"Boot-up: LulzSec hacker known as Foxconn, ', to replace workers with robots", and much more

Microsoft Bing looks an unlikely outsider of the Internet - such as Muhammad Ali before his break. Photo: Russell Boyce/Reuters

Quickly to chew over, as picked by the technology team burst of 7 links for you

Is in the Court on Monday.

Going toe to toe with Google Microsoft will cost $5 billion + * per year *, depending on the industry execs, who talked to the NYT. And who says that it should axe Bing?

"Taiwanese giant Foxconn cut some of their employees with one million robots in three years of increasing work costs and the efficiency will replace, Terry GOU, founder and Chairman of the company late Friday said technology."

Know eh, Apple?

Be not ridiculous! The US reserve operating balance was more than 40 times larger than some piffling private companies.

Hang, only 40 time?

"How is it in US law (and keep in mind, U.S. it have provisions in the world, even if it is legal, or you not in decades) is the creator of an image of the copyright holder." Even if the resolution fall, or reduce the number of colors of easier gray tones, it is still considered by many among the original copyright.
"So, what is, when you create each can possible image?" What if you took is a relatively low resolution (say 500 × 500) and a relatively low color mixing (say 256 colors) and try, each create a single image? What then would be the State of copyright? It is the Visual equivalent of infinite monkey theorem.
"If you could do it, it would still not protected own then all copyright for each image." "In addition, because it is an independent body without external reference on use, works and similar as those already copyrighted images do not violate."

Solution: Get a quantum computer to do it. Take care of now.

"Looks like would the administrator saves the wallet.dat and the backups on an ec2 instance and then it shut down while a RAM upgrade without knowing that he will lose everything on the disk."

Ben Duchac: "my mother needed a new phone and she play for an Android - they had was my HTC incredible for about a year below and their aging function phone was tired." It is quite tech savvy – Gmail used has a Tumblr, most of their e-Mail to a iPad - so after some discussion, we decided that Android was the way to go. The integrated Google search Gmail, gChat and she seemed much richer maps functionality UI to outdo functionality and app selection of iPhone 4 for their needs. A trip to the Verizon store later, we came up with Samsung-free home. The huge screen was brilliant. 4 G was blisteringly fast. The camera had more megapixels was adequate. "The phone was an absolute nightmare to use."

He's like the Samsung phone won't work as the HTC incredible and is frustrated at a loss by his life of the battery and intransigence. Yup, sounds familiar.

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Boot-up: Google Android patent row hots up, online-dating-2011 and more

iPhones and Android phones send information about your whereabouts to Google and Apple. Photo: Jo Yong-Hak/Reuters

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"...But Android's success led to something else: a hostile, organized campaign against Android, Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and other companies, led by fake patents.

"They are this put together by banding, Novell's old patents (the"Cptn"group including Microsoft and Apple) and Nortel get old (that group including Microsoft and Apple)"Rockstar"patents to ensure that Google are not given them;" Development of $15 license fees for all Android powered devices; Try phone manufacturers license Android more expensive make (we free make that available for free) as Windows phone 7; and even suing Barnes & noble, HTC, Motorola and Samsung. "Patents were intended to promote innovation, but in recent times is used as a weapon, to stop it."

"How is Google argument here other than simply to call for Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, et al. should just sit back and let Google do what it wants with Android, regardless of the patents, which hold them?" "And let us not forget be Android way for free."

A little late, but: "by the end of March 2011, Windows 7 was 20.9 per cent of the company's PCs, according to a new report by Forrester Research, turn on during Windows XP to 60% of business PCs-a year ago was down 69%."
"The report" desktop operating system and browser trends, Q2 to Q2 2011 Forrester, corporate 2010? Analysis of more than 400,000 client PCs on 2,500 companies include results for Forrester. "16 June report includes 2010 data collected by the end of the first calendar quarter 2011 12 months between the start of the second calendar quarter."

The table is interesting: that's worth clickthrough.

