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Charlie Miller joins US Defense

Known for his security rounds played with Apple’s Mac OS X and iOS, the renowned Charlie Miller now works for the Department of Defense of the United States.

It’s a name that has often been about him during the Pwn2Own hacking contest. Charlie Miller is a security researcher emeritus who has made ​​a small specialty to reveal security flaws in Apple systems, whether Mac OS X or iOS.

Last month, Charlie Miller had already done about him being ejected from the program developer of the firm at the apple, and deleting an application Instastock was made between the cracks of the App Store.

Instastock enabled to view real-time stock information. Via security vulnerability in IOS, the application was nevertheless able to communicate with a remote computer for infection and what to take control of an iPhone or iPad. A form of proof of concept did not please Apple.

Remember that Apple has asked Charlie Miller and other security experts to examine the code including Mac OS X Lion prior to launch.

Charlie Miller has all but had the reputation of any Apple device that resists it. Until recently security researcher for Accuvant Labs, Charlie Miller is now working with the Department of Defense of the United States to offer his advice on cybersecurity.

Guests at a conference organized by the Cooperative Cyber ​​Defence Centre of Excellence of NATO (Estonia), Charlie Miller held that the law should require for software vendors to make their code more secure.

Charlie Miller has worked five years for the National Security Agency of the United States, the famous NSA.

U.S. agency uses Facebook as a Job Center

So far, costing Facebook postings like to the job, now is the social network in the U.S. finally get working: The American “Department of Labor,” the support of Facebook has backed to jointly help unemployed people.

Not only make sites like Twitter and Facebook for a new profession , as companies increasingly set social media manager, then make the Americans the power to a portion of their mediation efforts. The office will initially work for Facebook and other social networks such later Twitter clamp and LinkedIn to find for job seekers across the country through employment. The Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis announced yesterday during a conference organized by the Facebook office in Washington via live stream broadcast.

As part of the ” Social Partnership Jobs ‘various initiatives are being planned. First, we want to spread virally through new jobs across the community – free of course. In September, 103 000 reported vacancies (beyond the agricultural jobs). Which are instantaneously compared to about 14 unemployed Americans. The unemployment rate has reached 9.1 percent, the government statisticians report. Across all sectors is assumed throughout the country about three million jobs that need filling.

Since the situation is so dramatic, wants the new partnership, the topic and further thematize and get private employment agencies, recruiters and other governmental agencies with the network. This includes nonprofit organizations such as the “National Association of Colleges and Employers,” the “Direct Employers Association” or the “National Association of State Workforce Agencies.” Also hoped that Facebook users, who themselves own a company or enterprise, continue to hire some people right over the net.

 

Lenovo Compal joint venture produced from 2012

In about a year in China’s Anhui to the mass production of laptops and all-in-One PC systems start. For the products from the two producers have combined their know-how.

Lenovo and Compal Electronics have over their joint venture built a factory that loose an annual capacity of 10 million units system could lift. The volume is large enough to attract more manufacturers and especially IT-and component suppliers, thus forming in Anhui, a technology cluster could estimate market analysts.

They see this as a deliberate step by the Chinese because they had been in mobile computers in the cold against Taiwan, where some 90 percent of global mobile computers roll off the assembly line. Lenovo and Compal will play the opener, so that a stronger China-based suppliers fancy.

Real-time search engine searches on Google Topsy + faster than Google itself

After worldwide importance of search results are sorted – as well as marketing experts understand what is currently important for the masses.

The media observer Liz Cannes by the Wall Street Journal blog AllhingsDigital reports that the search engine Topsy now no longer just Twitter indexed, but also messages in Google plus – and claims the Topsy faster than Google itself could.

The real-time search engine searches from today until Google Plus and grouped with its findings to the globalization of posts – in short, which is most widely quoted, at the top of the search results.

Google does not allow developers access to many internal Google + data, and so by looking Topsy only public posts. Otherwise it was previously running on Twitter. Was “by agreement with the” Topsy Zwitscherdienst capture all user tweets during indexing.

The amount of public Google + posts had already arrived last week at two millions of videos you’ll come to 100,000 per week, with Twitter, there are still 200 000 videos a week. The plans also Facebook -search make it secure but still difficult, Topsy-Guest Liaison stated to Cannes, for access via APIs will then throttled.

iPads to overtake iPhones in the Web access

US-American users of the Apple – Tablets surf more than users of Apple’s Smartphone, is the new analysis from comScore Web analytics. The website Mashable, which was once set for the description of the mash-up of online applications, reports now on the motto “Everything is growing along with everything” about the increasing change in the Internet access of various devices.

This time, the authors found a remarkable message of the capture web access to ComScore, the general access to the Web by smart phones and tablet describes – this would account for 7 percent of web traffic by now.

Hide in the long ComScore report is worth knowing the details, from the Mashable has fished the big picture. The iPad causing 46.8 percent of web traffic to the IOS devices in the U.S., the iPhone only 42.6 percent, the most important message for the Mashable-writers. The original way of ComSore found numerous other little jewels of information about the global distribution, the user groups, the Einkaufsverhlten and other data for mobile internet use.

PayPal as a central login for online shops

Who shops at different online stores will, in future, according to the will of eBay no longer need to remember numerous log-INS, but can simply log in with access PayPal. The delivery address is the same over with and need not be typed.

