Samsung Galaxy S 3 Ad Pokes Fun at the Apple iPhone 5
Just two days before Apple’s iPhone 5 launch on Friday, and following the recent print ad, Samsung has released another Galaxy S 3 video that bashes Cupertino’s latest and greatest….
Emil Protalinski
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Android Hacked via NFC on the Samsung Galaxy S 3
Security researchers participating in the Mobile Pwn2Own contest at the EuSecWest Conference in Amsterdam today demonstrated how to hack Android through a Near Field Communication (NFC) vulnerability. The 0day exploit…
Japanese Government Sites Allegedly Hacked by the Chinese
The Chinese-Japanese islands clash has taken a new turn; an online war may have just erupted. Japan appears to be the victim, but that’s just assuming the country’s Internet elite…
Coursera: 33 Universities, 200 Courses, 1.3 Million Students
Coursera today announced 17 new universities have signed agreements with the education technology company to bring courses online for free, in the areas of music, medicine, humanities, and so on….
Facebook Pages Manager for iOS Version 1.4 Released
Facebook today released an update to its native Pages Manager for iOS app. You can download the latest version now from the official Apple App Store. The biggest new feature…
Facebook Lets More People Pay to Promote Posts
Back in May, Facebook started testing a new feature called “Highlight”, which lets you pay actual money to make sure that more of your friends see your status update, in…
Leaked Photos: RIM's First BlackBerry 10 Smartphone
Research In Motion (RIM) is working hard on its upcoming BlackBerry 10 platform, which of course means there are leaks to prove it. The latest images, courtesy of BlackBerry Italia,…
Microsoft adds a recycle bin to SkyDrive, promises to recover any file
Microsoft today announced a new Recycle Bin feature on SkyDrive and revealed that an “Excel surveys” feature will be coming in the next few weeks. The software giant says the…
Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7 Has Already Been Rooted
Yesterday, XDA Developers forum users “kinfaus” and “pokey9000″ were discussing how the latest devices from Amazon (the second-generation 7″ Kindle Fire and the 7″ Kindle Fire HD) come with more…
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Represents Just 1% of All Android Traffic
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, which was open-sourced back in July, is doing very well, if this headline from Chitika Insights is read out of context: “Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Adoption…
Wikipedia Gets Ebook Export Feature for Offline Reading
Wikimedia today announced that it has enabled a new EPUB export feature on Wikipedia, but only on the English version of the site. You can use the new feature to…
Google+: 400 Million Registrations, 100 Million Monthly Active Users
As part of Google’s announcement to acquire Snapseed’s creator Nik software, Vic Gundotra, the Senior Vice President of Engineering for Google, just announced a new milestone for Google+: 400 million…
How to Root Any Android 4.0 or Android 4.1 Device
Last week we told you about a tool that lets you root any HTC Android device. If you don’t like HTC, but are still on Android, then we have good…
Google Kills Internet Explorer 8 Support in Google Apps
Google today announced it is discontinuing support for Internet Explorer 8 in Google Apps, including its Business, Education, and Government editions. The kill date is November 15, 2012. After that,…
Deutsche Telekom Sends iPhone 5 Customers to Adult Dating Hotline
Deutsche Telekom users just wanted to preorder a new iPhone 5. Instead they got phone sex. Nope, it’s not April Fools’ Day. It’s just a Friday. You can’t make this…
