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Thursday, March 28, 2013
US swipes at China for hacking allegations
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The U.S. has taken its first real swipe at China following accusations that the Beijing government is behind a widespread and systemic hacking campaign targeting U.S. businesses.
Buried in a spending bill signed by President Barack Obama on Tuesday is a provision that effectively bars much of the federal government from buying information technology made by companies linked to the Chinese government.
It's unclear what impact the legislation will have, or whether it will turn out to be a symbolic gesture. The provision only affects certain non-defense government agency budgets between now and Sept. 30, when the fiscal year ends. It also allows for exceptions if an agency head determines that buying the technology is "in the national interest of the United States."
Still, the rule could upset U.S. allies whose businesses rely on Chinese manufacturers for parts and pave the way for broader, more permanent changes in how the U.S. government buys technology.
"This is a change of direction," said Stewart Baker, a former senior official at the Homeland Security Department now with the legal firm Steptoe and Johnson in Washington. "My guess is we're going to keep going in this direction for a while."
Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said he supports the restriction and doesn't think it would be too cumbersome for federal agencies. The Defense and Energy departments already are mindful of how its networks are built.
"Anything we can do to call awareness to the fact that we're continuing to be cyberattacked, we're continuing to lose jobs, and that billions of dollars in American money is being stolen," Ruppersberger said in an interview Wednesday.
In March, the U.S. computer security firm Mandiant released details on what it said was an aggressive hacking campaign on American businesses by a Chinese military unit. Since then, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew has used high-level meetings with Beijing officials to press the matter. Beijing has denied the allegations.
Congressional leaders have promised to push comprehensive legislation that would make it easier for industry to share threat data with the government. But those efforts have been bogged down amid concerns that too much of U.S. citizens' private information could end up in the hands of the federal government.
As Congress and privacy advocates debate a way ahead, lawmakers tucked "section 516" into the latest budget resolution, which enables the government to pay for day-to day operations for the rest of the fiscal year. The provision specifically prohibits the Commerce and Justice departments, NASA and the National Science Foundation from buying an information technology system that is "produced, manufactured or assembled" by any entity that is "owned, operated or subsidized" by the People's Republic of China.
The agencies can only acquire the technology if, in consulting with the FBI, they determine that there is no risk of "cyberespionage or sabotage associated with the acquisition of the system," according to the legislation.
The move might sound like a no-brainer. If U.S. industry and intelligence officials are right, and China is stealing America's corporate secrets at a breathtaking pace, why reward Beijing with lucrative U.S. contracts? Furthermore, why install technical equipment that could potentially give China a secret backdoor into federal systems?
Last fall, Ruppersberger and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., released a report urging U.S. companies and government agencies to drop any business with Chinese telecommunications companies Huawei Technologies Ltd. and ZTE Corp. because of the security risks they pose.
"Any bug, beacon or backdoor put into our critical systems could allow for a catastrophic and devastating domino effect of failures throughout our networks," Rogers said in a statement accompanying the report.
But a blanket prohibition on technology linked to the Chinese government may be easier said than done. Information systems are often a complicated assembly of parts manufactured by different companies around the globe. And investigating where each part came from, and if that part is made by a company that could have ties to the Chinese government could be difficult.
Huawei, the third-largest maker of smartphones, says it is owned by its employees and rejects claims that it is controlled by the communist government or China's military.
Depending on how the Obama administration interprets the law, Baker said it also could cause problems for the U.S. with the World Trade Organization, whose members include U.S. allies like Germany and Britain that might rely on Chinese technology to build computers or handsets.
But in the end, Baker says it could make the U.S. government safer and wiser.
"We do have to worry about buying equipment from companies that may not have our best interests at heart," he said.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/us-swipes-china-hacking-allegations-185518359--finance.html
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013
'Kick-Ass 2' Heroes Return In Red Band Trailer: Watch Now!
Hit-Girl and Kick-Ass are back with bad villains in this NSFW preview.
