Two of Japan's biggest laptop makers announce new netbook PCs. Toshiba jumps to a more spacious 10-inch screen in its new netbook, the NB200, which is based on the N280 version of Intel's Atom chip. Fujitsu enters the netbook market with the Loox M. Fujitsu has sold netbooks before but this is the first model that the company designed itself.
Nvidia’s Tegra 4i processor, the first of its chips with integrated support for LTE cellular data, is on course to appear in products early next year, the company’s CEO said Thursday.
The Tegra 4i is smaller than the current Tegra 4 and aimed at mainstream, midmarket phones. Despite its integrated LTE modem, it’s not as powerful as the Tegra 4, which is aimed at high-end phones and devices such as tablets and gaming handhelds.
“We are excited about that,” he said of the AT&T certification. Nvidia expects the first products with the chip to be announced in the first quarter of 2014 and to ship sometime in the second quarter.
However, he left the door open to confusion by adding that the rollout “will likely be global, but not U.S.”
“You really need to have CDMA in the U.S. to be successful, so we’re not targeting the U.S. with respect to phones,” Huang said. “We’re targeting outside of the U.S.”
AT&T’s network isn’t based on CDMA, so it could still offer phones or tablets running the new chip. Huang may have meant the impact of Tegra 4i phones will be limited in the U.S. because of their incompatibility with the networks of Verizon and Sprint.
He didn’t give a detailed timeframe for the devices, but it’s likely some will be unveiled at January’s International CES in Las Vegas or February’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Tegra is an important part of Nvidia’s product line-up and is playing an instrumental role in helping the company expand into new business areas. Chief among these is automotive, which already accounts for about a quarter of Nvidia’s Tegra business, said Huang.
During the quarter from August to October, the company’s Tegra business more than doubled from the previous quarter thanks to demand for the Tegra 4.
The chip was used in 15 mobile devices, including Nvidia’s own Shield gaming handheld and Microsoft’s Surface RT tablet.
“We have to create devices that enable great gaming on Android to happen,” he said. “Our investments are modest, our expectations are modest and our distribution is modest. We’re going to let the market tell us how they like it, and we’ll take it from there.”
Trojan horse malware that provides its owners with bank details and other personal information has been discovered targeting Australian Internet Explorer users
Trojan horse malware that provides its owners with credit card numbers, bank details, and other personal information has been discovered targeting Australian Internet Explorer users.
The Trojan was exposed last month by US-based anti-exploit development firm, Exploit Prevention Labs (XPL). However, according to Australian-born Roger Thompson, the company's Chief Technical Officer, it has been known among the whitehat community since April this year.
This process happens so quickly that it is virtually unnoticeable, Thompson said, adding that some versions of the Trojan also force-download a rootkit which makes it invisible to Internet Explorer's add-on manager.
"It's very, very hard to tell if you've been infected," he said. "If your antivirus program can see it, that's fine. But if it doesn't, then you won't know it's there."
Although it is impossible to determine the exact number of affected users, Thompson expects there to be thousands of Australian computers at risk. XPL researchers have confirmed that accounts at nearly every Australian bank were affected.
The Trojan was found to have been exploiting the Internet Explorer MDAC vulnerability through the Russian-developed WebAttacker script, which XPL has found to be the most prevalent Internet-borne exploit generator. While a patch for the MDAC vulnerability was released by Microsoft in April, Thompson said, many Internet Explorer users remain susceptible because not all users apply patches.
"A lot of work computers don't get patched, because when you patch, a lot of other things can get broken," he said. "A lot of companies don't like patching because of this, and because they think they are safe behind a firewall."
"But browsers are authorized to get past firewalls; that's how they access the Internet," he explained. "And once you're authorized, consumer firewalls don't have enough resolution to distinguish between evil Web sites and clean Web sites."