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Oct. 8, according to foreign media reports, news groups and Internet security company VeriSign jointly announced today that news group spent 200 million U.S. dollars in buying 49% stake held by VeriSign, News Corporation has wholly-owned mobile content provider Jamba.
 
Jamba for the production of mobile phones such as wallpaper, ring tones and games and so on. In addition, it called for mobile phone users with "mobisodes" of Fox television video series, including "24-hour anti-terrorism" and "escape" and "get the follow-up bone."

Internet security company VeriSign has been trying to divest its slow-growth business, in order to focus on its core business - Web site naming and Internet security services.

In August this year, VeriSign Chief Executive Officer James Bidzos said that the economic downturn affected by the slow progress in the divestiture process, the time required may have to exceed expectations.

Sales in Jamba after the news, VeriSign’s early trading on the Nasdaq stock trading up 5.5 percentage points. The News Corporation shares are due to the downturn of the entire media sector dragged down the performance, down 1 percentage point.

News Corporation in 2007 to about 188,000,000 U.S. dollars from the price of VeriSign acquired Jamba 51% of the shares, then the two companies formed a joint venture. The News Corporation joint venture with Fox Mobile Entertainment business integration together.
　
In 2004, VeriSign cost about 273,000,000 U.S. dollars to purchase Germany’s Jamba based in Berlin. The company now set up a dual headquarters in Berlin and California.

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October 6, security researchers Aviv Raff last Thursday (October 2) revealed two iPhone security vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities could allow users unwittingly to visit a malicious Web site. The security researchers Apple these vulnerabilities reported to Apple in this Junly, but Apple did not patches and repaired these vulnerabilities.
 
As a result, he has no other option open smart these vulnerabilities.

The first vulnerability exists in the iPhone’s e-mail application and Safari browser. Safari browser display in a long URL address to general time to be amputated part of the address. In this way, malicious people will be able to disguise a malicious URL addresses, so users do not see the opportunity to address this.

Raff explained that hackers can use this vulnerability to fake a trusted legitimate Web site address at the beginning of a long URL address. In fact this point to address a totally different site. iphone users can only see that they are familiar with that part of the domain name, it is vulnerable to deception to click on a malicious link.

Raff said, iPhone’s e-mail application also has a security hole. This automatically download security vulnerabilities in HTML format e-mail links to the images.

Most of all e-mail application that allows users to download images, but each time the user needs to download before approval. This option will help set up e-mail users to protect themselves against spam by the interference, because if the recipient to open junk e-mail or download images, spammers will know.

Raff said that this was not a small security vulnerability. This is actually a design loophole in the security. Other e-mail client software makers repaired the security vulnerabilities a few years ago.

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September 12, according to foreign media reports, Yahoo today showed the new values to individual consumers and advertisers of its cooperation with Google on search advertising business to the U.S. Department of Justice through a three hour-long video.

Yahoo’s U.S. executive vice president Hilary Schneider through an example to prove that the above point of view, she Yahoo search engine, enter a "red roses in Birmingham Alabama (Birmingham, Alabama, the Red Rose)", not found any ads, but Google search engine can get 11 results. According to this deal, Yahoo can display Google’s ads, which both sides share the revenue.

Schneider said that Yahoo in this market in the search query broad enough coverage, through the cooperation with Google, Yahoo can generate more search results and thus a better return on your investment, but also because the user will be more complete results And satisfaction.
 
It is expected to Yahoo, and Google for its cooperation in the first year will bring about 800 million U.S. dollars in revenue and 250 million U.S. dollars to 450 million U.S. dollars of additional cash flow.

Despite Yahoo’s very confident about the value of this transaction, it must now convince the anti-monopoly bodies and change the opposition views of U.S. advertisers Association.

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September 9, AT & T Monday said it would add Yahoo search service to its customers mobile Internet menu. AT & T has 70 million users in the United States.

According to foreign media reports, AT & T plans through its mobile phone Internet portal, to provide users with Yahoo’s oneSearch mobile phone network services, including news, financial information, weather, Flickr photo albums and Web search and other links.

In fact Yahoo and AT & T two companies as early as January this year on the signing of an agreement, Yahoo will be under the agreement AT & T’s broadband users, network television and mobile phone users to provide search and advertising services. Yahoo’s service is provided by the above-mentioned agreement, as amended, after a part of. Under the new amended agreement, AT & T’s YellowPages.com site will provide users with local search information. The new agreement will replace the two sides in 2001 the broadband services agreement, according to the agreement at that time, when users log in AT & T’s broadband service areas of computer network service, Yahoo can be divided into the corresponding income.

Yahoo and Verizon also signed a similar agreement broadband network computer services for Verizon’s broadband network computer users and TV users with a range of network services, but the agreement does not include mobile phone services.

At the same time, Yahoo’s main rival Google is negotiating with Verizon, Verizon cell phone users trying to become the preferred Internet service provider. Verizon is currently the second-largest U.S. mobile phone operators, the second half of this year is expected to acquire wireless operators in remote areas of Alltel after regulatory approval, Verizon will be more than AT & T became the largest U.S. mobile phone operators.

