What a Mobile phone Spy Software Is
Mobile phone spy software is often a stealth system put in in someone’s mobile phone, without having his understanding, to monitor calls and messages sent to and obtained about the phone. There’s a lot of factors why consumers use spy phone software program. Particularly commonly, they wish to understand if their spouses are cheating, or they are mums and dads who wish to keep track of their teenage child’s phone activities. Employers also quite often use spy software program to maintain an eye on their workers, particularly if your telephone is company-owned and intended solely for function purposes. Using the utilization of the spy software, employers, parents and suspicious spouses get to determine messages around the mobile phone, listen in secretly to calls, and track the mobile phone user’s place making use of GPS. Read more...
“Blueberry” VP8 Hardware Encoder IP Released
"Blueberry," the second release of the H1 VP8 hardware encoder, is now available through the WebM Project hardware page. Due to the short growing season and abundant light during the summer, Nordic blueberries are exceptionally sweet and rich with vitamins. The Blueberry encoder is not too bad either!
In Blueberry we focused primarily on improving the encoder for video calling use, as many of the semiconductor companies that have licensed the H1 encoder plan to use it in these use cases. Compared to Anthill, the average measured PSNR improvement was Read more...
Teen arrested for slimy ranking of girls on Facebook
An Illinois teen has been arrested by police and charged with disorderly conduct after he used Facebook to post a list of 50 girls at his high school he described as both hot and promiscuous.
The boy, a student at Oak Park-River Forest High School, "was found to be responsible for an offensive list that was circulated" at the school as well, Det. Cmdr. LaDon Reynolds told the Chicago Sun-Times.
The list was posted on the social networking site in January by the boy. The list described girls using "explicit, derogatory nicknames and assessed their physical appearance, sexual desirability, Read more...
PSN Problems Earn Sony Telling Off from UK Government
But UK government won't be drawn in on whether Sony should be fined
Sony must make online security a new priority, Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has said in response to the PlayStation Network data breach.
But he insisted the Government would not interfere with the Information Commissioner’s Office on whether to fine Sony.
LAst month a hack into the PlayStation Network compromised sensitive details of over 100 million customers. Read more...
Facebook vs. Google fights
"Google quietly launches sweeping violation of user privacy!" screamed the all-caps headline of an e-mail that popped into journalists' and bloggers' inboxes last week.
The e-mails were meant to whip media outlets into a frenzy -- but the effort backfired when journalists found out that that the anti-Google campaign, conducted by PR giant Burson-Marsteller, was paid for by Facebook.
Welcome to a new level skullduggery in the growing war between Facebook and Google.
At stake is one of the most valuable data sets in existence: The social graph. It's a map of the connections between you and everyone you interact with. Facebook has it. Google has pieces of it, and wants more. That puts the two companies on a collision course. Read more...
Google notebooks challenge Microsoft
Notebook computers powered by Google software are heading to market in a direct assault on the Windows operating system at the heart of Microsoft's technology empire.
The California-based Internet colossus partnered with electronics makers Samsung and Acer on notebook computers essentially crafted as portals to online applications or services reached through Google's Chrome Web browser.
"Whether it be Microsoft or other operating system vendors, the complexity of managing your computer is really torturing computer users out there," Google co-founder Sergey Brin said during a press briefing. Read more...
Google-powered laptops to go on sale June 15
The first laptops running on a Google-designed software system will go on sale in the U.S. and six other countries next month.
The June 15 release date announced Wednesday means the lightweight laptops will hit the market nearly two years after Google Inc. began working on an operating system based on its Chrome Web browser.
Since then, Apple Inc.'s iPad and other tablet computers have become hot sellers. The growing popularity of tablets has raised questions about how interested consumers will be interested in buying Google-powered laptops specifically tailored for Web surfing. Read more...
DOJ antitrust settlement with Microsoft to expire
The technology industry advances at lightning speed. So perhaps it's no surprise that the expiration of the Justice Department's historic antitrust settlement with software giant Microsoft is passing with little fanfare Thursday.
In an age of Apple iPhones, Google Web searches and Facebook friends, Microsoft Corp.'s control over the computer desktop through its Windows operating system might seem like last decade's monopoly. Read more...
Value of pirated software nearly $59 billion: study
The commercial value of pirated software increased 14 percent last year to nearly $59 billion, with emerging economies accounting for over half the total, according to a study published Thursday.
Businesses and consumers around the world bought $95 billion worth of legal personal computer (PC) software in 2010, according to the Business Software Alliance (BSA), but they installed another $58.8 billion in pirated software.
"This means that for every dollar spent on legitimate software in 2010, an additional 63 cents worth of unlicensed software also made its way into the market," the BSA said. Read more...
Now you can easily search NirSoft utilities
NirSoft is famous for creating some of the best free Windows utilities around: tiny, portable and packed with useful features. If you'd like to sample what the company has to offer then you could spend an hour or two browsing the site, individually downloading anything that appeals. But it's probably easier to simply grab a copy of NirLauncher, which crams more than 130 of the best NirSoft tools into a portable, easily accessible package.
We're not just talking about a zip file holding the various executables, either. NirLauncher also provides a front-end menu that organizes its tools into categories like Password Recovery, Network Monitoring, Disk Utilities, System Utilities and more, making it much simpler to locate the particular programs that you need. Read more...
Fox.com hacked
Hackers have broken into a Fox.com extranet site, designed as a repository of research statistics, programming details and ratings for clients and affiliates, and stolen the emails and passwords for hundreds of Fox Broadcasting employees.
The group, which calls itself Lulz Security, then used that information to alter the LinkedIn accounts of more than a dozen Fox sales employees, tweeting each one on its @LulzSec twitter account. It also posted the trove online, saying, ‘We invite the Internet to ravage the following list of emails and passwords (from a database within Fox.com) - Facebook, MySpace, PayPal, whatever you can get your hands on. Take from them everything. Remember to proxy up, or tunnel like a pro!” Read more...
Hackers breaking into PSN, Sony and the PlayStation 3 Brand slumped
psn is still down
Sony and the PlayStation brand has suffered tremendously with the impenetrable network of PlayStation Network (PSN) by the cracker. Their brand image is considered decreased drastically because of less incompetent in handling data security PSN users.
According to assessments conducted by BranIndex brand in the United States, Sony had owned a score of 24.3. But after this break-ins occurred on PSN which resulted in important data users stolen, scores dropped dramatically to 7.6. Read more...