Apple was warned as long ago as 2010 that the popular Gowalla location-sharing iPhone app was uploading users’ address books without alerting them, Technology Review has learned. This raises questions about why Apple didn’t do then what it announced it would do yesterday. In a statement, the company said software upgrades for iPhones would be [...]
If you hadn’t heard of SOPA before, you probably have by now: Some of the internet’s most influential sites—Reddit and Wikipedia among them—are going dark to protest the much-maligned anti-piracy bill. But other than being a very bad thing, what is SOPA? And what will it mean for you if it passes? SOPA is an [...]
Visitors and residents in Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea will be able to access free WiFi on their smartphones, laptops and tablet devices this summer during the Olympics thanks to mobile network operator O2. A statement released from O2 mentioned that they will be installing Metro wireless network units to street furniture’s from this month. [...]
If you live or work in an area with marginal cell service and want to use your Android smartphone to make and receive voice calls, you can. The key is to piggyback on an Internet connection at your location using the Internet bandwidth there to carry your voice traffic. This method of calling works using [...]
The Linux community is setting the itinerary for what could become the biggest leap yet toward achieving a fully connected, software-enhanced car. Two significant events are already in motion. One is the creation of the Genivi Alliance. The other event is the first gathering of Linux movers and shakers to rally ideas and products for [...]
Facebook Inc., preparing for a potential initial public offering, plans to hire thousands of employees in the next year and add an engineering office in New York to lure technical talent. The world’s largest social-networking company, with about 3,000 workers and more than 800 million users, will open the Facebook NYC engineering office in early [...]
A network monitoring application has privacy watchdogs up in arms after a security researcher claimed that the software is capable of recording detailed phone activity and relaying it to carriers without the user even being aware that it’s present on the device. Various carriers and device makers are vehemently denying any involvement with Carrier IQ, [...]
The German drugmaker Merck KGaA has begun legal action against Facebook after discovering what its lawyer described as the “the apparent takeover of its Facebook page”. The webpage is being used by the German firm’s US rival Merck & Co. Merck KGaA said that the social network “is an important marketing device [and] the page [...]
FOREIGN hackers have broken into a water plant control system in Illinois and damaged a water pump in what may be the first reported case of a cyber-attack on a critical US computer system, according to an industry expert. On November 8, a municipal water employee in Illinois noticed problems with the city’s water pump [...]
The data breach disclosed in March by security firm RSA received worldwide attention because it highlighted the challenges that organizations face in detecting and blocking intrusions from targeted cyber attacks. The subtext of the story was that if this could happen to one of the largest and most integral security firms, what hope was there [...]
October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month — so says the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which asserts Americans have a shared responsibility in increasing the resiliency of the nation and its online infrastructure. Perhaps other federal bodies and departments should visit that website, beginning with the United States Air Force (USAF). The USAF has [...]
The “super-eruption” of a major volcanic system occurs about every 100,000 years and is considered one of the most catastrophic natural events on Earth, yet scientists have long been unsure about what triggers these violent explosions. However, a new model presented this week by researchers at Oregon State University points to a combination of temperature [...]
It is clear that for many of our members two websites would make things more difficult, so we are going to keep Netflix as one place to go for streaming and DVDs. This means no change: one website, one account, one password… in other words, no Qwikster. While the July price change was necessary, we [...]
I’m glad the issue of “cookies” has finally been challenged on a big stage. Accusing Facebook of placing cookies on your computer in order to monitor your web surfing habits is an old illegal practice which is better known as “Spyware.” ……………………………….Facebook’s latest Timeline feature could have been in the works for years or could [...]
Steven P. Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple who helped usher in the era of personal computers and then led a cultural transformation in the way music, movies and mobile communications were experienced in the digital age, died Wednesday. He was 56. The death was announced by Apple, the company Mr. Jobs and his high [...]
Today, 4 October, is new iPhone day and TechRadar is at the Apple press event to bring you all the iPhone news as it breaks. We’ve added links to our coverage below – news, opinions, initial thoughts and reviews. The event kicked off at 6pm BST and as well as clicking through the links that [...]
SAVANNAH, Ga. – It’s just before noon on a recent weekday, and the nation’s fastest-growing container shipping port is bustling with activity. Massive, 10-story-high cranes, each shaped like an upside down “U,” lift tractor-trailer-size containers onto and off cargo ships at dockside. A station checking for radioactivity in containers leaving the port clicks right along, [...]
Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst report that for the first time they have designed a much simpler method of preparing ordered magnetic materials than ever before, by coupling magnetic properties to nanostructure formation at low temperatures. The innovative process allows them to create room-temperature ferromagnetic materials that are stable for long periods more [...]
New developments announced by Facebook at its F8 Developer Conference in San Francisco on Thursday might give the social networking king new advantages over Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) as the two battle for dominance. They may also create a world of hurt for Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL). Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Timeline, which lets subscribers store [...]
In October 2010, Proton OnSite’s subsidiary SunHydro opened a hydrogen fuel station near its Wallingford, Connecticut, headquarters. The station was the first of at least nine that the company planned to build up and down the East Coast to supply hydrogen-powered fuel-cell electric vehicles. Yet SunHydro has not built a single additional station since. Despite [...]