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Thursday, May 3, 2012
Target To Remove Amazon Kindles From Shelves This Spring
Having the number one e-reader and Android tablet isn't keeping Amazon from seeing its products being pulled from one of America's largest retailers.
Justin Bieber Teases 'Boyfriend' Video: Watch It Here!
Bieber is bringing 'Boyfriend' video to MTV on Thursday at 7:50 p.m., followed by a live Q&A on MTV.com!
By Jocelyn Vena
<P>The countdown is on to the premiere of <a href="http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/bieber_justin/artist.jhtml">Justin Bieber</a>'s <a href="/news/articles/1684156/justin-bieber-boyfriend-music-video-premiere-thursday.jhtml">"Boyfriend" video</a>. It's set to debut on Thursday (May 3) during "MTV First," when the pop star sits down with MTV News to premiere the sexy clip and give all the inside dish on making it.</P><P>While there's still a day until the clip premieres, a tease of it certainly does set the scene for the Director X-directed video. The sunny party clip features shots of Bieber canoodling with a brunette (who looks a bit like his real-life girlfriend, Selena Gomez), driving fast muscle cars and chilling with his pals on a rooftop parking lot.</P><P></p><div class="player-placeholder right" title="Exclusive Preview: Justin Bieber's 'Boyfriend'" id="vid:765191.id:1684316" width="415" height="255"></div><p></P><P>The video was shot in Los Angeles last month. "Boyfriend" is the lead single off Bieber's June 19 album release, <a href="/news/articles/1684292/justin-bieber-boyfriend-mike-posner-sessions.jhtml"><i>Believe.</i></a></P><P>Want to see the video in all its glory? Well, the singer will sit down with MTV News' Sway Calloway on Thursday to premiere his "Boyfriend" music video during "MTV First: Justin Bieber" live at 7:50 p.m. ET on MTV. After the video premieres on air, Bieber will chat with Sway for 30 minutes on MTV.com, opening up about the clip, as well as <i>Believe.</i> But that's not all: If you have a burning question for Bieber, you can get in on the fun by commenting below or tweeting @MTVNews with the hashtag #MTVFirst or #AskBieber.</P><P>Immediately following the premiere, the "Boyfriend" video will be available on MTV.com, so Beliebers can watch it over and over and over again.</P><P><b>Don't miss the "Boyfriend" video premiere Thursday, May 3, at 7:50 p.m. ET/PT on MTV during "MTV First: Justin Bieber," followed by a live Q&A with Justin himself on MTV.com!</b></p>
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Wednesday, May 2, 2012
The Voice Recap: Semifinal Surprises?
The remaining eight contestants on The Voice – two from each coach's team – gave what could be their final performances during Monday's semifinals.
With the season finale set for next Tuesday night, audience votes plus scores from their respective coaches will determine which four singers advance.
Blake Shelton, Christina Aguilera, Adam Levine and Cee Lo Green will have a chance to weight their hopefuls' chances tonight. Who will they favor?
From Team Blake, Erin Willett became overwhelmed with emotion after a powerful performance of David Guetta's current radio hit, "Without You."
"I just emotionally kind of got lost," a tearful Willet, who lost her father during the competition, revealed to MC Carson Daly after her performance.
"I would give anything to have a tenth of the talent that you have," said Shelton, in what may be his highest praise. "Your singing is unbelievable."
Erin Willett - "Without You" (The Voice)
Shelton, whose own father passed away in January, added: "But more than that, Erin, I'd give anything to have the strength that you have."
"I know what that song means to you," the country star added. "It means the same thing to me right now also. And you held it together."
Still, it was Blake's other semifinalist, Jermaine Paul, whom Shelton described as the "frontrunner" after a heartfelt take on Journey's "Open Arms."
"Jermaine is the guy," Shelton told his protégé. "Every time you get on stage, you separate yourself a little bit more from the rest of the pack."
Adam Levine begged to differ.He told Team Cee Lo's Juliet Simms, who closed out the night with James Brown's "It's a Man's Man's Man's World," simply "You're the one to beat."
Aguilera, on the other hand, had high praise for Team Adam's Katrina Parker. "I just encourage Adam to really look at you," she told Parker.
Her version of The Fugees' "Killing Me Softly" will guarantee that.
"I know that probably the obvious, predictable choice for Adam would be to be swayed towards [his other finalist, Tony Lucca]," she said.
"But I'm telling you, take a look at Katrina Parker because she's a star."
Aguilera, who donned a tiara for the evening for some reason, really does not favor her one-time fellow Mousketeer Lucca for some reason.
also enthusiastic about her own protégés, Chris Mann and Lindsay Pavao.
