tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33278087241110609852024-02-20T10:43:16.497-05:00LoudTech BlogThis is just random, mostly only the “Tech-Crunch” - Latest Gossips in the Tech-World, What’s happening & what’s going to happen in Future! Newest Arrivals, Reviews and so much more!!Sami Ur Rehmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06405877634295905278noreply@blogger.comBlogger827125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3327808724111060985.post-11844475419868857962015-09-05T16:16:00.000-04:002015-09-04T16:17:54.611-04:00Google Launches Android 6.0 as Marshmallow<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Google has <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/m-developer-preview-3-final-sdk.html">formally
introduced</a> the official Android 6.0 SDK along with the final preview of
Android M, now being presented as Marshmallow. In his remarks about the name of
the latest release, Android product manager, Jamal Eason, explained that “whether
you like them straight out of the bag, roasted to a golden brown exterior with
a molten centre, or in fluff form, who doesn’t like marshmallows?”</div>
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Apart from its traditionally unique name, there are a ton of
new and unique features in the new update that were promised in the launch of
the M Developer Preview at Google I/O. The changes include, but are not limited
to, updates to the Fingerprint API for better error reporting, fingerprint
enrolment and greater reliability, along with an update to the permissions user
interface. In addition to that, the latest version of android will also feature
Doze, which is supposed to reduce background app activity when the device is
inactive in order to provide a longer battery life, and a USB-C connector that aims
to charge devices three to five times faster than current chargers.</div>
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Since Android Marshmallow has now been officially launched,
developers are also permitted to publish apps for Android Marshmallow on Google
Play. However, the Android team leader at app developer firm Mubaloo, Adam
Mayer cautioned developers to ensure first if their apps are ready for Android
6.0. He explained that “this means ensuring app permissions reflect the new
system, streamlining the app install and update process.” Mayer advised developers
to use the new Android Support library, which will make it easier for them to
integrate new features in a backwards compatible way to support the variety of
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Having said that, Mayer also warned developers over adoption
rates. He said that “despite the advances to Android, Android Marshmallow faces
the issue of its OEM partners, particularly those in China, who continue to
eschew the latest version of its OS and services.” Mayer claimed that “even
Samsung has launched its upgraded Samsung Pay that will likely displace Google
Pay on its devices,” adding that “the main people to benefit from the
improvements will be those who chose stock Android, or have a phone where their
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game developer that was quite for a long time since its acquisition, i.e. Shenandoah
Studio, has finally made a formal announcement about its <a href="http://www.matrixgames.com/products/588/details/Battle.of.the.Bulge.">future
plans</a>. Since being acquired by Slitherine, Shenandoah Studio only made one brief
statement last April. Now, the company has announced that its first and one
of the best strategy games on mobile, Battle of the Bulge, will relaunch
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Sources confirm that thanks to the new acquisition, the game
will now be ported to a completely different technology that will enable a multi-platform
support with a cross-platform multiplayer system facilitated by Slitherine's
new tournaments system launched last month. In addition to that, the game will
also feature a re-designed AI for both Axis and Allies sides, and a new PC-like
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Many gamers are glad to hear the announcement since Battle
of the Bulge was much liked due to its multiplayer experience. However, since
now the focus has been shifted to Slitherine's cross-platform support and compatibility
with tournaments, the multiplayer aspect of the new version might not be as
good as before. Hopefully, the game will not lose the smoothness it had in its original
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Source: http://LoudTech.blogspot.com</div>Sami Ur Rehmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06405877634295905278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3327808724111060985.post-73958837069907876622015-01-18T10:30:00.000-05:002015-01-18T10:36:26.463-05:00New “Hacker’s List” Website Allows You to Hire Hackers Anonymously<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A new <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Website">website</a> providing shady services, dubbed as <a href="https://hackerslist.com/" target="_blank">Hacker's List</a>, has vowed to provide professional hackers at discretion of internet users. The site aims to sell the sinister services like breaking in to an ex's email address to taking out an enemy's website. It allows users to anonymously hire “professional” hackers in order to perform hacks ranging from hacking into <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.facebook.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Faceboo">Facebook</a> and e-mail accounts to changing academic grades. <br />
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The description on the website states that “hiring a hacker shouldn't be a difficult process, we believe that finding a trustworthy professional hacker for hire should be a worry free and painless experience. At Hacker's List we want to provide you with the best opportunity to find your ideal hacker and for professional hackers around the world to find you. Our hacker-for-hire review process makes it so that only the best hackers for hire are allowed to offer their services and expertise," <br />
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Ironically, the site registered in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-41.2833333333,174.45&spn=10.0,10.0&q=-41.2833333333,174.45%20(New%20Zealand)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a> strictly prohibits its users to "use the service for any illegal purposes" and has emphasized on that in its <a href="https://hackerslist.com/page/term-and-conditions">terms and conditions section</a>. However, the site was filled with requests that many would count as <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.break.com/c/people-lifestyle-videos/crime/" rel="break" target="_blank" title="Crime">illegal activities</a>. Among the services offered or requested on the website were android <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheating_in_video_games" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Cheating in video games">game hacks</a>, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.apple.com/iphone" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="iPhone">iPhone</a> hacks, Facebook account hacks, etc.<br />
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Regardless of how authentic or successful the site is, Hacker's List essentially boasts on its ability to keep anonymity of the pairing. In addition to that, the website also aims to prevent scamming aspect of a hire-a-hacker site by keeping the funds for a particular job escrow until the job is completed. The site <a href="https://hackerslist.com/faq">description</a> says that it "encourages hackers to have the highest level of service to maximize their earning potential.”</div>
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Source: http://LoudTech.blogspot.com</div>Sami Ur Rehmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06405877634295905278noreply@blogger.com0New Zealand-40.900557 174.88597100000004-65.234714 133.57737700000004 -16.566399999999998 -143.805435tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3327808724111060985.post-89688377199365869572015-01-17T18:45:00.000-05:002015-01-17T18:45:26.061-05:00Google Eyeing Mobile Payment Company, Softcard, Takeover<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Several sources have claimed that <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.google.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Google">Google</a> is interested, and is most likely, to buy the mobile payment company, SoftCard. The mobile payment service is currently in collaboration with majority of the top mobile service providers in the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&spn=10.0,10.0&q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667%20(United%20States)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="United States">United Sates</a>, including <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.att.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="AT&T">AT&T Inc.</a>, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.verizon.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Verizon Communications">Verizon Communications Inc.</a> and T-Mobile US Inc.<br />
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Softcard has <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWS" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Windows">Windows</a> and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://code.google.com/android/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Android">Android</a> compatibility and also allows its users to make payments via various payment terminals. The company initially entered the market with the name of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis_%28mobile_payment_system%29" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Isis (mobile payment system)">ISIS</a> but for obvious reasons it had to change its name and went with SoftCard.<br />
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Despite the increasing number of rumors following this unconfirmed story, both Google and SoftCard have refused to comment on the ongoing deal. A Google spokesperson branded the news as a rumor and stressed that “we don’t have a comment, background, deep background, off-the-record steer, nod, wink or any other verbal or nonverbal response to these sorts of rumors.”<br />
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Many market analysts have speculated that Softcard-deal might give an unanticipated shake-out to other mobile payment services in the market. Recent accomplishments of <a href="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/bcce5996-5549-11e4-b750-00144feab7de.html#axzz3P7d0iXLZ">Apple Pay </a>have already forced others to rethink their positions. According to one analyst, since “Apple pay is picking up in popularity and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.paypal.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="PayPal">PayPal</a> going solo later this year every major tech company is rethinking their mobile payments strategy” adding that “we are likely to see a lot of M&A activity in this space.”</div>
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<a class="zem_slink" href="http://newsroom.fb.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Facebook, Inc.">Facebook Inc.</a> has dissolved an entire <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=43.7,-79.4&spn=0.1,0.1&q=43.7,-79.4%20(Toronto)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Toronto">Toronto -based</a> design company, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.teehanlax.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Teehan+Lax">Teehan+Lax</a>'s, by hiring all the firm’s partners. According to a company statement issued on Friday, it will be closing its doors for all customers and clients. The Teehan+Lax's partners’ move to <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.facebook.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Faceboo">Facebook</a>’s <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.7833333333,-122.416666667&spn=0.1,0.1&q=37.7833333333,-122.416666667%20(San%20Francisco)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a> offices will leave behind almost around 40 staff members unaccounted.<br />
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The three partners of the firm, namely John Lax, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/geoff-teehan" rel="crunchbase" target="_blank" title="Geoff Teehan">Geoff Teehan</a> and David Gillis, broke the news and explained their decision in an elaborate <a href="http://www.teehanlax.com/">blog post</a>. Quite noticeably, the post failed to mention what they would be actually doing for Facebook.<br />
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Established in 2002, Teehan+Lax is credited for various web designs and online news products including <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.cbs.com/primetime/medium/" rel="hulu" target="_blank" title="Medium">Medium</a>, Readability and Canadian newspaper <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="The Globe and Mail">Globe and Mail</a>'s website. The dissolved company's founders spoke only briefly about the potential of employees from Teehan+Lax joining the designers at Facebook, but it's unclear if any of the staffers will disrupt their home lives in Toronto in favour of a job in San Francisco.</div>
