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NUTS: Google, Apple Break Sales Records, Verizon Takes Heat from Consumers
January 8th, 2012 
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Google, Apple Break Holiday Activation Records
January 2nd, 2012 admin Google and Apple saw record-breaking device activations and app downloads over the holiday season, underscoring continued explosive growth as a new year dawns. Mobile data company Flurry reported nearly seven million Christmas Day phone activations worldwide on the two main mobile platforms, more than triple the usual daily activation average. Activations were evenly split between [...]
Hackers Break Siri Security, Android May Benefit
November 15th, 2011 admin Developers claim to have cracked Siri’s security protocol, implying Apple’s voice-activated assistant could be hacked onto Android devices. Engineers at the French firm Applidium claim they got through Siri’s security and discovered the format it uses to communicate with Apple’s servers and the iPhone 4S. The French developers made a demo recording using the tools [...]
The Score: RIM Can’t Get a Break, Facebook Grows Your Brain
October 21st, 2011 admin Research in Motion just can’t seem to catch a break, while Facebook addicts have a new argument against people who call them brainless for spending too much time on the site. The Score is a weekly column scoring controversial events in the mobile industry. Want to get to the point? We’ll break it down and [...]
IPhone 4S Sales Break Records for AT&T, Sprint
October 18th, 2011 admin The iPhone 4S is on pace to become Apple’s highest-selling smartphone ever, as customers fed up with BlackBerry and Android phones flock to the device. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company sold four million units of the iPhone 4S over the weekend. Analysts said sales of the 4S easily outpace its predecessors, largely because the device launched [...]
IPhone 4S Pre-Orders Break Apple Records
October 10th, 2011 admin Apple announced more than one million iPhone 4S devices have been pre-ordered on the first day of availability, as the company gets a boost from Verizon and Sprint. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company’s 4S broke the iPhone 4′s pre-order record of 600,000 handsets ordered in a single day. AT&T said it received 200,000 orders in the [...]
Hackers Break Into Car Locking Apps
July 29th, 2011 admin Hackers may be able to break easily into apps that let users unlock their cars, as threat of cyber-attacks continues to grow. ISec researchers Don Bailey and Matthew Solnik said they were able to break into and intercept messages between a car and its network within two hours, duplicating them on a laptop. Bailey and [...]
Chinese Hackers Break Into Gmail Accounts
June 3rd, 2011 admin Google said Chinese hackers targeted the e-mail accounts of senior U.S. officials and hundreds of prominent people, the latest revelation in an escalating series of computer attacks sure to intensify concern over Internet security. Those targeted by this “spear phishing” scam, including government and military personnel, Chinese activists, officials in several Asian countries and journalists, [...]
