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Apple May Face First Profit Drop in Decade as IPhone Slows

English: Steve Jobs shows off the white iPhone 4 at the 2010 Worldwide Developers Conference Español: Presentación del iPhone 4 por Steve Jobs en la Worldwide Developers Conference del año 2010 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Eighteen months after taking over from Steve Jobs, Cook is facing rising production costs, competition from Samsung Electronics Co. and slowing growth in smartphones, threatening profits for the world’s most valuable company.

An earnings report tomorrow may show that fiscal first- quarter net income slipped 2 percent to $12.8 billion, or $13.48 a share, according to analysts’ estimates compiled by Bloomberg. That would be the first drop since 2003. In all except one quarter since that same year, profit has jumped more than 10 percent. Analysts project sales will rise 18 percent to $54.8 billion, the slowest growth rate since 2009.

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Technology: Here Are the iPhone 5′s Three Biggest Problems (And How to Fix Them)

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The highly anticipated iPhone 5, which had more than 5 million sold within three days of being launched, has been rife with problems. Some of them can be fixed while others can’t.

Siobhan Keogh for New Zealand’s Stuff reviewed the device recently calling it the “most flawed iPhone in several generations.”  More>>>>>>>>>>>>

TheBlaze pulled together some of the three issues people have been having with their new Apple smartphones — and if there’s a fix, we’ve included it.

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FCC eyes tax on Internet service

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The Federal Communications Commission is eyeing a proposal to tax broadband Internet service.

The move would funnel money to the Connect America Fund, a subsidy the agency created last year to expand Internet access.

The FCC issued a request for comments on the proposal in April. Dozens of companies and trade associations have weighed in, but the issue has largely flown under the public's radar.

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Will Apple now sue Google?

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Analysts openly question whether the two Silicone Valley giants will lock horns over the Android operating system following Samsung's $1 billion patent defeat

• Technological commentators are wondering if Apple will now turn their attention to Google and their Android operating system which Samsung devices use
• Californian jury ordered Samsung to pay Apple $1.05 billion
• Apple plan to formally demand Samsung pull its most popular cellphones and computer tablets from the U.S. market
  
• They can also ask the judge to triple the damages to $3 billion
• Samsung has emerged as one of Apple's biggest rivals and has overtaken them as the leading smartphone maker
• Samsung sold 22.7 million smartphones and tablets that Apple claimed uses its technology
  
• After seeing Samsung's legal defeat, other device makers relying on Android may become more reluctant to use the software and risk getting dragged into court
• Apple could also call for import ban on rival's products in other territories
  
• Samsung plan to appeal

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2193735/Will-Apple-sue-Google--Analysts-openly-question-Silicone-Valley-giants-lock-horns-Android-operating-following-Samsungs-1-billion-patent-defeat.html#ixzz24eNe2Z2x

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Soros Reveals Stake In Facebook

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Hedge fund Soros Funds has filed his quarter 13-F report with the SEC.

According to the report, Soros completely dumped his stakes in Citigroup (420,000 shares), JP Morgan (701,400 shares) and Goldman Sachs (120,000 shares), leaving him with no position in any major financials at all.

He also got rid of minor stakes in Dell (3,100) and Intel (10,600). 

As for going long, Soros revealed a a position in Facebook, having bought 341,000 shares.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/soros-13-f-filing-2012-8#ixzz23dqhlv6v

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On an iBudget? Google to take the battle to Apple with a state-of-the-art tablet 'at a bargain-bucket price of just $200.00

English: The iPad on a table in the Apple case (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Google's upcoming Nexus tablet has been spotted and all of its details have been leaked. The tablet you see above is the Nexus 7 and is built by Asus. The tablet will sport a 1.3Ghz quad-core Tegra 3 processor, GeForce 12-core GPU and 1GB of RAM with two different storage variants: 8GB and 16GB according to Gizmodo. 

The screen of the device will come with a resolution of 1280x800 and have an IPS display. Additionally, NFC is expected to be inside and there is also a 1.2 MP camera up front. 

