“In making this record, I think I finally became totally comfortable with our choice, which is being a folk band.”Wholesale Battery So said Fleet Foxes front man Robin Pecknold, to the online music site Stereogum about the recording of Helplessness Blues, a striking, soulful outcome seemingly of exasperation and fatigue. Valley set, with solemn reverb, woodsy instrumentation and gently placed harmonies, the album is similar in most ways to the band’s eponymous debut from 2008. And yet it seems inevitable that the two records will be intensely contrasted by critics.Wholesale Computers
Some of that comes from the whole “sophomore slump” thing, and some of it comes from the things that Pecknold has been talking about. Actually those aren’t even two different things. The singer-songwriter said he didn’t want to repeat himself from album one to the painstakingly recorded album two. But what can he do? Fleet Foxes have a sound – a church-in-the-forest sound almost too beautiful to be true. (If not untrue, then too precious and too self-conscious at times. The Plains/Bitter Dancer imagines Crosby, Stills and Nash as medieval balladeers). It’s their thing, though, and maybe Pecknold is helpless to change it.
Change is tough. On the lamenting opening track Montezuma, which melodically resembles the Bee Gees’ pastoral Massachusetts, the protagonist frets about adult responsibility and his capacity to think about someone – a fiancée, it seems – other than himself. “Could I wash my hands of just looking out for me?” is the worried self-reflection. LASER POINTERS
Bedouin Dress, a circular bluesy-pop number, is also concerned about a young man’s one-sidedness – a borrower’s debt being the “only regret of my youth.” So troubled in his mind, he mentally retreats to Lake Isle of Innisfree, Yeats’s poem place of rural utopia. wholesale netbook
As for Pecknold and Fleet Foxes being comfortable with their choice to remain a folk band, one assumes they’re talking about musical choices. But maybe not. Listen to the up-swelling and heartily strummed title track, where the dream is to work an orchard. How do you like them apples? wholesale spy camerca
The waltzing Someone You’d Admire initially offers some relief to the album’s subtle tension. “All that I hoped would change within me stayed” is how it starts. But by song’s end, we’re still wondering about the existential crisis.
I can tell you that the album ends with Grown Ocean, which recalls a lighter weight My Morning Jacket and unnecessarily employs trilling flutes. I won’t tell you how the story ends, though, because I don’t know. I’m not sure Fleet Foxes knows either. My advice to them? Keep on playing that folky music, white boy; play that folky music right. wholesale digital picture frame
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Friday 29 April 2011
Microsoft Profit Falls Below Apple's After IPad Eats Into Windows Revenue
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)’s Windows sales slumped last quarter as the iPad crimped demand for consumer laptops, marking the first time in 20 years that the software maker reported a smaller quarterly profit than Apple Inc. (AAPL)
Revenue in Microsoft’s Wholesale Battery Windows division fell 4.4 percent to $4.45 billion, the Redmond, Washington-based company said yesterday in a statement. That missed the $4.6 billion average prediction of analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. Net income was $5.23 billion, eclipsed by the $5.99 billion reported by Apple last quarter. Wholesale Computers
Consumer PC shipments dropped 8 percent in the quarter, Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Peter Klein said. Netbooks -- the cheap laptops that became popular during the recession -- plunged 40 percent, partially because of defections to tablet computers, he said. The decline overshadowed a better-than- anticipated performance from Microsoft’s Office unit and increased PC demand from corporations. LASER POINTERS
“You have to live underneath a rock not to know that the iPad has taken share from the netbook,” said Pat Becker Jr., principal of Portland, Oregon-based Becker Capital Management Inc., which holds Microsoft shares as part of its $2.5 billion in assets. “It’s a problem on the consumer side, and that’s a market where Microsoft continues to give up territory to Apple.” wholesale digital picture frame
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Less Than Apple
Net income rose to 61 cents a share, from $4.01 billion, or 45 cents, Microsoft said yesterday. Excluding a 5-cent per-share tax benefit, earnings matched the 56-cent average of estimates compiled by Bloomberg.
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While PC shipments to corporate customers rose 9 percent, tablet competition accounted for some of the sluggishness in consumer sales, Klein said in an interview.
“It’s fair to say tablet is some of that,” he said.
Total PC sales declined 2 percent last quarter, Microsoft said. That the Windows business performed even worse adds to the concern over Microsoft’s performance, said Brendan Barnicle, an analyst at Pacific Crest Securities in Portland.
“That’s suggesting some market share loss, some real deterioration,” said Barnicle, who rates Microsoft’s stock “sector perform.”
Office Sales
Microsoft’s overall sales rose to $16.4 billion, compared with the $16.2 billion average projection. That reflected demand for such products as Office business-productivity software and programs for servers -- the computers that run networks.
“We are seeing businesses invest in technology,” Klein said. “They are buying hardware and they are buying Microsoft software.” Microsoft expects corporate PC shipments to outpace consumer sales for the rest of the year.
Sales in the business division, which sells Office software and is the company’s biggest unit, rose 21 percent to $5.25 billion, compared with the $4.9 billion average estimate of analysts. Revenue at the Server and Tools unit was $4.1 billion, compared with the $4 billion analysts projected.
“There is a tale of two cities going on here,” said Brent Thill, an analyst at UBS AG in San Francisco, who recommends buying Microsoft shares. “You have consumers who say an iPad is good enough for consuming data, but for the enterprise side, those enterprises are continuing with Microsoft. The thing that has hurt Microsoft is that tablets are no question the must-have item for consumers.”
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Consumer PC shipments dropped 8 percent in the quarter, Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Peter Klein said. Netbooks -- the cheap laptops that became popular during the recession -- plunged 40 percent, partially because of defections to tablet computers, he said. The decline overshadowed a better-than- anticipated performance from Microsoft’s Office unit and increased PC demand from corporations. LASER POINTERS
“You have to live underneath a rock not to know that the iPad has taken share from the netbook,” said Pat Becker Jr., principal of Portland, Oregon-based Becker Capital Management Inc., which holds Microsoft shares as part of its $2.5 billion in assets. “It’s a problem on the consumer side, and that’s a market where Microsoft continues to give up territory to Apple.” wholesale digital picture frame
Microsoft declined as much as 74 cents in late trading yesterday after the report. The shares, down 4.3 percent this year, had closed at $26.71 on the Nasdaq Stock Market. wholesale ebook reader
Less Than Apple
Net income rose to 61 cents a share, from $4.01 billion, or 45 cents, Microsoft said yesterday. Excluding a 5-cent per-share tax benefit, earnings matched the 56-cent average of estimates compiled by Bloomberg.
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While PC shipments to corporate customers rose 9 percent, tablet competition accounted for some of the sluggishness in consumer sales, Klein said in an interview.
“It’s fair to say tablet is some of that,” he said.
Total PC sales declined 2 percent last quarter, Microsoft said. That the Windows business performed even worse adds to the concern over Microsoft’s performance, said Brendan Barnicle, an analyst at Pacific Crest Securities in Portland.
“That’s suggesting some market share loss, some real deterioration,” said Barnicle, who rates Microsoft’s stock “sector perform.”
Office Sales
Microsoft’s overall sales rose to $16.4 billion, compared with the $16.2 billion average projection. That reflected demand for such products as Office business-productivity software and programs for servers -- the computers that run networks.
“We are seeing businesses invest in technology,” Klein said. “They are buying hardware and they are buying Microsoft software.” Microsoft expects corporate PC shipments to outpace consumer sales for the rest of the year.
Sales in the business division, which sells Office software and is the company’s biggest unit, rose 21 percent to $5.25 billion, compared with the $4.9 billion average estimate of analysts. Revenue at the Server and Tools unit was $4.1 billion, compared with the $4 billion analysts projected.
“There is a tale of two cities going on here,” said Brent Thill, an analyst at UBS AG in San Francisco, who recommends buying Microsoft shares. “You have consumers who say an iPad is good enough for consuming data, but for the enterprise side, those enterprises are continuing with Microsoft. The thing that has hurt Microsoft is that tablets are no question the must-have item for consumers.”
Thursday 28 April 2011
Google patches 27 Chrome bugs, pays out record bounties
Google today patched 27 vulnerabilities in Chrome as it boosted the "stable" build of the browser to version 11 on Windows, Wholesale Battery Mac and Linux.
The company paid out a record $16,500 in bounties to researchers who reported a majority of the bugs, beating the previous biggest payday by several hundred dollars.Wholesale Computers
Wednesday's 27-patch update fixed 18 vulnerabilities rated "high," the second-most-severe ranking in Google's scoring; six labeled "medium"; and three pegged as "low."
None of the vulnerabilities was ranked "critical," the category reserved for bugs that may let an attacker escape Chrome's anti-exploit "sandbox." Google has patched three critical bugs so far this year.LASER POINTERS
Five of the vulnerabilities were identified as "stale pointer" bugs, a term that describes flaws in an application's -- in this case, Chrome's -- memory allocation code. Google has patched numerous stale pointer bugs in the last four months.
Other flaws fixed today could be used by attackers to spoof the contents of the address bar -- a bug that typically gets the attention of phishers and identity thieves -- or to compromise the browser with malicious SVG files.
As is its practice, Google locked its bug tracking database to bar outsiders from viewing the technical details of the just-patched vulnerabilities. The company blocks public access to flaws for weeks or even months to give users time to update.wholesale ebook reader
Today's bounties totaled $16,500, handed out to 11 researchers for finding and reporting 17 of the patched vulnerabilities. Frequent contributor Sergey Glazunov took home $4,000, as did another researcher identified only as "kuzzcc."
Of the five major browser makers, only Google and Mozilla -- the developer of Firefox -- pay bounties to independent security researchers.
