As we announced a week ago, the changes coming to the iPhone 5 are minimal at best and not too many are that excited about the improvements. Announced on September 12, 2012 (launched on September 21, 2012), the iPhone 5 includes a 4-inch Retina display (still 326 PPI) with a 16:9 aspect ratio and 1136…
Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, has a new pet project that he hopes will shape the Internet of the future. His project, the “Web Index” measures and ranks over 60 countries on three broad states. These include: web readiness, such as infrastructure; web use, the quantity of web content available; and web…
Google stands by its “don’t be evil” motto and shows other corporations how it should be done. Today Google donated $20,000 to the open-source Eclipse development platform (Eclipse is an open-source programming IDE popular with Java and Android developers). Eclipse was forced to shut down their performance testing piece of Eclipse in versions 3.8 and…
Symantec has provided details on an attack system known as The Elderwood Project that appears to be sponsored by the Chinese military complex. The first instance of this attack vector occurred in 2009 when Google computers were comprised by a group using a zero-day exploit in Internet Explorer. it was determined that the group was…
Leave it to the geeks to use a little humor when detecting that a video game has been pirated. In the examples below, the game designers decided to have a little fun with the player instead.
When a disastrous earthquake hit Japan last year, one of the biggest problems citizens experienced was a shortage of electrical power. Electric grids were knocked offline and batteries, used continuously during their ordeal, quickly ran in short supply. The Japanese subsequently sought a way to generate power using renewable resources. The result? An electric LED…
Lot’s of new gear introduced by Amazon today. Amazon held an invite-only event in an airplane hanger in Santa Monica, California. Guests were treated to several product announcements, some of which could be game changers. They again stressed the tablet as a service device and not a gadget (which means Amazon makes their profits off…
Today Motorola introduced the Droid RAZR HD, Droid RAZR Maxx HD, and the Droid RAZR M at a New York City event. These impressive devices are the first new smartphones offered by the company since Google bought them out in May 2012.
Visitors to Al Jazeera’s website got a surprise overnight. Hackers replaced Al Jazeera’s home page with a message saying it was done in protest against the Doha-based television station’s coverage of the Syrian conflict. The attack lasted for several hours during which visitors were served a page with a Syrian flag and a message explaining…
Antisec (hacking group) is at it again and this time they’ve surprised us with an example of how lax the United States’ security policies have become. Antisec managed to hack an FBI agent’s Dell laptop computer. Utilizing a shell session, the hacker(s) noticed a file sitting on the FBI agent’s desktop that look interesting. They…
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