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Toronto study shows mobile spyware’s long shadow

Posted by Lola Lindeman On August - 28 - 2012 NO Comment

Earlier this year, researchers had noted how activists in Bahrain were spied on with the software. They suggested that it appeared to be FinSpy, part of the FinFisher commercial surveillance toolkit. The Citizen Lab workers said they now also recovered versions of the spyware that target the BlackBerry OS, Windows Mobile, Nokia’s Symbian platform, as well as Android, and that it has seen “structurally similar” Android spyware communicating with command-and-control servers in the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic.

As for Apple devices, it appears that FinFisher spyware will run on iPhone 4, 4S, iPad 1, 2, 3, and iPod touch 3, 4 on iOS 4.0 and up.

FinFisher spyware comes from Gamma International in Andover, UK, part of the Gamma Group of companies.

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More Lumia advertising boards springing up

Posted by Jackson Walton On August - 28 - 2012 NO Comment

By Ewan on August 27, 2012 in Devices

Heres another massive boarding I saw advertising Nokias Lumia range which should shortly will be boasting some additional handsets. The marketing team are obviously building awareness ahead of the expected launch next week.

Im rather excited to see what they bring to market. The existing Lumia devices are good Id like to see some astonishing capabilities. If the rumours are true we should hopefully see some Purevirw goodness integrated into the new top of the range handset.

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Amazon Launches the Inexpensive Glacier Cloud Storage Service

Posted by Jackson Walton On August - 27 - 2012 NO Comment

Cloud storage has quickly gone from a luxury, to an essential tool.  Not only is it safer to have a non-local backup of all your files, but having your photos and other files stored on the cloud means you can access them from anywhere, on a variety of devices. And thanks to Amazon, it just got a whole lot cheaper.Amazon Glacier offers storage of your data for the price of a penny per gigabyte per month. That means if you have a full terabyte of photos that you need backed up, you’re only paying $10 a month. Find more…

Invention will strike a chord with musicians

Posted by Lola Lindeman On August - 22 - 2012 NO Comment

The University’s JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice is collaborating with Adelaide software company BTM Innovation to make sheet music redundant within the next five years.

The two organisations are working on a platform to distribute music digitally, a breakthrough which is expected to rescue a global music publishing industry in crisis due to rising printing, distribution and warehousing costs associated with printed sheet music.

The same software will be used to help drive a unique digital music reading device, providing musicians with a facility that stores, displays and organises music in a digital format.

The invention is expected to transform orchestras around the world, creating the equivalent of a music e-reader.

“We have all the ingredients in Adelaide to create a world-class digital music reader — we just need to find the right hardware manufacturing partner,” says BTM Innovation managing director Peter Grimshaw.

Professor Mark Carroll, co-director of the JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, says Elder Conservatorium of Music staff will have a major input into the design of the digital music reader.

“It needs to work for musicians in every aspect,” he says.

“The potential for this device is huge.

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A U.S. District Court judge has rejected a proposed settlement in a lawsuit that alleges Facebook violated users’ rights by using their names and recommendations of advertisers to be publicized through a Sponsored Stories program.

The lawsuit, which seeks class-action status, was filed in the Northern District of California by five Facebook members on behalf of as many as 100 million users of the social networking site.

The settlement proposal calls for Facebook to change its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities (“SRRs”) and to implement certain additional mechanisms to give users greater information about, and control over, how their names and likenesses are employed in connection with sponsored stories, according to court documents.

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Posted by Jackson Walton On August - 14 - 2012 NO Comment

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Outlook.com: Microsoft Wants You Back – But Is It Any Good ?

Posted by Lola Lindeman On August - 14 - 2012 NO Comment

If you used the Internet before the likes of Google, Facebook and Twitter when Yahoo, Aol and Altavista were top dogs of the Internet  – you might still use Hotmail. In fact, Hotmail still has 350 million users, and I am one of them. But without being rude Hotmail has been dying a slow death over the last 5 years, this is where Outlook.com comes into play. Can Microsoft perform a lifesaving operation and engineer a miraculous u-turn to save what was once the world’s most popular web mail? Well, Outlook.com is their latest attempt at persuading you to come back to Microsoft.

When Google launched Gmail in 2004 it basically blew Microsoft out of the web mail game – since then Redmond has been playing catchup and hasn’t been doing a good job. But, thi

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