Smart Phones Help Fight Bank Fraud

A simple phone call or text message could have saved Mark Patterson nearly $350,000. The money was stolen from his company's bank account last year by cybercriminals based in Eastern Europe. Patterson discovered the fraud six days after it had begun, when the bank sent notice that a fraudulent $9,000 transfer to an account in California had failed to complete.

A startup security firm, DUO Security, hopes to offer a better way to secure banking transactions, by routing the information used to confirm a transaction through to a second device: a smart phone. The company has developed apps for a variety of smart phone platforms to create a separate channel between a bank and its customer to verify a transaction. Customers receive the details on their phone and approve transactions with a single touch.

"You push a button on your computer, you receive a notification, and you push a button on your phone, and that is it," says company cofounder Jon Oberheide. "We don't really want to overwhelm the user with options."

Patterson's company was a victim of the Zeus banking Trojan, a money-stealing software program used by cybercriminals to hijack victims' online banking sessions and pay out large amounts of money to intermediaries known as "money mules," who transfer the funds overseas. "It's been a very stressful year and a half," Patterson told attendees at the CyberCrime 2010 Symposium in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, last month.

Defenses against Zeus and other programs like it are few. Criminals routinely test the latest version of their code against antivirus software. Capturing a username and password during an online banking session is simple, which is why banking regulations no longer allow only a single factor (a password) to secure online transactions.

Because the criminals have control over the banking customer's computer, even a second factor--such as another temporary passcode--often fails. Zeus and other Trojans modify bank transactions in real time, sending funds on to money mules but displaying a page that makes it appear that the money is going to a legitimate payee. In fact, any security measure that uses the same communications channel between the PC and the bank can be corrupted by attackers who have compromised the device. DUO Security uses encryption to verify that the communication is going to and from a device that the user has registered.

Allowing the user to actually see the transaction before confirming it is key, says Avivah Litan, a fraud analyst at Gartner. "We have been advocating transaction verification for a long time," she says. "We call it 'sign what you see.'"

DUO Security is not the first to focus on the phone. Firms such as RSA, Entrust, and PhoneFactor use similar techniques for verifying transactions via a mobile phone. However, many products merely issue a passcode, an approach that is still vulnerable to Trojans. Zeus's developers are known to have circumvented the issuing of a text message passcode on Symbian and BlackBerry devices by using the Trojan to ask victims to install an app on those devices; the malicious app forwards the SMS code to the attackers, who can then complete the transaction.

DUO Security has focused on making the technology simple to integrate with banking websites, requiring the addition of only a few lines of code. Customers don't have to enter in codes, and banks don't have to run specialized hardware in their network or significantly modify their site. The company's hope is that by making it simple enough, a wider audience will adopt the technology.

"We think we can really expand where multifactor [authentication] is offered, where multifactor could be offered [to secure] your Facebook account, your Twitter account," Oberheide says. "These things might seem trivial to you, but you could have that extra protection without the headaches that traditionally go along with multifactor authentication."

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Mozilla: The Key To The Browser Is Individuality [TNW Europe]

According to Mitchell Baker, Chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation, the key to future of browser technology is making a browser unique to the person that uses it, giving control back to the user and allowing them to make the web for themselves.

Baker, speaking on stage at LeWeb 2010, is concerned by the current trend where companies are ?duplicating the Apple model?, building products and sometimes services that do not fully integrate back to the web. Speaking of Mozilla, the company wants to establish a new model where apps can integrate back to the web, with HTML5 currently able to help developers do just that.

Mozilla is already developing platforms that allow coders and designers to pull in live content from around the web, without using proprietary tools like Flash; Baker demonstrated a video showing that developers can bring in tweets, web videos and external content via a WebGL interface (embedded below).

When asked what Mozilla felt about the rise of Google?s Chrome browser and the sudden rise of Microsoft?s Internet Explorer 9 browser, Baker noted that she believed the differences in browser speeds are now minimal, speeds are barely noticeable between Firefox, Chrome and other browsers.

Baker also welcomed innovations from Google and Microsoft, acknowledging what the two companies were doing to further browser technology. She explained that Mozilla?s main aim is for a better web, not to destroy its competition, and that by innovating the browser, users are the ones set to benefit.

