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The latest research from German security firm Security Research Lab shows that the GSM mobile phone users up to 80%, and they’re vulnerable to a new round of high-level hackers attack.

SRL conducted the test in 11 countries in Berlin, it’s easy for sophisticated cyber criminals to intercept, tracking and counterfeit activities of the GSM mobile phone users. However, due to launch GSM attack required complexity of technology and most of people can not match, some security experts questioned whether such a threat worthy of attention. However, SRL director Carsten Noel warned, we should not underestimate the this threat which GSM mobile phone users facing.

Noel said he has successfully used a GSM phone to invade a colleague’s personal cell phone, the test including nine EU member states, 30 different networks, as well as the 3 network in Morocco and four network in Thailand. SRL did not test any network vulnerability in the United States, however, Noel pointed out, the AT & T and T-Mobile U.S. operators use GSM technology as the rest of the world. All systems are being tested with varying degrees of vulnerability. In addition, the crack GSM security key, and an essential tool for analysis of GSM voice traffic can be downloaded on the Internet.

February 3 evening news, Mozilla is developing Push Notification System for Firefox browser, allows the user to receive notifications from all sites without having to open in the browser. The system can also push informations to the move device.

The project is aim to enhance the Mozilla Web competitiveness, and part of the strategy to compete the local application, to help narrow the gap between Web browsers and native applications, as compared with the browser, the information push function is a big adavatage of the local application.

Mozilla developer Jeff Balogh said: “The push notifications is a way that users ddidn’t access the site, then the site send a short message to the user. iOS and Android devices have already supported push notification service, while our system will open for whole Webs. ”

At present, the set of Mozilla push notification system is still at an early stage, it hasn’t prepared for the test. Analysts said the system of Mozilla is very useful for website which ready to send notification to the user.

February 2 news, for the decision that IE10 is not supported plug-in under Windows 8 Metro environment, Microsoft said in an official blog those can increase the battery life, security, reliability and user privacy.

Microsoft announced in September last year, Windows 8 Metro Edition IE 10 browser will no longer support the plug-ins. Microsoft has provided a solution that it allows to rely on plug-in site across the shield of the Metro, back to the traditional Windows desktop environment to continue to run Flash and other plug-ins.

With the maturity of standards-based Web technologies, plug-in’s importance droped. Local Web technology can not completely support the plug-in function, but the open Web has the ubiquitous advantages. At present, more and more mobile devices and computing environments support modern web standards, with the popularity of these platforms and devices, it’s difficult for every plug-in vendors enter into the screen.

With the listing of Windows 8 and IE 10, the local Web standards will further suppress the proprietary plug-ins. As mentioned above, Microsoft’s next-generation browser will no longer display the plug-in under the Metro environment, while the Metro is the default desktop in Windows 8.

February 3 news, Google launched Google Docs offline viewing for the Android system this week. Using this feature, users can only view the document, but can not edit the document.

Google is working constantly to improve the Google Docs service, making it become a full-featured tools for document production and editing. Recently, Google launched the Chrome platform application which based on HTML5, to help users read offline documentation.

Google introduced this feature to Android system is similar to Chrome. When a user upgraded the Google Docs application in the Android phone or tablet PC. The user can select documents which want to read offline. Then those documents will be downloaded, and those would list as offline documentation. Once the user processing those documents for offline, then the offline version of document will be automatically updated as the net be connected. Google in the statement said: “When the Internet is connected, you can make an entry offline. As the device’s Internet disconnect, you can also request the offline entry automatically update after the Internet connection. ”

However, Google pointed out that this feature does not support offline editing currently, and they didn’t disclose the time to introduce this feature.

February 2 news, Twitter on Wednesday facing the U.S. Public Broadcasting company, NBC News, Volkswagen, Huffington Post, Qatar, Al Jazeera, reading websites Anobii and other institutions open launched enhanced brand page. This is the first time for opening this service to outside of the initial partners.

Coca-Cola, American Express, American Red Cross and other partners early in December last year enabled to the enhanced Twitter brand page. This project as part of a Twitter comprehensive revision on December 8, last year. Companies, brands, media organizations and celebrities can achieve the additional design and content control through the enhance the brand selection page. Although the new version of page has been open for most users two months ago, the launch time of the enhanced brand page has delayed.

Twitter spokesman said they woild continue to introduce the enhanced brand page for their advertising partners, and other specific partners, charitable organizations, media organizations and individuals. As Twitter more and more value for income-generating schemes, it’s reasonable to enhance the attractiveness of large enterprises.