America's votes and the coaches' points will be awarded tonight, narrowing The Voice field to four. Who do you think will make the finals?
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IDC crowns Samsung the biggest phone maker by shipments for Q1 2012
Research firm IDC is reporting that Nokia has been dethroned as the world's biggest phone maker by Samsung. In the first quarter of the year, Samsung shipped 98.3 million mobile phones, with Nokia and Apple in second and third place. In the smartphone-only charts, the Korean company shipped 42.2 million of its Android and Windows Phone handsets, while Cupertino shipped 35.1 million and Nokia shipped a paltry-by-comparison 11.9 million.
Samsung, Apple and companies outside the top 5 all made big gains in the smartphone space, while Nokia, RIM and HTC all felt their numbers drop. Unsurprisingly, companies with big stakes in dumb phones suffered, with Nokia and LG losing big chunks of their market share to the big two and stalking horse ZTE, which has bested LG for fourth place. After the break, we've got the official tallies that you can pore over.
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Microsoft says raid damaged cybercrime operation
BALTIMORE (AP) ? Microsoft and the banking industry on Monday provided a detailed, behind-the-scenes account of an operation they said disrupted a major cybercrime operation that used malicious software to allegedly steal $100 million from consumers over the last five years.
A senior attorney from Microsoft's digital crimes unit, Richard Boscovich, said the company and financial industry associations used a creative legal strategy as part of a civil lawsuit that targeted a global network of computers suffering from an infection known as "Zeus." Those computers were under the remote control of a criminal group that stole personal information, financial credentials and money, according to court records. The Zeus network has not been eliminated, Boscovich said, but the action has made it much more difficult and expensive for the criminals to operate.
"This was an initial volley," according to Boscovich, who said Microsoft and the industry groups will continue to target the Zeus network.
A federal judge approved a warrant authorizing the raid in late March against computer servers at hosting centers in Illinois and Pennsylvania. Attorneys for Microsoft, the Electronic Payments Association and the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center had filed a civil lawsuit claiming the Zeus network had infected 13 million computers since 2007. Boscovich said he believes the people behind the Zeus botnets are located in Eastern Europe. He declined to be more specific because the case is ongoing.
United States marshals accompanied employees of Microsoft on the sweep, according to Boscovich, a former U.S. prosecutor. The company and the industry groups relied on existing federal laws, including the 1946 Lanham Act that covers trademark infringement and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a statute that has been used to prosecute members of the mafia and the Hells Angels motorcycle gang. Congress envisioned that civil litigants would use both laws to protect their own interests, according to Boscovich.
A federal judge in New York granted their request for what Boscovich and others described as a "takedown" of the network's command and control servers. "''The framework has always been there," he said. "The court really understood what we were trying to do."
Boscovich and two other executives ? Janet Estep of the Electronic Payments Association and Bill Nelson of the Information Sharing and Analysis Center ? discussed the Zeus raid, called Operation b71, during a presentation at a conference in Baltimore.
The Zeus network sent spam email with corporate trademarks, including Microsoft's and the Electronic Payment Association's, and a message that directed victims to download an attached file or open an attached link, according to records filed in federal court by attorneys for Microsoft and the industry groups. These so-called "phishing" emails would tell users the files or links contained important information about their finances or were software security updates that needed to be installed as soon as possible.
About three and half million infected computers are now being directed to Microsoft instead of the Zeus command and control servers, Boscovich said.
Estep said a visible measure of Operation b71's impact is a significant reduction in spam blamed on the payment association or using the organization's logo. Prior to the raid, nearly 11.5 million of these emails were being sent each week to unsuspecting users and that number has dropped to about 1 million, she said.
Operation b71 shows how the private sector is not waiting for U.S. lawmakers to create a system for giving the private sector access to sensitive information gathered by U.S. intelligence agencies about threats in cyberspace. The House on Thursday passed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act despite a White House veto threat over concerns the bill fails to protect privacy rights.
In the Senate, a coalition of Democrats and Republicans prefer a bill by Sens. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, that would give the Homeland Security Department the primary role in overseeing domestic cybersecurity and the authority to set security standards. The House bill does not give Homeland Security that authority. The White House favors the Senate measure.
Greg Garcia, a former assistant secretary for cybersecurity and communications at the Homeland Security Department and the moderator of Monday's discussion, said a framework for exchanging cyberthreat data would create even more opportunities for cases against cybercriminals.
"There are very many instances of cyberthreats out in the wild that the government and the intelligence community know the specifics about," Garcia said.
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Baby on the Way for A.J. McLean
"Because we love you all so much, we wanted to share with you all, for the first time, something very special," McLean says. "We're having a baby!" 
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