Apple CEO Tim Cook made no mention of it in this week'searnings call, but there's a burgeoning demand for iPads among the country's zoo-boundprimates, thanks to theApps for Apesinitiative. However, not all apes are created equal: Orangutans introduced to Apple's tablet have loved the device, butgorillas haven't taken to the iPadwith the sameenthusiasm -- a development Corning obviously didn't consider when naming itsGorilla Glass.According to Orangutan Outreach, sponsor of the Apps for Apes initiative:Orangutans are highly intelligent creatures that require mental stimulation to keep from growing bored and depressed. Every orangutan is a unique individual with his or her own particular likes and dislikes, and freedom of choice is critical to their well-being. They like to choose everything from their afternoon snack to their daytime companions and sleeping area.Don't we all?Among the dozen-plus zoos participating in the Orangutan Outreach initiative are the Atlanta Zoo and the National Zoo in Washington. Participantsare in touch with each other to compare and recommend appsthat the apes seem to prefer. The orangutans' tastes, it seems, are not so different from a human child's, with special favorites being musical instruments, video watching -- particularly of themselves and other orangutans -- finger painting, and interactive books.The Milwaukee County Zoo, which nearly two years ago pioneered the use of iPads to stimulate and enrich the lives its orangutans, took the effort to a new level when it outfittedits primate buildings with Wi-Fito arrange"play dates" with orangutansat other zoos and wildlife preserves. Can the offer of a reality TV show be far behind?Check out this video of orangutans at the Milwaukee County Zoo interacting with theiPad. Sadly,Mahal-- one of the orangutans featured in the video -- died last month from pneumonia.Orangutans are among the most intelligent primates. A 2008 study of two orangutans at the Leipzig Zoo in Germany showed they couldweigh the costs and benefits of gift exchangesand keep track of them over time -- the first nonhuman species documented to do so.The Apps for Apes program goals include:*.Provide stimulating enrichment and immediate gratification for orangutans*.Make zoo visitors aware of the critical need to protect orangutans in the wild*.Promote the conservation efforts of Orangutan OutreachIf you have a gently used iPad that you'd like to donate to an orangutan, you're invited tocontact Orangutan Outreach.
Sunday, 27 January 2013
Fujitsu developing HTML5 app platform for enterprise security
Engineers at Fujitsu Laboratories are developing anHTML5-based platform for smartphones that designed to keep corporate data secure when accessed from employee-owned handsets.The system, which Fujitsu plansto launch later this year, is one of a number that addresses this increasingly common problem: how to allow workersaccess to corporate IT systems while avoiding deliberate or inadvertent leaks of data from devices that are not totally under the company's control.[ Find out how to block the viruses, worms, and other malware that threaten your business, with hands-on advice from InfoWorld's expert contributors in InfoWorld's "Malware Deep Dive" PDF guide. | Don't look now, butyour antivirus may be killing your virtualization infrastructure. InfoWorld's Matt Prigge shows you how to detect the warning signs. ]Fujitsu's system matches an app on the phone with a cloud-based server that delivers corporate apps such as email, sales databases and customer contacts, as HTML5 applications.The phone app senses whether it's in the workplace or not and therefore whether it has accessto corporate data. The cloud apps are delivered over an encrypted connection to the handset, which runs them inside a secure application environment on the phone.As soon as the employee leaves the workplace, the cloudconnection is severed and the corporate apps are no longer accessible. And because they ran in the application environment, the phone doesn't contain any remnants of their use, such as cookies or temporary data files, said Kazuaki Nimura, a research manager at the smart platformlaboratory of Fujitsu Laboratories.At an event in Silicon Valley on Thursday, Nimura demonstrated the system running on both an iPhone and Android handset. Each mobile OS requires a native app to runthe execution environment, but the HTML5 cloud apps will run across all platforms.In the demonstration, access tothe corporate apps was enabled in the iPhone when it came within reach of a simulated company Wi-Fi signal, while the Android phone had the option of being switched on by either Wi-Fi detection or through a tap on an NFC (near field communication) card.As soon as the phones detectedthe network or NFC card, they switched to work mode, which brought up a new home screenwith different set of apps. While in work mode, access to personal apps could be determined by a company security policy, said Nimura.In the demonstration, work mode also disabled the phone'scamera.When the phone lost the network connection or tapped on the NFC card, it was returned to its conventional home screen and stricter corporate security policies were removed.The same system could also be used to deliver corporate apps to workers outside of the office, maintaining the securitypolicies in place for access and use of the data.Fujitsu hopes to release the technology as its Mobile Enterprise Application Platformlater this year.
AT&T to buy Verizon spectrum for $1.9 billion
The new spectrum will help thecompany deploy 4G LTE services and meet mobile broadband demand from smartphones and tablets IDG News ServiceAT&T will buy mobile spectrumin the 700MHz band from Verizon Communications for US$1.9 billion, AT&T said Friday.AT&T will pay cash and trade AWS (advanced wireless services) spectrum for the B block of the 700MHz spectrum,the company said. Verizon will gain AWS spectrum licenses in several markets, including Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Portland, Oregon, AT&T said in a press release.[ Understand how to both manage and benefit from the consumerization of IT trend with InfoWorld's"Consumerization Digital Spotlight" PDF special report. |Subscribe to InfoWorld'sConsumerization of IT newslettertoday, then join our#CoIT discussion group at LinkedIn. ]In April,Verizon pledged to sellofftwo 12MHz blocks of mobilespectrum in the 700MHz band, including the B block, if U.S. regulators approved its purchase of spectrum from a group of cable providers.The U.S. Federal Communications Commission approved Verizon's purchase ofthe cable spectrum in August.Verizon purchased the 700MHzspectrum in a 2008 FCC auction. AT&T was also a major purchaser of B block licenses. The 700 MHz licenses to be acquired by AT&T cover 42 million people in 18 states, including California, Florida, New York and Virginia.The deal complements AT&T's existing holdings in the B block,the company said in a press release. The new spectrum willhelp the company deploy 4G LTE services and meet mobile broadband demand from smartphones and tablets, it added.In conjunction with the transaction, AT&T will sell a single AWS license to Grain Management, a wireless private equity firm, and will lease 700 MHz spectrum from Grain Management in three markets.The transaction is subject to regulatory approval. AT&T said it anticipates closing the transaction in the second half of 2013.
Windows earnings report a work of smoke and mirrors
Microsoft says the Windows division generated the most revenue last quarter, but in theend the report tell us absolutely nothing about Windows 8 sales
Last November I talked about the wayMicrosoft stacks the deck in its financial reports-- all perfectly legal, of course -- to obfuscate sales of its new Windows systems. We saw it happen with Vista and Windows7, and we're seeing it again with Windows 8. As I said back then: "We're likely to know lessabout Windows 8 sales in January than we do now."That's exactly what's happened.Microsoft released its fiscal Q2 resultslast night, and the sales part of the equation -- $21.5 billion for the whole company, up 3 percent year-over-year -- was exactly what everyone wanted to see: slow, steady growth. Profits weren't quite asreassuring, with operating income down 3 percent from last year, but it's hard to argue with a $7.8 billion profit.Once again, we saw deft application of the deferred revenue technique. Microsoft can book income from a sale now or later, depending on its estimates of how many customers have upgraded, or will upgrade, to Windows 8. Theearnings reportgives both numbers, with and without deferrals.If you ignore the revenue deferrals, the Windows divisionhad just under $5.9 billion in income. Include the deferrals and the adjusted figure is just under $5.3 billion, which is$518 million -- or 11 percent --higher than a year ago. That's quite an accomplishment, given the fact that PC sales in the fourth quarter of 2012 weredown 6.4 percent, year over year, according to IDC.The one hard and fast accounting rule is that Microsoft has to unwind all of its Windows 8 revenue deferrals by the end of February, when itsupgrade offers expire. There's an extra$1.1 billion in deferred incomefloating around that will show up in the Windows division's fiscal Q3 report, unless it comes up with a different accounting technique.So look for a similarly obfuscating but apparently positive report on Windows division sales next quarter.The best analysis of the numbers I've seen comes fromMatt Rosoff at CITEworld. Rosoff estimates that at least$300 million of that $518 million difference came from sales of Surface RT. Microsoft claims its volume license sales were up more than 10 percent from last year. It also says that OEM revenue "outperformed the overall x86 PC market." Considering the overall PC market was down 6.4 percent, I'd call that damning with extremely faint praise.I guess we could try to read something into the fact that Microsoft repeated its statement from three weeks ago that it's sold60 million copies of Windows 8. But the original statement was so squishy it wasn't even credible.If Windows 8 were tracking at 18 to 20 million copies per month, as Windows 7 did for most of its later lifetime, I'm sure we would've heard something about 70 million or 75 million in Win8 sales to date. But we haven't. We also haven't heard diddly about Windows RT sales.In the end, what does Microsoft's quarterly report tell us about Windows 8?Absolutely nothing -- which, I suspect, is exactly what the brass at Microsoft want.
Twitter updated embedded tweets with new features
Twitter has added some new functionalities to embedded tweets such as now tweets have more space for your content and context, embed tweet to your website etc
Tweets bring you closer to what’s happening around the world, from breaking news to global conversations. With embedded Tweets, you can see and interact with Tweets across the web. We often embed Tweets here on our blog to highlight great Tweets, photos and other content shared on Twitter; you can embed any Tweet on your website too.
Embedded Tweets display photos, videos, article summaries and other content shared in a Tweet, just like you see on twitter.com. You can also view retweet and favorite counts to better understand engagement, and we’ve made some tweaks to the design so that embedded Tweets are easier to read.
You’ll see Embedded Tweets show up faster on the sites you visit.

