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Nokia unveils four new devices to retain markets

Megapixel digital camera, large colour screen, music features and email

Hanoi, Vietnam - At the Progressing Together event held today in Hanoi, Nokia introduced four new products that accelerate the company's leadership in emerging markets. Leading the pack is the Nokia 5000, which offers a 1.3 megapixel camera and a large QVGA display - Nokia's first megapixel cameraphone at this price point - as well as music and email capabilities, each new product brings a balance of features, design and affordability to meet every lifestyle and budget. The new mobile devices are expected to begin shipping by the third quarter, with an expected price range between USD78 to USD140, before applicable taxes or subsidies.

With the industry's largest portfolio of mobile phones and support for more than 80 languages, more than one billion people worldwide currently use a Nokia device. In recent years, the majority of first time buyers have come from the emerging markets. However, a significant shift is underway while the firsttime buyer market continues to grow, the number of replacement buyers- consumers seeking to replace their current mobile phone with a newer, more advanced model - has also grown substantially in emerging markets. In 2008, Nokia anticipates that for the first time, the number of replacement purchases in emerging markets will exceed those of firsttime buyers.

"People in emerging markets like Vietnam are increasingly demanding more from their mobile phone -their expectations and demands in terms of functionality and design are similar to people in any other part of the world - with different income levels at their disposal," says Chris Carr, Vice President, Sales, Southeast Asia & Pacific, who oversees Nokia's business in this region. "From the introduction of Nokia's most affordable megapixel cameraphone, to a further expansion of our product range in this market segment, we believe today's announcements demonstrate Nokia's firm commitment to bringing products and services that serve the varied needs and tastes of people in emerging markets."

Nokia 5000 - a powerful package at an accessible price

Boasting a 1.3 megapixel camera, a high resolution QVGA display, FM radio with recording functionality, MP3 ringtones and more, the Nokia 5000 will set a new standard for functionalty and affordability. For mobile entrepreneurs as well as people on the move, the Nokia 5000 supports email and other essential benefits including Nokia Xpress Audio Messaging, Bluetooth and GPRS connectivity. The Nokia 5000 is expected to begin shipping in the second quarter of 2008.

Nokia 2680 slide - entertainment and Internet access in a sliding design Nokia's first slide device for entry markets, the Nokia 2680 slide is a slim cameraphone that offers a balance of ease of use and entertainment functionality, including an FM radio with recording capability and MP3 ringtones, and core mobile phone features such as an expanded phone book. Its integrated digital camera ensures spontaneous moments are captured and shared. The Nokia 2680 slide is expected to begin shipping in the third quarter of 2008.

Nokia 7070 - stylish, fold design sets it apart

Featuring a distinctive folding design with geometric patterns and external light effects, the stylish Nokia 7070 is targeted at people who express their personality through their mobile phone. The Nokia 7070 offers personalized content, including themes and wallpapers, and MP3grade ringtones. Every aspect of this new phone, including its voice recorder and integrated handsfree speaker, is designed for people who want to stand out from the crowd. The Nokia 7070 is expected to begin shipping in the third quarter of 2008.

Nokia 1680 classic - first phone, first camera

Nokia's most affordable cameraphone to date, the Nokia 1680 classic offers essential mobile phone functionality with the added benefits of a basic digital camera. The phone with VGA camera and video recording features onetouch access for photos and videos. For families or small businesses, the Nokia 1680 classic also offers phone sharing functionality and easy access to email. The Nokia 1680 classic is expected to begin shipping in the second quarter of 2008.

Red Hat abandons consumer Desktop Linux distribution

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Linux company Red Hat has announced that it will abandon consumer desktop Linux distributions:

We have no plans to create a traditional desktop product for the consumer market in the foreseeable future. An explanation: as a public, for-profit company, Red Hat must create products and technologies with an eye on the bottom line, and with desktops this is much harder to do than with servers, Red Hat said on its website.

In its announcement, Red Hat alludes that Microsoft's quasi-monopoly over desktop systems is hard to beat. Linux commands only about 1.2 percent of the desktop market in the U.S., research group Gartner has found. However, its Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop will still be available at least through next year.

