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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 07:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New fake antivirus accepts SMS payments]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 07:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[New fake AV programs offer a variety of payment methods.(Credit:CyberDefender)There's a new twist with some fake antivirus scareware that has cropped up. It accepts payment via SMS, according to antivirus firm CyberDefender.  Typical rogue security programs infect the system first, then display pop ups warning that the computer is infected, and request payment to clean it up. The new programs are seemingly more genteel, asking for the money before the program is installed and infects the system, said Achal Khetarpal, threat research director at CyberDefender. Of course, a payment does nothing to &quot;fix&quot; a system and means criminals now have your money and possibly your credit card information.  When a potential victim happens upon a Web site hosting the malware, a dialog box pops up that looks very much like an installer window for a legitimate antivirus product, according to screenshots from CyberDefender. It says &quot;Welcome to&quot; and names a popular antivirus software and suggests closing other applications. If the victim falls for the ruse, it then displays a message that says &quot;To complete installation, you must go through activation&quot; and offers several ways to pay, including SMS (Short Message Service), WebMoney, and credit card. If you click &quot;cancel,&quot; the program won't install, compared with typical fake antivirus programs that have already infected the system by the time the victim realizes what is happening and keep displaying the annoying pop-up messages, even after reboot, Khetarpal said. The company has seen five versions of the rogue security programs masquerading as software from Avast, Norton, McAfee, BitDefender, and RootKitBuster, and they, as usual, target Windows systems.  Khetarpal could not say how widespread the malware is but said he has seen it in a &quot;lot of Web sites&quot; and in relation to search results for popular and trending topics.  Fake AV scammers aren't the only ones to hop on the SMS payment bandwagon. Scammers were found to be seeking payment by SMS for fake browser updates earlier this year, according to GFI Labs. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CES: 2011 home theater wrap-up]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 08:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>brittabiti</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[The Samsung BD-D7000 was our pick for Best of CES in the home theater category.(Credit:Samsung)From 3D to online streaming video, home theater has been a hot category at the last fewCES shows, but this year there wasn't much new technology, with design innovations taking centerstage. A few major trends stuck out to us over the course of the show.Design innovations, especially from SamsungThe most impressive part of CES on the home theater side was Samsung's striking new form factors. The ultracompact Samsung BD-D7000 won the Best of CES award in the home theater category for shrinking down a Blu-ray player to the size of an external DVD drive. Samsung also got a home theater Best of CES nomination for the slick HW-D7000 AV receiver/Blu-ray player and Best of CES design nomination for the HT-D7100 cubelike HTIB. Aside from some high-end speakers from LG, we just didn't see the same kind of design innovations from other manufacturers.Almost everyone has an app storeSamsung and Vizio were ahead of the game with their app stores last year, and now competitors such as LG and Panasonic have rolled out their own. Panasonic couldn't confirm if its new Viera Connect app store will come to its Blu-ray players this year, but we expect most major manufacturers will get onboard sooner or later.2D-to-3D conversion is new for Blu-ray playersAnother new feature we saw rolling out across most manufacturers' lines was 2D-to-3D conversion, which means the players can take standard 2D movies and automatically convert them to 3D. We haven't been fans of &quot;converted&quot; 3D in general and most3D TVs already have this feature, so we're not that excited about this upgrade. Maybe we'll change our minds when we actually try the products.B&amp;W Zeppelin Air(Credit:B&amp;W)AirPlay-compatible products are comingApple's new streaming audio platform was launched late in 2010, but we already saw a couple of compatible products at CES, including B&amp;W's Zeppelin Air. We expect to see a lot more AirPlay-compatible products in 2010.More portable Blu-ray playersPanasonic had been the only company making portable Blu-ray players for two years running, but now it has competition from Sony and LG. We still think this will be a relatively niche product category, but it will be more mainstream as prices fall and more people get onboard with Blu-ray.Google TVAside from some unannounced Samsung products (that had no real product information), there was essentially no Google TV news at the show, as some suspected. We expect to see more Google TV products and software updates throughout 2011, but there wasn't anything at CES.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CES: Verizon at CES: No iPhone yet, but 10 first-wave 4G LTE devices]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 08:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>brittabiti</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[HTC&amp;39's Thunderbolt: One of the devices in the first round of 4G LTE products for Verizon.(Credit:Sarah Tew/CNET)As expected, Verizon unveiled its first 4G devices today--and it used grand language to do so. &quot;The speed of thought is now the speed of action,&quot; a voice boomed over the speakers at the beginning of Verizon's CES press conference. &quot;For the first time, mobile is in real time.