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Worldwide Mobile phone sales totalled 269.1 million units in the first quarter of 2009, a 9.4 percent decrease from the first quarter f 2008, according to gartner, Inc. Smartphone salessurpassed 36.4 million units, a 12.7 percent increase from the same period of time. There were some signs of a recovery in markets such as North America and China, but overall sales in the first quarter of 2009 registers the biggest quarter-on-quarter contraction since Gartner began monitoring the market in quarterly basis.

HTML is an upgrade to HTML specification featuring multimedia capabilities.It has been gaining rapid momentum lately, with support from companies such as Apple, Google and Microsoft. Scribd will get rid of Flash entirely and convert all documents to native HTML 5 Web pages, allowing any document to become a web page.

Clearwire and Intel have revised a technology deal that forbade the WiMax service provider from using any other technology, and Clearwire is already talking with equipment vendors about how it might adopt LTE (Long-Term-Evolution) for its Network.

Microsoft said at its MIX developer conference in March that Internet Explorer won't be offered for XP. The reason is that IE 9 is a "Modern browser", and getting the benefits of the hardware acceleration and other performance gains that it will offer requires a "modren OS".
Issue is the adoption of HTML 5, an upcoming repair of the Web's markup language that will add significant new capabilities, including standard ways to implement video, animation, audio and offline storage that are not included in the current HTML standard.
But If IE 9, which will be Microsoft's first browser to fully support HTML 5, isn't available for XP, then those users will be outside of that HTML 5 compatibility sphere.

One year after the black Hat talk Automated Teller Machine security vulnerabilities was snatched by his employer, Security researcher Barnaby Jack plans to deliver the talk and disclose a new ATM rootkit at the computer security conference.
He plans to give the idea, titled "Jackpotting Automated Teller Machine",at the Black Hat Las Vegas Conference, held in July 28 and 29.
Jack will express several ways of attacking ATM Machines, including remote and network based attacks. He will also tell a "multi-platform ATM rootkit", and will describe about how Atm industry can protect itself from such attacks. Although ATM does not have enough security, So, Jack's talk will break new ground.