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$50 F-BOMB: Cheap spying for stalkers, hackers, or cash-strapped feds
Posted: January 30th, 2012, 10:42pm CET by Digg
At ShmooCon, a security researcher showed off the F-BOMB, a tiny and disposable 'spy computer' which could provide super cheap GPS surveillance for cash-strapped feds or future stalkers. It could also be used by hackers to collect data and send it over Wi-Fi. F-BOMB won a DARPA Cyber Fast Track research award. The inexpensive and common hardware also makes it nearly impossible for 'gun-toting bad guys' to finger just precisely who dropped the spying F-BOMB on them. -
Israel Tops Cyber-Security Poll
Posted: January 30th, 2012, 10:41pm CET by Digg
A major report from security firm McAfee assesses the so-called "cyber-readiness" of major countries in the connected world. -
One Thousand Volunteers To Get BT 100 Mbps FTTP Broadband Trial
Posted: January 30th, 2012, 9:41pm CET by Digg
One thousand apartment dwellers will get a chance to try out BT’s 100 Mbps FTTP broadband network. They might even get to test out a 300 Mbps network connection if the trials go well. -
DARPA Plans to Revolutionize Manufacturing, Crowd Source Vehicles
Posted: January 30th, 2012, 9:25pm CET by Digg
The US defense research organisation, DARPA, is planning to build vehicles for the military more quickly by adopting a crowd-sourcing approach, much in the same way as open-source software is developed. -
9 Things Siri Could Learn to Do
Posted: January 30th, 2012, 6:13pm CET by Digg
Just four months old, much has already been written and said about Apple's speech-recognition "personal assistant," Siri. It's the kind of technology that both excites and incites pundits and consumers alike. -
ACTA Protest Guide: Rally Details From Around the World
Posted: January 30th, 2012, 5:59pm CET by Digg
Protests are spreading across the globe, as outrage grows over the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement treaty in the wake of the SOPA bill being shelved last week by the U.S. Congress. Find all the details about these protest events below. -
Half of U.S. shoppers rely on phones for in-store research
Posted: January 30th, 2012, 5:51pm CET by Digg
The Pew Internet and American Life Project shed light on one of the biggest challenges for retailers: more than half of U.S. adult cell phone owners used their mobile phone during the recent holiday season to get in-store help for their purchases. -
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! to fight email spam
Posted: January 30th, 2012, 5:39pm CET by Digg
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, AOL and Facebook are setting aside their online rivalry to fight a common enemy: email spam and 'phishing' attacks. -
Why you could soon be wearing your smartphone
Posted: January 30th, 2012, 5:35pm CET by Digg
Picture wearable technology and you probably imagine Star Trek characters sporting shimmering glasses. Yet wearable tech is closer than ever to being everyday. -
Ten Bizarre PC Designs [Slideshow]
Posted: January 30th, 2012, 3:45pm CET by Digg
Bravely, these firms were willing to take a chance on a crazy design idea. At times, those risks worked out for the best, and other times they failed miserably. In the following story, you're about to get a look at ten bizarre PC designs of late (all debuted over the course of the past 12 years, as it happens). -
Google Fires Kenya Lead Over Mocality
Posted: January 30th, 2012, 3:34pm CET by Digg
Google has reportedly fired its Kenya country manager, Olga Arara-Kimani, over a fraudulent use of Mocality's data. Nairobitech reported: "The Google Mocality saga has drawn its first casualties. Kenya country lead for Google, Olga Arara-Kimani formerly of Safaricom has been let go by the company. Also axed is a technical guy in Zurich... It is not clear how Olga was picked for the fall but as one observer noted, sometimes a sacrificial lamb has to be found for the brand name to weather the storm."... -
Pentaho Opens Up Its Big Data Tools
Posted: January 30th, 2012, 3:24pm CET by Digg
Pentaho Corporation today announced that it has made freely available under open source all the big data capabilities in its Kettle v4.3 release, and has moved the entire Pentaho Kettle project to the Apache License Version 2.0. -
Analyst: China could bring 57M iPhone bump by 2013
Posted: January 30th, 2012, 3:22pm CET by Digg
Apple's iPhone was a hot seller in the company's first fiscal quarter of 2012, but that's nothing compared to what one analyst predicts we could see in just a couple of years' time. Morgan Stanley thinks Apple's efforts in China could pay big dividends by 2013. -
5 Ways Twitter Is Changing Media Law
Posted: January 30th, 2012, 3:16pm CET by Digg
Here are five examples that show how Twitter’s unique platform is creating a new set of media rules that are forcing the law to play catch up. -
Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Bank of America team to wipe out phishing
Posted: January 30th, 2012, 3:12pm CET by Digg
Can industry heavyweights Google, PayPal, Microsoft and AOL -- along with 11 others in high-tech such as Facebook and LinkedIn, as well as the financial world's Bank of America and Fidelity Investments -- succeed in stopping phishing attacks right in their tracks? In uniting behind an effort called DMARC.org unveiled today, the group says it can through policy-based steps filter out spoofed email that attackers use for phishing. -
Apple Puts New Engineers On Fake Products Until It Can Trust Them
Posted: January 30th, 2012, 3:00pm CET by Digg
A clip from Adam Lashinsky's appearance at LinkedIn headquarters, the first stop on his publicity tour for "Inside Apple," in which a former Apple employee asks "What creates the perfect Kool-Aid drinker?" -
Why Suddenly Pinterest Is A Big Deal
Posted: January 30th, 2012, 2:44pm CET by Digg
It's no surprise that @Pinterest is capturing the attention of social network users. From Oct 2010 to Oct 2011, Pinterest rose from 40,000 to 3.2 million monthly unique visitors. Then that number skyrocketed to 7,208,409 million unique visitors in December of 2011. -
10 ridiculous Super Bowl party gadgets
Posted: January 30th, 2012, 12:35pm CET by Digg
The Super Bowl is coming. Time to lock and load your Grill Sergeant tactical apron and get cooking. Condiments? Check. Grilling utensils? Check. Six rounds of beer? Check. All right soldier, here's your burger. Remember — there are many like it, but this one is yours. Here's a beer. -
Megaupload Data Could Be Erased This Week
Posted: January 30th, 2012, 12:23pm CET by Digg
All the data on Megaupload - legal or illegal - could be erased as soon as Thursday, Feb. 2. Since Megaupload’s assets have been frozen, the service cannot pay its hosting companies to keep hosting the data. -
British children feel 'sad' without internet connection
Posted: January 30th, 2012, 8:38am CET by Digg
British children under the age 12 feel ‘sad’ without an internet connection, a new study has found. -
Kindle Fire dwarfs other Android tablets in market share
Posted: January 30th, 2012, 12:00am CET by Digg
After three months, the Kindle Fire has an equal share of the Android tablet market with the Samsung Galaxy Tab, and has already outstripped the Motorola Xoom, Asus Transformer, and Acer Iconia Tab.