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Adobe Finds Critical Security Hole In Flash Player

PC & Linux

Adobe Finds Critical Security Hole In Flash Player

Adobe has published a security advisory in reponse to a critical security issue in Adobe Flash Player. This vulnerability affects the flash player for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris and Android, it also imapcts authplay.dll componet included in the Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader X. So the entire population of the internet are affected by this, So the warning was the vulnerability discovered may cause crashes and potentially permit hijacking of systems. This issue also affects the company’s Reader and Acrobat Software Products. The better news now is Adobe has found it’s being actvely exploited ‘in the wild’ through .swf file embedded in a Excel spreadsheet, but a fix hasn’t been found until the beginning of the next week.

T-Mobile Sidekick 4G from Samsung announced ‘later this spirng’

Gadgets

T-Mobile Sidekick 4G from Samsung announced ‘later this spirng’

The official announcement from T-Mobile shows that New Sidekick 4G with lightning speed and stylish communication Hub, delivers evolved messaging and entertainment. The relaunching of Sidekick in Android, they are also making the device very official today with the unveiling of Samsung-sourced sidekick 4G. Though it lacks a swiveling display, T-Mobile is quick to note that the phone is got a ‘pop-tilt’ mechanism that was pretty unique in the market. This is the first Sidekick with a touchscreen 3.5 inch WVGA, android 2.2, 1 GHz humming bird processor, 3MP camera, pretty good looking UI, comes with more Samsung staples Samsung Media Hub, Qik Video calling, DriveSmart texting while driving walk out functionality, Sidekick group text and cloud text forms some Cross-Platform Messaging tool. Pricing, availability and the release will be announced ‘later this spring’.

AT&T makes Japan calling free until end of March

Gadgets

AT&T makes Japan calling free until end of March

Many of us are making frantic calls to friends and families in Japan over the past few days witout regard to costs. Now, AT&T Ma. Bell is offering the customers wired and wireless billing relif for calls made on AT&T between March 11th and March 31st. Under this plan AT&T wireless postpaid users will not be charged for international long distance call or text messages to Japan from the US and Puerto Rico. Like this the residential wireline customers can get their credits for upto 60 minutes of direct calling to Japan.

Daylight saving time woes continue on Apple iPhone / iPod touch

Apple

Daylight saving time woes continue on Apple iPhone / iPod touch

Apple’s iPhone and iPod users reporting on Twitter and Apple’s officials forums that the daylight time and Clock app is been demonstrating all kinds of behavior. Some of the alarms going off early, others late, and some of them working perfectly. Some of them are reporting that the DST adjustments occurred in the places that they don’t recognize DST at all.

Angry Birds Rio Will Be On Amazon Appstore On Android Launch

Gadgets

Angry Birds Rio Will Be On Amazon Appstore On Android Launch

Rovio today introduced the most anticipated Angry Birds Rio game will be introduced for Android platform exclusively in Amazon Appstore. It seems they will achieve the universal distribution through the market., but in the mean time the Amazon has scored a pretty big scoop in its efforts to attract the users to its own repository. They also promised that the Appstore is launching ‘Very Soon’ and Amazon has just inaugurated an Twitter account amazonappstore to keep us on when will it happen.

Kill Session Privileges To Users

Tech

Kill Session Privileges To Users

As a DBA you may face issues like “Large number of sessions are opened while accessing the database through front end and these sessions are not closed properly (Database sessions are hanging). In this article we will see how to resolve such issues.

Sony Xperia Play hits UK on March 31

Gadgets

Sony Xperia Play hits UK on March 31

UK is ready for the day to see the Xperia Play in the market. The news today is Sony releasing their Xperia Play in UK by March 31. Readers in UK are waiting to see the Sony’s new launch in the market. The shocking commercials showed that the release will be this month end. On this month end the device will be available for them on all the retailers, mobile operators and mobile shops.

Angry Birds for Facebook Announced

Gadgets

Angry Birds for Facebook Announced

Angry Birds has been portted to many platforms and now it is available for Facebook. The Facebook version will differ from the other versions by offering a more “collaborative” gameplay according to the developers.

Samsung Galaxy S Pro Candy Bar Phone Unveiled

Gadgets

Samsung Galaxy S Pro Candy Bar Phone Unveiled

Samsung has unveiled it next smartphone in the Galaxy S line-up, a brand new Galaxy Pro smartphone for the masses with physical QWERTY keyboard. This device will run on Android 2.2 aka Android Froyo. It was reported that the Galaxy S Pro will be Google experience device and will not have the Samsung’s proprietary TouchWiz UI. This will be the firstcandy-bar QWERTY phone From Samsung in the Galaxy S line-up.

Sony PSP Go System Price Cut Was Rrevoked

Gaming

Sony PSP Go System Price Cut Was Rrevoked

Last week, Sony has listed the price of “PSP Go” to be $150 in their US website, revealing an obvious reduction of its price by $50. The new price of $150 was clearly listed on PlayStation US website but now, the price change has been reverted. Sony PSP Go now continues to carry the previous price tag of $200 in US.