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AT&T Wants To Sell Everything It Knows About You
In a glorious example of spectacular bad timing (or should we say, arrogance), AT&T has just gone and updated its privacy policy, noting that it plans to start selling its customer’s data to marketers and (we presume) anyone else who’s prepared to pay for it. AT&T assures us that all data will be anonymized and ...
Scared of PRISM, US Firms Bank on Swiss Data Centers
Switzerland has a well deserved reputation for secrecy when it comes to banking, and now its hoping to ‘cash in’ on that legacy by providing a similar refuge for something that some say is even more valuable than our money – our data. Since Ed Snowden first lifted the lid on the NSA’s PRISM data ...
“Restore the Fourth” PRISM Protest Set for Independence Day
While most of America will be celebrating with apple pies and fireworks this Independence Day, a number of high-profile web companies and activists have something else in store. Mozilla, Reddit, WordPress and others are set to join hands with the Internet Defence League and the Fight for the Future non-profit organization to stage nationwide protests ...
Android Security Flaw Puts 99% Of All Devices At Risk
A security vulnerability that could endanger up to 99% of all Android devices has been unearthed by a security firm. What with more than 900 million Android devices said to have been activated, the vulnerability ranks as one of the biggest security scares on the platform to date. The flaw was discovered by Bluebox Security, ...
Skype for Android App Vulnerability Allows Lockscreen Bypass
A security researcher has discovered a vulnerability in the Skype for Android application that could allow hackers to bypass the lockscreen function of certain Android phones, allowing them to access devices that fall into their possession. The vulnerability was disclosed by Pulser, a moderator of the XDA Developers Android forum, who wrote that he’d found ...
.NYC Gets a New Top-Level Domain
Residents of New York City will soon have access to a brand new top level domain, something that’s bound to go down well with local businesses and travel sites given the city’s rather ‘pretentious’ reputation. Recently approved by ICANN, the Internet address regulatory body, webmasters residing in the Big Apple will soon be able to ...
Samsung’s First Tizen Phone Hits a Stumbing Block
Samsung has been working behind-the-scenes on the new Tizen mobile operating system for some time, but plans to release the first smartphone running the OS seem to have hit a snag. Reports from Korea suggest that the Tizen phone’s debut has been pushed back by at least two months from its original August release date. ...
Opera’s Revamped Browser: Has the Fat Lady Sung Already?
Pioneering web browser Opera has never much of a threat to the likes of IE, Google Chrome and Firefox, instead styling itself as a niche product that appeals to a certain kind of web user. Nevertheless, throughout its 19-year history Opera has accumulated and stubbornly clung onto its 2% market share in the browser wars, ...
Big Data Goes Green: How Data Analytics Is Saving the World’s Forests
Big Data’s going mainstream and at the same time it’s rewriting the rules of forestry management. Tree farmers, logging companies, plantations and conservation groups tasked with managing forestry assets can use Big Data analytics to dig up all kinds of insights that can help them achieve their goals of sustainability. Predictive modeling is nothing new ...