In the future, Mozilla hopes to create a platform that puts the user in control of their browser, not adding services like RockMelt and Flock are currently focusing on. Baker believes the user should be able to customise their own browser, whether it means removing toolbars and back/forward buttons or being able to search from a browser address bar, the browser should let a user choose which functions are most important so they don?t need to choose a specific software over another just because it has one ?killer? feature.

To do this, Mozilla wants to make its platform ubiquitous, offering the same experience across different platforms but also over different browsers. Where Google offers applications via its Chrome Web Store, Mozilla wants apps built that can work on any browser, on a mobile handset or even on the web all at the same time.

The Mozilla Foundation holds a unique position, it fights for a better web, not to push its own services or operate within its own confines. By welcoming competition, it plays a key role in pushing forward the moden-day browser.

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Confirmed: Operation Payback Facebook Page Pulled by Facebook [TNW Facebook]

The Huffington Post reported earlier that Facebook had pulled down the Operation Payback page, from All Facebook tonight comes confirmation, that Facebook did indeed officially pull it down. From an email to HuffPo from Facebook:

We take our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities seriously and react quickly to reports of inappropriate or illegal content and behavior. In this case, we removed a Page because it was promoting a DDOS attack.
The WikiLeaks Page on Facebook does not violate our policies and remains up. We haven?t received any official requests to disable it, nor any notification that the articles posted on the Page contain unlawful content.

And I think that?s probably the correct thing to do. This has nothing to do with freedom of speech (do remember, by the way, that freedom of speech is about the goverment limiting your right to speech, not a private company), it has to do with Facebook following the rules that they set down. And it?s well within Facebook?s right to do this.

Now, this does bring up the larger question of ? well why is it that we let a single point source control information like this? Twitter and Facebook both terminated accounts for Operation Payback, because Twitter and Facebook are companies that have rules they want everyone to follow.

So while Operation Payback?s methods might be controversial, I think the reaction to what they are doing underscores the need for tools like Diaspora and Status.net to be able to build social networks with only and Internet connection and a server.

Agree with the tactics or not, we do still need the tools to be able to raise awareness about important issues.

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Tax Deal Is Key to Avoid Recession, Obama Adviser Says

But Democrats in the House and Senate were still seething with anger ? both about the substance of the deal, which includes keeping the Bush-era rates even on the highest incomes, and the way they were iced out of the negotiations. It was unclear that the ominous economic forecast by the adviser, Lawrence H. Summers, would help. Senate Democrats said they were still pressing for changes to the plan, but Republicans and the White House showed no signs of flexibility.

Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who failed on Tuesday to persuade many of his old Senate colleagues to get behind the plan, met with House Democrats for more than an hour on Wednesday. Dozens of lawmakers lined up to voice their displeasure, and to ask if there was any chance of reworking the plan, especially a provision setting a generous tax emption for wealthy estates.

?There is a substantial amount of dissatisfaction with the deal that was cut,? Representative Jim McDermott, Democrat of Washington, said after the meeting. ?The Democratic caucus put itself on notice that it would not vote for tax cuts for the wealthy because we can?t afford them and because they are not needed, and that?s the point one Democrat after another is making.?

The continuing anger in Congress raised the likelihood that the tax deal would be approved largely with Republican votes. Enough Senate Democrats were expected to support the plan to surmount any filibuster. And in the House, given Republican support, it seemed possible for the tax plan to be adopted even with two-thirds or more of Democrats voting against it.

The deal would extend for two years the Bush-era tax cuts at all income levels, not just on income up to $250,000 per couple as President Obama had sought. In exchange, Republicans agreed to the administration?s demands for a 13-month continuation of jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed, a one-year reduction in the payroll tax for nearly all workers, and other steps aimed at lifting the economy.

The plan also includes an agreement to reduce the estate tax, which lapsed completely this year but is set to return on Jan. 1 with an exemption of $1 million per person and a maximum rate of 55 percent. The deal will set the exemption, or unified credit, at $5 million per estate, and the maximum rate at 35 percent ? a higher exemption and lower tax than many Democrats want.

The Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, excoriated Democrats for trying to bring up several other issues, including an immigration bill and a Pentagon policy measure that includes authorization to repeal the military?s ?don?t ask, don?t tell? ban on open service by gay men and lesbians. Mr. McConnell urged the Democrats to bring the tax plan to the floor.

?Are we here to perform or to legislate?? Mr. McConnell asked.

The majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, struggled on Wednesday to chart a path on several major items, including the tax proposal. Votes were tentatively scheduled for Thursday morning on the immigration measure, which would create a path to citizenship for certain illegal immigrants brought to the United States as young children, and on the military bill.

As attention focused mainly on the tax issue, House Democrats muscled through a stripped-down spending bill that would finance the federal government through Sept. 30 of next year, freezing the budgets of most agencies but including money for the war in Afghanistan.

The bill cuts nearly $46 billion from the president?s requested budget, and includes provisions for a two-year pay freeze for non-military federal employees.

The vote was 212 to 206, with 35 Democrats and all 171 Republicans in opposition.

With the president on the defensive with his own party, the White House marshaled an offensive that included circulating dozens of private-sector economic analyses and endorsements from public officials.

But the big gun was the economic warning from Mr. Summers, the soon-departing director of the White House National Economic Council.

?Failure to pass this bill in the next couple weeks would materially increase the risk that the economy would stall out and we would have a double-dip? recession, Mr. Summers told reporters at a briefing.

Mr. Obama, in a brief appearance with the president of Poland, rebutted a reporter?s question alluding to Congressional Democrats? sense of betrayal.

?It is inaccurate to characterize Democrats writ large as feeling ?betrayed,? ? Mr. Obama said. ?I think Democrats are looking at this bill, and you?ve already had a whole bunch of them who said this makes sense. And I think the more they look at it, the more of them are going to say this makes sense.?

The fight over the Bush-era rates would resume in the coming two years, Mr. Obama said, adding that he would make the case for ?tax reform, that we?ve got to simplify the system.?

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Quadrotor uses Kinect as an obstacle avoidance system

The number of hacks you can do with the Kinect motion controller keeps growing and the beauty of it all is that they are all unique in their own ways. Researchers from Project STARMAC and the Hybrid Systems Labs over at UC Berkeley are using the gaming accessory as a way to help an autonomous aircraft see where its going.

The Kinect is attached to a Pelican Quadrotor for lift and movement. An onboard computer links the two together to help the whole device navigate. The result is a virtual landscape, created of dotted planar models, which not only helps the aircraft see how high it is flying but also lets it detect objects that are in its flight path. In the demonstration video embedded below, the quadrotor has been pre-programmed with a flight path and is able to avoid collisions with obstacles researchers put in front of it.

"The attached Microsoft Kinect delivers a point cloud to the onboard computer via the ROS kinect driver, which uses the OpenKinect/Freenect project's driver for hardware access," reads the video's description. "A sample consensus algorithm fits a planar model to the points on the floor, and this planar model is fed into the controller as the sensed altitude. All processing is done on the on-board 1.6 GHz Intel Atom based computer, running Linux (Ubuntu 10.04). A VICON motion capture system is used to provide the other necessary degrees of freedom (lateral and yaw) and acts as a safety backup to the Kinect altitude--in case of a dropout in the altitude reading from the Kinect data, the VICON based reading is used instead. In this video however, the safety backup was not needed."

For those who just can't get enough of Kinect hacks, here's another video:

"We've taken this exciting opportunity to port our popular DaVinci experience to the Kinect platform," reads a message on the Razorfish website. "Gestures are used to create objects and control the physics of the environment. Your hands appear in the interface which allows you to literally grab objects out of thin air and move them in the environment. Additional gestures allow you to affect the gravity, magnetism and attraction."

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Smart Phones Help Fight Bank Fraud

A simple phone call or text message could have saved Mark Patterson nearly $350,000. The money was stolen from his company's bank account last year by cybercriminals based in Eastern Europe. Patterson discovered the fraud six days after it had begun, when the bank sent notice that a fraudulent $9,000 transfer to an account in California had failed to complete.

