Windows phones have only captured 3.7 percent of the global smartphone market, according to Strategy Analytics. Android phones have 68 percent, while Apple has 17 percent.
Friday, September 7, 2012
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Microsoft announces Windows Server 2012
Sep 05, 2012
- Says new server built from the ‘cloud up’ for the modern data center
- New advancements in virtualization, storage, networking and automation
MICROSOFT Corp has announced the general availability of Windows Server 2012, the latest version of its server operating system (OS), which it described in a statement as the cornerstone of a cloud OS.
“The operating system has always been the heartbeat of IT and [it] is now undergoing a renaissance in the new world of continuous cloud services, connected devices and big data,” said Satya Nadella, president of Microsoft Server and Tools Business
“Microsoft’s unique legacy in the most widely used operating systems, applications and cloud services positions us to deliver the Cloud OS, based on Windows Server and Windows Azure, helping customers achieve a data center without boundaries,” he said at the global online launch event (pic).
Microsoft said it built Windows Server 2012 “from the cloud up,” applying its experience operating global data centers that rely on hundreds of thousands of servers to deliver more than 200 cloud services.
Windows Server 2012 adds new advancements in virtualization, storage, networking and automation. Hundreds of new features can help customers achieve a transformational leap in the speed, scale and power of their data centers and applications, the company claimed.
In combination with Windows Azure and System Center, Windows Server 2012 empowers customers to manage and deliver applications and services across private, hosted and public clouds.
Businesses and organizations of all sizes throughout the Asia Pacific region have started using Windows Server 2012, including Mitra Solusi Telematika in Indonesia; Mydin in Malaysia; AWAN Computing in Singapore; Phayao University in Thailand and Asia Commercial Bank and Vietnam National University in Vietnam.
Source | Sept 5, 2012
Computer hackers published unique identification stored on an FBI computer.
ublished on Sep 4, 2012 by AlJazeeraEnglish - Apple hacking explained : Computer hackers have published the unique identification codes of one million Apple devices online, which they say were being stored on an FBI computer.
Sunday, September 2, 2012
Cyberwar 4G.
What does a government or cybercommand do when it has 2 billion more potential targets to shoot at and defend against in a period of four years?
More than 20 years ago a number of us were warning allied governments and defense organizations about a number of key developments.
Class I Information Warfare: The loss of privacy and Identity Theft
Class II: Private espionage and organized cybercrime
Class III: Nation-state, NGO and terrorist use of Internet technologies as offensive weapons.
We were ignored. Defense groups said, “if it doesn’t explode, it’s not ours,” and Congress said, “why would a criminal or terrorist ever want to use the Internet…?”
Now we know. And here it comes again.
The smart phone is just a computer. It’s highly mobile, it’s prolific and it’s growing in power. The ITA estimates that in 2014, 4.2 billion IP endpoints will populate the Earth.
Governments will face two distinct sets of problems due to the coming onslaught
Should we allow the use and integration of devices that present tremendous security problems?
We are going to have to defend against an additional 2 billion intelligent endpoints that will have similar attack capabilities to conventional fixed computers.
Thus, CND of not only state-managed assets, but of critical infrastructures, will become a greater challenge than ever before.
CNA operations will find a much larger target suite, if they can in fact identify bad actors with high degrees of certainty.
Both are indeed daunting technical hurdles that, as usual, favor the bad actors.
What are the answers?
We know what doesn’t work, so we shouldn’t try it again. Schwartau has a few thoughts on the subject.
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Saturday, September 1, 2012
Facebook stock continues its decline
Published on Aug 31, 2012 by AlJazeeraEnglish : Facebook's stock prices are continuing to tumble. The social media website went public in May raising the company's worth to more than one-hundred billion dollars. Investors have seen the continuing failing of their stock drop from $38 to $19.
Friday, August 31, 2012
Go Google: Google Drive
Published on Apr 24, 2012 by Google ; Introducing the all-new Google Drive. Now access your files, even the big ones, from wherever you are. Share them with whomever you want, and edit them together in real time.
Thursday, August 30, 2012
State approves Facebook’s plan to issue stock for Instagram purchase
The state of California today approved Facebook’s plan to acquire Instagram for $300 million in cash and 23 million shares of its stock. This brings the deal, which was announced in April, closer to closing. Instagram shareholders still have to vote to formally approve the sale.
This morning lawyers and employees from Facebook and Instagram attended a “fairness hearing” before the California Department of Corporations. Facebook called for the hearing as a way to obtain exemption from federal registration and speed up the acquisition process. Without a state-level fairness hearing, it can take more than six months and over $250,000 to register a securities offering, according to the California Department of Corporations website. California is one of six states in the U.S. that allow this quicker and more cost-effective review.
Since the time Facebook announced its intent to buy Instagram, its shares have lost significant value on the public market. The formerly $1-billion deal is now worth close to $750 million at Facebook’s $19.10 share price as of today at 1 p.m. PT. The LA Times reports that co-founder and CEO Kevin Systrom says he recognized the risk of Facebook losing value and was negotiating on the basis of cash and stock options, not the end valuation. He says the media played up the $1-billion valuation, but he believes Instagram’s 19 shareholders will still vote in favor of the deal.
“We still believe firmly in the long-term value of Facebook,” he said.
Systrom also revealed that although he had been approached by other companies looking to buy Instagram, no formal offers had been made.
Last week, the Federal Trade Commission closed its investigation of the acquisition without taking any action, allow the deal to proceed. Instagram has gained more than 50 million new users in the four and a half months since Facebook announced its plans to acquire the mobile photo-sharing network.
