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Microsoft sued over browser miscue that led to $731 million EU fine

Fri, 11 Apr 2014 22:51:26 +0000

By Bill Rigby SEATTLE (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp's board faces a lawsuit over the way it handled an error with its Internet Explorer browser that ended up costing the company a record-breaking $731 million fine by European antitrust regulators. The lawsuit, brought by shareholder Kim Barovic in federal court in Seattle on Friday, charges that directors and executives, including founder Bill Gates and former Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer, failed to manage the company properly and that the board's investigation was insufficient into how the miscue occurred. The legal action is the first to emerge from a humiliating episode for Microsoft, which the software company has never fully explained and has accounted for only as a "technical error." In March last year, the European Union levied its largest ever antitrust fine against Microsoft for breaking a legally binding commitment made in 2009 to ensure that consumers in Europe had a choice of how they access the internet, rather than defaulting to Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser.

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Apple rests its case against Samsung after calling it a copycat yet again

Fri, 11 Apr 2014 21:23:39 +0000

After nearly five full days of court, Apple has rested its case against Samsung, marking a turning point in a trial where billions of dollars hang in the balance. Now it's Samsung's turn to go on the offensive and undercut Apple's effort to paint it as a copycat once again. In its opening last week, Samsung offered a brief preview of its plan, which will play out over the course of the next two weeks. That includes an effort to downplay Apple's copycat claims by focusing on features it offered that Apple hadn't, like larger-screened phones with removable batteries, LTE, styluses, NFC sensors, and certain software features like multi-window applications.

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This guide will teach you how to create stronger passwords

Fri, 11 Apr 2014 18:30:45 +0000

The Heartbleed software bug caught the web by storm, affecting a huge number of websites and online services that are now hurrying to patch the security bug. Internet users have little they can do right now, aside from checking whether the websites they access on a regular basis are affected in any way – especially those sites where they have user accounts – and then changing their passwords for those sites once they have been patched. Changing a password now would not have any effect on a site that’s still vulnerable to Heartbleed, as hackers would still be able to access passwords no matter how complex they’d be. With that said, however, people looking to set up stronger passwords than “password” or “123456” in

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Heartbleed-Check App for Android Released

Fri, 11 Apr 2014 17:42:16 +0000

They're looking for blood! Lookout Mobile Security has released a free app called Heartbleed Detector that checks to see whether an Android device is vulnerable to the Heartbleed bug. Jelly Bean) does use a vulnerable version of the OpenSSL software. Heartbleed Detector checks to see if you're running a vulnerable version of Android, and whether the vulnerable extension to OpenSSL is enabled on your device.

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How to take the best possible pictures with the HTC One (M8) UltraPixel camera

Fri, 11 Apr 2014 15:55:51 +0000

HTC’s new flagship smartphone is the best Android phone the world has ever seen. The HTC One (M8)’s design is sleek and elegant, the build is fantastic and the software includes a number of great new features. The camera, however, is a mixed bag. HTC’s new Duo Camera technology includes a second lens that collects depth information and facilitates some pretty awesome effects, but we found the quality of photos and videos captured by HTC’s UltraPixel camera to be lacking. Some people have seen much better results than we did with the M8′s camera, however, and now one blog has put together a nice quick guide to help users get the most out of the camera on HTC’s new flagship

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Samsung’s long-awaited Galaxy S5 now on sale in 125 countries

Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:22:40 +0000

Samsung’s Galaxy S5 was one of the most hotly anticipated smartphones of 2014. In fact, considering last year’s Galaxy S4 fell well short of expectations in terms of functionality and sales, some might say we’ve been waiting for the Galaxy S5′s debut for more than a year now. But beginning Friday, all that is behind us — the next-generation flagship Galaxy S5 has finally arrived. We took a look at Samsung’s Galaxy S5 back in February and a few things were clear right from the start. First of all, the S5 is a big improvement of its predecessor in a number of key areas. The display is bigger and brighter, the software has been refined in some areas, and Samsung mixed in a

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Apple: iOS, OS X and ‘key web services’ aren’t heartbleeding

Fri, 11 Apr 2014 10:53:17 +0000

Following the revelation that hundreds of thousands of websites are susceptible to attacks based on the “Heartbleed” flaw in OpenSSL, Apple told Re/code that its operating systems including iOS and OS X, as well as unnamed “key” web-based services are not affected by the hack. “Apple takes security very seriously. IOS and OS X never incorporated the vulnerable software and key Web-based services were not affected,” an Apple spokesperson told the publication. While Apple would not say what those key web services are, 9to5Mac says it tested apple.com and various iTunes servers that host Apple’s online stores using an online tool that checks for Heartbleed and all of them are secure. The publication added that users who rely on a

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Samsung’s Galaxy S5 smartphone goes on sale today around the world

Fri, 11 Apr 2014 04:20:59 +0000

Samsung's latest smartphone, the Galaxy S5, is now available around the world. It's joined on shelves by the Samsung Gear 2 and Samsung Gear 2 Neo smartwatches, and the Samsung Gear Fit health tracker, which also launch today. The reasons for moving up to a Galaxy S5 are fairly straightforward: it features the fastest processor on the market, offers a number of built-in fitness features, and is immune to the water-related incidents that would spell doom for most phones. But there are also valid arguments for holding off: Samsung's software customizations haven't been toned down much, and that new fingerprint sensor is getting less than stellar marks all around.

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Hamas training with laser rifles to thwart rising ammunition costs

Fri, 11 Apr 2014 00:53:43 +0000

Facing a cash shortage and ammunition prices that have tripled, Hamas is training its security forces indoors using what amounts to high-tech laser tag gear. The system, reports the Associated Press, uses augmented AK-47s that shoot green lasers while mimicking the sound and recoil of a real gun when targets are hit. Accuracy is tracked on computers tethered nearby, something Hamas officials told the AP was developed with in-house software and modified rifles. The laser gun program was developed out of necessity.

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FBI Raids Overzealous Security Consultant

Thu, 10 Apr 2014 18:07:37 +0000

David Helkowski, a consultant working on a University of Maryland website, hacked university servers to demonstrate to his superiors and the university how vulnerable the servers were, and found himself facing down an FBI raiding party as a result. Helkowski told the entire story on a Reddit IamA thread earlier this week, offering a PDF copy of the FBI's search warrant as proof of his identity and his story. In November 2013, Helkowski was an employee at a software-consulting company, working on a University of Maryland website.

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