HTC cannot quit phone game

Coombes will serve as CEO, while Atkins chief marketing officer.

HTC former executives Coombes and Atkins are hoping fresh up and start with their own company. The two left HTC in March, part of an exodus of several key executives leaving as the company struggles with its U-turn.

Of course the company faces great hurdles, and might perhaps very well go from Kazam to kablooey in short approach. After all, if a company with the resources of HTC continues to struggle with the earpiece business, how much of a chance does a start-up have?

Kazam, who determines on focusing on the European market, has confidence that HTC can differentiate itself by offering phones that it will continue to support after they're purchased. Considering that smartphones routinely get software updates, the company will likely offer more support than new versions of the software. The bare-bones statement didn't provide any concrete details on the products themselves, noting only that a line of smartphones will launch later this year.

There is a real occasion for a new mobile brand to disrupt the status quo if there is passionate about delivering a truly positive mobile experience that doesn't just stop once you've bought the phone.

As Kazam's dynamic structure and focus is on local markets meaning that they can retort swiftly to the ever-embryonic and deviating needs of current’s purchaser.

There is need to hear more about Kazam plus its phone first before making a final noise, but for now, the startup is raising a lot of questions about its business with the announcement.

Because in many markets where the carrier plays a foremost role in what the consumer ultimately buys, getting an in with the big companies will be a huge contest. Fortunately, unlocked phones are more popular in Europe, so there's a potential market for customers who want approximately different technology.

Also, with companies such as HTC, Sony, and LG fighting for the scraps left over from Samsung and Apple, there appears to be little left over for Kazam. And comparatively large companies such as Huawei and ZTE have struggled to get into mature markets despite gigantic resources.

But in a market where money, scale, distribution, and brand talks, Kazam is at a distinct disadvantage.

 

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M.S Office to iPhones but confines use.

Microsoft has unconfined an app that lets Office 365 subscribers to consume Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on their iPhones today.

 Don't get too animated Office fans. On Friday the giant released Office Mobile for iPhone in the iTunes Store While it's a free download, but it will only work for subscribers to Microsoft's Office 365 Home Premium and Pro-plus as known by the fans of iPhone. And it's heightened for the iPhone only, excluding the Apple's larger iPads.

Whereas Microsoft edged a bit quicker today to bringing the one app to the iPhone that's long been missing Office!

But as the marketing Manager Chris Schneider in Microsoft’s Office division said that “We do not view this as a standalone application” while chitchats of  iOS have heated up over the last few years, this release will have to predominantly limit the appeal for supplementary 350 million users of iPhones worldwide just because as Microsoft distinguished last month Office 365 has 1 million subscribers.

This app comprises of several features to let the subscribers pick up files on their phones where they left off on their computers. The Recommence Sense feature, like, taking user to the exact point in the document last viewed in Word on a Computer. Appointing on the Recent button on the bottom of the app's home page will take the user to a list of the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps they most recently worked on from their Computer, tablet, or phone.

It would require making work on a larger screen if Microsoft designed this app to work on iPads too, the reason why it’s not possible using it on iPads as Microsoft was tumbling with this new app. Because they never thought at any moment that it could be elective an experience.

And Microsoft is not currently offering an Android version of the app, but instead, Microsoft is heartening Android, and iPads users, to tap into its Office Web Apps services, that offers various Office programs through a Web browser.

Office Mobile for iPhone really points to rounding out that device experience.

 

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Wireless emergency alerts added to U.S. iPhones

Messages that let one to know when there is a natural disaster, presidential, or Amber alerts, in an area will now be sent on both iPhone 5 
and iPhone 4

These alerts are for getting material out to people who aren't closely tuned into a television or radio, and would have been helpful during disasters such as the fatal accidents that might have happened in places where one might have planned to pass.

AT&T publicized that it is progressing out wireless alternative alerts to all of its U.S. customers that have an iPhone 5 and 4. These alerts are physically targeted, so, for example, users in a certain areas like Florida will not be able to get access to messages about North Dakota and so on to other places.

Anytime there is a man-made disaster, government-issued safety announcement, or a presidential alert, or an Amber alert for a missing child, a message will pop up on user’s iPhones explaining what's happening.

