Posted on February 27th, 2011 by ElectroGeek
On the heels of HongTouTou, Chinese security firm NetQin has found spyware — SW.SecurePhone and SW.Qieting — that collects messages, call logs, and other data. Security experts have found more malware targeting Android smartphones, less than two weeks after the click fraud app dubbed HongTouTou was found in a variety of applications on third-party online [...]
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Posted on February 27th, 2011 by ElectroGeek
If Groupon isn’t as ubiquitous as, say, Facebook, it’s getting there. The website, which offers daily coupons to local restaurants, bars and other businesses, has 60 million members worldwide, about half of whom live in North America. Those controversial Super Bowl ads surely introduced it to some new customers, too. Groupon’s business model is simple: [...]
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Posted on February 25th, 2011 by ElectroGeek
Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo says it will start selling an Android 2.2 phone that’s claimed to be the world’s thinnest, at just a third of an inch. The NEC Medias N-04C phone will be joined on the network by Sony-Ericsson’s Android 2.3-based Xperia Arc SO-01C phone and LG’s Optimus Pad L-06C tablet, the latter running [...]
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Posted on February 25th, 2011 by ElectroGeek
Apple today announced a refresh of its MacBook Pro line of laptops. The highlights? New, faster processors, more powerful graphics processors, an HD camera and a new port for a technology that Apple is calling Thunderbolt. Cosmetically, the new Pros look very similar to their predecessors. There are still 13-, 15- and 17-inch models (starting [...]
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Posted on February 25th, 2011 by ElectroGeek
Users in China are reporting that access to LinkedIn has been blocked throughout the country. By all indications, it seems that the popular career networking site has run afoul of the country’s infamous Great Firewall. According to LinkedIn’s Hani Durzy, the company is aware of a blockage in China and is “currently in the process [...]
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Posted on February 23rd, 2011 by ElectroGeek
Google is releasing an Android OS 2.3.3 update to the Samsung Nexus S, and with it comes a special new feature: near field communications. A still-emerging technology, NFC is expected to make it easier for phones to send and receive short-range transmissions. Near field communications, or NFC, allows for the transfer of data to and [...]
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Posted on February 23rd, 2011 by ElectroGeek
This is good news bad news time for you and me alike: Ford has announced details of its hot Fiesta S1600. Why the good news bad news? Because Ford is building just 500 of these pocket-rockets so the chances of getting hold of one are pretty minimal. Priced from £15,895 ($26,000) on the road, the [...]
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Posted on February 19th, 2011 by ElectroGeek
The biggest European mobile technology show of the year has now closed down in Barcelona, leaving a record number of global smartphone premieres behind (as well as a few tablets). What all of these devices have in common is their operating system: the Android OS. Even though Nokia and Microsoft started the hottest topic of [...]
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Posted on February 18th, 2011 by ElectroGeek
To broaden the appeal of the iPhone, Apple has been exploring ways to make the popular device less expensive. Apple has been exploring ways to broaden the appeal of the iPhone by making the popular device less expensive and allowing users to control it with voice commands. But contrary to published reports, Apple is not [...]
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