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15 November, 2012
Apple is sending notices to several developers asking them to remove or rename Apps that have 'Memory' in their titles. The notices are coming at the request of German company Ravensburger, which claims to hold trademark for the word in several European countries, where it sells a very popular board game simply titled "Memory."
High-speed LTE networks could be felled by a $650 piece of gear, says a new study. Any radio frequency can be blocked, or “jammed,” if a transmitter sends a signal at the same frequency, with enough power. But LTE turns out to be especially vulnerable, Reed’s group says. That is because the whole LTE signal depends on control instructions that make up less than 1 percent of the overall signal.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/507381/one-simple-trick-could-disable-a-citys-4g-phone-network/
14 November, 2012
13 November, 2012
They were born in the digital age but young Australians continue to give a collective thumbs down to a career in the industry that brought them iPhones and Facebook. Figures from the Australian Computer Society to be released on Tuesday show the number of domestic students graduating from information and communications technology courses has halved over the past decade; down from 9093 in 2003 to an expected 4547 this year.
A prototype app made for the iPhone 4 allows users to type on a keyboard made of paper using vibrations. Created by Florian Kräutli, a university student in London, the "Vibrative" app makes use of the iPhone's inbuilt accelerometer, reading vibrations as a finger taps a surface to work out which key is being pressed.
12 November, 2012
Facebook, Google, Twitter and the various apps and websites we use generate a phenomenal amount of information about how we live our lives, what we buy, what we wish we could buy, and where we go. Type "Facebook Report" into Wolfram Alpha, give it access to your data, and it will tell you who you are.
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