But if one doesn’t want to get these alerts, it's possible to turn off most of them. In the iPhone's settings, under notifications, letting users to toggle off Amber and emergency alerts. However, there's no way to turn off the presidential alerts as these alerts are part of the FCC’s CMAS program and are enforced by law.

To get the alerts, iPhone holders will have to update their phones with AT&T's new software and this update will appear on iPhones automatically. The update will only be sent over-the-air to users with iOS 6.1 or higher. Those users with iPhone5 or 4 but not on iOS 6.1 or higher will get the update when they plug their device into iTunes.

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Massive Hacker accused

Jeremy Hammond was arrested in a major federal sweep last year on charges of computer hacking conspiracy, computer hacking, and conspiracy to commit access device fraud and the self-described hacktivist pled guilty to these counts in court on Tuesday.
Antisec took charge for hacking into security think tank Strategic Forecasting, in December 2011. One of the group's claims was the theft 200GB worth of data, including e-mails and clients' credit card information.
As part of each of these hacks, who devastated private information stored on computer systems, websites used by each of the entities claimed to be knowing what they’re doing that was against the law. But the feds pinched Hammond, 28, and a handful of other alleged hackers after an insider named
while the authorities were going after hackers in the Lulzsec hacking group at that time, they also arrested Hammond, who they said was part of an Anonymous-affiliated hacktivist group called Antisec.
The group published 860,000 e-mail addresses and 75,000 unencrypted credit card numbers on the Web after the hack existences. FBI also claimed that at least $700,000 worth of unauthorized charges were made to credit card accounts stolen in the hack.
Hammond was accused by the feds of being one of the kingpin hackers allegedly involved in this massive cyber-attack.
Jeremy took accountability for what he did, but should not have faced such a harsh sentence for an act of protest from which he did not personally benefit, as Hammond's brother, Jason Hammond, said in a statement but for Hammond will be sentenced on September 6 and his to faces up to 10 years in prison.

The consumers whose information was conceded in the hack included the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, Department of Defense, Lockheed Martin, and Bank of America.

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Chinese hackers reported

Over two dozen defense system designs were compromised and may have been stolen in order to jump-start the development of Chinese military technology.

A confidential U.S. Defense Science Boardfor Pentagon recently alleged that Chinese hackers have accomplished an expose and potentially steal data relating to U.S’s advanced military weapons and systems as ABC television reported that hackers originating from China have stolen floor plans relating to a new headquarters for the Australian Security Intelligence Organization in Australia too.

The accessed designs by hackers included an advanced Patriot missile system, known as PAC-3, as well as those for the F/A-18 fighter jet, the V-22 Osprey, and the Black Hawk helicopter, the Post reported though documents did not indicate when or where the intrusions occurred, whether they were via government or contractor computer networks.

Apparently China is training military forces on digital combat and an informational war since it has been often linked to alleged cyber-attacks by the US.

The People's Liberation Army is planning to launch digital war tournaments next month focused on developing new combat forces that specialize in cyber-warfare according to state-sponsored news agency Xinhua.

This will be the first time the army has focused on combat forces including special operations forces, army aviation, electronic counter forces and digitalized units. As Trainings will be carried out late next month at the Zhurihe training base in northern China. And eight military academies and forces from the Beijing Military Area Command will participate in the exercises.

Pentagon cautioned China to cease a cyber-spying campaign against the U.S which apparently involves Chinese hackers in stealing intellectual property of the country and the demand came after the security firm Mendicants unconfined a report that claimed an overwhelming percentage of cyber-attacks on U.S. corporations, government agencies, and organizations originate from China in March.

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Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini Version

Samsung has promised and announced to release of a mini version of the current  slim Galaxy S4. This announcement was made late last week.

The product is confirmed to be launched on 20 June at the Samsung event to be held in London. The confirmation comes after rumors of the product for a while.

The Galaxy S4 has been a success for the company after revelations that it has sold over 10 million units in a months period. This shows how competitive Samsung is getting mainly against the major rival the iPhone. The mini is expected to reduce on the bulk by giving the consumers a smaller Galaxy version.

The mini will have a 4.3-inch display screen, comparable to the iPhone 5's 4-inch screen, and weigh 3.77 ounces -- a pip lighter than the iPhone's 3.95.

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Solar plane starts across US

 The solar-motorized plane dubbed Solar Impulse, established off Friday from San Francisco shortly after 6 a.m. local time (1300 GMT) was anticipated to land in Phoenix, Arizona, 19 hours later for the aircraft’s first stop in the first-ever fuel-free transcontinental plane flight.

