Boy Sells Kidney To Purchase iPhone & iPad
A 17 year old boy in China sold his kidney and used the money to buy an Apple iPhone and iPad . The boy was recruited from online chat room for selling kidney and paid $3500 , he is now suffering renal deficiency .
The boy , only identified by his surname Wang , agreed for the operation in central province of Hunan without his parent's consent .
The Xinhua news agency reported that the middle-man who allegedly organized the plot , was paid $35,000 to get the kidney , out of which he paid only about $3500 to the boy , and he also paid for the transplant surgery .
About 1.5 million people in China are in need of organ transplants, the report said, but only about 10,000 of the operations are performed annually.
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Flashback Trojan Infected 600,000 Mac Laptops
Flashback , which is a malware affecting Apple's Mac OS X , is now estimated to be running on 600,000 machines around the world . Russian Antivirus company Dr Web reported these numbers earlier this week, which was confirmed by Kaspersky .
Flashback Trojan turns the system into a part of a controllable botnet , The botnet is growing at a rapid rate with most of the infected systems being from US. The trojan disables the security software as soon as it is downloaded in the system . The malware first appeared last year in September disguised as Flash player installer , which when installed , disabled some key security features of system . Later version relied on java exploits to get into the computers .
Doctor Web has recommended that Mac users should install the latest Java patch released by Apple . To be more safer , some companies have advised to disable the Java plug-in in browsers if if they don't use Java-based Web applications.
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HTC To Stop Bundling Beats Headphones With Handsets
HTC , despite with their partnership with Dr. Dre's Beats , might stop bundling free Beats headphones with their handsets . HTC Product Executive Martin Fichter has suggested this in his statement . The announcement came just some days after the company confirmed that their first quarter year-on-year revenues were down by 35 Percent .
"An accessory like the headphone doesn't factor in when someone is buying a smartphone," Fichter said. "If they want a Beats headphone, they'll buy it directly."
Though , HTC will continue to incorporate Beats Audio technology in their handsets .
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Google's Tablet Now Expected In July
Google's First co-branded Android tablet is now expected in July .
TheVerge reports , because Google wanted to make the tablet cheaper than its current estimated $249 price , it plans to make some design changes , which will cause the launch to be pushed from May to July . The tablet is currently being made in partnership with Asustek , and will have a 7 inch screen and run Android 4.0 . After success of Kindle Fire priced at $ 200 , Google would target the same price segment keeping their tablet price low .
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A 17 year old boy in China sold his kidney and used the money to buy an Apple iPhone and iPad . The boy was recruited from online chat room for selling kidney and paid $3500 , he is now suffering renal deficiency .
The boy , only identified by his surname Wang , agreed for the operation in central province of Hunan without his parent's consent .
The Xinhua news agency reported that the middle-man who allegedly organized the plot , was paid $35,000 to get the kidney , out of which he paid only about $3500 to the boy , and he also paid for the transplant surgery .
About 1.5 million people in China are in need of organ transplants, the report said, but only about 10,000 of the operations are performed annually.
Source
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Flashback Trojan Infected 600,000 Mac Laptops
Flashback , which is a malware affecting Apple's Mac OS X , is now estimated to be running on 600,000 machines around the world . Russian Antivirus company Dr Web reported these numbers earlier this week, which was confirmed by Kaspersky .
Flashback Trojan turns the system into a part of a controllable botnet , The botnet is growing at a rapid rate with most of the infected systems being from US. The trojan disables the security software as soon as it is downloaded in the system . The malware first appeared last year in September disguised as Flash player installer , which when installed , disabled some key security features of system . Later version relied on java exploits to get into the computers .
Doctor Web has recommended that Mac users should install the latest Java patch released by Apple . To be more safer , some companies have advised to disable the Java plug-in in browsers if if they don't use Java-based Web applications.
Source
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HTC To Stop Bundling Beats Headphones With Handsets
HTC , despite with their partnership with Dr. Dre's Beats , might stop bundling free Beats headphones with their handsets . HTC Product Executive Martin Fichter has suggested this in his statement . The announcement came just some days after the company confirmed that their first quarter year-on-year revenues were down by 35 Percent .
"An accessory like the headphone doesn't factor in when someone is buying a smartphone," Fichter said. "If they want a Beats headphone, they'll buy it directly."
Though , HTC will continue to incorporate Beats Audio technology in their handsets .
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Google's Tablet Now Expected In July
Google's First co-branded Android tablet is now expected in July .
TheVerge reports , because Google wanted to make the tablet cheaper than its current estimated $249 price , it plans to make some design changes , which will cause the launch to be pushed from May to July . The tablet is currently being made in partnership with Asustek , and will have a 7 inch screen and run Android 4.0 . After success of Kindle Fire priced at $ 200 , Google would target the same price segment keeping their tablet price low .
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