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Included in this months issue:
Hotmail links up with Gmail and Yahoo
Agloves for Those Chilly Touchscreen Blues
Android smartphones claim quarter of mobile OS market
The number of Android smartphones shipped in the third quarter of 2010 grew a staggering 1,309 percent year-on-year, from 1.4 million to more than 20 million, according to a Canalys report. It highlighted Samsung, HTC, Motorola and Sony Ericsson's role in shipping huge numbers of Android phones, with companies like LG, Huawei and Acer also contributing.
"Vendors are now delivering Android devices across a broad range of price points, from high-end products such as the Samsung Galaxy S or HTC Desire, to aggressively priced devices such as the LG GT540 Optimus or the Huawei-built Vodafone 845, ensuring that Android devices are available and affordable to consumers on almost any budget," said Canalys senior analyst Pete Cunningham.
By Asavin Wattanajantra
Hotmail links up with Gmail and Yahoo
Microsoft has announced that it is making Hotmail that little bit more ubiquitous, revealing you can now use features of the service with other email accounts. This new feature utilises POP, allowing you to import non-Hotmail data on to Hotmail. What you do need is a Windows Live ID, but once you have this you can use Hotmail-specific features like the ability to send up to 10GB of photos in one email, without IT ringing you up in tears telling you that your actions have made your workplace's computer infrastructure 'go all Skynet'.
By Marc Chacksfield
Data growth remains IT's biggest challenge
Data growth is the biggest data center hardware infrastructure challenge for large enterprises, according to a new survey by research firm Gartner Inc.
According to Gartner, 47% of the respondents to a survey conducted over the summer ranked data growth in their top three challenges. With spending returning to more normal levels after a couple of down years because of the economy, 62% said they plan to expand hardware capacity at existing data centers by the end of 2011; 30% plan to build entirely new data centers.
by Lucas Mearian
Agloves for Those Chilly Touchscreen Blues
If you live in colder climes and like to use your touchscreen devices out of doors, you know the problem. Gloves on, cold hands, gloves on, not good for using a capacitive touchscreen.
Well, it looks like the folks at AGloves might have a solution. I say might because I obviously haven’t tried these out. By knitting some sliver yarn throughout the glove, they claim to have created a glove that not only keeps your hands warm, but will allow you to swipe and pinch and touch with ease using all ten fingers.
By Warner Crocker
memory + Wi-Fi = Eye-Fi
It all started with a very simple idea: what if photos could just fly to where you want them to be? That’s how a memory card with antenna and magical superpowers was born.
The unvarnished truth about unsecured Wi-Fi
Chances are you don't leave your front door unlocked. And you shouldn't leave your Wi-Fi network unsecured either.
Many of you may have heard this before, but many still seem to not be doing anything about it. You should. Here's why. With a $50 wireless antenna and the right software a criminal hacker located outside your building as far as a mile away can capture passwords, e-mail messages, and any other data being transmitted over your network, and even decrypt data that is supposedly protected.
Someone could also join the network and launch attacks on your computer and any other devices using the network at that time. If file sharing has been left on or the personal firewall is misconfigured it's relatively easy to access the computer via an open Wi-Fi network. Someone could upload an executable program to a file on your hard drive that steals data or just leaves a back door for future access. And if you are using the network to connect to a corporate network through a VPN (virtual private network) an attacker can get into the corporate system too.
By Elinor Mills
All aboard: Wi-fi arrives on the Tube
Wireless internet access on the Tube network takes a step forward as London Underground starts a six-month wi-fi trial at Charing Cross underground station.
Wi-fi will be available in the ticket hall and on the Bakerloo and Northern Line platforms, but not on the trains.
All wi-fi users will have access to the BT Openzone network, which is free to BT Openzone customers and BT broadband customers with unlimited BT FON wi-fi minutes. Customers of O2, Tesco Mobile, Vodafone and Orange, and others with wi-fi minutes in their contracts, can also use the BT Openzone network, while users of 3 and T-Mobile will be required to buy a BT Openzone voucher.
Read More ...By Shelley Portet
Koobface worm targets Mac users on Facebook, Twitter
A new variant of the Koobface worm that targets Mac OS X and Linux as well as Windows is spreading through Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, security researchers warned today.
Antivirus firms first reported the malware, dubbed "Boonana," on Wednesday when Intego and SecureMac, two Mac-only security vendors, warned Mac OS X users that the worm was aimed at them.
Boonana spreads via messages posted to social networking or microblogging sites. Those messages bait the trap with the subject "Is this you in the video?" and a link to a malicious site. People who bite and click the link are then prompted to run a Java applet.
By Gregg Keizer
Detectives Get Lessons On Using Facebook
Detectives will be trained to use Facebook and Twitter to track down killers and other criminals.
Sweeping changes are aimed at making police better at using the internet to dig up evidence on suspects.
Student investigators will be shown how they could trace wanted people on social networking sites, where they might leave posts revealing valuable clues.
Senior officers are under increasing pressure to keep pace with online technology to help gather intelligence on gangs, fraudsters and other criminals.
By Gary Mitchell
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