Tuesday, May 21, 2013
The FBI was not the Source of the Leaked UDIDs It was Apples fault
Last week, the news circulated that the hacker group Anonymous had stolen 12 million Apple device identifiers from an FBI laptop.
The truth, it now turns out was that it was Apples fault. NBC news discovered that the unique device identifiers (UDIDs) came instead from one of the hundreds of companies that Apple’s app model has allowed to track and identify the company’s devices. This is part of an extensive data-sharing network.
The leaked data to a small Florida app publisher called Blue Toad. Blue Toad has confirmed that it was the source of the breach.
UDIDs are identifiers, linked to iPads, iPhones and iPods, are designed to allow ad networks and app makers to track devices. Apparently, these UDIDs are not data that Apple keeps secure, but instead are widely available to hundred of app developers. Apple’s lax privacy model has resulted in a situation where ad firms, developers and parties like Blue Toad can amass large amounts of user data. The worse part is, users whose UDIDs were leaked from Blue Toad do not know the company. They have never transacted with Blue Toad or downloaded an app from them. Blue Toad provides services to app developers and not directly to customers.
Apple has started to phase out the UDIDs.
Sticky Notes Program for computer windows
Below are two popular programs to take virtual notes in computer rather than yellow sticky notes.both are very simple and easy to use.Pnotes are portable and no need of installation.
Pnotes
Managing your day-to-day life is not an easy job to do. There are so many things to concern for - housekeeping, shopping, children... And what about cousins birthday you always forget or important phone numbers? Undoubtedly your working place is covered with dusty yellow (or blue, or pink) sticky notes. If so - PNotes is right for you. Throw the physical stickies away and replace them with virtual ones on your desktop.
Features
* Portability - PNotes does not require installation, it can be started from any drive (fixed or flash) and leaves no traces on host computer after finishing.
* Formatting - format and design each note as you wish, using all the advantages of rich text formatting.
* Images - you can add images to notes, making them more expressive.
* Password protection - prevents unauthorized access to program.
* Encryption - allows all your notes to be stored as encrypted files, so nobody could read their content, even in case you lose your USB stick.
* Docking - dock your notes to any side of the screen, forcing them always to be straightened and look like a panel.
* Searching - search for (or replace) text fragments in all notes, including hidden or in each separate note, or find notes with specified title.
* Favorites - access intensively used notes by a single click.
* E-mailing - send notes via e-mail as mail body text or as attachment to any target with PNotes running and open attached note on target machine.
* Backing up - you decide whether to make backup copies for changed notes and what is the deepness of backup levels.
* Other features - of course there are many other unmentioned features in program, but I suggest you to discover them by yourself, Visit http://pnotes.sourceforge.net/ for more details .Click here to download
ATnotes
ATnotes is a FREE program which creates notes on the desktop. It lives in the system tray, takes very few resources, and supports a lot of languages.Below is the screen shot of atnotes.we can set short keys for easy access of atnotes.For more details Visit http://atnotes.free.fr/
click here to download atnotes
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Pnotes
Managing your day-to-day life is not an easy job to do. There are so many things to concern for - housekeeping, shopping, children... And what about cousins birthday you always forget or important phone numbers? Undoubtedly your working place is covered with dusty yellow (or blue, or pink) sticky notes. If so - PNotes is right for you. Throw the physical stickies away and replace them with virtual ones on your desktop.
Features
* Portability - PNotes does not require installation, it can be started from any drive (fixed or flash) and leaves no traces on host computer after finishing.
* Formatting - format and design each note as you wish, using all the advantages of rich text formatting.
* Images - you can add images to notes, making them more expressive.
* Password protection - prevents unauthorized access to program.
* Encryption - allows all your notes to be stored as encrypted files, so nobody could read their content, even in case you lose your USB stick.
* Docking - dock your notes to any side of the screen, forcing them always to be straightened and look like a panel.
* Searching - search for (or replace) text fragments in all notes, including hidden or in each separate note, or find notes with specified title.
* Favorites - access intensively used notes by a single click.
* E-mailing - send notes via e-mail as mail body text or as attachment to any target with PNotes running and open attached note on target machine.
* Backing up - you decide whether to make backup copies for changed notes and what is the deepness of backup levels.
