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Sunday, October 31, 2010

Intel's $1 billion chip factory in Vietnam Opened

Intel on Friday announced the opening of a massive $1 billion chip testing and assembly facility in Vietnam, the biggest such facility for Intel anywhere in the world.

PlayStation Phone Details and Pics Leak

The rumored PlayStation Phone have shown up, and the device looks as sleek as ever. Details about the device’s software and Sony’s plans have also been revealed through an earnings call and sources close to the project.But first let’s deal with the question of the device’s authenticity.

Apple sues Motorola right back over six patents

What, you didn't think Apple was just going to sit around and take it after Motorola first sued for patent infringement and then asked to court to declare some 20 of Cupertino's patents weren't applicable to its products, did you?.

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Apple Becomes World’s Fourth Biggest Mobile Vendor

The changes brought forth by the explosive growth of the smartphone market are now very visible in the overall mobile phone market, as Apple surpassed RIM as the fourth largest mobile phone supplier, while Sony Ericsson dropped off the top five list for the first time in years.

Google Nexus Two by Samsung

Samsung is indeed working on an unlocked Google Android phone, but it may not be called the "Nexus Two"
By calling it "Nexus Two," with Google's failed Nexus One retail experiment, an attempt to break wireless carriers' lock on the U.S. cell phone market by selling phones independently online.

Friday, October 29, 2010

Microsoft Posts Record First-Quarter Results

Microsoft is out with its latest earnings report, with strong sales of Windows 7, Office 2010 and Xbox 360 helping push the company to a quarterly revenue record of $16.2 billion.

Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition Out Now

Rockstar games brings good news for all the three people who haven't played Grand Theft Auto IV and its expansions, for now you can have them in one single disc (two in case of the Xbox 360) for the console versions.

Programming languages to lookout

In the world of enterprise programming, the mainstream is broad and deep. Code is written predominantly in one of a few major languages. Sometimes, enterprise coders will dabble in C++ or another common language used for high-performance tasks such as game programming, all of which turn around and speak SQL to the database.

Boonana Trojan Attacks Mac OS X

Clearly, malicious code writers don t spare any platform. If you thought your Mac system wasn t going to be affected by any Trojan or malicious code, this new Boonana Trojan will make you think again. Security Firm SecureMac has reported that new Trojan dubbed Trojan.osx.boonana.a is spreading through popular social networking sites like Facebook. In pretext of luring a video, the malicious link eventually leads to installation of malware in Mac OS X.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Firefox Add-on Hacks Facebook, Twitter Logins

Secured logins have been one of the most crucial issues pertaining to web security today. Eric Butler, a freelance web application developer showed how vulnerable current day websites are. At the ToorCon security conference, Butler showed a Firefox add-on dubbed Firesheep that lets anyone scan a Wi-Fi network and steal login details of Facebook, Twitter and several other services. This is one heck of a dangerous extension that points out the security loophole in any website.

Google Nexus Two is Coming Soon

The rumors are flying about the potential existence of the Nexus Two, the unicorn-like successor to the Google-branded Nexus One smartphone.

China hacked U.S. Internet data

A Chinese state-run telecom provider was the source of the redirection of U.S. military and corporate data that occurred this past April, according to excerpts of a draft report sent to CNET by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Microsoft Windows 8 in 2012 beta download in 2011

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Microsoft’s cycle of new operating system releases is ticking along on schedule thus far, with the first bit of Windows 8 info to “leak” since the earlier multi-page presentation on many of Windows 8’s features  found its way onto the Internet to spill the beans on Windows 8’s current direction.

Gingerbread arrives at Google

It was only about a week until the release of Froyo. Today Google received a giant Gingerbread man to join the collection of other desserts. It’s unclear if that means we’re only days away from the Gingerbread release, but it surely means that we’re close.

Friday, October 22, 2010

Zynga Sued for Sharing Facebook Data

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The advent of targeted advertising, the toast of interactive media, has rendered data regarding age, sex, location and other habits and preferences of users a highly coveted commodity. With everybody and their uncle perpetually online on Facebook, virtually laying their lives bare over the social networking platform, user information is all the more prone to abuse.

How To Hack Apple TV

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While Apple's back was turned prepping for its October 20th Keynote, one hacker going by the handle p0sixninja decided to put the Greenpois0n jailbreak to the test and officially jailbreak the new Apple TV.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Apple Q4 earnings sets new Records

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Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2010 fourth quarter ended September 25, 2010. The Company posted record revenue of $20.34 billion and net quarterly profit of $4.31 billion, or $4.64 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $12.21 billion and net quarterly profit of $2.53 billion, or $2.77 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 36.9 percent compared to 41.8 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 57 percent of the quarter's revenue.

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Biggest Public Technology Companies

Here it goes the list of tech companies traded on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq in order of their current market value (as of Friday afternoon).all figures are in billions of dollars.

Microsoft Is Scared of OpenOffice



Microsoft and its supporters have a long history of applying all kinds of FUD to any discussion of free and open source software. Whether it's Linux or other free alternatives to Microsoft's high-priced products, it seems no conversation can take place without the inevitable insinuations about higher total cost of ownership, lack of support, and other baseless fearmongering.

Sony To Stop Symbian Phones

Sony Ericsson announced today that it's cutting the cord with the Symbian operating system, a move that may put the platform on life support. Sony Ericsson's withdrawal of support for the mobile OS means that the only major player left building phones for the platform is Nokia, which is currently in troubled financial waters.

Gamers Rally at Supreme Court after Restrictions

The Entertainment Consumers Association is organizing a rally in on the day the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in Schwarzenegger v. EMA, the case on California's law restricting the sale of violent video games to minors.

Sony’s Google TV First Impression

The Google TV holds some serious potential. Doing what the Apple TV does, and then adding more function on top of it. Google should be coming out of the gate with a product that’s easily well-received.
The problems that we have seen, so far, come in form factors.

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Android 4.0 Codenamed “Ice Cream” in September 2011

According to Forbes, the codename for Google’s 4.0 firmware of the Android operating system will be codenamed “Ice Cream”, following the alphabetical naming procedure used by the search giant, to follow Gingerbread (3.0) and Honeycomb (3.5).

Android To Pull In $1 Billion Revenue This Year

Google held a conference call yesterday to brief investors, journalists and analysts on its financials in the last quarter. Focusing on it’s non-core businesses like YouTube, display advertising and mobile, Google pulled in an incredible $7.29bn Q3 revenue, $1.4bn increase from the previous year.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

India to Develop Its Own Computer Operating System

India plans to develop a new computer operating system, with an eye to enhancing the security of its computer systems, a government spokesman said on Monday.