Simply brilliant. It is just us laugh at the image, which is "Yes!" Page Mrs Robinson "[sic], or enjoy any of it to?" "For the Cougar pairing their prey". In fact. And much more that still manages to remain SFW.

So put the DCMS from a blackened PDF. Turned from the editor easy was to undo. "The complete, unredacted version is now on Scribd." As you can see from this document, all incorrectly removed the material that was edited. "The tactics discussed, to avoid blocking all known, even to mere lawyers like me, and the revised theater seem for security reasons as more will be motivated."

Todd Bishop: "more evidence: registered AptiQuants website was on 14 July, less than a month ago, despite the company's statement that it was founded in 2006." This morning I associated with the phone number called AptiQuant of domain registration, but the man who answered running speak a different language, once I identified myself as a reporter, and he finally hung up after we were not able to communicate.
"News agencies, on the students-including the BBC, business insider, CNN, and many new - reported are now reporting it was a hoax."

Oh, hell. Who is to say that Opera users?

"Above, before Twitter and blogs, as USENET was one of the centres of net.influence, I have many, many years on the David LaMacchia case." I finally turned directly via the legal results. But I personally was not worth all the flaming about "Theft" and similar. I need experience not to this experience, I am trying to learn from my mistakes.
"""As, say started something, people haven't heard messages only to the last Friday in circulation, that in addition to the Federal Government charges in the amount of"Wire Fraud","Computer Fraud","illegally information from a protected computer"," recklessly damaging a protected computer", there are also two State Government fees".

No one knows how you stories about hacking to illustrate. In fact, they fight with stories about technology in General.

Clever: Why would you such arcane and trivial element specify "No Brown M & MS" in your contract? Think about it for a bit. (Original article, which it connects is gone, but explaining it.)

And you thought they were stupid rock musicians.

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Boot-up: Google buys Dealmap, Apple blocks Samsung Galaxy tab down under, and much more

Samsung Galaxy tab 10.1. blocked a turf war down under photography: Jo Yong-Hak/Reuters

Quickly to chew over, as picked by the technology team burst of 9 links for you

Question: what took it so long?

Plus the title text, of course.

Tomi Ahonen, ex-Nokia EXEC, always with the happy: "Nokia handset unit generated EUR 8.5 billion (b $) sales in the fourth quarter by around 1 billion euros profit." So if we don't ignore Nokia's network unit of NokiaSiemens networks - was initially a group that Nokia has tried, for six months now nobody willing sell, but, if the price of the loss-making unit to pay - business phones from Nokia, smartphones, and 'Featurephones' the size of 44 billion dollars at the annual level six months ago.
Now where are they? The handset unit reported total revenues to €5.5 billion (US$ 7.5 billion) and a loss of 247 million euros ($321 million). ..'Leadership under Stephen Elop called' and his foot-in-mouth disease... Nokia has already shrunk - 32%! In five months! When was the malaise only in one of the three great departments of a company, the other two can tolerate it. "But right now, Nokia disappears before our eyes!"

"" [RFL] spoke by e-Mail with Oxblood Ruffin, a Canadian hacker (just), joined the cult of the dead cow a hacker group, the the word "Hacktivism."He coined is also founder and Director of Hacktivismo. I asked him about anonymous of recent operations and the ethics and the rules for the use of hacktivism.
RFE/RL: How would you define "Hacktivism"?
Ruffin: "Hacktivism uses technology to improve human rights." Also employed nonviolent tactics and leans on the original intent of the Internet, which is to keep things and run.
"Things like DDoS attacks, Web happened, malware and network are violations of restricted area relating to tactics." "These generally limit speech and are a violation of first amendment went out and contrary to article 19 of the ICCPR [International Covenant on Civil and political rights] and UNDHR [Universal Declaration of human rights]."

Oxblood Ruffin. Make room, game of Thrones.