By Kevin P. Sullivan, with reporting by Josh Wigler
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1703552/kick-ass-2-red-band-trailer-premiere.jhtml
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Sony 'Huashan' and 'Taoshan' smartphones hinted at by retailer listings
The trouble with online retailers listing pages for rumored products is that you can never tell if it's a genuine leak or the work of hopeful database technicians. That's why we'll keep our emotions in check to tell you that references to a Sony C5303 Huashan and C2105 Taoshan have cropped up over the last few days. Since neither handset made an appearance at MWC, we're left wondering if they really do exist -- or if we're just a chess piece in Leonardo DiCaprio's mind.
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Monday, March 11, 2013
Shock teams and ECMO save lives in massive STEMI
Mar. 9, 2013 ? The use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), accompanied by mechanical CPR, in patients with massive myocardial infarctions can lead to unexpected survival. These study findings are being presented March 9 at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions.
ECMO is an advanced technology that functions as a replacement for a critically ill patient's heart and lungs. This is the first report of combined ECMO, mechanical CPR and therapeutic hypothermia (TH) use within a STEMI Network.
"For many patients who present with a severe heart attack, or ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), complicated by cardiogenic shock that progresses to cardiac standstill, the result is almost uniformly fatal," says Michael R. Mooney, MD, a research cardiologist at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation (MHIF) and a physician at the Minneapolis Heart Institute? at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis. "This aggressive approach despite its complexity extends our ability to salvage the most devastating complication of acute MI."
The patients in this study were a consecutive series with STEMI meeting criteria for ECMO from August 2011 to October 2012. The Shock Team composed of a perfusionist, an advanced heart failure cardiologist, an interventional cardiologist and a cardiac surgeon developed a protocol and a process for emergency ECMO (E-ECMO) in the CV lab. This same team was then used to implement E-ECMO.
The study included five patients (three males) with a median age of 64 years. The median time of cardiac arrest from the initiation of ECMO was 52 minutes, and ECMO was required for a median time of 4 days in these patients. After ECMO was initiated, therapeutic hypothermia was used in 4 of the cases. Mechanical CPR devices were used in all cases.
Of the five patients, four survived to hospital discharge and all of the survivors had "good neurologic recovery at discharge," Mooney reports. Of the four survivors, discharge ejection fraction improved from 0-10% to a median of 45%. Blood transfusions were required in all cases.
This group of patients account for nearly half of all deaths within a STEMI network and no effective treatment was previously available. "ECMO, along with mechanical CPR, and TH can provide survival in situations previously regarded as uniformly fatal. Therefore, ECMO may have a role in selected PCI centers with advanced specialized teams with the appropriate experience," stated Mooney.
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PFT: Dolphins reportedly 'lead dog' for Wallace
APThe Steelers finally drew a line in the sand Saturday, and released outside linebacker James Harrison when he became too expensive.
But over the past few years, they?ve stretched out a number of contracts, willing to push money onto future caps to keep a core of players together.
According to Mark Kaboly of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the Steelers have restructured 13 deals since the lockout ended in August 2011, pushing $54.7 million onto future salary cap ledgers.
During that span, they?ve adjusted the deals of quarterback Ben Roethlisberger three times, linebacker Lawrence Timmons twice; and once each for Antonio Brown, Heath Miller, Chris Kemoeatu, Harrison, Brett Keisel, LaMarr Woodley, Ike Taylor and Willie Colon once.
That works, as long as the group of players they?ve chosen produce together. But there?s an inherent risk as well, as it creates a top-heavy roster that?s hard to fix if a bad thing happens, especially with the salary cap flattening in the post-lockout world.
?They are trying to get as much flexibility as they can during the transition years,? said Andrew Zimbalist, an economics professor at Smith College in Massachusetts. ?(The fact that) they are engaging in this more than they have in the past is attributable to adjustments to the ? cap.?
Playing kick-the-can with the salary cap can lead to a disaster at some point. But the Steelers are able to get away with this institutionally for two main reasons.
One, they have a quarterback in Roethlisberger who is good enough to raise a team a level, from average to good or good to great.
Secondly, they have scouted and drafted well enough to have star players and also find contributors deep in drafts to replace players when they get too expensive.
If a Jason Worilds can replace Harrison?s production (as Harrison did when he replaced Joey Porter), and Roethlisberger never gets hurt again, it?s a system that can work, considering they have an excellent coach and general manager.
But it does leave one of the league?s most stable franchise vulnerable to the one thing even the smartest team can?t account for ? bad luck.
