Will Two-Factor Security Be Enough For Mobile?
"Though Google did exert effort to address this, most recently with the release of Android KitKat, not all users can take advantage of new security features due to the OS's heavily fragmented update...
View ArticleMobile Carriers Could’ve Thwarted NSA Ability To Spy
The world’s mobile phone carriers have failed to make use of technology fixes available since 2008 that would have inhibited the National Security Agency’s ability to eavesdrop on many mobile phone...
View ArticleAre 4GB LPDDR4 Smartphones Coming Next Year?
The Samsung claims that the chip needs 1.1 volts which is 40 percent less than what you would need for 20nm DDR3 chips and mass production starts in 2014.
View ArticleInstallment Plans Are A Hit With Mobile Phone Buyers, Subsidies Losing Steam
Installment plans for mobile phones are starting to out pace the time-honored practice of paying a subsidized price up front, according to AT&T. Buying installments is catching on in a big way,...
View ArticlePhone-unlocking Bill Moves One Step Closer To Law
A bill that allows consumers to unlock their mobile phones for use on other carriers passed its last hurdle in Congress last week, opening the way for it to become law once it is signed by President...
View ArticleSprint, T-Mobile Merger Appears To Be Dead
Sprint Corp has canceled its bid to purchase No. 4 U.S. carrier T-Mobile U.S. Inc after regulatory resistance showed no signs of softening despite months of lobbying, people familiar with the matter...
View ArticleSprint Confirms Shut Down Of WiMax Network In November
Sprint’s WiMax network, rolled out in 2008 as the first commercial 4G system in the U.S., will finally cease operations in November 2015. The country’s third-largest carrier has confirmed that it will...
View ArticleSamsung Shows Off 20nm DDR4
Samsung's 20nm chips follow Intel's launch of the Xeon E5-2600 v3 family last month, which were the first server processors from the chipmaker to support the new memory standard.
View ArticleShould Encryption Be The Norm?
The purpose, the IAB claims, is to instill public trust in the internet after the myriad high-profile cases in which computer traffic has been intercepted, ranging from bank details to email addresses...
View ArticleWill Smartphones Get LPDDR4
Have in mind that only the Snapdragon 810 supports LPDDR4 while Snapdragon 808, 805, 801 and a bit older 800 are stuck with the LPDDR3.
View ArticleSamsung Projecting 70M Galaxy S6, Edge Phones To Be Sold
Samsung has recently described the first week of Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge sales as “impressive” and predicted overall sales for both devices will break a record, passing 70 million globally for...
View ArticleIs Samsung The Top Player In The Smartphone Arena?
Samsung also warned that the typical industry pattern of a stronger second half may not be as pronounced this year due to risks like the weaker euro and emerging market currencies.
View ArticleIs The DRAM Market Gaining Traction?
Kau told Digitimes that Inotera http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20150512PD219.html plans to have 80 per cent of its total production capacity to be built using a newer 20nm node by the end of 2015.
View ArticleNew Malware Turns Computers Into Cellular Antenna
A team of Israeli researchers have improved on a way to steal data from air-gapped computers, thought to be safer from attack due to their isolation from the Internet. They’ve figured out how to turn...
View ArticleDRAM Prices Appear To Be Falling Fast
After shuffling her Tarot cards and chewing on a laurel leaf she predicted that prices will continue decline in the first half of next year in a way which is even worse than 2015.
View ArticleSeeed Studios Debuts $59 Do-it-yourself Mobile Phone Kit
You can put together a basic 2G cellphone at home with the RePhone Kit Create, which can also be used to make wearables and IoT devices. The kit from Seeed Studios ships with separate modules that can...
View ArticleIs TLS (transport layer security) Putting Users At Risk?
There are some mitigation methods that developers can employ, suggests IBM Security Intelligence.
View ArticleOpenAPI Suffers Another Security Issue
"On the server side, a vulnerability exists in a service that consumes Swagger to dynamically generate and serve API clients, server mocks and testing specs."
View ArticleBlackBerry’s KeyOne Android Phone To Launch In May
The BlackBerry KeyOne, an Android-based smartphone with an integrated physical keyboard, will be available in the U.S. and Canada from May 31, the phone’s maker said Thursday. TCL Communications, the...
View ArticleHas AACS 2.0 Encryption Been Cracked
But this is not the first time that we have heard a rumour that the AACS 2.0 has been broken.
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