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Submission + - Google Chrome for Android vs Opera Mini

Submitted by donadony
donadony writes: Google released a bet a version of Google Chrome for Android devices running 4 version codename Ice cream sand witch last day. If you have a device, Google Nexus or ICS powered tablet you can find the new family member right on the Android Market. Google Chrome for Android is essentially the same as the browser for desktop. Fortunately or unfortunately the browser has tremendous resemblance with Dolphin HD, another very famous browser for Android. well, when I am already quiet in habit of its rivals Opera Mini and Mozilla’s Firefox on my android device. After working with the Chrome browser for the entire day I have gathered my impressions about the browser; what is good, what is yet to be improved. As I am mostly used to Opera Mini browser on my mobile devices, I shall compare the two browsers in my post.
Technology

Submission + - For the first year in its history,India has no cases of polio. (the-diplomat.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: India has had its first polio-free year in the country’s history. As noted by the World Health Organization (WHO), this marks major progress. In 1994 India had as many as 4,791 cases a year. The polio-free year means that India will no longer be considered a “polio-endemic” country. Hard work, modern technology, funding from Bill Gates, and India taking a leadership role in its own problems seems to have saved lives.

Submission + - Selling Used MP3s Found Legal In America (activepolitic.com) 1

Submitted by bs0d3
bs0d3 writes: After some litigation; ReDigi, a site where people can sell used MP3's has been found legal in America. One of the key decisions the judge had to make was whether MP3's were material objects or not. 'Material objects' are not subject to the distribution right stipulated in "17 USC 106(3)" which protects the sale of intellectual property copies. If MP3's are material objects than the resale of them is guaranteed legal under the first sale' exception in 17 USC 109. Capitol Records tried
to argue that they were material objects under one law and not under the other. Today the judge has sided with the first-sale doctrine, which means he is seeing these as material objects.
Android

Submission + - Researchers Dump Trove of Android App 0Days (threatpost.com)

Submitted by
chicksdaddy
chicksdaddy writes: "Researchers in China published a trove of information on previously unknown (zero day) vulnerabilities in popular applications for Google's Android mobile operating system on Wednesday, including mobile browsers and at least one mobile wallet application.

The vulnerabilities were found in a wide range of Android applications and components, including Webkit, mobile versions of the Firefox and Opera browsers, Twitter and RSS reader applications, and a mobile wallet application. The vulnerabilities vary in severity, but many would allow a malicious hacker to access personal data on the device including SMS messages, personal contacts and financial information, and manipulate or take control of social networking- and other third party services accessed from the vulnerable application."
Government

Submission + - Surveillance Drones over U.S. get OK by Congress (washingtontimes.com)

Submitted by suraj.sun
suraj.sun writes: Look! Up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It’s a drone, and it’s watching you. That’s what privacy advocates fear from a bill Congress passed this week to make it easier for the government to fly unmanned spy planes in U.S. airspace.

The FAA Reauthorization Act, which President Obama is expected to sign, also orders the Federal Aviation Administration to develop regulations for the testing and licensing of commercial drones by 2015.

Privacy advocates say the measure will lead to widespread use of drones for electronic surveillance by police agencies across the country and eventually by private companies as well.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/7/coming-to-a-sky-near-you/

Submission + - Man claims he invented the internet, sues Google, Yahoo, and others (wired.com) 1

Submitted by sohmc
sohmc writes: Michael Doyle claims that he invented the first internet. It was designed to allow doctors to view embryos on a browser window. If the name sounds familiar, it's because back in 1999, his company Eolas successfully sued Microsoft for violating the same patent. Microsoft appealed, but eventually settled. Tim Berners-Lee — father of the early web — is scheduled to testify. As someone who denounces software patents in general, I wonder why Google, et al, would even ask him to testify. Many of these companies (think Amazon's 1-click patent) have used patent laws to their advantage. It will be interesting to see what shakes out.
IT

Submission + - MongoDB In Review (infoworld.com)

Submitted by
snydeq
snydeq writes: "Andrew Glover provides an in-depth look at MongoDB, one of several NoSQL data stores filling the voids left by traditional relational DBs. 'Working with MongoDB is not without challenges. For starters, Mongo requires a lot of memory, preferring to put as much data as possible into working memory for fast access. In fact, data isn't immediately written to disk upon an insert (although you can optionally require this via a flag) — a background process eventually writes unsaved data to disk. This makes writes extremely fast, but corresponding reads can occasionally be inconsistent. As a result, running Mongo in a nonreplicated environment courts the possibility of data loss,' Glover writes. 'The relational database is still the staple data store for the vast majority of applications built today. But for some applications, the flexibility offered by Mongo provides advantages with respect to development speed and overall application performance.'"

Comment Re:Not welcome (Score 2) 86

by echo_kmem (#38846579) Attached to: DARPA Funding a $50 Drone-Droppable Spy Computer
Not all of 'us' feel as you do. Most of 'us' do it purely out of curiosity, not because we want to impress some stranger on a forum somewhere. Hackers make the world go round, money keeps the bills paid. So just because he won't be welcomed in your basement does not mean I won't invite him down to mine.

Comment Re:An interesting use for Raspberry Pi (Score 1) 86

by echo_kmem (#38846491) Attached to: DARPA Funding a $50 Drone-Droppable Spy Computer
I think the Raspberry Pi's are targeted for Schools and Developing Countries, I do not think they are available to the public, least at this time. PogoPlugs have been around a bit and seem to run twice as much as the suggested on the Raspberry Pi's. http://www.amazon.com/Pogoplug-Media-Sharing-Device-Remote/dp/B005DB6NG6/ref=dp_cp_ob_e_title_1
Encryption

Submission + - Stealing smartphone crypto keys using radio waves (networkworld.com)

Submitted by
coondoggie
coondoggie writes: "Encryption keys on smartphones can be stolen via a technique using radio waves, says one of the world's foremost crypto experts, Paul Kocher, whose firm Cryptography Research will demonstrate the hacking stunt with several types of smartphones at the upcoming RSA Conference in San Francisco next month."

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