"Adobe today a new tool called Adobe edge of creative professionals, animated Web content with Web standards like HTML5, starts to design CSS, and JavaScript." Does not Flash.
"Is aimed with Adobe Flash can be used, but not replaced, the Web design software is Adobe's big bet on how it will continue to consolidate its position as a top player in the infrastructure of the modern Web, especially as increasingly mobile going on the Web." "In this new mobile context in the Web has become a more hostile environment for Flash, which is no place on Apple mobile devices, and probably never has."

"I have technology products for 20 years was review." I've seen everything from products, which were those astonishing of the get-go (the first Palm pilot mind comes), were the downright dangerous (a mouse, the fire caught on). But it has never been a time, when I look so much of the new stuff, so much is long not ready for mass consumption. Sometimes it is a bit quirky; Sometimes I can get it work. "And when I call the manufacturer for help, they are often aware the problems I experienced."

You imagine new released products for which this could be true?

"Apple Inc. won an agreement from Samsung Electronics Co., that the South Korean company is not the latest version of their Tablet PC in Australia sell, until a patent infringement lawsuit of the country has been resolved."

"The Samsung Galaxy tab 10.1 violates 10 Apple patents, including the"Look And Feel"and touch screen technology the iPad, Steven Burley, a lawyer for Apple, Federal Court Justice Annabelle Bennett in Sydney said yesterday." "One in Cupertino, California-based company Australian injunction and also wants to stop the sale of the tablets in other countries Samsung searched, said Burley without."

It is an interesting way to keep the market share. Apple is Samsung damage numbers, if the patent suit fails.

Paul Carr skewers the issue with the promise. "And therein lies the real problem of Web 2.0-whether it related accommodation takes form of SEO-driven"news"or amount." To money-real money-attract millions or millions of users have in this game. And if you have to do with this kind of numbers, it is literally impossible to treat not the user as part of the data. "It is but depressing not surprising that Web 2.0 is faux socialization and democratization create a world in which everyone to a number in a spreadsheet is reduced ironic."

Ed Bott provides for bad times: "even if Apple Adds a definition for this piece of malware, I suspect that the next iteration of Mac malware authoring Kit contains a feature parity with its Windows counterparts to put on it." These days, malware on Windows side use usually polymorphic code that makes each sample unique. The technique makes detection systems, such as Apple's XProtect, essentially useless it signature-based malware.
"" The bad guys have many options to the distribution of malware: booby trapped porn sites, counterfeit audio and video codecs, pirated copies of the software, with "a little something extra", coming also fake security updates. "The increasing success of the Mac platform and its relatively weak security ecosystem easy prey for means enterprising crooks."

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Where did Mac Defender go? A RAID on a Russian payment companies could explain

Mac Defender: false antivirus stopped mid-June is updated. A RAID on a Moscow company can explain why.

You may remember Richard Gaywood interesting post questions "where is the Mac malware explosion, then?" on July 21 - where he pointed out that there had been no updates of the Mac Defender definitions on the Mac since 18 June.

This can be the answer.

Hop on Brian Krebs excellent Krebs on security, where he provides, that determine the "Fake-antivirus industry is down, but not out":

Many fake antivirus company, the hacker to the junk-e-safety software PC-users impose have paid that recently closed. The wave of closures is increased control of the industry by security experts and a variety of international law enforcement agencies. But it's also probably soon break out to the sparkling wine: the excessive profits this drive fake AV peddlers guarantee the market will rebound soon.

What has happened is that the payment company that uses fake AV companies more, they no longer have seen out, payments for their potential customers. If the money flow not payments not taken.

Cancer also, says that "there may be another reason for the suspension: Russian police arrested on 23 June, co-founder of Russian online payment giant ChronoPay and a major player in the fake AV market." Cancer had written in May that it seemed to be a connection between ChronoPay and the appearance of Mac Defender; He suggested that it was employees of ChronoPay, were pushing it. ChronoPay had to deny a statement issued.

This is where it gets interesting: cancer police in the ChronoPay offices in Moscow, say found "Mountains of evidence that supports ChronoPay technical and customer employees a variety were carried out by fake AV programs, including Mac Defender." (There is a photo of the offices, although much of which is in Russian, it has the names of the various fake AV products.)