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Folks at <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=45.4,-75.6666666667&spn=10.0,10.0&q=45.4,-75.6666666667%20(Canada)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Canada">Canada</a>-based mobile manufacturing company, BlackBerry, are definitely having an awkward day after the company’s official <a class="zem_slink" href="http://twitter.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Twitter">Twitter</a> feed just received a tweet via <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.apple.com/iphone" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="iPhone">iPhone</a>, i.e. its top competitor, on January 13, 2015, at 11:08 am. Even though the tweet was deleted immediately after it was posted, the damage had been done.<br />
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The message posted on Tuesday afternoon promoted the new BlackBerry Classic phone and urged consumers to “keep up with the conversation” on Twitter, accompanying a lovely looking photo of the BlackBerry Classic.<br />
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Source: http://LoudTech.blogspot.com</div>Sami Ur Rehmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06405877634295905278noreply@blogger.comCanada56.130366 -106.34677099999999-9.6201584999999952 88.41885400000001 90 58.88760400000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3327808724111060985.post-82528060664012403602012-09-29T19:35:00.001-04:002015-01-14T10:01:19.951-05:00How Close is Google's 'Autonomous Driver-less Car' From Reality<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Perhaps Google is one of many high-status companies investing large lumps of money on the idea of ‘autonomous driverless cars’ which can drive themselves. If you look up Google, several other major automakers and U.S. government agencies like DARPA and the U.S. Army have been effectively running related research projects. But it is Google who has brought some reality to the idea and is now putting all-hands-on-deck on its project.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This Tuesday, September 25, 2012, California became the third state of the U.S., following Nevada and Florida, to sign a legislation which legally gives permission to Google for testing it driverless cars on the state's roads. Nevada has already granted an official permission in June 2011, whereas Florida did so in April, 2012. Similar legislations are soon expected to be drawn up in Hawaii and Oklahoma as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Before all this in March 2011, the Google engineer who led the research which brought this advancement to light today, Sebastian Thrun, gave an aspiring highlight of his project in a <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sebastian_thrun_google_s_driverless_car.html">TED presentation</a> which is worth watching. He mentioned his primary purpose was to save the lives of those millions of people from all over the world who have faded due to numerous traffic accidents, also the case of his friends when he was 18.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This Tuesday after signing the paperwork in Google Headquarters, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, made a statement wearing <a href="http://www.informationweek.com/mobility/business/google-project-glass-must-be-more-than-f/240007341">Project Glass augmented reality glasses</a> saying “It really has the power to change people’s lives, that’s why I’m really excited about it.” Brin explained that “there are many, many people who are under-served by our transportation system today.” Brin listed a wide range of groups, including the blind, people too young or too old to drive, drunk drivers and people with other disabilities, who will be able to take benefit of the autonomous driverless car.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Brin declared that “I expect self-driving cars are going to be far safer than human-driven cars.” He said “It’s at a substantial cost that we embrace our transportation systems. And I believe self-driving cars can eradicate much of that cost.” Brin shard his experience saying “I got used to it pretty d--- quickly.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">To end the curiosity of many, Brin was inquired about how soon he thought the driverless cars are from making an impact on the public, Brin said, “you can count on one hand the number of years before people can experience this.” Later Google co-founder explained that “It’s basically a very long list of edge cases.” He clarified that “We’re getting through a long list of eventualities.”</span></div>
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<img alt="Broadway on Broadway logo" height="115" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/57/Broadway_on_Broadway.png" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="200" /></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 275px;">Image via <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Broadway_on_Broadway.png" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.broadwayleague.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="The Broadway League">Broadway League</a>, the national trade association for the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889%20(Broadway%20theatre)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Broadway theatre">Broadway</a> industry, has recently released a new official <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/apps-for-iphone" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="App Store">app</a> entitled, ‘ILoveNYTheater’ for almost all <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.apple.com/ios" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="IOS (Apple)">iOS</a> device including the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.apple.com/iphone" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="iPhone">iPhone</a>,</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><a href="http://www.reuters.com/subjects/ipad" title="Full coverage of the Apple iPad"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; text-decoration: none;">iPad</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span style="color: black;">and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="IPod Touch">iPod Touch</a>. This release day is very much in line for their annual <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.tonyawards.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Tony Award">Tony Awards</a> ceremony, which is scheduled to take place only few days from today, on 12<sup>th</sup> of June. This app is largely based on the official website page of league, also having an address of ILoveNYTheater.com, as they both offer the same services to theater lovers. The service includes the quite obvious ticket buying facility in real time for the shows, along with the display of long list of starting and running times of all productions. Moreover, additionally the app will also show the precise locations of all theater, the recommended hotel and dining choices nearby each theater along with the universal social media integration features.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">According to the executive director of the league, Charlotte St. Martin, "It's becoming easier and easier for theatergoers to get the best seats at the best prices from official sources." This new app is being retailed completely free of cost; plus impressively, the prices of the tickets sold through the app will also be the same as the price of buying from other sources. It is mentioned that there will be no additional broker markup for any kind od tickets, and even the seats will also be allocated directly from the official theaters' ticketing agencies. This means that the price of the tickets will be the same if you buy if from the new app, or book through telephone or their online website. The mobile companion to the league's <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Website">Web site</a> also features Broadway news, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Google Maps">Google map</a> integration and a full running schedule for the coming week.</span><br />
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Source: http://LoudTech.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3327808724111060985.post-53463583636869327922011-07-17T23:24:00.003-04:002011-07-17T23:24:00.217-04:00Sina Weibo Announces to Launch Its English Version Worldwide, Directly Competing With Twitter Inc.<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is hard to believe that there are still other microblogging services in this world other than <a class="zem_slink" href="http://twitter.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Twitter">Twitter</a>. But one of these unheard of microblogging companies, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://t.sina.com.cn/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Sina Weibo">Sina Weibo</a> from <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=35.0,105.0&spn=10.0,10.0&q=35.0,105.0%20(China)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="China">China</a>, is planning to soon make its English version and be as popular in the English-speaking world as it is in the Chinese-speaking world. It was quoted in the <i>The Next Web</i></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> blog, which had sourced <span style="color: black;">a <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Chinese language">Chinese-language</a> site <a class="zem_slink" href="http://techweb.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="TechWeb">TechWeb</a>, that Sina Weibo (pronounced ‘way-bore’) is “actively preparing” to soon release its platform with the support of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="English language">English language</a>. This English-version of the service will put it in direct and fierce competition with the Twitter, the world-leading microblogging service of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&spn=10.0,10.0&q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667%20(United%20States)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="United States">United States</a>. It was stated in the article that this English version will be available online as soon as two to three months.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span class="zemanta-img separator zemanta-action-dragged"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Twitter_logo_initial.png" style="clear: left; display: block; float: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Twitter logo initial" height="252" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Twitter_logo_initial.png" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="200" /></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 200px;">Image via <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Twitter_logo_initial.png" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Many analysts are measuring as to how much potential damage the English version of Sina Weibo can do to Twitter. It is a tough call and the prediction is not so easy to make, though according to the statistics Twitter may need to start worrying about the rising problem. Sina Weibo, seen by the analysts to be an amalgam of both Twitter and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://facebook.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Facebook">Facebook</a>, currently houses almost 140 million users, whereas as the company hopes to reach around 200 million by the end of this year. Comparing that number to Twitter’s global audience of more than 300 million users, only around 20 million of which</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <span style="color: black;">are actually from the United States, marks the uncertainty.</span></span></div><a name='more'></a> <o:p></o:p><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Even these statistics do not give a clear cut analysis, as it shall be considered that China itself alone has the population of 1.4 billion, while United States just has 307 million. Moreover, it cannot be declared that since Sina Weibo is successful and popular in China, it will enjoy the same liberty in the global business. But so far, Sina Weibo has proved that it cannot allow Twitter to make its market in China. It will be interesting to see whether Twitter can do the same for The United States or the global audience.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The release of Sina Weibo’s English version will make it the first ever major Chinese <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_service" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Social network service">social networking website</a> to expand outside the giant country. Moreover, China is notoriously famous for its extremely tightened freedom of free speech, as it constantly restricts certain topics to be discussed online, now it will be interesting to witness whether Sina Weibo changes its policies for the English version or not.</span></div><br />
