Almost all manufacturers of control code problem affected in Android
From the initially attributed Samsung Android tax code vulnerability seem potentially most smartphones and tablets are concerned UMTS, which runs on Ice Cream Sandwich (version 4.0.x) or an older version of Android. Google has the code in the dialing program in July, updated with version 4.1.1, so that control codes can not be done automatically.
Most dialers that are based on the original Android should, therefore, also contain the flaw. The comments show the readers to yesterday's report showing that almost every manufacturer is vulnerable devices in the program. Sony devices (formerly Sony Ericsson) are currently available information, only affected if it an alternative firmware like Cyanogen mod is installed. Otherwise start the Sony proprietary dialer from the tax code.
The current version of Android Jelly Bean (4.1.x) is installed on only 1.2 percent of all Android smartphones - which should primarily be that for most devices is no update on Jelly Bean and will not give.
The problem with the tax code is that it immediately executes the dialer - regardless of whether they are the users of hand typing on the keypad or by tel: URL has been passed from one Web page to the dialer. While the combination * # 06 # is not harmless and merely displays the 15-digit IMEI number of your smartphone, other tax codes mean that the SIM card will be permanently blocked. Samsung smartphones also know a code that will reset the device to factory settings, so all the user data in the phone memory clears. According to reports, other manufacturers like HTC have incorporated similar commands.
Since the dialer can be addressed in many ways, the tax codes are everywhere: on websites, in HTML emails in WAP push messages and even QR codes. It remains to be seen how the manufacturers are responding to the problem. Especially the users of older devices should not make much hope that there will be for their devices a security patch.
Since the exploit the vulnerability is trivial and the details can be long in the network are circulating, users should not wait for the manufacturer reaction. heise Security advises to install one of the many now offer apps that block the execution of the tax code. Besides TelStop and NoTelURL there recently, the USSD filter of G Data.
The installation of an alternative browser, however, can indeed ensure that tel: URLs are not on websites run longer without being asked, does not protect against control commands in QR codes and Co.
Now It is also on air that Sony (Ericsson) devices with original firmware are affected.
Linux distribution Slackware 14.0 is ready
17 months after the 13:37 Slackware developers have now released version 14 of Linux distributions officially. Compared to its predecessor, the new version of the oldest among the still maintained Linux distributions much fresher ingredients, including including a recent long-term kernel based on Linux 3.2, GCC 4.7, glibc 2.15, the X Server 1.12.1 of X. org, Perl 5.16.0 and Xfce desktop interfaces 4.10 and KDE 4.8.5.
Other updated packages include Firefox and Thunderbird, which is now version 15.0.1 currently. The Java Development Kit (JDK) 6 had on the basis of license agreements of Oracle on the other hand are removed, so now the distribution does not ship Java environment more. All changes can be found in the changelog. Compared to the recently published Voarbversion the developers still have numerous errors ironed out.
The Slackware distribution includes six CDs (32-bit only) or a double-sided DVD, at the 32 - and 64-bit versions are included. The images can be downloaded here.
Apple is working on music streaming service - and is held back by Sony
The Internet radio music from Apple is delayed due to difficult negotiations with the music publishing rights Sony / ATV. Whose boss Martin Bandier told the New York Times over the weekend that he would achieve better royalties for artists. "We want the service. We just want to be paid fairly." The statements by the influential music manager are also the first confirmation that Apple is working at all on such a streaming service.
Sony / ATV managing the rights for current stars such as Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift, but also songs by old masters such as the Beatles and Beach Boys. The company is owned by the Japanese electronics giant Sony and the estate of Michael Jackson. In summer, they swallowed the publishing division of the battered British music company EMI.
The Wall Street Journal had a few weeks ago for the first time reported on Apple's plans for an internet radio and also limited, because of the rights that negotiations for months could pass before a start. Apple with its iTunes online platform of the world's largest music seller. However, now more and more streaming music on the rise. There are, on the one subscription services like Spotify or Rdio, which can fully for a monthly fee to listen to music. Such a service have Apple also considered, but rejected the idea, wrote the Wall Street Journal. Another model is free Internet radio stations like Pandora (only available in the U.S.) or last.fm, in which the user must follow a playlist generated by the transmitter, and the individual songs and their order can not pick and choose. The services create playlists instead to music genres and preferences of individual users.
The Apple service advertising should be displayed to the music, it said. He should run on Apple devices such as iPhones and iPads, and possibly on Windows PCs. According to the New York Post, Apple aims at a more flexible license with more uses than about at Pandora. Even the first report in the Wall Street Journal had let the share price collapse of Pandora.
Acer: sales boost from Windows 8
Acer is hoping for a sales jump at the start of the next Microsoft operating system, Windows 8 "Acer will quickly introduce a number of Windows 8 devices on the market. Which we expect this fall again a powerful boost to the sales figures," said Acer Europe head Oliver Ahrens of the Berliner Zeitung.
Acer takes on the German PC market with a share of 14.5 percent last. The Computer Group from Taiwan could rely to buck the general trend of its business: During the market, according to market researcher Gartner shrank by 6.5 percent, Acer put out a paragraph jump of nearly 27 percent. Total business with notebook and desktop computers suffers greatly from the enthusiasm of the customers for smartphones and tablet computers.
Microsoft plans to offer Windows 8, which appears in late October, a single operating system for PCs and mobile devices. This as well as the user interface for desktop and notebook was closely based on the mobile design, which is criticized by many industry observers. Also, a first glance of the EU stated already a malaise that should feel particularly experienced users due to the many changes at the surface and the operation. The Gartner estimated the approach of Microsoft with Windows 8 already risky. However, Microsoft had to take the risk if the company is in a world of advanced mobile devices would continue to play a relevant role.