So, last Saturday 18 June, new version of Mac Defender; Thursday 23 June, RAID on offices. Perhaps things just a little close to ChronoPay and so they not could the new updates.

Cancer refers to a problem but: fake AV is "ridiculously profitable". Once you have installed a few thousand, you are actually money print. So, even though Mac Defender (probably) has disappeared, the possibility - probability? -Remains, the fake AV scam, and perhaps even worse is to be to win those cooked up by people looking to Apple users and Windows.

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White House of Rickrolls Twitter users, which of itself adversely affected "Matt" feed

There was a break from the high seriousness on the White House Twitter feed on Wednesday as a follower of Rickolled was. Photo: Ron Edmonds/AP

Twitter and the White House may come as a dry combination, but also with the debt ceiling dangerously close to crushing everyone under him, the leader of the free world - or at least the people responsible for the White House Twitter-feed - the time found to have a bit of fun on Wednesday.

How? By Rickrolling from 2.3 million Twitter users, that their feed to follow and complained that it is not very interesting.

"Sorry to hear." Fiscal policy is important, but sometimes dry can be. Here of some more fun, "tweeted the White House." And then it... at Rick Astley gonna give singing a link never you up.

A David Wiggs, to themselves as "Energy tech enthusiast and mediocre golfer" whose Tweet - "briefings WH [White House] correspondence not almost as entertaining as of yesterday" - triggered outbreak of fun of Pennsylvania Avenue, liked it: "Hilarious", he tweeted, and "Love!"

"Rickrolling" is a prank, which began on the 4chan message board (originally as Duckrolling as the link would lead to an image of a duck on wheels); the first use of the Astley video link was under the guise of being a secret trailer for the then-unreleased video game Grand Theft Auto IV.

It then spread from 4chan and moved with Twitter in 2008, as a very large number of people the service connected: the necessity of links for the 140-character service shortened you meant to cover up their goal - and to keep out a tempting treat that instead turned out to be Rick Astley to sing could.

In the year 2010 was it poured over just when the video has been removed from YouTube-, but the White House found time, a different trench.

In the meantime ceiling crawled the deadline for the debt closer on Wednesday night - what a dramatic intervention.

(Updated to clarify the history of Rickrolling.)

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Data journalism at the guardian: what is it and how we do it?

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Data journalism. What is it and how is it changing? Photograph: Alamy

Here's an interesting thing: data journalism is becoming part of the establishment. Not in an Oxbridge elite kind of way (although here's some data on that) but in the way it is becoming the industry standard.

Two years ago, when we launched the Datablog, all this was new. People still asked if getting stories from data was really journalism and not everyone had seen Adrian Holovaty's riposte. But once you've had MPs expenses and Wikileaks, the startling thing is that no-one asks those questions anymore. Instead, they want to know, "how do we do it?"

Meanwhile every day brings newer and more innovative journalists into the field, and with them new skills and techniques. So, not only is data journalism changing in itself, it's changing journalism too.

These are some of the threads from my recent talks I thought it would be good to put in one place - especially now we've got an honourable mention in the Knight Batten award for journalistic innovation. This is about how we do it at the Guardian. In 10 brief points.

Florence Nightingale's 'coxcomb' diagram on mortality in the army

Data journalism has been around as long as there's been data - certainly at least since Florence Nightingale's famous graphics and report into the conditions faced by British soldiers of 1858. The first ever edition of the Guardian's news coverage was dominated by a large (leaked) table listing every school in Manchester, its costs and pupil numbers.

The big difference? Data was published in books, very expensive books where graphics are referred to as 'figures'. Now we have spreadsheets and files formatted for computers. Which means we can make the computers ask the questions.

But now statistics have become democratised, no longer the preserve of the few but of everyone who has a spreadsheet package on their laptop, desktop or even their mobile and tablet. Anyone can take on a fearsome set of data now and wrangle it into shape. Of course, they may not be right, but now you can easily find someone to help you. We are not wandering alone any more.

