I regret to inform all of the readers that this blog will not be updated for the rest of December. We are currently undergoing updates among other things, where posting blogs can disrupt the things we are doing. I hope not to disappoint anyone too much, and know that I will be back January 1st [...]
Twitter has announced their recent purchase of Whisper Systems, a security start-up company that makes software for Android smartphones and other mobile devices. The price tag that Twitter and Whisper Systems agreed on was not disclosed, but we can assume it was more than enough. Whisper System’s co-founders are well-recognized online security experts, which would [...]
Security researchers at Columbia University have accused HP of selling printers with a flaw that could let hackers gain remote control over the devices. Once the hackers are in, they can steal personal information, attack networks, and even set the printers on fire by feeding them a stream of instructions designed to heat them up. [...]
ARM has officially announced the launch of their new ARM Development Studio 5 Community Edition. This is a suite of Eclipse-based tools that are designed to help Android app developers who use the NDK to write native code. The tools will simplify the debugging of native ARM code in apps and help performance of the [...]
Two New Jersey DMV employees have been charged with selling names, addresses, birthdates and Social Security numbers for as little as $200 per identity. The same investigation, conducted by the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Economic Crime Unit in Trenton, led to charges against two non-government workers who used their jobs in a tax office and realty [...]
Microsoft’s Kinect voice and motion control capabilities has made the device very popular in not-so-serious gamers. However, there are practical uses that have been demonstrated as well outside of the realm of Xbox 360 gaming. Microsoft has revealed plans to release Kinect hardware designed for Windows. This device will be made available by early 2012. [...]
Battlefield 3 has been a very popular multiplayer game, but it came with its fair share of problems at launch. DICE has been working to fix all of the little things that keep people from having a good time, and they have announced that a patch should be coming very soon; for the PC. What is [...]
Juniper Networks has reported the rates of Android malware infections increasing at alarming rates on the networks of its mobile customers, with detected malware more than quadrupling in the last six weeks. There have been dramatic increases in the previous two years, as well. In May, Juniper Networks reported a 400 percent increase in malware [...]
Google has made the decision to begin selling music online, similar to the way the iTunes Store works. The announcement came during their Google Music event last Wednesday. Instead of referring customers to content partners, they will begin allowing musicians to upload and sell their music to customers. Google Music went into beta earlier this [...]
