Facebook Refused To Admit It's Making A Smart-Phone

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Yesterday, TechCrunch, technology
site, ran a story pointing-out that
Facebook was developing, through a
third party, mobile phone software.
TechCrunch was going on information
from a "source with knowledge of
the project."

"Specifically, Facebook wants to
integrate deeply into the contacts list
and other core functions of the phone.
It can only do that if it controls the
operating system," explained Michael
Arrington, TechCrunch's editor. Facebook
refused to admit it's making a smart-phone,
but Facebook did receive input from hardware
manufacturers and carriers this summer.

Facebook issued a long denial. According to
reports, the idea is in the early stages and
Facebook has not determined if they want to
proceed.

Source: http://newsblaze.com/story/20100920074756writ.nb/topstory.html

Beware of "Here You Have" E-mail Virus

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The virus, called "Here You Have,"
is a simple Trojan Horse that
security companies are calling by
different names.

An e-mail arrives in your in-box with
the subject line "Here You Have." The
body reads: "This is The Document I told
you about, you can find it Here." Or,
"This is The Free Download Sex Movies,
you can find it Here."

It pounded corporate America Thursday,
took down servers at ABC, NASA, Comcast
and Google. It was in Google's top five
searches Friday.

The Internet Storm Center, a free
analysis and warning service that tracks
malicious Internet activity reported that
the application responsible for the spam
choking the servers had been taken down,
but the Web wasn't out of danger.

"New variants may well follow," the Storm
Center warned.

Click on the link and the download will
launch a program that spams the same Trojan
Horse to everyone in your address book.

"It looks like multiple variants may be
spreading and it may take some time to work
through them all to paint a clearer picture,"
Craig Schmugar on McAfee's Threat Response page.

The "Here You Have" worm doesn't attack Norton/
Symantec products, according to Norton. Norton
recommends their Norton Internet Security 2011.

Source: http://newsblaze.com/story/20100913052452writ.nb/topstory.html

Microsoft's Halo Reach Game Exposed Too Early

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Halo Reach is scheduled for the
world's eyes on the 14th of
September, but showed-up on file
sharing sites.

The game is about players in the
role of an elite solider battling
for control of planet Reach.

This is the final chapter of the
series, which was developed by
Bungie for Xbox 360.

It's reported that the game was
exposed, leaked, after it was
opened to select journalists/
reviewers through Microsoft's
online Xbox store.

Videos of the game popped-up on
YouTube within hours of being
available.

"We are still investigating details
surrounding a claimed leak of Halo
Reach, and have nothing further to
share," Microsoft remarked.

People attempting to play unauthorized
copies of Halo Reach could face
sanctions, Stephen Toulouse cautioned
on Twitter- Director of Policy and
Enforcement for Xbox Live.

Source: http://newsblaze.com/story/20100824084009writ.nb/topstory.html

The End of Google's Wave

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The Wave has not seen the adoption we
would have liked, and elements of Wave's
technology- including drag/drop and
character-by-character live typing are an
open source. Users can "liberate their
content from Wave", Google explained in a
post last night.

Google stated it will stop development on
the Wave cross platform tool that was launched
in May of 2009.

The Wave design appeared to replace e-mail,
and other tools.

The problem was it didn't appeal to many, or
people didn't know about the Wave.

"Remember, we celebrate our failures. This
is a company where it's absolutely okay to
try something that's very hard, have it not
be successful, and learn from that," Eric
Schmidt, Chief Executive.

Unfortunately, The Wave was one of those
failures.

Source: http://newsblaze.com/story/20100805090512writ.nb/topstory.html

U.S. Killed 181 Insurgents- WikiLeaks Founder

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Julian Assange's, WikiLeaks founder,
web site stirred up debates about
classified information the public
should/shouldn't know.

"WikiLeaks aims to achieve political
reforms by getting out information
that has been suppressed to the public,"
Assange explained to Voice of America.

WikiLeaks web site posted classified military
documents spelling-out U. S. failures in
Afghanistan.

The documents were first released to The New
York Times, British daily, The Guardian and
German magazine Der Spiegel. They point to
a worse picture of the Afghan war than the
official public account, and include information
that Pakistan's intelligence services have been
helping the Taliban kill U.S. troops. Both ideas
have been discussed in the past.

The report could put U. S. citizens in harm's way,
and hurt national security.

"We have with-held approximately 15,000 reports
for further harm minimization process," he informed.
"We don't see anything here that is of tactical
significance. What we see is a lot of reports of
evidentiary significance that describe the cut/thrust
of the entire war over the last six years."

President Obama found out about the posting of the
documents last week, Robert Gibbs commented Monday-
White House Press Secretary.

The public release of the information was "a breach
of federal law," Gibbs said.

"We authenticate everything," Assange made-clear.
"To our knowledge, we've never been wrong. There
are no allegations by the rest of the press that
we've been wrong. We've never lost a source through
the process we go through."

Source: http://newsblaze.com/story/20100727093440writ.nb/topstory.html

Household Cleaning Products Increases Breast Cancer Risk

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A new study pointed out that using
house-hold cleaning products increases
breast cancer.

Brody and her co-researchers conducted
telephone interviews with 787 women who
had been diagnosed with breast cancer,
and 721 women who didn't have breast cancer.
"We asked women about past use of cleaning
products in the past year, their typical
use," Brody explained.

Air fresheners and mold/mildew controlling
products were connected to increasing breast
cancer, Julia Brody, PhD, executive director
of the Silent Spring Institute, Newton
Massachusetts. She led the study.

"We found links to breast cancer for combined
cleaning products used, many different products
taken together, and air fresheners and mold and
mildew control products," she continued.

"For combined cleaning product use, the risk
is about twice as high for breast cancer for
women who said they used the most compared to
women who said they used the least."

Listing exactly how much of exposure could raise
risk is difficult to say, she admitted.

"This is a first look and there are cautions
about interpreting it," Brody said.

The article is published in the journal
Environmental health.

AT&T Faults iPhone

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AT&T faults iPhone for slow upload
speeds on 3G wireless gear from
supplier Alcatel Lucent.

AT&T in a statement, Wednesday, said
the software problem in Alcatel Lucent
is restricting data upload speeds from
smartphones.

"AT&T and Alcatel Lucent jointly identified
a software defect- triggered under certain
conditions- that impacted uplink performance
for Laptop Connect and smartphone customers
using 3G HSUPA capable wireless devices in
markets with Alcatel Lucent equipment,"
explained Jenny Bridges, spokes-woman.

"This happens to less than 2 percent of our
wireless customer base," Bridges continued.
"White Alcatel developed the software fix-
we are providing normal 3G uplink and consistent
performance for affected customers with HSUPA
capable devices."

AT&T isn't using Alcatel Lucent gear in all
of its network. The glitch is in certain regions
of the country like: New York, Philadelphia,
Washington D. C., Salt Lake City and Seattle.

Source: http://newsblaze.com/story/20100708060647writ.nb/topstory.html