Newly discovered vulnerabilities in the way Android processes media files can allow attackers to compromise devices by tricking users into visiting maliciously-crafted Web pages. The vulnerabilities can lead to remote code execution on almost all devices that run Android, starting with version 1.0 of the OS released in 2008 to the latest 5.1.1, researchers from mobile security firm Zimperium said in a report scheduled to be published Thursday. The flaws are in the way Android processes the metadata of MP3 audio files and MP4 video files, and they can be exploited when the Android system or another app that relies on Android’s media libraries previews such files.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Continue reading at 'PC World'
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The new app 'Put Me in the Story,' released by publisher Sourcebooks, will allow older readers to add the name of a younger one to Sourcebook titles. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Apple has announced sales of three million units internationally for its latest tablet devices,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins is releasing 50 of its most successful picture books for tablets for the first time... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Barnes & Noble has suffered a serious security breach in 63 of its shops. Payment readers were fitted with a bug, which has harvested details of customers' credit cards. The firm discovered the breach over six weeks ago, but has kept the matter quiet at the behest of the Justice Department,... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2012-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Book retailer Barnes & Noble this morning revealed that 63 of its stores have been victims of PIN pad tampering, following an internal investigation of "every PIN pad in every store" (just under 700 locations). B&N calls the tampering, "a sophisticated criminal effort to steal credit... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2012-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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More Americans are discovering what I did, after buying the original iPad more than two years ago: Reading ebooks, magazines and newspapers on a tablet is an immersive experience and often much more satisfying than print. Today, comScore says that in August, two out of every five US tablet... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2012-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Association of American Publishers A Pennsylvania District Court judge seems to be fed up with copyright holders wasting the courts’ time and resources, ordering an adult movie studio and five anonymous alleged copyright infringers to present their respective cases to court in a bellwether... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2012-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Newspaper publishers and distributors can discover how to generate new revenue from remote newspaper production by visiting the Kodak booth at Distripress Congress 2012. The Distripress Congress 2012 takes place October 1 – 4 at the Scott ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Anobii has postponed until 2013 an affiliation scheme it devised to enable independent... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Android OS may dominate the smartphone market, but figures released by Google tell a different story on the tablet front. Stats from Google Play, Google's one-stop shop for apps, movies, books and music, show that, while normal-sized devices - ie phones - account for 86 per cent of... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon's new lineup of devices includes a Kindle Fire tablet with HD and other new features as well as a back-lit e-reader called the Kindle Paperwhite. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kobo has announced three new devices as it steps up the pressure to win market share from rival e... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Just hours ahead of Amazon's debut of a new Kindle tablet on Thursday, Kobo, the ebook company that can be thought of as "Canada's Kindle" debuted a new color Android tablet called the Kobo Arc. Kobo Arc is the company's second Android tablet, following up on the Kobo Vox which debuted around... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2012-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Oxford University Press is to put its scholarly editions online for the first time in a digital... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has swung to a loss partly due to the weakness of its publishing business, which includes newspapers like the Times and the Sun. The fourth quarter net loss was $1.6bn (£1bn) compared with a net income of $6 ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sad news for global freeloaders travellers looking to keep up with Gmail and Twitter on their Amazon e-reader. The online book seller has started closing in on excessive free web browsing, policing a 50MB data limit on its keyboard Kindle iterations. According to users on MobileRead, you'll... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2012-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Total book sales fell 2.5% in 2011, to $27.2 billion, according to the latest figures released by BookStats. Revenue was down in three of the four major segments measured by BookStats—k–12, higher education, and professional/scholarly—and up slightly in trade. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Directors of learned societies say clarity over the timing of transition to open access... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Booming digital revenues now make up almost 80 per cent of sales at Auto Trader and could hasten the end of the print version of the car-classifieds magazine in 12-18 months. Annual turnover rose only 1 per cent to £257.2m, but digital sa ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-07-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Magazines have embraced the iPad but generally dissed the Google Android OS. Google wants to change that will the opening of Magazines on Google Play. With scores of titles across many of the major publishing houses on tap for this launch, the sectio ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-06-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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