A startup security firm, DUO Security, hopes to offer a better way to secure banking transactions, by routing the information used to confirm a transaction through to a second device: a smart phone. The company has developed apps for a variety of smart phone platforms to create a separate channel between a bank and its customer to verify a transaction. Customers receive the details on their phone and approve transactions with a single touch.

"You push a button on your computer, you receive a notification, and you push a button on your phone, and that is it," says company cofounder Jon Oberheide. "We don't really want to overwhelm the user with options."

Patterson's company was a victim of the Zeus banking Trojan, a money-stealing software program used by cybercriminals to hijack victims' online banking sessions and pay out large amounts of money to intermediaries known as "money mules," who transfer the funds overseas. "It's been a very stressful year and a half," Patterson told attendees at the CyberCrime 2010 Symposium in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, last month.

Defenses against Zeus and other programs like it are few. Criminals routinely test the latest version of their code against antivirus software. Capturing a username and password during an online banking session is simple, which is why banking regulations no longer allow only a single factor (a password) to secure online transactions.

Because the criminals have control over the banking customer's computer, even a second factor--such as another temporary passcode--often fails. Zeus and other Trojans modify bank transactions in real time, sending funds on to money mules but displaying a page that makes it appear that the money is going to a legitimate payee. In fact, any security measure that uses the same communications channel between the PC and the bank can be corrupted by attackers who have compromised the device. DUO Security uses encryption to verify that the communication is going to and from a device that the user has registered.

Allowing the user to actually see the transaction before confirming it is key, says Avivah Litan, a fraud analyst at Gartner. "We have been advocating transaction verification for a long time," she says. "We call it 'sign what you see.'"

DUO Security is not the first to focus on the phone. Firms such as RSA, Entrust, and PhoneFactor use similar techniques for verifying transactions via a mobile phone. However, many products merely issue a passcode, an approach that is still vulnerable to Trojans. Zeus's developers are known to have circumvented the issuing of a text message passcode on Symbian and BlackBerry devices by using the Trojan to ask victims to install an app on those devices; the malicious app forwards the SMS code to the attackers, who can then complete the transaction.

DUO Security has focused on making the technology simple to integrate with banking websites, requiring the addition of only a few lines of code. Customers don't have to enter in codes, and banks don't have to run specialized hardware in their network or significantly modify their site. The company's hope is that by making it simple enough, a wider audience will adopt the technology.

"We think we can really expand where multifactor [authentication] is offered, where multifactor could be offered [to secure] your Facebook account, your Twitter account," Oberheide says. "These things might seem trivial to you, but you could have that extra protection without the headaches that traditionally go along with multifactor authentication."

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Justices, Minus One, Hear Challenge to Arizona Law on Hiring Immigrants

A coalition of business and civil liberties groups, supported by the Obama administration, says the law should be struck down because it conflicts with federal immigration policy.

The questioning on Wednesday suggested that the challengers face an uphill battle in trying to capture the five votes they need to prevail. Justice Elena Kagan, who had worked on the case as United States solicitor general, was disqualified, and so only eight justices heard the case.

The argument was simultaneously a policy debate and an extended exegesis of a crucial phrase in a 1986 federal law that regulates the hiring procedures.

The debate, primarily between Justices Antonin Scalia and Stephen G. Breyer, concerned dueling conceptions of the role that federal and state governments should play in enforcing immigration laws.

The question in the case was whether Arizona was entitled to supplement the penalties in the 1986 law with much tougher ones.

Justice Scalia said the state law was a necessary response to federal inaction.

?Arizona and other states are in serious trouble financially and for other reasons because of unrestrained immigration,? he said. ?I agree this step is massive, and one wouldn?t have expected it to occur under this statute. But expectations change when the federal government has simply not enforced the immigration restrictions.?

Justice Breyer, on the other hand, said the federal law had struck a careful balance between enforcing immigration laws and avoiding employment discrimination, a balance the Arizona law could undermine.

?How can you reconcile that intent to prevent discrimination against people because of their appearance or accent?? he asked. ?How do you reconcile that with Arizona?s law?

?If you are a businessman, every incentive under that law is to call close questions against hiring this person,? he said. ?Under the federal law every incentive is to look at it carefully.?

