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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
(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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]