"We are focused on infrastructure software for the enterprise market, and to that market we are offering the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop," said Michael Chen, vice-president of corporate marketing at Red Hat, as quoted by PC World. "You need a different support ecosystem and applications for the consumer desktop," Chen added.

Last month, Red Hat announced the acquisition of Amentra, a provider of systems integration services for SOA, business process management, systems development and enterprise data solutions.

Amentra has over 140 employees in locations including Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Charlotte, Tampa and Richmond.

In a press statement, Red Hat said Amentra has vast technology and product expertise, including with JBoss middleware and the acquisition provides a solution-oriented depth to the JBoss middleware business. The newly acquired-company will operate as an independent Red Hat company.

Phone Book Up-loader (Digital Web Dom)

The main theme has been taken from Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and Management Studio Express. Its Basic Design built on Microsoft SQL Server 2005. Than this software has converted into mobile suitable version known as J2ME .Digital Phone Book up loader has multipurpose uses. Firstly this is not ordinary Book phone system which commonly uses in mobile phone. By using this software they can smoothly access their phone book with details information of any particular user. So for using these facilities mobile user must have had this software.

The main advantage of this is you can quick access any particular user number for as an example his names with pictorial view his house num road num, area code, zip code. In country section there has country code, Zip code etc. Another special advantage is you can store all your contact number in secure server (which I called web Dom) only authentication user can access his personal phone book data base, if he want to store specific number he can store particular number by selecting option. User can easily upload their phone book & details information on that server. If they needed any number they can access web Dom database they can download whole phone book & selecting particular number.

Still working I am working on it for upgrades with extra features & facilities. Another facilities it can handle its entire task concurrently.

The security is taken as a major issue, so only authentication; register user can access their account. So the user must keep his password & other information in safe.

To use this software mobile device must be supported java (J2me) application. So after installation this software they can perform this task.

Than you have to run this application. To create account in Web Server they must fill up form for registration. Registration section also contains some information so user must save this information for security.

After finishing their registration they will get confirmation SMS from Web Dom. Than you can access your database by giving your login name & password.

When they want to access their contact number they must log in Web Dom Server. Server will verify their user name & password after Confirmation they will able access phone book.

There has some facilities using this Digital Phone Book software. In this software it contain User name, area code, C/O.

In address section it has house no, road no, area no, user picture. In country section it contain country name, zip code, country code. So user can save details information for a particular person in Digital Phone Book. So when user needed to put contact number in server they first login in their account. In digital phone book up loader there has upload option so they can upload desire number what they want.

Same as download when they need any number they can download their number to sim card or phone book. User can select multiple number from sim card or phone book & also download their number in sim card or phone book .I have a plan to upgrade this software with some advanced feature option which I am going to provide in my next version of Digital Phone Book Up-loader system. There has some advance technique which I am going to implement in version 2.3.1. I have an experience with some other mobile version project it Called magic Blue access.

This software on your mobile can access another bluetooth mobile such as making call, send SMS, read phone book .Now my next project is security of mobile phone. Mail- anamcoe@gmail.com Mb- 01715827266

Oracle alleges illegal distribution of software against SAP

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German software giant SAP AG's (SAP) partner TomorrowNow Inc. secretly redistributed software products from rival Oracle Corp. (ORCL), and some SAP executives knew about it, according to new allegations in a long-running legal battle between the two companies.

The new allegations are mentioned in filings that became part of the case and are a serious departure from the original set of charges.

Oracle sued SAP for copyright infringement on March 22, 2007, and at the time said the wrongdoing was limited to support materials for Oracle products, which include things like training manuals.

According to a description of the new charges, Oracle now believes SAP's TomorrowNow division illegally-obtained Oracle's software applications to service customers, train employees, and also create fake "SAP" branded fixes, updates and related documentation for distribution.

Meanwhile, according to the same description, unnamed SAP corporate and SAP America executives know of the likely illegality of what TomorrowNow was doing, but "for business reasons" didn't intervene.

"Through this process, TomorrowNow made thousands of copies of Oracle's software, and distributed thousands of infringing fixes, updates and related copyrighted documents," according to the paperwork.

Oracle's expected to file the new allegations by June.

An SAP spokesman said, "For the moment, we will let the filings speak for themselves.

At this point these are strictly allegations, and we have rebuttals, and raising issues ultimately the court will address."

