inch 1280x800 IPS display, 1GB RAM and 32GB of ...

Krispy Kreme Celebrates Talk Like a Pirate Day
WNCT
WINSTON SALEM, NC - If you like doughnuts and can talk like a pirate Krispy Kreme has a sweet surprise in store for you. (more) WINSTON SALEM, NC - If you like doughnuts and can talk like a pirate Krispy Kreme has a sweet surprise in store for you.

Research In Motion lures app makers with Marmalade software
Economic Times
Research In Motion Ltd said software development kit (SDK) maker Marmalade will offer licenses to mobile applications developers. Research In Motion Ltd said software development kit (SDK) maker Marmalade will offer licenses to mobile applications ...

Light-Sensing Chip Captures Elusive Sperm Swimming Pattern
Scientific American
By Helen Shen A scanning electron micrograph of sperm on Earth. Sperm movements are notoriously hard to catch on camera. Image: University of Utah Andrology Microscopy Lab Showcasing more than fifty of the most provocative, original, and significant ...

Scientific American

Twitter tweaks profile pages for business customers
CNET
How will microblogging service Twitter make money? Co-founder Jack Dorsey says advertising is the way forward. Its new profile page headers boost curb appeal. by Andrew Nusca commentary Advertisers are an amusingly needy bunch. They want your attention ...

Google+ hits milestone -- 100M active monthly users
Computerworld
By Sharon Gaudin Computerworld - Answering critics who said Google+ was among the walking dead, Google this week announced that it has some 100 million active users among the 400 million that have signed up for the social network that turned a year-old ...

Intel 'Clover Trail' Atom Chips to Support Android, Linux
eWeek
The chip maker angered the open-source community by saying that Clover Trail would not support Android or Linux, but Intel now says that support will come after Windows 8. Intel's upcoming low-power “Clover Trail” Atom chip platform will support Linux ...

Curiosity Spacecraft: Images of NASA's Rover on Mars
eWeek
By Nathan Eddy on 2012-09-18 While NASA's Curiosity rover has certainly been beaming back some incredible photos of the Martian landscape, the spacecraft itself is an amazing sight to behold. Roughly the size of a small car, the craft has the ability ...

eWeek

SkyDrive files get redundant protection from your stupid self
BetaNews
By Tim Conneally Microsoft on Tuesday announced it has added recycle bin functionality to its SkyDrive cloud storage and collaboration suite, adding yet another layer of redundancy to the service to make sure the unthinkable doesn't happen and you ...

BetaNews

Apple's EarPods built for durability, but audio quality is questionable
Ars Technica
by Jacqui Cheng - Sep 18, 2012 7:35 pm UTC The teardown experts at iFixit have given Apple's new $29 EarPods the typical autopsy treatment, declaring that "Apple had durability in mind" when designing the new headset. While the actual quality of the ...

Ars Technica

Baxter may not be Rosie the Robot, but he's getting close
GigaOM
By Barb Darrow Baxter the robot may not iron your clothes but he very well might assemble your furniture or pack the boxes it comes in. The brainchild of Rethink Robotics' founder Rodney Brooks, Baxter is really making some waves in the industrial...

GigaOM

Wi-Fi Alliance unveils Miracast certification to ease multimedia streaming
ITworld.com
September 19, 2012, 3:08 AM — The Wi-Fi Alliance has launched a certification program for its Miracast video transmission specification, offering a seal of approval that should ensure many different phones, tablets, laptops, TVs and other products can ...

Highest Ever Prices at Pump for September: When's the Gas-Price Plunge Coming?
TIME
By Brad Tuttle | @bradrtuttle | September 18, 2012 | + Gas prices rarely rise after Labor Day. But they did this year, hitting a national average of $3.88 recently. That's the highest ever average price for a gallon of regular in September, ...

TIME

Microsoft's Surface challenge: Proving it's a premium product worth a premium ...
ZDNet (blog)
I think those who are predicting Microsoft's coming Surface PC/tablet hybrids will fail if they don't beat the iPad on price are wrong. I think the Microsoft Surface will fail if Microsoft fails to prove the devices are premium products worth premium ...

Apple Ebooks Settlement Offer
Los Angeles Times
Apple Inc., the world's biggest technology company, and four publishers offered to overhaul pricing models for digital books to allay European Union concerns that they blocked competition. The publishers won't limit retailers' discounts for two years ...