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Source: http://LoudTech.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0China35.86166 104.1953969999999618.080973 73.558698999999962 53.642347 134.83209499999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3327808724111060985.post-6542237792301594572011-07-17T18:20:00.000-04:002011-07-17T18:20:10.452-04:00Official Biography of Steve Jobs Available for Pre-Order<span class="zemanta-img separator" style="clear: right;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/iCon-Steve-Jobs-Greatest-Business/dp/0471720836%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzem-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0471720836" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Cover of "iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest S..." height="300" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51R1ACGEK5L._SL300_.jpg" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="195" /></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution" style="clear: both; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 195px;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/iCon-Steve-Jobs-Greatest-Business/dp/0471720836%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzem-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0471720836" target="_blank">Cover via Amazon</a></span></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">A biography of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.myspace.com/everything/steve-jobs" rel="myspace" target="_blank" title="Steve Jobs">Steve Jobs</a>, which has been officially authorized by Mr. Jobs personally, has just been made available on Amazon.com for pre-ordering. This book, entitled ‘iSteve: The Book of Jobs’ is available to pre-order for any Apple user from <a class="zem_slink" href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id364709193" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="IBooks">iBookstore</a> as well. Both the retailing sources have coined the date of 6<sup>th</sup> March 6, 2012 to be the official release date, which is almost around nine months from now. The author of this biography, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Isaacson" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Walter Isaacson">Walter Isaacson</a>, has a very impressionable portfolio of biographies of many famous personalities in the past. He has penned the biography of public figures like <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.amazon.com/Benjamin-Franklin-American-Walter-Isaacson/dp/0786260033%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzem-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0786260033" rel="amazon" target="_blank" title="Benjamin Franklin: An American Life">Benjamin Franklin: An American Life</a>, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.amazon.com/Einstein-Universe-Thorndike-Press-Nonfiction/dp/0786295287%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzem-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0786295287" rel="amazon" target="_blank" title="Einstein: His Life and Universe (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction Series)">Einstein: His Life and Universe</a> and Kissinger: A Biography.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Amazon.com and iBookStore both described the book, at the product description section, to be accredited by one of the well-experienced authors of our times, Walter Isaacson. It is exclusively mentioned that ‘iSteve: The Book of Jobs,’ has given an extraordinary story of both the professional and personal lives of Jobs, by the hand of Isaacson. It is stated that the information has been “drawn from his three years of exclusive and unprecedented interviews Isaacson” along with his family members, key colleagues from Apple and its competitors too.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The price of the book, for pre-orders only, has been set to $16.50 for the physical copy, and $14.99 for the Kindle or iBooks edition. Steve Jobs has always been admired for his successfulness in protecting his private and personal life from his professional and public life. This is a key factor, that an official biography of such a person would be even more interesting. Many aspects of Steve Jobs’s biography have already been made public due to previously written books including Fire in the Valley and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Kingdom" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="The Little Kingdom">The Little Kingdom</a>. But previously just one book, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.amazon.com/iCon-Steve-Jobs-Greatest-Business/dp/0471720836%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzem-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0471720836" rel="amazon" target="_blank" title="iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business">iCon: Steve Jobs</a>, was an authorized and official copy and this will be the second.</span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Quite predictably this biography will mostly cover the recent events and happenings in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.apple.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Apple">Apple Inc.</a> and Jobs’s life, and also the part which is not mentioned previously in other books. Looking at the commendable success of Apple, now that it is now valued more than Microsoft and Intel combined, it was largely speeded up after the lunch of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%E2%80%93Intel_architecture" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Apple–Intel architecture">Intel Mac</a> in 2006. It was further boosted by the launch of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.apple.com/iphone" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="iPhone">iPhone</a>, later in 2007. Furthermore, Jobs’s fight with a disease like cancer, and its impact on his life is an aspect which will be interesting to see in this book.</span></div><div class="zemanta-related"><h6 class="zemanta-related-title" style="font-size: 1em; margin: 1em 0 0 0;">Related articles</h6><ul class="zemanta-article-ul"><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.shoppingblog.com/blog/7051112" target="_blank">Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs Biography Gets More Serious Title</a> (shoppingblog.com)</li>
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Source: http://LoudTech.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3327808724111060985.post-76289141857549542042011-07-17T11:00:00.000-04:002011-07-17T11:00:02.030-04:00Recently Grown Flickr Alternative, 500px, Raises $525K in Series A<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Owing to the towering complaints by the Flickr users, its Toronto-based rival company, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://500px.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="500px">500px</a>, has gotten the opportunity to grow its consumer base substituting the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://flickr.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Flickr">Flickr’s</a> consumer base. The number of users of 500px has risen from 1000 in 2009 to almost up to 85 thousand users today. Even more indicatively, around 45 thousand of these users just signed up for the service in last three months only. So after almost a rough rising since two years, now that the company is on its feet, and even startup has announced that it will be making a $525K <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_A_round" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Series A round">Series A round</a> in investment from</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">High Line <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture_capital" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Venture capital">Venture Capital</a>,</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Deep Creek Capital</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ff Venture Capital.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span class="zemanta-img separator zemanta-action-dragged" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flickr_wordmark.svg" style="display: block; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Wordmark of Flickr" height="91" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Flickr_wordmark.svg/300px-Flickr_wordmark.svg.png" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="300" /></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">Image via <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flickr_wordmark.svg" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></span></span> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">According to one of the founders of the company, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://oleggutsol.com/" rel="blog" target="_blank" title="Oleg Gutsol">Oleg Gutsol</a>, “The idea of making 500px arose from Evgeny [Tchebotarev] and I having difficulties with the current available platforms — there wasn’t a good service that would allow us to display our photos is a visually pleasing way and be easy to use. I think we tried every somewhat popular service online and still were not quite satisfied. So we decided to build one ourselves.” While along with the second co-founder, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://500px.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Ian Sobolev">Ian Sobolev</a>, Gutsol translated his <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.livejournal.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="LiveJournal">Livejournal</a>-based photo sharing community to their freshly created current site on Halloween 2009. It had very little following, if any, and today after attracting the frustrated consumers of Flickr, the website is gathering optimistic praises from everywhere.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Even the big names of the Flickr community, including <a class="zem_slink" href="http://friendfeed.com/thomashawk" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Thomas Hawk">Thomas Hawk</a>,</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/troyholden/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Troy Holden">Troy Holden</a></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ivan Makarov have transformed their <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_sharing" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Photo sharing">photo-sharing service</a>. While the flocks of Flickr users make the change as the website gew 60% in just the past 30 days only. Consequently the website boasts its huge 2.5 million page views in just the last month. Even after being expanded such largely, 500px is determined to stay loyal to its initial aims, which was to allow the photographers to have larger audiences. ”We encourage young talent,” stated Gutsol Tchebotarev. He added that “It is not uncommon to see someone new joining our site and have their photo appear in our popular feed in a matter of hours.”</span></div><a name='more'></a><o:p></o:p><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gutsol has intentions to use this newly acquired money for hiring better engineers as he hopes to build a “global platform” for digital photography. The current source of income for the company is mostly its $50 pro-account, which gives the users custom layouts along with the feature of selling their prints.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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Source: http://LoudTech.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3327808724111060985.post-2208204620203169482011-07-17T09:39:00.000-04:002011-07-17T09:39:00.728-04:00US Officials state 'deep concerned' regarding Syria's Internet cut<span class="zemanta-img separator" style="clear: right;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60095477@N08/5493584799" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Bashar al-Assad, President of the Syrian Arab ..." height="157" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5053/5493584799_70cc6c663b_m.jpg" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="240" /></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution" style="clear: both; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 240px;">Image by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60095477@N08/5493584799" target="_blank">james.gordon6108</a> via Flickr</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It was officially declared on Saturday, by the officials of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&spn=10.0,10.0&q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667%20(United%20States)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="United States">United States</a> government, that it is highly concerned and keeping a sharp eye on the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Internet">Internet</a> shutdown activates in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.5,36.3&spn=10.0,10.0&q=33.5,36.3%20(Syria)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Syria">Syria</a>. The secretary of State, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.myspace.com/everything/hillary-rodham-clinton" rel="myspace" target="_blank" title="Hillary Rodham Clinton">Hillary Clinton</a> passed a threatening statement against the government trying to hush the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protest" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Protest">protesters</a>; she stated that the government "cannot prevent the transition currently taking place." She declared that "we are deeply concerned by reports that Internet service has been shut down across much of Syria, as have some mobile communication networks." The U.S. has been always debating for freedom of speech, hence indirectly supporting all the deadly anti-government protests rage across the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Middle East">Middle Eastern</a> nations, Hillary added that "we condemn any effort to suppress the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Syria" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Demographics of Syria">Syrian people</a>'s exercise of their rights to free expression, assembly, and association."