And as the first airplane to fly both day and night driven exclusively by the sun’s rays has taken off from California in the first stage of an attempt to fly across the US without using any fuel. It has got wingspan of 208 feet different to that of an Airbus A340 – but at 1,600 kg evaluates about the same as an average automobile, according to the developers.

The supremacy used to force the aircraft into the space is roughly comparable to the one used by US flight pioneers Orville and Wilbur Wright in their first powered flight in 1903 and a cruising speed of around 55 km per hour on average.

The Swiss originates behind the flight hype the mission as a way to demonstrate the opportunities presented by clean technologies, with crucial goals of flying around the world in a second-generation version of the Solar Compulsion HB-SIB aircraft currently under manufacture. As the Solar Impulse crew rides an electric bike alongside the plane and it takes off from Moffett Field NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California on May 3, 2013. The first-ever crewed aircraft that can fly by day or night on the Sun’s mechanism alone took off Friday on the first foot of a trip across the United States. And was piloted by Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard, in northern California at 6:12 am (13:12 GMT) which known as the perfect takeoff.

But the restricted cockpit has room for only one person, as it is unheated and the pilot has to wear an oxygen mask because of a lack of pressurization.

Developers continue to warn their pilots not eat fiber-rich foods a day to when they are to take their flight.

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NASDAQ’S Top Drawback In Facebook IPO

Barrier Street firms supervising Facebook orders in the IPO have demanded $500 million

projected in losses linked to the design imperfection in NASDAQ’s system.

As the settlement was in addition to NASDAQ’s offer to pay $62 million to compensate brokers that took losses trading in the Facebook inauguration.

And in the way of braking the camp, NASDAQ agreed to pay a penalty of $10 million, the leading ever alongside a stock exchange, for irreverenting securities laws in the Facebook initial public offering (IPO) as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) noted in their report.

SEC mentioned the second-prime US equity market for its poor systems and decision-making during the Facebook IPO in May 2012 and exchanges had an obligation to ensure their systems, processes, and contingency planning that were robust and adequate to manage an IPO without disruption to the market as Xinhua states.

More than 30,000 Facebook commands persisted stuck in NASDAQ’s system for more than two hours yet they should have been quickly executed or canceled caused by this problem.

And till in today’s markets, disruptions in the systems are written off as mere technical hiccup when it’s the policy of the systems and the response of exchange officials that cause the most concern.

Though NASDAQ’s high-ranking forerunner decided to initiate trading before fully considering the problem, which then caused violations of several rules, including NASDAQ’s essential rule governing the price-time priority for implementing trade orders.

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Nokia Lumia 925 Surfaces

 Nokia has hosted a new Nokia Lumia 925, a fresh explanation of its award-winning flagship, Lumia 920.

The brand 925 introduces a metal design and showcases the modern Pure-View camera invention, new structures and third party applications coming to the Nokia Lumia range.

It includes the most advanced lens equipment and next generation imaging software to capture clearer, sharper pictures and video, including the best low light images.

The Nokia Lumia 925 comes with a Nokia Smart Camera mode, as an update to all Lumia Windows Phone 8 smartphones as it offers an easy way to take ten images at once and edit the pictures with options like Best Shot, Action Shot, and Motion Focus for creating the perfect high quality image.

In addition the announced Instamatic’s app Oggl, arriving on the Lumia smartphones, lets people to take and share pictures from around the world but of very high class using their smart phone. And this leases user share photos simultaneously on social networks including Facebook, Twitter and many others.

Nokia introduces a metal for the first time to the Nokia Lumia range, bringing appeal and unique benefits like increased robustness. The polycarbonate back comes in white, grey or black. A. Covers, sold separately, come in white, black, yellow, and red. Though a wireless charging cover can be clipped onto the back of the phone to take advantage of Nokia’s broad wireless charging accessories and bionetwork.

Nokia Lumia will be introduced into the US by T-Mobile and into China by China Mobile and China Unicom across all markets on Vodafone Red, as well as other tariffs, enabling customers to make the most of their new smartphone on Vodafone’s fast and reliable network and will also have exclusive access to a 32GB version of the Nokia Lumia 925, giving them even more capacity to store all their content for personal and business use.

