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If you happened to catch the Oscars this past Sunday, or even if you went online after the awards ceremony took place, you might have come across one of the most epic selfies of all times. Never before has there ever been a star studded selfie, and given the fact that Samsung was a major sponsor of the ceremony, obviously it stood the most to gain from it. Captured through a Galaxy Note 3, the selfie tweeted out by talk show host Ellen DeGeneres garnered over three million retweets, breaking all previous records. Samsung is going to match the figure with a $3 million donation to two of the host’s hand picked charities.

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Samsung Oscars Selfie Retweets Matched With Equal Donation To Charities original content from Ubergizmo.

The Walt Disney Company and DISH Network Corporation have come together to issue an announcement concerning a groundbreaking, long-term, wide-ranging distribution agreement which will see DISH customers enjoy access to Disney’s robust line-up of top quality sports, news and entertainment content, whether you view it over TVs, computers, smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles and other compatible connected devices.

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Disney And Dish Arrive At A TV Distribution Deal original content from Ubergizmo.

The $7.17 billion acquisition deal of Nokia’s devices and services division still hasn’t been closed, Microsoft is having to jump through various legal and regulatory hoops before it can finally absorb the division. Even though regulators in the U.S. and the European Union found no reason to believe that this acquisition could result in an unfavorable business environment for rivals, China’s Ministry of Commerce is pushing ahead with its anti-monopoly review of the deal. Google and Samsung have now reportedly joined local vendors who are voicing their concerns against this.

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Microsoft-Nokia Deal Reportedly Draws Concerns From Rivals In China original content from Ubergizmo.

Now there’s really no shortage of instant messaging services, apart from the ones built by third party developers, major vendors such as Apple, Google and BlackBerry have their own messaging services. However since last year when word of NSA’s clandestine spying operations broke, a lot of questions have been raised about the security provided by such services. It seems that the market could do with a service that was built around security, and Tor appears to be doing just that. Documents presented at the Tor 2014 Winter Developers Meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland reveal that the folks behind one of the world’s most popular anonymity service are now working on an anonymous instant messaging service.

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Tor Building Anonymous Instant Messenger original content from Ubergizmo.

This article was written on May 02, 2007 by CyberNet.

Yesterday, Ryan pointed out a QuickTime bug that affected Java-Enabled browsers. The bug affected those using Firefox and Safari on Macs, and those using IE7 on Vista. Very few people were immune to this issue, and all it took was visiting a malicious website and the user’s computer could have been compromised.

Thankfully Apple got on the issue pretty quickly, and today they released QuickTime 7.1.6 which patches the bugs that were previously mentioned. Had it not been for the CanSec West Security Conference, this bug wouldn’t have been found, and Apple thanks Dino Dai Zovi, Tipping Point, and the Zero Day Initiative for reporting what could have caused some problems for users.

Also included with this release is support for Final Cut Studio 2, and display fixes for timecode and closed caption.

If you use QuickTime, I’d definitely take the time to download the update so that you don’t have to worry about the security of your computer being compromised.

Download QuickTime 7.1.6 here

Thanks anonymous tipster!

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