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On infected phones, BadNews stole cash by racking up charges from sending premium rate text messages.
The malicious program lay dormant on many handsets for weeks to escape detection, said security firm Lookout which uncovered BadNews.
The malware targeted Android owners in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and other countries in eastern Europe.
The exact numbers of victims was hard to calculate, said Lookout, adding that figures from Google Play suggest that between two and nine million copies of apps booby trapped with BadNews were downloaded from the store.
In a blogpost, Lookout said that a wide variety of apps were harbouring the BadNews malware. It found the programme lurking inside recipe generators, wallpaper apps, games and pornographic programmes.
The 32 apps were available through four separate developer accounts on Play. Google has now suspended those accounts and removed all the affected apps from its online store. No official comment from Google has yet been released.
Lookout said BadNews concealed its true identity by initially acting as an "innocent, if somewhat aggressive, advertising network". In this guise it sent users news and information about other infected apps, and prompted people to install other programmes.
BadNews adopted this approach to avoid detection systems that look for suspicious behaviour and stop dodgy apps being installed, said Lookout.
This masquerade ended when apps seeded with BadNews got a prompt from one of three command and control servers, then it started pushing out and installing a more malicious programme called AlphaSMS. This steals credit by sending text messages to premium rate numbers.
Users were tricked into installing AlphaSMS as it was labelled as an essential update for either Skype or Russian social network Vkontakte.
Security firm Lookout said BadNews was included in many popular apps by innocent developers as it outwardly looked like a useful way to monetise their creations. It urged app makers to be more wary of such "third party tools" which they may include in their code.
Half of the 32 apps seeded with BadNews are Russian and the version of AlphaSMS it installed is tuned to use premium rate numbers in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia and Kazakhstan.
 

NEW DELHI: Indigenous mobile phone manufacturer Micromax is all set to launch its first 3D smartphone in next few days.

The model - likely to be named Canvas 3D A115 - runs on Android 4.1.2 (Jelly Bean). Other than the 3D feature, Canvas A115 will have hardware specs inferior to its predecessor Canvas HD.
                                                        
According to unconfirmed sources, the phone will have a 5-inch display with 800x480p resolution, 1GHz dual-core CPU and 1GB RAM. It is likely to sport an 8MP rear camera with LED flash, 2MP front camera, 4GB internal storage and microSD support.

Micromax is expected to price Canvas 3D A115 around Rs 15,000.

Speculation is rife though the phone will have 3D interface, but not 3D playback capabilities. LG Optimus 3D, priced around Rs 26,000, is currently the only phone that supports 3D playback in the Indian market.

Phones with 3D screens that have now been discontinued due to lack of an enthusiastic response include Spice View D and HTC Evo 3D.

However, Micromax seems optimistic of a good uptake of its 3D offering. The phone is one of the 30 its CEO Deepak Mehrotra had earlier announced the company will launch this year.

The vast and diverse range at low price points is part of Micromax's ambitious plans to emerge as the largest phone seller in India, ahead of Nokia and market leader Samsung.

In smartphones, Micromax has scored quite well recently with its entry-level Canvas A110 and mid-range Canvas HD A116 phablets respectively. The company is facing a severe shortage of Canvas HD and has not been able to get its supplies in order, leading to a waiting period of up to two weeks.

As the company gears up to announce the phone next week, online retailer Saholic has already listed the device on its website, though it has not listed the price of the smartphone, or when it will be available.

In January, Micromax claimed it has emerged the biggest retailer of phablets in Q4 2012 with 1.98 lakh shipments, ahead of Samsung's 1.89 lakh units in the same period.

According to market research firm IDC, Micromax was the second biggest smartphone maker in India in the last quarter of 2012. 
Source:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India, the country's second largest two-wheeler maker, has launched its new entry level Dream Neo 110 cc motorcycle in the domestic market. The Honda Dream Neo carries an introductory price tag of Rs. 43,150 (in the ex-showrooms of New Delhi), which makes it the company’s cheapest offering in the country.
                                                      
Honda’s Dream Neo bike launched at Rs. 43,150

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Friends today I am here with an exciting article on checking the earnings of any website/blog (approx. income). These websites will tell you how much traffic is expected on that particular site. So let me share you the top five website that I came across.

 

 

1. Websiteoutlook.com : This site is top in my list as it was also developed by an Indian. This site tells you about the estimate worth of website, daily pageviews and daily earnings. It will nice when you experiment the earnings of your competitors, like I do. You can see the alexa rank and its reach for audience. It also shows the host you are using, other website hosted on that webhost account. The thing that makes it best for me was the user friendly interface.
2. valuemyweb.net : I came across this site through google advert. This is also nice website you can check dmoz listing, yahoo indexed pages, google pagerank. A very simple website.
3. urlworth.com : urlworth.com is one of the simplest site to check your website’s earning. The user interface is quite simple and makes it easy to use. Also it shows google page rank, dilicious links, reddit links, stumbleupon links, and backlinks from many other sources. A new feature is that it can detect the fake page rank that admin has created to fool the visitors. Overall ratings “average”.
4. mysitecost.com : Mysitecost.com is unique in itself main feature that it displays is your monthly ads revenue, also it calculates the google backlinks, yahoo backlinks, alexa rank, DMOZ listing, alexa link. I will rate this website as average.

Today’s Google Doodle which sports a circle revolving  around axes, geometrical diagrams and mathematical equations has been put up in honour of Leonhard Euler, who has been described as a “a pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist”.
According to the entry on Wikipedia, Euler made “important discoveries in fields as diverse as infinitesimal calculus and graph theory. He also introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, particularly for mathematical analysis, such as the notion of a mathematical function. He is also renowned for his work in mechanics, fluid dynamics, optics, and astronomy.”
In other words, he was a Godfather of sorts, for the modern day geek – who as we all know, is running the world right now.
Google has special affinity for historical geeks – choosing in the past to honour people like French physicist Louis Daguerre, who created the world’s first commercially successful way of capturing permanent photographs and Nasīr al-Dīn Tūsī, who was a Persian polymath and prolific writer: an architect, astronomer, biologist, chemist, mathematician, philosopher, physician, physicist, scientist, theologian and Marja Taqleed.
Euler is widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest mathematicians to have ever lived, working in almost all areas of mathematics: geometry, infinitesimal calculus, trigonometry, algebra, and number theory, as well as continuum physics, lunar theory and other areas of physics.
Most notably according to William Dunham in his book titled Euler: the master of us all, he introduced the concept of a function and was the first to write f(x) to denote the function f applied to the argument x.
A formula he discovered while studying graph theory is acknowledged to be the origin of topology. He also helped develop the Euler–Bernoulli beam equation, which became a cornerstone of engineering.
source:http://www.firstpost.com/