Facebook, Google, Amazon join forces in DC lobby
Washington Post (blog)
Absent from the roster are Microsoft and Apple — rivals to Google, in particular, in mobile software and advertising. The trade association, the first for the Web industry, was created in response to last year's successful fight against anti-piracy ...

Magid on Tech: Amazon's Kindle Fire HD doesn't disappoint
San Jose Mercury News
As with the previous Kindle Fire, the HD is all about the consumption of media that you get fromAmazon. While its operating system is based on Google's Android, it's been customized byAmazon not only with a different user interface but to run ...

Microsoft raises Office 2013 prices to push new Office 365 sub plans
Computerworld
Computerworld - Microsoft this week raised prices of its Office suite by as much as 17% and eliminated multi-license packs, all part of a plan to push consumers and small businesses toward new subscription programs, analysts said. On Monday, Microsoft ...

China's ZTE: Apple losing edge with slow pace of iPhone releases
Computerworld
But in this year's fourth quarter, the Chinese handset maker plans on launching a handset running the Mozilla-developed Firefox OS, in order to reduce its reliance on Google's mobile operating system. The patent battles with Apple and Android handset ...

Google Spans Entire Planet With GPS-Powered Database
Wired
Three years ago, a top Google engineer named Vijay Gill was asked what he would do if someone gave him a magic wand. At the time, Gill helped run the massive network of data centers that underpins Google's online empire, and he was sitting on stage at ...

Apple's iPhone 5: Review Roundup
Washington Post (blog)
Citing a lack of information on public transit routes and an overall “emptier” map that doesn't haveGoogle's Street View feature, Mossberg said that overall, Apple's map program is a “step backward” from Google's. He still recommends the product and ...

Google Finally Starts Highlighting Its Indoor Imagery On Google ...
By Frederic Lardinois
Google officially launched its Google Business Photos (a.k.a. Indoor Streetview) initiative in April 2010, but this indoor imagery was often hard to find and only appeared on Google+ Local and in theGoogle Search sidebar. On Google Maps ...
TechCrunch

Apple's iPhone 5: The reviews - Apple 2.0 - Fortune Tech
By Philip Elmer-DeWitt
They're in, and there is surprising unanimity across the board The Joy of Tech FORTUNE -- Apple(AAPL), as usual, chose carefully whom to seed with pre-release review copies of the new iPhone: The biggest. ... "Devices running iOS 6 will thus have Apple's new Maps app, which isn't as good as its Google-based predecessor. The new app is functional and includes transit stops, but these ....Today in Tech: Microsoft hires TV exec to boost original content. Current Issue. Is it still OK to ...
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Apple's EarPods get the iFixit teardown treatment, found to basically ...
By Joe Pollicino
As we briefly mentioned in our EarPods review, iFixit was able to teardown Apple's latest generation of earbuds, which are currently shipping with the. ... Apple's EarPods get a the iFixit teardown treatment, found to be headphones ...
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ITC Gives Google a Second Shot at Apple With Motorola Patents ...
By John Paczkowski
The ITC voted Tuesday to investigate a patent-infringement complaint brought against Apple byGoogle. ... Microsoft's Promise Doesn't Derail Second EU Browser Complaint. September 18, 2012 at 1:20 pm PT. Yahoo Returning $3.65 Billion ...
AllThingsD

New Amazon Maps API Challenges Google | Webmonkey | Wired.com
By Scott Gilbertson
Like Apple's iOS 6, Foursquare and other high-profile Google Maps defectors, the Amazon Maps API seems to exist primarily as an option for those who'd like to avoid the Google Maps API. Amazon'sannouncement touts the API's “simple ...
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Microsoft To Launch Windows 8 On October 25
CBS 11
NEW YORK (CBS NEWS) - Microsoft sent out a “save the date” to members of the press on Monday for an event planned for October 25 in New York City. “You're invited to celebrate Windows 8,” in the invite reads. Featuring a more tablet-friendly design, ...

Document Management Roll-up: Microsoft Unveils Office Subscription Prices ...
CMSWire
By David Roe (@druadh20) Sep 18, 2012 This week, two months after unveiling the Preview of Office 2013, Microsoft has finally announced how much it will cost, KnowledgeTree takes a look at email as a collaboration tool, Alfresco releases a new syncing ...

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Flame malware: shadowy domains and fake names

Flame malware network based on shadowy domains, fake names
CNET
The espionage malware has already been updated on some infected machines -- after command-and-control domains were shut down last week, researchers say. by Elinor Mills The creators of Flame used fake credentials to register domains used to communicate ...

