Posted by Greg Mills
Developing Apps for the iOS devices is very lucrative. Despite the developer support Apple provides, it still takes a knowledge of writing code to fully prepare an app for launch. Google has been working on a drag and drop app builder for primitive apps for Android but Apple’s developer program is still pretty hard for non-programers to use.
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Posted by Greg Mills
The convergence of cell phones, computers and the internet have been fertile ground for all manor of good things. “There is an app for that” has been something nice to hear. Long ago, Apple figured out that killer apps are what drives device sales.
It seems like threats to privacy are increasing exponentially lately. Now when a cop wants to check your identification he calls in your driver’s license number and someone on the other end of the radio looks you up on a police computer system. Soon they radio back anything he might need to know.
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Posted by Greg Mills
FaceBook has secretly been providing complete files on its users to law enforcement. Most of the time the FaceBook users never know their information was given to the police. The policy decision to advise users or not of the warrant is for FaceBook to decide. FaceBook prepared a manual for warrant proceedures they appear to have reproduced for law enforcement. See http://cryptome.org/isp-spy/facebook-spy.pdf
Read MorenCircle, a provider of automated security and compliance auditing solutions, recently announced the results of the nCircle 2011 Smartphone Study. And it shows that Apple may have a security perception problem.
The results are based on a survey of 551 respondents in the IT security industry, including senior management, IT operations, security professionals and risk and audit managers. Highlights of the study include:
° Seventy-one percent respondents identify Google Android devices as presenting the highest level of smartphone security risk, a considerable increase from 39% in 2010.
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Posted by Greg Mills
I posted a statement this morning that was issued by HTC’s lead attorney, in its complete and full form. The international press has taken that statement to be an almost emotional cry that the “bad Apple” isn’t playing fair in the smartphone market. Poor HTC, pass the kleenex.
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