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The Android vs. Apple battle has officially made its way into the world of tablets.

Samsung took the wraps off its new Samsung Galaxy Tab Android tablet on Thursday. The Galaxy Tab is a 7-inch slate built to complete with the current tablet king, Apple’s thus-far-unchallenged iPad.

Sure, there have been a couple other Android tablets on the market already (see Streak, Dell), but the Galaxy Tab is the first that truly qualifies as a contender.

Samsung Galaxy Tab*According to manufacturers’ estimatesSo how exactly does Samsung’s Galaxy Tab differ from the iPad? Check out this comparison chart for a side-by-side glimpse at the two devices’ specs and see for yourself.

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“We currently have around 800 partners, which we plan to double by the end of the next calendar,” said its managing director (south Asia), Gun Suk Ling. She told media persons that the company was studying various cities in the country to set up an R&D and a call centre to cater to its customer base across south Asia.

In the last three years, Kaspersky had sold 2 million licences in India and is expecting to grow by 130 per cent in 2010. The company has Hyderabad-headquartered Zoom Technologies and Pune-based Sakri IT Solutions as its exclusive distributors. The relationship with them would continue, she said.

Stating that the Indian anti-virus market is pegged at $200 million (consumer $80 million and enterprise $120 million), Ling said the company’s current market share in the country was 15 per cent in the consumer segment and less than five per cent in the enterprise space (which also includes the government sector).

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The acquisition of Infineon’s wireless division could help Intel grow faster in the high-volume smartphone market, where the company has minimal presence. Most smartphones today carry chips designed by rival Arm, and Intel has had its eye on the smartphone market as the volume of chips for mobile devices outpaces traditional CPUs that go into PCs.

Intel earlier this year released low-power Atom chips for high-end smartphones and tablets, and next year is expected to release new Atom chips for wireless handsets that are more power efficient. Most Atom chips today go into netbooks, and Intel until now has struggled to snag customers to use Atom chips in smartphones.

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A Facebook Blog post describes the issue behind the decision “Many of you have told us that sometimes your Chat session comes and goes or even stops completely. We’re working hard to end those interruptions so that your experience is stable and consistent.”

The blog post goes on to explain “The biggest improvements come from changes that aren’t supported on older web browsers. After evaluating the alternatives, we’ve decided to make rapid improvements and provide the best Chat experience possible, which means we will no longer support Internet Explorer 6 browsers.”

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The new family of IM worms, which Kaspersky Lab named the family IM-Worm.Win32.Zeroll, uses 13 different languages, including English, German, Spanish and Portuguese, sending users in various countries messages in a language that they will understand.

IM-Worm.Win32.Zeroll has backdoor functionality, which means it can gain control of a computer without the user’s knowledge. Once it has penetrated a system, the worm contacts a remote command and control center. After receiving its instructions from the center via IRC, IM-Worm.Win32.Zeroll starts downloading other malicious programs.

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Kaspersky Lab detects new IM worms capable of spreading via almost all instant messengers

Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces the detection of a new family of computer worms that are spreading via numerous instant messaging clients. What makes the worms distinct and highly unusual for this class of program is the fact that they are multilingual and capable of infecting users via several IM clients simultaneously, including Yahoo! Messenger, Skype, Paltalk Messenger, ICQ, Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk and the XFire client for gamers.

Four variants of this worm have so far been detected by experts at Kaspersky Lab, who have named the family IM-Worm.Win32.Zeroll.  Once it penetrates a computer, it looks in the contact list of any IM client present and sends itself to all the addresses it finds. Infection occurs when a user follows what they think is a hyperlink to an interesting picture, that in fact leads to a malicious file. The link appears in an instant message sent by an infected machine.

The fact that it is multilingual also makes the new family of IM worms stand out.  IM-Worm.Win32.Zeroll uses 13 different languages, including English, German, Spanish and Portuguese, sending users in various countries messages in a language that they will understand. At the present time, Mexico, Brazil, Peru and the USA have seen the greatest numbers of infections, but many instances have also been recorded in Africa, India and European countries, particularly Spain.

IM-Worm.Win32.Zeroll has backdoor functionality, which means it can gain control of a computer without the user’s knowledge. Once it has penetrated a system, the worm contacts a remote command and control center. After receiving its instructions from the center via IRC, IM-Worm.Win32.Zeroll starts downloading other malicious programs. Interestingly, this new breed of IM worm connects to different IRC channels depending on the country and the infected application. This means a hacker controlling a network of infected computers can classify them according to country and IM client and send out different commands, which is useful, for example, when distributing targeted spam.

“It appears that the worm’s creators are currently in the early stages of their criminal activities,” said Dmitry Bestuzhev, Kaspersky Lab’s Regional Expert for Latin America. “They are infecting as many machines as they can in order to get good offers from other crooks for such things as pay per install, spam and so on.”

All Kaspersky Lab products successfully detect and neutralize the new family of IM worms.

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Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces the publication of the new IT security magazine Secureview. The non-profit quarterly edition aims to raise awareness of IT security issues among the wider public by actively targeting users in all segments of the market.

SECUREVIEW is an electronic publication that provides information about all aspects of the IT security industry.

Each issue includes:

• News to bring you right up to date with all the latest trends and exciting discoveries in the field of information security. There will be reports from recently held conferences and exhibitions, many of which will set the course for the industry’s development in the years ahead.
• Top Story which provides detailed analyses of the hottest topics in the industry, reflecting the interests of users’ right across the board.
• Analytics in which some of the world’s leading experts and journalists will share the results of their research into the field of digital safety with you, examining the burning issues of the day and providing solutions to those IT security problems so often encountered by people in the field.
• Technology covering the most interesting solutions from the last few years that we think has seriously influenced the computer security market.
• Forecasts that will appeal to a very wide audience and present the opinions of some of the industry’s leading experts regarding the future direction of IT security in the short term.
• Interview will be putting the industry’s experts in the hotseat and getting their responses to some pretty tough computer security related questions.

Check out http://www.secureviewmag.com/

The vulnerabilities, rated “critical,” affect Shockwave Player 11.5.7.609 and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh.

From Adobe’s advisory:

Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Shockwave Player 11.5.7.609 and earlier versions on the Windows and Macintosh operating systems. The vulnerabilities could allow an attacker, who successfully exploits these vulnerabilities, to run malicious code on the affected system.

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Search-engine optimisation consultant Rob Ousbey was among the first to notice that Google has been testing an instant search feature, check out the video he recorded after the jump.

According to the newspaper El Pais, on the day of the crash the ground safety system was not functioning due to unnamed infection by computer Trojans.

The Spanair plane took off from Madrid to fly to the Canary Islands on 20 August 2008, but failed to clear the runway. Of the 172 passengers and aircrew on board, only 18 survived.

Read the Google translated version of the Spanish paper over here