BlackBerry customers revolt after spyware scandal If your customers think that you tried to spy on them, that’s not going to be good for business. 23 July 2009 http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/07/23/blackberry-customers-revolt-after-spyware-scandal/ That’s the message that’s presumably being heard loud-and-clear by telecoms company Etisalat, which has found itself in the middle of a storm of negative headlines after …
Category Archive: Geek
Jul
11
Flaw Opens ATMs to Hackers
A conference presentation would have exposed flaws in some cash machines. By Robert Lemos July 08, 2009 http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22966/ Barnaby Jack, a security researcher at the computer networking giant Juniper, had planned to hack into an automatic teller machine (ATM) live onstage at the Black Hat Security Conference in Las Vegas later this month. But his …
Jun
24
India gets its first Android Powered Phone!!
After months of speculation, Airtel brings to India an Android-based phone, the HTC Magic. The phone is among the 3 Android-based to be launched this year. HTC Magic was first showcased at the Mobile World Congress in February this year. About Android Platform Android is the Open Handset Alliance’s mobile software platform. The Android platform opens up …