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Submission + - Apple wins global smartphone crown, Nokia now 3rd (cnet.com)

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fysdt
fysdt writes: "Apple, followed closely by Samsung Electronics, overtook Nokia in global smartphone market share during the second quarter.

Apple controlled nearly a fifth of the smartphone market, or a share of 18.5%, as it shipped more than 20 million iPhones, according to market research firm Strategy Analytics. Samsung Electronics wasn't far behind, with 17.5% of the market share and 19.2 million smartphones shipped. Nokia fell to third, with its market share plunging by more than half to 15.2% from 38.1% a year ago."
Google

Submission + - iOS Pulling Developer Interest From Android (pcmag.com)

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fysdt
fysdt writes: "The iOS platform has generated more support from developers between the first and second quarters of 2011. But new numbers from analytics platform Flurry don't necessarily mean that Android developers are unsatisfied with the platform. Rather, the launch of Apple's iPhone on Verizon and the launch of the iPad 2 itself have been large factors in the developer pendulum swinging over to iOS over the past quarter."
Technology

Submission + - Why opposing HTML5 and Flash is a non-sense (forbes.com)

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fysdt
fysdt writes: "HTML5 is a hot topic, which is a good thing. The problem is that 99% of the writings has been about HTML5 replacing Flash. Why is it a problem? Because not only it is irrelevant, but also it prevent you from getting the big picture about interoperability."
Google

Submission + - Google Plus Runs Out Of Disk Space; Spams Users (digitizor.com)

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dkd903 writes: Yesterday, many users of Google+ noticed Google spamming their inbox with multiple email notifications in very quick succession. Earlier today, Vic Gundotra, Head of Social at Google, explained what was causing it – Google ran out of disk space on the server that keeps track of notifications.
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - IMF Chief Calls on US to Raise Borrowing Limit (go.com)

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fysdt writes: "The International Monetary Fund's new chief foresees "real nasty consequences" for the U.S. and global economies if the U.S. fails to raise its borrowing limit.

Christine Lagarde, the first woman to head the lending institution, said in an interview broadcast Sunday that it would cause interest rates to rise and stock markets to fall. That would threaten an important IMF goal, which is preserving stability in the world economy, she said.

The U.S. borrowing limit is $14.3 trillion. Obama administration officials say the U.S. would begin to default without an agreement by Aug. 2.

Lagarde, who took over as managing director July 5, also addressed the fallout stemming from the sexual assault charges filed against her predecessor, Dominique Strauss-Kahn."
Medicine

Submission + - Who Wants to Live Forever?

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Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Reuters reports that if biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey's predictions are right, the first person who will live to see their 150th birthday has already been born and the first person who will live to 1,000 is likely to be born less than 20 years after the first person to reach 150. De Grey, chief scientist of the non-profit California-based "Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence" Foundation sees a time when people will go to their doctors for regular "maintenance," which by then will include gene therapies, stem cell therapies, immune stimulation and a range of other advanced medical techniques to keep them in good shape. "I'd say we have a 50/50 chance of bringing aging under what I'd call a decisive level of medical control within the next 25 years or so," says de Grey. De Grey's ideas may seem far-fetched, but in 2005 MIT Technology Review journal offered $20,000 to any molecular biologist who showed that de Grey's SENS theory was "so wrong that it was unworthy of learned debate" — a prize that has never been won. But for some, a world composed of healthy, powerful, composed, careful people in their seventies, eighties, nineties, or hundreds, or the prospect of living for hundreds of years is not particularly attractive, as it conjures up an image of generations of sick, weak old people and societies increasingly less able to cope. "This is absolutely not a matter of keeping people alive in a bad state of health," says de Grey. "This is about preventing people from getting sick as a result of old age. The particular therapies that we are working on will only deliver long life as a side effect of delivering better health.""
Power

Submission + - German parliament backs nuclear exit by 2022 (physorg.com)

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fysdt
fysdt writes: "The German parliament sealed plans Friday to phase out nuclear energy by 2022, making the country the first major industrial power to take the step in the wake of the disaster at Japan's Fukushima plant.

The nuclear exit scheme cleared its final hurdle in the Bundesrat upper house, which represents the 16 regional states, after the legislation passed the Bundestag lower house with an overwhelming majority last week.

