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Shock, Horror! Americans Actually Like the iPhone 5c
When Apple launched its next-generation iPhone’s earlier this month, few were surprised to see the flashy flagship iPhone 5s outsell its cheaper, plastic-clad cousin the iPhone 5c. But in a shock new report from market analyst firm Localytics, it seems that American consumers at least are quickly coming round to the idea of the cheapish ...
Apple’s Hacked Off With iMessage Security Fail
Apple’s iMessage, the instant messaging service that was previously said to be unhackable by law enforcement agencies, is apparently not nearly as secure as we first thought, according to new research from the security firm Quarkslab. When the revelations over the NSA’s spying programs first surfaced this summer, Apple moved quickly to cover its tracks, ...
Lenovo Rekindles Interest In BlackBerry – Part Of It, Anyway
China’s Lenovo is believed to have rekindled its interest in buying the struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry, which despite the earlier Fairfax Financial deal, is still actively looking for buyers. However it’s not clear just what the Chinese firm might want out of BlackBerry, with the Wall Street Journal reporting that its bidding to take over ...
Windows 8.1 Lands In Windows Store Today
Twelve months after launching the heavily-criticized Windows 8, Microsoft has begun rolling out the operating system’s eagerly awaited update, officially known as Windows 8.1. As of 04:00 PST today, Windows 8.1 will be made available to download on the Windows Store, available for free for all existing Windows 8 users. The update brings a wealth ...
Yandex, Russia’s Biggest Search Engine, Offers Cocaine To Developers
Yandex, Russia’s most popular search engine, is now offering free Cocaine to developers. But before you go getting too excited, we’re (unfortunately for some) not talking class A drugs here. Despite the name, Cocaine is actually an open-source platform-as-a-service (PaaS) system that developers can use to build out their own app engines in which they ...
Music Industry Shoots Itself In Foot Over Illegal Downloads
So, perhaps the music industry should take a long hard look at itself. Always moaning about the widespread availability of illegal downloads online, and wondering why piracy continues to persist, well here’s one possible reason why that’s the case – apparently, most people don’t have the option of downloading content legally online anyway. At least, ...
How To Break Free From Google’s Latest Privacy Intrusion: “Shared Endorsements”
If you missed Google’s quiet announcement last Friday, when it posted an update to its Terms of Service related to its online ad campaigns, well, you’ll probably be in for a bit of a shock when your photo and name starts showing up in adverts scattered across the web. Under the new ToS, the search ...
Tighter BYOD Policies Needed To Fend Off Rising Mobile Malware Risk
Juniper Research published a report today that claims up to 80% of all smartphones are running without having any kind of protection against malware installed, even in spite of the growing awareness of security threats and the wide availability of mobile security software. According to Juniper’s researchers, of the 1.4 billion smarphones in the world, ...
Yahoo Mail Finally Gets Serious About Security, Adds Default SSL Encryption
Yahoo has finally, and somewhat belatedly, decided to follow in the footsteps of Google, Microsoft and Facebook, announcing that it’ll make SSL encryption the default setting for all Yahoo Mail users as of next January. The company confirmed the plan in a statement given to the Washington Post yesterday. This follows the introduction of SSL ...
US Army Building TALOS: Real-Life Ironman Armor To Give Troops “Superhuman Strength”
Wouldn’t you just love to get your hands on a high-tech armored suit that makes you nearly invincible, à la Tony Stark in the “Ironman” movie? Well, that kind of super-power might still be some way off, but the dream has gotten one step closer, so long as you happen to be in the US ...