sees strong sales of Mattel Fashion Dolls

  Sale of dolls


Mattel said sales of fashion dolls like Monster High, Disney Princess and American Girl are doing well.

The category was one of the strongest in the toy industry by new entrants such as Monster High, a line of dolls on the offspring of famous monsters helped based. It has become the doll category # 2 in only three years of existence, according to Mattel. Barbie is still No. 1

Strong sales of dolls helped to more than quadruple its quarterly results Mattel, against analysts' expectations.

Facebook Rental

Facebook grabbed another member of the original Apple iPhone team, hiring Richard Williamson, the director, who led the efforts of Apple mapping.

Williamson joined Facebook in the last two weeks, a manager within its group of mobile phone software extend these two people, who declined to be identified because the information is not public.

Williamson, who has worked at Apple for more than a decade, was responsible for the efforts put replace the Google mapping service for the iPhone and iPad. He was released after the replacement has had serious problems.

Application of Standards

Google has published detailed guidelines for software developers writing applications for glass wish to create policies connected to the Internet glasses.

The guidelines are more restrictive on glasses and other products, particularly the Android operating system for mobile phones. For starters, the developers can not sell ads in applications that collect data to use for messages, data, together with advertising agencies or distribute applications elsewhere. And they will not be able to pay people, apps or virtual goods or services to buy within them.

Security fears

The American Civil Liberties Union urged the Federal Trade Commission to investigate what he sees as a failure of U.S. wireless carriers properly built Google operating system update used on Android phones.

The ACLU said slowly fixes many smartphone users have with software updated and is therefore saddled dangerous.

Experts and government officials have said that the failure to correct known vulnerabilities give hackers possibilities of data theft or use the devices to the main attacks to start.

Emotional security

Microsoft provides increased security for messaging services, storage and others.

People who will be asked on another piece of information sent as a temporary code as an SMS on their mobile phone to the new function, in addition to their user name and password. Users can use their devices recognize the second code so they still asked over and over again.

Google and Facebook already allow two-step verification option.

Strengthen the security of working with all Microsoft accounts, such as e-mail addresses. Hotmail.com in, and Outlook.com MSN.com These accounts unlock a number of Microsoft products, including e-mail, Skype, SkyDrive storage, Xbox games, subscriptions, office software and Windows 8 machines.