Over the past month, Rafay Baloch, a security researcher, has been investigating two lingering vulnerabilities in the built-in Web browser of Android devices, and security vendor Lookout conducted a study that indicates an alarming data: nearly half or 45 percent of devices running Google’s mobile operating system are susceptible to the flaw.
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HTC expands beyond the smartphone business with the launch of RE camera
HTC CEO, Peter Chou, is quite right when he said the Taiwanese phone maker is evolving beyond, well, making phones into producing other device offerings such as the recently launched RE camera. The device had been circulating the rumor mill and just this week, HTC broke the gossip cycle to unveil what is to become […]
After failing to win WhatsApp, Google is building its own mobile messaging app
Before Facebook was finally able to snap up WhatsApp, there was a tight tug-of-war between the social networking giant and Google over who would acquire the mobile messenger app. In the end, Google lost its more than $10 billion takeover bid to Facebook, which bought WhatsApp for $19 billion.
The differences between GoPro Hero 4, Hero 4 Silver and Hero 4 Black
GoPro is set to roll out the three models of its new Hero 4 action camera family in October: the standard GoPro Hero 4, a GoPro Hero 4 Silver and the higher-end GoPro Hero 4 Black. Although the cameras have many similarities overall, there are slight differences that each cater to the needs of different […]
Bigger screens change games
The bigger screens that the iPhone 6 plus and its 4 inch plus rival are blessed with are a dream come true for some of us. Not everyone has 20/20 vision! But there are more commercially arresting reasons for taking a squint at some of the beneficiaries of the Phablet phenomenon.
Facebook vows not to track your location in iOS 8
With the release of iOS 8, Apple has altered the permission options for the Facebook location services settings. In the earlier versions of the mobile operating system, users were able to select between On or Off Location services. Now Facebook allow users to choose between On and Off for features such as the Nearby Friends.