The two models will ring up the cash register at $199 and $249 respectively, notably undercutting the iPad by several hundred dollars. Considering that the Nexus 7 is quite cheap, it will continue to put downward pressure on the tablet market; the device is expected to run Jelly Bean, according to the leaked documentation.

Google is expected to make the announcement about the tablet at its upcoming I/O event and previous rumors have suggested that the tablet will go on sale in July.

Source: Gizmodo 

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Google and Sony take on cable and satellite companies with voice-controlled YouTube TV box

• Web TV box will offer video free via YouTube
• Sony gadget to go on sale from July 16 in UK
• Worldwide relaunch for Google's TV service
• Voice controls and motion control built in

Google is to launch a web-connected TV box that will offer HD video free via YouTube on July 16 in the UK.

The £200 voice-controlled Sony gadget will offer access to video channels and web searches - and has a motion-controlled remote for games.

The service will also be built into Sony Blu-Ray players from October. Apple is widely rumoured to be working on a flatscreen TV set.

The voice-controlled Sony gadget will offer access to video channels and web searches - and has a motion-controlled remote for playing games

The new box is a redesign for Google's web-TV service, offering faster processing speeds.

Android phone users will be able to use their handsets as a remote for the new box.

Earlier versions of Google's TV service met mixed reviews in America, and widespread indifference.

 

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Logitech, makers of one of the first Google TV devices - a set-top box - lost a reported $100 million on their gadgets.

'Entertainment content is available through so many channels and sites, and Google TV helps consumers easily find what they want to watch, listen or play with the freedom of the internet and using the familiar Chrome browser,' said Gildas Pelliet, Sony's European Head of Marketing.

Google's Mountain View HQ, showing a green Android robot in the foreground: The company is to unveil a home entertainment system this year, say company insiders

Google recently relaunched YouTube in the site's first major overhaul since launch, adding 'channels' and other features aimed to make the video site more 'TV like'.

The box will offer access to Google's Play store - the equivalent of Apple's App store, offering apps such as Twitter and YouTube.

Google promises that apps designed for use on TVs will be added 'all the time.'

The dual-sided remote has a touch pad for cursor control on one side and on the other a full keyboard for searching, emails and social media updates.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2164238/Google-TV-Sony-launch-voice-controlled-YouTube-set-box.html#ixzz1yqMzlkv0

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The State of IT Security

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Free Collusion add-on shows which companies watch as you browse

Turning the tables on Big Brother: Now internet users can watch who is spying on them in blow against Google's new snooping policy

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Will the FBI shut down the Internet on March 8 because of computer virus concerns?

The Internet could go dark for millions of users as early as March 8 because of a virus that has corrupted computers in more than 100 countries.

The computer script, called DNSChanger Trojan, taps into fraudulent servers, sending users of the Web to unintended - and sometimes illegal - sites.

Though the FBI has shut down the DNSChanger network and put up surrogate servers, they warned the solution was only temporary - and the court-ordered deadline is March 8.

Infected: The Trojan 'DNSChanger' could cause millions - including Fortune 500 companies - to lose their Internet if the FBI shuts down surrogate servers

Court order: The FBI has been ordered to retire their surrogate servers by March 8

According to RT Network, servers function by translating traditional website URLs to their ‘numeric counterpart.’

But computers with the Trojan, which originally emerged in Estonia, will send users to fraudulent websites.

And, if the FBI shuts off their emergency servers, millions of people could potentially be without Internet.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102856/Will-FBI-shut-Internet-March-8-virus-concerns.html#ixzz1mqWJYog9

Doomsday clock ticking on Internet freedom

by Andrea Shea KingEmail | Archive

“Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither.” – Benjamin Franklin

They’re coming for it and show no signs of letting up. Once they get their foot in the door and before you know it, you’ll be worried and thinking twice about what you’re posting on your blog or Facebook or Twitter account. And if it appears on the Internet, the government will somehow try to tax it.  Readers, if you haven’t been, you’d better get interested in this now, because we are moving closer to pivoting off the relative freedom of speech of Internet into absolute government control. And if you let the Washington ruling elite control it, who knows what the result will be? One thing for sure, it “will be for our own good,” but it won’t be good for us. Are you a terrorist? No? Then why is Big Sis spying on you?