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Friday, March 8, 2013
Lava E-Tab XTRON Review
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Lava launched the Etab-XTRON, their first Android tablet running on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) earlier this month for Rs. 6770 (MRP). This is one of the cheapest tablet in India to come with a dual-core processor and Android Jelly OS. We?brought?you the E-Tab XTRON unboxing last month, here we have the complete review of the tablet. Let?s quickly see the unboxing and box contents before heading to the complete review.
Unboxing
Box Contents
- E-Tab XTRON tablet
- 2-pin USB charger
- USB cable
- USB OTG Cable
- Ear phones
- User manual
- Warranty card
- Leaflets (with special offers and discounts)
Hardware
The 7-inch (1024 x 600 pixels) capacitive multi-touch IPS display is bright and has good viewing angles. There is a large bezel around the display. There is a 2-megapixel camera at the top. The tablet doesn?t have hardware buttons, instead all the actions are carried out using on screen touch buttons. As you can see from the first image, the tablet is easy to hold in a single hand.
All the buttons are on the right side of the tablet including a power / lock button, volume rocker and a back button. There is also a micro USB slot and a microphone hole. The tablet is 11.5 mm thick.
At the top there is a micro SD card slot and a 3.5 mm audio jack. The micro SD card slot uses spring mechanism, hence protrudes a bit so that you can remove it easily by pushing it again.
The tablet has curved corners. You can see the information about different ports mentioned on the back.
On the back there is a loud speaker at the top. There is a XTRON branding in the center and a small lava branding on the right corner. The tablet has a nice chrome finish, but it is actually made of plastic.
Software
The E-Tab XTRON runs on Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean.
There are 5 homescreens. You can even add 2 shortcuts on another to create a folder. You can also add widgets from the menu. The notification tray is on the right bottom. It has toggles for auto screen rotation and notifications. You can also adjust the brightness using the slide. Since the tablet doesn?t have an ambient light sensor, the auto brightness features is not available.
On the left bottom corner, there are on-screen buttons for back, home and multi-tasking. You can swipe to clear the running applications.
You can swipe to the top from the lock screen to launch Google Now. It?s not much of a use in a WiFi tablet, cos you always need a network to use it, but it?s a good addition. You can swipe to the left to launch the camera or just swipe to the right to unlock the screen. You can also enable Face unlock from the settings, apart from pattern and password unlocks.
The keyboard has auto correction and different language keyboards, but gesture typing that is available in the stock Android 4.2 is missing.
You get 6GB of storage. 1GB for apps and about 5.2GB user memory for internal storage. You can further expand the memory up to 32GB using a micro SD card.
There is?1GB of RAM, and you get a total RAM of around 876 MB that lets you run multiple applications in the background without any problem.
Apps
The tablet comes with several pre-loaded apps. There are the usual utility apps such as Calculator, Calendar, Clock, Explorer (File manager), Gallery and Sound Recorder. Since the tablet comes with Flash Player pre-installed, you can watch flash videos and streams from the stock web browser. Lava has tied up with several companies to offers several free packages with the tablet, so you get all these apps such as Hungama that comes with free entertainment package worth Rs 2,000, BigFlix that has 1 month unlimited online movie package, UAhoy free Vedic maths package, EduKart with free career booster package and additional 20% discount from edukart.com. You also get discounts worth Rs 4,000 from meritnation.com. There is also a Ping Pong game, but you can download more apps and games from the Google Play store, which you can access from the top right in the apps menu.
Camera
The tablets has a 2MP front-facing camera. There is also a camera app that lets you take images and record videos using the camera. You can change the image resolution and adjust white balance from the camera settings. You can also capture time lapse videos by adjusting time lapse interval from the settings. The image quality on video chat is decent. It doesn?t have a rear camera.
Video and Music Player
The E-Tab XTRON has multi-format audio and video support. It plays any video format you throw in, such as MKV, AVI, MP4, 3GP, WMV, MOV and much more. It can play 1080p full HD videos. The video player is simple and supports bookmarks and subtitles. The music player can play MP3, WMA, OGG, AAC, M4A, FLAC, 3GP and WAV audio formats. Audio from the loud speaker is quite loud and the bundled ear phones is pretty decent.
