posted on 14 February 2012
It seems that Twitter has added a few more
security measures when logging in, including using an encryption
method.
This means that all users will be automatically redirected to a
HTTPS area of the website. As a quick reminder, "s" stands
for secure. This is often used on e-commerce websites during the
checkout process.
However, th... [read more]
posted on 14 February 2012
Yes, Google, you can go ahead and purchase
Motorola Mobility, replied the US and European
regulators to the search giant's $12.5bn bid.
Yet, they warned that they will keep in patents in mind to
ensure those are licensed at reasonable and fair prices.
As a quick reminder, tech firms are making colossal purchases
and buyouts in order... [read more]
posted on 13 February 2012
And the patent battle continues with Apple
asking a federal court in California to ban
Samsung from selling its smarties that are based
on Android 4.0, or the tasty sounding Ice Cream
Sandwich version.
According to the tech giant, the OS breached its patents on four
counts - one included a voice command search feature, and others
whi... [read more]
posted on 10 February 2012
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)
keeps on fuming as it has been revealed that five more councils
have lost citizen data.
Errors include the Brighton and Hove Council employee
accidentally sending out a member's personal data to over two
thousand co-workers and an employee at Bolton Council forwarding
health details of colle... [read more]
posted on 10 February 2012
Good news comes to those who have been waiting for the third
version of the oh-so desirable and hugely successful
Apple's iPad.
According to recent reports, the newest model will be
unveiled as soon as next month in San
Francisco.
It has also been said that the firm was preparing an unveiling
event for quite some time now as it wan... [read more]
posted on 09 February 2012
It seems that cloud computing is the future,
with more technology giants such as Apple keen on
the system and its capabilities.
According to recent reports, Google too is very
interested in bringing data to the cloud, as it hopes to reveal its
virtual storage space, also known as Drive.
Some of you might remember that Google has qui... [read more]
posted on 08 February 2012
According to recent reports, Greenpeace isn't
too keen on the fact that Apple doesn't raise climate change issues
and doesn't talk about going green too much.
Apple has recently announced out-of-this-world
profits despite the fact that it has been involved in ongoing
patent battles with its rivals such as HTC, Samsung and
Motorola.
... [read more]
posted on 08 February 2012
Good news for Google's OS customers who like
using Chrome as their default browser, because it
has now made an appearance (along with other features) on the
Android Market.
The search giant's strategy is very simple: although it is still
in the beta version, users can download it so that Google can see
whether or not it is successful,... [read more]
posted on 07 February 2012
It seems that 21 technology firms are being somewhat censored by
a court in India, which is forcing the companies to take off some
content it saw as inappropriate.
Tech and online giants with Facebook or
Google among them have been told to take down
content which was considered offensive and that was touching
certain social and religi... [read more]
posted on 07 February 2012
Some of you might have noticed that last January's financial
figures showed that HTC's sales were not as
fruitful for the firm, as for, say Samsung or Apple.
However the smartie maker stated that instead of looking for
faults elsewhere, some of the poor sales were attributed to its
failure to produce ground-breaking functionalities and... [read more]