Jul 19
Jul 19
With all the higher-end Nokia Lumia phones announced recently, like the Lumia 925, Lumia 928, and the recently announced Lumia 1020, we guess it can’t be helped that older Nokia devices have fallen by the wayside or there hasn’t been […]
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Jul 19
Softbank Reportedly Wanted To Acquire Universal Music Group For $8.5 Billion
Posted in: Today's ChiliIt was recently where Softbank managed to acquire a controlling stake in major US carrier, Sprint, and unsurprisingly it seems that Sprint might not have been the only company that the Japanese company had their eye on. According to a […]
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Jul 19
It might look like a colorful oil painting, but you’re actually looking at an Envisat radar image of chain of volcanoes called the Virunga Mountains—home to Africa’s two most active volcanoes.
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Jul 19
We’re sure many were wondering why Nokia chose Windows Phone instead of Android. After all Windows Phone wasn’t exactly the most popular platform then, and Android seemed like an obvious choice, but Nokia’s CEO, Stephen Elop, revealed in an interview […]
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Jul 19
Jul 19
Jul 19
Though there’s no official word from Google yet, it looks like the Chrome launcher has come out of developer preview mode and into full release, at least for Windows. On our own PCs, the installation placed the launcher app on the start page, taskbar and desktop for Windows 8 and in Windows 7’s menu bar. From there, you can quickly access Chrome, the Chrome store, Gmail and any other apps that work with Google’s ubiquitous browser / OS. We’re not sure when it’ll hit OS X or Linux (Chrome OS users have had it for awhile), but if your Windows workflow revolves around Mountain View’s myriad products, you can enable it at the source.
[Thanks, Adam]
Filed under: Internet, Software, Google
Source: Chrome Webstore
Jul 19
Skype has long claimed to be "end-to-end encrypted", an architectural category that suggests conversations over the service would be difficult or impossible to eavesdrop upon, even given control of users’ Internet connections. But Skype’s 2005 independent security review admits a caveat to this protection: "defeat of the security mechanisms at the Skype Central Server" could facilitate a "man-in-the-middle attack" (see section 3.4.1). Essentially, the Skype service plays the role of a certificate authority for its users and, like other certificate authorities, could facilitate eavesdropping by giving out the wrong keys.
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Jul 19
In today’s sci-fi-inches-closer-to-reality news, Sony has filed a patent application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for integrated camera sensors that can tag movies and photographs with your vital signs. The application, which can be read in full at the source below, describes a system of intensely personalized filings on your mobile device or camera. Rather than tagging those awkward family photos as “The Johnsons at Christmas dinner,” you would theoretically be able to attach your own biological data to the image, including body temperature, pulse rate, blood pressure, respiratory rate, blood oxygen level and skin conductance. Camera units would contain dedicated sensors for vitals that would attach such information to the file, like a weirdly personal time stamp. Why you’d want to have your blood pressure associated with your photos, we’re not quite sure, but Sony, at least, is determined to fill a void we didn’t even know existed.
Filed under: Cameras, Peripherals, Sony
Source: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
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