AVG launches powerful social media organization and sharing tool MultiMi
Security software company AVG and Israeli startup Zbang on Tuesday launched the beta of MultiMi, a free Windows desktop app for organizing and sharing content between multiple inboxes, social networks, calendars, and media albums.
MultiMi could be compared to social media aggregators Inbox2, Threadsy or even Tweetdeck because it offers the user a look into multiple social media accounts at once. But it doesn't just organize multiple social media, it also handles Google Docs, Box.net, Google and Facebook Calendar, Picasa, Flickr, YouTube, and many more. In addition to being able to link up with Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail, and any POP, IMAP or Exchange email inboxes, MultiMi has the capacity to support any Web-based service with an available API, so that means there's no support for Google+ just yet, but there will be as soon as the API is released.
LulzSec livetweets attack on Rupert Murdoch's news empire
Mischievous hacker group LulzSec on Monday repeatedly attacked websites belonging to international media conglomerate News Corporation, calling it "Murdoch Meltdown Monday."
At 5:40pm EST, LulzSec announced on Twitter that it had "owned" the UK news outlet The Sun, and replaced the front page with a fake one which proclaimed that News Corp. Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch was found dead.
Last year's tech is good enough for Sprint's new push-to-talk Android phone
Sprint Nextel on Monday announced it will be replacing the year-old Motorola i1 in its product lineup with the Motorola Titanium, the second rugged Android phone to support the 800/900 MHz iDEN network protocol and the Nextel Direct Connect push to talk service.
Motorola Titanium includes a portrait QWERTY keyboard, 3.1" touchscreen display in a ruggedized design meeting Military Specification 810G (MIL-STD-810G) for environmental stress resistance to dust, shock, air pressure, temperature and sunshine. It has a 5 megapixel LED flash camera, stereo bluetooth, 802.11b/g, AGPS, and a micro USB port.
After getting booted from Google+, Anonymous announces its own social network
Responding to Google's ban of +YourAnonNews on new social network Google+, "hacktivist" group Anonymous and Presstorm Media began discussing the possibility of a new social network called AnonPlus (or Anon+).
"This project is not overnight and will take many of those out there who simply want a better internet," the site's landing page says. "We will not be stopped by those looking to troll or those willing to stop the spreading of the truth. One thing i would like to point out that this project is for ALL people not just anonymous, this idea is a presstorm idea and only takes the name anon because of the Anonymity of the social network."
Adobe acquires e-signature tech company EchoSign
Software company Adobe Systems Inc. has acquired e-signature technology company EchoSign, the two parties announced on Monday. EchoSign's technology will be integrated with Adobe's document solutions including SendNow, FormsCentral, and CreatePDF.
EchoSign's e-signature technology has already been integrated into Salesforce, Google Docs, NetSuite, Oracle CRM on Demand, SugarCRM, and SAP CLM, so Adobe, in addition to gaining the tech for its own document solutions, gains a foothold into document authentication for these major enterprise solutions.
Apple patches, does not acknowledge, iOS malware vulnerabilities
Friday, Apple released an update to its mobile operating system (iOS 4.3.4) which patches a couple of vulnerabilities that left a door open for malware infections on the iPad, 3rd and 4th generation iPod touch, iPhone 4, and iPhone 3GS.
Apple's update describes the CoreGraphics vulnerability as "A buffer overflow…in FreeType's handling of TrueType fonts. Viewing a maliciously crafted PDF file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution."
Microsoft releases apps to hook up Windows Phone with Windows Home Server 2011
The Windows Home Server team on Friday announced the final release of Windows Server Solutions Phone Connector, an add-in utility that lets users turn their Windows phone into a remote Windows Home Server 2011 management terminal or media streamer.
With the server-side add-in and the appropriate mobile application, the user's Windows Phone gets a hub specifically for "My Home Server" where he can view alerts, initiate backups, manage user access, or view and access content located on the server.
