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All of Apple's new small stuff: iPad Mini and a slimmer iMac
October 23, 2012
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As promised Apple has announced a lot of things that revolve around the word little, including a littler new MacBook pro with Retina display, a very svelte iMac, an iPad Mini and an updated Mac Mini. Here we go: iPad Mini The rumorers didn't disappoint, Apple has announced the iPad ...
There are 41 very unsafe Android apps out there
October 22, 2012
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Researchers have identified 41 apps from Google's Play store that could expose bank information and leak email and Facebook passwords, among other things. Though the programs had both secure sockets layer (SSL) and transport layer security (TLS) protocols—the two main ways most Internet things are encrypted—using standard hacks, the computer ...
Amazon's Elastic Cloud Compute service snaps
October 22, 2012
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Earlier today a bunch of sites, including the front page of the Internet itself, weren't working because Amazon's Elastic Cloud Compute service, or EC2, which hosts many websites sites, was down. As Beta Beat's Jessica Roy notes, when Internetters went to Reddit.com they got the pleasant (but also horrifying) message ...
Can data be green enough?
October 22, 2012
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Apple has broken ground on a new data center in Prineville, Oregon, which will be "green," meaning what exactly? The company hasn't said yet, for this particular facility. All we know is that the plans show two 500,000 square feet centers with what are called "data halls." Other than that ...
Apple fired its resident iPhone hacker for not answering an email
October 19, 2012
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After a little over a year of working in the belly of the Apple beast, the infamous wunderkind iPhone hacker known as Comex, a.k.a. Nicholas Allegra, is "no longer associated with Apple," he announced on his Twitter last night. The reason: "(As for why? Because I forgot to reply to ...
This is Google's vision of the future
October 17, 2012
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt told the world his vision of the Google-ified future at the company's Zeitgeist sales conference. Turns out it involves a lot of creepy products we already know about and others we aren't ready to welcome into our lives. Here's a day in the life, from The ...
The possible privacy violations of Verizon's cell phone tracking program
October 17, 2012
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Capitalizing on all the information we put into our cell phones, Verizon Wireless is selling all our app usage and location information to marketers, reports CNET's Declan McCullagh. Part of what it calls thePrecision Market Insights initiative, Verizon is not only tracking consumers, it is sharing that information with other ...
The Sprint sale will let it build more 4G LTE service
October 15, 2012
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Most of the $20.1 billion the Softbank paid to buy a 70 percent stake in Sprint will go to shareholders, but a least a little bit of it will get invested in the company's 4G LTE network. The $8 billion that will go Sprint's balance sheet, will go, at least ...
Sprint is considering selling itself
October 11, 2012
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Sprint has confirmed it is in talks with Japanese telecommunications company Softbank for a "potential substantial investment" that could change control of the company, report Reuters' Taro Fuse and Sinead Carew. The Wall Street Journal's Daisuke Wakabayashi and Anton Troianovski reported the rumored talks this morning, citing a possible $12.8 ...
Your iPhone is tracking you again
October 11, 2012
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The iPhone 5 and any phone running iOS 6 not only by default tracks users for advertising purposes, but also makes it difficult to opt out. After Apple told developers to stop tracking users with the UDID system, basically eliminating this privacy breach completely, it has implemented a new targeting ...
