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<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 07:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Apple posts MacDefender removal info, promises fix]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 07:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>bugmaningdfd</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[A shot of the MacDefender software, which Apple will soon remove automatically.(Credit:Intego)Apple this afternoon posted instructions for removing MacDefender, the rogue antivirus software that targetsMac OS X users. Additionally the company has said it will be updating its Mac OS to automatically find and remove the software.Apple support article HT4650, titled &quot;how to avoid or remove Mac Defender malware&quot; includes a description of the software, as well as steps to remove it. CNET has learned that those who come to Apple for support on the issue will be directed toward the article until the fix is delivered, which Apple says should arrive &quot;in the coming days.&quot; News of MacDefender, which is also known as Mac Security and Mac Protector, hit earlier this month. The fake antivirus program is designed to trick users into thinking their machine has various malware infections, which it can remove if you pay up with a credit card. As for how widespread the issue has become, Apple has not said. A post earlier today by ZDnet's Ed Bott estimated it to be anywhere between 60,000 and 125,000 customers, based on information gathered from a source at one of Apple's support centers. That post also contained a purported memo sent to Apple call centers, wherein they were told to point affected users toward a support document explaining what malware is and to install antivirus software. The question about whether it's Apple's responsibility to aid users with the removal of malware as part of its AppleCase support service is still of interest for any future malware issues. From Apple's own description of what is offered in terms of &quot;software support,&quot; there are things like &quot;using the Mac OS X operating system,&quot; &quot;quick how-to questions about iLife and iWork,&quot; and &quot;connecting to printers and AirPort networks.&quot; That is to say, there's nothing about removing software programs, even if that could technically be considered general use of the Mac OS. Nonetheless, it remains in the company's interest to secure its OS from software that can threaten customer information, as this one was targeting.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[iPad 2 supply catching up with demand]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 07:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>bugmaningdfd</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Apple)Are supplies of theiPad 2 finally starting to get closer to demandCustomers who buy the newtablet through Apple's online store now have to wait just one to two weeks before it ships. The new estimate follows a roller coaster ride that started with an initial and short-lived wait time of only three to five days before hitting a high of four to five weeks not long after after the iPad 2 made its debut.But over the past month, the ship time has gradually decreased, reaching three to four weeks in late March and then two to three weeks earlier this month.Discussing Apple's second-quarter earnings yesterday, COO Tim Cook said the company was continuing to make a larger number of iPads to reach the &quot;staggering&quot; demand but couldn't say when supply would catch up with that demand.&quot;We sold every iPad 2 we could make and the demand was stunning,&quot; Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer told Reuters in an interview.Second-quarter unit sales of the iPad (both the original and the iPad 2) came in at 4.69 million, lower than many analysts had forecast. Some had been expecting Apple to sell as many as 9 million tablets for the quarter, though the average forecast among analysts polled by Fortune had called for sales of 6 million.J.P. Morgan analyst Mark Moskowitz had lowered his quarterly estimate for the iPad last week to 5.4 million units from 6 million previously. Moskowitz told CNET in a recent interview that Apple has faced difficulty in the past keeping up with demand for other devices, such as theiPhone. Ramping up the iPad 2 was more challenging, according to Moskowitz, because some of its new features were based on new types of components that couldn't yet be manufactured fast enough. Beyond that, Apple likely just failed to anticipate the overwhelming demand, the analyst added. However, Moskowitz believes that the lower-than-expected sales of the iPad had more to do with timing than demand, pointing to Apple's statement that it's facing the &quot;mother of all backlogs&quot; and is now working to bump up supply. Looking at the full calendar year 2011, the analyst recently upped his forecast for iPad unit sales to 31.1 million from 29.1 million previously. Apple will launch the iPad 2 in 13 more countries next week and expand the tablet's market further through the third quarter of the year. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ACLU: Michigan cops stealing drivers' phone data]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 07:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>bugmaningdfd</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=aclu-michigan-cops-stealing-drivers-phone-data</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This machine can let police see all of your photos. Even that one.