February 2 news, Microsoft plans to seize the Google’s privacy policy mistakes make a big fuss, to attract more customers.

Microsoft’s public relations vice president Frank Shaw said that Microsoft has provided a safer alternative than Google for users. By the new privacy policy, Google has been widely criticized. Microsoft also plans a massive advertising campaign, using Google’s latest failure to compete for customers.

Recently, Google announced that it would change their privacy policy, in different products and services shared users information. Google’s new privacy policies even caused the U.S. Congress concern.

Frank Shaw said, Google’s privacy policy will bring more difficult to users control over their own information. In contrast, Microsoft provides a more friendly and gentle program, “We ensure the safety of users, to ensure the security of user online activities, allowing users to control their own data, users can choose their own information stored in its own hard disk or cloud computing environment, or stored in these two places. ”

Microsoft also plans to run on several major newspapers called Putting people first full-page ads this week, this ads will promote the user’s anxiety of Google and the security of Microsoft products.

January 31 news, the European Commission announced that it has officially launched antitrust investigations on Samsung patents to identify whether Samsung had abuse to use Standards-essential patents undermine the European mobile devices market competition, breach of EU antitrust laws.

European Commission spokesman said that they had decided to launched antitrust investigation on Samsung Electronics, rather than the pressure forced by other companies.

The European Commission noted that in 1998 Samsung had promised the European Telecommunications Standards Institute with fair, reasonable and non-discrimination principle to other companies to provide the necessary patents. Now, the European Commission will investigate whether the Samsung Electronics illegal use of the technology to suppress competitors.

The European Commission thought that Samsung Electronics was seeking to ban its competitor’s product sales in the EU countries last year, on the grounds that competitor infringed on its patents, and these patents for the European mobile phone standard is essential. The European Commission will investigate Samsung Electronics whether violated of EU antitrust law.

February 1 news, Barnes & Noble bookstore on Tuesday said it would not sell the books published by Amazon. As the largest U.S. bookstore chain, the number of Barnes & Noble stores is 703.

This instruction also involves Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s New Harvest published books. The company recently set an agreement with Amazon, it will publish and sell the books published by Amazon.

Barnes & Noble’s chief supply officer Jaime Carey said: “Barnes & Noble has already decided that all stores will not stock books published by the Amazon, which is due to the Amazon insist on signing exclusive agreement with the publishers, agent and author, as a result, we can not provide part of e-books. Their practices is harmfull for the entire industry, leading to millions of consumers unable to obtain the desired content. Clearly, Amazon has shown that they wouldn’t cooperate with Barnes & Noble friendly. In order to content of its benefit, the Amazon continued to separate the market and contents. ”

This statement shows that Barnes & Noble do not want to help sales of its biggest competitors paper books. Amazon’s New York office publishing industry veteran Laurence Kirshbaum is responsible for this. Since its found in last summer, it has acquired of multiple books copyright, including best-selling author Timothy Ferriss’ new book, as well as actor and director Penny Marshall memoirs and so on.

January 31 news, comScore released figures showing that Facebook Internet advertising market share to 27.9% in the United States last year, higher 21% than 2010.

This means that Facebook widened the gap between the main rival yahoo. Yahoo Internet advertising market share is 11% in America last year, only slightly higher 10.9% than the 2010. Microsoft and Google in this market share are less than 5%. In 2009, it’s the first time for Facebook in display advertising market higher than yahoo.

Facebook declined to comment on comScore data. The sources said the Facebook would submit IPO application to SEC. The company plans to financing 10 billion dollars.

January 31 news, according to media reports, in the next Windows Phone, Microsoft Windows Phone Tango will update and the language support expanded to 120. If this thing is reliable, the number of languages Windows Phone Tango ​​support is four times than the last version. At present, Windows Phone Mango supports 35 languages​​.

This is part of the plan that Microsoft to enter the global market. Microsoft often overlooked language support issues. Since iOS only supports 34 languages ​​and Android only supports about 55 languages so far​​, configure Windows Phone Tango device will have an advantage in these markets.

In order to more clearly illustrate this strategy, Another change of Windows Phone Tango is to support the local code. Although the source would not confirm they are Tango or Apollo, they were confirmed that developers using C+ + native code to write the next version of a Windows Phone application.

This will help Microsoft get more developers attention, because the current Windows Phone application development platform slightly subject to some restrictions. The operating system is a common application platform written in Silverlight-based. This will make writing applications have some limitations.