Samsung Star 2 Ready to Pamper Social Media Explorer
Samsung goes optimistic towards their new flagship Samsung Star II will become a new star in the mobile world universe . South Korean vendors were bragging able to spoil the users who likes to explore social media. JK Shin, President and Head of Samsung Mobile Communications Business, said the Star II is expected to continue the success of the previous product, Samsung Star. The ‘brother’ was claimed to successfully enchant the world with sales reaching 30 million units.
Shin stated that special for Samsung Star II, Samsung had brought a full-touch device that could increase the demand of social networking services users. Quoted from Cellular News, last Wednesday. With the Samsung Star II, Samsung had strived to integrate social media capabilities, and gives users the option to stay connected with the closest people, Shin added.
Yes, Samsung Star II, can be said as a mobile social media. Because, Samsung boasted that users will be accommodated to interact cross-platform social media from their handsets. Samsung Star II or have the S5260 is the official name of the physical changes but its features are not much different from earlier versions of the Star. As decorated with 3-inch capacitive touch screen, media player, Wi-Fi, TouchWiz UI, FM radio, 3.2 megapixel camera and MicroSD slot.
That said, the design of the handset interface TouchWiz UI is similar to the appearance of an operating system made by Samsung, Bada. So the user can expect Samsung Star II interface is more attractive than its predecessor. The phone will be available in February in Germany and the Netherlands with 125 Euro price tag. After that, new possibilities will be marketed in various parts of the world such as Latin American markets, India, to Asia.
Firefox Add-On “Firesheep” Can Plough Facebook and Twitter
A new Firefox add-on lets anyone to hijack other people access to Facebook, Twitter and other social networking services via WiFi tracking. The Add-on which is called ‘Firesheep’ was released by Eric Butler, a freelance web application developer from Seattle, in the event ToorCon Security Conference, in San Diego, United States (U.S.).
Firesheep which has already been downloaded 50 thousand times since it was launched, adding a sidebar in the Firefox browser that shows anyone who is using a WiFi connection in public areas, and sites they visit. “By doing double-click on an existing one in the sidebar, you can log in as a person,” said Butler
Reported by Computer World on Tuesday, Butler said he created the Firesheep to show people the dangers of unencrypted access via a WiFi connection. “This will leave the cookies, and users certainly vulnerable being hijacked. In an open wireless network, a cookie is basically shown to the public, making this kind of attack is very easy to do,” Butler wrote in his blog. With the available cookies, the user is in the grip of his hand, a cyber criminals can do anything on that site. The sites that is comonly hijacked by Firesheep including Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, bit.ly, Google and Amazon.
Google Never Gives Up On Facebook
Google might be the ‘king of search engine, but anyhow social networking still belongs to facebook or twitter. A rumor indicates that Google still haven’t given up in social network service. The rumor was first spread by Kevin Rose (‘Digg’ founder) via twitter. Kevin Rose him self claimed that he got the news from a ‘trustable source’.
Quoted from SFWeekly on Monday, if the rumor by Rose really is true, then this will be Google’s second attempt to build a social network.
Previously Google already had a site named Orkut, Google has also tried to compete twitter with Google Buzz. But all those efforts didn’t lead any good. SFWeekly announced that Google Me is predicted as the upgrade-version toward the existing Google Profiles.