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While Google listed more than 3,700 changes in Chrome 11, the only one it highlighted was the speech input feature.
"Speech input through HTML is one of many new Web technologies in the browser that help make innovative and useful Web applications like Google Translate's speech feature possible," said software engineer Josh Estelle in a Wednesday blog post.
The company paid out a record $16,500 in bounties to researchers who reported a majority of the bugs, beating the previous biggest payday by several hundred dollars.Wholesale Computers
Wednesday's 27-patch update fixed 18 vulnerabilities rated "high," the second-most-severe ranking in Google's scoring; six labeled "medium"; and three pegged as "low."
None of the vulnerabilities was ranked "critical," the category reserved for bugs that may let an attacker escape Chrome's anti-exploit "sandbox." Google has patched three critical bugs so far this year.LASER POINTERS
Five of the vulnerabilities were identified as "stale pointer" bugs, a term that describes flaws in an application's -- in this case, Chrome's -- memory allocation code. Google has patched numerous stale pointer bugs in the last four months.
Other flaws fixed today could be used by attackers to spoof the contents of the address bar -- a bug that typically gets the attention of phishers and identity thieves -- or to compromise the browser with malicious SVG files.
As is its practice, Google locked its bug tracking database to bar outsiders from viewing the technical details of the just-patched vulnerabilities. The company blocks public access to flaws for weeks or even months to give users time to update.wholesale ebook reader
Today's bounties totaled $16,500, handed out to 11 researchers for finding and reporting 17 of the patched vulnerabilities. Frequent contributor Sergey Glazunov took home $4,000, as did another researcher identified only as "kuzzcc."
Of the five major browser makers, only Google and Mozilla -- the developer of Firefox -- pay bounties to independent security researchers.
Alongside the security update, Google also moved Chrome's stable channel -- the browser comes in three editions, stable, beta and dev -- to version 11. The upgrade to Chrome 11 came six weeks after Google last refreshed the stable channel to version 10.wholesale android tablet
Since last summer, Google has been releasing new versions of Chrome approximately every six weeks. Mozilla recently decided to ape that pace. Starting with Firefox 5, now set to ship June 21, it will theoretically put out a new edition at six-to-eight-week intervals.wholesale spy camerca
While Google listed more than 3,700 changes in Chrome 11, the only one it highlighted was the speech input feature.
"Speech input through HTML is one of many new Web technologies in the browser that help make innovative and useful Web applications like Google Translate's speech feature possible," said software engineer Josh Estelle in a Wednesday blog post.
Wednesday 27 April 2011
Sony's PlayStation hack apology
Thank you for your patience while we work to resolve the current outage of PlayStation Network & Qriocity services. The following email has been sent to all PSN registrants; please read the help and support FAQ for more information.
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3) Quickly taken steps to enhance security and strengthen our network infrastructure by re-building our system to provide you with greater protection of your personal information.
We greatly appreciate your patience, understanding and goodwill as we do whatever it takes to resolve these issues as quickly and efficiently as practicable.
Although we are still investigating the details of this incident, we believe that an unauthorized person has obtained the following information that you provided: name, address (city, state/province, zip or postal code), country, email address, birthdate, PlayStation Network/Qriocity passwords and login and handle/PSN online ID. It is also possible that your profile data, including purchase history and billing address (city, state, zip), and your PlayStation Network/Qriocity password security answers may have been obtained. If you have authorized a sub-account for your dependent, the same data with respect to your dependent may have been obtained. While there is no evidence that credit card data was taken at this time, we cannot rule out the possibility. If you have provided your credit card data through PlayStation Network or Qriocity, to be on the safe side we are advising that your credit card number (excluding security code) and expiration date may also have been obtained.wholesale baby monitor
For your security, we encourage you to be especially aware of email, telephone, and postal mail scams that ask for personal or sensitive information. Sony will not contact you in any way, including by email, asking for your credit card number, social security, tax identification or similar number or other personally identifiable information. If you are asked for this information, you can be confident Sony is not the entity asking. When the PlayStation Network and Qriocity services are fully restored, we strongly recommend that you log on and change your password. Additionally, if you use your PlayStation Network or Qriocity user name or password for other unrelated services or accounts, we strongly recommend that you change them, as well. wholesale spy camerca
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Although we are still investigating the details of this incident, we believe that an unauthorized person has obtained the following information that you provided: name, address (city, state/province, zip or postal code), country, email address, birthdate, PlayStation Network/Qriocity passwords and login and handle/PSN online ID. It is also possible that your profile data, including purchase history and billing address (city, state, zip), and your PlayStation Network/Qriocity password security answers may have been obtained. If you have authorized a sub-account for your dependent, the same data with respect to your dependent may have been obtained. While there is no evidence that credit card data was taken at this time, we cannot rule out the possibility. If you have provided your credit card data through PlayStation Network or Qriocity, to be on the safe side we are advising that your credit card number (excluding security code) and expiration date may also have been obtained.wholesale baby monitor
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Tuesday 26 April 2011
Facebook Launches The Send Button, Takes On Email
A few months ago,wholesale android tablet Facebook began pushing developers to switch over from the famous share button to the even more iconic like button. Having two overlapping features was confusing for many users and unifying the two technologies was the way to go. Traditionally, the like button only displayed a one-line message on your profile when pressed. Today, it publishes more details such as an excerpt and a thumbnail. Users can even share a comment as it gets published.Wholesale Battery
Facebook even did away with “fan a page” and replaced it with the like button a few months ago. The consistency is great, but today the company introduced a new send button, which provides additional functionality. While liking something on the web currently makes your click visible to all your friends, this new feature targets sharing information with specific people.Wholesale Computers
More than anything, it looks like Facebook is trying to replace traditional email links. Since Facebook keeps users logged in at all times by storing cookies in their browsers, this plugin for websites makes it possible to send links to friends without having to leave the page. A little drop down menu features a “send to” field which auto-populates the names of friends as you begin typing.
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More than anything, it looks like Facebook is trying to replace traditional email links. Since Facebook keeps users logged in at all times by storing cookies in their browsers, this plugin for websites makes it possible to send links to friends without having to leave the page. A little drop down menu features a “send to” field which auto-populates the names of friends as you begin typing.
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Monday 25 April 2011
amazon-brings-budget-priced-led-light-bulbs-to-the-masses
Besides using less power, Lighting Science Group’s LED has a lot of advantages over a standard CFL. smart car accessories They don’t need time to warm up and are easily recyclable because they don’t contain mercury. wholesale mini netbook While they may cost more, their long lifespan means that you’re paying about $1 a year to have them light your home; incandescents and CFLs cannot match that number. Wholesale Battery
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Friday 22 April 2011
Privacy concerns give iPhone flesh wound
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Two researchers made this discovery and blogged about it this week, creating quite a ruckus.LASER POINTERS
If you're curious, there's an app called iPhoneTracker that will show you how good a job your phone has been doing of keeping tabs on your movements. This information is also stored on any computer you sync your phone with.
PC Magazine, which has done the most in- depth reporting on this, was at first outraged. A columnist wrote this is a deal-breaker and because of it, he would not buy an iPhone. wholesale netbook online
Yesterday PC Magazine toned things down yesterday, saying, "Apple isn't the only company collecting data in this manner" and that there's a question about "how much Apple really knows about your whereabouts." wholesale ebook reader
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So what's the big deal?
The problem is that the data stored on the iPhone and iPad is unencrypted and unprotected, and anyone with access to your devices can tell where you've been in the last year, since IOS 4 came out.
But maybe it's not a deal-breaker.
Lifehacker reports that Untracked, a free "jailbreak app" installed through Cydia, discreetly wipes the location history on your iPhone without putting an icon on your screen.
Before this news even broke, my editor was amazed at how willing people are to be tracked. A friend's wife watches his every move, with his phone's GPS even telling her what hole he's on at the golf course. "It's like a ball and chain," my editor said.
True, but it could be used to your advantage. Maybe that friend is really going to Vegas for the day and handing his phone off to a buddy who's going to church, then playing golf.
So far, none of them has inflicted as much as a flesh wound.
But we keep hoping and hyping. Wholesale Computers
Now it seems that Apple itself may have created an iPhone killer, and it's not a new phone.
There was an uproar over privacy this week when it was reported that iPhones and 3G iPads and iPad 2s track every move you make, whether you want them to or not, and store that information. And you can't turn it off. And it's unencrypted on your phone.
Two researchers made this discovery and blogged about it this week, creating quite a ruckus.LASER POINTERS
If you're curious, there's an app called iPhoneTracker that will show you how good a job your phone has been doing of keeping tabs on your movements. This information is also stored on any computer you sync your phone with.
PC Magazine, which has done the most in- depth reporting on this, was at first outraged. A columnist wrote this is a deal-breaker and because of it, he would not buy an iPhone. wholesale netbook online
Yesterday PC Magazine toned things down yesterday, saying, "Apple isn't the only company collecting data in this manner" and that there's a question about "how much Apple really knows about your whereabouts." wholesale ebook reader
The fact is that many of us enable features and download apps that make it easy for people to track us. GPS is a wonderful thing. Using it, you can find the nearest restroom when you have to go really bad. And we give up some privacy to get that kind of information--the location of the nearest ATM, directions to a restaurant, etc. Google Maps is wonderful. We willingly "check in" on Facebook and Tweet what bar we're at late at night. wholesale digital picture frame
So what's the big deal?
The problem is that the data stored on the iPhone and iPad is unencrypted and unprotected, and anyone with access to your devices can tell where you've been in the last year, since IOS 4 came out.
But maybe it's not a deal-breaker.
Lifehacker reports that Untracked, a free "jailbreak app" installed through Cydia, discreetly wipes the location history on your iPhone without putting an icon on your screen.