Straight Statistics will give you a thousand examples of journalists taking those numbers and running with them in completely the wrong direction, but you don't have to go too far to find decent data journalism taking place. Even if it's not woven into the fabric of many of the oldest newspapers and news organisations, there are plenty of agile independent groups - see ProPublica, Wheredoesmymoneygo? and the Sunlight Foundation - who know what they're doing. Data journalism is all about diverse sources.

At the Guardian, being part of the news process means that we're part of the news desk (news organisations are obsessed with internal geography), go to the key news meetings and try to make sure that data is part of editorial debate.

Sometimes. There's now so much data out there in the world that we try to provide the key facts for each story - and finding the right information can be as much of a lengthy journalistic task as finding the right interviewee for an article. We've started providing searches into world government data and international development data.

Read more about this map

The datasets are getting massive - 391,000 records for Wikileaks' Iraq release, millions for the Treasury Coins database. The indices of multiple deprivation, which is how the government measures poverty across England, has 32,482 records. Increasingly government data comes in big packages about tiny things. Making that data more accessible and easier to do stuff with has become part of the datajournalism process.

It just is. We spend hours making datasets work, reformatting pdfs, mashing datasets together. You can see from this prezi how much we go through before we get the data to you. Mostly, we act as the bridge between the data (and those who are pretty much hopeless at explaining it) and the people out there in the real world who want to understand what that story is really about.

Traditionally, some of the worst data journalism involved spending weeks on a single dataset, noodling around and eventually producing something mildly diverting. Some of the best involves weeks of investigative data management before coming up with incredible scoops. But increasingly there's a new short-form of data journalism, which is about swiftly finding the key data, analysing it and guiding readers through it while the story is still in the news. The trick is to produce these news data analyses, using the tech we have, as quickly as we can. And still get it right.

Especially with the free tools we use such as Google Fusion Tables, Many Eyes, Google Charts or Timetric - and you can see some of the stuff our users have produced and posted on our Flickr group.

Good design still really matters. Something like this guide to the senior civil service (designed by Guardian graphic artist Jenny Ridley), or who knows who in the News of the World phone hacking affair (produced by journalist James Ball and designer Paul Scruton) work because they're designed, not by machine, but by humans who understand the issues involved.

Civil service map. Click image to get interactive graphic by Jenny Ridley Photograph: Guardian

You can become a top coder if you want. But the bigger task is to think about the data like a journalist, rather than an analyst. What's interesting about these numbers? What's new? What would happen if I mashed it up with something else? Answering those questions is more important than anything else.

Interactive guide to Nato attacks on Libya

This stuff works best when it's a combination of both. This guide to Nato operations in Libya is dynamically fed from a spreadsheet, which updates from the Nato daily action briefing. It looks good because it's been well-designed; it works because it's easy to update every day.

Data journalism is not graphics and visualisations. It's about telling the story in the best way possible. Sometimes that will be a visualisation or a map (see the work of David McCandless or Jonathan Stray).

But sometimes it's a news story. Sometimes, just publishing the number is enough.

If data journalism is about anything, it's the flexibility to search for new ways of storytelling. And more and more reporters are realising that. Suddenly, we have company - and competition. So being a data journalist is no longer unusual.

It's just journalism.

Simon Rogers edits the Guardian Datastore and Datablog (@smfrogers, @datastore)

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Tech weekly podcast: BlackBerry in a traffic jam and payment for Sony's hack attack

This week we are program from games news from the UK largest find that gaming conference, last week held in Brighton. Games correspondent Keith Stuart has spoken, David Braben, creator of the elite, about his new games for the Kinect - as well as a raspberry-PI could be the future of computer science.

We are picking apart also the financial result for the major technology companies. We look at us why BlackBerry maker RIM has deleted 2,000, and we learn about legal tangle, the Sony in is, after the massive PlayStation security against earlier this year. Now, as the legal bills added to be compensated, the consumers, whose services are used have been hacked?