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CES 2013 Innovations: Smart Forks, Android-Powered Ovens and Throwaway Tech
The first few hours of CES 2013 have dazzled us with a deluge of delicious devices so far, with dozens of new Android tablets weird and wonderful Smart TVs stealing the show so far. But while the big guns have given us plenty of tech to chew over so far, a number of smaller companies ...
Verizon & Delphi Team Up With Car Connect Remote Tracking & Controls
Delphi and Verizon have teamed up to offer a new Car Connect device that delivers a host of control and information options to car owners, allowing them to control, monitor and track their vehicles by remote. Packed into a small, black box about the size of a pack of playing cards, Car Connect seems to ...
Lenovo Storms The Show With 8 New Devices at CES 2013
Apparently whoever said that interest in the CES was on the wane forgot to inform Lenovo – the Chinese manufacturer has just unleashed a deluge of new hardware to demonstrate that the world’s largest consumer electronics show has lost none of its excitement, no matter what the detractors might say. The likes of HP, Microsoft ...
Hackers Exploit Security Lapse to Impersonate Google+
Google, Microsoft and Mozilla have all rushed to update their web browsers after it emerged that cyberthieves were exploiting a security loophole that allowed them to impersonate the Google+ social network.
French ISP Free Says “Au Revoir” To Online Ads
There’s a bit of a storm brewing in France this morning after it was revealed that one of the country’s leading ISPs quietly released a firmware update this week, throwing in an ad-blocking option and apparently switching it “on” by default. Rude Baguette says that “Free” pushed out the update on Wednesday morning but it’s ...
Fake Big Data: Deceiving Hackers With Tons of Crap
We’ve seen some interesting ideas to thwart cybercrime in our time – for example Kaspersky’s supposedly ‘unhackable’ operating system comes to mind – and most of them inevitably involve the use of super-complex algorithms, ciphers and other encryption methods. So given this technological trend, it’s a bit of a surprise to learn that a number ...
Google’s Great Escape: FTC Rules It “Isn’t Biased”
For months there was speculation that the government would come down on Google like a ton of bricks over its alleged anti-competitive practices, but instead the search engine giant scored an impressive victory, with the FTC finding it not guilty of bias in its search results. However, Google did agree to some voluntary concessions, including ...
Should Twitter IPO or Sell? Who Would Buy?
Twitter is in the news again this year, and once again there’s been mounting speculation regarding the future of the social media company and the possibility that it may launch an IPO in the next year or two. The speculation comes following a report in Forbes, which says that analyst firm Greencrest Capital now projects ...
Judge Throws Apple’s Bid to Trademark the Term “App Store” Into the Garbage
Apple has suffered a setback in one of its legion of court battles, with a judge ruling that that iPhone maker cannot bring a case against Amazon on the basis of ‘false advertising’. According to Reuters, US district Judge Phyllis Hamilton told Apple it could not proceed with its rather spurious complaint that Amazon uses ...
Microsoft Exec: Google is “Scroogling” Windows Phone
Google has been attacked yet again over its alleged anti-competitive practices, this time by a leading Microsoft executive who accuses the search giant of trying to impede the development of Windows Phone. In his blog post yesterday, Microsoft’s Vice President & Deputy General Counsel Dave Heiner argues that Google’s stance is not just hurting Microsoft, ...