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Submission + - EU Security Agency Highlights Smartphone Risks (eweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by geek4
geek4 writes: The European agency ENISA has warned of the possible security risks posed by the humble smartphone

The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has published a new report (PDF) in which it warns of the possible security threats posed by the smartphone.

ENISA is an agency of the European Union and its new report identifies the top security risks of smartphone use, as well as offering some practical security advice for businesses, consumers and governments.

The ENISA report comes after analyst house Gartner revealed in early November that worldwide mobile phone sales had grown by 35 percent in the third quarter. However that was nothing compared to the 96 percent rise in smartphone sales during the same period, with 80 million smartphones sold in that period alone.

Submission + - Antikythera mechanism recreated in Lego (guardian.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Exciting news for archaeologists and Lego-philes alike:
"Two years ago, a paper was published in Nature describing the function of the oldest known scientific computer, a device built in Greece around 100 BCE. Recovered in 1901 from a shipwreck near the island of Antikythera, this mechanism had been lost and unknown for 2000 years. It took one century for scientists to understand its purpose: it is an astronomical clock that determines the positions of celestial bodies with extraordinary precision. In 2010, a fully-functional replica was constructed out of Lego"

Submission + - The woman's whose making your privacy her business (theglobeandmail.com)

Submitted by davecb
davecb writes: The woman who faced down Facebook and was dissed by Silicon Valley business boys as "an old-fashioned scold" is really one of the early advocates for using the internet for access to information, and to open up government.

The Globe and Mail has an interview today with Jennifer Stoddart, the privacy commisioner of Canada, who went up against Facebook for all of us, and made them back down.

Submission + - Up to 5% of vintage wines may be frauds (cosmosmagazine.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Up to 5% of fine wines are not from the year the label indicates, according to Australian researchers who have carbon dated some top dollar wines.
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Submission + - Hacker, architect and superhero: three programmers (wordpress.com)

Submitted by
Mirk
Mirk writes: "We all know programmers whose skills humble us, but software skills don't just fall on a linear scale of worst to best: good programming comes in many different and sometime incompatible flavors. This article looks at three individuals who excel in very different ways, and asks what the rest of us can learn from them. Which one are you?"

Comment Also, don't forget the wireless service... (Score 5, Informative) 169

by brainproxy (#27678375) Attached to: Kindle 2 Tear-Down Reveals Price of Components

It's not like Amazon somehow magically doesn't have any overhead, shipping or design costs for the Kindle. They also have inventory costs, returned item costs and all the other gunk associated with manufacturing and selling an item.

Having merely a 50% of the cost (not including IP) for a still pioneering device like this seems totally reasonable.

Lets not also forget that Amazon pays not only for the bandwidth to deliver all that content, but also pays for the Wireless data service for EVERY unit out there, perpetually.

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