The 1986 law, the Immigration Reform and Control Act, said it overrode ?any state or local law imposing civil or criminal sanctions.?

That would ordinarily be the end of the matter under the Constitution?s supremacy clause, which makes federal law the supreme law of the land.

But the 1986 law made one exception. States could continue to regulate businesses, the law said, through ?licensing and similar laws.?

Much of the argument concerned the proper interpretation of that phrase.

Neal K. Katyal, the acting United States solicitor general, distinguished between the criteria used to issue licenses from those used to revoke them. That appeared to strike several justices as a formal and empty distinction.

?It doesn?t make much sense to me,? Justice Sonia Sotomayor said.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts repeatedly suggested, moreover, that the last three words of the phrase ?licensing and similar laws? provided Arizona with yet more leeway.

Carter G. Phillips, a lawyer for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which challenged the law along with other groups, said the very magnitude of the penalties under the state law demonstrated the conflict with the federal one.

Under the Arizona law, ?you can essentially have the death penalty to the business,? Mr. Phillips said. ?And on the other side of the scale, $250 fine.?

Justice Breyer seemed to agree. Whatever else may be said about the two laws, he said, ?we are still stuck with this enormous discrepancy in penalty.?

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg asked a lawyer for the state about ?the anomaly that Arizona cannot impose a fine even in a modest amount, but it can revoke someone?s license to do business.?

Mary R. O?Grady, Arizona?s solicitor general, said the distinction flowed from ?the structure that Congress established.?

Justice Anthony M. Kennedy?s vote would most likely have been decisive had nine justices heard the case. With an eight-member court, his vote seemed necessary but not sufficient for a victory for the challengers, and it was in any event hard to tell which way he was leaning.

He told Mr. Phillips that he saw ?no limitation on what the states can decide is a license.?

But Justice Kennedy objected to a second part of the Arizona law, this one requiring employers to use an otherwise voluntary electronic federal system meant to verify employment status known as E-Verify.

?It seems to me that?s almost a classic example of a state doing something that is inconsistent with a federal requirement,? he said.

Should the justices end up divided 4-to-4, the appeals court ruling that upheld the Arizona law would be automatically affirmed without an opinion from the Supreme Court.

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Tax Deal Is Key to Avoid Recession, Obama Adviser Says

But Democrats in the House and Senate were still seething with anger ? both about the substance of the deal, which includes keeping the Bush-era rates even on the highest incomes, and the way they were iced out of the negotiations. It was unclear that the ominous economic forecast by the adviser, Lawrence H. Summers, would help. Senate Democrats said they were still pressing for changes to the plan, but Republicans and the White House showed no signs of flexibility.

Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who failed on Tuesday to persuade many of his old Senate colleagues to get behind the plan, met with House Democrats for more than an hour on Wednesday. Dozens of lawmakers lined up to voice their displeasure, and to ask if there was any chance of reworking the plan, especially a provision setting a generous tax emption for wealthy estates.

?There is a substantial amount of dissatisfaction with the deal that was cut,? Representative Jim McDermott, Democrat of Washington, said after the meeting. ?The Democratic caucus put itself on notice that it would not vote for tax cuts for the wealthy because we can?t afford them and because they are not needed, and that?s the point one Democrat after another is making.?

The continuing anger in Congress raised the likelihood that the tax deal would be approved largely with Republican votes. Enough Senate Democrats were expected to support the plan to surmount any filibuster. And in the House, given Republican support, it seemed possible for the tax plan to be adopted even with two-thirds or more of Democrats voting against it.

The deal would extend for two years the Bush-era tax cuts at all income levels, not just on income up to $250,000 per couple as President Obama had sought. In exchange, Republicans agreed to the administration?s demands for a 13-month continuation of jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed, a one-year reduction in the payroll tax for nearly all workers, and other steps aimed at lifting the economy.

The plan also includes an agreement to reduce the estate tax, which lapsed completely this year but is set to return on Jan. 1 with an exemption of $1 million per person and a maximum rate of 55 percent. The deal will set the exemption, or unified credit, at $5 million per estate, and the maximum rate at 35 percent ? a higher exemption and lower tax than many Democrats want.

The Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, excoriated Democrats for trying to bring up several other issues, including an immigration bill and a Pentagon policy measure that includes authorization to repeal the military?s ?don?t ask, don?t tell? ban on open service by gay men and lesbians. Mr. McConnell urged the Democrats to bring the tax plan to the floor.

?Are we here to perform or to legislate?? Mr. McConnell asked.

The majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, struggled on Wednesday to chart a path on several major items, including the tax proposal. Votes were tentatively scheduled for Thursday morning on the immigration measure, which would create a path to citizenship for certain illegal immigrants brought to the United States as young children, and on the military bill.

As attention focused mainly on the tax issue, House Democrats muscled through a stripped-down spending bill that would finance the federal government through Sept. 30 of next year, freezing the budgets of most agencies but including money for the war in Afghanistan.

The bill cuts nearly $46 billion from the president?s requested budget, and includes provisions for a two-year pay freeze for non-military federal employees.

The vote was 212 to 206, with 35 Democrats and all 171 Republicans in opposition.

With the president on the defensive with his own party, the White House marshaled an offensive that included circulating dozens of private-sector economic analyses and endorsements from public officials.

But the big gun was the economic warning from Mr. Summers, the soon-departing director of the White House National Economic Council.

?Failure to pass this bill in the next couple weeks would materially increase the risk that the economy would stall out and we would have a double-dip? recession, Mr. Summers told reporters at a briefing.

Mr. Obama, in a brief appearance with the president of Poland, rebutted a reporter?s question alluding to Congressional Democrats? sense of betrayal.

?It is inaccurate to characterize Democrats writ large as feeling ?betrayed,? ? Mr. Obama said. ?I think Democrats are looking at this bill, and you?ve already had a whole bunch of them who said this makes sense. And I think the more they look at it, the more of them are going to say this makes sense.?

The fight over the Bush-era rates would resume in the coming two years, Mr. Obama said, adding that he would make the case for ?tax reform, that we?ve got to simplify the system.?

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Zuckerberg pledges to give majority of wealth to charity [TNW Facebook]

Mark Zuckerberg joined fifteen other billionaires, including Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz in signing ?The Giving Pledge?, which basically means that Zuckerberg and the others have committed publicly to giving away the majority of their fortunes at some point in their lives.

Zuckerberg right now has an estimated worth of $6.9 billion with the current valuation of Facebook, though of course that number is just really a guess at this point as to what his fortune would be if Facebook were to sell today, and could go way up and quickly (or of course, go way down theoretically).

Other billionaires that signed the pledge with Zuckerberg according to the Wall Street Journal included AOL co-founder Steve Case, investor Carl Icahn and Moskovitz. Earlier this year, Zuckerberg agreed on the Oprah Winfrey Show to give $100 million to Newark?s public schools, but that could pale in comparison to what the majority of his eventual fortune could end up being.

Great to see Zuckerberg and Moskovitz doing this, especially as both are under thirty years old.

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TI intros dual-core 1.5GHz SoC for phones, tablets

Texas Instruments has announced its new OMAP4440 system-on-a-chip, an updated version of the OMAP4430. Designed for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, the package carries a dual-core ARM Cortex A9 processor running at speeds up to 1.5GHz (OMAP4430 tops out at 1GHz), as well as two Cortex M3 cores for offloading time-critical tasks, and a graphics engine with support for 3D video.

Naturally, you don't release new hardware without boasting speed gains, and TI does precisely that. Compared to the OMAP4430, the OMAP4440 is 33% faster at loading web pages, it packs 25% more graphics power, has double the video playback performance, and offers improved video quality in low-light conditions. The OMAP4430 tops out at 720p stereoscopic 3D, while the OMAP4440 can handle full 1080p stereoscopic 3D.


The company plans to ship samples of the OMAP4440 sometime in early 2011 and mass production is expected in the second half of the year, or around the same timeframe as Samsung's Orion. Meanwhile, OMAP4430 is already in manufacturer's hands and should appear in products around the same time the 4440 starts sampling, but we're not sure what devices plan to use the chip. Feel free to speculate in the comments.

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