Ahrens was now confident: "The control via touch-screen and a new design of Windows 8 requires the users but from some - that hurdle is overcome only once, it works very well." Ahrens was also confident that some pundits were in the swan songs tune up to the death of the PC too fast to explain given tablets and increasingly powerful smart phones the end of the PC era is premature: "The classic, powerful, secure and easily operated computer stays with us for long. course more and more people will take advantage of the Tablet PC in addition. Who efficiently create content and wants to manage and want optimal communication, which is also not pass continue on a laptop or desktop PC. And these are the most households and businesses. "
Windows Azure: unofficial Supports for iOS and Android
Officially support the Windows Azure Mobile Services are not the app development for iOS and Android. However Bruno Terkaly, Developer Evangelist at Microsoft shows in his blog in five steps, as can be exploited to the fledgling cloud service for the two mobile operating systems. Read in the five articles, which deal with basic facts, the database integration, the Fiddler Web Debugger, Apple's Xcode IDE and create an app.
The Windows Azure Mobile Services, Microsoft had announced at the end of August. The preconfigured services in Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud platform will enable app developers to deliver mobile client applications backend functions in the cloud, without having to write your own server code. Officially, they can be used initially with apps for Windows 8.
Dell Completes Quest acquisition
Computer manufacturer Dell has announced the completion of the acquisition of the software manufacturer Quest known. The announcement came three days after the Quest shareholders approved the purchase. Dell had been the beginning of July 2012 around 2.4 billion U.S. dollars (1.9 billion euros) on the table, and thus after a long bidding race outdone the competition, including the investment firm Insight Venture Partners.
Quest makes administration tools especially. These include various tools for databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 and Sybase, as well as performance management and Windows Server. With the acquisition, Dell wants to position in a large and fast-growing sector of the software industry. The Quest portfolio should occupy a central position within Dell founded only this year Software Group.
According to the computer manufacturer Quest bring more than 100,000 customers, 5000 partners, 1500 sales and marketing employees sowie1300 software developers in the new Dell Software Group.
Motorola's success dispute against Microsoft still blocked
Mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility must continue to implement not be against Microsoft sales ban in Germany for the Xbox game console and the Windows software. A U.S. appeals court rejected on Friday from Motorola's appeal against a corresponding verdict of a judge from Seattle. This is Motorola had to use a patent judgment of the Mannheim Regional Court for sales bans.
The dispute is about patents for the H.264 video standard, which is used in many devices and programs used. The Mannheim Regional Court had determined in May the infringement of two patents by Motorola-Microsoft. Although it is about a process in Germany, the order of the court from Seattle in this particular case was lawful, decided the appeal judges, because a still ongoing U.S. method for same dispute complex started earlier and it came to two American companies, it said to justify. The case had caused quite a stir - especially since Microsoft in anticipation of the Mannheim Court moved its European logistics center in North Rhine-Westphalia in the Netherlands.
AMD launches Android app store for Windows PCs
The chip maker AMD has launched a website and an app store for apps and games to run on Windows machines with AMD hardware. On the AMD AppZone there is software that was developed for the Radeon graphics chips and APUs (Accelerated Processing Units) written by the manufacturer, or adjusted. AMD advertises thousands of Android apps that have been found to be partnering with the Android system virtualizer Bluestack inclusion in the AppZone. The bulk of the software, however, lies not in the store prior to download, and most programs are only indirectly related to links to their product pages.
With BlueStacks, it is possible to run Android apps to run on Windows and control touchpad, mouse and keyboard of the host computer. Also, the Android system to access the files on the Windows PC, including Windows applications been started running in the background. AMD has stated that the use of the chip manufacturer version of the BlueStacks player was adapted to the OpenGL hardware acceleration for AMD chips.
Also, users can synchronize their data AppZone of Android apps with BlueStacks' Cloud Connect, a cloud service that allows a Windows PC can be used to extend for an Android device, and vice versa. The apps can be directly related to the website or through the integrated App Store. Also, there are apparently some discussions with OEMs to pre-configure the AppZone player in AMD devices.
Device-ID replacement in iOS 6 faulty
The AAI allowed to follow on user behavior across applications in order to present them can be personalized advertising - report if several or even many devices the same AAI is all zeroes, it does not work of course. The new technology replaces the previously used UDID, an instrument identification, as opposed to the AAI is always clear and not erasable. Apple forbids the UDID-use ever since iOS 6, the identification numbers are as protected under data protection and data leaks were already in place under a big issue.
Apple has said nothing on the problems with the AAI so far. The second UDID replacement, called the Vendor Identifier, which is not advertisers, but developers available to prepare, so far apparently no problems.
LG and Samsung argue over OLED patents
While LG insists that Samsung had stolen intellectual property, Samsung aim to have significantly more patents in the field of OLEDs as the South Korean competitors and thus a process left to look forward to.
In early September, Samsung had in turn sued LG for damages for alleged industrial espionage in the spring. This allegation was confirmed in July by a South Korean court and some former Samsung employees who were switched to LG, sentenced to prison. LG had the technology theft but still rejected by himself, which is why Samsung first demanded an official apology and now - because they stayed away - a compensation of 1 billion won (700,000 euros) demands.
The amounts mentioned are in the face of billions OLED market is not particularly high. It is especially well here is to consolidate its market position. Both companies are currently working on large screen televisions with organic, but so far with different techniques: while Samsung uses in its 55-inch OLED TV to RGB pixel, LG wants to wants to use white pixels with RGB color filters. Problems still prepare both versions, so this year is not expected to have any significant production quantities.
The organic displays are primarily distinguished by their strong image contrast and color and perspective completely independent representation. In many higher quality smartphones OLEDs are now standard practice in larger diagonals around for monitors or TVs are they currently do not, however (almost).
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