Mobile Apps Take Data Without Permission
The address book in smartphones — where some of the user’s most personal data is carried — is free for app developers to take at will, often without the phone owner’s knowledge. Companies that make many of the most popular smartphone apps for Apple and Android devices — Twitter, Foursquare and Instagram among them — […]
HOW TO Widening Your WiFi Network’s Range
If you’ve followed the advice in my article, How to Improve Your Video-Streaming Clarity, and can’t use a Cat 5e or greater specification wired-solution for your network, you may be running into straightforward environmental limitations. The microwave just isn’t getting from point A to point B and back again. WiFi at 2.4 and 5 GHz […]
The Therapist May See You Anytime, Anywhere
The very idea of psychotherapy seems to defy the instant-access, video screen chatter of popular digital culture. Not for lengthy, if some scientists have their method. previously few years researchers were testing simple video-game-like systems aimed at relieving not unusual issues like nervousness and depression. these latest results were encouraging enough that investigators at the […]
DDoS attacks spread to vulnerable IPv6 Internet
The next-gen Internet, still immature, is now a pathway for Net attacks, a study finds. Also, ideology has become the primary reason for DDoS attacks. The idyllic byways of the next-era IPv6 internet now suffer an illness up to now limited to the mainstream IPv4 web: distributed denial-of-provider assaults. And worse, the still-immature IPv6 network […]
FBI seeks social media monitoring tool
In a move that’s unlikely to sit well with privacy advocates, the FBI has begun scouting for a tool that will allow it to gather and mine data from social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and blogs. The objective is to use the software to stay on most sensible of breaking occasions, incidents and emerging threats, […]
Number of mobile devices to hit 8 billion by 2016, Cisco says
All those devices will drive mobile data traffic up 18-fold, reaching 10.8 exabytes per month, or 130 exabytes a year, by 2016, according to a forecast. If there were any doubt the world is going mobile, it should be tossed out the window today. A Cisco methods’ forecast, launched these days, claims that by way […]
FCC Grudgingly Hangs Up On LightSquared Over GPS Concerns
LightSquared suffered a potentially fatal blow today after the Federal Communications Commission said it would indefinitely suspend the company’s license to turn on a combined satellite/terrestrial communications network because it would interfere with GPS systems operating on neighboring radio bands. The FCC had little choice after the National Telecommunications and Information Administration concluded there was no […]
Cracking Open Google Wallet
It turns out that stealing someone’s Google Wallet funds isn’t that much more difficult than stealing that person’s actual wallet, according to a few recently publicized exploits. I think these types of vulnerabilities threaten to kill the adoption of NFC before it is even fully born, said the Yankee Group’s Carl D. Howe. All forms […]
Mozilla’s plan for 2012: Break the ecosystem lock
Mozilla is best known as the developer of Firefox, but it’s reaching well beyond the browser with a 2012 strategy that strives to use the open Web to counteract ecosystem lock-in. Firefox embodied Mozilla’s attempt to counter the damage that Microsoft’s browser dominance caused on the internet. however now, as found out in Mozilla 2012 […]
Apple, Samsung own 95 percent of all mobile phone profits
Apple and Samsung together hoovered up more than 95 percent of mobile phone profits last quarter, leaving little left for other players, says Canaccord Genuity analyst Michael Walkley. Actually, there wasn’t a whole lot left for Samsung, either, once Apple was done with things. With strong demand for the iPhone 4S, Apple alone took home […]
Is GDrive Ready to Come Out of Its Shell?
Google may soon launch a paid cloud storage service called Drive, five years after it first came up with the idea. Google Drive will let consumers store documents, photographs and videos on Google’s servers for sharing and easy accessibility from any Web-connected device, The Wall Street Journal reported. It is expected to be free for […]
HP To Support Solaris On ProLiant Servers, Blades
Hewlett-Packard will sell and support Sun Microsystems’ Solaris on ProLiant servers at the same level it currently does with Microsoft Windows and other operating systems. The two generation companies, who compete within the server hardware trade, on Wednesday unveiled the expansion of a multiyear partnership settlement beneath which HP will distribute and provide technical enhance […]
Motorola blames hardware for slow ICS upgrades
In New York the other day, a stroller rolled onto the train tracks, passing directly in front of a man that could easily have grabbed the wayward carriage. It used to ben’t until the sound of the stroller hitting the tracks, and a swarm of alert adults ran past him that he discovered the gravity […]
Iran cuts off Internet access
Iran has cut off access to the Internet, leaving millions of people without access to e-mail and social networks. An individual inside the usa showed this morning that Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo electronic mail are not available. Ditto for facebook. up to now, the government has not made any declaration about the carrier interruption. But […]
Apple supplier Foxconn hit by hackers
Apple supplier Foxconn now has another crisis on its hands. A workforce of hackers known as Swagg safety is taking credit score for a breach of Foxconn community safety, ensuing within the theft of usernames, passwords, and different non-public data. In a sequence of Twitter posts the day past, the crowd boasted that it publicly […]
Hey Intel, lower chip prices for Windows 8 stuff, says Asia pub
Asia-based DigiTimes posted some other in a series of articles that call for Intel to lower its chips prices. in this case, for windows 8 units. that isn’t the primary time DigiTimes, which has close connections to Asia-based instrument makers, has expressed the sentiment of Taiwan’s producers (aka, OEMs and ODMs). it’s been a routine […]
Solar tower will power Las Vegas at night
SolarReserve has completed the central point of a solar project that uses molten salt storage to deliver power to the grid well after the sun has gone down. The startup company today said it has completed the 540-foot tower of the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project near Tonopah, Nev., which is expected to start delivering […]
Three years on, Chrome at last arrives on Android
Google today released a beta version of its Chrome browser for Android, a momentous step that marries two of Google’s most important programming projects. The new browser, unlike the stock Android browser, is available in the Android Market so that people don’t have to wait for handset makers to offer it through an operating system […]
How Apple cuts costs building its gadgets
On the backs of iPods, iPhones and iPads, and on the bottom of Mac laptops, an inscription reads: Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China. The portions themselves come from more than 150 corporations from various parts of the arena. the vast majority of those antennas, glass, steel, sensors and silicon are synthetic overseas. […]
A New Net
In 2003 Martìn Casado found himself with no small challenge on his hands: he needed to reinvent the technology that underpins the Internet. It had been developed decades earlier and was proving unsuited to an era of cyberwarfare. Casado, then a researcher at Lawrence Livermore nationwide Laboratory, have been approached through a usa intelligence agency […]