LG Thrill 4G Now Available for Pre-Order at RadioShack

Although AT&T has yet to unveil the LG Thrill 4G release date, major retailer Radio Shack has just announced that is already taking pre-order for the smartphone.
While Radio Shack states that the phone's is expected to hit shelves on August 7, this has yet to be confirmed by the carrier.

However, those who wish to reserve the LG Thrill 4G are required to purchase a $50 gift card. Furthermore, it appears that the handset will sell for $79.99 on new and upgraded two-year activations, with a data plan of $15/month or higher.

Customers who wish to purchase the LG Thrill 4G without activation will have to pay $549.99 upfront.
It looks like The Shack is one of the first major retailers that has started to take pre-orders for the LG Thrill 4G, but it is likely that others might soon follow.

Also known as LG Optimus 3D, AT&T's Thrill 4G is powered by Google's Android 2.2 (Froyo), which is upgradable to Gingerbread.

Unfortunately, the Korean handset manufacturer recently announced that the Optimus 3D won't receive its Gingerbread upgrade until October.

For AT&T users of the LG Thrill 4G, this means that the Android 2.3 Gingerbread software update will be deployed even later than October 2011.

The smartphone features LG's unique 3D user interface on top of the operating system, as well as accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate, proximity sensor for auto turn-off and Gyro sensor.

Equipped with a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor clocked at 1GHz, LG Thrill 4G boasts a PowerVR SGX540 GPU (graphics processing unit).

More importantly, the phone fully supports AT&T 4G network and offers users data transfer speeds of up to 14.4 Mbps download and up to 5.76 Mbps upload.

LG Thrill 4G packs 8GB of internal memory, 512 MB of RAM, as well as microSD card slot for memory expansion (up to 32GB).

Indian National Security Guard Targeted by Hackers

The website of the Indian National Security Guard (NSG) was defaced by hackers and the email accounts of some officers were compromised.

NSG is one of India's special response units that is mainly involved in counter-terrorism activities. It is headquartered in Mehramnagar, Palam.

Following the hack, all officers at the headquarters were ordered to avoid using the Internet.

"The situation is not alarming. There was report of some damage of the NSG website following which cyber experts were called in to investigate into the matter.

"It is too early to say if there was any data theft. But the services have not been restored yet," a NSG spokesperson told Times of India.

The Indian government has been repeatedly targeted by hackers in recent weeks who acted as part of Anonymous' Operation India.

Mozilla Firefox Mobile WAP Browser – Coming soon for Mobile Phone Download

When it’s about Mobile internet browsing Opera Mini is widely used as a wap browser worldwide. Now, there is a good news for Firefox Likers. Mozilla Firefox is working hard these days to come up with their Mobile browser version. As a beta version, it is currently available for Nokia N900.

Download Firefox for mobile:

Visit Firefox.com/m on your Nokia N900

Download Firefox 1.1 beta:

Visit Firefox.com/m/beta on your Nokia N900

The version is able to encrypt all the information a user receives and sends it back through the cloud. Also it can sync with the desktop version of the browser.

Also Mozila which is considered to be the parent company of Firefox, is developing versions for Google’s Android as well as Microsoft’s Windows operating systems.

Those who have, iPhones and want to have Firefox on their desktop, they will have to wait a bit, as the company has to synchronize their desktop.

But still Opera is considered to be the most popular mobile browser at present. It is available for many mobile handsets.

Features: Firefox, a well known browser, is preparing to unveil its version for mobiles. Jay Sullivan who was in charge of the project said that the mobile version underwent various tests and would be launched by the end of the year. He also added a user would not have to sit in the evening and work on their PC, instead he would be able to walk. In case he received some urgent documents that he had to read there would be no necessity to back home and check his e-mail, as his mobile would be equipped withFirefox mobile version.

It’s built on the same engine as the desktop Firefox 3.6 and is packed full of familiar features. Watch the video to see how you’ve helped us get here and where we’re going next.