Before this news even broke, my editor was amazed at how willing people are to be tracked. A friend's wife watches his every move, with his phone's GPS even telling her what hole he's on at the golf course. "It's like a ball and chain," my editor said.
True, but it could be used to your advantage. Maybe that friend is really going to Vegas for the day and handing his phone off to a buddy who's going to church, then playing golf.
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Not only can the smartphone tell where you are, but also where you have been. A hidden file in the iPhone 4 and the iPad 3G apparently tracks and stores a user's location information.wholesale spy camerca
That is the privacy glitch discovered by two programmers, Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden, who presented their findings at the O'Reilly Where 2.0 conference in San Francisco, The New York Times reports.Wholesale Computers
The file is called "consolidated.db" and keeps track of GPS data on 3G-enabled Apple devices, regularly updated the users' location. That information is also sent to the iTunes application when a user syncs or backs up their iPhone or iPad. Check out the map below -- wholesale baby monitor it shows a single trip between New York City and Washington and all the data that was collected during the user's travels.
Allan and Warden say there is no need to panic over their findings -- at least not yet. Apple does not seem to be doing anything with the stored data. Beyond the issue of information being stored, "how Apple intends to use it -- or not -- are important questions that need to be explored," LASER POINTERS Mr. Allan wrote in a blog post.
The two programmers have contacted Apple's Product Security team, but have not received a response.wholesale netbook online for sale
Thursday 21 April 2011
4G iPhone’s Chip Won’t Come In Until Early 2012
Apple can introduce an iPhone 5 any time — but a 4G handset won’t arrive before next year.Wholesale Battery
Rumor has it the next-generation iPhone won’t arrive until September. If so, it won’t offer the crazy fast data speeds promised by next-generation 4G wireless networks.Wholesale Computers
That’s because access to the turbo-charged networks that make Verizon’s Thunderbolt handset crazy fast require a combination of chips Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook said Wednesday Apple won’t use.LASER POINTERS
In response to a question from Morgan Stanley analyt Katy Huberty on Apple’s quarterly earnings call Wednesday, Apple’s Cook said today’s 4G chips — which rely on a wireless technology dubbed Long Term Evolution (LTE) — don’t meet Apple’s needs.smart car accessories
“The first generation of LTE chip-sets force a lot of design compromises with the handset, and some of those we are just not willing to make,” Cook says. Separately, Cook declined to talk about the timeline for introducing a new iPhone. “We never comment on unannounced products,” Cook said.wholesale accessories electronics store
Those chips won’t appear in handsets until next year, says Will Strauss, president of wireless chip tracker Forward Concepts. “They’re right that there’s nothing out there that fits the bill, and likely nothing will until the fourth quarter of this year,” wholesale baby monitor Strauss says when asked about Cook’s remarks.
The only 4G handset on the market in the United States, Verizon’s Thunderbolt, currently relies on a pair of chips to work. One chip, from Samsung, communicates with Verizon’s 4G networks, allowing the handset to achieve blazing data speeds of between 5 and 20 MBPS. Another chip, from Qualcomm, lets the handset talk to Verizon’s 3G network.
That two chip solution is needed because Verizon’s 4G network isn’t widespread enough for the carriers to offer handsets that rely on 4G alone, Strauss explains. The solution: a new generation of chips that combine support for 4G and 3G on a single chip, allowing handset makers to offer slim handsets that don’t gobble up battery life.
Chipmakers such as Qualcomm,, ST Ericcson, and Intel won’t begin offering customers samples of such chips until late this year. And those chips won’t begin appearing in handsets until next year, Strauss predicts. As a result, there won’t be a 4G iPhone any earlier than that.
Rumor has it the next-generation iPhone won’t arrive until September. If so, it won’t offer the crazy fast data speeds promised by next-generation 4G wireless networks.Wholesale Computers
That’s because access to the turbo-charged networks that make Verizon’s Thunderbolt handset crazy fast require a combination of chips Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook said Wednesday Apple won’t use.LASER POINTERS
In response to a question from Morgan Stanley analyt Katy Huberty on Apple’s quarterly earnings call Wednesday, Apple’s Cook said today’s 4G chips — which rely on a wireless technology dubbed Long Term Evolution (LTE) — don’t meet Apple’s needs.smart car accessories
“The first generation of LTE chip-sets force a lot of design compromises with the handset, and some of those we are just not willing to make,” Cook says. Separately, Cook declined to talk about the timeline for introducing a new iPhone. “We never comment on unannounced products,” Cook said.wholesale accessories electronics store
Those chips won’t appear in handsets until next year, says Will Strauss, president of wireless chip tracker Forward Concepts. “They’re right that there’s nothing out there that fits the bill, and likely nothing will until the fourth quarter of this year,” wholesale baby monitor Strauss says when asked about Cook’s remarks.
The only 4G handset on the market in the United States, Verizon’s Thunderbolt, currently relies on a pair of chips to work. One chip, from Samsung, communicates with Verizon’s 4G networks, allowing the handset to achieve blazing data speeds of between 5 and 20 MBPS. Another chip, from Qualcomm, lets the handset talk to Verizon’s 3G network.
That two chip solution is needed because Verizon’s 4G network isn’t widespread enough for the carriers to offer handsets that rely on 4G alone, Strauss explains. The solution: a new generation of chips that combine support for 4G and 3G on a single chip, allowing handset makers to offer slim handsets that don’t gobble up battery life.
Chipmakers such as Qualcomm,, ST Ericcson, and Intel won’t begin offering customers samples of such chips until late this year. And those chips won’t begin appearing in handsets until next year, Strauss predicts. As a result, there won’t be a 4G iPhone any earlier than that.
Wednesday 20 April 2011
Apple vs. Android: For the iPad, appeal beyond 'fanboys'
Silicon Valley tech earnings
Intel and Yahoo are among the Silicon Valley Wholesale Battery tech giants reporting financial results this afternoon.
Intel: The Santa Clara chip behemoth -- maker of the microprocessors that are the brains in most of our Mac and Windows computers -- reported a $3.2 billion profit, up 29 percent from a year earlier. Wholesale Computers Revenue climbed 25 percent to a record $12.8 billion.
"The first-quarter revenue was an all-time record for Intel fueled by double digit annual revenue growth in every major product segment and across all geographies," CEO Paul Otellini said in a statement accompanying the results. LASER POINTERS
Intel's earnings came in at a record 56 cents a share -- or 59 cents, excluding
Before the report, Intel stock finished regular trading at $19.86, up 24 cents, or 1.2 percent, from Monday's closing price.wholesale ebook reader The shares were climbing in after-hours trading.
Yahoo: The Sunnyvale Internet content powerhouse reported a $223 million profit, down 28 percent year over year. Revenue fell 24 percent to $1.2 billion, in part from a change in how Yahoo reports revenue after it entered a search partnership with Microsoft.wholesale netbook online
"We are solidly executing toward our plan for returning Yahoo to sustainable revenue and profit growth," CEO Carol Bartz said in a news release. "During the quarter, we beat the midpoint of revenue guidance while continuing to deliver on the bottom line."
Yahoo's earnings were 17 cents a share.wholesale spy camerca
Before the report, Yahoo shares dropped 22 cents, or 1.4 percent, to close at $16.12. The stock was up in after-hours trading.
Juniper Networks: The Sunnyvale maker of networking equipment (and rival to San Jose-based Cisco Systems) reported a $130 million profit, which was down 20 percent. Revenue climbed 21 percent to $1.1 billion.
"We are executing on our innovation road map with new solutions that define our vision of the new network. Innovation is at the core of our multiyear growth agenda," CEO Kevin Johnson said in a news release.
VMware: The Palo Alto maker of virtualization software and cloud computing infrastructure reported a $126 million profit, up 61.5 percent. Revenue was up 33 percent to $844 million.
"The quarter's strong performance underscores the value that VMware is providing customers on their journey to cloud computing," CEO Paul Maritz said in a news release.
Seagate's $1.4B deal
Seagate -- the maker of hard disk drives that operates out of Scotts Valley -- is buying South Korean-based Samsung Electronics' hard disk drive business for just under $1.4 billion in cash and stock.
The deal is the latest in a wave of consolidation in the hard disk drive industry. Western Digital, you might recall, announced early last month that it's buying Hitachi Global Storage Technologies for $4.3 billion in cash and stock. The Hitachi unit is the descendant of IBM's San Jose-based disk drive business. (An IBM engineer in San Jose invented the disk drive in the 1950s.)
As for the Seagate deal, it secures a supply of flash memory chips for the disk drive maker -- and it secures a supply of hard drives for Samsung. According to The Associated Press, the deal also gives Samsung nearly 10 percent ownership of Seagate.
"With these agreements, we expect to achieve greater scale and deliver a broader range of innovative storage products and solutions to our customers, while facilitating our long-term relationship with Samsung," Seagate CEO Steve Luczo said in a news release.
Intel and Yahoo are among the Silicon Valley Wholesale Battery tech giants reporting financial results this afternoon.
Intel: The Santa Clara chip behemoth -- maker of the microprocessors that are the brains in most of our Mac and Windows computers -- reported a $3.2 billion profit, up 29 percent from a year earlier. Wholesale Computers Revenue climbed 25 percent to a record $12.8 billion.
"The first-quarter revenue was an all-time record for Intel fueled by double digit annual revenue growth in every major product segment and across all geographies," CEO Paul Otellini said in a statement accompanying the results. LASER POINTERS
Intel's earnings came in at a record 56 cents a share -- or 59 cents, excluding
Before the report, Intel stock finished regular trading at $19.86, up 24 cents, or 1.2 percent, from Monday's closing price.wholesale ebook reader The shares were climbing in after-hours trading.
