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Quoting from the site wsj.com Posted by:Dr Ahmed.M.Shaban The Line messaging app, shown here in a February demonstration, is becoming a hacker target.   Bloomberg News Hackers are targeting users of the mobile-phone messaging application Line, according to the company and Japanese police. Tokyo-based Line Corp. said that in late May it received a report of a hacking case for the first time since introducing the app in June 2011. The  popular app , which enables users to make free voice calls and send free messages, has more than 480 million registered users, the company says. By mid-June, the number of reported cases rose past 300, a Line spokeswoman said. In a typical scam, hackers pretend to be the owner of the account and ask friends to buy prepaid cards on their behalf. Police in Tokyo and Osaka have issued  warnings to users , telling them to keep their usernames and passwords secret. Police in Osaka said 23 reports of hacking have been f...

Quoting from the site wsj.com Posted by:Dr Ahmed.M.Shaban Vidyo’s Ofer Shapiro   Vidyo Vidyo CEO Ofer Shapiro says his company has been taking in revenue for six years, enough time for many companies to start funding operations with sales alone. But he’s not shy about going back to investors. The videoconferencing specialist on Friday is announcing a $20 million infusion–Vidyo’s Series E round–to bring the total raised since its founding in 2005 to $139 million. Shapiro says the announcement should not be interpreted as a sign the 300-person company could not sustain itself. The point is, rather, that there are new opportunities that call out for spending right away. “This just shows that we are very, very committed to investing in this area,” Shapiro says. The Hackensack, N.J., company is known for apps and server software to let all kinds of devices engage in video communications. While many people think about business-oriented videoconferencing, Shapiro s...

Quoting from the site wsj.com Posted by:Dr Ahmed.M.Shaban For  Samsung Electronics   005930.SE   -1.68% , the latest delay in its efforts to sell a smartphone running the  Tizen operating system  marks yet another setback for Samsung’s homegrown alternative to Android. Bloomberg News Last month, at an event in San Francisco, J.D. Choi, Samsung’s lead man on the Tizen project, held up a smartphone and said that the device, the Samsung Z, would go on sale in Russia in the third quarter of the year. The official launch was to come at Thursday’s event for Tizen developers in Moscow, complete with market-ready products. But, in an echo of Samsung’s most recent failure to launch a Tizen smartphone — in Japan  earlier this year  — the launch was canceled just days earlier. Samsung provided no concrete date for the rollout of the commercial version of the phone at the developer summit but said in a statement Thursday that “the smartphon...

Quoting from the site wsj.com Posted by:Dr Ahmed.M.Shaban Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer (Associated Press) Was it just two old colleagues having a late-night chat or a prelude to more serious business down the road? Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer and AOL CEO Tim Armstrong talked over drinks into the wee hours Thursday night at the Sun Valley resort, as most other attendees of the Allen & Co. gathering of media and technology moguls sauntered off to bed. The tête-à-tête could be nothing more than former Google executives catching up. Sun Valley isn’t all about deal-making, after all. Much of it is just corporate titans schmoozing and kicking back. But the Mayer-Armstrong meeting drew attention, because of the ongoing speculation from analysts that Yahoo and AOL would make a smart pairing. Colin Gillis, an analyst at BCG Partners,  said in May , for example that an AOL purchase would bolster Yahoo’s revenue and expand its audience in areas such as online vi...

Quoting from the site gsmarena Posted by:Dr Ahmed.M.Shaban Historically, the last week of May hasn't seen much action in terms of new smartphone announcements. The market rollouts of flagships announced at our around the MWC have historically dominated, along with rumors about the next big announcements - the new iPhone and, more recently, the new Samsung Galaxy Note. Samsung Galaxy S III released Some of the more interesting stories revolve around the milestones achieved by the Samsung flagships over the year. Two years ago the  Galaxy S III  was just taking the world by storm,  getting a wide by the standards back then 28-country initial release  and  becoming Vodafone's most pre-ordered droid ever . And that was despite  the production issues that plagued the Pebble Blue version . Samsung ships 10 million Galaxy S4 units, adds new colors Fast forward another year and you can see the  Samsung Galaxy S4   scoring its 10 millio...

Quoting from the site techcrunch   by:Ahmed Mido My highest score on Dots — the original Dots — is 414. I achieved this respectable, albeit relatively average, score about a year ago, just after Dots was first released. When I open up the app now, I never play for more than a few tries. I can never get anywhere close to 400. I can’t even get close to  300 . Which brings me to  Two Dots , the latest generation of the betaworks-backed game that came out Thursday. Overview: Talking it over with our own Josh Constine, he called it a “skinned version of Candy Crush” and he isn’t far off. Rather than focus on a scoreboard style of game, Two Dots offers a levels-based game, meaning that you never get stuck trying to beat a high score (though you may eventually get stuck on a level). The Dots franchise ran into this “impenetrable ceiling” problem (I just made that up, roll with it) long ago, which is why the company released various game modes within the original ...

Quoting from the site techcrunch by:Ahmed Mido Starting Monday, Apple will be unloading a week’s worth of news and resources for software makers at its annual  Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco at the Moscone Center . Apple always kicks things off with a keynote at the beginning of the show, wherein it reveals new and exciting things for both developers and consumers alike. This year will be no exception, but what exactly can we look forward to? There have been a lot of rumors swirling, about iOS 8, OS X 10.10, new hardware and more, so let’s go through each and check out what is and isn’t likely to make an appearance. Hardware Apple has in the past made hardware announcements at WWDC – a few years ago, in fact, it used to debut the new version of the iPhone at the early summer conference annually. Recently, however, it keeps the hardware part of the show pretty low-key; last year, we saw the arrival of new MacBook Airs, and the Mac Pro was previewed, but ...

Quoting from the site techcrunch by:Ahmed Mido Samsung is making its own portable Bluetooth speaker as part of its new Level line of audio accessories, and the product goes on sale today online at its official store for $199. The device is definitely compact, and it’s an all-metal product, which is unusual for a Samsung piece of kit, but can it hold its own with the plethora of existing products on the market, including those just acquired by Apple in the form of the Beats Pill? Basics MSRP: $199 Battery life of 15 hours Bluetooth, NFC Built-in speaker phone Product info page Pros Attractive, compact, high-quality design Speakerphone interrupts line-in Cons Sound is just good, not great Design The Samsung Level Box is a well-designed piece of hardware. It features an all-metal enclosure with a metal grille to protect the speaker components too. Even the buttons are metal, which bets the question: why so much plastic on the phones when you can de...