The I7500, Samsung's first Android phone, would be available in major European countries in June 2009.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009: Samsung Electronics has launched the I7500 -- its first Android-powered mobile phone. The Samsung I7500 follows the HTC Dream (also marketed as T-Mobile G1, Era G1 in Poland) -- the first phone to the market that uses the Android platform. Samsung's Android handset features a 3.2-inch Active Matrix OLED (AMOLED) touchscreen and 7.2Mbps HSDPA and WiFi connectivity, giving users access to Google Mobile services and full Web browsing at blazing speeds.
The Samsung I7500 offers users access to the full suite of Google services, including Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Google Calendar and Google Talk. The integrated GPS receiver ena
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Monday night at the Liberty Science Center in the shadow of
Manhattan, Acer rolled out more than 20 new products across its Acer, Gateway,
Packard Bell and e-Machines product lines.
Among the introductions were the Acer Timeline notebook series,
boasting up to 8 hours of battery life on a single charge, and the Aspire One
11.6-inch notebook, with a form factor larger than any netbook on the market.
The design of the Acer Aspire Timeline series came from feedback
Acer received from 1,200 customers it surveyed, said Gianfranco Lanci, CEO of
Acer. The theme that emerged most regularly from the survey was the desire for
more battery life and thinner notebooks.
"Customers want all-day battery life, which means 8 to 10 hours;
they want the machines to be thinner; and they want to purchase them at a
mainstream price," said Lanci.
Those three criteria were behind the c
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Security researchers say a worm that has infected millions of computers worldwide has been reprogrammed to strengthen its defenses while also trying to attack more machines.
Conficker, which takes advantage of a vulnerability in Microsoft's software, has infected at least 3 million PCs and possibly as many as 12 million, making it into a huge botnet and one of the most severe computer security problems in recent years.
Botnets can be used to send spam
and attack other Web sites, but they need to be able to receive new
instructions. Conficker can do this two ways: it can either try to
visit a Web site and pick up instructions or it can receive a file over its custom-built encrypted P-to-P (Peer-to-Peer) network.
Over
the last day or so, researchers with Websense and Trend Micro said some
PCs infect
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Intel
used the first day of the Spring IDF in Beijing to show off its Moorestown
integrated processor, which is expected to replace the current Atom CPU and
chipset later this year or early 2010. The company also introduced two new
Z-series Atom processors.
It was the first time that a Moorestown chip was shown live to the
public. What makes this processor special is the fact that it
integrates graphics and all other chipset components on-die, which will
make it substantially smaller and apparently less power hungry than
today’s Atom generation.
Moorestown is promised to run at ten times less idle power than the current Atom platform.
Intel declined to reveal how much power the chip will actually consume
and, at least for us, it is difficult to estimate that number. Today’s
Atom relies on a 45 nm processor as well as an older chipset design,
based on an updated i915 version, which is called System Controller Hub
(SCH) as part of the Atom platform. The SCH is man
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Wipro Technologies has acquired the Mobile
Broadcast Solutions division of Nokia for an undisclosed sum. The
40-employee enterprise mobile TV unit develops software and hardware
that enables mobile TV technology on the phone to find and access the
broadcasting network. It is understood that Nokia has decided to sell
the unit as the company is planning to focus on the consumer side of
the mobile TV business, reports Business Standard.
India’s third-largest IT services firm, Wipro Ltd, has acquired the
enterprise mobile TV unit owned by Finland-based leading mobile phone
manufacturer Nokia for an undisclosed sum. A Wipro spokesperson
declined comment as the company was in its “silent period” before the
announcement of its annual results on Wednesday.
The MailScan 6.1 precedes its earlier versions with a collection of new and advanced features.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009:
MicroWorld
has released a new version of MailScan range of antivirus, antispam and
content security solution for Mail Servers - MailScan 6.1. Employing an
array of intelligent filters and equipped with the NILP technology,
MailScan 6.1 is said to offer powerful protection against virus, spam
and phishing mails along with content security. The NILP technology
based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) analyses e-mails based on the
behavioural pattern of the user to prevent spam.