Yahoo: The Sunnyvale Internet content powerhouse reported a $223 million profit, down 28 percent year over year. Revenue fell 24 percent to $1.2 billion, in part from a change in how Yahoo reports revenue after it entered a search partnership with Microsoft.wholesale netbook online
"We are solidly executing toward our plan for returning Yahoo to sustainable revenue and profit growth," CEO Carol Bartz said in a news release. "During the quarter, we beat the midpoint of revenue guidance while continuing to deliver on the bottom line."
Yahoo's earnings were 17 cents a share.wholesale spy camerca
Before the report, Yahoo shares dropped 22 cents, or 1.4 percent, to close at $16.12. The stock was up in after-hours trading.
Juniper Networks: The Sunnyvale maker of networking equipment (and rival to San Jose-based Cisco Systems) reported a $130 million profit, which was down 20 percent. Revenue climbed 21 percent to $1.1 billion.
"We are executing on our innovation road map with new solutions that define our vision of the new network. Innovation is at the core of our multiyear growth agenda," CEO Kevin Johnson said in a news release.
VMware: The Palo Alto maker of virtualization software and cloud computing infrastructure reported a $126 million profit, up 61.5 percent. Revenue was up 33 percent to $844 million.
"The quarter's strong performance underscores the value that VMware is providing customers on their journey to cloud computing," CEO Paul Maritz said in a news release.
Seagate's $1.4B deal
Seagate -- the maker of hard disk drives that operates out of Scotts Valley -- is buying South Korean-based Samsung Electronics' hard disk drive business for just under $1.4 billion in cash and stock.
The deal is the latest in a wave of consolidation in the hard disk drive industry. Western Digital, you might recall, announced early last month that it's buying Hitachi Global Storage Technologies for $4.3 billion in cash and stock. The Hitachi unit is the descendant of IBM's San Jose-based disk drive business. (An IBM engineer in San Jose invented the disk drive in the 1950s.)
As for the Seagate deal, it secures a supply of flash memory chips for the disk drive maker -- and it secures a supply of hard drives for Samsung. According to The Associated Press, the deal also gives Samsung nearly 10 percent ownership of Seagate.
"With these agreements, we expect to achieve greater scale and deliver a broader range of innovative storage products and solutions to our customers, while facilitating our long-term relationship with Samsung," Seagate CEO Steve Luczo said in a news release.
Tuesday 19 April 2011
Yahoo to keep personal search data for 18 months instead of three
Yahoo Inc. said it would begin keeping records of its users’ search engine queries for at least 18 months,Wholesale Battery abandoning an earlier policy under which it kept data for only three months.
The retention of search term histories, which can encompass personal topics such as medical conditions or financial issues, has long been a point of contention in debates over digital privacy.Wholesale Computers
Yahoo said Monday that the decision was made to keep pace with online competitors.
"Over the past several years it’s clear that the Internet has changed, our business has changed, and the competitive landscape has changed," Anne Toth, a policy executive at Yahoo, wrote in a blog post. "We have gone back to the drawing board to ensure that our policies will support the innovative products we want to deliver for our consumers."LASER POINTERS
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But since that announcement, Yahoo’s share of the search business has dwindled, dropping to 16% in March from 20% in late 2008, when it instituted its three-month retention policy, according to Web ratings firm ComScore Inc.
Google Inc., which accounts for about 66% of U.S. searches, keeps logs of users’ searches for at least 18 months, after which it applies some changes to the files that make it more difficult to determine which users performed the original search. But the company does not specify in its privacy policy the exact manner by which it scrubs the records. wholesale android tablet
Microsoft said that after 18 months, it removes information from search logs that could identify users, including IP addresses — the unique code that each Internet-connected computer uses to send and receive data.wholesale baby monitor
The retention of search term histories, which can encompass personal topics such as medical conditions or financial issues, has long been a point of contention in debates over digital privacy.Wholesale Computers
Yahoo said Monday that the decision was made to keep pace with online competitors.
"Over the past several years it’s clear that the Internet has changed, our business has changed, and the competitive landscape has changed," Anne Toth, a policy executive at Yahoo, wrote in a blog post. "We have gone back to the drawing board to ensure that our policies will support the innovative products we want to deliver for our consumers."LASER POINTERS
It was also Toth who, in December 2008, said that keeping the data for only three months would set Yahoo apart from its competitors and build trust with the company’s users.wholesale ebook reader
But since that announcement, Yahoo’s share of the search business has dwindled, dropping to 16% in March from 20% in late 2008, when it instituted its three-month retention policy, according to Web ratings firm ComScore Inc.
Google Inc., which accounts for about 66% of U.S. searches, keeps logs of users’ searches for at least 18 months, after which it applies some changes to the files that make it more difficult to determine which users performed the original search. But the company does not specify in its privacy policy the exact manner by which it scrubs the records. wholesale android tablet
Microsoft said that after 18 months, it removes information from search logs that could identify users, including IP addresses — the unique code that each Internet-connected computer uses to send and receive data.wholesale baby monitor
Monday 18 April 2011
Electric car maker Coda Automotive to open showroom in mall
Nissan already sells the Leaf, Wholesale Battery an all-electric vehicle that retails for about $10,000 less than what Coda plans to ask for its vehicle. Chevrolet now sells the Volt – essentially a plug-in hybrid that can travel up to 40 miles on battery power before a small gasoline engine kicks in as a generator, extending the range beyond 300 miles.
Ford and Honda are readying electric offerings for the market next year. And other large auto companies are all developing electric cars they plan to bring to market in subsequent years.Wholesale Computers
Coda "will have a hard time with established players coming in," said Oliver Hazimeh, a partner at PRTM, a global management consulting firm.
Among the obstacles Coda faces are its lack of an automotive track record, a sales and service network, and consumer brand awareness, said Daniel Gorrell of AutoStratagem, an industry research and consulting firm.LASER POINTERS
"People are going to buy new technology from a company they trust, and that suggests that it will be very hard for companies such as Coda to sell many vehicles," Gorrell said WHOLESALE EBOOK READER
Murtaugh, who previously worked for General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group in Asia, said Coda understands the challenges and has a growth strategy. He said the company has enough cash to fund its plan. Private investors have already put $81 million into the business, and Coda is trying to raise an additional $44 million.
To jump-start sales, Coda is negotiating fleet deals with companies looking to increase their use of alternative fuel vehicles. Both Hertz Corp. and Enterprise Holdings Inc. have expressed interest in placing Coda sedans in their rental fleets once they go into production. This will get cars on the road where consumers will see them.wholesale tablet pc
The company plans to supplement the Westfield Century City showroom with Internet sales and the development of an alternate sales network, probably through other auto distributors or the big car dealership chains, Murtaugh said.
Murtaugh said he is confident the car will prove itself in the marketplace. The Coda is designed with a thermal management system that regulates the temperature of the battery to enhance performance and produce a more consistent range than the Leaf or other vehicles in development, he said.wholesale baby monitor
Coda's battery technology — it uses lithium-ion cells — also is more efficient that what's in other electric vehicles, Murtaugh said.
The company wants to leverage that technology — developed with Lishen Power Battery, a joint-venture partner in China — to develop electric batteries and drivetrains for other manufacturers.
So far, the major Western automakers have shunned Coda. But Murtaugh said he is negotiating with several Chinese manufacturers and hopes to announce deals to provide electric propulsion systems to several automakers soon.
Coda also wants to increase manufacturing volume and drive down expenses by selling batteries for energy storage use outside of the auto industry. Among other uses, they could provide backup power for cellular telephone towers or store surplus electricity produced by windmills to be fed back into the grid at peak times, he said.
Eventually, energy storage could account for 50% of the company's business, he said.
But for now, Murtaugh plans to attack the electric vehicle market, where he believes Coda will attract customers because the demand for such vehicles is greater than the supply trickling in from Nissan and the other automakers.
Ford and Honda are readying electric offerings for the market next year. And other large auto companies are all developing electric cars they plan to bring to market in subsequent years.Wholesale Computers
Coda "will have a hard time with established players coming in," said Oliver Hazimeh, a partner at PRTM, a global management consulting firm.
Among the obstacles Coda faces are its lack of an automotive track record, a sales and service network, and consumer brand awareness, said Daniel Gorrell of AutoStratagem, an industry research and consulting firm.LASER POINTERS
"People are going to buy new technology from a company they trust, and that suggests that it will be very hard for companies such as Coda to sell many vehicles," Gorrell said WHOLESALE EBOOK READER
Murtaugh, who previously worked for General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group in Asia, said Coda understands the challenges and has a growth strategy. He said the company has enough cash to fund its plan. Private investors have already put $81 million into the business, and Coda is trying to raise an additional $44 million.
To jump-start sales, Coda is negotiating fleet deals with companies looking to increase their use of alternative fuel vehicles. Both Hertz Corp. and Enterprise Holdings Inc. have expressed interest in placing Coda sedans in their rental fleets once they go into production. This will get cars on the road where consumers will see them.wholesale tablet pc
The company plans to supplement the Westfield Century City showroom with Internet sales and the development of an alternate sales network, probably through other auto distributors or the big car dealership chains, Murtaugh said.
Murtaugh said he is confident the car will prove itself in the marketplace. The Coda is designed with a thermal management system that regulates the temperature of the battery to enhance performance and produce a more consistent range than the Leaf or other vehicles in development, he said.wholesale baby monitor
Coda's battery technology — it uses lithium-ion cells — also is more efficient that what's in other electric vehicles, Murtaugh said.
The company wants to leverage that technology — developed with Lishen Power Battery, a joint-venture partner in China — to develop electric batteries and drivetrains for other manufacturers.
So far, the major Western automakers have shunned Coda. But Murtaugh said he is negotiating with several Chinese manufacturers and hopes to announce deals to provide electric propulsion systems to several automakers soon.
