Dr. Web, the Russian antivirus company that uncovered the attcks, initially reported around 550,000 infected Macs but later tweeted the number could reach to more than 600,000 machines. They detected attacks in the US, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, France, GErmany, Spain, Italy, Mexico, Brazil and more countries although those countries not mentioned have a minimal number of users compromised.

The trojan could infect your Mac machine by unwittingly visiting infected websites. It is reported that there are millions of websites in Google’s SERP which contained the malicious code. There are a lot of mentions on the site dlink.com in many Apple forums.

Malware Infected Apple?

This incident proves that even Mac’s are vulnerable to malwares just like this. This also proven that Apple’s pronouncement that they are “better than Windows” is becoming a non-issue as their Mac OS X has also fallen prey into malicious codes like the Flashback.

Although there are no official statement coming from Samsung themselves, reports about the release date are coming from reliable sources and the latest of this is from a report in ZDNet Korea. Samsung headquarters is situated in South Korea.

The date is said to have chosen to coincide with the 2012 Olympics since Samsung is one of the major sponsors of the said event. There will be a lot of marketing time for Galaxy S III and this will give the product a worldwide exposure.

Samsung Galaxy SIII

Some of the leaks that came out about the Galazy S III is it’s 1.5GHz processor, 4.8 inch 1080p resolution display and an 8 megapixel camera. With those features alone, it is said that this gadget will give the upcoming iPhone 5 a stiff competition in the market. As of today, the Samsung Galaxy series is the closest rival of the iPhone series in the mobile phone market although there are many experts who are saying that the Galaxy series is much better compared to the iPhone.

Samsung is said to debut their gadget in a separate Samsung-hosted event in the first half of the year, closer to the commercial availability of the product.

But unknown to many, there will be no iPad 3 that is going to be realeased. That is, if we are going to believe what others are saying about the name of the next generation of iPads. They say it is called iPad HD. Appple is said to stop using the generation for the name of their products, at this instance, the iPad.

Instead, they are going to incorporate on the name the features and not the generation of the device. An example of this trend is the iPhone. They started with the iPhone 3G, with the 3G capability. Then 3GS for the enhanced SPEED and then the 4S with the latest feature SIRI.

iPad HD

The just today, there’s another leak that was revealed in some websites. This leak is about the external component of the iPad. It is said that iPad HD has the same size with the iPad 2 but iPad HD is a bit thicker.

What remains the same is the home button wherein one can’t just imagine an Apple mobile product without a home button. On the memory configurations, the iPad HD will be coming out with 16GB, 32GB and 64GB models just like the iPad 2.

Lastly, as some experts say the thickness of the iPad HD promises some new features that will surely exite the iPad fanatics. But all of these will be unveiled this coming March 7 when the iPad 3 or iPad HD will be available to the public.

During the Mobile World Congress 2012, LG announced their latest product named Optimus Vu which, according to them, is in a new category since it is not a smartphone and it is not also a tablet. Many call it as the new hybrid category. It is too large to be a smartphone but small enough to be a tablet.

“It’s a product that is in between the two,” explained Daniel Hernandez, the group’s Europe marketing director.

The iPhone has a 3.5-inch display while the Optimu Vu sports a 5-inch screen. But is is still much smaller compared to an iPad which has a 9.56″ X 7.47″ dimension.

LG Optimus Vu

“We believe there is a market, because it is a product that is both a tablet and a smartphone,” Hernandez added.

LG Optimus Vu is run with Android 4.0 and it is said to be be tuned around the notion that it would be used with a pen. Another thing that awed the attendees during the event is the performance of the Optimus Vu compared to other smartphones. It is much faster compared to those smartphones in the said event.

The Optimus Vu is expected to hit the market towards the end of 2012.

There were no real threat to the throne of Windows then. There came Apple with their own operating system. There also came Linux and other operating systems intended to compete with Windows.

But nothing came near the popularity of the Windows operating system. Then came the internet. With the popularity of the internet among the users, every company wanted to take part or make money with it. Applications were made for the internet and there were thousands of them appeared. But Windows is still there.

Then came the smartphone saga. Apple have their iPhone with iOS and they were successful with it. Google joined the meelee and they have their Android operating system in the open. Android was embraced by many smartphone manufacturers and they are very successful with it. Then Windows is left behind.

In the last quarter of 2011, Windows revenue dropped 6% compared to the same quarter the other year which saw them a revenue increase of 5%. All other departments in Microsoft are earning huge like the Entertainment and Devices Division (X-Box) with 15% revenue increase and Online Services Division (Bing) with 10% revenue increase.

Microsof is aware of this and they are putting some effort to recove in the Windows weakness. They are coming later this year with the latest Windows version the Windows 8 and they are hoping to cope up with it.

Is Windows really dying? Let us wait for Windows 8 and see how users are going to react with it.

