This article just reinforces what we know about mobile in emerging technology countries. We also see the same adoption rates among demographics that previous to mobile had no real entry point to the internet- in the US; latino and urban demographics. And there is real money in those groups- the mobile device simply enables them.… [Read more…]
November 24, 2010
(Release) Most 18-27 year-old Opera Mini users use their mobile phones to browse the Web more often than they use a desktop or laptop computer for the same purpose, according to the results from a survey released today by Opera. In Nigeria, South Africa, and Indonesia, over 90 percent (%) of so-called Generation Y users said… [Read more…]
November 15, 2010
(Computer World) Researchers have uncovered new clues that the Stuxnet worm may have been created to sabotage Iranian attempts to turn uranium into atomic bomb-grade fuel. According to Eric Chien, one of three Symantec researchers who have dug into Stuxnet, the worm targets industrial systems that control very high speed electrical motors, such as those… [Read more…]
November 5, 2010
(NYT) PARIS — The European Commission called on Thursday for stronger protection of Internet users’ personal information, after news of data leaks at companies like Facebook and Google highlighted concerns about digital privacy. Viviane Reding, the justice commissioner, announced its intention to overhaul the European Union’s data protection rules to take account of the development… [Read more…]
November 1, 2010
This is just a great article. The issues over privacy and security in the mobile space are just beginning to rear up. this debate over Firesheep. Firesheep is a new FireFox add-on. Firesheep is a tool that makes it easy for its user to assume (hijack) the identity of other users on a number of popular… [Read more…]
October 27, 2010
(White House Blog) - As part of the Obama Administration’s commitment to promoting the vast economic opportunity of the Internet and protecting individual privacy, the National Science and Technology Council has launched a new Subcommittee on Privacy and Internet Policy. Populated by representatives from more than a dozen Departments, agencies and Federal offices, and co-chaired by the… [Read more…]
October 26, 2010
(NYT) For many people, their mobile phones often double as a second brain. But efficiently searching through that reservoir of information to quickly locate contacts, upcoming events and addresses is still time-confusing and often frustrating. Is there an opportunity to reinvent the way people find things on their phones? Kiha Software, based in Seattle, is… [Read more…]
October 14, 2010
The new virtual currency (credits) that Facebook has started printing, is going to be printed at a faster rate (God, I would do it as well, if i could!). In a big push to bring more developers on-board with its virtual currency, Facebook said it now has the capacity to add three or four times as… [Read more…]
October 11, 2010
HTML5 is currently under development, as the next major revision of the HTML standard. Like its immediate predecessors, HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.1, HTML5 is a standard for structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web. The new standard incorporates features like video playback and drag-and-drop that have been previously dependent on third-party browser plug-ins such as Adobe Flash and Microsoft… [Read more…]
October 7, 2010
At Siteminis, we have seen this coming for a while, cypercriminals looking at mobile as a potential cash cow for scams. Companies such as Opera are partnering up with Netsweeper to provide added security for mobile operators. IDG News Service – Smartphone exploits are coming, as cybercriminals start to figure out how to make money… [Read more…]
November 29, 2010
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