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WiFi Usage In Smartphones Increase While Tablets Trump TV Smartphone owners may be getting ready for all carriers to switch to tiered data plans like Verizon, as the June report from Millenial Media indicates. Wi-Fi usage on smartphones showed an 8 percent growth over the previous month for getting online while mobile. A new study segment that tracks how tablet usage impacts existing activities for owners shows that a full 19 percent of tablet owners report they watch less TV than before getting the tablet. Apple is still the number one smartphone in Millenial Media’s report with over 30 percent of the impression share and Samsung retains the second position with 14.94 percent of impressions served to phones from that vendor. RIM is number three and HTC owns the number four spot. The only surprising number in this month’s reports is that Samsung’s Nexus S moved into the fourth position on the top 20 list, taking the second most popular spot on the list of Android handsets. This month’s report from Millenial includes a new segment that follows tablet owners and how buying one impacts behavior. Analysts have been claiming that tablet purchases impact PC purchases, so this study of tablet owners is particularly interesting. Nearly a third of tablet owners admit that they have shifted some common online activities from other devices to the tablet. They also admit that in addition to replacing an eReader, for 19 percent of them the tablet sees them watching less TV than they did before getting the tablet. These slates may be having a greater impact on user behavior than previously thought.
Cyber Attacks Could Prompt Military Strike “Recent cyber attacks against the US could prompt a war effort against the attackers” The Pentagon has confirmed that a cyber attack against computer networks in the United States could prompt a retaliatory military strike. “It would be irresponsible, and a failure of the Defense Department’s mission, to leave the nation vulnerable to a known threat,” Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn explained during a recent briefing about the DoD’s new cyber strategy. “[As such], the United States reserves the right, under the laws of armed conflict, to respond to serious cyber attacks with a proportional and justified military response at the time and place of our choosing.” However, Lynn said the DoD’s cyber strategy ultimately emphasized “denying the benefit of [an] attack.” “If an attack will not have its intended effect, those who wish us harm will have less reason to target us in the first place,” Lynn said. He noted that any response to a cyber offensive would be “dictated by the effect,” rather than location. Concurrently, the president would “consider all the tools he has” if the attack caused significant damage – such as human casualties and massive economic losses. Meanwhile, James Lewis, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategy and International Studies, told Politico it’s the president “who gets to decide” if the cyber strike is a war or “something else.” “The standard is ambiguous. Deciding when something is an act of war is not automatic. It’s always a judgment,” he added.
Police Depts Deploying iPhone-Based Iris, Face Scanning Tech – Police State Technology Ever Think Of America As A Police State? Now You Can! Congrats To Technology License, registration, and iris scan? Police departments have fingerprinting and in many cases, DNA, to help them identify or track down criminal suspects, but usually that requires a trip down to the station. On the streets, more and more police departments are deploying a smartphone-based iris- and facial-scanning technology that slides over an iPhone. Massachusetts-based BI2 Technologies is now producing MORIS, a handheld biometric device that can recognize people based on iris, face, or fingerprints. The Brockton, Mass. police department was the first to try out the technology during a 2010 trial, and it is now expanding to departments like Arizona’s Pinal County Sheriff’s Office and the Rhode Island Department of Corrections. The technology can be used at the station, but for officers on the move, MORIS slides over an iPhone and allows them to use the device’s camera and run photos through iris-scanning and facial-recognition software. A fingerprint option is on the back of the somewhat bulky device, but the department apparently had mixed results with that. If there’s a match—based on the BI2-managed database of criminal records—the officer can see the person’s full criminal history on the iPhone. As the Wall Street Journal noted, deputies are using the tech to identify people without ID, accident victims, or the homeless. Legally, they can do so without permission, but in Pinellas County, Fla., at least, it’s department policy to ask for consent, county systems analyst Scott McCallum told the Journal. The devices cost $3,000 each and weigh 12.5 ounces once added to the iPhone, the Journal said. In Brockton, the devices were funded by a Department of Justice and National Sheriff’s Association grant to the Massachusetts Sheriff’s Association. Welcome To America – The Police State So the next time you are pulled over and interrogated by a local police officer for running a stop sign and you get treated like a common criminal, thank George Bush! This post Patriot Act America is nothing more than a Police State. And it disgusts me.