Coda also wants to increase manufacturing volume and drive down expenses by selling batteries for energy storage use outside of the auto industry. Among other uses, they could provide backup power for cellular telephone towers or store surplus electricity produced by windmills to be fed back into the grid at peak times, he said.
Eventually, energy storage could account for 50% of the company's business, he said.
But for now, Murtaugh plans to attack the electric vehicle market, where he believes Coda will attract customers because the demand for such vehicles is greater than the supply trickling in from Nissan and the other automakers.
Saturday 16 April 2011
What Internet Company Is Making Waves in the Technology Industry?
Amazon is proving to be one of the most innovative companies in the technology industry.
Take its success with the Kindle e-book reader.
When Amazon first unveiled its Kindle e-book reader, pundits were skeptical. E-books had been tried and failed before -- and Amazon wasn't a hardware company.
Stay your stream, the saying goes.Wholesale Battery
But Amazon has done a great job with the Kindle, making it far and away the biggest player in the e-book industry. And as tablet computers came on the scene, Amazon lowered the price of the Kindle to an entirely different tier -- tech-heads could easily afford to have both a tablet computer and a Kindle.
And there is reason to have both. While tablet computers are far more versatile, the Kindle e-book reader does its one job better than anything else. Thanks to e-ink technology, Kindle's can be read anywhere, in any light, with no more eye strain than reading a book.Wholesale Computers
Plus, because e-ink is such a power sipper -- the system is more or less inactive except when a page changes -- the Kindle can go over a week without needing a charge. It's the perfect thing to take along on a vacation -- lasting the whole time without wires, and readable on the beach.LASER POINTERS
And, at $139, Amazon has consistently undercut its competition on price.
(By the way, I'm contributing to Smart Investing Daily today, but regular editors Sara Nunnally and Jared Levy are always simplifying the technology market for you with their easy-to-understand articles.)
However, new threats are constantly emerging. Barnes and Noble's Nook e-reader, only $10 more than a Kindle, offers a color screen and a few other bells and whistles that are attracting some customers.wholesale ebook reader
Meanwhile, as tablet computers continue to improve while simultaneously dropping in price, pressure is descending from above as well.
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Starting in May, it will offer a discounted Kindle with ads.
For $25 less, you get the same Kindle... just with unobtrusive ads appearing as screen savers, or as banners across the bottom of navigation pages.
Will this new product prove a success? Who knows -- the technology market will have to decide.
My personal belief -- the $25 discount won't be enough to lure many customers to an ad-subsidized version.wholesale netbook
That doesn't mean it will be a failure though. Amazon is tinkering here -- and I'm betting they'll find a price point that does work.
With the bonus of a new advertising revenue stream.
Take its success with the Kindle e-book reader.
When Amazon first unveiled its Kindle e-book reader, pundits were skeptical. E-books had been tried and failed before -- and Amazon wasn't a hardware company.
Stay your stream, the saying goes.Wholesale Battery
But Amazon has done a great job with the Kindle, making it far and away the biggest player in the e-book industry. And as tablet computers came on the scene, Amazon lowered the price of the Kindle to an entirely different tier -- tech-heads could easily afford to have both a tablet computer and a Kindle.
And there is reason to have both. While tablet computers are far more versatile, the Kindle e-book reader does its one job better than anything else. Thanks to e-ink technology, Kindle's can be read anywhere, in any light, with no more eye strain than reading a book.Wholesale Computers
Plus, because e-ink is such a power sipper -- the system is more or less inactive except when a page changes -- the Kindle can go over a week without needing a charge. It's the perfect thing to take along on a vacation -- lasting the whole time without wires, and readable on the beach.LASER POINTERS
And, at $139, Amazon has consistently undercut its competition on price.
(By the way, I'm contributing to Smart Investing Daily today, but regular editors Sara Nunnally and Jared Levy are always simplifying the technology market for you with their easy-to-understand articles.)
However, new threats are constantly emerging. Barnes and Noble's Nook e-reader, only $10 more than a Kindle, offers a color screen and a few other bells and whistles that are attracting some customers.wholesale ebook reader
Meanwhile, as tablet computers continue to improve while simultaneously dropping in price, pressure is descending from above as well.
However, rather than standing still and seeing how the Kindle can weather these challengers, Amazon is innovating again.wholesale spy camerca
Starting in May, it will offer a discounted Kindle with ads.
For $25 less, you get the same Kindle... just with unobtrusive ads appearing as screen savers, or as banners across the bottom of navigation pages.
Will this new product prove a success? Who knows -- the technology market will have to decide.
My personal belief -- the $25 discount won't be enough to lure many customers to an ad-subsidized version.wholesale netbook
That doesn't mean it will be a failure though. Amazon is tinkering here -- and I'm betting they'll find a price point that does work.
With the bonus of a new advertising revenue stream.
Friday 15 April 2011
AT&T execs defend T-Mobile merger
AT&T's proposed $39 billion merger with T-Mobile will provide better network and data coverage for customers of both companies, AT&T's top California executive said Thursday.Wholesale Battery
Consumer advocates said the cost might be less competition, giving AT&T and rival giant Verizon a combined 80 percent share of the U.S. mobile market, and higher cell phone bills.Wholesale Computers
AT&T announced March 19 that it would buy T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom, a combination that would make it the nation's largest wireless carrier. The deal faces intense scrutiny.LASER POINTERS
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Ken McNeely, president of AT&T California, said combining the companies' two networks would allow its coverage area to extend over 95 percent of the country, better than AT&T's previous goal of 80 percent coverage.
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"We see it as not as redundant but really as complementary," McNeely said. "Even in areas where we have overlap, the denser the network, the better the customer experience."
In addition, he said Deutsche Telekom was not prepared to invest in a strong data network, certainly nothing like AT&T's 4G LTE service now being rolled out nationwide.wholesale android tablet
"It's a really a win-win for both the AT&T customer and the T-Mobile customer," he said in a telephone interview.
Such a merger might be a detriment to consumers' pocketbooks, said Parul P. Desai, policy counsel for Consumers Union.
"AT&T wireless plans typically cost consumers up to $50 more per month than comparable plans from T-Mobile, and consumers are consistently less satisfied with the service they get from AT&T than T-Mobile," she said in a statement earlier this month.
Also, in a telephone interview Thursday, Desai suggested a better use for AT&T's money.
"AT&T does not need T-Mobile's spectrum to improve their network and reach 95 percent of the country," she said from Washington, D.C. "They should invest in building out a quality network instead of just trying to buy up somebody else's spectrum."
Linda Sherry, national priorities director for Consumer Action, said the continuing consolidation of the mobile industry is reducing competition.
"It's concerning that we get fewer and fewer companies in the space, so when you go out to try to fit these services into your budget, you find less to choose from and more expensive prices," she said, also by telephone from Washington.
McNeely disagreed
"This is a highly competitive market," he said. "Even after the merger, there will continue to be three national players - AT&T, Verizon and Sprint - and then in most markets, three to four regional players, as well, competing for customers."
Sprint has raised strong concerns about the proposed merger, which would leave it a distant third in the wireless industry.
Consumer advocates said the cost might be less competition, giving AT&T and rival giant Verizon a combined 80 percent share of the U.S. mobile market, and higher cell phone bills.Wholesale Computers
AT&T announced March 19 that it would buy T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom, a combination that would make it the nation's largest wireless carrier. The deal faces intense scrutiny.LASER POINTERS
It must be approved by both the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice. Earlier this week, the U.S. Senate Judiciary antitrust subcommittee said it would hold hearings on the matter May 11.
Also, state attorneys general in New York, Connecticut and Minnesota have raised concerns.wholesale spy camerca
Ken McNeely, president of AT&T California, said combining the companies' two networks would allow its coverage area to extend over 95 percent of the country, better than AT&T's previous goal of 80 percent coverage.
The company could also improve its capacity in areas where both networks are present.wholesale ebook reader
"We see it as not as redundant but really as complementary," McNeely said. "Even in areas where we have overlap, the denser the network, the better the customer experience."
In addition, he said Deutsche Telekom was not prepared to invest in a strong data network, certainly nothing like AT&T's 4G LTE service now being rolled out nationwide.wholesale android tablet
"It's a really a win-win for both the AT&T customer and the T-Mobile customer," he said in a telephone interview.
Such a merger might be a detriment to consumers' pocketbooks, said Parul P. Desai, policy counsel for Consumers Union.
"AT&T wireless plans typically cost consumers up to $50 more per month than comparable plans from T-Mobile, and consumers are consistently less satisfied with the service they get from AT&T than T-Mobile," she said in a statement earlier this month.
Also, in a telephone interview Thursday, Desai suggested a better use for AT&T's money.
"AT&T does not need T-Mobile's spectrum to improve their network and reach 95 percent of the country," she said from Washington, D.C. "They should invest in building out a quality network instead of just trying to buy up somebody else's spectrum."
Linda Sherry, national priorities director for Consumer Action, said the continuing consolidation of the mobile industry is reducing competition.
"It's concerning that we get fewer and fewer companies in the space, so when you go out to try to fit these services into your budget, you find less to choose from and more expensive prices," she said, also by telephone from Washington.
McNeely disagreed
"This is a highly competitive market," he said. "Even after the merger, there will continue to be three national players - AT&T, Verizon and Sprint - and then in most markets, three to four regional players, as well, competing for customers."
Sprint has raised strong concerns about the proposed merger, which would leave it a distant third in the wireless industry.
