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For those who “love” Android, google “loves” your personal data too.

Computer scientists at Pennsylvania State University, Duke University, and Intel Labs conducted analysis of 30 of the most popular applications from the Android Marketplace.

The researchers used a special firmware loaded with software called TaintDroid to track how applications are handling the data that comes in and out of the Android phone. Their findings were surprising.

TaintDroid revealed that two-thirds of the applications in the study "exhibit suspicious handling of sensitive data." Furthermore, 15 out of the 30 apps investigated send users’ geographic location to remote advertisement servers. The study also found that seven of the 30 applications send a unique phone (hardware) identifier, and, in some cases, the phone number and SIM card serial number to developers.

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Tuesday during the Hot Chips 2010 conference, IBM revealed more details surrounding its 5.2 GHz microprocessor, the z196. The chip isn’t designed for consumer consumption, but rather for the company’s Z-series of mainframes. Its cost is estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands–perhaps even over a million bucks.

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Software programmer Joe Hewitt, known for his work on the Firefox web browser and creating the Facebook app for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch, recently slammed the Android platform, calling it "hideous." He also added that the OS reminded him of Windows–a developer-friendly platform but "sloppily designed."

He also mentioned that the Android OS still has the fragmentation problem. "Android fragmentation will hopefully stabilize within 2 years, and if not, at least people upgrade phones much more often than computers," he said.

I really don’t like how google would push an immature OS to the market at that scale using money to bribe companies to use their OS on new phones. If the OS was upgradable I can think of a scenario of get-it-now-upgrade-it-later, but no, you will stick with what you get.

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IBM this week introduced a range of new Power 7-based servers that fill out its System p offerings on both the high-end and low-end of the performance scale. The new servers come a few months after the first batch of mostly mid-range servers came on the market, the first to support IBM’s Power 7 processor. It will also come in four-, six- and eight-core configurations.

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At Hot Chips, Intel engineer Dheemanth Nagaraj told everyone in attendance that the next server processor from the company would have 10 cores and be able to process 20 threads.

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Omnia II Hard Reset
1. Turn OFF the phone;
2. Press VolumeUp and Lock buttons (do not release);
3. Press Call/Green and then HangUp/Red (do not release all buttons);
4. Phone should Vibrate and turn on;
5. Count to 3 and release all buttons;
You will have a choice to FORMAT or CANCEL the operation.

Quoted from user c3p9 from modaco.com forums. (Thank You)

You can create networks now using your AC outlet. Tuesday hard drive manufacturer Western Digital (WD) revealed the WD Livewire Powerline AV Network Kit, a setup that establishes a home network using electrical outlets, and could eliminate the need to string Ethernet cables throughout the home or office. This solution could also boost network reliability in areas outside a wireless router’s range.

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This new peripheral from Jedi Mind Inc. lets you control the mouse using only your thought!

Read more at TomsGuide.com.

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Is this the future communication technology? time will tell.

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The New York Times reports that a team of Hewlett-Packard scientists have designed an electrical resistor with memory properties called "memristor." The technology is simpler than existing transistors, and do not require a constant electrical current to retain information. Originally revealed in the science journal Nature Wednesday, the team believes that its new memory technology will lead to powerful yet extremely small computers that imitate biological functions.

The article covers different applications of memristor including to possibility of creating dense memory chips that use less power than DRAM memory chips of today. But the big bonus prize is that HP’s technology can store and retrieve values outside the standard 1′s and 0′s–a vast array of intermediate values as the NYT claims–allowing the resistors to function like biological synapses.

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Last month Intel announced that it was shipping systems with its experimental 48-core processor. Now we get to see what a system with the radical chip looks like.

X-bit labs caught the supercomputer on chip (SCC) system on demonstration in Europe, which runs on an experimental "Copper Ridge" motherboard with integrated I/O and graphics and eight DIMM slots. There’s no SATA ports, instead an Intel USB flash disk is used for storage.

According to the report, the SCC contains 24 tiles with two x86 cores per tile, each of which has its own L2 cache and can run a separate OS and software stack and act like an individual compute node that communicates with other compute nodes over a packet-based network. The SCC also has four integrated DDR3 memory controllers.

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Broken LCD screens no more . See the video it’s really nice.

By Eng. Ayd Mahdy – Computer Engineering / JU

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When you install Windows 7 you have to activate your copy whithin a finite limit which appears to be 30 days, but fear not! It appears there’s a way using Windows’s Software License Manager Utility (slmgr.exe).

This Utility allows the user to issue a “-rearm” switch that will reset the counter for another 30 days. This command can be issued a maximum of 3 times, if used correctly it is easy to use Windows 7 free for 120 days.

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By Eng.Ayd Mahdy – Computer Engineering /JU

Nokia 5230

Nokia is driving down the price of its touch-screen phones: Its latest, the 5230, will cost €149 (US$210) before operator subsidies and taxes. Read the rest of this entry »

By Eng. Ayd Mahdy – Computer Engineering /JU

Intel Companies

Intel will focus on its next generation of smaller and faster chips at a conference next month as it prepares to ship new chips for systems in 2010. Read the rest of this entry »

By Eng. Ayood Mahdy – Computer Engineering / JU

Apple’s latest operating system update, Mac OSX Snow Leopard, should be ready to roll on August 28, and while Apple says the new OS is “refined, not reinvented,” it’ll become the de facto competitor to Microsoft Windows 7 come October. We love a good argument, so here’s your fodder: five innovations for each OS being touted by their respective makers. Read the rest of this entry »

By Eng. Ayd Mahdy – Computer Engineering /JU

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Mac OSX Snow Leopard - Apple.com

Eng. Ayd Mahdy – Computer Engineer / JU

A mistaken offer in Apple’s online store on Wednesday could signal that the company’s latest Mac operating system, code-named Snow Leopard, is primed for launch as early as next week.

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By Eng.Ayood Mahdy – Computer Engineering / JU

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By Eng.Ayd Mahdy – Computer Engineering / JU

The Survey That Pc World Magazine and Technologizer made about should Windows Xp Should It Be Alive? started to reveal its results up to now there is 5000 readers took the survey and some question almost done coming with percentages of its answers. Read the rest of this entry »

By Eng. Ayd Mahdy – Computer Engineering / JU

If you don’t pant at the thought of the arrival of Windows 7 on October 22 and still use Windows XP on at least one of your PCs, PC World would like to know more about why.

PC World is  surveying folks who still use the venerable Windows XP as their primary operating system. They hope to use the feedback in upcoming articles on PCWorld.com.

If you would complete this short survey to assist Them, we’d appreciate it. It will take about 3 minutes of your time.

By Eng: Ayd Mahdy – Computer Engineering / JU

AMD has crowned its Phenom II line of processors with this new 3.4-GHz, unlocked CPU. It’s a solid performer, but just another small step up the speed ladder.

You have to give AMD credit for its resilience. Strictly in terms of innovation, the company has been lagging behind Intel for a while now, getting a few swift kicks where the thermal grease don’t shine from releases like last year’s Core i7 line of Nehalem-architecture CPUs to run with the X58 chipset.

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