Microsoft in May, has released seven security bulletins

Microsoft Corporation in the upcoming May release Tuesday a set of patches for its software. In the upcoming set of 23 individual corporation will eliminate a bug in Windows, Office, Silverlight and Microsoft. Net. Results are expected to release seven different security bulletins. In the upcoming issue of the corporation will issue patches a little more than usual.

As usual, a complete description of the bug fixes Microsoft releases already after the corrections will be released to the users it was time to install the patch and protect their computers.

We now know that the seven security bulletins, three are marked as "critically dangerous", which is the highest rating of four-step scale of Microsoft. Another four - "important." We also know that the four fixes are designed for Windows, four for Office, one for Silverlight and one for. Net.

Nokia may sell Vertu

The Finnish company Nokia can get rid of the premium brand Vertu, to fully concentrate on their core business. This past weekend The Financial Times reported, citing unnamed sources.

The Finnish company is planning to get for Vertu around € 200 million Nokia officially does not comment on reports of a possible sale of the brand. As you know, the company is now in crisis, and its attempts to stop the decline in sales is not too successful. For example, smart mobile phone Nokia Lumia on OC-Windows can not yet show decent sales - only for the first quarter of this year, the Finnish company's loss amounted to € 929 million, whereas a year earlier the company reported a profit € 344 million

Since May last year, Nokia shares dropped in price by 60%. In conditions of growing competition from companies Apple, Samsung, HTC and other Nokia's market share has steadily decreased - in late April, research firm Strategy Analytics said that in the first quarter deliveries Samsung phones and smartphones worldwide totaled 93.5 million, or 25 % of total (368 million) of all mobile phones in the world, delivered from manufacturers to stores in the first quarter, Nokia's delivery over the first quarter of last year fell by 24% - up to 83 million, leaving a Finnish company to second place on the market proportion (22.5%). In third place with a share of 9.5% is Apple.

Users around the world have started automatically translated into Java 7

The company Oracle, which now controls the development of cross-platform application runtime Java, today announced a new distribution of the Java version 7 through the web-site Java.com. Thus, Java 7 is a standard execution environment of Java-based applications for all who choose to download the Java environment from the official site.


This is the first step in the gradual transfer of all users of Java to the new platform, so that in the next few months, all users with auto-update enabled will receive Java 7 as the execution environment by default.

Oracle has always recommends using the latest version of Java and remove older versions since only the actual assembly JRE provide access to new features, capabilities, and most importantly - the most secure version of the runtime. These recommendations are important prerequisites: in recent months and years encountered many cases of vulnerability in the Java runtime environment became loopholes for all sorts of attacks on private and corporate users.

It is worth noting that the full deployment of Java 7 across the user base began a week after the release of the fourth update to the platform Java Standard Edition (Java SE 7 Update 4) and technology JavaFX 2.1. The first in line to have updated versions of development tools Java Development Kit (JDK) and JavaFX Software Development Kit (SDK) for the environment Mac OS X, which suffered the most recent viruses that penetrate into the system through a vulnerability in older versions of Java.

Oracle is continuing to work on merging their virtual machine Java-Oracle Java HotSpot JVM and Oracle JRockit JVM into a single product. In particular, many technical innovations from Oracle JRockit found their way into recent versions of Oracle Java HotSpot 23 and the open version of the OpenJDK.

Among other things, the environment Java SE 7 Update 4 offers developers a new algorithm for automatic garbage collection in memory, called Garbage First (G1). In the meantime, an interim release of Java SE 6u32 has received a number of operational changes and new data on the standard time zones Olson 2011L.

For embedded systems, Oracle introduced regular assemblies runtime environments Java SE for Embedded 7 Update 4 and Java SE for Embedded 6 Update 32. A new release of JavaFX 2.1 includes JavaFX SDK development tools for Windows and Mac OS X. A set of components JavaFX SDK contains everything you need to create a JavaFX-enabled applications, the latest multimedia technologies, including playback of MPEG-4 container with video in the H.264/AVC format and audio format AAC (Advanced Audio Coding). Among other differences between JavaFX 2.1 is to provide technology support WebView to refer to Java methods from scripting javascript. This technology allows the transfer of the tasks of interactive web-based application server for Java-based applications without any intermediate steps.

Windows XP remains the most popular operating system

Share Windows XP operating system market is gradually reduced, but it still remains the most popular platform for PCs, according to Net Applications. The share of XP, released more than a decade ago, has decreased from 46.86% in March 2012 to 46.08% in April.

