Running in step with the growing popularity of Java among the developer community, Sleepycat Software Inc. on Wednesday announced the availability of Berkeley DB Java Edition, a Java version of its flagship open-source database.
Berkeley DB Java Edition incorporates an open-source dual-license business model and has been built to allow the non-relational database to take advantage of Javas portability, deeply integrated threading, and ease of application development benefits, said officials of the Lincoln, Mass., company.
Although Sleepycats core Berkeley DB product featured a Java interface that enabled users to write Java applications, the data management company said customers requested a pure Java implementation of the tool capable of handling memory management tasks and higher concurrency requirements that Sleepycats C-language product could not.
Berkeley DB Java Edition offers roughly the same storage services as Berkeley DB, as well as the inclusion of full source code for simplified integration and debugging. According to Mike Olson, president and CEO of Sleepycat, customers have already registered 4,000 downloads of Berkeley DB Java Edition.
The Java product starts at $40,000 with an average deal size ranging from around $100,000 to $150,000, said Sleepycat officials.
The new HTC One M8 smartphone is the same device that is already available running Android, as both AT&T and Verizon Wireless add to their Windows Phone 8.1 offerings.
AT&T and Verizon Wireless are each adding a Windows Phone 8.1 version of the HTC One M8 smartphone to their consumer device lines as they expand their Windows Phone lineups.
HTC unveiled the immediate availability of its new Windows-equipped HTC One M8 smartphone for Verizon Wireless customers in an Aug. 19 announcement, while AT&T revealed that the phone will soon be available to its customers in a separate Aug. 19 announcement.
The availability of the same phone model that gives customers the choice between two competing operating systems was highlighted by HTC as "the first time an iconic flagship device offers multiple operating systems" in its Verizon announcement.
The new Verizon phone is available immediately in stores and online for a promotional price of $99.99 with a new two-year contract for a limited time, or for $29.99 per month on the Verizon Edge plan, according to HTC. The phones are also available through Microsoft Stores with Verizon Wireless service and a special offer for a free HTC Dot View Case and screen protector for $25.
All HTC One M8 models, including the existing Android version and the new AT&T and Verizon models running Windows Phone 8.1, include a 5-inch, full 1080p HD display; a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 quad-core CPU; 2GB of RAM; 16GB or 32GB of storage; a 5-megapixel, wide-angle front-facing camera; HTC BoomSound front speakers with built-in amplifiers; and a nonremovable 2,600-mAh battery.
"Consumers love the HTC One (M8), and today's introduction extends that enthusiasm to new audiences hungry for choice in their mobile experience," said Jason Mackenzie, president of HTC Americas. "HTC fills a gap in the market for unique devices that put a premium on form and function. Microsoft shares our vision, and that's why we committed to bringing the Windows Phone platform to the HTC One (M8)."
Included in the latest Windows Phone 8.1 update is the Cortana personal digital assistant, which can help users with appointments, flight times, errands and much more.
AT&T customers can sign up to be notified when the HTC One M8 will be released and available for purchase, according to the company.
The Android version of the HTC One M8 debuted in March at events in New York and London, according to an earlier eWEEK report. The M8 is a looker, featuring a unique metal unibody that wraps around the phone's rounded corners and tapered edges, right up to its display. The metal on its predecessor, the M7, for reasons of antenna usefulness, didn't wrap up so far, leaving room for a bit of polycarbonate.
The M8 pairs Android with the sixth version of its sensor-rich, more-intuitive-than-ever Sense user interface. HTC added improvements to BlinkFeed, to make it more of a user resource; improved BoomSound, making the M8's sound 25 percent louder than the M7's; made the front camera a 5-megapixel wide-angle, for way better selfies; and, in a smartphone first, put a "Duo Camera" on the back, along with a depth sensor and a dual flash, for all together better results in low light and capabilities that have been the domain of professional cameras.
One out of every five display ads Web users viewed in June 2009 came from social networking sites. MySpace and Facebook accounted for more than 80 percent of display ads among social network sites. AT&T ranked as the top display advertiser on social networking sites in June with more than 2 billion ad impressions. What's interesting about this is that AT&T is the sole carrier of the Apple iPhone, the world's most popular smartphone. Many experts believe the market for social network ad will get even bigger once the majority of the world begins browsing the Internet from mobile devices.
One out of every five display ads Web users viewed in June 2009 came from social networking sites such as MySpace or Facebook, where more than 400 million users congregate to share information about themselves and play games online, according to new research from consultant comScore.
