By Dave Parrack on 29th November, 2013 | Google Android, Tech News | No Comments
Today in Tech News Digest, a database of stolen smartphones is completed, Apple wins another lawsuit, Microsoft narrows a CEO hunt down to dual people, a best Black Friday bargains are revealed, Miley Cyrus tops TIME poll, App Ops opens adult Android, and a hunt for a tough expostulate containing $7.5 million value of Bitcoins gets underway.
Stolen Smartphone Database Complete
The CTIA has completed a database of stolen smartphones. This allows carriers to retard handsets that have been stolen, that is an increasingly common problem. This bid was started in 2012 though has usually now been completed. All 4 vital providers in a U.S. — ATT, T-Mobile, Sprint, and Verizon — have corroborated a scheme, that covers LTE and 3G devices.
The U.S. database has also been integrated with general databases. In a press release, CTIA boss and CEO Steve Largent, said, “As some-more countries and some-more carriers around a universe attend in a 3G and 4G/LTE databases, criminals will have fewer outlets given these stolen phones would be blacklisted and could not be reactivated.” This is an critical step in assisting to deter theft, as many stolen smartphones are being shipped overseas.
While this should assistance forestall stolen smartphones from being used by those who performed them illegally, it won’t do anything to assistance a victims of such crimes. My advice? Don’t buy a smartphone in a initial place… no one wants to take dumbphones.
Apple Wins Another Lawsuit
Apple has won another lawsuit, this time brought by a possess customers. A sovereign decider in California has discharged a lawsuit brought by 4 plaintiffs dissapoint over Apple’s purported defilement of a remoteness policy. Apple stood indicted of conceptualizing iOS to concede third parties to collect and investigate personal information about users.
U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh discharged a case, stating, “Plaintiffs contingency be means to yield some justification that they saw one or some-more of Apple’s purported misrepresentations, that they indeed relied on those misrepresentations, and that they were spoiled thereby.”
Join us subsequent week for another lawsuit involving Apple that will substantially finish in feat for Cupertino.
Microsoft CEO Search Narrows To Two
The Microsoft CEO hunt is personification out really publicly, really slowly. Mulally front runner, Nadella in second. http://t.co/ChxFJYYU35
— Jay Yarow (@jyarow) November 28, 2013
The hunt for Microsoft’s new CEO, set to replace Steve Ballmer in a subsequent 12 months, continues, though it’s claimed a hunt has narrowed to usually dual candidates. The common “people informed with a matter” told Bloomberg that it’s between Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally and executive clamp boss of Microsoft’s Cloud and Enterprise organisation Satya Nadella. Whoever is chosen, we doubt they’ll be utterly an interesting as Ballmer valid to be over a years.
Black Friday Bargains
It’s Black Friday, during slightest in a U.S., that means there are tech deals galore to be had if we know where to look. The Wirecutter has an downright list of good deals on record including smartphones, headphones, laptops, tablets, and televisions. Our possess Matthew Hughes also found 10 tech bargains for Black Friday 2013.
Meanwhile, serve proof Bitcoin’s flourishing mainstream acceptance, a website called Bitcoin Black Friday has deals on products from 400 retailers, all of that are accessible to buy regulating Bitcoin. MakeUseOf’s in-house podcast Technophilia recently had Jon Holmquist, a male behind Bitcoin Black Friday, on as a guest, and a part can be downloaded for your listening pleasure here.
Miley Tops TIME Poll
TIME, as it does each year, is now perplexing to confirm who a Person Of The Year is going to be. Names on a shortlist embody Edward Snowden, Malala Yousafzai, and Pope Francis, though they are all now being beaten in the reader poll by one Miley Cyrus, she of Wrecking Ball fame. How is this possible?
Because, utterly simply, a check is being fraudulent by trollish Internet users. The Daily Dot has a good write-up of how this is happening, and, some-more to a point, how it’s proof so successful that Miley is on course to win a poll. However, a formula have no temperament on a final decision, with a editors of TIME renting a right to select whoever they damn good like. Regardless, Miley Cyrus is a loyal Person Of The Year… a Internet has intended it.
App Ops Opens Android
A new app called App Ops is available to download on Google Play. App Ops allows “anyone using Android 4.3 or 4.4 to entrance Android’s dark permissions controls for specific apps.” The giveaway chronicle offers some features, though a paid-for chronicle offers a lot more. It’s usually a contrition Google won’t open adult these accede controls to everybody though a need for an additional app.
The $7.5 Million Hard Drive
And finally, a British male is exceedingly woeful his preference to throw out an aged tough drive, as it contains 7,500 Bitcoins. James Howell, from Newport in Wales, bought a Bitcoins in 2009 when a practical banking was roughly worthless. After spilling a splash on his mechanism he distant a shop-worn appurtenance a few years ago, and stored a tough expostulate in a drawer before eventually throwing it out a few weeks ago.
It was usually when Bitcoin started becoming mainstream news that Howell satisfied he’d trashed his usually means of cashing in a practical currency, which, after a outrageous swell in value, is now value around $7.5 million. Howell has now begun to search a landfill site his tough expostulate finished adult buried in, though a chances of locating and recuperating a tough expostulate are intensely small.
This demonstrates how we can go from practical millionaire to pennyless klutz in a space of one day.
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