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">According to the collected information from local sources, the Internet lines were non-functional in Damascus and the coastal city of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=35.5166666667,35.7833333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=35.5166666667,35.7833333333%20(Latakia)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Latakia">Latakia</a> on Friday. Whereas it was estimated by a US-based Internet monitoring firm that almost around two-third of the whole country did not had access to internet due to the outage of network. Clinton pointed out that the government of Syria, under the command of President <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Bashar al-Assad">Bashar al-Assad</a>, "has a history of restricting the Internet in an attempt to prevent the Syrian people from accessing and sharing information.” One of the elite U.S. diplomat claimed that “The <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Syria" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Politics of Syria">Syrian government</a> must understand that attempting to silence its population cannot prevent the transition currently taking place. We believe that even in the face of significant obstacles, the Syrian people will, and should, find a way to make their voices heard.”</span></div><a name='more'></a><o:p></o:p><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Just two weeks ago back White House released its International Strategy for Cyberspace, where it stated that no state should be illogically be kept deprived or disrupt from the access to the Internet, whether be on individual scale or public. Clinton added that "we condemn such shutdowns in the strongest terms." Syria is entangled with these aggressive disturbances since almost mid-March, when a large demonstration was conducted against the rule of Assad. Even more than 100,000 protestors gathered one day, for the funeral ceremony of the protesters who lost their lives by the hands of Syrian security forces in Hama, at the time of protest. There were around 53 victims who lost their lives during this massive anti-government protest across Syria on Friday.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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Source: http://LoudTech.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Syria34.802074999999988 38.9968149999999732.298838999999987 35.623010499999971 37.305310999999989 42.370619499999968tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3327808724111060985.post-30383826912495081352011-07-17T05:35:00.000-04:002011-07-17T05:35:00.953-04:00Syrian President Also Suspends Internet Access In The Country To Suppress The Risen Protesters<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span class="zemanta-img separator zemanta-action-dragged"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Syria.BasharAlAssad.02.jpg" style="clear: left; display: block; float: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Billboard with portrait of Assad and the text ..." height="133" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Syria.BasharAlAssad.02.jpg/300px-Syria.BasharAlAssad.02.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-size: 0.8em;" width="200" /></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 300px;">Image via <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Syria.BasharAlAssad.02.jpg" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The internet traffic in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.5,36.3&spn=10.0,10.0&q=33.5,36.3%20(Syria)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Syria">Syria</a> was suspended unannounced and abruptly by the orders of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Syria" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Politics of Syria">Syrian government</a>, just in attempt to suppress the fast-growing revolt in the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Middle East">Middle Eastern</a> nation. According to an internet traffic monitory firm, Renesys, the blockage “starting at 3:35 UTC today, lead to approximately two thirds of all Syrian networks being unreachable from the global <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Internet">Internet</a>.” It was published on the official website of Renesys that “over the course of roughly half an hour, the routes to 40 of 59 networks were withdrawn from the global routing table.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almost every mobile phone operator and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_service_provider" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Internet service provider">Internet service provider</a> (ISP) was largely affected by this unreasonable act. It was stated in today’s issue of <i><a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.wsj.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="The Wall Street Journal">The Wall Street Journal</a></i>, that all the government-run websites of Syria, like the Oil Ministry’s website, were still operational even at the time of the suspension. Syria has kept a sporadically spread ban on the major online social networking services, like Facebook, Twitter and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://myspace.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="MySpace">MySpace</a>, for the last several months. But this time the internet was not blocked for only these handfuls of websites, but the full time internet access was suspended in the most of the country.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"></div><a name='more'></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This of the government is most likely going to make the protests even more aggressive and intensified than they were before. Just this Friday, a protest against the government went so fierce that it had to be broken down by the security forces, and by their own gun fires at least 34 lives were lost. This uprising against the government’s rule, which is initiated since around late January, has its focal point set on the president of the country, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Bashar al-Assad">Bashar Al-Assad</a> and not the government as a whole. Al-Assad took the office of the Presidency in 2000 after the death of his father, who ruled the country for previous 29-years.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The situation of Syria is developing to take the story very much similar to the Former <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Egypt" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="President of Egypt">Egyptian President</a>, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosni_Mubarak" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Hosni Mubarak">Hosni Mubarak</a>. Mubarak also began suppressing the uprisings in his country by suspending the Internet services in his country while it was at its peak of gathering a revolt. Though it is true that without the internet it was definitely difficult for the protestors to organize themselves, but on the other hand, it also gave the drive and courage which resulted in the Egyptian revolution. All the efforts of Egyptian president were unsuccessful and he had to resign finally on 11<sup>th</sup> February, 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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Source: http://LoudTech.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Syria34.802074999999988 38.9968149999999732.298838999999987 35.623010499999971 37.305310999999989 42.370619499999968tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3327808724111060985.post-82716157501576680262011-07-16T11:34:00.000-04:002011-07-16T11:34:01.182-04:00Sony Rival Nintendo Also Reports a Cyber Attack on Its Servers<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nintendo recently announced publicly that it was targeted in yet another <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberwarfare" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Cyberwarfare">cyber attack</a>. Since the start of this year there has been a rapid increase in cyber attacks of mostly <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_theft" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Data theft">data theft</a>, but other kinds too. Though according to Nintendo, this time the targeted data was not compromised, in fact it was stated that no personal or company information was lost at all. Nintendo, famous for its <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_console" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Video game console">gaming console</a> <a class="zem_slink" href="http://wii.nintendo.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Wii">Wii</a>, made all these official announcements on Sunday.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span class="zemanta-img separator zemanta-action-dragged"><a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/nintendo" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image representing Nintendo as depicted in Cru..." height="58" src="http://www.crunchbase.com/assets/images/resized/0000/2869/2869v1-max-450x450.png" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="200" /></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 200px;">Image via <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/" target="_blank">CrunchBase</a></span></span> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The server on which the data of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.9699694444,135.756202778&spn=1.0,1.0&q=34.9699694444,135.756202778%20(Nintendo)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Nintendo">Nintendo Co.</a> is stored, located within U.S., was illegally accessed a few weeks back, though the data was not compromised at all, confirmed company spokesperson Ken Toyoda said. Toyoda declared that "There were no third-party victims" either, while he refused to further explain the attack in detail. "But it is a fact there was some kind of possible <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_%28computer_security%29" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Hacker (computer security)">hacking attack</a>," he added. This damage could be form a series after the on-going large cyber attacks in recent days, especially in the case of Nintendo’s own market rival; <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.sony.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Sony">Sony Corp.</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sony Corporation faced one of the most fierce cyber attacks, which stole such large chunk of data that it is being considered one of the largest data thefts since the advent of internet. The enormous amount of data included personal information, email addresses, names and birth dates. Such personal data of almost 100 million users, if not more, was stolen in the data theft resulting in the immediate suspension of the service. Service was kept out since April due to security reasons, recovery processing and installing better security measures for future. The network service was just recently returned after more than a month of outage. Meanwhile, Sony still faced several hack attacks to their local websites in many countries, including one attack at their Sony Pictures' website last week. It still remains extremely ambiguous, even after long-investigations of agencies like <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.894465,-77.024503&spn=0.01,0.01&q=38.894465,-77.024503%20(Federal%20Bureau%20of%20Investigation)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Federal Bureau of Investigation">FBI</a>, whether who or which organization is responsible for these hack attacks at Sony or Nintendo.</span></div><a name='more'></a><o:p></o:p><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One of the online hackers groups, who have named itself ‘<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOL" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="LOL">Lulz</a> Security’ relating to the online <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Internet">Internet</a> acronym for "laugh out loud," has allegedly claimed responsibility of the attacks though it is not been yet confirmed. They claim to be the ones behind the recent data theft of personal information of one million users' of Sony Corp.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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Source: http://LoudTech.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Nintendo Games, Charleston Plaza, Mountain View, CA 94303, USA37.4234441 -122.0967954000000237.4234151 -122.09682790000002 37.423473099999995 -122.09676290000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3327808724111060985.post-78994099259807555542011-07-16T09:33:00.000-04:002011-07-16T09:33:00.380-04:00Chinese Warns That Google Could Hurt Itself by Making False Accusations<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It was stated against <a class="zem_slink" href="http://google.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Google">Google Inc.</a> in the Monday edition of state-run newspaper of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=35.0,105.0&spn=10.0,10.0&q=35.0,105.0%20(China)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="China">China</a>, largely influenced by the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://english.cpc.people.com.cn/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Communist Party of China">Chinese Communist Party</a>, that the latest allegations of cyber hack attacks being originated from China were totally driven by politics. It further straight forwardly warned the Internet Search Giant that if such activates were not stopped, ultimately its own business might suffer. The article in the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="People's Daily">People’s Daily</a> newspaper mentioned that "Google's accusations against China are fictitious and have ulterior motives and sinister intentions."