Thursday 14 April 2011
Angry Birds To Land on Windows Phone 7 on May 25th
Unless you are completely void of all technology in your life, wholesale baby monitor then you have heard of the Angry Birds game which has been the hit gaming app on many a smartphone and tablet, and now apparently will be coming to the Windows Phone 7 as well! The launch date for the new Angry Birds for the popular smartphone is May 25th as confirmed by Microsoft today. Wholesale Battery
News of the Rovio currently working on an initiative that would enable Angry Birds to sync across all wholesale android tablet platforms is rumored to be underway and will now include the Windows Phone 7 platform as well. Wholesale Computers The news comes after a reconciliation between Microsoft and Rovio after a previous dispute that seems to no longer be an issue.
Angry Birds is undeniably one of the most successful game app ever developed and has enjoyed tremendous success on both the iOS and the Android OS, topping game charts consistently.LASER POINTERS The latest version of Angry Birds is expected to feature 195 exhilarating and intriguing levels of play, complete with plenty of pig obliterating. You can find the game available for download in the Xbox Live portal of WP marketplace. The announcement by Microsoft came at the MIX 11 extravaganza event in Las Vegas today.wholesale ebook reader
News of the Rovio currently working on an initiative that would enable Angry Birds to sync across all wholesale android tablet platforms is rumored to be underway and will now include the Windows Phone 7 platform as well. Wholesale Computers The news comes after a reconciliation between Microsoft and Rovio after a previous dispute that seems to no longer be an issue.
Angry Birds is undeniably one of the most successful game app ever developed and has enjoyed tremendous success on both the iOS and the Android OS, topping game charts consistently.LASER POINTERS The latest version of Angry Birds is expected to feature 195 exhilarating and intriguing levels of play, complete with plenty of pig obliterating. You can find the game available for download in the Xbox Live portal of WP marketplace. The announcement by Microsoft came at the MIX 11 extravaganza event in Las Vegas today.wholesale ebook reader
Wednesday 13 April 2011
Apple and Foxconn to Open New Factory in Brazil to Build More iPad 2s
Foxconn, Wholesale Battery the company that assembles iPads and iPhones on behalf of Apple, is allegedly in talks with the Brazilian government about the possibility to open a $12 billion factory in Brazil, according to Reuters. Foxconn is also negotiating with Brazilian officials to retrofit existing production plants to start building iPad 2s later this year, to help Apple keep up with the overwhelming demand for the device.Wholesale Computers
Currently, all iOS devices are exclusively built off Foxconn factories located in Shenzhen, China. wholesale tablet pc Countries like Brazil have been trying to convince Apple and Foxconn to build additional factories to build iPhones and iPads, to supplement the existing Chinese factories, and offer a production center better suited to serve the North and South American markets.LASER POINTERS
Foxconn and Apple are desperately trying to find ways to increase the production output of the iPad 2, to deal with the shortages currently experienced across the globe. Foxconn shipped 2.5 million units last month,wholesale ebook reader a number much lower than Apple’s production target, which is close to 5 million units a month.
Foxconn is currently ramping up more production lines, wholesale spy camerca and should be able to ship at least 4 million units a month, for the months of April, June and May, to match Apple’s current forecast of at least 12 million units to be sold during this period.
Currently, all iOS devices are exclusively built off Foxconn factories located in Shenzhen, China. wholesale tablet pc Countries like Brazil have been trying to convince Apple and Foxconn to build additional factories to build iPhones and iPads, to supplement the existing Chinese factories, and offer a production center better suited to serve the North and South American markets.LASER POINTERS
Foxconn and Apple are desperately trying to find ways to increase the production output of the iPad 2, to deal with the shortages currently experienced across the globe. Foxconn shipped 2.5 million units last month,wholesale ebook reader a number much lower than Apple’s production target, which is close to 5 million units a month.
Foxconn is currently ramping up more production lines, wholesale spy camerca and should be able to ship at least 4 million units a month, for the months of April, June and May, to match Apple’s current forecast of at least 12 million units to be sold during this period.
Tuesday 12 April 2011
No, Microsoft didn't rush IE 9 into Windows Update
Did Microsoft really rush Internet Explorer 9 into Windows Update in a desperate move to catch up with Firefox?Wholesale Battery
Sorry, conspiracy theorists, wholesale spy camerca but the answer is an emphatic no.Wholesale Computers
My colleague Mary Jo Foley wrote “Forget June: Microsoft already pushing IE9,” noting an apparent acceleration from a previously reported June schedule. Elsewhere on ZDNet, Steven J. Vaughan Nichols piled on: “Why is Microsoft pushing IE 9 out now? Firefox.” In his view, Microsoft was forced to “push IE9 out early” because Firefox is kicking the stuffings out of IE 9 in adoption rates.
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That would be an interesting argument wholesale android tablet if it were supported by any evidence. Too bad the theory crumbles into little pieces as you soon as do some research. With IE 9, Microsoft is following the exact same schedule as it did with Internet Explorer 8 and Internet Explorer 7, with an identical rollout strategy. Nothing’s been sped up, nothing’s been slowed down. This is how Microsoft releases a new browser.Wholesale ebook reader
Sorry, conspiracy theorists, wholesale spy camerca but the answer is an emphatic no.Wholesale Computers
My colleague Mary Jo Foley wrote “Forget June: Microsoft already pushing IE9,” noting an apparent acceleration from a previously reported June schedule. Elsewhere on ZDNet, Steven J. Vaughan Nichols piled on: “Why is Microsoft pushing IE 9 out now? Firefox.” In his view, Microsoft was forced to “push IE9 out early” because Firefox is kicking the stuffings out of IE 9 in adoption rates.
LASER POINTERS
That would be an interesting argument wholesale android tablet if it were supported by any evidence. Too bad the theory crumbles into little pieces as you soon as do some research. With IE 9, Microsoft is following the exact same schedule as it did with Internet Explorer 8 and Internet Explorer 7, with an identical rollout strategy. Nothing’s been sped up, nothing’s been slowed down. This is how Microsoft releases a new browser.Wholesale ebook reader
Monday 11 April 2011
iPad becomes fully integrated Photoshop tool, Android and PlayBook next
Adobe is fully wholesale ebook reader integrating mobile tablets into Photoshop CS5, turning them into powerful peripherals for content creation and display. On Monday, Adobe announced the Photoshop Touch SDK,smart car accessories and three iPad applications (Color Lava, Eazel, and Nav) which show the impressive new capabilities that an iPad or touchscreen tablet can give your Photoshop setup.
With the launch of the iPad 2 earlier this year, Apple launched iPad-optimized versions of Garageband and iMovie, two pieces of software that finally began to prove mobile tablets aren't just for content consumption, but also content creation. But those apps, like Photoshop for iPad, are just pared down versions of desktop software meant to stand on their own. wholesale spy camerca
Adobe has taken a completely different approach with these iOS applications: rather than standing alone, these apps wirelessly pair up with a PC running Photoshop CS5, and extend the workspace out to the iPad's touchscreen. This gives users easier access to canvases, layers, tools, albums of completed art, and many other capabilities.Wholesale Battery
This application turns the iPad into a virtual artist's palette, where users can daub and mix paints with their fingers just like they would on a palette, and then send them back to their Photoshop workspace.Wholesale Computers
Eazel turns the iPad into a finger painting canvas, where all the Photoshop tools are at the user's disposal. iPad finger painting art has made its way all the way to the cover of the New Yorker, and Adobe seeks to give artists more tools than have previously been available.LASER POINTERS
With the launch of the iPad 2 earlier this year, Apple launched iPad-optimized versions of Garageband and iMovie, two pieces of software that finally began to prove mobile tablets aren't just for content consumption, but also content creation. But those apps, like Photoshop for iPad, are just pared down versions of desktop software meant to stand on their own. wholesale spy camerca
Adobe has taken a completely different approach with these iOS applications: rather than standing alone, these apps wirelessly pair up with a PC running Photoshop CS5, and extend the workspace out to the iPad's touchscreen. This gives users easier access to canvases, layers, tools, albums of completed art, and many other capabilities.Wholesale Battery
This application turns the iPad into a virtual artist's palette, where users can daub and mix paints with their fingers just like they would on a palette, and then send them back to their Photoshop workspace.Wholesale Computers
Eazel turns the iPad into a finger painting canvas, where all the Photoshop tools are at the user's disposal. iPad finger painting art has made its way all the way to the cover of the New Yorker, and Adobe seeks to give artists more tools than have previously been available.LASER POINTERS
Saturday 9 April 2011
Microsoft, Toyota team up on digital auto network
Microsoft Corp and Toyota Motor Corp unveiled a plan on Wednesday to work together on bringing Internet-connected services to Toyota's cars across the world.wholesale car accessories The world's biggest software company and the biggest automaker said they were investing about $12 million (1 billion yen) in Toyota Media Service Co, a Toyota unit that handles its digital offerings for customers.
Toyota is planning to set up a network based on Microsoft's Azure "cloud computing" platform by 2015, which would allow customers across the world access to Toyota's digital services, such as GPS, multimedia, and managing power on electric and hybrid vehicles.Wholesale Battery
One of the services Toyota is planning will monitor and integrate a person's power usage across the home and car to maximize efficiency.Wholesale Computers
For example by automatically charging electric cars when power rates are lowest can help maximize power use efficiency.LASER POINTERS
The chief advantage for Toyota is that it will be able to offer Internet-delivered services to customers in all 170 countries it sells in, through the use of one Microsoft cloud platform, rather than having to set up networks and data centers in each country.wholesale ebook reader
Toyota President Akio Toyoda traveled to Microsoft's headquarters near Seattle to announce the partnership alongside Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer.