Brand New Android App Market Launched Google Launches It’s New Android App Market For Android Users. After its own storefront for finding Android apps has fallen by the wayside, Google is fighting back. The online giant has just released a new version of the Android Market, the digital marketplace within Android phones that lets users search through the more than 100,000 apps and games available for the platform. “You’ll be delighted to find we’ve overhauled Android Market to make it faster, easier, and more fun to discover great apps, movies, and books. We’ve created more space to feature some of the most interesting content of the week on the home page. We’ve added more top charts, with newer, more relevant items, and we’ve made it easy to swipe through these charts as you browse the store. We’ve also introduced new collections of great content, like staff picks and Editors’ Choice apps,” explained Google in an official blog post. This comes after users have continuously expressed dissatisfaction with the presentation of previous versions of the Android Market. Despite being the leader in online search, Google had created a surprisingly clunky interface in which to search for Android apps, leading third-party app stores to swoop in and take away some of the glory. For example, Amazon has its own digital storefront for Android apps called the Amazon Appstore. In addition to using the same intuitive search algorithms and recommendations as the rest of Amazon.com, the retailer has managed to convince numerous mobile publishers to release their apps exclusively through the Amazon Appstore, bypassing the Android Market entirely. So Google has a lot of catching up to do to remain relevant in its own mobile platform, but this completely redesigned Android Market app – available for Android 2.2 and later – may be up for the task. Check Out The Video: Brand New Android App Market Launched
Netflix Rate Hike Sparks Outrage – Users Resort To Social Media To Voice Opinions Netflix continues to take a pummeling from subscribers who are so enraged by the company’s unilateral decision to separate its DVD and streaming plans − and increase prices as a result − that they’re threatening not only to cancel the service, but also showing up by the tens of thousands to blast it on Facebook. Users Threaten To Drop Netflix After Massive Netflix Rate Hike Yesterday, we reported on the initial reaction to the Netflix Rate Hike changes, and by last night we’d seen more than 9,000 comments on the Netflix Facebook page, which has 1.5 million fans. (There are 23 million Netflix members in the U.S. and Canada.) By this morning, nearly 30,000 had registered the summer of their discontent with the rental service that used to ride high on the loyalty of customers who loved not having to pay late fees and receiving their discs in their mailbox. The red envelope was something of a little treat at the end of a long day. But now, customers are seeing a different kind of red. For many, Netflix’s streaming selection, while growing and improving since it became a perk about four years ago, still can’t get anywhere near its vast volume of DVDs. And because of that, folks supplemented their streaming plans with at least the one DVD out at any given time option, for about $10. But with the announcement that the same service would cost almost $16 — about 60 percent more than what they’re paying now — people snapped. In these tough economic times, this little bit of entertainment counted for a lot. And now, subscribers are demanding to be heard. We want to hear from you, too. Take our poll and let us know if you’re going to follow through with threats to leave Netflix, or if you’ve decided against it. We’re wondering if people have followed through on cancelling, if Netflix will increase its instant selection to make up for those who will cut DVDs from their plans and if Netflix will cave to the torrent of negative reaction and restore its merged plans. We also want to know if Netflix deleted comments from its Facebook page, as some have indicated on the site. Some complained that they didn’t even get the courtesy of an email and only found out through sites like ours, or on their Facebook.
So you are wondering how to activate your new Apple iPad or iPad 2? Like the 1st generation iPad, the iPad 2 will need to be activated using the same simple process. This can be done in just a few minutes and you’ll need an Apple iTunes account to get the job done with either of the iPads. Steps To Take 1.) Create an Apple iTunes Account 2.) Connect the Apple iPad to your PC 3.) Once you add your iTunes account information along with your name and device serial number, you’ll be activated. NOTE: If you are upgrading from the 1st iPad to the iPad 2, you just need to connect your old iPad to your PC first. Then do a full backup (data sync) of your 1st generation iPad (do the backup before you activate your new iPad). When your backup is complete, just connect your new iPad 2 to your PC and then do a backup restore after activation. Now all of your data is transferred to your iPad 2 from your old one. Your done!
Android Software Sought After By Microsoft In the hunt for the next billion-dollar business, Microsoft may have discovered one in mobile software. It costs Microsoft nothing to produce and sell, and it’s not Windows Phone. It’s Android, the wildly popular — and free — mobile-phone software made by competitor Google. In the past nine months, Microsoft has gone after a handful of companies that make Android phones and tablets. It has either sued or persuaded the companies to pay it license fees for some technologies found in certain Android features. Microsoft contends it has patents on those technologies. Four companies in the past two weeks said they will pay licensing fees to Microsoft for selling tablets and phones that run on Android. HTC, a major Taiwanese smartphone maker, entered into a licensing agreement in April to pay Microsoft a reported $5 per Android phone
Modern Warfare 3 Release Date nears. Learn what’s inside the latest version. In a small, dark room hidden away in the Los Angeles Convention Center, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 executive producer Mark Rubin pilots a SEAL delivery vehicle through a web of sunken cars and floating corpses. A massive enemy submarine passes overhead. This is his target. He slowly approaches the craft, plants an explosive and retreats to a safe distance. Boom. Rubin rises alongside the ailing sub, surfacing to see a New York City skyline under assault. This is the beginning of “Hunter Killer,” a Modern Warfare 3 campaign level shown behind closed doors at the E3 Expo earlier this month. The presentation started out with some unique moments — in 2009’s Modern Warfare 2, such underwater segments weren’t player-controlled — but quickly reverted to familiar territory. The 20-minute demo was full of high-octane gunplay and flashy explosions, but there was no hiding the fact that Modern Warfare 3 is the same old Call of Duty wrapped up with a shiny new bow. Modern Warfare 3 development began at Infinity Ward, but after much of the company’s creative talent jumped ship to Respawn Entertainment, Activision brought on internal development group Sledgehammer Games as backup. With such an upheaval in the development process, it seems the two teams have decided to play it safe rather than roll the dice on any risky new concepts. Nearly every moment in the demo was ripped straight out of an earlier Call of Duty title: Progress through highly linear environments, watch a scripted event, kill a few bad guys. Later in the level, after blowing up the submarine’s command center door with a few pounds of C4, players engage in a slow-motion firefight with the guards. You may remember these action sequences from Modern Warfare 2. They play precisely the same here.