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180,000 Terminated For Porn

180,000 have been halted by Chinese authorities for scattering pornographic content as the country tossed an Internet clean-up operation in March.

The campaign uncovered 5.6 million illegal publications and more than 10,000 web sites were penalized for law and regulation violations, according to a statement issued by the National Office Against Pornographic and Illegal Publications.

The campaign started by the office against online pornography, illegal online game trailers, mobile systems submissions and online media players in March. Though primarily programmed to conclude at the end of May, the campaign will be extended into late June, according to the enforcement that was put in place in Beijing. And next step will involve focusing on cracking key cases of violations and enhancing web site management all over the country.

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Syrian Army Hacked The British broadcaster Sky!

Sky eradicates several of its apps comprising of Sky Go, Sky News, and Sky Sports News from the Google Play Store after being hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army.

Broadcaster Sky is the latest media company to plunge victim to the Electronic Syrian Army so far. The British satellite broadcaster of Android apps and Twitter account were hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army as the spokesperson also announced that a tweet from the Sky Help Team advising people to uninstall their Android apps is not from the company.
Sky is currently scrutinizing the situation as they promise to provide further update about the issue when they have more information."
The Broadcaster Help Team's Twitter account has been conceded, and the tweet that states customers should uninstall their apps is not guidance from Sky.

Sky was the latest target of the Syrian Electronic Army as the cluster which is sympathetic to Syrian President Bashar Assad, have booked credit for hacking into the social media accounts as the hack came less than a week after Twitter introduced a two-factor authentication system to help affiliates to keep their accounts more secure. Twitter also recently sent out a memo to major media companies cautioning that attacks will linger, and urged companies to minimize the number of people that have access to accounts to prevent social error.

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Black, White and Flat for iOS 7

There is an expected unveil of Apple for its new iOS 7 at WWDC 2013, as its developers conference shudders off June 10.

Previously we heard gossips that Ive was planning a broad user interface renovate with iOS 7, though there was no specific details. But currently that Ive's is looking for iOS 7, it will be in black, white and flat all over.

Conferring to 9to5 Mac's sources, the textures now present in iOS linen on the statements panel and skin in the calendar app will be swapped into flat black and white colors.
Though the home screen apps no longer have gloss, shadows and shine applied to the icons, nevertheless their corners will remain rounded.

Mac still suggests that apps including Mail, Calendar and Maps will gain an integrated guise. And all will share analogous a white base each with its own exceptional color scheme.
Chitchats of preparing major design changes with iOS 7 continue to heat up about Apple, as new hearsays suggesting that a gentler, and flat design aesthetic last October. Jonathan Ive became answerable not only for the look and feel of Apple hardware, but also its software.

But the challenge with an iOS overhaul, will be balancing the need for something new with the familiarity of the system with hundreds of millions of users of course.
What do you think of the rumored plans for iOS 7? Let us know in the comments.

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Intel Purchase of ST-Ericsson's GPS complete.

ST-Ericsson's global navigation satellite system (GNSS) business sale was announced Tuesday and Intel has confirmed that it was the mystery buyer.

The treaty encompasses Intel's investments in locating the technology with a team of industry veterans that has a successful in tracking record of developing and commercializing GPS silicon though neither company has revealed the price yet.
The joint venture ST-Ericsson, who is between STMicroelectronics and Ericsson and the leading semiconductor company had bought its mobile connectivity GNSS unit. As this includes personal receivers that interact with GPS technology and Glonass a radio-based satellite triangulation system functioned by the Russian Aerospace Defense Forces.
The spokesperson for Intel Asia, Nick Jacobs added that the GNSS engineering team and leadership, with total of about 130 employees, will likely be integrated into Intel's Mobile and Communications Group's Wireless Platform R&D (WPRD) division,
Nick Jacobs has also confirmed an ultimate agreement with ZDNet that the U.S. chipmaker signed a definitive settlement to acquire certain belongings of ST-Ericsson's GNSS business on May 24 2013.

The team of engineers Jacobs said would be likely be integrated into Intel's Mobile and Communications Group are based in Singapore, Bangalore, India, and Deventry, United Kingdom, and continued to mention that, Employees based in the U.K and Singapore will remain at their current locations while those in India will join WPRD colleagues at Intel's existing Bangalore office.

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