Apple took legal action against Samsung in Australia claiming that Samsung has copied Apple’s iPad technology in their Galaxy Tab 10.1 product. Apple claimed that Samsung has infringed their patent on the touchscreen technology in iPad.

“I am satisfied that it is appropriate to grant an interim injunction,” said Justice Annabelle Bennett but said the reasons for their decision is still to be given on Friday. Some analysts say that there is a pattern that is establishing where Apple will take a sweep to the cases it filed against Samsung from different locations around the world.

iPad vs Galaxy Tab

It can be remembered that Apple also won same case against Samsung in Germany and that Galaxy Tab 10.1 has been banned from sales in that country. Samsung disputed the claim and court battle continues not only in Germany but also in the United States where both parties filing infringement claims against each other.

Skype
You are on the other side of the world and you forgot to turn off the heater in your room. Before eveything will be scorched, you can contact a relative or your house-sitter to check if it is turned off before you left the house. Skype app is the cheapest way to do this and this comes handy if you have installed the app in your iPhone.

World Customs
“When you’re in Rome, do as the Romans do” as the old saying says. So when you are in a specific place, you should know the do’s and dont’s in their customs. Do you know that there are places in the world where you are not allowed to burp after a good meal?

The app called World Customs allows you to browse different cultural customs so that you can fit in wherever you go in different parts of the world.

iPhone Apps for Travellers

Next Flight
You are in your way to the airport then all of a sudden you noticed that your youngest son is not in the car. You realized that he is left in the house and you make a u-turn to get him so he will not have the “Home Alone” adventures. After you fetched him and arrive at the airport, you are already very late and of course, you missed your flight!

There’s nothing you can do but to wait for the next flight. Thanks to Next Flight app, you can then browse the schedule for the next flight available in that airport through your iPhone. Next Flight tracks more or less 4,300 airports and 1,100 airlines so there is no reason you will miss the next flight again.

Planning for your next travel? Then install those apps now!

The sign-in attempts happened between October 7 and 10 for about 93,000 accounts on its PlayStation Network, Sony Entertainment Network and Sony Online Entertainment services. They however assured the public that the accounts involved are all safe and no data has been compromised.

As precautionary measure, Sony has temporarily locked those accounts and are now investigating up to what extent are the results of the unauthorised activities. They are also going to notify those account holders and they will be advised to reset their passwords.

Sony

 
It can be remembered that some months ago, Sony was again a victim of another attack that compromised more than 100 million online accounts that even temporarily halted the operation of its PlayStation Network and Qriocity music services. This latest attack means further damage to the reputation of Sony when it comes to the credibility of the security of their network.

Because of that, there are a lot of third party app developers who made money in developing their own apps that present Facebook data. In fact, they made a lot of money selling their Facebook apps to millions of iPad users.

But just recently, Facebook has announced that they have finally released their own iPad app. This is the upgraded version of the iPhone Facebook app that has been redesigned to fill out the larger screen on the iPad.

Facebook App for iPad

It took them more than a year to release the Facebook app for iPad which made some people to wonder but according to Bret Taylor, Facebook’s chief technology officer, “We’re releasing it now because it’s done”.

The Facebook app for iPad is by the way FREE just like it’s iPhone predecessor.

Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 is equipped with high-end devices and technologies that boost its functionality making it the ideal thing for work and entertainment utility. It has a dimension of 196.7 x 133 x 7.9 mm and weighs 335 grams. It comes with a Super AMOLED Plus capacitive touch-screen display (16M colors) on a 1280 x 800 resolution.

Display features also include Accelerometer sensor for User Interface auto-rotate, multi-touch input method, 3-axisgyro sensor and TouchWiz UX UI. Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 uses the Dual-Core 1.4 GHz ARM Cortex-A9-based processor, Mali-400MP GPU, Exynos chipset with an Android 3.2 (Honeycomb) operating system. Internal memory comes with 1GB RAM with optional storage of 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB. It also includes a microSD card slot (for up to 32 GB).

Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7

It uses a standard Lithium Polymer 5 100mAh battery that ensures long hours of usage. More of its interesting features include the following:

• Loudspeaker
• 3.5mm input jack
• Unlimited phonebook and call entries
• Wi-Fi connectivity
• Bluetooth connectivity
• Infrared
• USB 2.0 port
• 3.15 MP camera with autofocus and LED flash on a 2048 x 1536 pixels resolution
• Geo-tagging
• Video capture (720 P at 30fps)
• Messaging: Email, IM, RSS and Push mail
• Browser supports HTML
• Games
• Digital Compass
• Organizer: calendar and clock
• Video player supports MP4, DivX/Xvid/H.264/H.263
• Music/audio player supports MP3, WAV, eAAC+/OGG
• Image and video editor
• Google Search, Gmail, G-talk, G-maps and Picasa management
• Voice memo
• Quickoffice HD editor and viewer
• TV-out