Citibank Warns Of iPhone App Security Flaw

Mobile banking customers in the U.S. who use Citibank’s Citi Mobile app have been advised to update the app.
Citibank has updated its iPhone banking application to correct a security vulnerability that left user bank account information unprotected.
The update, issued on July 19 through Apple’s iTunes App Store, addresses a programming design flaw that stored personal [...]

Students, Meet Your New Teacher, Mr. Robot

LOS ANGELES - The boy, a dark-haired 6-year-old, is playing with a new companion.
Computer scientists are developing machines that can teach people simple skills, like household tasks and vocabulary.
The two hit it off quickly - unusual for the 6-year-old, who has autism - and the boy is imitating his playmate’s every move, now nodding his [...]

AT&T security breach exposes iPad 3G customer data

AT&T and Apple have suffered a major privacy breach, exposing the contact information email addresses and ICC-IDs of over 114,000 iPad 3G customers — possibly many more.
According to Gawker the data includes:
a collection of early-adopter iPad 3G subscribers that includes thousands of A-listers in finance, politics and media, from New York Times Co. CEO Janet Robinson [...]

Android 2.2 Coming To Most HTC Phones

The operating system codenamed Froyo, which is expected to include tethering capabilities, will be delivered to device makers ‘in the coming weeks.’Most Android phones released this year will receive an upgrade to Android 2.2, code named Froyo, in the second half of the year, HTC has announced.
This includes the Desire and Droid Incredible as well [...]

iPhone 4.0 OS May Support Tethering

Developers with access to version 4.0 of Apple’s iPhone operating system report finding an AT&T tethering feature.The next beta of the iPhone 4.0 OS may finally enable Internet tethering. AT&T failed to activate the feature for almost a year since Apple introduced the capability.
On Tuesday night, Apple released to developers the fourth beta of the [...]

Prehistoric ‘footprints’ falsified by science

Human footprints frozen in time, lodged in volcanic ash in a Mexican valley, seemed poised to rock history.
In the current Journal of Human Evolution, a study tells the story of how they didn’t - and how science checks out extraordinary claims.
“The timing and origin of the earliest human colonization of the Americas has been the [...]

Apple faces iTunes threat from overseas

Just as every smart phone claiming to be an “iPhone killer” has failed to dethrone Apple’s iPhone, every so-called “iTunes killer” has so far fallen short of expectations.
But a new music service from Europe might be the first legitimate iTunes contender. And it’s coming soon to the United States.
Spotify, based in the U.K. and available [...]

Google Sued Over Search Suggestion

Google on Tuesday was sued in a Wisconsin court for allegedly violating the privacy rights of Beverly Stayart, an animal rights activist and the CFO and director of business development at Stayart Law Offices, the firm filing the complaint.
The lawsuit claims that Google is responsible for suggesting the search term “bev stayart levitra” as a [...]

Could this be the new iPhone?

It sounds too good to be true, and it just might be. An Apple employee reportedly left a prototype of the new iPhone at a bar, and it ended up in the hands of a gadget blog.
Photos of the fourth-generation iPhone prototype first appeared on the tech blog Engadget over the weekend. The site said [...]