Opera Mobile for Symbian

Publisher's Description

Get a premium browsing experience with Opera Mobile. It is fast, smooth, and makes surfing the Web on a mobile device more fun and efficient than ever. A refreshed user interface looks better with your device and gives Opera Mobile a sleek, modern appearance. Pinch zoom and smooth panning let you surf in a natural and intuitive way. You can also share web content with others on popular social networks. Opera Mobile is the ultimate browser when connected over WiFi or wireless broadband. Also check out Opera Mini, the fastest browser on Earth. Opera Mini compresses data up to 90% and is the best choice when using slower networks or paying per megabyte of data used.

What's new in this version: Version 11 includes the following features:

• Modernized new user interface
• New UI optimized for tablet device
• Faster framerates when panning and zooming
• Text stays sharp during zooming
• Smart-tap, auto-zoom and highlights links if ambiguous link click
• Incremental zooming for devices w/o multi-touch
• Buttons for jumping to the top/bottom of the page
• Haptic feedback (if supported in hardware)

Review

Opera Mini 4 delivers a fast, impressively advanced user-friendly experience with this upgrade to its mobile phone browser. Keypad hot keys speed up zooming and scrolling. The browser comes with a familiar mouse. You can create your own search shortcuts, synchronize your bookmarks with your other Opera browsers, and alternate between rendering views.

There's also a landscape mode activated by pressing the "#" and "*" keys, just not for BlackBerry phones or a few others. Other limitations exist, as well, most notably that Opera Mini isn't compatible with every carrier and model, so you'd best check the specs first.

UrbanSpoon for Android

Note:The "Download Now" link directs you to the product page in the online Android Market. The application can directly be downloaded and installed on the registered Android device from your PC, or you can download it from the Android Market on your Android device.

Publisher's Description

UrbanSpoon for Android is a kind of restaurant slot machine. Just shake the phone and the wheels will spin until they settle on a good nearby restaurant for you. You can also lock down the neighborhood, cuisine and price you are interested in. Keep spinning until you get a restaurant you want to try.

Note: Available for the US, Canada, and most major cities in the UK and Australia.

What's new in this version: Version 2.1 can browse photos of nearby restaurants, right from the home screen, share photos of your own favorite dishes with our new photo upload feature, change your location by clicking on the map, and includes various bug fixes.

Review

Urbanspoon is a location-aware mobile app that helps the indecisive among us figure out where to eat. Open it up, and the Home screen presents you with a number of ways to receive restaurant recommendations or to simply search for a restaurant in your vicinity. You can Browse via category, see what's Nearby, or look at your Friends' profiles. There's also a built-in tool for booking reservations. If you're more into visual stimulation, the bottom of the Home screen displays a virtually endless slide show of photos from restaurants nearby. Swipe through them, find one you like, and tap through to the restaurant's page, which lists all the vital information, plus user reviews, links to restaurant Web sites, and critic reviews (when available). If you still can't find that perfect spot to dine, you can, of course, try Urbanspoon's most touted feature, its slot machine.

Shake, essentially a restaurant slot machine, is easily our favorite of Urbanspoon's features. Its three reels correspond to neighborhood, restaurant type, and price range. If you can't seem to find the right restaurant, just shake your device to send the reels spinning until they eventually land on your recommendation. Still not right? Shake it again, but this time try locking any of the reels to provide constraints for your slot-pull.

Overall, we think Urbanspoon is a perfect tool for discovering new restaurants in your area. Yelp may be a more comprehensive database of restaurant information and customer reviews, but it sure doesn't have a built-in slot machine. If your mainly trying to find an app that will cure your indecisiveness and point you in the direction of a potentially scrumptious bite to eat, Urbanspoon is exactly that.

UC Browser for Java (International)

UC Browser is a free professional mobile browser. UC Browser enables you to access the Internet fast and exchange data at any time. Not only can you edit your blogs, surf around online forums and communities, send and receive e-mails, but also download online resources. All of which will bring the large colorful world into your pocket, and provide fantastic mobile life for you. Java generic version is for most of the phones. And specialized versions for Symbian and Windows Mobile provide better experience. For example: Nokia N-Series, E-Series, 2700c, 3110c, 5130, 5310, 5800, 6300, 6600; SonyEricsson W-Series, K-Series.

What's new in UC Browser (Java) 7.6.1.82:

· Faster Than Ever Before
· GUI Optimization
· New Social Element for Java & WM
·  When you Upload Photos
· Traffic Check
· Search Box Optimization
· WLAN Automatic Switch

PC World Magazine - June 2011

 PCWORLD is the best-selling monthly computer magazine devoted to personal computing and related technology. Our award-winning editors deliver the Top 100 PC and product rankings and reviews from our state-of-the-art Test Center. Each issue is loaded with in-depth special reports and authoritative news stories, how-to's and tips, new PC trends, technologies, the Internet, and more. PC WORLD is an essential tool for any computer user.

PC World Magazine - June 2011
English | PDF | 101 pages | 37.2 MB

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CityBank Credit card customer data Compromised

Around Some 200,000 of Citigroup's bankcard customers had their accounts hacked. Most won't be responsible for fraudulent purchases, but cardholders should still take precautions

Citibank has admited that the names, account numbers and contact information of hundreds of thousands of customers have been stolen in a hacking attack.