The study showed that social networking sites accounted for 68.9 million display ad impressions out of 326.9 million total display ad impressions, good for more than 21 percent of all display ads viewed online. Together, MySpace and Facebook accounted for more than 80 percent of display ads among social network sites.
At 250 million users, Facebook has nearly twice as many users as MySpace user base of 130 million. However, MySpace led social network ad sites with 30 million display ad impressions. Facebook followed with 26.8 million impressions.
Users spend so much time on MySpace and Facebook, as well as sites such as Tagged.com, Bebo and Hi5, that these social networks present lush, green fields for online ad opportunities at a low cost. That is why advertisers are keen on using social networks as vehicle for delivering ads, comScore Senior Vice President Jeff Hackett said in his report.
"Social media is becoming an increasingly attractive vehicle for major advertisers seeking to optimize campaign reach and frequency and smaller advertisers desiring to reach a highly targeted audience," added Hackett.
"As social networking sites innovate on their existing ad offerings, the category should continue to grow in ad volume." CPMs, or the cost per thousand ad impressions, could also increase if the sites can demonstrate a fat return on investment, he said.
Hackett found that AT&T ranked as the top display advertiser on social networking sites in June with more than 2 billion ad impressions. This accounted for 30 percent of the company's total number of display ads delivered during the month.
What's interesting about this is that AT&T is the sole carrier of the Apple iPhone, the world's most popular smartphone. Users are increasingly adopting smartphones to browse the Internet, play games and communicate with friends, family and colleagues.
The iPhone, along with the Palm Pre and gadgets from RIM and devices based on Google's Android mobile operating system, are expected to be the for the emerging mobile advertising industry. Many experts believe the market for social network ad will get even bigger once the majority of the world begins browsing the Internet from mobile devices.
In at least one instance, Amazon's cloud servers are being used to spread banking malware, according to a Kaspersky security expert.
Security researchers have long warned that cloud services were providing cyber-criminals with extensive computing resources that could be used to launch powerful and damaging cyber-attacks. A Kaspersky researcher uncovered an example of how Amazon's cloud services are being used to spread malware.
A cloud instance on Amazon Web Services had links that pointed to "financial data stealing malware," Dmitry Bestuzhev, a Kaspersky Lab expert, wrote on the Securelist blog. The malware appears fairly sophisticated, with the capability to block several security programs while stealing hardware and software information.
Kaspersky notified Amazon of the malicious links over the weekend, but a company spokesperson confirmed that as of June 6 the links were still active.
"Unfortunately after my formal complaints to Amazon, and waiting more than 12 hours, all malicious links are still on-line and active!" Bestuzhev wrote.
More and more criminals use legitimate cloud services for malicious purposes, Bestuzhev said. There have been several notable examples, such as reports that the unknown attackers who successfully compromised Sony's PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment in mid-April rented servers from Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute to launch the attack. Academic researchers have also demonstrated how attackers can easily use EC2 and AWS to brute-force passwords.
"I believe legitimate cloud services will continue to be used by criminals for different kinds of cyber-attacks," Bestuzhev said. It is very cheap to rent cloud servers, with prices ranging from three cents to $2.48 an hour.
The cloud instance hosted "a bunch of different" malicious codes, all of which were downloaded onto the victim's machine. Some programs acted as a rootkit, looking for and stopping execution of at least four different antivirus programs, including AVG, Avira's Antivir, ESET and Alwill Software's Avast applications. The rootkit also looked for and blocked a special security application called GBPluggin, which is used by a number of Brazilian financial institutions to protect online banking transactions.
Even more disconcerting, the attackers had made sure that the malware samples were protected by a legitimate anti-piracy software called The Enigma Protector. The criminals used The Enigma Protector to make it harder for security analysts to reverse-engineer the malware, Bestuzhev speculated.
The malware is capable of stealing financial information from nine Brazilian and two "international" banks, Bestuzhev said. It also steals machine information, such as the CPU, hard drive volume number and computer name, as these are the types of information being collected by some Latin American banks during the log-in process to verify and authenticate online banking customers.
It can also steal Microsoft Live Messenger credentials and digital certificates used by eTokens on the compromised machine. The stolen information can then either be emailed to the attacker's Gmail account or use a special PHP script to insert the data into a remote database, according to Kaspersky.
"Cloud providers should start thinking about better monitoring systems and expanding security teams in order to cut down on malware attacks enabled and launched from their cloud," Bestuzhev said.
The criminals behind the attack are from Brazil, according to Bestuzhev. They have several previously registered accounts on hand that were used to launch the infection.
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