Smartphone market has literally exploded in recent times, with millions of users hooking up to newer and sleeker devices called smartphones. Apple’s iPhone, naturally, is the jewel of the crown, with its largest share of the tablet market. Boasting the largest user base, it is the most important handset in the smartphone market.
Digital security is a tricky business. Different governments and organizations keep upping the security of their system and installing newer methods to thwart hackers. But the hackers are able to come up with a crack in the security, one way or the other, and then exploit them. Now, a cryptography method which was considered ultra-secure until now has been cracked by a team at Fujitsu.
When Google first unveiled its Project Glass and showcased Google glasses to the world, many of us wondered about the navigation system that will be used by those tooling the glasses. Google hadn’t explained it well enough and some had speculated that it will probably be done with the help of an input mechanism on the side of the glasses. Now, a new Google patent more or less confirms this.
Google is, without a doubt, the most popular online search engine. People all around the world flock to it if they wish to find out something on the web. However, with its popularity, Google also has to face huge pressures – from governments, including the U.S. governments. These governments want Google to censor data from its search results.
Have you ever heard something like this – an umbrella charging phones? If not, then you are going to read about one and hopefully see a real one pretty soon. British telecom giant Vodafone has unveiled an umbrella named ‘Booster Brolly’ that can charge your smartphone in three hours using solar light.
DoubleDutch has been doing really good apparently, given the fact that it was able to raise a solid$2 million during its Series A funding. It seems that the company now has plans of expanding the realm of its influence. It has now introduced a new app called Pride, which is about workgroup collaboration.
Apple continues its meteoric rise in terms of fame, wealth and popularity. The company has smashed quite a few records in terms of sales, revenue and profits. And now, according to an analyst, Apple’s annual profits will rake in so high that it will be the highest annual profits ever made by a public company!!
A number of countries are trying to add more provisions to their laws to enable them a greater control over the flow of data. This is being done on the pretext of security and the data includes both digital as well as non-digital data.