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Toyota is planning to set up a network based on Microsoft's Azure "cloud computing" platform by 2015, which would allow customers across the world access to Toyota's digital services, such as GPS, multimedia, and managing power on electric and hybrid vehicles.Wholesale Battery
One of the services Toyota is planning will monitor and integrate a person's power usage across the home and car to maximize efficiency.Wholesale Computers
For example by automatically charging electric cars when power rates are lowest can help maximize power use efficiency.LASER POINTERS
The chief advantage for Toyota is that it will be able to offer Internet-delivered services to customers in all 170 countries it sells in, through the use of one Microsoft cloud platform, rather than having to set up networks and data centers in each country.wholesale ebook reader
Toyota President Akio Toyoda traveled to Microsoft's headquarters near Seattle to announce the partnership alongside Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer.
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Friday 8 April 2011
HTC Net Surges More Than Estimated to Record on Demand for Android Mobiles
Asia’s second-largest mobile-phone maker by market value, posted record quarterly profit and sales on demand for more-advanced high-speed handsets. Wholesale Battery
Net income almost tripled to NT$14.83 billion ($513 million) in the first quarter from NT$5 billion a year earlier, the Taoyuan, Taiwan-based company said in a statement today. That was higher than the NT$12.8 billion average of 18 analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Wholesale Computers
Sales more than doubled as HTC benefited wholesale car accessories from rising demand for smartphones that use Google Inc. (GOOG)’s Android system and models that offer higher connection speeds. Profit may gain further this quarter as the company begins selling new devices including its first tablet computer, according to analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg. LASER POINTERS
“We expect HTC’s new model launches in the second quarter to drive stronger shipment growth than peers in the next two quarters,” analyst Jeff Pu, who recommends investors “buy” the stock, at Fubon Financial Holding Co. wrote in a report yesterday. wholesale baby monitor
HTC said Jan. 21 it expected to ship 8.5 million units for the quarter, more than double that of a year earlier and its second-highest following the 9.1 million sold in the fourth quarter. It didn’t provide first-quarter shipment numbers today. Net income may climb in the second quarter to NT$14.5 billion, according to the average of 17 analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg. wholesale spy camerca
Net income almost tripled to NT$14.83 billion ($513 million) in the first quarter from NT$5 billion a year earlier, the Taoyuan, Taiwan-based company said in a statement today. That was higher than the NT$12.8 billion average of 18 analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Wholesale Computers
Sales more than doubled as HTC benefited wholesale car accessories from rising demand for smartphones that use Google Inc. (GOOG)’s Android system and models that offer higher connection speeds. Profit may gain further this quarter as the company begins selling new devices including its first tablet computer, according to analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg. LASER POINTERS
“We expect HTC’s new model launches in the second quarter to drive stronger shipment growth than peers in the next two quarters,” analyst Jeff Pu, who recommends investors “buy” the stock, at Fubon Financial Holding Co. wrote in a report yesterday. wholesale baby monitor
HTC said Jan. 21 it expected to ship 8.5 million units for the quarter, more than double that of a year earlier and its second-highest following the 9.1 million sold in the fourth quarter. It didn’t provide first-quarter shipment numbers today. Net income may climb in the second quarter to NT$14.5 billion, according to the average of 17 analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg. wholesale spy camerca
Thursday 7 April 2011
Motorola Xoom tablet reportedly a flop – here’s the real issue
Better days: Is this a Justin Bieber appearance or the unveiling of an "iPad Killer"? Wholesale Battery Word this morning is that the Moto Xoom and Atrix are flops. Sales numbers indicate that the 10-inch Xoom tablet, wholesale electronics accessories a would-be iPad 2 killer which stole the show at CES in January, is virtually DOA – and it’s only been on the market for just a few weeks. While we dont know the exact sales figures, Pacific Crest analyst James Faucette told Forbes sales “have been disappointing.” Meanwhile he cut his 2011 revenue outlook for Motorola Mobility (MMI) to $12.8B (down from #13.7B).Wholesale Computers
There isn’t much surprise here.
One clue: when’s the last time you’ve seen a line-up of starry-eyed Xoom fans at Costco or Best Buy at 4am? LASER POINTERS
Now… here’s the not-so-amazing twist:
Google and its partners will promote the EXPERIENCE. Not the SPEEDS AND FEEDS (as we used to say back in the day at Cisco).
Hardware specs are great, yes. But middle wholesale baby monitor America wants to play Angry Birds. They want to poke their friends on Facebook. They want to look up a recipe or watch Colbert do his Friday bit. All of that other information — processor speed, memory architecture, multi-tasking — while important is not the reason why the Apple iPad sells like mad. Remember when we discovered the iPad 2 would not have the uber-sexy high-resolution next-gen display? According to some tech sites the sky was falling! I think now we know this didn’t matter to most consumers as many had predicted.wholesale tablet pc
For now Moto can lament its losses and head back to the drawing board. But I think it needs to have a couple of fierce eye-to-eyes with the new CEO of its partner company. Google needs to re-tool its tablet OS, its content strategy and its marketing messaging if it has any hope of catching Apple in the tablet market.
There isn’t much surprise here.
One clue: when’s the last time you’ve seen a line-up of starry-eyed Xoom fans at Costco or Best Buy at 4am? LASER POINTERS
Now… here’s the not-so-amazing twist:
Google and its partners will promote the EXPERIENCE. Not the SPEEDS AND FEEDS (as we used to say back in the day at Cisco).
Hardware specs are great, yes. But middle wholesale baby monitor America wants to play Angry Birds. They want to poke their friends on Facebook. They want to look up a recipe or watch Colbert do his Friday bit. All of that other information — processor speed, memory architecture, multi-tasking — while important is not the reason why the Apple iPad sells like mad. Remember when we discovered the iPad 2 would not have the uber-sexy high-resolution next-gen display? According to some tech sites the sky was falling! I think now we know this didn’t matter to most consumers as many had predicted.wholesale tablet pc
For now Moto can lament its losses and head back to the drawing board. But I think it needs to have a couple of fierce eye-to-eyes with the new CEO of its partner company. Google needs to re-tool its tablet OS, its content strategy and its marketing messaging if it has any hope of catching Apple in the tablet market.
Wednesday 6 April 2011
Ozone layer faces record 40 percent loss over Arctic
The protective ozone layer in the Arctic that keeps out the sun’s most damaging rays — ultraviolet radiation — has thinned about 40 percent this winter, a record drop, the U.N. weather agency said Tuesday.
The Arctic’s damaged stratospheric ozone layer isn’t the best known “ozone hole” — that would be Antarctica’s, which forms when sunlight returns in spring there each year. But the Arctic’s situation is due to similar causes: ozone-munching compounds in air pollutants that are chemically triggered by a combination of extremely cold temperatures and sunlight.
The losses this winter in the Arctic’s fragile ozone atmospheric layer strongly exceeded the previous seasonal loss of about 30 percent, the U.N.’s World Meteorological Organization in Geneva said.
It blamed the combination of very cold temperatures in the stratosphere, the second major layer of the Earth’s atmosphere, just above the troposphere, and ozone-eating CFCs from aerosol sprays and refrigeration.
“This is pretty sudden and unusual,” said Bryan Johnson, an atmospheric chemist who works in the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Earth System Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado.
Atmospheric scientists concerned about global warming focus on the Arctic because that is a region where the effects are expected to be felt first.
“The Arctic stratosphere continues to be vulnerable to ozone destruction caused by ozone-depleting substances linked to human activities,” the U.N. weather agency’s secretary-general Michel Jarraud said.
Although the thinner ozone means more radiation can hit Earth’s surface, the ozone levels in the Arctic remain higher than in other regions such as in the equatorial regions, said the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, whose recent Arctic findings mirror those of the U.N. agency.
Ozone losses occur over the polar regions when temperatures drop below -78 degrees Celsius (-108 Fahrenheit) and iridescent ice clouds form.wholesale spy camerca Sunlight on icy surfaces triggers the ozone-eating reactions in chlorine and bromine that comes from air pollutants such as chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, once widely used as refrigerants and flame retardants in household appliances.
“As sunlight returns, it all comes together to trigger significant thinning of the ozone,” Johnson explained.wholesale homeware
“Mostly the concern, for the Arctic ozone depletion, is for people that live in northern regions, more towards Iceland, northern Norway, the northern coast of Russia,” he added, saying they should be more careful outside, wearing sunscreen and sunglasses.Wholesale Battery
As of late March, the U.N. said, the thinning ozone was shifting away from the pole and was covering Greenland and Scandinavia.Wholesale Computers
For the planet, Johnson said, there’s the concern that “if this were to happen every year — even though the ozone naturally regenerates itself — you might see a trending downward of the atmospheric ozone layer.”LASER POINTERS
After scientists raised warnings in the early 1970s — later earning a Nobel Prize — virtually all the world’s nations agreed to the 1987 treaty called the Montreal Protocol to cut back on CFCs used in air conditioning, aerosol sprays, foam packaging and other products.wholesale pc parts
The Arctic’s damaged stratospheric ozone layer isn’t the best known “ozone hole” — that would be Antarctica’s, which forms when sunlight returns in spring there each year. But the Arctic’s situation is due to similar causes: ozone-munching compounds in air pollutants that are chemically triggered by a combination of extremely cold temperatures and sunlight.
The losses this winter in the Arctic’s fragile ozone atmospheric layer strongly exceeded the previous seasonal loss of about 30 percent, the U.N.’s World Meteorological Organization in Geneva said.
It blamed the combination of very cold temperatures in the stratosphere, the second major layer of the Earth’s atmosphere, just above the troposphere, and ozone-eating CFCs from aerosol sprays and refrigeration.
“This is pretty sudden and unusual,” said Bryan Johnson, an atmospheric chemist who works in the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Earth System Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado.
Atmospheric scientists concerned about global warming focus on the Arctic because that is a region where the effects are expected to be felt first.
