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Comment Re:I detect a fired employee (Score 1) 268

I agree, I assume he's breaking some DMCA law. Stupidly, he put his company affiliation on his profile, which is going to reflect massively badly on him. Nokia also has a huge "act ethically" policy as well, which will work against him. I'd be really really surprised if he didn't cop major repurcussions because of this.

Comment Re:Catching up (Score 4, Informative) 104

Screw map parts, you can download map countries with Nokia's mapping solution, not just the current "navigation". The big differentiator with Nokia maps is the ability to operate without a data connection. Android can't do that yet (even with the saving feature).
United Kingdom

Submission + - UK finally Gets First 4G Network - EE (techweekeurope.co.uk)

judgecorp writes: "The UK has finally got its first 4G network, provided by EE, a new brand from Everything Everywhere, the company formed by the merger of T-Mobile and Orange in the UK. The network will cover 20 million people (about a third of the UK population) in 16 cities by the end of 2012, but right now only engineers are on the network. It will support phones including the expected iP{hone 5, and the Nokia Lumia 920."

Feed Google News Sci Tech: How one security researcher solved the UDID leak mystery - The Verge (google.com)


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How one security researcher solved the UDID leak mystery
The Verge
By Louis Goddard on September 11, 2012 07:05 am @ltrgoddard 1Comments Paul DeHart, CEO of publisher BlueToad, appeared on NBC News yesterday to admit that 1000001 iPhone and iPad UDID numbers leaked last week came from his company — now, the security ...
Apple Device ID Leak Traced To BlueToadInformationWeek
Apple UDID hack has BlueToad data, publisher says; Anonymous claims GoDaddy crashWashington Post
Florida firm is source of Apple data in breachBusinessweek
NBCNews.com (blog)-Green Bay Press Gazette-CBS News
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Submission + - STUDY: Obamacare Led To Record Drop In Uninsured Young Adults (thinkprogress.org)

arstoneaxtell writes: Thanks to the popular Obamacare provision that extends health insurance coverage to millions of young adults by allowing them to stay on their parents’ insurance until 26 years of age, a new report from the Centers for Disease Control estimates the number of uninsured young people dropped by one-sixth between 2010 and 2011. This represents the largest annual decline for any age group since the CDC first began collecting data on insurance rates in 1997.
Businesses

Submission + - Ubisoft ditches always-online DRM requirement from PC games (rockpapershotgun.com)

RogueyWon writes: "In an interview with gaming site Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Ubisoft has announced that it will no longer use DRM for its PC games that requires the player to be online and connected to its servers at all times, even when playing single-player content. This represents a reversal of Ubisoft's long-standing insistence that such DRM was essential if the company were to be profitable in the PC gaming market. Curiously, Ubisoft is still at pains to remind gamers that they will need an internet connection if they wish to play its games over the internet — a restriction that is perhaps not entirely unexpected."
Open Source

Submission + - Open Source - The Secret Sauce in Successful Web Companies (ostatic.com)

An anonymous reader writes: You name it and you have it. Every big company out there – from Apple to Amazon, Microsoft to Google, Facebook to Twitter – everyone has a debt to the open source world.
Android

Submission + - Chinese GooPhone Threatens iPhone 5 Ban In China (androidsutra.com) 1

sfcrazy writes: It's an interesting turn of tables. A Chinese manufacturer has managed to release a phone named GooPhone i5 which, according to 'Cult of Mac', is rip-off of 'upcoming' iPhone 5. The most interesting aspect is the makers of the phones have patented the design in China and threatened to sue Apple if they copied this patented design.

Submission + - Enigma-breaker awarded posthumously (polska-zbrojna.pl)

baderman writes: Eighty years ago, a young Polish mathematician Marian Rejewski broke codes of the German Enigma. On the anniversary of this event he will be posthumously awarded the Medal of Knowlton by the U.S. military intelligence. The award was received by the daughter of a prominent cryptographer.

Submission + - Pentagon says ex-SEAL book contains secrets (ksl.com)

randa56 writes: A former Navy SEAL's insider account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden contains classified information, the Pentagon said Tuesday, and the admiral who heads the Naval Special Warfare Command said details in the book may provide enemies with dangerous insight into secretive U.S. operations.
Encryption

Calculating the Cost of Full Disk Encryption 242

CowboyRobot writes "Is full disk encryption (FDE) worth it? A recent study conducted by the Ponemon Institute shows that the expected benefits of FDE exceed cost by a factor ranging from 4 to 20, based on a reduction in the probability that data will be compromised as the result of the loss or theft of a digital device. 'After doing all of the math, Ponemon found that the cost of FDE on laptop and desktop computers in the U.S. per year was $235, while the cost savings from reduced data breach exposure was $4,650.'"

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