Connectivity
The tablet has Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g connectivity. It also comes with a USB OTG cable in the box that lets you connect an external dongle to the tablet. Officially supported dongles include, Tata Photon+: EC156, Airtel: E1731, Reliance 3G: MF190, MTS MBlaze: AC2787. You can enable or disable data connectivity from the settings.
The WiFi range is pretty limited due to the lack of support for ?n? band. It is a similar case in other budget tablets, but some new tablets in the market come with all three bands 820.11 b, g and n. You get good WiFi reception if you are in a large room where the WiFi router is placed, but when you leave to the adjacent room WiFi signal gets wonky. It doesn?t have Bluetooth support. There is no GPS either.
Performance and Benchmarks
The performance of the tablet is pretty good. Benchmark scores were impressive. The device is powered by a 1.5 GHz dual-core RockChip RK3066 Cortex A9 processor and Mali-400 MP GPU. We even tested out some games, which ran smoothly without any glitches.?Check out the benchmark results below.
Quadrant Benchmark
The E-Tab XTRON tops the Quadrant Benchmark. It?s even ahead of the Tegra 3-powered Nexus 7.
The E-Tab XTRON is once again the top performer in the AnTuTu 2.9 benchmark.
AnTuTu 3.1 Benchmark
The device scores 9752 points in the AnTuTu 3.1.1 Benchmark
Vellamo 1.0
It is once again the top performer in the Vellamo browser benchmark.
Vellamo 2.0 HTML5 and Metal
The device scores 1475 points in the Vellamo HTML5 test and 451 points in the metal CPU subsystem performance.
Linpack ? Single Thread
Linpack ? Multi-Thread
The E-Tab XTRON tops in the Linpack single thread, but the Nexus 7 leads the Linpack Multi-thread benchmark
NenaMark 2
The Mali 400 MP?s GPU performance is similar to the NVIDIA?s GeForce GPU in the NenaMark test.
Battery Life
Let?s get to the main concern of the tablet which is the battery life. The 3000 mAh battery in the Lava tablet doesn?t last a whole day. Battery drops gradually even if the tablet is in idle state. It you switch off the WiFi it lasts till the evening, but that?s about it. You can?t stop the battery drain while playing games or watching HD videos or browsing over WiFi. Since the tablet has a powerful processor Lava should have provided a high-capacity battery. If this is a software glitch, the company should fix it through a software patch.
Conclusion
The Lava E-Tab XTRON has good build quality, offers good performance and is a good value for money offering from Lava. At a price point of Rs. 6770 (MRP) and a market price of Rs. 6499, the Lava E-Tab XTRON is quite a compelling offering from Lava. Wish it had a better battery life, which is a big concern. It you need a handy tablet for browsing, playing games and watching videos and don?t mind charging it twice a day, go for it. If you are looking for a 3G tablet with a SIM card slot and voice calling?capabilities,?then wait for Lava?s upcoming E-Tab.
Pros
- Performance is good
- 1080p Full HD Multi-format video playback
- Runs on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean
Cons
- No Bluetooth
- Poor battery life
Source: http://www.fonearena.com/blog/63848/lava-e-tab-xtron-review.html
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Another early podcast to help you east-coasters wrap up your Thursday workday -- and you west-coasters through that post-lunch grind. We'll have the one and only Joseph Volpe joining the similarly unique Peter Rojas and the never-duplicated Tim Stevens for a discussion of the week in news, including Facebook, Galaxy S IV rumors and what the weather was like in Barcelona for MWC. Does the rain in Spain fall mostly on the plain? Join us after the break at the time hovering just below here to find out:
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Thursday, March 7, 2013
Global Mobile Subscriptions To Rise To 8.9BN By 2017 ? With 80% Of Them In The Developing World, Says Strategy Analytics
Analyst Strategy Analytics is forecasting that the worldwide base of mobile subscriptions will rise to 8.9 billion over the next five years -- and a massive four out of five of these (80 per cent) will be in developing countries. China and India will account for the bulk of emerging market subscriptions, according to the analyst, but it also expects "rapid growth" in the Middle East and Africa.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/BnvZQ2EPvcw/
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Sunday, March 3, 2013
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