<o:p></o:p></span></div><span class="zemanta-img separator zemanta-action-dragged"><a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/google" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image representing Google as depicted in Crunc..." height="99" src="http://www.crunchbase.com/assets/images/resized/0002/9578/29578v7-max-450x450.jpg" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="250" /></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 250px;">Image via <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/" target="_blank">CrunchBase</a></span></span> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Google Inc. was largely accused of attempting to create disputes between China and the U.S., and intentionally trying to obstruct the cooperation between both the countries to fight cybercrime. It was officially announced by Google last week that it has finally traced the origin of the cyber spying hack attacks, launched in its emailing services, to be near the eastern city of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=36.6568333333,116.977694444&spn=0.01,0.01&q=36.6568333333,116.977694444%20(Jinan)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Jinan">Jinan</a> in China. It was alleged that these spying hack attacks were targeted to victimize hundreds of users of Gmail, specially the U.S. government officials, military personnel and political activists. China has been extremely straight forwarded in this regard and refuted every allegation made, blaming it to be related to these attacks in one way or the other. The article further stated that "Google should not be drawn into international political conflicts and serve as a tool for political games, because one fears that if international political winds shift it might be sacrificed and suffer in the marketplace."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><a name='more'></a>Google does not exactly has the perfect relationship with the Chinese authorities either, it has had a very bumpy ride trying to expand its business in the immensely populated country. Google Inc., based in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.3927777778,-122.041944444&spn=0.1,0.1&q=37.3927777778,-122.041944444%20(Mountain%20View%2C%20California)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Mountain View, California">Mountain View, California</a>, suspended the Chinese version of its search engine last year, after it had to face a public dispute over censorship angering the Communist leaders. Google was still permitted to keep its network of advertising sales offices in China. Though without the presence of its local version of the search engine website, the market share of Google have drowned to 19.2 percent from the previous 35.6 percent, stated a study by a Beijing research firm, Analysys International.<o:p></o:p><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.894465,-77.024503&spn=0.01,0.01&q=38.894465,-77.024503%20(Federal%20Bureau%20of%20Investigation)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Federal Bureau of Investigation">FBI</a> is currently investigating the allegations on China by Google Inc. as the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_State" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="United States Secretary of State">U.S. Secretary of State</a>, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.myspace.com/everything/hillary-rodham-clinton" rel="myspace" target="_blank" title="Hillary Rodham Clinton">Hillary Clinton</a>, called the situation "very serious." Jinan is the same <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.9166666667,116.383333333&spn=10.0,10.0&q=39.9166666667,116.383333333%20(People%27s%20Republic%20of%20China)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="People's Republic of China">Chinese state</a> where the vocational military school is located, students of which were previously related to a separate attacks on Google's systems 17 months ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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Source: http://LoudTech.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0China35.86166 104.1953969999999618.080973 73.558698999999962 53.642347 134.83209499999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3327808724111060985.post-36884509557850314602011-07-16T05:01:00.000-04:002011-07-16T05:01:01.402-04:00China Claims the hacking Allegations to Be “Unacceptable” And Promotes the Idea of International Conference<span class="zemanta-img separator zemanta-action-dragged"><a href="http://www.daylife.com/image/04eW36y9Lx04n?utm_source=zemanta&utm_medium=p&utm_content=04eW36y9Lx04n&utm_campaign=z1" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="SINGAPORE - JUNE 3: U.S. Secretary of Defense..." height="96" src="http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/04eW36y9Lx04n/150x96.jpg" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="150" /></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 150px;">Image by <a href="http://www.daylife.com/source/Getty_Images" target="_blank">Getty Images</a> via <a href="http://www.daylife.com/" target="_blank">@daylife</a></span></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The defense minister of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=35.0,105.0&spn=10.0,10.0&q=35.0,105.0%20(China)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="China">China</a>, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liang_Guanglie" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Liang Guanglie">Liang Guanglie</a>, clearly refuted all the allegations made against China blaming it to be responsible for the Internet attacks on several foreign targets. Moreover, he also seconded the call of US and Britain to hold international talks to tighten the international <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_security" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Computer security">cyber-security</a>. He stated that "It is hard to attribute the real source of attacks and we need to work together to make sure that this security problem won't be a problem." He was speaking in a security forum in Singapore, when he declared that "actually in China we have also suffered quite a wide range and frequency of cyber-attacks." He added that "the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Government of the People's Republic of China">Chinese government</a> attaches importance also to cyber-security and stands firmly against all kinds of cyber-crimes."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">China is being accused largely by the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&spn=10.0,10.0&q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667%20(United%20States)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="United States">United States</a>, Canada and several other nations, who allege that the Chinese government is backing these online hack attacks on their government agencies and companies. Just last week, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://google.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Google">Google Inc.</a> allegedly exposed a cyber-spying attack supposedly initiated from somewhere in China, aimed to spy on the Gmail accounts of senior US officials, military personnel, journalists and Chinese political activists. Even the U.S. government stated on Friday that it is concerned regarding the Google's accusations towards Beijing, though the Chinese government still asserts that all the allegations, blaming it, are completely "unacceptable".</span></div><a name='more'></a><o:p></o:p><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Chinese hackers are also accused of attacking numerous websites which show pessimism against Beijing, this April a US lawmaker highly recommended the government should create strict laws to protect the popular activist websites. This reaction was triggered after a hack attack, which compromised a website designed to sign petitions to free the detained artist, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Ai Weiwei">Ai Weiwei</a>. The lawmaker stated that "It is important for everyone to obey or follow laws and regulations in terms of cyber-security."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Both the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Defense" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="United States Secretary of Defense">Defense Secretaries</a> of the U.S. and Britain, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gates" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Robert Gates">Robert Gates</a> and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam_Fox" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Liam Fox">Liam Fox</a>, stated that this problem needs a very urgent solution. Gates admitted that "I think that one of the things that would be beneficial would be for there to be a more open dialogue among countries about cyber (threats) and establishing some rules of the road." Fox extended an invitation, announcing that Britain is intending to host an international conference on what he called the "war of the invisible enemy" later this year. He added that this conference in London will be aimed to construct a potential legal framework.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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Source: http://LoudTech.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comChina35.86166 104.1953969999999618.080973 73.558698999999962 53.642347 134.83209499999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3327808724111060985.post-36760296027098689422011-07-15T13:18:00.001-04:002011-07-15T13:18:01.496-04:00Instagram Gives Birth to Trendy Fashion Photographers<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is somewhat a little difficult to admit that Instagram, one of the leading <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.apple.com/iphone" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="iPhone">iPhone applications</a> for <a class="zem_slink" href="http://twitter.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Twitter">Twitter</a> <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_sharing" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Photo sharing">photo sharing</a>, is popularly used for stylizing among street style photographers. Even more peculiar reality is that most of these <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashion_photography" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Fashion photography">fashion photographers</a> were not so active before Instagram; most of the ‘well-followed’ photographers on Twitter are the ones who did not even have any experience of street style photography before they started using Intagram.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span class="zemanta-img separator zemanta-action-dragged"><a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/twitter" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image representing Twitter as depicted in Crun..." height="220" src="http://www.crunchbase.com/assets/images/resized/0005/4257/54257v1-max-250x250.png" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="250" /></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 250px;">Image via <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/" target="_blank">CrunchBase</a></span></span> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I started using Instagram about two weeks after it launched in the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/apps-for-iphone" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="App Store">App Store</a> and just fiddled around with pictures of my family and friends,” stated one of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographer" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Photographer">photographer</a> from <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=43.0,-75.0&spn=3.0,3.0&q=43.0,-75.0%20(New%20York)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="New York">NY</a>, Anthony Danielle, who has acquired almost 18,000 followers with her username takinyerphoto. He said that “I’d see other people doing street work and thought, ‘I could do that,’ and I just started taking pictures of people on the street.” In addition to the amazing styling feature of the app, the experience is even more enhanced with the iPhone’s portability and camera reliability. Instagram has helped strengthen, rather develop, the hobby of Danielle which he never thought he’d end up doing. He claims that even the most darkest and useless photos he takes, are often ‘stylized’ into art with Instagram’s and Camera+‘s filters.</span></div><a name='more'></a><o:p></o:p><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Another <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=52.5005555556,13.3988888889&spn=1.0,1.0&q=52.5005555556,13.3988888889%20(Berlin)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Berlin">Berlin</a>-based Instagram-generated street fashion photographer, Thomas Kakareko, claims that he “had nothing to do with photography” before he actually started using Intagram on his iPhone earlier this year. He used to casually share his photos with his close friends and family, but before he even knew it, he was a <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_photography" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Street photography">street photographer</a>. Thomas is popular for his Twitter feed to be having high-contrast; black and white images which are even match able with vintage film noir stills is his strength. He is now popular enough to have 13,000 and above followers on Instagram. Despite being great admirers of the ‘stylizing’ feature of Instagram and its filters, Danielle and Kakareko still assert that it was rather Instagram’s community which played the key role behind their success. Danielle stated that Instagram’s community is “unlike any other I’ve ever encountered … [because] mostly everyone is willing to help and share constructive opinions about your pictures.