Apple sent out an e-mail to developers opening the doors to live push notification testing. Ars looks at push and tells you how it measures up to notifications from SMS and e-mail.
An anonymous reader writes “Technology Review has a roundup of some of the weirder ideas on show at last week’s Computer-Human Interaction conference in Boston. They include a trackball that heats up as you roll over different parts of an image, a pair of goggles that track eye movements using electrooculography, and a miniature robot with a cellphone for its head.”
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Family makes Facebook plea for girl's return
Globe and Mail The family of a missing eight-year-old girl in Southwestern Ontario is pleading with possible abductors to contact them directly on a cellphone number they posted yesterday on the social networking website Facebook. Ground search for Tori ends Toronto Star Canine teams scour riverbanks in search for missing Ontario girl CBC.ca CTV.ca – Globe and Mail – Toronto Star – Toronto Star all 560 news articles Langue : Français |
Apple has reportedly ordered 100 million units of 8 gigabit and 16 gigabit NAND flash chips, with the majority of the sizable order is expected to be applied toward the 16 gigabit (Gb) NAND, signaling that a 32 gigabyte (GB) iPhone is in the works to debut in June, said Daniel Amir, a Lazard Capital Markets analyst.
snydeq writes “Despite the productivity promises of Apple’s forthcoming 3.0 firmware update, jailbreaking should continue to push the iPhone’s productivity envelope, as users increasingly demand the Holy Grail of smartphone power use: applications that run in the background, InfoWorld reports. Copy and paste, video recording and streaming, Internet tethering, and content search are just a few of the features over which iPhone users have sought to jailbreak their devices — a practice Apple itself has done little to crack down on. Jailbreak apps circumvent hardware and software restrictions that Apple says ensure a consistent, responsive user interface and optimal battery endurance. In particular, jailbroken phones can run apps in the background, a capability Apple reserves for its own apps but prohibits in third-party programs. Jay Freeman, creator of the Cydia iPhone installer and Cydia Store, however, believes a free-market approach is the best way to satisfy power users’ demands for features without compromising the performance of their iPhones. And given Apple’s App Store overcrowding, it seems likely that jailbroken phones and app venues like Cydia Store will continue to be popular with iPhone customers and developers, even after the 3.0 firmware ships.”
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Family makes Facebook plea for girl's return
Globe and Mail The family of a missing eight-year-old girl in Southwestern Ontario is pleading with possible abductors to contact them directly on a cellphone number they posted yesterday on the social networking website Facebook. Police call off ground search for missing Ont. girl Canada.com Police call off ground search for Ontario girl CBC.ca Toronto Sun – London Free Press – The Canadian Press – CHQR all 506 news articles Langue : Français |
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Family makes Facebook plea for girl's return
Globe and Mail The family of a missing eight-year-old girl in Southwestern Ontario is pleading with possible abductors to contact them directly on a cellphone number they posted yesterday on the social networking website Facebook. Hundreds attend vigil for missing Ont. girl CTV.ca Mother pleads for return London Free Press Toronto Star – CBC.ca – Canada.com – The Canadian Press all 397 news articles Langue : Français |
“National Security Agency has access to both stand-alone systems and networks running Microsoft products”
Simmons writes with news of research that demonstrated vulnerabilities in Skype and Google Voice that would have allowed attackers to eavesdrop on calls or place unauthorized calls of their own. “The attacks on Google Voice and Skype use different techniques, but essentially they both work because neither service requires a password to access its voicemail system. For the Skype attack to work, the victim would have to be tricked into visiting a malicious Web site within 30 minutes of being logged into Skype. In the Google Voice attack (PDF), the hacker would first need to know the victim’s phone number, but Secure Science has devised a way to figure this out using Google Voice’s Short Message Service (SMS). Google patched the bugs that enabled Secure Science’s attack last week and has now added a password requirement to its voicemail system, the company said in a statement. … The Skype flaws have not yet been patched, according to James.” Reader EricTheGreen contributes related news that eBay may sell Skype back to its original founders.
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Quantos writes with word that in Sweden, in addition to a drop in traffic following the introduction of the IPRED anti-file sharing law, the country also saw a doubling of legal downloads. “The sale of music via the Internet and mobile phones has increased by 100 percent since the Swedish anti-file sharing IPRED law entered into force last week, according to digital content provider InProdicon. ‘…I don’t know if this is only because of IPRED, but it is definitely a sign of a major change,’ said managing director Klas Brännström. InProdicon provides half of the downloaded tunes in Sweden via several online and mobile music services.” Meanwhile The Pirate Bay’s anticipated VPN service has seen over 113,000 requests for beta invitations since late last month; 80% are from Sweden. Traffic numbers may begin to rise again once the service goes live.
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