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Due to disappointing sales and financial results of the company, HTC decided to reconstruct its business. A new department was founded, headed by Mike Woodward, whose task will be to create innovative new products and the establishment of a new global strategy for the distribution of HTC's products. The Department was established in order to prevent departures of quality employees such as CEO for Asian market, Lennard Hoornik, Vice President of Global Market Greg Fisher, head of production Kouji Kodera and vice president of global communications Jason Gordan.

Motorola has announced the launch of their new smartphone Moto X. Conference at which the device will be presented is scheduled for 1st August and will take place in New York.

Karsten Nohl, a computer security expert for the German company Security Research Labs, discovered a security flaw in the SIM cards that use older data encryption standard (DES). Karsten was able with taking advantage of this omission to acquire the 56-digit sequence that represents a digital key to a SIM card, which allows modification of the chip.

Yesterday we reported on a breach in Apple’s developer portal. This breach appears to have happened over the course of about three days and resulted in Apple pulling the entire system offline for redesign. At the time of the article (which can be found here) no one had claimed responsibility Apple had not pointed the finger at anyone. Now it seems that a Turkish security researcher is claiming responsibility for the hack, but is saying that he was only looking for bugs in the system to show Apple that the portal was leaking user data.