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Another Instagram-inspired fashion photographer from <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=51.5072222222,-0.1275&spn=0.1,0.1&q=51.5072222222,-0.1275%20(London)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="London">London</a>, Arianna Power (having the userame of streetstylish), states that “It’s completely addictive.” She added that “Instagram is appealing because it’s fun to have a social network based around images.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Just this Friday, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://kno.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Kno">Kno</a> textbook app was released in the app store for <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.apple.com/ipad/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="iPad">iPad</a>, this means discounted textbooks are now more convenient to get for the students. As the app description section in the app store states, Kno app is offering customers “the world’s largest selection of over 70,000 titles at 30-50% off the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suggested_retail_price" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Suggested retail price">list price</a>.” This 30 to 50 percent discount on the total price of the expenses of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textbook" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Textbook">text books</a> can mean a lot of money for a <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Student">college student</a>. The app is enrolled with already a full textbook and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PDF_software" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="List of PDF software">PDF reader</a> with full integration. Additionally, the package contains a course manager, which is a feature that will allow the users to easily sort out their textbooks to keep them classified according to their courses and term. Moreover, miscellaneous features like the one-touch text highlighting, annotation capabilities, and the ability to “ask questions, post comments or share your location with study buddies,” are the selling points mentioned regarding the app in the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/apps-for-iphone" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="App Store">Apple App Store</a> listing.</span></div><a name='more'></a><o:p></o:p><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">This unique feature of sharing, commenting and questioning with the study buddies is given the title of </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">“WTF” i.e. Words to <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/just-friends1994" rel="rottentomatoes" target="_blank" title="Just Friends">Friends</a>. This feature was reviewed minutely by <i><a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.techcrunch.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="TechCrunch">TechCrunch</a> </i>and it found it did not really it to be working that well in its current form. The app has only be released a short while back, so out of the total 18 reviews it had gotten so far on the App Store, 11 of them gave full five stars rating to the app. Though one of those reviewers also identified that, despite the app was good, it is still a little too slow and laggy.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">It was announced, earlier in 2010, that Kno</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span style="color: black;">is planning to soon launch its own line of tablets. This line was reportedly going to start off with a large two-screen version device, of which both the screens would have been 14.1-inches long with a 1,400×900 resolution. This news eroded the market, but later in February last year, Kno declared that it is changing its priorities and has kept the hardware business</span> aside, while <span style="color: black;">focusing more on its software development.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Though the project was not completely discontinued, rumors regarding the Kno tablets also surfaced in April, stating that the chip-maker <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:INTC" rel="googlefinance" target="_blank" title="NASDAQ: INTC">Intel</a> and Advance Capital have taken over the design and production of the tablets. Both the companies allegedly invested around $30 million in this joint endeavor, though no official confirmation of these rumors ever came to light.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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Source: http://LoudTech.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Cupertino, CA, USA37.3229978 -122.0321822999999937.2921908 -122.07971079999999 37.353804800000006 -121.98465379999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3327808724111060985.post-85692153766445277062011-07-15T05:15:00.000-04:002011-07-15T05:15:01.035-04:00RIM Keeps Losing Its Market Share to Apple, Google<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">According to the report of a recently conducted research, the analysts have declared that Research In Motion has laid off even more of its market share to the giants, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=LON:APC" rel="googlefinance" target="_blank" title="LSE: APC">Apple</a> and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:GOOG" rel="googlefinance" target="_blank" title="NASDAQ: GOOG">Google</a>, in the extremely competitive U.S. smartphone market than ever before. Now that the two mobile phone giants are attempting to cut price targets, it has raised even more concerns for the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.blackberry.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="BlackBerry">BlackBerry</a> maker. Even this Friday, the shares of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:RIMM" rel="googlefinance" target="_blank" title="NASDAQ: RIMM">RIM</a> kept on declining, as the research firm stated that the market share of company has been reducing constantly since three months now.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span class="zemanta-img separator zemanta-action-dragged"><a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/research-in-motion" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image representing Research In Motion as depic..." height="79" src="http://www.crunchbase.com/assets/images/resized/0001/8346/18346v1-max-450x450.png" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="199" /></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 199px;">Image via <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/" target="_blank">CrunchBase</a></span></span> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meanwhile the rapidly grown <a class="zem_slink" href="http://code.google.com/android/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Android">Android platform</a> of Google has peaked up to a 36.4 percent shares in its value and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="IPhone (original)">Apple's iPhone</a> increased to a 26 percent, whereas, RIM kept falling down and has lessened down to 25.7 percent from its 30.4 percent share last quarter. These statistics were published in the report of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:SCOR" rel="googlefinance" target="_blank" title="NASDAQ: SCOR">comScore</a>, whereas it has lead to a drop of RIM’s position from second to third in the market. This on-going struggle of RIM is very much unlikely to get easier any soon, the upcoming new <a class="zem_slink" href="http://icloud.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Icloud">iCloud</a> service of Apple is anticipated to cause even more troubles for RIM, predicts Sterne Agee analyst, Shaw Wu.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The shares of RIM, who was once the leader in the corporate smartphone market, have almost lost all of their value since Apple's iPhone and Google's Android software completely transformed the whole sector. The shares of RIM have gone 3.7 percent lower on the Nasdaq at $38.93, which is the first time they ever went below $40 since March 2009. Many analysts claim this downfall of RIM to be aided by its poor <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Price discrimination">price targeting</a> in stock citing concerns, increasing competition and uncertainty in the timings of launch of new product.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The new BlackBerry Bold, a touchscreen model of RIM, was actually announced to be released in "summer," i.e. somewhere early May. But this mobile is not even reaches the stores until September yet, pointed out the tech blog Boy Genius.</span></div><a name='more'></a><o:p></o:p><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:UBS" rel="googlefinance" target="_blank" title="NYSE: UBS">UBS</a>, which has cut its price target to $45 from $60, states that according to it, the management of RIM is not exactly optimal. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sterne Agee, which has made the price cut on stock from $52 to $44, declares that the launch of iCloud will result in even more damages of RIM. It said that some of the features of iCloud are even more attractive than RIM's own push network technology.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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Source: http://LoudTech.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Silicon Valley, California, USA37.362517 -122.0347636.7185375 -122.83771700000001 38.0064965 -121.231803tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3327808724111060985.post-1455074858513407462011-07-14T14:14:00.000-04:002011-07-14T14:14:01.300-04:00Lawyers State That Request for Reconsideration of Rambus Case Is Very Much "Likely"<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">According to one of the attorneys of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.rambus.com/us/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Rambus">Rambus</a>, it will be logging a request to the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_courts_of_appeals" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="United States courts of appeals">U.S. appeals court</a> to revisit the recent patent rulings which involved the chip maker, he told after the hearing on Friday. Recently most of the income of Rambus is coming from its patent litigation against companies, as it constantly keeps filing lawsuit against the clients not paying for their patented technology. Most of the time winning the legal battle makes it easier for the company to negotiate additional licensing deal with the companies.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span class="zemanta-img separator zemanta-action-dragged"><a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/rambus" style="clear: left; display: block; float: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image representing Rambus as depicted in Crunc..." height="63" src="http://www.crunchbase.com/assets/images/resized/0005/0195/50195v2-max-450x450.png" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="139" /></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 139px;">Image via <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/" target="_blank">CrunchBase</a></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Just last month it was revealed to the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit">U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit</a>, that Rambus had been wrong in its actions to shred hundreds of boxes of documents which were relevant to two of its patent infringement lawsuits it had filed earlier. This act brought down the shares of the company almost 18 percent in just one day. Out of the two simultaneously running rulings, the U.S. appeals court has discovered that Rambus has destroyed important documents regarding one of them. These documents were allegedly related to a patent suit which it had previously won in a judgment of $350 million along with an additional interest with <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.5833333333,127.0&spn=10.0,10.0&q=37.5833333333,127.0%20(South%20Korea)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="South Korea">South Korea's</a> <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.hynix.co.kr/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Hynix">Hynix Semiconductor</a>. It has been requested by the appeals court that <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_judge" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="United States federal judge">U.S. District Judge</a> <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_M._Whyte" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Ronald M. Whyte">Ronald Whyte</a> in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.3352777778,-121.891944444&spn=0.1,0.1&q=37.3352777778,-121.891944444%20(San%20Jose%2C%20California)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="San Jose, California">San Jose, Calif.</a> should review his decision of the case, after it has been brought to life that those document were destroyed by the company.</span></div><a name='more'></a><o:p></o:p><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This Friday, Whyte explained that both the companies have equal rights to request the Federal Circuit for revisiting the made decisions, as he restrained for giving another scheduled date for Hynix case himself. