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Submission + - Gearing Up for Android App Development? Here's a Checklist You Can't Afford (goarticles.com)

Submitted by victoriabrinsley
victoriabrinsley writes: Supported by web giant Google, Android is a mobile operating system that has been embraced by smartphone users residing in different corners of the world. As one of the most favorite mobile operating systems, Android has been equally appreciated by both the mobile app developers as well as consumers.

Comment Re:Where's my rate cut? (Score 3, Interesting) 135

by Dancindan84 (#46867133) Attached to: Netflix Confirms Deal For Access To Verizon's Network
And unfortunately that's going to be the downfall of net neutrality. Too many people who would prefer to have equal access to everything... until they can't watch their show without it buffering. The big ISPs know that the will to fight is low enough they can do what they want and get away with it.

Submission + - Majority Of Facebook Ad Revenue Now Comes From Mobile Devices (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: Remember when Facebook, and the advertising world in general, was worried that users moving from desktop browsers to mobile phones would destroy their businesses? Well, Facebook seems to have figured out how to get by. According to their last quarter results, nearly 60 percent of Facebook ad revenue now comes from mobile devices.

Comment Triple dipping? (Score 5, Insightful) 135

by Dancindan84 (#46867025) Attached to: Netflix Confirms Deal For Access To Verizon's Network
If the FCC's new proposal passes, ISPs like Verizon and Comcast could also charge Netflix for faster direct connections to its customers over the last mile."

So the ISPs would be able to charge their customers for access (which is often tiered), companies like Netflix for access and then companies like Netflix AGAIN for faster access. The go to excuse that they use is that they're infrastructure can't support giving everyone everything, but they took billions from the government to build out infrastructure and then never did it. Oh, I guess that makes it quadruple dipping?

Comment Application vs. server (Score 1) 251

I might be missing something, but isn't it usually easier to get a back door into software than to seize a server? Reading the articles it's using or piggybacking on P2P, but you have to get the software from -somewhere- initially, and I assume there will be updates. Even if those updates are pushed out via the integrated P2P network, I'd imagine there's still ways they could compromise it. And wouldn't the tracking of user names make things more dangerous should the software be compromised?

Submission + - Google offers news on progress for self-driven cars (newsok.com)

Submitted by Rodwardse
Rodwardse writes: Despite the progress over the past year, the cars have plenty of learning to do before 2017, when the Silicon Valley tech giant hopes to get “autonomous driving” technology to the public.

None of the traditional automakers has been so bullish. Instead, they have rolled out features incrementally, including technology that brakes and accelerates in stop-and-go traffic, or keeps cars in their lanes.

Submission + - The Home-Made £100 Mobile Phone Using Raspberry Pi (ibtimes.co.uk)

Submitted by rofkool
rofkool writes: A mobile phone has been built using a Raspberry Pi and has been named, you guessed it, the PiPhone. Software engineer David Hunt created the DIY project to see what the Raspberry Pi could be capable of.

The total cost of all components amounts to only $158 (£94), and include an Adafruit touchscreen interface, a LiPo battery and a Sim 900 GSM/ GPRS module.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation referred to it as a "remarkably simple build" that had great potential.

"For those of you who do not want your phones crammed with Apple, Google or Microsoft software," the foundation said, "or who want the satisfaction of making one yourself, this is the perfect project."

Submission + - Over 99% of all Mobile Malware is Now Targeting Android (ibtimes.co.uk)

Submitted by DavidGilbert99
DavidGilbert99 writes: The numbers don't lie. F-Secure has discovered 277 new families of mobile malware in the first quarter of 2013. 275 of them targeted Android with just one targeting iPhone and one targeting Symbian. Not alone that, the one iPhone malware only affects jailbroken devices. It seems cybercriminals are going after the money once again...

Comment Re:Or.. (Score 1) 360

by Dancindan84 (#46816185) Attached to: Not Just a Cleanup Any More: LibreSSL Project Announced
That would be ideal, and there's nothing stopping the OpenSSL project from doing that.

Except for a lack of manpower and funding, which this fork is splintering even further. And the vague way that they say they're cleaning up OpenSSL when what they're doing is in fact forking it honestly strikes me as misleading. I don't mind that their out to make an OpenBSD specific fork of OpenSSL per se, just that if I'm going to fund something I'd rather fund getting it fixed for everyone.

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