Microsoft apologizes for turning black to white

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Source: CNN
Source: CNN

The software giant issued an apology late Tuesday over their apparent bad judgment that led to their swapping of the head of a black man for a Caucasian’s. This was found in an online ad for Microsoft enterprise tools.

In a post in Twitter from Microsoft public relations officials, they admitted that the ad was a “marketing site photo mistake” and they offer “sincere apologies”.

The picture shows a woman and two men seated at a conference table apparently in the middle of a presentation. The ad’s copy says “Empower your people with the IT tools they need”.

Bloggers noticed that the head of a black business man was replaced with a white man’s head in the polish version of the ad.

A lot of people are speculating that this might have been done because “Poland’s population is almost entirely white and ethnically Polish”, CNN reports.

Microsoft spokesman Lou Gellos said that because they are still in the process of reviewing how the swap has taken place, they cannot give any further comment on the issue.

Source: http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=219500114

Businesses aren’t ready for Twitter yet

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Twitter might be the number one microblogging site of today but it doesn’t mean that businesses are also eager to jump in the band wagon and use it like everybody does.

According to comScore Southeast Asia vice president Joe Nguyen, although Twitter hits from Asia-Pacific have grown tenfold since December of last year, businesses on the other hand are “still trying to understand the platform and are testing the waters”.

Citing an example of Dell and Intel’s Dell’s Swarm marketing campaign in Singapore where a Twitter account was used to post updates to users, Nguyen observes that Twitter was used “as one of the channels for communicating with consumers and potential customers, but has not been used as a marketing platform in and of itself.”

Twitter’s recently posted a Twitter 101 page that targets businesses and gives them a lowdown on how the site can help them.

Chris Brogan, president of new media agency, New Marketing Labs said that getting business to take Twitter seriously will be a big job not only for microblogging site, but also for the organizations “to align their marketing goals and strategies together with it.”

He said that it is not about the way Twitter is delivered, but about the organizations’ goals.

Founders of the microblogging site acknowledged that until now, they are not making money but that it’s not that big of a problem because they are focused on the long term.

Awww… 🙂

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-334651.html

Motorola to release its first Google Android smartphones?

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It comes not as a surprise that a few info about Motorola’s planned San Francisco Google Android event to take place on September 15 has spread over the Web like wildfire.

One rumor circling the Web is that Motorola will be unveiling two Google Android smarphones. This will be the company’s first attempt on manufacturing devices based on the open-source operating system.

And oh, this rumors pretty specific too! The two phones are believed to be the Motorola Sholes and Motorola Morrison. Both are expected to be available in the market later this year – perfect for the gift-giving season.

The Motorola Morrison is expected to be launched with T-Mobile as its carrier in October while the Motorola Sholes will be available with Verizon as its carrier. The later is according to a previously leaked Verizon Wireless mobile device road map.

No word from Google or Motorola has been heard regarding these rumors, however, I sometimes wonder if these companies intentionally leak a few bits and pieces of info about their up-and-coming products to help build and sustain consumer’s curiosity. 😉

Source: http://www.crn.com/mobile/219500099;jsessionid=U5IS2BUU0BA4LQE1GHPCKH4ATMY32JVN

Faster internet speed equals more jobs

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That is according to a study conducted by the Communications of Workers of America that also studied U.S.’s rank in terms of Internet speed.

According to the study, for every $5 billion invested in U.S. broadband infrastructure, a total of approximately 97,500 new jobs in the telecommunications, computer and IT sectors will also be created.

The study also found out that the U.S. ranks 28th out of all the countries surveyed based on how fast their Internet connection is. And the Broadband connection speed has increased from 3.5 Mbps in 2007 to a whooping 5.1 Mbps this year. Wow! That’s a 1.6 Mbps increase. We should be celebrating…not.

“Every American should have affordable access to high-speed Internet, no matter where they live. This is essential to economic growth and will help maintain our global competitiveness,” Larry Cohen, Communications Workers of America president said in a statement. “Unfortunately, fragmented government programs and uneven private sector responses to build out Internet access have left a digital divide across the country.”

A provision in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is calling for a national broadband plan by spring of next year. The proponents believe that this plan would serve as a job creation vehicle for the IT sector as well as the tool for bringing high-speed Internet access to rural and remote parts of the United States.

Source: http://www.crn.com/networking/219500093;jsessionid=U5IS2BUU0BA4LQE1GHPCKH4ATMY32JVN

Illegal downloaders in Britain may lose Internet access

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If

1. You live in Britain and

2. You are addicted to downloading copyrighted materials (like films and music) from the web,

You better be careful or you’ll end up getting your Internet connection cut off – right in the middle of watching Britney on YouTube, or something. 😉

This proposal, announced Tuesday, is one of the British government’s efforts to take care of illegal file-sharing over the Web.

Treasury Minister Stephen Timms said that their previous plan of “punishing” illegal downloaders by restricting their broadband speed “did not go far enough”.

The most recent plan, has gone all out – including the possibility of blocking the offender’s access to download sites and maybe even banning them from the Internet altogether.

If the plans are passed when they come to Parliament in November, internet providers will be required to issue written warnings to subscribers if they are spotted (through the user’s IP address) on an illegal download site.

Source: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i4sJYWoJxMRCA1t81RMeei8R_6CgD9A9VU8G0

Wikipedia changes “anyone can edit” policy

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Anyone can write and edit in any article in Wikipedia right? Wrong.

