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Hail the Unconquered Mobile Heroes of Pwn2Own: Android and Windows Phone 7
The fifth season of Pwn2Own—the now annual device and software hacking contest—has come and gone. As expected, we have some quickly exploited platforms and some unexpected winners. Among the winners, both Android and Windows Phone 7 have proven themselves impregnable by the hacking teams; but as much as this is a win for Android and ...
Kinect Powerglove Hack Allows for Free-Space Navigation and 3D Modeling
We’ve seen a pile of homebrew Kinect Hacks that take advantage of the figure- and gesture-detection capabilities built into the Kinect’s firmware—and now we’re seeing yet another implementation that takes advantage of that and takes it a step further by adding extra inputs. Sebastian Pirch of 3rD-EYE has demoed a free-space 3D modeling tool that ...
Twitter Joins the Ranks of the Always-On HTTPS Enabled
Slowly but surely social media sites are beginning to get the clue about the necessity of Internet security and launched with an always-on HTTPS setting for users. As many users access their Twitter accounts from not just home, but on-the-go and thus possibly unsecured WiFi hotspots it’s important to keep in mind that all that ...
Nintendo 3DS Commercial Debuts Before March 27th US Release
The new handheld console from Nintendo which took Japan by storm is finally coming to the United States on March 27th 2010—although it reaches Europe slightly earlier on March 25th. Retailing for about $249.99 it will be a bit more expensive than the standard Nintendo DS but the new functionality, the 3d part, probably makes ...
Expanded Stats Greet Android Developers on the Dashboard
It looks like Google is at it again: attempting to deliver deeper and better visualization of statistics and data for developers. They’ve moved in this direction before with Google Analytics for the web, but now Android developers are getting more benefits from the sheer amount of data that Google is capable of gathering about the ...
How Will You Spend St. Patrick’s Day? Ask a Social Network
Éirinn go Brách! It’s about that time of year: time for everyone in the US to guzzle green beer, pin shamrocks to their lapels, wear green (or get pinched), and quite possibly get very drunk. Lab42, an online market research and survey company, took it into its own hands to determine what social networkers were ...
AudioDraft: Bringing Crowdsourcing to Audio Production
What do music, contests, and crowds have to do with one another? They’re all integral components of the business model that AudioDraft uses to connect the work of audio professionals with interested consumers. The concept is simple: you have a project that needs some audio design (music, score, or effects) and but you don’t have ...
Google Circle’s Rumors and Eventual Dismissal Stirs Thoughts about Privacy
Over the weekend a rumor cropped up that Google would be releasing a new social-networking tool, Google Circles, at SXSW—but with the dawn today we quickly discovered that there is no Google Circles and probably will not be ever. The idea seems sweet enough, a network to manage our networks designed and published by the ...
Stephen Elop of Nokia Receives $6 million Signing Bonus
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Nokia Corp. has filed paperwork Friday stating that they’re going to pay Stephen Elop a more than $6 million signing bonus, Mr. Elop, recruited from Microsoft Corp. to revive the ailing handset maker’s fortunes, received a payment of €2.3 million ($3.17 million) in October and is entitled to ...
Sony Sets Kazuo Hirai as Possible CEO Successor to Howard Stringer
Currently bearing the distinction of being the President of Sony Computer Entertainment—Sony’s videogame hardware arm that brought us the PlayStation—Kazuo “Kaz” Hirai (平井 一夫) may be looking forward to stranger pastures as he’s been tapped as the likely successor of Sony’s Chief Executive Howard Stinger. Sony said Thursday that they would conjoin their videogame and ...