Samsung Galaxy S III, Without Quad-Core CPU, Slated for 5 US Carriers
Wired News
By Nathan Olivarez-Giles Samsung's Galaxy S III will lose the quad-core CPU offered in Europe and Asia, and instead pack the same dual-core CPU found in the HTC One X. Image: Samsung Samsung's next flagship phone, the Galaxy S III, is heading to five ...

HP-Oracle trial pits tech titans in fight over legal settlement
San Jose Mercury News
HP has claimed one reason Oracle announced it would stop making new Itanium-related software is to focus on technology it obtained from Sun. Oracle's announcement reportedly has caused HP to lose some of its server customers.

Lenovo IdeaPad U310, U410 Ultrabooks Coming this June, Starting at $749
eWeek
Lenovo IdeaPad Ultrabooks, featuring Intel Ivy Bridge processors and a range of colors, are being marketed to energetic and ambitious young users, as Lenovo keeps up its work to get its name out. Lenovo has introduced two colorful new Ultrabooks, ...

Boxee Takes Videos Online Via Cloudee
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius Boxee today unveiled an invite-only iPhone app that will let users share personal videos from the cloud. The service, dubbed Cloudee, is "the first step towards a Boxee cloud offering," Boxee said in a blog post.

HP says Oracle violated contract
Reuters
By Dan Levine SAN JOSE, Calif., June 4 (Reuters) - Oracle Corp violated a clear contract with Hewlett-Packard Co when it decided it would no longer make new versions of its database software compatible with HP's Itanium-based servers, a lawyer for HP ...

Microsoft to let Xbox hook up with mobile devices
Reuters
* Xbox can link with even Apple, Google devices * New app latest facet of living-room entertainment * Companion screens unveiled at E3 By Liana B. Baker and Malathi Nayak LOS ANGELES, June 4 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp unveiled a new software ...

Microsoft warns that Flame exploits Windows flaw
Reuters
| BOSTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp warned PC users that the Flame virus that attacked systems across the Middle East infects computers by exploiting a flaw in the Windows operating system. The company released software to protect against infections ...

First look: Acer Aspire 7600U and 5600U all-in-one touch screens
CNET
At Computex, Acer shows off Windows 8 and the Metro UI in new 27-inch and 23-inch all-in-one desktops. by Craig Simms While all-in-one touch screens have never lived up to the promise, the launch of Windows 8 later this year will mean a rash of new ...

Facebook Ready to (Officially) Allow Children Under 13
PCWorld
Facebook is reportedly working on policies and controls that would allow children under 13 to join the social network without lying about their age. By Charles Ripley, Content Works Jun 4, 2012 6:21 AM The current Facebook rules require that users be ...

All signs point to Facebook iPhone integration on iOS 6
Los Angeles Times
By Salvador Rodriguez After Apple CEO Tim Cook dropped a major, yet subtle hint last week, it seems Facebook integration is indeed coming to the iPhone, according to the latest Web reports. Facebook will become fully immersed within iOS as soon as its ...

Top Tech Firms Prep for Switch to IPv6
PC Magazine
By Stephanie Mlot On Wednesday, June 6 (switch to 6 on 6/6) a number of top Internet firms - including Microsoft, Google, YouTube, and Yahoo - will deploy a new Internet protocol, dubbed IPv6. On IPv6 Day last year, a number of these companies switched ...

How to watch the transit of Venus with a pair of binoculars
Christian Science Monitor
If you're assuming you can just stare at the sun through a pair of binoculars, you'd better read this. By Natalie Wolchover, Life's Little Mysteries / June 4, 2012 On June 5, Venus will cross the face of the sun. If you live in North America, Europe, ...

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Nintendo Wii U: new console faces tough launch in world of Angry Birds
The Guardian
The latest round in the console wars starts on Tuesday when Nintendo launches Wii U, its latest and most sophisticated games machine. But times have changed since the 2006 launch of Wii, its phenomenally successful predecessor, and analysts are already ...

The Guardian

Report: Yahoo, Facebook Close to Deal on Patent Suits
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius Yahoo and Facebook are reportedly close to a deal that could settle the two companies' patent fight. As reported by All Things D, executives at Facebook and Yahoo are in "advanced negotiations" on the patent issue, and could reach a ...