Windows 7, the most advanced to date version of the operating system from Microsoft, this month has improved its position by almost one per cent, from 37.54 in March to 38.67% in April. If we take into account the full year, we see that the "seven" is gradually catching up with his predecessor in April of 2011 kept the XP 55.84-percent stake, and Windows 7 - 26.36%.

According to analysts, XP will dominate the market for at least another couple of years. Previously, Microsoft announced that support for XP, which was published in 2001, and the office suite of Office 2003 will be completed in 2014.

Last month, Microsoft announced the end of extended support for Windows Vista and Office 2007. This means that produced and distributed for free will only critical security updates.

Hackers have demanded that the Belgian bank's 150,000 Euros

Unidentified attackers demanded that the Belgian credit institution Elantis to pay 150,000 euros to Friday, the fourth of May, otherwise promised to publish the personal information of its customers. Threats were published in the May third service Pastebin, reports Computerworld.
Hackers have noted that this amount is "pay-per-idiocy": according to them, the data is located on a server in an unencrypted form. They have received information includes customer names, their places of work, contact information and other information.

The bank Belfius, which includes Elantis, confirmed the burglary, saying about a possible leak of data 3700 customers. In this regard, the organization closed its website and appealed to law enforcement agencies of Belgium, and also alerted about the incident of its customers. Parallel investigation of the incident involved an unnamed U.S. company, the newspaper notes.

In Belfius stressed that it is not going to succumb to the threat of fraud and pay them the requested amount. The bank also noted that the hackers sent an email with the same requirements as early as Friday, April 27. At the same attackers did not specify how the money should be transferred.

After writing the hackers to communicate with the bank is no longer out. The bank plans to restore the site after checking it for security.

Mozilla stops supporting Firefox 3.6

For those who are still using Firefox 3.6, there is bad news. Mozilla officially cease support for the browser and force it to update the beginning of May to version 12 if automatic updates are turned on. It does not regret anything - browser 2010 is time to retire - current version is much faster, safer and more functional.

By the way, followed by the release of the final assembly of Mozilla Firefox 12 has already begun polishing the next version of its browser, which will be released in 6 weeks. Those interested, however, can already download a beta version of Firefox 13. 13 Firefox brings an updated interface different parts of a Web browser: processing undergone a "new tab", so the home page. With the new tab is now possible to choose the latest and most visited sites displayed as thumbnails. This functionality already exists in Opera and Chrome. There is also an opportunity to consolidate favorite sites as a button. On the home page, there were references to items such as bookmarks, history, settings, add-ons, downloads and synchronization settings - thanks to this novice would be easier to navigate in the browser.


Also in Firefox 13 enabled protocol SPDY, designed to speed up page load time (technically two previous release of Firefox supports, but now it will be included in the standard). After the release of Firefox, and Opera 13 12 most of the browsers will support SPDY.

Another standard feature is enabled will be the "tabs on demand." That is, when you close the browser with multiple tabs, and then start to recover only those that are directly displayed in the windows. Others will be open when you click on them. This is supported now, but is disabled by the standard. The beta version of Firefox 13 also brings a number of improvements in the tools for developers. To view the details, please visit Mozilla.

BlackBerry 10 prototype of disappointed investors

Research In Motion Ltd unveiled a prototype of its next 10 BlackBerry smartphone, but the market was not impressed by the fact that showed the Canadian company. This says reuters.

The prototype has no physical keyboard, unlike the classic smartphone this company, and looks like a smaller version of the tablet PlayBook, produced by Canadian company. RIM also demonstrated software tools for creating applications that will work on the gadget.

However, an analyst at BGC Partners Colin Gillis said that the presentation only reminded of how far the company has lagged behind its main competitors.

A small number of applications running on the old BlackBerry, has become one of the main reasons why RIM in recent years has sharply reduced the share of the market and continues to give it to Apple Inc and manufacturers of phones running Android from Google Inc.

"RIM has lost entirely the confidence of investors. Need something extraordinary to change this situation," - said the managing director of Northland Wealth Management David Kokfild.

To regain the former appeal, RIM essentially starts from scratch. Only some of the applications that run on a BlackBerry now, you can use the new phones.

BlackBerry 10 will be based on the new operating system, QNX, compatible with many programming languages, open source, which, according to the company, should attract developers of new programs, and independent content producers.

A recent study of analytical companies Appcelerator and IDC found that less than 16 percent of software developers "very interested" in developing applications for RIM, compared with 90 percent interest in Apple and 80 per cent - in Android.