Laptop shortage looms after flooding Thailand

Manufacturing problems can cause lack of laptops worldwide after severe flooding Thailand. This hard drive and laptop shortage has affected the price.

The price for the hard drive is jumped because of flooding in Thailand makes the lack of main components used in personal computers and a large customer that complaining about price gouging.

Drive manufacturers have raised the price of 20-40 percent and electronics international distributor Avnet silica Inc. in turn has raised the price by the same amount after water poured into the factory this month, said Senior Vice President of Avnet silica Chuck Kostalnick.

Flooding in Thailand, exporters no. 2 hard drive, has killed those who at least 377 since July and the industrial areas were destroyed in the middle of the country.

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Adobe Reader flaw Hits Windows

Adobe released this week said a flaw in an older version of Adobe Reader and Acrobat can lead to zero-day attacks, which can cause system crashes and/or hackers take over your system.

While the company says it is actively working on a patch to the previous version of the software (see for one to drop next week), he said the best thing that a user can do is to upgrade to version x for both products. While the defect is present in the second, enhanced security for the most current version will stop being instigated from the vulnerability.

So it looks like the only system that is open to attack people who haven't taken the time to download a free update. It also includes the Government contractor Lockheed Martin and the research group partners, who both reportedly targeted.

I don't know about You, but that doesn't fill me with a ton of confidence as well-know Government defense contractor will not even take the steps necessary to ensure easy and that the software up to date.

How are you? Are you guilty of being weak when it comes to third-party software updates or if You appear immediately into action after a new version coming down? Send your feedback to cpaoli@1105media.com.

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The Minister for creating App SIRI start and stop your car

Brandon Fiquett, a Minister and developers, who blogs at Fiquett.com, has created a very interesting hack using Apple's many famous SIRI App. literally can start or stop your car. It can also be luck or open your car.

Commands are given via the iPhone. SERIES of connecting to a remote start car through Viper technology system and take control of your car.

The conversation is very simple. Drive requested SERIES "starting my car." SIRI responded by saying "just a moment." while linking to your vehicle and then he says "the connection was successful" viper and trigger the vehicle ignition. Then, Fiquett is shown in the accompanying video, tells SIRI to stop the car. SIRI asked for time to connect to the vehicle, establish a connection and stopping ignition.

Originally Brandon made very basic command, is now more like conversations SERIES responds to commands like "Start my car", "my car keys", "Pop the trunk", etc. .. Fiquett wrote on his blog that he changed the words of the word the way as the goal is a proof of concept that control your car through iPhone as possible.

I can change the order of the words a little later. It's just a proof of concept. We'll see.

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Master your Smartphone with free workshops

Smartphones are able to come up with a steep learning curve. Unlike non-smartphone (aka regular phone), You need to set up your account, find a way to use a browser, download the application, control of the camera, adjust the settings and, most importantly, make a phone call.

Many phones today come with the help of the video are pre-loaded on the phone but you're sure to have questions. And even after using the phone for some time, many of us feel that there is a feature that we lost on. Verizon Wireless has seen the need for customer training and since April, more than 30,000 people nationwide have taken part in the free training them in stores and online.

I attended a workshop at Manassas 4S iPhone Verizon Wireless. The IPhone is known for its ease of use and customer-friendly interface, but even on a rainy weekday customers come up with a pre-production on their iPhone and their questions, eager to learn more.

Coach Lovelace, first, Blake reveals how she loves her iPhone and how it has become the go to person among his colleagues with questions Apple OS. Was in the forefront of agile customer questions she knows what frustrates the user and what common questions. He walked through the layout of physical class phone, explain button, microphone, and camera and show us where moisture detectors are on the phone.

He then went through a feature phone, camera, and the home screen. Class members followed suit on their own mobile phone and asked many questions. Within each function, he explains what each icon is represented, shows that the iPhone can be as simple or as complex as you want. One of the few good advice is to put a shortcut to a Web site user guide online iPhone right on the home page.

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DOJ investigating E

U.s. Department of Justice investigating anticompetitive pricing behavior of e-books, join the European Union, the head of the Agency's antitrust Division said Wednesday.

Sharis Pozen, Assistant Attorney General in charge of the antitrust Division, DOJ is not the name of the target entity's e-book of the probe, but the EU's investigation focused on Apple and the five publishers e-books. Pozen Announces investigation during testimony before Subcommittee on competition in the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee.

Pozen did not elaborate on the investigation into the e-book, but the testimony was the first time the DOJ says it is looking into e-book prices. A DOJ spokesman refused to say that Apple is the target of DOJ probes, but said the Agency worked with the European Union and the State Attorney General.

Pozen and Jon Leibowitz, Chairman of the US Federal Trade Commission, told lawmakers that the agencies they are keeping a close eye on the tech industry for possible antitrust violations.

Some members of the Subcommittee urged the DOJ and FTC to close check Google acquisition and its dominance in search of session Wednesday.

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