With updated embedded features, you can easily embed any Tweet on your own website. Just click the “More” button in any Tweet on twitter.com, and then select “Embed this Tweet” to enrich your blog posts or pages.
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How to Reset Windows 8 Password in Minutes
According to Microsoft, Windows 8 is most secure operating system ever and Microsoft also claims, it is pretty difficult to crack Windows 8, but Microsoft has forgot to fix its password reset hack that also works on earlier windows version including windows 7, windows vista, and Windows Server 2008.
To change Windows 8 user’s password, all you have to need is Windows 8 System Recovery disc or USB flash drive. This hack work with built-in troubleshooting tools, So no third-party software is required.
reboot.pro user Jamal H. Naji has discovered this windows 8 password hack,
It has been less than 2 months since the launch of Windows 8 and I recieved tons of emails from Boot-Landers /members and guests also friends and collegues asking me if there’s a way to reset a forgotten Windows 8 password the easiest way ? The answer was yes and as usual without the need for any third party software to unlock or remove or reset the user or admin account password. Here I will try to make an easy to follow tutorial that will be useful for novice users as well as professionals when they get stuck behind the logon screen of a Windows 8 because they lost or forgotten their password.
Check at below how to reset windows 8 account password:-
1- You need a Windows 8 PC to make a System Recovery Disk .
2- You need a CD Burner + Blanck CD.
3- If you have a tablet or a netbook and you don’t have a CD burner then You need a 512 MB USB thumb drive to make a System Recovery USB instead.
4- To make a system recovery CD, Go to control panel and navigate to Windows 7 File Recovery, click on that icon, and
from the next screen choose from the top left ( Create a System Recovery Disk ) and follow the on-screen instructions to make
that CD.
5- To make a System Recovery USB thumb drive go to control panel and navigate to ( Recovery ), click on that icon and from
the next screen choose ( Create a recovery drive ) and follow the instructions to make a bootable System Recovery USB.
6- When you are ready, boot the locked PC that needs to be unlocked with that CD or USB you just made, and follow the
pictures below :