FCC wrangles over 'net neutrality' issue

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A divided Federal Communications Commission grappled further with the thorny issue of how to relieve increasing online congestion, disagreeing sharply over whether government regulations are needed.

The five-member commission met at Stanford University during a seven-hour meeting delving into "Net neutrality," the principle that all Internet traffic be treated equal.

It was the second such hearing the FCC has held this year, its interest on the subject piqued by formal complaints that Comcast Corp. is blocking certain of its customers who upload videos, music and other large data files from using its network during peak traffic times.

"We are facing these problems because of a failure of FCC policy," Stanford University law professor Lawrence Lessig told the commission. "The FCC failed to make it clear to the network owners that if they are building the Internet they need to build it neutrally."

FCC commissioners Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein called for the agency to strengthen its power to prevent Comcast and its competitors from unfairly discriminating against some customers. But two others, Deborah Tate and Robert McDowell, warned against burdening the industry with additional, costly regulations.

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin argued that the FCC's current Internet policy is sufficient but said the FCC's policy needs to be enforced to guarantee that whatever actions Internet service providers are taking "is tailored to a legitimate purpose."

Martin is seen as a swing vote on the commission for his insistence that the FCC's Internet policy, which guarantees that consumers can access all the lawful content they desire, is enforceable. Comcast officials and other service providers argue that the FCC's Internet policy is merely advisable and not a regulation.

Martin also said that Comcast and other companies should be permitted to manage their networks to ensure traffic flows smoothly, but that customers should be given notice.

"There must be adequate disclosures of the particular traffic management tools," Martin said. "Consumers must be fully informed of the exact nature of the service they are purchasing."

McDowell argued, however, that requiring such disclosures could expose companies to exposing trade secrets.

Copps called for strengthening the FCC's Internet policy to include an anti-discriminatory rule.

"These are evolving technologies, and sometimes the line between reasonable network management and outright discrimination can be less than crystal clear," Copps said.

"Now is the time for the FCC to add an enforceable principle of nondiscrimination to our Internet policy statement," Copps told an audience of about 400.

The FCC is formally investigating whether Comcast should be fined for blocking some subscribers from uploading files.

PayPal's anti-phishing strategy includes blocking some browsers

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As phishing attacks get tougher, PayPal is working on preventing this phenomenon by blocking older browsers or browsers with no anti-phishing features from accessing their website.

In a paper called "A Practical Approach to Managing Phishing" and signed by Michael Barrett, Chief Information Security Officer and Dan Levy, Senior Director of Risk Management for Europe they said they have been working on solutions to stop customers from losing money or be victimized by these attacks.

"We realized that our strategy was based on preventing financial loss in the victim's account," said the two authors in the paper. "We couldn't eradicate the problem on our own - to make a dent in phishing, it would take collaboration with the Internet industry, law enforcement, and governments around the world."

Approximately 3.3 per cent of the 124 million consumers became victims of phishing attacks last year, Gartner estimates.

Too many have fallen for e-mails asking for log-in credentials and other personal information, which lead to all sorts of fraud, including identity theft.

PayPal has developed the following strategy to stop fraudsters: reclaim e-mail (prevent phishmail from entering customers' inboxes by collaborating with ISPs to block unsigned e-mails), block phishing sites, authenticate users (prevent stolen login/ password from being used on PayPal.com), prosecute, and brand and customer recovery (ensure that targeted customers will continue to use PayPal).

Some browsers, which are considered to be unsafe or that don't have the Extended Validation Certificates should be blocked, the paper says: "letting users view the PayPal site on one of these browsers (such as Microsoft's Internet Explorer 3 or 4, Apple's Safari and Mozilla Firefox 1.x, although only IE3,4 have been named) is equal to a car manufacturer allowing drivers to buy one of their vehicles without seatbelts."

"There's clearly no "silver bullet" which will deal with phishing," the paper concludes.

"Rather, we've made a credible case that a multi-layered strategy, such as the one we've laid out, can in fact make a significant difference in dealing with the crime.

We encourage the rest of the industry to evaluate their anti-fraud efforts and adopt a fraud prevention strategy along these lines. As the old adage goes, "united we stand; divided we fall."