PSA: Whatsapp messages and contacts stored with mobile number
It's quite well known that the popular messaging service Whatsapp is far from secure. And now you can add another issue to that list of concerns that the company consistently ignores. Read more......
View ArticleTesco Mobile tops Which Customer Satisfaction Survey….again.
Cast your mind back to April 5th 2012. Nothing of note happened unless you are part of the Tesco Mobile team for they won the annual Which? magazine mobile satisfaction survey. Now, coming back to...
View ArticleUbuntu 13.04 available Thursday, brings a streamlined footprint to the forefront
From an end user's perspective, it's always nice to see developers take a step back and focus on streamlining their code, rather than simply piling on new features. Apple used the strategy to great...
View ArticleGot a Windows XP end-of-life plan? Neither does anyone else
How to negotiate migratory blind spots Opinion Applications are the glue that connects people with IT, that much is obvious, and in turn software has a powerful influence on business performance.…...
View ArticleFull Samsung Knox launch delayed until a ‘later date’
The Galaxy S 4 launch was also supposed to mark the release of Knox, Samsung's plan to balance home life and work through software. Unfortunately, Galaxy owners will have to live slightly off-kilter...
View ArticleO2 to turn your innocent nipper into Silicon Roundabout hipster
Scout Camp for the 21st Centur- Hey wait a second... O2 will be running 28 UK events titled Think Big School, pushing 3,000 youngsters through two days of training so they can learn to write code and...
View ArticleMightyText, “The iMessage for Android,” Targets iCloud With New Cross-Device...
Rip Empson / TechCrunch:MightyText, “The iMessage for Android,” Targets iCloud With New Cross-Device Photo And Video Sync — Today, our lives are spread across a growing array of digital devices,...
View ArticleViber exploit lets attackers bypass Android lock screens, for now (video)
If you're an Android user who prefers Viber for VoIP and messaging, you may not want to leave your phone unattended in the near future. Bkav Internet Security has discovered an exploit that will...
View ArticleWhat work? Tablet owners prefer to slack off with their slabs
Their kids like to play with them, too Tablet owners love their fondleslabs, but hardly anybody thinks of them as tools for business, according to a new report from JD Power and Associates.… (from The...
View ArticleiTunes is 10 years old today. Was it the best idea Apple ever had?
While the shares fall and the smartphone wars rage, Apple's music store keeps growing – and tying users into its platform Steve Jobs put a new slide up on the huge screen. "We started about a year and...
View ArticleNumber 10 hands out Twitter exclusives to favoured journalists
Downing Street aims to secure goodwill from journalists by revealing news before its official announcement by ministers Asked in 2009 why he didn't use Twitter, David Cameron famously responded "too...
View ArticleBT and O2 ink deal to build mega 4G network
Prodigal child needs paternal backend support BT has reached out to its prodigal child O2 and offered to help build it a flashy new 4G network - for a few hundred million quid.… (from The Register -...
View ArticleMove over Radeon, GeForce – Intel has a new graphics brand: Iris
'Select' Haswell chips to have 'amazing' integrated oomph Intel is getting increasingly serious about integrated-graphics performance, and to prove it they've done what any self-respecting marketeer...
View ArticleGmail lets us directly add time references as Google Calendar events, finally
As tightly integrated as Google's many services can be, the company has been dancing around a glaring omission: why couldn't we add times mentioned in Gmail messages as Google Calendar events? Logic...
View ArticleGmail users can now automatically generate Calendar entries
Google has started rolling out a new feature in Gmail that lets users create Google Calendar entries from their email messages. (from PC Advisor News...
View ArticleInternet Explorer 8 exploit blamed for attacks on several websites
The new Internet Explorer 8 zero-day exploit that was confirmed by Microsoft on Friday is being blamed as the cause of attacks that have created malware infections on a number of websites. Read...
View ArticleYouTube channels at $1.99 per month could launch this week
50 channels tapped for content-for-pay trial Video streaming giant YouTube is nearly ready to begin offering some of its customers a subscription pricing model for their content channels, according to...
View ArticleIntel reveals details of new Silvermont microarchitecture
Intel has revealed the first details of Silvermont, its new low-power microarchitecture that will be used as the basis for a number of products, including the upcoming Bay Trail processor. Read...
View ArticleSamsung acquires second-screen startup MOVL
Samsung has acquired the Atlanta-based second-screen startup MOVL. The acquisition happened last month but hasn’t been reported until now. Terms of the deal haven’t been disclosed, but it looks like a...
View ArticleGoogle shares close at all-time high of $861.55
The irrational exuberance that surrounded Apple shares last fall has apparently shifted over to Google. Google shares closed trading on Monday at an all-time high of $861.55, giving the company a total...
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