&quot;  Earlier in the day, Verizon used its keynote to hail its new 4G LTE broadband infrastructure. At the press conference a few hours later, partners including Alcatel-Lucent, HTC, and LG Electronics talked up the endless possibilities of LTE. Then Verizon trotted out new devices that are ready for the network.  But first, let's get this out of the way: Verizon did not announce that it would be carrying Apple'siPhone!  With rock music blaring in the background, Verizon execs stood before a table displaying the first suite of 4G LTE consumer devices: four smartphones, twotablets, two mobile hot spots, and two notebooks, all coming in the first half of the year, and some as early as March. &quot;It's not just about doing things faster, it's about doing things you couldn't do before,&quot; said Marni Walden, chief marketing officer. The devices that got stage time (details on pricing and rate plans were not announced today) include: The LG Revolution, LG's first 4G smartphone (see CNET's hands-on photos here). The Revolution has HD support for streaming, playing, and recording video' a 4.3-inch touch screen' Android 2.2' video telephony support with front-facing camera and mobile hot-spot capability to share a 4G connection with up to eight Wi-Fi-enabled devices. HTC's first 4G LTE smartphone, the HTC Thunderbolt. &quot;Let me tell you, it's blazing fast,&quot; said HTC CEO Peter Chou, who noted that he has been using the phone as his &quot;personal device&quot; and specifically touted Skype video chat and video streaming over LTE. The Thunderbolt features HTC Sense 2.0, Skype mobile with video, a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, a 4.3-inch WVGA display, Dolby surround sound, an 8-megapixel camera and HD video recording, and wireless DLNA capability.Samsung's Galaxy Tab, 4G LTE Smartphone (previously called the Inspiration), and 4G LTE mobile hot spot, which is small enough to fit into a pocket or purse. The Motorola Droid Bionic, which has Android with Adobe Flash and HTML5, a front-facing VGA camera, a rear-facing 8-megapixel camera, 4.3-inch HD quality screen, HDMI connectivity, dual-core 1GHz processor, and 512 DDR2 RAM.The Motorola Xoom. The 10.1-inch tablet runs on Android Honeycomb, plays 1080p HD video, has an Adobe Flash Player, a front-facing 2-megapixel camera for video chats, and a 5-megapixel camera to capture video in 720P HD. Mobile hot-spot capability provides connection for up to five Wi-Fi-enabled devices. The HP Pavilion and HP Compaq notebooks in their 4G incarnations.  And then, questions from reporters in the audience.  Will devices support simultaneous voice and data &quot;Some of them, but not all.&quot; Pricing data caps Not sure yet. Will the network experience degradation once people start using the new devices  Verizon CTO Tony Malone said original claims of 5Mbps to 12Mbps down were &quot;based on a loaded network,&quot; suggesting there shouldn't be drops once the masses get in on 4G LTE.  And, of course, many have also expressed concerns about battery life on the 4G devices.  &quot;We've spent a lot of time working with our suppliers making sure we optimize the devices and the network to give the battery life that our customers expect,&quot; Malone said. &quot;We feel very confident that the battery performance will meet expectations.&quot;  He also said global roaming won't be an issue. Our CNET Reviews team, of course, will be putting the 4G devices to the test, so keep an eye out for those results.Verizon says some customers report that 4G speeds are 10 to 20 times faster than what they got on 3G.(Credit:Sarah Tew/CNET)CNET's Marguerite Reardon contributed to this report. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Zumbox raises $9.7M to kill the post office with a digital mailbox]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>brittabiti</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Zumbox, which provides its users with digital copies of their mail based on their home address, has raised an additional $9.7 million, according to a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.Zumbox lets users send or receive scanned, physical versions of letters, bills or other things they might normally send and receive via paper mail. Each user has a personal mailbox at the Zumbox site to view mail.The company has created a digital mailbox for every street address in the U.S. So companies can send bills via Zumbox, and they look like scanned versions of the real paper bills. The Zumbox site lets users look at a variety of media in the form of HTML, Flash, audio and video.The company uses a closed system with security measures that meet pretty tough regulations, such as the medical-record HIPAA law. Users get a secure PIN number, which they receive from Zumbox via paper mail to make sure that scammers dona4a4t get into their mail. So the system is supposed to be secure and have no junk mail.But it does sort of beg the question as to who would use a service like this. Most companies already offer e-mail billing and have an option for their customers that want to pay bills online. It is another way to kill off the ruthlessly inefficient system that is paper mail, but it seems sort of redundant in an era that is already dominated by email and electronic messaging.The Westlake Village, Calif.-based company was founded in 2007. It has raised $12 million across a seed funding round and its first round of fundraising. It has some high-power investors like Rick Braddock, former CEO of Priceline.com, and Michael Eisner, former CEO of The Walt Disney Company. This round brings its total funding up to $21.7 million.Next Story: Moblyng raising $10.9M to make mobile HTML5 games Previous Story: Deals &amp;038' More: Novariant grabs $4.5M for hands-free farm equipment, Auditude raises $4M for video adsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: digital mail, post office, U.S. mailCompanies: Zumbox          Tags: digital mail, post office, U.S. mailCompanies: ZumboxMatthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francsico, Calif. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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