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Today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, LG announced the European launch of its LG KF600 cell phone.
The device’s main unique feature is its ‘InteractPad’, that LG has been claiming to provide a perfect solution to navigation issues that currently exist. The InteractPad has context-specific virtual keys that can instantaneously change to fit the task at hand.
Attorney General in Oregon State has blocked attempts of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) to spy on university students. The RIAA issued subpoenas claiming against 17 students in University of Oregon, that they had downloaded music from the internet and violated the copyright.
Documents filed in the US District Court in Eugene by the Attorney General described the subpoenas as “overbroad and burdensome”. “We do not think the university can be compelled to produce investigative work for the recording industry,” Deputy State Attorney General Pete Shepherd told the Associated Press.
Court documents issued by the Attorney General’s office said: “The university’s efforts thus far have been met by accusations that it is obstructing the process and even conspiring with law breakers. Those accusations are not warranted. (more…)
Look how someone can get obsessed with Firefox so much. I’ve seen people putting up Firefox logo on wallpapers, posters, tattoos and t-shirts. But, this is too much.
EchoStar Communications have acquired Sling Media in $380 million, they have clearly indicated the plan to segregate its operation in two publicly traded corporations, one likely being to continue the Dish satellite TV service. Another hand of the company will manage EchoStar’s technology, assets and Sling Media.
EchoStar was also an early investor in Sling Media, Sling Box manufacturer that allows subscribers to watch shows available on their home TV sets using Internet. Sling Media is also making way towards the mobile applications, currently they have a version of its service for Windows Mobile devices.This acquisition also makes the way for new and creative development of new services for their subscribers.
Samsung Z170, is another newly announced which supports 3G and is the slimmest of the three new Samsung phones ( S730i, SV60, Z170 )
Coolest thing is that it is only at 9.3 mm thickness and weighing 76g. The Z170 display is 1.8′ 262K one with 176×220 pixels resolution.
AT&T and Apple has finally announced the service plans for upcoming Apple iPhone, set to launch on June 29th. Apple has kept the three plans simple and affordable, starting at just $59.99 per month. The starter plan is $59.99 for 450 minutes, other plans follows at $79.99 for 900 minutes and $99.99 for 1,350 minutes. All the plans includes unlimited data, Visual Voicemail, 200+ SMS (depending upon plan), Rollover Minutes and unlimited Mobile to Mobile calling.
Microsoft has announced it’s new Windows Live products, Windows Live Folders and Windows Live Photo Gallery.
The New Windows Live Folders is Microsoft’s online storage application, which will compete with the AOL’s Xdrive, Box.net, and a lot of other online storage solutions in this market. Windows Live Folders allows 500 MB storage limit, which is a quite low compared to competitors like Xdrive which provides 5 gigs or Box.net which provides 1 gig of storage for free, the reason to keep this low is because they want to encourage storing and sharing of documents and not music and videos.
The Windows Live Photo Gallery is basically an upgrade to Vista’s Windows Photo Gallery, providing interoperability with Windows Live Spaces and Windows itself. It can also be installed on Windows XP SP2.
In Vista, it integrates heavily with features already built into the OS, making it easy to make a movie out of your pictures or burn a picture CD.
“photo stitching” is a new feature which is cool, you can select a series of photos in the same location and then stitch them together to make a big panoramic photo.
Both of these products will be released to beta testers.They are likely to be out for use by winter.
The Sony Ericsson K850 Cyber-shot camera phone is superior to the many handsets released before. It has 5 mega pixels camera!
It is launched with several updates compared the previously released handsets, there by making Sony Ericsson popular among mobile phone owners..especially people who seek a lot more features bundled into one.
There are many mobile features that appealed to me, it has an automatic camera cover, a 3-LED video light, a renovated camera interface, new media browser with picture auto rotate feature…quite similar to the Nokia N series format. (more…)
Hey Facebook Friends, welcome the new Applications. Facebook is getting punkier!
Have you checked out facebook’s Grupl. More of less Digg like it allows the user to submit link that will be voted on. Stories most will be voted on will acquire the top most rank.
Users will also be able to leave comments on respective newslinks. After the submission of link, Grupl will show the number of votes given to each link along with user comments. On your facebook profile, story which you voted will be displayed. Grupl can not serve independently of Facebook Profile.
myTV is another cool addition, search staright from facebook, for videos and also preview them.Start search with popularity, most views and highest rating. myTV also has feature of adding video in your favorite list which will be displayed in your facebook profile. Your friends can watch and add these videos in their facebook application. Although, this application has good amount of bugs, still it is quite useful.
FBI have disclosed on Wednesday that an ongoing cybercrime initiative, called Operation Bot Roast, has identified more than a million PCs infected with bot software and that has resulted into charges against three people for violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
The U.S. Department of Justice, along with its partners at the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University and the Botnet Task Force, aim to disrupt the operations of bot masters, or bot herders, that compromise their victims machines to use for sending spam or attacking other computers. As per the report at securityfocus.
These cases under Operation Bot Roast. The FBI’s Chicago office charged James C. Brewer of Arlington, Texas, on Wednesday with allegedly operating a bot net that infected Chicago-area hospitals.
Agents in Detroit investigated and charged Jason M. Downey of Covington, Kentucky, with allegedly using bot-infected machines to level a denial-of-service attack against specific targets. The FBI’s Seattle office charged Robert A. Soloway with using a botnet to spam tens of millions of unsolicited e-mail messages.
The FBI referred citizens that may be concerned about their computer’s security to the Internet Crime Complaint Center.
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