“The Arctic stratosphere continues to be vulnerable to ozone destruction caused by ozone-depleting substances linked to human activities,” the U.N. weather agency’s secretary-general Michel Jarraud said.
Although the thinner ozone means more radiation can hit Earth’s surface, the ozone levels in the Arctic remain higher than in other regions such as in the equatorial regions, said the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, whose recent Arctic findings mirror those of the U.N. agency.
Ozone losses occur over the polar regions when temperatures drop below -78 degrees Celsius (-108 Fahrenheit) and iridescent ice clouds form.wholesale spy camerca Sunlight on icy surfaces triggers the ozone-eating reactions in chlorine and bromine that comes from air pollutants such as chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, once widely used as refrigerants and flame retardants in household appliances.
“As sunlight returns, it all comes together to trigger significant thinning of the ozone,” Johnson explained.wholesale homeware
“Mostly the concern, for the Arctic ozone depletion, is for people that live in northern regions, more towards Iceland, northern Norway, the northern coast of Russia,” he added, saying they should be more careful outside, wearing sunscreen and sunglasses.Wholesale Battery
As of late March, the U.N. said, the thinning ozone was shifting away from the pole and was covering Greenland and Scandinavia.Wholesale Computers
For the planet, Johnson said, there’s the concern that “if this were to happen every year — even though the ozone naturally regenerates itself — you might see a trending downward of the atmospheric ozone layer.”LASER POINTERS
After scientists raised warnings in the early 1970s — later earning a Nobel Prize — virtually all the world’s nations agreed to the 1987 treaty called the Montreal Protocol to cut back on CFCs used in air conditioning, aerosol sprays, foam packaging and other products.wholesale pc parts
Sunday 3 April 2011
Apple iPad 2 Launch Results in “Underwhelming” Motorola Xoom
2011 is turning out to smart car accessories be a pretty good year for Motorola as they quickly becoming one of the powerhouse manufacturers of tablets and smartphones. Motorola has long had a presence in the wireless industry and has earned a reputation in delivering high quality communication devices. In recent years Motorola has shifted its gears to keep up with the growing demand of smartphones and now tablet computers.LASER POINTERS
Motorola’s latest tablet creation captured wholesale baby monitor the minds of millions this past January as it made its first appearance at the 2011 CES Show. After being awarded best tablet award at the 2011 CES show and most anticipated tablet by its followers Motorola was sure to make waves in a no wake zone held by its fierce competition with the Apple iPad.Wholesale Battery
Prior to Motorola launching wholesale ebook reader the Xoom news was released that Apple was finishing up its plans to start distribution of its second version of iPad, with the iPad 2. Motorola’s Xoom launch was overshadowed by Apple’s iPad 2 that was expedited to hit sales floors within weeks that resulted in “underwhelming” sales according to Analyst Peter Misek of Jefferies & Company. According to Analysts Peter Misek, Motorola is down, but not out.Wholesale Computers
Motorola’s latest tablet creation captured wholesale baby monitor the minds of millions this past January as it made its first appearance at the 2011 CES Show. After being awarded best tablet award at the 2011 CES show and most anticipated tablet by its followers Motorola was sure to make waves in a no wake zone held by its fierce competition with the Apple iPad.Wholesale Battery
Prior to Motorola launching wholesale ebook reader the Xoom news was released that Apple was finishing up its plans to start distribution of its second version of iPad, with the iPad 2. Motorola’s Xoom launch was overshadowed by Apple’s iPad 2 that was expedited to hit sales floors within weeks that resulted in “underwhelming” sales according to Analyst Peter Misek of Jefferies & Company. According to Analysts Peter Misek, Motorola is down, but not out.Wholesale Computers
Saturday 2 April 2011
android trojan highlights risks of open markets
Egregious spelling and grammatical errors aside, the text message serves as a reminder of the risks to those willing to go outside of the official Market for apps.Wholesale Battery
“Someone downloaded the app, inserted their malware, and uploaded it onto other non-official marketplaces,” Symantec mobile team product manager John Engels told Wired.com in an interview.Wholesale Computers
In other words, if you go outside the official Market, things may not be what they seem, and there’s no guarantee that what you download is what you actually want.
Google maintains clear content policies on all apps that are uploaded to the official Android Market, and developers know well enough in advance what those policies are, and how not to break them. Whenever an app in clear violation of Google’s policies shows up in the Market — like, say, a piece of malware — Google’s Android engineers are often quick to quash it.LASER POINTERS
But if you’re not one for pesky rules and regulations and want to see what the non-Google-sanctioned markets have to offer, all it takes to access them on an Android device is for you to uncheck a box on a settings page, allowing your phone to install apps from “unknown sources.”
To a certain degree, this isn’t a huge issue for the novice user. Many outside applications are hosted on file sharing websites that users like your grandmother probably aren’t frequenting. And unless they’ve tried to install these outside applications by sideloading them, they’ve probably never unchecked the unknown source’s permissions box to begin with.smart car accessories
But last week’s debut of Amazon’s new App Store may have changed that. In order to install Amazon’s App Store on an Android device, you first must uncheck that permissions box. While there may be no immediate risks associated with downloading apps from Amazon’s App Store, it opens the door for users to allow other unofficial — and therefore riskier — apps to be installed on their devices, from other sources.wholesale pc parts
“As soon as you flip that switch and go away from the Android Market, which is the one place where most people go, then you are putting yourself at some risk,” security researcher Charlie Miller told Wired in a previous interview.
“The threat will persist so long as people continue to download pirated software from peer-to-peer networks,” Webroot threat research analysts Armando Orozco and Andrew Brandt told Wired.com. wholesale baby monitor
They say sticking to the Android Market is your safest bet, but if you’re still compelled to go outside the official box for your apps, whether it be to Amazon’s App Store or another unofficial market, you should “scrutinize the permissions the App requests, and don’t install it if it wants access to certain functions (like the ability to send SMS messages) that the app shouldn’t need to access.”
But doesn’t staying within the confines of the Android Market defeat the purpose of choosing a platform with such an “open” philosophy? If you want a stricter, closed system with stringent regulation on its apps via a review process, you might as well buy an iPhone.
“Android users enabling sideloading doesn’t necessarily lead to piracy or installation of apps from unsafe sources,” says Alicia diVittorio, a spokewoman for Lookout Mobile Security. “In fact, it’s great to have another source for consumers to download apps from a reputable brand like Amazon.”
Indeed, Amazon’s Appstore isn’t a great deal different from Apple’s App Store: Both companies require an intense review and approval process before making any developer’s submitted applications available for purchase.
Essentially, there’s an inherent risk that comes with downloading apps for a device with an attitude of openness like the Android. Even the official Market is susceptible to infiltration by malware, as evidenced by the swath of malicious apps pulled from the store earlier this month.
But in a relatively free and open domain such as Android’s, the risk remains the price of admission.
“Someone downloaded the app, inserted their malware, and uploaded it onto other non-official marketplaces,” Symantec mobile team product manager John Engels told Wired.com in an interview.Wholesale Computers
In other words, if you go outside the official Market, things may not be what they seem, and there’s no guarantee that what you download is what you actually want.
Google maintains clear content policies on all apps that are uploaded to the official Android Market, and developers know well enough in advance what those policies are, and how not to break them. Whenever an app in clear violation of Google’s policies shows up in the Market — like, say, a piece of malware — Google’s Android engineers are often quick to quash it.LASER POINTERS
But if you’re not one for pesky rules and regulations and want to see what the non-Google-sanctioned markets have to offer, all it takes to access them on an Android device is for you to uncheck a box on a settings page, allowing your phone to install apps from “unknown sources.”
To a certain degree, this isn’t a huge issue for the novice user. Many outside applications are hosted on file sharing websites that users like your grandmother probably aren’t frequenting. And unless they’ve tried to install these outside applications by sideloading them, they’ve probably never unchecked the unknown source’s permissions box to begin with.smart car accessories
But last week’s debut of Amazon’s new App Store may have changed that. In order to install Amazon’s App Store on an Android device, you first must uncheck that permissions box. While there may be no immediate risks associated with downloading apps from Amazon’s App Store, it opens the door for users to allow other unofficial — and therefore riskier — apps to be installed on their devices, from other sources.wholesale pc parts
“As soon as you flip that switch and go away from the Android Market, which is the one place where most people go, then you are putting yourself at some risk,” security researcher Charlie Miller told Wired in a previous interview.
“The threat will persist so long as people continue to download pirated software from peer-to-peer networks,” Webroot threat research analysts Armando Orozco and Andrew Brandt told Wired.com. wholesale baby monitor
They say sticking to the Android Market is your safest bet, but if you’re still compelled to go outside the official box for your apps, whether it be to Amazon’s App Store or another unofficial market, you should “scrutinize the permissions the App requests, and don’t install it if it wants access to certain functions (like the ability to send SMS messages) that the app shouldn’t need to access.”
But doesn’t staying within the confines of the Android Market defeat the purpose of choosing a platform with such an “open” philosophy? If you want a stricter, closed system with stringent regulation on its apps via a review process, you might as well buy an iPhone.
“Android users enabling sideloading doesn’t necessarily lead to piracy or installation of apps from unsafe sources,” says Alicia diVittorio, a spokewoman for Lookout Mobile Security. “In fact, it’s great to have another source for consumers to download apps from a reputable brand like Amazon.”
Indeed, Amazon’s Appstore isn’t a great deal different from Apple’s App Store: Both companies require an intense review and approval process before making any developer’s submitted applications available for purchase.
Essentially, there’s an inherent risk that comes with downloading apps for a device with an attitude of openness like the Android. Even the official Market is susceptible to infiltration by malware, as evidenced by the swath of malicious apps pulled from the store earlier this month.
But in a relatively free and open domain such as Android’s, the risk remains the price of admission.
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