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Feedly, one of the leading Google Reader replacement services, announced major restructuring of its services today with a new cloud infrastructure and web interface. Posted on its official blog, Feedly unveiled what it calls "Feedly Cloud", a scalable infrastructure it says is ready to replace Google Reader. The new Feedly Cloud provides several benefits, the first of which is one-click import from Google Reader -- new users to the service can now simply pull everything over seamlessly from their Google account and start using Feedly right away. Existing users will simply have to make sure that they have the latest version of Feedly installed, and their accounts will be migrated to Feedly Cloud over the next few days. Additionally, the new service allowed Feedly to create a stand-alone web interface (found simply at cloud.feedly.com) that works in all major browsers without plugins or extensions. The transition to Feedly Cloud has another benefit, and that is the abilit

We tend to focus on the top-tier "super" phones here, but we should never forget that the important market is made of the people who don't yet have a smartphone in areas where technology is only beginning to penetrate. Labeled "emerging markets" by the media, these areas are filled with folks who might not want nor be able to afford $700 smart phones.  The folks making the phones, and the people like Qualcomm who build out the components know how important this sector is. They want people to have devices they can afford, and while it's more of a business decision than a humanitarian one, they do what is necessary to deliver products that will make an impact. We're seeing more evidence of that today from Qualcomm. In a press release they just sent out, they have announced six new variants of the Snapdragon 200 chip, ready for use in phones and other devices that won't break the bank. Complete with an Adreno 302, the new chips will offer eno

Google promoting Google Play Music when connecting to Starbucks free Wifi Logging into free Wifi at Starbucks? Now you'll be shown a free trial offer for Google Play Music All Access Starting this week, Starbucks and Google have partnered up to offer customers that connect to its free Wifi promotional deals to check out content from Google Play. For some time now Starbucks has been partnering with different companies -- most recently The Wall Street Journal -- to advertise on their free WIfi login page, offering different deals or showing promotional videos before you were able to log on. At many Starbucks locations customers will now see an advertisement (shown above) for Google Play Music All Access, promoting the features of the service and offering a click-through to a free trial.  Clicking through offers customers a full browser page where they'll see the merits of the service and give them a chance to start the same 30-day free trial that has been offered si

Linux Kernel 3.9.6 is the sixth maintenance release for Kernel 3.9 series which is now available for download for all Linux users. This new release brings some ARM fixes and sound enhancements. In this page, we will see as usual how to upgrade to this new kernel using a bash script dedicated for users of Ubuntu, Linux Mint and any other Ubuntu-based system. http://latestlinuxupdates.com/linux-kernel-3-9-6/

In recent weeks, numerous high profile organizations and financial institutions have been targets of massive service disruption attacks.  Several of these attacks are characteristically similar to attacks against top level domain name servers in 2006.  ICANN’s Security and Stability Advisory Committee published an Advisory, SAC008 [PDF, 963 KB]: Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks, shortly after the 2006 incidents.  Recommendations from that Advisory remain relevant today.  DDoS attacks commonly use IP addresses that are not allocated to the subscriber or IP addresses from reserved/private space to make it difficult to identify sources of attack traffic. This is called IP address spoofing. Access service providers or corporations should apply network ingress filtering (described in SAC004 and recommended by the Internet IAB in BCP038) to prevent spoofing. Squelching attack traffic close to its origins has the added benefit of relieving ISPs from forwarding malicious or cr