The new MailScan 6.1 also has an upgraded
antivirus scan engine that is equipped with advanced heuristic scanner
that scans both incoming and outgoing e-mails, blocking malware at the
MailServer before they rea
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The company announces successful pilot of mobile phone statement application, which has a zero carbon footprint impact.
Saturday, April 25,
2009: Lenco Mobile Inc., owns and operates businesses focused on the
mobile marketing and Internet sectors, has launched a new mobile phone
statement application, which has a zero carbon footprint impact. The
application was developed by Multimedia Solutions, a wholly owned
subsidiary of Lenco Mobile.
Michael
Levinsohn, chief executive officer, Lenco Mobile Inc., said, "We have
successfully piloted our new mobile phone statement application which
totally eliminates the paper involved in communicating with customers
regarding their monthly statements. The pilot was carried out with a
major retailer in South Africa and the response from their customers
was exceptional. We expect the product to be fully functional i
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Nokia E75 bundles new e-mail user interface, desktop e-mail functionality and Nokia Messaging services.
Monday, April 06, 2009: Nokia has announced the availability of Nokia E75 which comes with the new e-mail user interface, full desktop e-mail functionality and complete integration of Nokia's e-mail and messaging services. The phone has a slide out QWERTY keyboard and three-step e-mail setup.
Nokia E75 includes Nokia Messaging -- a service that opens up the world's leading consumer e-mail accounts, including Yahoo! Mail, Gmail and Windows Live Hotmail -- and is joined by Nokia's corporate e-mail clients, Mail for Exchange and IBM Lotus Notes Traveler, which provide direct access to over 90 per cent of the world's corporate inboxes as well, according to the company.
Nokia E75's easy-to-use user interface supports the most common features for desktop e-mail including expanding views, one click reply and sub-folder and HTML support. Added to the
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Monday, April 20, 2009: Lenovo recently introduced its range of slimmest entertainment PCs in India. According to the company, the new products -- Lenovo IdeaCentre A600 all-in-one desktop and the Lenovo IdeaPad Y650 notebook are not only the thinnest in their respective categories, but are loaded with some game-changing features, not seen in the Indian market.
“At Lenovo, we always keep pushing the limits of good design, balancing form and function, as exhibited in our Lenovo IdeaPad Y650, the super-thin and light 16-inch laptop and Lenovo IdeaCentre A600, the slimmest and fully loaded all-in-one desktop. This unique blend of design and engineering sets us apart from competitors and gives consumers a new kind of entertainment and computing experience,” said Ramprasad L, vice president, transactional consumer sales, Lenovo India.
The new, sleek IdeaCentre A600 all-in-one features a 21.5-inch frameless screen and provides space-conscious and style-conscious user
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Expands the categories of partners supported by the Security Innovation Alliance to now include systems integrators.
Thursday, April 23, 2009: McAfee, Inc. has announced the expansion of its Security Innovation Alliance (SIA). Since January 2009, McAfee has added 14 new 'McAfee Compatible' solutions from its current SIA partners, including ActivIdentity, AET Europe, Aladdin, Arxan, Catbird, Charismathics, Gemalto, HP, Kobil, Luxtrust, Oberthur Technologies, SCM Microsystems, Secerno and Vasco.
There are eight new members that have joined the programme as Associate Partners, including Authenex, Cryptotech, eIQnetworks, S21sec, Solidcore, Triumfant and Telos. Across North America and Europe, McAfee now has more than 55 SIA partners committed to helping customers drive operational savings with McAfee Compatible products.
McAfee is also expanding the categories of partners supported by SIA to now include systems integrators (SIs). Partners in this
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Security researchers say a worm that has infected millions of computers worldwide has been reprogrammed to strengthen its defenses while also trying to attack more machines.
