Category: Technology

SMS Spoofing: iOS Flaw Could Hide Identity Of Text Message Sender

SMS Spoofing: iOS Flaw Could Hide Identity Of Text Message Sender

If a new report is to be believed, scam artists may have another channel to trick you into revealing important information or swindle you out of your hard-earned dough. A flaw in the iPhone software that handles text messages leaves open the possibility that a keen hacker could impersonate someone else, according to Pod2g, a French [...]

August 18, 2012 More
Consumer Groups Warn Of Higher Internet Prices As Verizon, Cable Deal Clears Hurdle

Consumer Groups Warn Of Higher Internet Prices As Verizon, Cable Deal Clears Hurdle

Consumer groups on Friday warned that a proposed deal made by Verizon and four cable companies would force consumers to pay higher prices for Internet service, a day after the agreement cleared a major regulatory hurdle. In December, Comcast, Cox, Time Warner and Bright House Networks agreed to sell Verizon a $3.6 billion portion of [...]

August 18, 2012 More
Instagram’s Photo Maps Update Expands App From Moments To Memories

Instagram’s Photo Maps Update Expands App From Moments To Memories

Instagram doesn’t just want your lovely sepia photo of a sunset. It wants to know where you took it, too. In a bid to capture more location data from its users, the latest version of Instagram’s photo-sharing app has introduced a new feature called Photo Maps, a kind of digital photo album organized according to where [...]

August 16, 2012 More
Lucy Koh, Judge In Apple Samsung Case, Says ‘It’s Time For Peace’ While Begging For Settlement

Lucy Koh, Judge In Apple Samsung Case, Says ‘It’s Time For Peace’ While Begging For Settlement

SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug 15 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge asked that the chief executives of Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd speak to each other at least once on the phone before a jury begins deliberating next week in the high-stakes patent trial between the two tech giants. “It’s time for peace,” U.S. [...]

August 16, 2012 More
Cell Phone Disruption Bill, SB1160, Approved By Senate, Heads To Brown

Cell Phone Disruption Bill, SB1160, Approved By Senate, Heads To Brown

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Legislation that would ban government agencies from disrupting cellphone service without a court order is heading to Gov. Jerry Brown. The state Senate approved SB1160 on a unanimous vote Monday. The Assembly passed the bill last week. The bill by Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla of Los Angeles came in response to the [...]

August 14, 2012 More
‘Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion’ App Stirs Controversy Among European Rabbis

‘Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion’ App Stirs Controversy Among European Rabbis

LONDON — European rabbis say they’re lobbying Apple Inc. to pull a mobile app version of the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” a notorious anti-Semitic forgery. The Conference of European Rabbis says it wants the iPhone manufacturer to stop selling an Arabic-language version of the Protocols being offered through its iTunes service. The Protocols [...]

August 14, 2012 More
Lenovo reportedly prepping Intel and ARM versions of IdeaPad Yoga transforming tablet

Lenovo reportedly prepping Intel and ARM versions of IdeaPad Yoga transforming tablet

We’ve known for a while that NVIDIA is working with Lenovo (and ASUS) on a Windows RT Tablet, butABC News believes that we might already have seen the mystery device in action. Its sources have let slip that alongside the Intel-powered Idea Pad Yoga laptop / tablet hybrid (LapLet? TabTop?), the company will release a Tegra-powered version running Windows RT, [...]

August 12, 2012 More
IBM, RIM Were Flirting With A Deal

IBM, RIM Were Flirting With A Deal

(Reuters) – International Business Machines Corp has considered buying Research In Motion’s enterprise division, Bloomberg reported On Friday, citing two unnamed sources. IBM made an informal approach for the enterprise business that operates the servers used for supporting BlackBerry email and messaging services, one of the sources said, according to Bloomberg. The report said no [...]

August 11, 2012 More
Apple, Samsung Trial Is Getting Dirty

Apple, Samsung Trial Is Getting Dirty

SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) – It was the end of a long week in court in the Apple-Samsung legal war, and Samsung attorney John Quinn was trying to block his adversary, Apple attorney Bill Lee, from showing the jury a document. As Quinn made his argument to U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh, he slipped in [...]

August 11, 2012 More
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Buys $1 Million of Facebook Stock

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Buys $1 Million of Facebook Stock

MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — Netflix Inc. CEO Reed Hastings gave his thumbs-up to Facebook by buying about $1 million worth of its stock. Hastings is a Facebook board member and the first insider at the social media company to disclose buying its stock since its initial public offering in May. Facebook’s stock has fallen [...]

August 11, 2012 More
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