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Apple’s Incredible New Plans Revealed

The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office have received proposals from Apple that indicate the electronics company is working on products powered by hydrogen fuel cells, that they claim have the potential to stay charged for weeks, and “eliminates the need for a bulky and heavy battery.”

Remarks by the company in the patent fillings would indicate that the proposal to shift to hydrogen fueled products was influenced not by user experience but customer awareness:

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Does Google spy on you for NSA? Judge says, 'None of your business'

Forward: Readers of The Plain Truth know about my theory concerning Microsoft, Google and other "overnight success" businesses, where college kids make billions overnight with flawed products.  For example, Microsoft Windows never works, crashes every day. My theory is that these businesses are really "shell" companies for the USA and the CIA to spy on everyone! Google, (Government Ooggling) is a great example of this theory. This recent news story adds some more fuel to my theory... (Bob Barney- The Plain Truth)

 

By Bob Unruh
© 2011 WND

A federal judge has ordered that whether Google is spying for National Security Agency or not, you have no right to know.

"The NSA need not disclose 'the organization or any function of the National Security Agency, [or] any information with respect to the activities thereof,'" U.S. District Judged Richard Leon has ordered.

"Once the agency, through affidavits, has created 'as complete a public record as is possible' and explained 'in as much detail as is possible the basis for its claim,' … 'the court is not to conduct a detailed inquiry to decide whether it agrees with the agency's opinions,'" he said.

Get the book that dedicates a chapter to explaining why Google is evil, in "Stop the Presses! The Inside Story of the New Media Revolution.

The demand for information had been raised by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, which said the ruling would be appealed.

Google tests world's first 1GB per second broadband service - 100 times faster than normal

Silicon Valley residents are getting the first taste of Google's experimental 1Gbps broadband service, which allows download speeds 100 times faster than normal.

Download speeds on the network are up to 300 Mbps, with an upload speed of 150 Mbps, being hailed as the fastest internet speeds in the world available to the home user.

A 95-megabyte high-definition movie trailer downloaded in about nine seconds. Normal cable download speeds are about 13Mbps, or about 1/20th the speed of Google Fiber.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2031472/Google-tests-worlds-1GB-second-broadband-service--100-times-faster-normal.html#ixzz1Wdys1dY6

Fallen televangelists find afterlife on the Internet

In their heyday of the 1970s and 80s, televangelists like Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker drew in hundreds of thousands of worshippers and millions of dollars before scandal and corruption gutted individual ministries and then the entire genre.

Now, however, the Internet has made it easy and inexpensive to distribute video sermons around the world, breathing new life into virtual ministries and even providing a second act for a few infamous televangelists, a Canadian researcher says.

Read it on Global News: Fallen televangelists find afterlife on the Internet

Police: Internet providers must keep user logs

Declan McCullagh
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Law enforcement representatives are planning to endorse a proposed federal law that would require Internet service providers to store logs about their customers for 18 months, CNET has learned.

The National Sheriffs' Association will say it "strongly supports" mandatory data retention during Tuesday's U.S. House of Representatives hearing on the topic.

Michael Brown, sheriff in Bedford County, Va., and a board member and executive committee member of the National Sheriffs' Association, is planning to argue that a new law is necessary because Internet providers do not store customer records long enough.

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Hackers expose flaw in Apple iPad, iPhone software

(Reuters) - Hackers have disclosed a bug in software from Apple Inc that security experts said could be exploited by criminals looking to gain remote control over iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch devices.

The security flaw in Apple's iOS operating system came to light on Wednesday as the website www.jailbreakme.com released code that Apple customers can use to modify the iOS operating system through a process known as "jail breaking."  MORE>>>>

The Cloud: Trojan Horse For Internet Takeover

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Paul Joseph Watson
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Despite the corporate-driven hubbub surrounding the inevitability of “the cloud” replacing personal hard drives as the pre-eminent storage center for all web content, this system represents another dangerous trojan horse for the establishment to complete their agenda to regulate and shut down the free Internet.