* Other features - of course there are many other unmentioned features in program, but I suggest you to discover them by yourself, Visit http://pnotes.sourceforge.net/ for more details .Click here to download
ATnotes
ATnotes is a FREE program which creates notes on the desktop. It lives in the system tray, takes very few resources, and supports a lot of languages.Below is the screen shot of atnotes.we can set short keys for easy access of atnotes.For more details Visit http://atnotes.free.fr/
Motorola Atrix 4G VS Samsung Infuse 4G
Both the Motorola Atrix 4G and the Samsung Infuse 4G are Android 2.2 (Froyo) devices at the time of announcement. The Motorola Atrix 4G uses a 1 GHz dual-core Tegra processor to drive a 4-inch screen displaying the Motoblur modification of Android 2.2. The Samsung Infuse 4G uses a 1.2 GHz Hummingbird processor. This processor drives a 4.5-inch Super AMOLED Plus screen. This is currently the largest smartphone screen on the market and it displays Samsung’s own TouchWiz modification of Android 2.2.
The Samsung Infuse 4G has a 480 x 800-pixel screen displaying 16M colours, whilst the Motorola Atrix 4G has a 540 x 960 pixel screen displaying 16M colours.
The camera is where the Samsung Infuse 4G stands out with an 8-megapixel camera just like the HTC Inspire 4G. The Motorola Atrix 4G has a 5-megapixel camera
The buying decision appears to come down to the camera, and the Samsung Infuse 4G has the better 8-megapixel camera. The Samsung Infuse 4G also has a better processor on paper, and we guess that given the same OS version, the Samsung Infuse 4G will likely equal or outperform the Motorola Atrix 4G.
Much about the Samsung Infuse 4G is still unknown. One thing is therefore certain; they certainly have a pretty bad PR operation. The other products announced at CES 2011 are already meticulously detailed and the lack of information on the Samsung Infuse 4G suggests uncertainty, incompetence or both.
Source
Android adoption rate increasing six times faster than iPhone
Though Apple is selling millions of smartphones, its iPhone adoption rate can’t keep up with Android says well-known Internet analyst Mary Meeker.
Meeker, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, was in San Francisco this week for a Bloomberg event, according to a TechCrunch report. During a quick presentation on mobile trends, Meeker pointed out that the rate of Android adoption is increasing six times faster than iPhone adoption. This rate is up from the 4X figure she quoted in her yearly Internet report that was published in May 2012.
Meeker, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, was in San Francisco this week for a Bloomberg event, according to a TechCrunch report. During a quick presentation on mobile trends, Meeker pointed out that the rate of Android adoption is increasing six times faster than iPhone adoption. This rate is up from the 4X figure she quoted in her yearly Internet report that was published in May 2012.
This is only the beginning of the Android upswing, and Meeker predicts that by the end of 2013, there will be 160 million Internet-enabled Android devices, 100 million Windows devices and 80 million iOS devices shipped each quarter. She also believes that the combined, global install base of smartphones and tablets will surpass the install base of personal computers by the middle of next year. If this trend pans out as predicted, then soon we really will be living in a post-PC era.
[Via TechCrunch]
Lenovo P700i Dual SIM Dual Core
Lenovo phones have slowly been getting the attention of Filipino consumers. The low cost, but decently speced Lenovo A60 comes to mind. But the breakthrough phone for Lenovo is the P700. Priced at around 10K with a 4-inch high resolution display (800 x 480), dual SIM capability and long battery life thanks to a larger 2500 mAh battery was enough to convince the buyer to make a buy decision.
Lenovo just released an updated version of their P700, the Lenovo P700i. Basically, it has everything you liked in the P700, but replaces the old 1 GHz single core processor, with a 1 GHz dual core processor.
Suggested retail price remains the same, at Php10,990
Lenovo P700i Quick specs:
Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich
Dual SIM, Dual Standby
- SIM 1 - 3G/HSDPA
- SIM 2 = 2G
4-inch (800x480) IPS display
125.6 x 64. 8x 12.8mm (size)
4GB of internal storage, expandable up to 32GB via microSD card
512MB of RAM
1GHz dual-core MT6577 processor
PowerVR SGX531 GPU
PowerVR SGX531 GPU
5.0 Megapixel with Auto Focus
Secondary (front) VGA Camera
Bluetooth
WiFi with Hot Spot function
GPS with AGPS support, Gravity Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Light Sensor
FM Radio
2500 mAh Battery Capacity
162g (weight)
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