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About 21.7 million people are expected to take a cruise this year, with Americans making up more than half the industry’s passenger count. But highly public “voyage disruptions”–the industry term for a nightmare cruise that garners nonstop cable TV coverage–and the reality of a mature market have cruise lines struggling to stoke new demand in the world’s largest market. Almost 52 percent of cruisers hail from the U.S., according to the Cruise Lines International Association, the industry’s trade group. The next largest cruise market, the U.K. and Ireland, supplies only 8 percent of passengers.

A big problem for cruise lines is that many people who’ve never been on a cruise vacation assume they won’t like it. Common remarks you hear from non-cruisers:

• The ships are too crowded, with long lines everywhere.
• Cruises are full of morbidly obese people.
• Do we really need more buffets in the world?
• Cruise ships are floating cesspools and pollute the environment.
• Cruises are for old people.
• Cruises are full of obnoxious teenagers.
• Who wants to be stuck on a boat for a week?

The industry is confronting “a harder core of people who have negative preconceived notions of what cruising is,” Carnival (CCL) Chief Executive Officer Arnold Donald said Thursday on a conference call with reporters.

“It’s clear to me that as an industry we have not done a good enough job effectively communicating to the public … to those who don’t know what cruising is,” Donald said. “It’s not just 3,000 people at a buffet line and super crowding.” This is one reason that cruise lines are seeing torrid growth in China, Australia, and New Zealand, which are virgin territories for the industry. Consumers there tend not to have notions of what a cruise is or should be. Moreover, the cruise industry still isn’t sure what kind of market the millennials will represent. Some of them have cruised with their parents, but many others are turned off by the notion of a passive vacation on board a ship.

In North America and Europe, “we just haven’t effectively conveyed” the cruise experience, Donald said. “And also we haven’t effectively conveyed the value of what cruising is compared to land vacations.” The people who do that best are satisfied customers, Donald said. “Getting a neighbor or a relative saying, ‘Look, it’s not what you think it is—and you’re coming with us the next time.’ And there’s nothing more powerful than that.”

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Source:www.businessweek.com/articles/carnivals

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Apple says it encrypts email attachments you receive on your iPhone or iPad -- but it doesn't, according to a security researcher.

German security expert Andreas Kurtz has discovered that anyone in possession of your Apple device might be able to access files sent to you via email, even if your phone is locked with a passcode.

 It's a major security flaw, but it's worse for people with older iPhones and iPads. It's less bad for folks with newer ones.

Since the release of the iOS 4 software in 2010, Apple has assured customers that files are guarded with an added layer of security. When you lock your phone, the email attachments in your phone are supposed to be individually locked too. Here's why: Even if hackers manage to grab your phone, hook it up to a computer and bypass the passcode that locks your entire device, they still aren't supposed to be able to read the files. Email attachment files are a jumbled mess of letters and numbers unless you unlock the whole phone.

But that's not actually happening, Kurtz found. The files aren't encrypted that way. He was able to plug an iPhone 4 into a computer, go around the passcode and see those files.

 There are several methods available to hackers allowing them to access an iPhone's files even when it is locked and protected with a passcode. In theory, those files should be encrypted -- appearing as a jumbled mess of numbers and letters. But Kurtz found that email attachments aren't, in fact, encrypted. Kurtz was able to access email attachments on a locked iPhone 4 -- just by plugging it into a computer and using some passcode-bypassing software.

Importantly, that method won't work on newer devices, because they don't allow computers to access raw files. But the software flaw is still present on new devices, such as the iPhone 5S and iPad 2. That means that if hackers figure out how to reach those files, they'll find them unencrypted.

Kurtz, the co-founder of NESO Security Labs in Heilbronn, Germany, tested for the flaw in an iPhone 4, iPhone 5s and iPad 2. He first reported the findings on his personal blog on April 23.

Kurtz said he reached out to Apple and the company told him it was already aware of the problem. But when the company issued a software update to iOS 7.1.1 and did not include a fix, Kurtz posted his findings.

"Considering the long time iOS 7 is available by now and the sensitivity of email attachments many enterprises share on their devices, I expected a near-term patch," he wrote.

Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) told CNN it plans to issue a fix in a future software update, but the company would not say when that would happen.

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Microsoft has said users of its Windows XP operating system will also get the security update it has issued to fix a flaw in the Internet Explorer browser.

It issued the update on Thursday to fix a bug that let hackers gain access and user rights to computers.

Microsoft ended support for Windows XP earlier this month, ceasing to issue bug fixes or security updates for it.

But the firm said it decided to make an exception as the flaw was discovered just days after the support ended.

"Even though Windows XP is no longer supported by Microsoft and is past the time we normally provide security updates, we've decided to provide an update for all versions of Windows XP," Adrienne Hall, general manager of Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft, said in a blog post.

"We made this exception based on the proximity to the end of support for Windows XP."

The flaw was reported earlier this week and there had been uncertainty over whether XP users would get the update when it was released.
'Tested and ready'

The flaw affected Internet Explorer (IE) versions 6 to 11 and Microsoft said it was aware of "limited, targeted attacks" to exploit it.

According to NetMarket Share, the IE versions account for more than 50% of the global web browser market.

Microsoft said that hackers could exploit the flaw by hosting a "specially crafted website" designed to exploit the vulnerability.

If users visited the website, hackers could use it to gain access to their computer and get the same rights as the machine's user.

However, hackers would have needed to convince users to view and interact with the website, and would have had "no way to force users" to view the content otherwise.

On Thursday, Microsoft said its security update fixed the flaw.

"This update is fully tested and ready for release for all affected versions of the browser," the firm said.

"The majority of customers have automatic updates enabled and will not need to take any action because protections will be downloaded and installed automatically."

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