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whyte said that "How long that process is going to take is anybody's guess.” According to the attorney of Rambus, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Stone" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Greg Stone">Greg Stone</a>, he has informed Whyte that it was "likely" that the request for rehearing will be filed with the Federal Circuit. This decision was announced days before jury selection is scheduled to start a spate antitrust trial, in which Rambus is looking to get over $4.3 billion in damages from Micron and Hynix.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In second Federal Circuit ruling of Rambus, the appeals court reported that it was unambiguous that Rambus had destroyed those documents; however, it agreed that it is not sure whether such action is serious enough for a Delaware court to revert its decision against Micron. It has sent a dismissal back to the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_district_court" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="United States district court">U.S. District Court</a> in Delaware, in which added that the lower court is still deciding that whether this shredding is serious enough for Rambus to lose the case against Micron.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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Source: http://LoudTech.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Washington D.C., DC, USA38.8951118 -77.036365838.793160300000004 -77.1415488 38.9970633 -76.9311828tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3327808724111060985.post-85938461792635598932011-07-14T13:18:00.000-04:002011-07-14T13:18:15.965-04:00Sony Restarts Its PSN Service in North America, Offering Equally Attractive “Welcome Package”<span class="zemanta-img separator zemanta-action-dragged"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Psp1.png" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Sony PSP" height="180" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Psp1.png/300px-Psp1.png" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="300" /></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 300px;">Image via <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Psp1.png" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></span></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This Friday <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.sony.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Sony">Sony</a> initiated the offering it had promised earlier, regarding the games and virtual goods for its loyal members of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.jp.playstation.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="PlayStation">PlayStation</a> Network who had to suffer patiently on the hands of one of the world’s largest hack attack. This "Welcome Back" program for the users of North America offers all the network members having PlayStation 3 consoles to be able to choose two completely free complementary games from the list of five high-ranked games including <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.infamousthegame.com/old" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Infamous (video game)">inFAMOUS</a> and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LittleBigPlanet" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="LittleBigPlanet">LittleBigPlanet</a>. Whereas, the members who use the Network service through their PlayStation Portable (<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Portable" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="PlayStation Portable">PSP</a>) devices will be given the option of choosing two free games out of the list of four, which again includes as high-ranked games as <a class="zem_slink" href="http://killzone.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Killzone: Liberation">Killzone Liberation</a> and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.modnation.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="ModNation Racers">ModNation Racers</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="zemanta-img separator zemanta-action-dragged" style="clear: both; float: none;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PSN_logo_color_trans.png" style="clear: left; display: block; float: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Logo of the PlayStation Network" height="190" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/bc/PSN_logo_color_trans.png/300px-PSN_logo_color_trans.png" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-size: 0.8em;" width="200" /></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 300px;">Image via <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PSN_logo_color_trans.png" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Furthermore, the package entitled all effected PSN members to a, totally free of cost, month-long access to its <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Network" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="PlayStation Network">PlayStation Plus</a> subscription service, which features discounts on games, exclusive digital content and more. Moreover, the welcome-cum-apology package of Sony had an additional offering of 100 virtual items to be bought from the PlayStation Home shop, which faced also equal damages as the PSN and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qriocity" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Qriocity">Qriocity</a> music-streaming service. Senior director of PSN, Susan Panico, declared in his official blog post that "Today, we're excited to launch the Welcome Back program to thank you for your loyalty." This free “Welcome Package” will be available on Friday, as the users will be able to avail all the free content till July 3, states Panico. He also clarified that these “Welcome Back” packages differ for each regions, considering the local demand and its effects.</span></div><a name='more'></a><o:p></o:p><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As of this Thursday, Sony has finally restored its PSN service worldwide with only the exception of three countries, namely Japan, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=22.2783333333,114.158888889&spn=1.0,1.0&q=22.2783333333,114.158888889%20(Hong%20Kong)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a> and South Korea. Sony said he was under great pressure to return its service as soon as possible since it did not want its consumers to give up, especially when it was the start of a very major Electronics Entertainment Expo videogame event hosted in Los Angeles next week. Sony was a victim of one of world’s biggest data theft acts since the age of Internet, as all its usernames, passwords, addresses and birth dates of almost 100 million or above users was compromised. Even afterwards Sony was targeted in more hack attacks on its local websites including in Greece, Thailand and Indonesia, and Canada.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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Source: http://LoudTech.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Japan36.204824 138.25292425.33067 125.14744300000001 47.078978000000006 151.358405tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3327808724111060985.post-47608818602449835962011-07-14T13:12:00.000-04:002011-07-14T13:12:19.983-04:00Alec Baldwin Tweets Heavily On the Country Politics, Stating That ‘Romney Has the Best Chance’<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It has just been a week since the “<a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.myspace.com/everything/30-rock" rel="myspace" target="_blank" title="30 Rock">30 Rock</a>” star, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/alec_baldwin" rel="rottentomatoes" target="_blank" title="Alec Baldwin">Alec Baldwin</a>, was born in Twittersphere that he immediately begins discussing hearty and deep topics like the country’s politics and the potential scale of the 2012 presidential contenders. He gave a vague indication that there might be a possibility that he himself may perhaps run for presidency in 2012. The actor has reportedly said earlier this year that, I’m “very, very interested” in scoring a political position. He is also allegedly going to leave the network, giving up his role as a “30 Rock” star, as his contract also expires just in time for beginning the election campaign of 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Baldwin wrote in his article published in Higginson Post, back in April, that “I want to take the opportunity to state that although my days on <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_network" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Television network">network TV</a> may be numbered, I hope ‘30 Rock’ goes on forever.” He also tweeted regarding the topic this Thursday and Friday, he declared that the state of the nation is declining and question whether who will be the decent leader for the country, which it needs. He wrote on Friday that “I mentioned <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Mitt Romney">Romney</a> because if he can overcome the Mormon issue with the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_right" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Christian right">Christian right</a>, he could win it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><span class="zemanta-img separator zemanta-action-dragged"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mitt_Romney.jpg" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Governor Mitt Romney of MA" height="200" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Mitt_Romney.jpg/300px-Mitt_Romney.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-size: 0.8em;" width="157" /></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 300px;"> Image via <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mitt_Romney.jpg" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></span></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Baldwin kept talking about Romney, and once even stated that “his contradictions re: Health care can be ironed out by clever <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.gop.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Republican Party (United States)">GOP</a> and conservative think tank types.” He also added later that “Unwarranted fear/loathing of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://answers.com/topic/barack-obama#Gale_Contemporary_Black_Biography_d" rel="answerscom" target="_blank" title="Barack Obama">Obama</a> is sad, but real. Romney has that <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.9579833333,-70.6623722222&spn=0.01,0.01&q=41.9579833333,-70.6623722222%20(Plymouth%20Rock)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Plymouth Rock">Plymouth Rock</a> last name.” Several tweets later, Baldwin declared that Romney is one of the best choices for the Republican Party, he said “Romney has the best chance. But that’s not saying much.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><a name='more'></a>Obviously such political tweets coming from a famed celebrity had to see a considerate about of critiques as well, responding to one of these Baldwin questioned the petitioner “Who then? Newt? Huckabee? Christie? Obama would slice and dice them.” He gave another angle to his concerns and stated that “Miot Americans have already forgotten the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=28.736628,-88.365997&spn=0.05,0.05&q=28.736628,-88.365997%20(Deepwater%20Horizon%20oil%20spill)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Deepwater Horizon oil spill">BP spill</a>, Fukushima,” adding to which he later asserted that “Americans, too many of them, seem to only care about sex and taxes.”<o:p></o:p><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Upon inquiry of the Times on whether he was eligible to be a candidate in the presidential election, he replied that “That’s what I hate about Schwarzenegger. His only credentials are that he ran a fitness program under some bygone president … I’m Tocqueville compared to <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/arnold_schwarzenegger" rel="rottentomatoes" target="_blank" title="Arnold Schwarzenegger">Arnold Schwarzenegger</a>.”</span></div><br />