The breach happened back in May, but the company is only now alerting customers. Around 200,000 people, all in the US, are believed to have been affected - one percent of the company's customers.

It's not known who was responsible, and Citibank isn't revealing how the attack was carried out.

It does, though, say it's put measures in place to make sure that a similar breach couldn't happen again.

Citibank says that other information, such as birth dates, social security numbers, card expiration dates and card security codes remain safe. This means that the hackers can't actually access customer funds - but that they will be able to conduct some pretty effective phishing expeditions.

"Customers affected by this incident should be on high alert for scams, phishing and phone calls purporting to be from Citibank and their subsidiaries," says Chester Wisniewski of security firm Sophos.

While Citi customers aren't likely to have fraudulent charges against their accounts as a result of this breach, they are likely to encounter social engineering attempts to enable further crime. Considering that the attackers have your name, account number and other sensitive information they are able to provide a very convincing cover story to victims."

 

Computer Problems And Solutions - With A Handy Free Diagram

A broken computer can seem like a maze because it could be the result of dozens of different faults. Hence it's common to not know where to start.

As a result we have come up with the following useful diagram to help you track down your computer problems and come up with the solutions with ease.

Please note that this article and diagram mainly looks at possible hardware causes. If you think your problem might be software based, please check our Help With Computer Problems article instead.

Having said that, many computer problems are caused by hardware faults (plus some faults - such as a hard drive failing - might seem like a software problem), and so we do cover software-side faults a bit in the below diagram.

To get started simply being at the "Start", and work your way through our 'Problems Solved' diagram/flow-chart

    

    Click on the image to enlarge

RSA SecurID tokens compromised

The EMC Corp. unit openly acknowledged for the first time that intruders had breached its 
security systems at defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. using data stolen from RSA.


What is a Secure ID token ?


SecurID tokens are used in two-factor authentication systems. Each user account is linked to a token, and each token generates a pseudo-random number that changes periodically, typically every 30 or 60 seconds. To log in, the user enters a username, password, and the number shown on their token. The authentication server knows what number a particular token should be showing, and so uses this number to prove that the user is in possession of their token.

RSA Security will replace virtually every one of the 40 million SecurID tokens currently in use as a result of the hacking attack the company disclosed back in March. The EMC subsidiary issued a letter to customers acknowledging that SecurID failed to protect defense contractor Lockheed Martin, which last month reported a hack attempt.

This admission puts paid to RSA's initial claims that the hack would not allow any "direct attack" on SecurID tokens; wholesale replacement of the tokens can only mean that the tokens currently in the wild do not offer the security that they are supposed to. Sources close to RSA tell Ars that the March breach did indeed result in seeds being compromised. The algorithm is already public knowledge.

As a result, SecurID offered no defense against the hackers that broke into RSA in March. For those hackers, SecurID was rendered equivalent to basic password authentication, with all the vulnerability to keyloggers and password reuse that entails.

RSA Security Chairman Art Coviello said that the reason RSA had not disclosed the full extent of the vulnerability because doing so would have revealed to the hackers how to perform further attacks. RSA's customers might question this reasoning; the Lockheed Martin incident suggests that the RSA hackers knew what to do anyway—failing to properly disclose the true nature of the attack served only to mislead RSA's customers about the risks they faced.

RSA is working with other customers believed to have been attacked as a result of the SecurID compromise, though it has not named any. Defense contractors Northrop Grumman and L-3 Communications are both rumored to have faced similar attacks, with claims that Northrop suspended all remote access to its network last week.

Facebook facial recognition technology : A controversy

"We should've been more clear" on face-scanning tech :Facebook

Facebook applied its new facial recognition technology to users' accounts without notifying them

This social networking site also posted an updated blog post explaining that its Tag Suggestions function had been switched on by default for the majority of its users.

It seems as if Facebook's problems with security are never-ending. New social networking features roll out and appear to cross the line almost every time, and now, Facebook users are expressing concern for its new facial recognition technology.

Facial recognition technology can be found in different programs, such as Apple's iPhoto and Google's Picasa. But the facial recognition feature can be turned off, giving users the option to use it or not. Unfortunately, this is not the case with Facebook's facial recognition feature.

Facebook announced the release of the facial recognition feature back in December, saying it would speed up the process of tagging friends in photos. Facebook also noted that it would only be released in theUnited States, but in an email statement yesterday, Facebook admitted that the technology had become available to users internationally without telling them about it.

"We should have been more clear with people during the roll-out process when this became available to them," said Facebook in an email statement.

The Facebook response also added that photo-tagging suggestions using the facial recognition technology were only offered when new photos were uploaded to Facebook, and it only suggested friends. In addition, the message mentioned that the feature can be disabled in a user's privacy settings.

But it's difficult to turn these settings off when people do not know they even have the feature.

This new feature presents privacy problems because Facebook has over 500 million users, and applying this technology unknowingly could raise questions about whether certain personally identifiable information would become associated with the photos within the database.

"Yet again, it feels like Facebook is eroding the online privacy of its users by stealth," said Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at Sophos.