According to a new security report released today by NQ Mobile Inc., a global provider of mobile Internet services, mobile malware threats increased 163 percent to more than 65,000 in 2012. The company warns, however, that the problem is ...
Our online lives have become so important that Google just released a feature that enables users to control what happens to their data after they die. Our digital lives have become complex. What we share on Google+, YouTube and Picasa, ...
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Google has started letting people plan what is to be done with their digital photos, documents and other virtual belongings after they die or become incapacitated. An “Inactive Account Manager” can be used to direct Google to ...
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Google is hoping to make it easier for developers to integrate SMS or voice communications into applications running on the company's App Engine platform. Working with Twilio, Google has created native Python and Java libraries for ...
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There is a breakthrough on wearable tech revolution where we can ditching our smartphones for smartwatches like the LinkMe bracelet. The LinkMe is designed to serve as a mini billboard to display text messages on your wrist. Although ...
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While existing technology continues to advance in incremental - boring - steps, the next wave is on its way, promising to turn us all into friendlier, more-adventurous versions of the Terminator. I welcome our new google overlords. ...
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A receptionist at a GP surgery has been prosecuted for illegally accessing sensitive medical information relating to her ex-husband's new wife. Appearing at West Hampshire Magistrates on Monday (14 March) Marcia Phillips was prosecuted ...
nCrypted Cloud, a cloud data privacy company that brings world-class privacy to data stored on cloud storage providers such as Dropbox, GoogleDrive and SkyDrive, has announced the launch of its free nCrypted Cloud service. Nick Stamos, ...
Tags: Free Service, Image Data, cloud storage
Typing and sending a text message on a smartphone can be a real pain. With Holler!, you can communicate via voice IM with anyone (either in your contact list or just a phone number) without having to type on a touchscreen or mess around ...
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Broadcom says it's invented a chip that can tell your phone where you are all the time without quickly draining your battery. The BCM47521 chip, which will be demonstrated at Mobile World Congress next week, should make it easier to use ...
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A watch that doubles as a computer and two-way radio has been a technology vision since at least the 1950s. Recently, reports that Apple is building an iWatch have lit a fire under the smart watch concept, at least in part because of ...
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The scary stories from the Web are getting worse.First there were a few stolen credit card numbers.Then there were a few thousand.Now we hear about millions of financial records being exposed by security breaches,and we grow numb to the ...
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Chinese phone maker ZTE is planning to launch a smartphone based on Mozilla's Firefox OS at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month. That ZTE is planning to launch a phone based on the upcoming OS doesn't come as surprise; last ...
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Mozilla announced this week that it had launched Keon and Peak, two smartphones based on the web-centric Firefox OS platform. The first phones will start shipping in February, and have been developed in cooperation with Spanish operator ...
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Mozilla has launched Keon and Peak, two smartphones based on the web-centric Firefox OS platform. The first phones will start shipping in February, and have been developed in cooperation with Spanish operator TelefA3nica and Geeksphone, ...