Germany's seven oldest reactors were already switched off after Japan's massive March 11 earthquake and tsunami knocked out cooling systems at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, causing reactors to overheat and radiation to leak.

A further reactor has been shut for years because of technical problems."
Science

Submission + - Gene study offers clues on memory puzzle (medicalxpress.com)

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fysdt
fysdt writes: "Scientists have shed light on why it is easier to learn about things related to what we already know than it is to learn about unfamiliar things, according to a new study.

The team says this is a paradox, as very different things are arguably more novel, yet adding to what we already know is so much easier.

Researchers at the Universities of Edinburgh and Tokyo have found that building on existing knowledge activates a key set of genes in the brain.

These 'plasticity' genes do not respond so well to subjects about which we know very little, making it harder for us to form new memories about unfamiliar topics.

The team says this could help us understand how professionals acquire their knowledge gradually over time and may inform new educational strategies to boost learning."
Security

Submission + - A-Team publishes list of alleged LulzSec members (latimes.com)

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fysdt
fysdt writes: "An Internet hacker group calling itself the A-Team has published a document it claims reveals the identities of at least some members of the recently retired hacker network LulzSec, including phone numbers, addresses, Facebook URLs and even the identities of some of their relatives and associates.

The A-Team exposed the names of seven individuals, the first name of two others, information on a 10th and implied that there was another member of LulzSec who they were unable to find out about.

The A-Team, which said it has been following some members of LulzSec since a large online attack on the media network Gawker in December, said the group claimed to only be causing havoc for entertainment because they would only expose random information they could find."
Android

Submission + - Google Boots Transdroid From Android Market (torrentfreak.com)

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fysdt
fysdt writes: "Google has pulled one of the most popular torrent download managers from the Android Market because of policy violations. Before Google booted the application, Transdroid had been available for two years and amassed 400,000 users during that time. Thus far Google hasn’t specified what the exact nature of Transdoid’s violations are, but it’s not unlikely that they relate to copyright infringement.

For many Android users Transdroid is the perfect remote access app for managing their BitTorrent clients on the go. The app allows users to start and stop torrents, search torrent files and even use the barcode scanner to find matching torrent files.

Transdroid offered both a free and a paid version of the app, and judging from the 400,000 downloads people seemed to appreciate it. However, as of this week, Google decided that Transdroid is no longer eligible to be placed in the Android Market."
Security

Submission + - Newsnight online 'chat' with LulzSec (bbc.co.uk)

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fysdt
fysdt writes: "The Lulz Security hacking group that has claimed attacks on high-profile targets including the CIA and Sony in recent weeks has exclusively told the BBC's Newsnight programme that it wants to target the "higher ups" who write the rules and "bring them down a few notches".

Lulzsec has claimed a new scalp — releasing confidential material taken from the Arizona police department.

The anonymous hacking group says they've not been knocked off course, or successfully exposed, by rival hackers who claim to have named them online — apparently because they object to their agenda."
Games

Submission + - Hackers attack Electronic Arts website (reuters.com)

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fysdt
fysdt writes: "Cyber hackers have breached an Electronic Arts Inc website and may have taken user information such as birth dates, phone numbers and mailing addresses, the company said on its website on Friday.

Electronic Arts is the latest victim in a spate of global cyber attacks waged against video game companies. Last week, Sega Sammy Holdings Inc reported that user information had been stolen from 1.3 million customers, while Sony Corp is still grappling with the massive breach that compromised the data of more than 100 million of its video game users in April."
Opera

Submission + - Opera Founder Jon S. von Tetzchner Resigns (techcrunch.com)

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fysdt
fysdt writes: "Opera founder Jon S. von Tetzchner has resigned from the company.

In an email to Opera employees, von Tetzchner said that “It has become clear that The Board, Management and I do not share the same values and we do not have the same opinions on how to keep evolving Opera. As a result I have come to an agreement with the Board to end my time at Opera. I feel the Board and Management is more quarterly focused than me.”"
United Kingdom

Submission + - Hackers bring down British police Website (reuters.com)

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fysdt
fysdt writes: "Hackers temporarily knocked offline a Website run by the British police Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), which targets organized crime in Britain and overseas.

Lulz Security, a loosely aligned hacker group which said it brought down the SOCA Website on Monday, has gone after a long list of government and corporate Websites in the past month. Like the others, it was likely a denial-of-service attack where Lulz hackers bombarded the site with so many messages that it went offline."

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