E-textbooks are destroying the old publishing business model
In May, Nature Publishing Group and California State University announced a three-year partnership to use $49 e-books for certain Biology classes over a more expensive and less versatile paper book. Soon, state universities in Texas and Florida will follow suit. While there are hundreds of startups pitching various ways to bring e-textbooks to universities, Nature's initiative is one of the first widespread e-textbook programs to come from the publishing industry.
The most interesting part?
RealPlayer beefs up its Android beta app with dozens of new features
RealNetworks on Thursday updated its still-in-beta RealPlayer for Android, introducing dozens of new user-requested features to the still very new media management application.
While Real could just be riding on Spotify's coattails by choosing to roll out an update to its beta today, the two items really can't be compared since a lot of RealPlayer's new features are related to management of photographs and videos as well as music. But since Real no longer controls Rhapsody, Spotify's real competitor in the space, this is about as close as the company can get.
DOD suffers millions of attempted hacks every day, unveils new cyber plan
Last March, a total of 24,000 files containing Department of Defense information were stolen by a "foreign intelligence service" in a hack of a defense contractor, Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn III and the American Forces Press Service revealed on Thursday.
Details about the attack, such as who the victim was, and the type of data that was stolen, were not disclosed. This is because Deputy Secretary Lynn was simply using the figure to underscore the importance of data security in the new Department of Defense Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace, which was unveiled today.
Sharp's 5.5" and 10.8" Galapagos Android Tablets: due July 25?
Japanese consumer electronics company Sharp is expected to debut its Android tablets soon in the U.S. market, but has not announced their availability yet. However, according to an announcement from security software company McAfee on Thursday, they will be available starting on July 25.
Today, McAfee announced it has partnered with Sharp to offer McAfee VirusScan Mobile for Android on both of the Galapagos tablets, which it says will come in 5.5" and 10.8" screen sizes. Sharp first announced these tablets and last September, but put them in the e-reader category. McAfee on Thursday instead called them "Media Tablets."
Spotify screams 'Hello America!'
At 8:00AM EST on Thursday, Stockholm-based streaming music service Spotify officially launched in invitation-only beta in the United States.
Spotify's service in Europe has gained critical acclaim over the last few years, and the rumor that it would launch in North America has persisted for nearly two years.
PayPal widget brings 'bump-to-pay' to Android smartphones
Digital payment company PayPal on Wednesday debuted its person-to-person payment technology that utilizes Near Field Communications (NFC) embedded in Android smartphones. To initiate payments, users need to only type in the amount of money they want to share, and then hold their phone up to the phone belonging to the recipient.
This is a major advancement for NFC mobile payments, a field where banks, payment companies, and software makers are all scrambling to establish early dominance.
The 10 most dangerous people on the Web
Romanian security company BitDefender on Wednesday released statistics from its analysis of more than 25 million spam messages, which reveal the most common celebrity names used to entice users to view junkmail.
1. Jay Leno
2. Madonna
3. Cameron Diaz
4. Barack Obama
5. AC/DC
6. Stephen King
7. George Lucas
8. Kenny Chesney
9. Howard Stern
10. 50 Cent
Windows Intune 2.0 now available for beta testing
Windows Intune 2.0, the first major update to Microsoft's cloud-based PC management solution for small and medium sized businesses, is now available in beta to qualified users.
Interested testers must sign up on the Windows Intune
TechNet site with their Windows Live ID, and they can preview all the updates to Intune that have taken place since the RTM in March.
Tim's Bio
Tim Conneally was born into dumpster tech. His father was an ARPANET research pioneer and equipped his kids with discarded tech gear, second-hand musical instruments, and government issue foreign language instruction tapes. After years of building Frankenstein computers from rubbish and playing raucous music in clubs across the country (and briefly on MTV) Tim grew into an adult with deep, twisted roots and an eye on the future. He most passionately covers mobile technology, user interfaces and applications, the science and policy of the wireless world, and watching different technologies shrink and converge.
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