Plus how Microsoft plans to sell a 'couple hundred million' more Windows 7 PCs before Windows 8 and why Apple may be alone and vulnerable in mobile
A quick burst of 8 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team
Bing Becomes a Costly Distraction for Microsoft >> NYTimes.com
"Microsoft needs to concentrate on a different kind of search: finding a buyer for Bing, its online search business. Bing is the industry's distant No. 2 after Google. It has become a distraction for the software giant -- one that costs shareholders dearly. The division that houses Bing lost $2.6 billion in the latest fiscal year. Facebook, or even Apple, might make a better home for Bing. A sale would be a boon for Microsoft's investors."
Why Apple may be alone and vulnerable in mobile >> ZDNet
"Apple's staggering Q3 reports might allow them to buy Dell twice and still have a boatload of cash in reserve, but they've got a real ecosystem and strategy problem."
Apparently part of the problem is not having a search engine that loses torrents of money every quarter, and that it doesn't have LinkedIn baked into iOS5.
How Microsoft plans to sell a 'couple hundred million' more Windows 7 PCs before Windows 8 >> ZDNet
Mary Jo Foley: "As Microsoft's fourth-quarter fiscal 2011 earnings made clear, Windows 7 sales -- with the glaring exception of netbooks -- are good, but not as good as they used to be. Given there's still a year (give or take) s until Windows 8 launches, what is Microsoft's game plan to keep the bottom from dropping out of the Windows PC market?
"The enterprise market will likely keep Windows 7 sales chugging, as many larger businesses are only now finally deploying Windows 7, after months of planning and testing. And, as Microsoft execs said during yesterday's earnings call, the emerging market countries are snapping up a lot of Windows 7, though at lower prices -- and with substantially higher piracy rates -- than the "developed" nations."
Interesting words too on tablets. And this confirms that Microsoft makes the worst Powerpoint decks in the world.
Anonymous' new social site hacked, defaced >> MSNBC
"Anonymous, the hacking group that saw some of its alleged members arrested last Tuesday, had another blow to deal with on Wednesday, albeit a lesser one: Its own social network page was hacked and defaced.
"The group had announced earlier this week that it was just starting AnonPlus after its "Your Anon News" account was rejected by Google's new social network, Google+, for violating the site's standards."
Syrian hackers apparently to blame. Ironic?
On Ethical Hacking: 'LulzSec Is Utterly Irresponsible' >> Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Sam Bowne who teaches 'ethical hacking' at City College San Francisco interviewed:
"RFE/RL: Do you see moral or ethical differences between what the "News of the World" has done, for instance hacking into individual's phones, or by LulzSec hacking into "The Sun." Is there a moral equivalency here or are these different cases? Bowne: "Well, I mean, they're both wrong. They're both illegal. I think they're both going to get caught and punished. So, I'm just thinking two wrongs don't make a right. And I also don't see any real purpose to the LulzSec attack because I don't think there was some secret hidden stuff about what the News of the World did that would never have come out without them hacking in. So it's not clear to me that them hacking accomplished anything. It was mostly just a prank so they could laugh about it, which is what LulzSec has always been about. "
Thoughtful about the ethical differences between, for example, a physical sit-in and a DDOS staged for "visibility".
How we do all this will never be the same >> Asymco
"Yes, it's still growing at five times the rate of the PC market (and 7.5 times the rate of Windows only PCs), but the iPad phenomenon is indeed affecting the Mac."
Intriguing.
Samsung smartphone sales may pass Apple >> Bloomberg
"Samsung Electronics Co., the world's second-largest handset maker, may have surpassed Nokia Oyj (NOK1V) and Apple Inc. (AAPL) in smartphone sales in the second quarter, driven by the popularity of Android-based models, according to Boston- based Strategy Analytics.Samsung is estimated to have sold between 18 million and 21 million smartphones globally in the period, compared with 16.7 million for Nokia and 20.3 million iPhones, Neil Mawston, a London-based analyst at the research company, said in an e- mailed response to questions on July 22.
"The maker of Galaxy devices is on track to pass Nokia and Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) in smartphone sales for the first time to become Apple's closest rival, as consumers flock to devices running Google Inc. (GOOG)'s Android system. Samsung, which aims to more than double smartphone sales this year, and Apple are vying to replace Nokia as the biggest smartphone seller and capitalize on surging demand for computer-like handsets."
Information on Anonymous operation online pads and IRC >> Pastebin.com
"Description: Online "Pads" are used by anonymous/antisec to attack post information on their current target(s). The pads contain information about target IP addresses, URLs, potential vulnerabilities, contacts, whois info, exploit links,phone numbers, addresses, status, etc."" shared="no
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