(Credit:Matt Hickey/Cellebrite)The Michigan State Police have started using handheld machines called &quot;extraction devices&quot; to download personal information from motorists they pull over, even if they're not suspected of any crime. Naturally, the ACLU has a problem with this.The devices, sold by a company called Cellebrite, can download text messages, photos, video, and even GPS data from most brands of cell phones. The handheld machines have various interfaces to work with different models and can even bypass security passwords and access some information.The problem as the ACLU sees it, is that accessing a citizen's private phone information when there's no probable cause creates a violation of the Constitution's 4th Amendment, which protects us against unreasonable searches and seizures.To that end, it's petitioning the MSP to turn over information about its use of the devices under the Freedom of Information Act. The MSP said it's happy to comply, that is, if the ACLU provides them with a processing fee in excess of $500,000. That's more than $100,000 for each of the five devices the MSP says it has in use.The ACLU, for its part, says that the fee is odious, and that a public policing agency has a duty to its citizens to be open. &quot;This should be something that they are handing over freely, and that they should be more than happy to share with the public--the routines and the guidelines that they follow,&quot; Mark Fancher, an attorney for the ACLU, told Detroit's WDIV.As of yet there's no suit, but one is likely if the MSP sticks to its proverbial guns and refuses to hand over information about how it's using the cell phone snooping devices, without being first paid off. If litigation does come, the outcome may set a precedent that would have far-reaching effects, and might make a device that most of us carry a pocket battleground in the war of digital privacy.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Chip maker Marvell debuts a cool mobile user interface with Kinoma Play]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>bugmaningdfd</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[As a mobile phone chip maker, Marvell Technology doesn&amp;'t always have sexy demos. But at the company&amp;'s headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., it can really wow its guests with something called Kinoma Play.Kinoma Play is a user interface for smartphones, tablet computers, and other mobile devices. It can be built into a single application or become the user&amp;'s main interface for operating the multimedia apps on a phone. Kinoma Play is a beautiful, functional, fluid and fast interface. It works great with a touchscreen, letting you do tasks more easily, such as flipping through your music collection or zooming in on a face in a picture. Marvell acquired the small software company Kinoma with just 12 people a month ago.It makes sense for a chip maker to do this because it isn&amp;'t all about the hardware. Great smartphone software can show off the power of a chip through applications such as photo browsing. To give its chips a leg up, Marvell can package hardware and software together to deliver a full solution to phone makers and mobile carriers, says Peter Hoddie, vice president of Kinoma.&amp;''We&amp;'re a bunch of software guys who worked on things like the original Quicktime&amp;'' media player, Hoddie said. &amp;''We have deep roots in software.&amp;''Kinoma Play can move really fast. It loads a five megapixel photo in under one second, compared to three seconds for other software. You can put your finger on a touchscreen and hold it there. The software will zoom in on the spot in the photo where you are pressing. You can scroll through music or video collections as if you were looking at a carousel. And you can do that in either horizontal or vertical modes. If you run a video and then exit to the main menu, you can still see a video icon with the video imagery moving.Founded more than eight years ago, the Kinoma team created software that ran on the Palm operating system and Sony&amp;'s original Sony Reader eBook device. Some 40 or 50 apps were built to work with Kinoma Play, which is not a full operating system but a subset of one, dubbed a user interface. Kinoma Play has been used on some phones in Japan and the Google Nexus One. It&amp;'s also being designed into phones that are coming out in the future.Marvell sells billions of chips each year for mobile devices. The combination of the two makes sense because Kinoma Play runs efficiently on both lightweight and heavy-duty hardware. This approach is called a &amp;''stack,&amp;'' where Marvell provides not only the hardware but the software that makes the hardware functional.&amp;''Marvell is a hardware company that sees what software means,&amp;'' Hoddie said. &amp;''It is working its way up the stack.&amp;''Hoddie said that Kinoma Play can work on phones with slow 150-megahertz processors because it is built into a very low level of an operating system. It has a performance advantage over software that sits on the highest level. It can thus flip through a collection of photos at a much faster speed than other photo viewers could. It works on either capacitive (multitouch) screens or resistive (single-touch) screens.Kinoma Play can pretty much run on any operating system. Over time, Hoddie expects to make the platform available as open source software so that others can modify it for their own purposes. After all, Marvell wants to make money selling chips, not providing software. Users who learn how to use Kinoma Play on one device will find they can use it on another.Hoddie said Marvell can take Kinoma Play&amp;'s user interface into new markets such as home automation controls and smart meters. In these markets, the hardware is often light years ahead of the software, which is often difficult to use because it has been designed by engineers who aren&amp;'t used to creating consumer software. The first phone with the new version of Kinoma is expected to launch at the end of February.&amp;''This is just the beginning for us,&amp;'' Hoddie said.Hoddie shows off a demo of Kinoma Play in the video below.Next Story: LoKast and Qualcomm put more muscle into wireless file-sharing Previous Story: Qualys debuts its next-generation security-as-a-servicePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Kinoma, smartphone, tablet, user interfaceCompanies: Marvell TechnologyPeople: Peter Hoddie          Tags: Kinoma, smartphone, tablet, user interfaceCompanies: Marvell TechnologyPeople: Peter HoddieDean is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games, security, chips and a variety of other subjects. Dean previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, the Red Herring, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and the Dallas Times Herald. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360 Uncloaked. Follow him on Twitter at @deantak, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat 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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