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ConsumerMate.com, a 9.9 Media initiative, has continued to surprise us with its frequent addition of new services and products and i am pretty sure that you all are aware of these as i've updated everyone with my recent posts on ConsumerMate.com. And in this post i am going to focus on the Mobile Phones Category and about the value added services, the site offers to its consumers.

It gives me great pleasure in letting you all know that from now on, Consumermate provides the online store facility that allows its consumers to submit a request in the ASK US Section for a particular model and 2 to 3 vendors in the city will contact them with the best price offers for the products selected or mentioned in the message. It will help consumers in getting the best prices and deals from different vendors.

For the latest models of mobiles one can visit the Latest Mobile Phones section. This section not only offers banking options, hot deals and discounts etc., but it also helps prospective buyers zero in on a particular model that is best suited for them. One more thing to say is that you can find all models of mobiles from 1k to a whopping 1 lakh price range that include almost all brands of mobile phones.. If you are of the money savvy kind you can go for Haier mobiles which offer greater features at extremely low cost in the Haier Mobile Phone section. If a consumer is unsure of what mobile to buy, there's a Mobile Guru section that asks its user a series of multiple choice questions and suggests mobiles based on the user given options.


The site also has the LCD TV and Laptop Categories apart from the Mobile Phones Category. Interesting laptop deals can be found in the Laptop Prices in India section. Also its worthy to say that Digit Test Center, India's No.1 Research Lab provides expert reviews and ratings for all these gadgets. I hope you will find a good time buying from ConsumerMate. Good Luck!

IE flaws led to Google hack

The Chinese managed to hack Google accounts of human activists and many businesses as they took advantage of vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) browser which were previously unknown, according to reports.

Google has threatened to close its operations and offices in China after hacking and "phishing" attempts to break into gmail accounts of US, China and Europe based Chinese human rights activists.

The company, which agreed to censor of Google.cn at its launch in 2006, has also said it is "no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn."

Reports quoted security researcher McAfee Inc. as saying that IE is vulnerable on all of Microsoft's operating systems, including Windows 7.

What is now termed as 'operation Aurora', is being perceived as a quite sophisticated attack. the report added that 'phishers' fooled users into clicking on a link to a website. This website then secretly downloaded malicious software onto their computers. The spyware allowed the hackers to take remote control of the computers.

Microsoft has already admitted in its blog that IE browser might be used by hackers to remotely spy on infected computers. It is likely to unveil a software update for the browser. "We need to take all cyber attacks, not just this one, seriously," Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer told CNBC. "We have a whole team of people that responds in very real time to any report that it may have something to do with our software, which we don't know yet," he said.

Google has said that "these accounts have not been accessed through any security breach at Google, but most likely via phishing scams or malware placed on the users' computers."

We will stay in China: Microsoft

Microsoft Corp has no plans to pull out of China, its chief executive has said, playing down concerns about recent cyber-attacks and censorship raised by rival Google Inc.

The company's stance indicates the world's largest software maker is not likely to support its fierce rival in its battle with China and rebuffs broad US political backing for Google.

"There are attacks every day. I don't think there was anything unusual, so I don't understand," Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told Reuters after a meeting on modernizing government services at the White House.

"We're attacked every day from all parts of the world and I think everybody else is too. We didn't see anything out of the ordinary."

Recently, Google threatened to pull out of China - the world's biggest Internet market by users - citing censorship and cyber attacks on rights activists' email accounts there.

Google claimed more than 20 other large companies had been the target of cyber-attacks originating in China, but Microsoft has said it has no evidence any of its e-mail services or corporate networks being specifically attacked.

When asked if Microsoft had any plan to pull its business out of China, Ballmer answered "No."

"I don't understand how that helps anything. I don't understand how that helps us and I don't understand how that helps China," Ballmer said.

Microsoft has high hopes for its Bing Internet search engine in China, which has only a small share of the market, but could benefit if Google, the No. 2 player behind dominating local rival Baidu Inc, pulls out.

Ballmer's comments run counter to broad political support for Google. The White House said on Thursday it is backing Google's decision to no longer support China's censoring of searches.

A group of Republican lawmakers on Thursday called for tech heavyweights Cisco Systems Inc, Yahoo Inc and Microsoft to speak out against censorship, while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged tech companies not to assist China's attempts to prohibit free exchange of ideas.