Yahoo said the company has reached agreement with 60 operators worldwide to provides OneSearch network services for mobile phone network, the users that used the service has reached as much as 800 million people. The geographical Yahoo has reached an agreement with includes Asia, Europe and Latin America. After AT & T launched the service, two-thirds of the contracts Yahoo has made have been implemented.

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September 4, according to foreign media reports, AOL announced Wednesday, the company has upgraded Platform-A on advertising platform. When users surf the internet through the iPhone, dealers send ads to iPhone users through the platform.

AOL said the advertising technology will be adopted Platform-A mobile ad departments Third Screen Media’s external sales. When users visit any of AOL iPhone or partner sites, the platform will be sent to users of special format banner ads.

AOL said that the new platform to the iPhone monthly users send 75 million advertising information. At present, Platform-A application has been very popular, but still want AOL to promote its smart phone market.
　　
According to the date of June made by research firm ComScore, Platform-A is the most widely used advertising network, covering about 90 percent of U.S. Internet users. Yahoo’s advertising network was in second place with the coverage rate of 83%. Google ad network ranked the third, the coverage was 81%.

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September 1, later this year, Indian wireless operators will fully deploy 3 G services, wireless chip maker Qualcomm is negotiating with wireless operators and original equipment manufacturers,  who plan to publish affordable low-end smart phones with prices lower than 10,000 rupees.

Qualcomm’s technology vice president and regional manager Sandeep Sibal said, we are working with original equipment manufacturers partners in the negotiations, plans to the Indian market price is lower than 10,000 rupees smart phones. Our goal is to the mass market. Qualcomm’s original equipment manufacturers partners, including China’s Huawei, ZTE and the Group of South Korea’s Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics.

Smart phones with integrated phone features and functions similar to the computer. Last month a new version of Apple’s iPhone hype in India issued cell phone, wireless operators Vodafone Group and Airtel to provide the price for 31,000 rupees to 36,000 rupees.

Many brand vendor in India to provide smart phone prices over the 15,000 rupees, these high-end phones to India’s most users off.

India last month Communications and IT Minister A. Raja said that India’s 3 G-band service will be auctioned in October, which is expected to provide 3 G services at the end of this year.

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August 27, according to foreign media reports, on Monday, the Amazon declared to book lovers on its Web site that it will buy books social networking sites Shelfari. Currently Amazon has not yet to disclose the specific financial transactions.

According to foreign media reports, as early as the beginning of last year, Amazon has Shelfari provided on the part of venture capital funds.
Shelfari is headquartered in Seattle, primarily for book lovers to provide a platform for the exchange. The site allows users to create virtual shelves and books to share with friends directory. Its founder Qiaoxihage (Josh Hug) was a well-known digital media technology developer RealNetworks former director of engineering equipment. Hage left RealNetworks in 2007 after the creation of Shelfari.

At present, Shelfari’s main rival is Book site LibraryThing. Earlier this month, Amazon acquired a Canadian network used book seller AbeBooks, which happens to hold AbeBooks LibraryThing40% stake.

Currently, Amazon has not yet said how to deal with the LibraryThing stockholding rights held by AbeBooks after the acquisition of Shelfari. Industry analysts expect, Amazon is likely to sell LibraryThing shares, or try to reach a settlement with the two sites to finish the site integration.

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After the State Sport General Administration registered the Olympic champion domain name ahead, civil society also quietly set off a wave of Olympic athletes domain donation. China Internet Network Information Center yesterday disclosed that there are over 200 Chinese Olympic athletes’ CN domain name and ".China" had been donated. This is the first large-scale public donation of Olympic champion domain in Olympic history,.

This reporter has learned that the list of donors that have participated in the three Huang Xu won two Olympic gold medals, "Sanzhaoyuanlao" domain huangxu.cn, also Olympic champion Liu Xin Jin Song of the domain name li-uzige.cn.

Previously, China Internet Network Information Center has called on the registers who had registered the domain names of atheles before the Olympic opening ceremony to donate them to the corresponding athletes as China Network logo of the Olympic champion. As the largest donator Guo Jianguang donated 188 domain names. In addition, some donors even donate out the domain named which they are using.

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August 21 news, foreign media reports, according to informed sources, Microsoft will release IE 8 Beta 2 next Thursday and the final version will be launched in November.

The source said that Microsoft will be August 28 release IE 8 Beta 2, and the final version will be launched in November. In the forthcoming listing of the Beta 2 version, Microsoft will add some functions, such as "privacy mode".

At present, IE 8 is now in Beta 1 stage, mainly for staff development, but Beta 2 will be open to all users. Beta 1 of the current users also can use the "automatic update" to upgrade to Beta 2.

In addition, IE 8 only supports Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 operating system four.

Because the updating rate of IE browser was low, Microsoft has been severely criticized by the industry. Therefore, Microsoft has previously said that they will upgrade IE browser every year from IE8.