7- The command prompt screen will open, type : diskpart and hit Enter key

8- Type : list vol and hit Enter key (watch for spaces)

9- locate your Windows partition letter ( in our case here the letter will be C drive)
10- Type : Exit and hit Enter key.

11- Type: c: and hit Enter key (your Windows drive maybe different so change it accordingly to the drive letter you have)

12- Type: cd windows (watch for spaces ) and hit Enter key

13- Type: cd system32 (watch for spaces) and hit Enter key

14- Type: copy cmd.exe cmd.exe.original (watch for spaces) and hit Enter key.

15- Type: copy Utilman.exe Utilman.exe.original (watch for spaces) and hit Enter key.

16- Type: del Utilman.exe (watch for spaces) and hit Enter key.

17- Type: ren cmd.exe Utilman.exe (watch for spaces) and hit Enter key.

18- Type: Shutdown -r -t 00 (watch for spaces) and hit Enter key, the PC will restart.

19 – When you reach the Logon screen click on the Ease of Access Center icon on the left bottom side of the screen.

20 – The command prompt window will open

21- Type: net user (watch for spaces) and hit Enter key.

22- Type: net user Reboot.Pro * ( replace Reboot.Pro with the name you find in your pc) and hit Enter key

23- now type the new password you want and hit Enter key( when you type the cursor will not move and you will not see what you
type, so be careful what you type, because you are typing blindly the new password)

24- confirm the new password when prompted and hit Enter key when done:

25- Type exit and hit the Enter key to close the command window.
26- Logon now to the locked account with the new password you just created.
27- After successfully unlocking your account and resetting the account password now you need to roll back the changes you
made to Utilman.exe and cmd.exe, so go ahead and boot your pc with the System Recovery CD or USB you made earlier in this
tutorial and repeat steps in # 6 so you open the command prompt window :
28- Type: c: and hit Enter key(your Windows drive maybe different so change it accordingly to the drive letter you have) [see picture below]
29- Type: cd windows (watch for spaces) and hit Enter key [see picture below]
30- Type: cd system32 (watch for spaces) and hit Enter key [see picture below]
31- Type: del Utilman.exe (watch for spaces) and hit Enter key [see picture below]
32- Type: ren Utilman.exe.original Utilman.exe (watch for spaces) and hit Enter key [see picture below]
33- Type: ren cmd.exe.original cmd.exe (watch for spaces) and hit Enter key [see picture below]
34- Type: shutdown -r -t 00 (watch for spaces) and hit Enter key to reboot your pc [see picture below]

35- Now when the pc reboots and reaches the logon screen, check to see if the Utilman is fixed and returned back to place by
clicking on its icon on the bottom left side of the screen, if the Ease of Access list pops up then you succeeded in your work.
See picture below.

PS: some of you might have a Windows 8 Installation DVD, he can use it also in this process, boot with this Windows DVD and
when you reach the first screen where you have to click next – stop there and hit SHIFT key + F 10 , the command prompt window
will pop up and you can use it as we did in steps 7 onward to the end. see picture below

[Source: Reboot.pro]
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Exciting Features of Windows 8 as Infographic
The infographic gives users a glance at the various stages of development, editions and the usage of Windows 8 on various devices. Data, statistics and details of the salient features of the OS are presented with clarity along with striking illustrations. The listing of pros and cons lets users to know what they can expect from the OS.

Infographic is designed by Dot Com Infoway – Infographic Design Services
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