Instapaper finally lets Android users save sites for offline viewing
BetaNews
By Tim Conneally Instapaper, the popular iOS application that lets users save web pages for offline reading, was released for Android on Monday, and can now be downloaded in Google Play. Instapaper's creator Marco Arment released the app exclusively ...

BetaNews

Madden NFL 13 gets 'better with Kinect,' launches August 28
CNET
EA Sports has announced that its Madden NFL 13 launch will come with Kinect features -- and enlisted Joe Montana to prove it. by Don Reisinger For the first time ever, Electronic Arts' Madden franchise will include Kinect support.

Ford unveils 2013 F-150 with MyFord Touch
SlashGear
Ford has updated its popular F-150 for 2013, adding some new enhancement options, including its MyFord Touch system for voice, steering-wheel, and LCD touchscreen controls. The company's top-selling pick-up truck is also getting some minor exterior ...

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Matrox DS1 brings Thunderbolt docking to life
SlashGear
This week the folks at Matrox have revealed the DS1 Thunderbolt Docking Station for your MacBook, Ultrabook, and beyond. This device allows you to easily add a large display, a wired network, a mouse, a keyboard, and whatever else you want to your ...

SlashGear

Nike Expands Digital Push with Training Game for Xbox
Bloomberg
Nike Inc. (NKE), the world's largest sporting-goods maker, will enter the video-game business through a partnership with Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) to expand its brand beyond shoes and shirts. Nike+ Kinect Training will be released this holiday shopping ...

Download the Tom's Hardware Windows 8 Metro App Today
Tom's Hardware Guide
Like our readers, we at Tom's Hardware like to be at the very forefront of new technology. We're sure that many of you have already downloaded the Windows 8 Release Preview to give it a spin on your test machines. For those of you who have, ...

Corning flexible Willow Glass revealed for ultra-slim power
SlashGear
At the Society for Information Display's Display Week in Boston, Corning has revealed that they've begun working on their next-generation flexible Willow Glass. This glass will be made for what we must assume will be flexible displays on mobile devices ...

E3: Kill With Voice Commands in Splinter Cell: Blacklist
Escapist Magazine
Microsoft is heavily promoting the use of its Kinect technology in games that might not otherwise use it. Gamers playing Mass Effect or Madden NFL are too busy actually using the controller to flail about madly, but their voices are otherwise ...

Hey, Brother, Can You Spare a Hubble? DOD: Sure! Have Two
The Atlantic
By Alexis Madrigal That's right. Our military had two, unflown, better-than-Hubble space telescopes just sitting around. NASA's been wracked by budgetary concerns as it tries to figure out how to do research into the origins of everything *and* loft...

The Atlantic

Dual-screen Taichi leads lineup of unique Asus Windows 8 PCs
CNET
Asus takes advantage of Microsoft's flexible new OS with a dual-screen laptop, laptops and tablets with removeable keyboards, and even a desktop with a removeable screen. by Vincent Chang The Asus Taichi offers screens on the front and back.

Prototype space shuttle arrives in New York
Seattle Post Intelligencer
By AUBREY COHEN, SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF Helicopters fly above atmospheric test space shuttle Enterprise as its carried by barge past Coney Island on June 03, 2012 in New York City. Enterprise is on its way to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, ...

Study Suggests Expanding the Genetic Alphabet May Be Easier than Previously ...
Bioscience Technology
A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute suggests that the replication process for DNA—the genetic instructions for living organisms that is composed of four bases (C, G, A and T)—is more open to unnatural letters than had ...

Stanford University bioengineer Stephen Quake wins $500000 prize
San Francisco Business Times
Quake, who holds 80 patents, also does work for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute . He started Fluidigm (NASDAQ: FLDM) in South San Francisco, which makes scientific instruments. Among his innovations are a rapid DNA sequencer, a non-invasive ...

Engadget and Joystiq's pre-event broadcast from E3 - Microsoft
Engadget
By Mat Smith posted Jun 4th 2012 12:14PM Well, our liveblog of Microsoft's pre-show event is about to kick off, but we're sure you'd like to hear what our (and Joystiq's) crystal balls have foretold. We discuss our thoughts on what Microsoft's likely ...

Judge refuses to bar Steve Jobs quotes from patent trial
tuaw.com
by Steven Sande Jun 4th 2012 at 1:30PM Reuters reported on Friday that a judge has rejected Apple's request to have several incendiary quotes about Google's Android platform from former CEO Steve Jobs blocked from being used in the upcoming patent ...

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