Well, it was free for all before the online encyclopedia changed their come-one-come-all-invitation-to-write-and-edit policy on some of the entries.

Now, Wikipedia are putting limits on some of the articles that can be edited. With “flagged revisions”, editors are required to “sign off” on the edits before the articles can go live.

The previous freedom that users had in adding and editing articles gave way to Wikipedia’s fame in the internet world. However, it also caused them some well-publicized problems especially when it came to entries about living people, including false information and vandalisms.

“We are no longer at the point that it is acceptable to throw things at the wall and see what sticks,” Michael Snow, Wikimedia’s board chairman told The New York Times.

“There was a time probably when the community was more forgiving of things that were inaccurate or fudged in some fashion — whether simply misunderstood or an author had some ax to grind. There is less tolerance for that sort of problem now,” he added.

The change will soon be implemented on Wikipedia’s English version articles of living people.

Source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2351968,00.asp

Microsoft releases OneApp

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If you’ve been drooling for those apps that only smartphones are capable of running, but is hesitant to spend more than a feature phone’s worth, then this one’s for you.

Microsoft has released OneApp, a service that makes brings smartphone-like capabilities to feature phones.

“OneApp is a technology that is going to help people do things they couldn’t do before — anything from paying their bills to helping diagnose their health issues or just staying connected with friends and family,” Amit Mital, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Unlimited Potential Group and Startup Business Accelerator said in the announcement yesterday.

Although smartphones are all the rage today, a lot of people still own feature phones which are also capable of running a small number of apps but usually has a difficulty in running more popular applications like Facebook, Twitter, Windows Live Messenger, etc.

The OneApp application solves this problem by taking only 150KB of memory space, with its add-on apps just 30KB in size. The app also includes a cloud service which allows users to access the apps without having to store and install them to their devices.

The Microsoft OneApp will be first released in Africa with Blue Label Telecoms as the launch partner for the new technology.

Source: http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Microsofts_OneApp_Released/551-105801-893.html

Sony reveals wireless reader “Daily Edition”

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Credit: Sony
Credit: Sony

Amazon’s Kindle might have dominated the electronic book reader scene since its launch, but it doesn’t mean that Sony will not keep on trying to change that.

Sony Corp on Tuesday launched its first ever wireless electronic reader, the Daily Edition which features a 7-inch touch screen.

The company previously launched two lower-priced ebook readers earlier this month; both featuring touchscreens but lack wireless connection.

Sony Corp is hoping that this new addition to their line of ereaders will help them gain a foothold on the ebook market. If you remember, among the two, it was Sony who first launched an electronic reader in 2006. Amazon followed a year later and stolen the spotlight up until now.

The Daily Edition will be available in the market in December ad priced at $399. AT&T will be the device’s carrier which will use 3G connection.

Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=8408305

Another exploding iPhone injures owner

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Yassine Bouhadi, a 26-year-old supermarket security guard from the southeastern town of Villevielle got the shock of his life when instead of receiving a reply from a text message he was writing, he received a facefull of glass.

The glass shards came from the iPhone screen that exploded and a shard hit the Frenchman in one eye.

“I want an explanation about this damned telephone,” Boudahi said after the incident Monday afternoon. He said he was “very angry” and planed to consult a doctor about his eye, and file suit for damages.

The consumer affairs and fraud watchdog DGCCRF said Tuesday that it had already conducted an investigation earlier this month after a French teenager also suffered an eye injury after a similar iPhone exploding incident.

A few weeks before the two French cases, an iPod Touch, who was owned by an 11-year-old girl in Britain also exploded.

But don’t think that these exploding gadgets only happen in Europe. A US television station reported last month that an “alarming number” of iPods had burst into flames caused by an overheated lithium ion batteries.

Instead of insisting that the exploding iPhone cases are just “isolated incidents” or shushing the people involved in the “accidents”, doesn’t Apple think it’s seriously high time that it addresses the situation and actually do something to fix this exploding tendency of their products?

Source: http://tech.yahoo.com/news/afp/20090825/tc_afp/franceusitinternettelecomapplecompany

McAfee’ list of most dangerous names on the web

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If you think you’re the only one who’s keeping up to date with the latest and hottest stars to hit Hollywood, think again.

Apparently, cybercriminals also spend a lot of time reading gossips and finding out whose the most popular. But they’re reason for this weird strange unusual action is far different than yours.

You see, according to Jeff Green, a McAfee senior vice president, “Cybercriminals are star watchers too — they latch onto popular celebrities to encourage the download of malicious software in disguise.”

McAfee, the anti-virus software maker has released its third annual list of the most dangerous names to search on the web. So who’s on top of the riskiest celebrities to Google (or Yahoo or Bing or whatever search engine you use)? Justin’s lady love, Jessica Biel. McAfee reports that if try to search Jessica Biel screensavers, almost half of those available for downloads contain malware.

Here’s the rest of those celebrity names you’d have to be careful when searching:

2. Beyonce
3. Jennifer Aniston
4. Tom Brady
5. Jessica Simpson
6. Gisele Bundchen
7. Miley Cyrus
8. Megan Fox, Angelina Jolie (tie)
9. Ashley Tisdale
10. Brad Pitt (he was first last year)
11. Reese Witherspoon
12. Britney Spears
13. Rihanna
14. Lindsay Lohan
15. Kim Kardashian

Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=8408080

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