At its Innovate Developer Conference 2011 has presented eBay with Paypal access a new service that makes the PayPal login to the central log for other online stores. Shop owners should be able to easily integrate Access PayPal, eBay promises, and thus reduce the barrier to entry for potential customers. Because the need is not in every shop to re-register and type in their personal information but simply log on to the PayPal login – the required information is taken from the Paypal profile, such as the delivery address.

The user can specify exactly which data will be released for a shop and so prevent, for example, to be bothered with advertising shop advertises PayPal for eBay access. In addition, the user does not need to remember numerous passwords. When PayPal Access is available in Germany is not yet clear.

Payment services provider Wire card integrated credit card card billing via webcam

Back in July, the U.S. company präsenierte Jumio “the credit card recognition service” Net swipe. The Munich-Wire Card is the first provider of payment services for web shops that integrates this technology. Netswipe transform any webcam into a credit card scanner to Wirecard was pleased with the latest Payment Services function.

One had to call the Wirecard Seitren just select the appropriate function, his credit card to keep in front of the webcam in front of the PC or Smartphone camera, and even your credit card payment is done without the Krditkrtenummer was entered.

Web shop operators, Wire Card exclusively in Germany, the new function. A significant reduction in credit card fraud and a higher conversion rate is the consequence of the participating retailers, as customers saved themselves the ‘laborious, manual input “of their credit card information.

Wirecard CEO Roland subsidiary reports a “very simple” integration with its payment services, “Without that traders or consumers will need an additional software purchase cancellations are minimized and reduced the risk of fraud because the card must be present at the time of transaction.”

The technology which turned into any standard web camera with VGA resolution, the card reader, analyzes the physical credit card and they verified in real time. The cardholder must be the only transaction by entering the card verification approval. Again, this code is to be protected before the eyes of cyber criminals by being entered on an on-screen keyboard with the mouse. Wirecard service supports Visa, MasterCard, JCB, Diners Club and American Express.

O2 is testing Skype-like VoIP service

With the technology that O2 took over in 2009 with the company Jajah, Telefonica subsidiary apparently wants to make a Skype-like service.

O2 had Jahjah acquired 2009th its technology allows it to operate without installing any software cheap internet telephony. Now, Smartphone users are similar in the vicinity of a wireless network such as Skype users can use the VoIP service.

This is for 207 million U.S. dollars from O2 acquired company expanded since the fall of the daughter, “Telephonic digital,” says our British colleague, Sophie Curtis. The plans of the new business unit, according to the VoIP product “O2 Connect” only for IOS and Android phones to be available. Around 1000 O2 test customers to participate in the field test, the more launch this month.

By installing O2 would prevent telecommunications companies only to “dumb data pipes” for providers such as Skype and Co. were demoted – one has its own service, the competition can be very easy to exclude.

Whether O2 to become serious competitors for the recently acquired by Microsoft Skype may be, is questionable: The Federal Trade Commission FTC in the United States and the antitrust guardians of the EU approved the purchase, Skype is now with a lot of Microsoft trying to cash to keep the competition small.

Skype acquisition by Microsoft is complete

Following the commitments made ​​by the American and European authorities step Microsoft moving quickly to complete the accounting integration of the 8.5 billion dollar purchase quickly.

In May, Microsoft the contract for the purchase of Skype from, now is the integration done. Even if the reader ITespreyo said in a survey, the 8.5 billion purchase price may be too much money for the value of VoIP experts have been, it is still a good investment that Microsoft plays its long sleepy Internet sector.

The concerns raised by competitors were reviewed by the antitrust authorities, and finally laid aside. First, said the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, with the usual lag then nodded and the EU from the transaction.

Now the deal is completed, Microsoft comes forward with an official welcome message. The threaded with the help of the investment group Silver Lake business follow a common goal of Microsoft and Skype: Connecting people all across devices.

Microsoft wants to integrate Skype into its technology in future products, Steve Ballmer said in an inconspicuous clause. Skype recently announced, delivering even 300 million minutes video calls per day – Microsoft is the success message as a graphic in the center of its own integration message, presumably to show how valuable the purchase was.

Samsung and Microsoft Windows 8 here is the tablet

A Samsung quad core tablet with Windows 8. Windows 8 will not see the light in the next year, but Microsoft has been active in publicizing its next operating system. Samsung is building a tablet optimized for Windows 8. In the meantime, Microsoft is ready to show some aspects of the upcoming Windows 8 to an upcoming event for Microsoft developers (BUILD).

Even if Windows 8 will not see the light in the next year, Microsoft has been active in publicizing its next operating system through the blog Building Windows 8 . The objective of work for Windows 8 is to offer a peaceful coexistence between the tablet and a touch interface for your desktop.

As they become known features of the new operating system also increase the reactions, often negative, developer of the world. The last case concerns the use of the ribbon interface in the Metro user to replace Aero.

Despite the interest ahead of its time demonstrated by Bill Gates for the size of the tablet PC that goes back a Comdex in November 2001, the HP tablet wielded by Steve Ballmer at CES in January of this year 2011 has never seen the light . The arrival of the finished product from here to 12 months will give a competitive advantage that experts estimate that two and a half to Apple and its pad (29 million units sold).