Apples iCloud Service Expects 150 Million Users Apples iCloud service expecting a huge following right out of the gate. Apples iCloud service could sign up as many as 150 million iPhone users to its new iCloud service, according to projections based on a survey from RBC Capital Markets. In a report released today, RBC found that 76 percent of the 1,500 iPhone users polled from June 7 to 14 intend to use the iCloud service. Unveiled at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference earlier this month, iCloud will allow iOS device users to store, access, and sync their iTunes content online. iMessage also should be a hot item, according to RBC. The survey found 73 percent of iPhone users plan to use Apple’s upcoming new text messaging service, which RBC projects might mean 150 million iMessage users in total. The iMessage service, a feature in iOS 5, could boost loyalty among existing iPhone users and convince the 60 million iPod Touch users to pick the iPhone over Android or other competing phones if they upgrade, according to the report. Finally, iTunes Match proved enticing to 30 percent of those surveyed, who said they’d be likely to spend $24.99 per year for the new service. Part of iCloud, iTunes Match lets users store any music not purchased or available through iTunes in the cloud. Based on the survey, RBC is projecting that iTunes Match could add another $1.5 billion a year to Apple’s annual revenue. Looking down the road, RBC believes Apple will add additional services through iCloud, including audio and video streaming, photo and video sharing, hosted Time Machine backups, and document management and storage. The iCloud service will be accessible from all iOS devices and possibly even entry-level items like the iPod Nano and Shuffle, the report said.
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National Police said in a statement that the three are Spaniards ages 30 to 32,… Police said a computer server in the home of one of the suspects, in the port city of Gijon, was used to hack two major Spanish banks, an Italian energy company and the governments of Egypt, Algeria, Libya, Iran, Chile, Colombia and New Zealand. Police said it was also used in the attack on the websites of the PlayStation online gaming store. The investigation was launched in October after hackers swamped the Spanish Ministry of Culture’s website to protest tough legislation aimed at illegal downloads, The New York Times reports. Although police linked the group to the PlayStation attacks, it was not clear whether other groups might have also been involved in breaching about a dozen Sony sites worldwide.
A teenager in China has sold one of his kidneys in order to buy an iPad 2,… The 17-year-old, identified only as Little Zheng, told a local TV station he had arranged the sale of the kidney over the internet. The story only came to light after the teenager’s mother became suspicious. The case highlights China’s black market in organ trafficking. A scarcity of organ donors has led to a flourishing trade.
Have you ever felt so angry at a company that you wished its website was hacked… Titanic Takeover Tuesday saw the disruption of the websites for The Escapist and the IT security company Finfisher, as well as the login servers for EVE Online, Minecraft and League of Legends. Afterward, the group posted a telephone number on its Twitter feed with this message: “Now accepting calls from true lulz fans – let’s all laugh together at butthurt gamers. 614-LULZSEC, accepting as many as we can, let’s roll.” A few hours later the group claimed to have received 5,000 missed calls and 2,500 voicemails. The 614 area code represents the metropolitan area of Columbus, Ohio, but only an irresponsible gambler would wager that that’ll help authorities locate members of LulzSec in the slightest. It’s unsure whether the phone number will be used for future hacks or if its purpose has been spent. Either way, posting a number where anonymous users can recommend future victims of the group’s illegal activity is a brazen move. LulzSec is begging to get busted, but also, in a perverse way, “giving back” to a community that enjoys seeing the flaws of big companies exposed. The ironic twist is that these big companies are made big by the average public whose private information is being revealed in the hacks.