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Source: http://LoudTech.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0United States37.09024 -95.71289100000001310.70899 -156.97250350000002 63.47149 -34.45327850000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3327808724111060985.post-90146995409165500302011-07-09T12:26:00.000-04:002011-07-09T12:26:00.740-04:00Trend Micro Claims That Gmail Cyberattacks Also Targeted Hotmail and Yahoo Mail As Well<span class="zemanta-img separator" style="clear: right;"><a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/google" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image representing Google as depicted in Crunc..." height="99" src="http://www.crunchbase.com/assets/images/resized/0002/9578/29578v7-max-450x450.jpg" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="250" /></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution" style="clear: both; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 250px;">Image via <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/" target="_blank">CrunchBase</a></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It was revealed by <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.trendmicro.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Trend Micro">Trend Micro</a>, on Friday that the recent <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberwarfare" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Cyberwarfare">cyber attacks</a> aimed to penetrate were not only aimed the online email services of Google, but also <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=47.6395972222,-122.12845&spn=1.0,1.0&q=47.6395972222,-122.12845%20(Microsoft)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a> and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.yahoo.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Yahoo!">Yahoo!</a> According to the investigation of a US federal agent, these <a class="zem_slink" href="http://gmail.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Gmail">Gmail</a> spying efforts were successfully countered by <a class="zem_slink" href="http://google.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Google">Google.</a> Trend Micro made another allegation that both <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.hotmail.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Hotmail">Hotmail</a> and <a class="zem_slink" href="https://mail.yahoo.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Yahoo! Mail">Yahoo! Mail</a> were also subjected to the same hack attacks. The senior threat researcher at Trend Micro, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.nartv.org/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Nart Villeneuve">Nart Villeneuve</a>, stated in an online post that "there has been a variety of recent attacks on popular Webmail platforms." He declared that "in addition to Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail have also been targeted. While the attacks appear to have been separately conducted, these have some significant similarities."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Google made the announcement this Wednesday that a cyber spying attack, which was allegedly originated from somewhere in China, was aimed to target the Gmail accounts of several senior US officials, military personnel, journalists, Chinese political activists, along with the officials of several Asian countries, mainly in South Korea. Eric Grosse, the head of Google’s security division stated in his official blog post that "We recently uncovered a campaign to collect user passwords, likely through phishing." He added that "The goal of this effort seems to have been to monitor the contents of these users' emails, with the perpetrators apparently using stolen passwords." Allegedly the campaign was technically traced back to be originated from Jinan, the capital of eastern <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_%28China%29" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Province (China)">Chinese province</a> of Shandong. Grosse reported that these attacks were aimed to penetrate the personal Gmail accounts of hundreds of Gmail users.</span></div><a name='more'></a><o:p></o:p><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It was also revealed by other sources that Trend Micro, that these attacks were actually aimed at other major emailing services including Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail too. Apparently all these attempts were in the hope for viewing and reading the personal or official messages sent by those users and. Along with tracing the users activity on the services, the attackers also made use of such threats which could search the computers of these hacked users associated with those email addresses, for gathering more information regarding the type of software’s being used in their operating system. "Once the attackers know what software is installed on a target's computer, including antivirus products, they can craft a precise attack targeting any vulnerable software," Villeneuve said. "Such an attack will then have a high probability of success."<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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Source: http://LoudTech.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Silicon Valley, California, USA37.362517 -122.0347636.7185375 -122.83771700000001 38.0064965 -121.231803tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3327808724111060985.post-64141169747917928492011-07-09T09:16:00.000-04:002011-07-09T09:16:00.085-04:00China Asserts US Is Culprit in Raising a Global 'Internet War'<h1 style="line-height: 27.65pt; margin-bottom: 11.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;">Finally the Chinese military has responded to the on-going accusations made against it, it rather blamed U.S. on Friday, alleging that the U.S. is attempting to launch a worldwide "<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Internet">Internet</a> war." <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=35.0,105.0&spn=10.0,10.0&q=35.0,105.0%20(China)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="China">China</a> asserted that this internet war is aimed to target the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_people" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Arab people">Arab</a> and other governments, and it is just framing China to be responsible for these Western hack attacks just to provide cover for its own actions. This declaration was made by the Chinese military academy scholars on Friday, as they pleaded to have an even tougher policing of Internet. These actions are a result of an accusation made by <a class="zem_slink" href="http://google.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Google">Google Inc.</a>, regarding hack attacks on its emailing system being originated from within China, aimed to acquired personal information by hacking the accounts of government officials, military personnel and political activists of the U.S.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;">Precisely Google stated that it has traced the hack attacks to be originated from the city of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=36.6568333333,116.977694444&spn=0.01,0.01&q=36.6568333333,116.977694444%20(Jinan)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Jinan">Jinan</a>, which is actually also housing a military vocational school. China immediately denied the all the allegations, imposing that it was not responsibility for either of the two alleged attacks. It was written in one of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://english.cpc.people.com.cn/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Communist Party of China">Communist Party</a>-controlled China newspapers, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.cyol.net/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="China Youth Daily">Youth Daily</a>: "Of late, an Internet tornado has swept across the world ... massively impacting and shocking the globe. Behind all this lays the shadow of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&spn=10.0,10.0&q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667%20(United%20States)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="United States">America</a>." This article was signed by both Ye Zheng and Zhao Baoxian, identified scholars at the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_of_Military_Science" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Academy of Military Science">Academy of Military Sciences</a>, also mentioning that "Faced with this warmup for an Internet war, every nation and military can't be passive but is making preparations to fight the Internet war."</span></div><a name='more'></a><o:p></o:p><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;">It was asserted, in the article, that while nuclear bombs were the weapons of industrial era, now the Internet War is the main product of today’s information age. The article threateningly declared that such conflicts can result in huge destruction, challenging the national security and the very existence of the state. It was stated that China needs to "express to the world its principled stance of maintaining an 'Internet border' and protecting its 'Internet sovereignty,' unite all advanced forces to dive into the raging torrent of the age of peaceful use of the Internet, and return to the Internet world a healthy, orderly environment."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">On the other hand, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.894465,-77.024503&spn=0.01,0.01&q=38.894465,-77.024503%20(Federal%20Bureau%20of%20Investigation)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Federal Bureau of Investigation">FBI</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> has asserted that it is still investigating the allegations made by Google, though it confirmed that none of the official government email accounts were compromised at any stage.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div></span></h1><br />
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Source: http://LoudTech.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0China35.86166 104.1953969999999618.080973 73.558698999999962 53.642347 134.83209499999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3327808724111060985.post-16719747850360100052011-07-09T08:28:00.003-04:002011-07-09T08:38:03.454-04:00Audi Gets Sued By Eminem for Using His Track "Lose Yourself" In Its Car Advertisement<span class="zemanta-img separator" style="clear: right; width: 136px;"><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Eminem" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Eminem" src="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/126/355717.jpg" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" /></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution" style="clear: both; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">Cover of <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Eminem" target="_blank">Eminem</a></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The famous American rapper, considered to be the king of rap, Eminem, has acquired a <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cease_and_desist" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Cease and desist">cease-and-desist order</a> against the German automobile company, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.audi.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Audi">Audi</a>. Allegedly Audi has used the rapper’s <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.oscars.org/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Academy Award">Oscar winning</a> song tune of ‘<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lose_Yourself" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Lose Yourself">Lose Yourself</a>’ illegally without permission, in its recent upcoming advert commercial for the new 2012 Audi A6 Avant model. This is the same tune which was previously contracted with Eminem by Chrysler, for using in the "Imported from <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=42.3313888889,-83.0458333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=42.3313888889,-83.0458333333%20(Detroit)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Detroit">Detroit</a>" campaign for the new Chrysler 200 model.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Eminem personally acted in a spot for the campaign, which was first released as a <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sign" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="At sign">commercial at</a> the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Super Bowl">Super Bowl</a>, resulting in record breaking audience of 10 million people and above online views. Furthermore, even after using the same song, the actual commercial shaped by Audi also uses somewhat the same similar visuals and idea in the Chrysler spot. In the commercial of Chrysler, Eminem is driving the car across several Detroit's key landmarks, whereas in the commercial designed by Audi, the driver is passing across the key landmarks of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=52.5005555556,13.3988888889&spn=1.0,1.0&q=52.5005555556,13.3988888889%20(Berlin)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Berlin">Berlin</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Just this past week the publisher of Eminem, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/eminem" rel="rottentomatoes" target="_blank" title="Eminem">Eight Mile Style</a>, has officially filed a lawsuit against the commercial made by Audi in a Hamburg regional court. The company did not only identify the offence, but also demanded compensation in order to meet the damages caused by the act. Though this lawsuit just mentioned the unauthorized use of the song by Audi and not really makes any claim regarding the suspicion of copying the idea or format of Chrysler’s campaign. Still when giving a statement, the spokesman for Eight Mile Style, Joel Martin, said "we believe Audi not only used ‘Lose Yourself’ to sell their product without permission, but their spot actually feels inspired by elements of Chrysler's commercial campaign."</span></div><a name='more'></a><o:p></o:p><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The spokesperson of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.chryslergroupllc.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Chrysler">Chrysler Group</a>, Gualberto Ranierid stated that "Apparently someone believes that the definition of copyright laws is the right to copy others' materials, including world-renowned successes created by Chrysler Group brands," when was referring about the first Audi commercial, aired initially in Berlin on 19<sup>th</sup> May. It still remains ambiguous whether Chrysler will be pulling charges to ask legal compensation or not. Eight Mile Style has always been extra protective defender of the copyrights attained by its client, Eminem. <o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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