By Seth Rosenblatt The Russian government uses malware to extract sensitive information from companies and governments, not for financial gain but for intelligence gathering, according a new report by FireEye.
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Monthly Archives: October 2014
Did you miss your chance to pre-order the OnePlus One smartphone yesterday due to server fail?
Apple: Don’t Expect To See Our SIM In iPhones Any Time Soon
By Chris Mills
If you buy a new iPad from your friendly local Apple store, you might notice that you get an …
Pay for YouTube? Site considers ad-free subscriptions
By Bridget Carey YouTube looks into new ways to make money, Motorola packs a mega battery into the Droid Turbo, and Taco Bell’s new app lets you skip the line.
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We Need More Fat Phones With Killer Battery Life
By Eric Limer
Your smartphone has a terrible battery life. I can say this with confidence because it is universally true. Phones today have ludicrous screens and processors that rival the supercomputers of days gone by, but they can’t last a day. We need more thick-ass phones that make it through the weekend.
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Samsung’s Remote Wipe Could Let Hackers Hold Your Phone Ransom
By Jason Mick NIST advisory is latest clue to suggest remote administration features in consumer smartphones are a foolish feature …read more
Google X Wants to Track Cancer With Nanoparticles and Wearables
By Darren Orf
Google X, the company’s secretive arm tasked with dreaming up the future, is as you would imagine pretty ambitious. But in the area of medicine, their plans seem ripped from the pages of science fiction. Today …
Apple marketing exec predicts Apple Watch is going to be ‘huge’
By Shara Tibken Greg Joswiak, vice president of iPhone, iPod and iOS product marketing, also says the iOS 8.0.1 bug, which caused phones to lose connectivity, was because of how the operating system was delivered, not because of the software itself.
We’re Designing Apps Wrong for Huge Smartphones
As smartphones continue to …
FTC sues AT&T for limiting speeds on unlimited-data customers
By Roger Cheng AT&T says the Federal Trade Commission’s allegations are “baseless” and insists that it’s been transparent about its network management policies.