The fund declined to disclose the nature of the attack, whether its systems… “We had an incident,” said IMF spokesman David Hawley. “We’re investigating it and the fund is completely functional.” He said IMF staff received a “routine notification” about the incident by email Wednesday asking them to contact their tech department “if they saw anything suspicious.” The threat against the institution is the latest in a recent series as it responds to economic turmoil in several European nations. Earlier this month, the IMF said it had taken precautions after a group called Anonymous indicated its hackers would target the IMF website in response to the strict austerity measures in its rescue package for Greece. The IMF has faced repeated cyber attacks in recent years. It routinely collects sensitive information about the financial conditions of its 187 member nations. Some data in its computer systems could conceivably be used to influence or trade currencies, bonds and other financial instruments in markets around the world. The latest infiltration was sophisticated in that it involved significant reconnaissance prior to the attack, and code written specifically to penetrate the IMF, said Tom Kellermann, a former cybersecurity specialist at the World Bank who has been tracking the incident. “This isn’t malware you’ve seen before,” he said, making it that much more difficult to detect. The concern, Kellermann said, is that hackers designed their attack to gain market-moving insider information. The attackers appeared to have broad access to IMF systems, which would give them visibility into IMF plans, particularly as it relates to bailing out the economies of countries on shaky financial footing, Kellermann said. The IMF spokesman would not comment on any specific details of the incident, which was first reported Saturday by the New York Times…..
Apples iCloud Service Expects 150 Million Users Apples iCloud service expecting a huge following right out of the gate. Apples… In a report released today, RBC found that 76 percent of the 1,500 iPhone users polled from June 7 to 14 intend to use the iCloud service. Unveiled at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference earlier this month, iCloud will allow iOS device users to store, access, and sync their iTunes content online. iMessage also should be a hot item, according to RBC. The survey found 73 percent of iPhone users plan to use Apple’s upcoming new text messaging service, which RBC projects might mean 150 million iMessage users in total. The iMessage service, a feature in iOS 5, could boost loyalty among existing iPhone users and convince the 60 million iPod Touch users to pick the iPhone over Android or other competing phones if they upgrade, according to the report. Finally, iTunes Match proved enticing to 30 percent of those surveyed, who said they’d be likely to spend $24.99 per year for the new service. Part of iCloud, iTunes Match lets users store any music not purchased or available through iTunes in the cloud. Based on the survey, RBC is projecting that iTunes Match could add another $1.5 billion a year to Apple’s annual revenue. Looking down the road, RBC believes Apple will add additional services through iCloud, including audio and video streaming, photo and video sharing, hosted Time Machine backups, and document management and storage. The iCloud service will be accessible from all iOS devices and possibly even entry-level items like the iPod Nano and Shuffle, the report said.
iCloud Communications is asking Apple to stop using iCloud and destroy… In other words, the company wants a lot of cash from what it says is the largest tech company in the world. iCloud Communications attempts to boost its case by alleging that this isn’t the first time Apple has infringed upon others’ trademarks. “Although Apple aggressively protects its trademark rights, Apple has a long and well known history of knowingly and willfully treading on the trademark rights of others — a history which began as early as the 1970s when Apple was first sued for trademark infringement by the Beatles record label, Apple Corp.” The documents also mentions other trademark debacles Apple had in the past with McIntosh Labs, Management and Computer Services (MACS), the “Mighty Mouse” cartoon character, iPhone, iPad and iAd. If the past is any indication of how this case will turn out, Apple and iCloud Communications will likely settle out of court. After all, Apple is still using all the names from those other cases…….
LulzSec seeks revenge after the hacking free-for-all as Sega becomes the latest… The hacking free-for-all continued this week as Sega apparently became the latest victim of a network breach and none other than hacking group LulzSec offered to help the game company by taking down the responsible parties. The blog PlayStation LifeStyle posted yesterday what it said was a letter sent by Sega to users of its Sega Pass service, informing them that “unauthorized entry was gained” to the Sega Pass database and that the company is investigating.
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Microsoft Loses US Supreme Court Appeal Over $290Mil Patent Judgement i4i claimed Microsoft Word infringed a patented method for editing documents.… Microsoft has lost an appeal to the US supreme court over a $290m (£178m) award made against it in a patent dispute with the Canadian company i4i, which claimed a version of Microsoft Word infringed a patented method for editing documents. The decision means companies challenging patents being used in court battles will have to provide convincing proof that a patent is invalid if they want to have it set aside. Microsoft had sought to weaken the level of proof needed. i4i sued Microsoft in 2007, claiming infringement of a patent relating to XML in documents by Word 2007 (and products that included it, such as Office 2007). At a subsequent jury trial, Microsoft had argued the patent was invalid; the jury rejected that claim. It then appealed to the supreme court, saying the trial court’s requirements had put an “overly demanding” standard to its invalidity defence: it had had to prove its defence by “clear and convincing” evidence, rather than the more relaxed “preponderance of evidence”. The difference would be similar to a criminal v civil standard of proof, between “beyond all reasonable doubt” and “balance of probability”. The decision will have repercussions in cases where patents are the key element of the case – which will affect everyone from smartphone manufacturers to app developers.
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