Apple, Google and Amazon amongst other tech giants have all jumped on board with “the cloud,” a remote server network that allows users to store their data without using hard drives.

“It’s all part of a generational trend away from owning physical media content and towards renting media content from the computing universal cloud,” reports Investmentu.com.

However, despite the convenience of having all your files easily accessible in one place wherever you go, the drawbacks are ominous.

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One in four US hackers 'is an FBI informer'

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Cyber policing units have had such success in forcing online criminals to co-operate with their investigations through the threat of long prison sentences that they have managed to create an army of informants deep inside the hacking community.

Alternative Media Rankings Surge After bin Laden Assassination Spectacle

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A story like the assassination of "public enemy #1" is naturally going to drive people toward all news sources.  However, we in the alternative news media have been particularly busy since the announcement late Sunday night, as indicated by Alexa website rankings.

For those of us covering the government and mainstream media lies, distortions, and pure propaganda, it has been nearly overwhelming to attend to every facet of this professional wrestling-style spectacle.  As a result, traffic to alternative news sites has surged dramatically.  This is very encouraging, as it indicates that people are not immediately rushing only to the comfort and security of the official story, which is largely framed by appeals to emotion -- rather, people appear to be hungry for facts.  Given that alternative media generally does not have even a fraction of the budget of corporate media, the ranking increases are doubly satisfying.  We are honored to be included with the true news sources below as a reliable indicator of the search for truth and justice amid the miasma of the current official coverage of the bin Laden Assassination Show being peddled for obviously corporate and political reasons.

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iPhone keeps record of everywhere you go

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The Guardian

Security researchers have discovered that Apple's iPhone keeps track of where you go – and saves every detail of it to a secret file on the device which is then copied to the owner's computer when the two are synchronised.

The file contains the latitude and longitude of the phone's recorded coordinates along with a timestamp, meaning that anyone who stole the phone or the computer could discover details about the owner's movements using a simple program.

For some phones, there could be almost a year's worth of data stored, as the recording of data seems to have started with Apple's iOS 4 update to the phone's operating system, released in June 2010.

"Apple has made it possible for almost anybody – a jealous spouse, a private detective – with access to your phone or computer to get detailed information about where you've been," said Pete Warden, one of the researchers.

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A Workaround For Domain Name Seizures?

David Makarewicz, Contributing Writer
Activist Post

A group of anonymous developers have concocted a clever antidote to Government domain seizures.  MAFIAA Fire is a Firefox add-on that automatically redirects a user to a website's alternative domain name if the original domain was seized.

MAFIAA Fire exploits the fact that when a domain is seized, although it appears that the Government has taken control of the entire website, they have really only gained control over the domain name.  The Government redirects the domain name to a Government IP address and website rather than the IP address containing the original website.  When a user types in a seized domain name, such as rapgodfathers.com (seized last November), their browser is not directed to the original website, it is directed to a site containing the famous DHS/ICE seal.

If a user types in the IP address or an alternative domain name for the site,  the website content would still be accessible.  The problem is that users don't know the IP address or alternative domain name, they only know the original domain name.

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Crowd Identity MAP (Unbelievable Technology)

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How Big Brother Watches Crowds

Rense

You used to be able to get lost in the crowd, but not anymore. Double click on any area in the picture to bring the person closer. Or, just click the mouse and use the mouse wheel to bring them closer.

SEE HERE

This is a photograph of 2009 Obama Inauguration. You can see IN FOCUS the face of EACH individual in the crowd !!!

You can scan and zoom to any section of the crowd. . . wait a few seconds.

Double click anywhere and double click again and perhaps again. The focus adjusts to give you a very identifiable close up.

The picture was taken with a robotic 1474 megapixel camera (295 times the standard 5 megapixel camera).

Every one attending could be scanned after the event, should something have gone wrong during it.

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