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Monday, August 27, 2012
A fast-growing trend among adult women : social bookmarking
Published on Aug 27, 2012 by ABCNews : Pinterest, A Social Bookmarking Website, Skyrockets in Popularity among adult women.
India censors social media after riots
Published on Aug 24, 2012 by AlJazeeraEnglish : The Indian government has called on social media websites like Twitter and Facebook to remove what it calls objectionable content after sectarian violence broke out in the state of Assam. Last week the authorities blamed groups in Pakistan for circulating hate videos showing attacks against Muslims, but among the sites banned are news agencies covering the violence.
Winner and losers from the Samsung Apple clash
Published on Aug 27, 2012 by Euronews : Samsung's big loss to Apple in a potentially game changing US patent lawsuit over smartphones meant a dramatic fall in the South Korean company's shares in Soeul - down almost 7.5 percent - while Apple's stock rose in New York on Monday.
But the industry is still sorting out who will be the long term winners and losers in the smartphone world.
Google may suffer as it supplies the Android operating system for Samsung phones. That means it could lose out if Apple manages to get permanent bans on the sale of some Samsung handsets.
A decision on that is due from the court next week.
Partially blocking Samsung from the US market could dramatically change the league table where the South Koreans dominate with 32.6 percent of all smartphone sales worldwide between April and June. Apple had 16.9 percent, Nokia 6.6 percent, Taiwan's HTC 5.7 percent and China's ZTE had 5.5 percent.
Investors obviously think Nokia could be a winner from Samsung's setback.
The Finnish firm's shares shot up on Monday. Its newest smartphones use a Microsoft operating system, which Apple has no problems with.
Other handset makers will now be worrying whether they will be next on Apple's litigation list and how much this case will change the dynamics of the highly competitive mobile phone industry.
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Samsung bites back after Apple victory
Published on Aug 26, 2012 by AlJazeeraEnglish : South Korean technology giant Samsung says consumers will now face fewer choices, less innovation and higher prices. That is after a US jury ordered the company to pay more than one billion dollars to Apple for stealing its technology. It is only one of the many international legal battles between the two, all of which could change the industry.
IP- a threat to knowledge for human benefit & free market?
Samsung ordered to pay Apple $1bn
Published on Aug 24, 2012 by AlJazeeraEnglish : A California jury has found that Samsung, the Korean electronics giant, deliberately copied elements of Apple's iOS-based product line.
The jury ruled that Samsung willfully infringed at least three of Cupertino-based Apple's patents, including navigation, zoom features and icons.
US brought cyber war to Afghanistan: general
USMC Lt. Gen. Richard Mills speaks during a ceremony in Avondale, La., July 28, 2012.
The US military has been conducting cyber-attacks against its perceived opponents in Afghanistan, according to one of its generals.
Marine Corps Lieutenant General Richard Mills made the unusually explicit acknowledgment at a conference in Baltimore last week, The Associated Press reported on Friday.
Mills was in command of US-led foreign forces in southwestern Afghanistan between 2010 and 2011.
At the conference, he explained how US commanders regard cyber weapons as an important part of their arsenal.
“I can tell you that as a commander in Afghanistan in the year 2010, I was able to use my cyber operations against my adversary with great impact,” he said.
“I was able to get inside his nets, infect his command-and-control, and in fact defend myself against his almost constant incursions to get inside my wire, to affect my operations,” he added.
There’s been no immediate comment so far from the Pentagon on Mills' speech.
The US has been accused of conducting cyber warfare in many countries in the Middle East and North Africa.
A recent book by New York Times reporter David Sanger recounts how US President Barack Obama ordered a wave of electronic incursions to sabotage Iran's nuclear energy program.
The US-led war in Afghanistan began in 2001. The offensive removed the Taliban from power, but insecurity continues to rise across the country, despite the presence of about 130,000 of US-led troops.
Saturday, August 25, 2012
The Rise of Cross-Platform Malware
For most of the recorded history of malware, viruses, Trojans and other malicious software have been specialists. Each piece of malware typically targeted one platform, be it Windows, OS X or now, one of the mobile platforms. But the last few months have seen the rise of cross-platform malware that have the ability to infect several different kinds of machines with small variations to their code.
Attackers, like people in other walks of life, tend to specialize. They find something that they're good at, say, writing Windows rootkits or creating OS X Trojans, and they often will stick with that. There's not much reason to branch out if they're having success with something already. For a long time, most malware was written for Windows, because that's where most of the users are. Going after OS X or Linux didn't make a lot of sense.
But that's begun to change lately. One recent example is the Crisis Trojan, which has the ability to infect both Windows and Mac OS X machines. The first version of Crisis that researchers discovered targeted various versions of OS X, and it was a typical data-stealing Trojan, listening in on email and instant messenger communications. The interesting thing about Crisis is not only that there are versions for multiple platforms, but also that the installer for the malware, which masquerades as an Adobe Flash installer, checks to see what operating system it's on and then installs the appropriate version.
The malware also has a function that looks for VMWare images stored on the infected machine, and if it finds one, it will mount the image and then copy itself to the virtual machine image.
Researchers found a similar piece of malware back in April. That one was disguised as a Java applet that would install different payloads depending upon what OS the target machine was running. So, attackers have decided that more is better when it comes to platforms. Why restrict your creation to just Windows or OS X when you can have both?
Microsoft researchers looked at a recent attack that involved a piece of malware using similar techniques and found that the attackers have been honing their skills.
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Friday, August 24, 2012
There's no escaping the mobile-ad
Published on Aug 23, 2012 by CNETTV Update : YouTube searches for more money, Google+ adds features that can annoy, and Microsoft gets a design makeover.
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