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- Berners-Lee lashes out at US/UK hacking
- One in ten smartphones runs Windows
- Samsung works on its own 64-bit mobile processor
- Anti-piracy chip developed
- Chinese hackers are back in action
- North Korea will destroy your gadgets
- Twitter to float for $14.4 billion
- Intel sets up internet of things division
| Berners-Lee lashes out at US/UK hacking Posted: 07 Nov 2013 02:52 AM PST The inventor of the world wide web has taken a stance on the revelations that the NSA and GCHQ were widely engaged in cracking encryption. |
| One in ten smartphones runs Windows Posted: 07 Nov 2013 02:28 AM PST Microsoft's deals with Nokia are starting to make slow but noticeable progress, with more than ten percent of smartphones in the EU running on Windows. According to market analysts Kantar WorldPanel, Android still remains the number one system in most countries, but Windows Phone is gaining fast. In the UK it now accounts for 11.4 percent of the market, up 7.2 percent compared with the same period last year and easily overpowering BlackBerry which has a dismal 3.1 percent of the market to take third place. Dominic Sunnebo, strategic insight director at Kantar Worldpanel ComTech said that the gradual global growth of Windows Phone stems partly from the historical popularity of budget Nokias with users. In Latin America, no one actually wants expensive smartphones and they are happy to own Nokia-built feature phones. However, this means that Microsoft really did buy itself a foot in the door in the mobile market by getting Nokia, if it does not make the same mistake and try to push its phones into the high margin multiple feature smartphones peddled by the likes of Apple. But there are risks that while Microsoft might get its way into the cheap and cheerful market, it is not the part of the industry where great profits are made. Unless, that is that Microsoft can work out a way of linking cheap smartphones with the rest of the Microsoft hardware it has in its stable. |
| Samsung works on its own 64-bit mobile processor Posted: 07 Nov 2013 02:26 AM PST Samsung is working on an in-house optimised version of a 64-bit mobile processor and the tame Apple press is screaming that it is cheating. Cnet thundered that Samsung was just copying Apple by moving to 64-bit. After all it is completely illogical for a company to move with the technology trends. "Apple drew plenty of oohs and aahs when it revealed the first 64-bit chip for smartphones in September. That Apple A7 processor is also an ARM-based design that has been optimized and tweaked by Apple. It is now shipping in the iPhone 5S and iPad Air," advertised CNet. So imagine Cnet's anger when Stephen Woo, president of System at Samsung Electronics, told a presentation at Samsung's Analyst Day in Seoul, South Korea that it was adopting a two step approach to adopting 64-bit. It was using a design from ARM, then, developing its own "optimised" 64-bit design. Which is probably not copying Apple, just following a logical method of adopting ARM 64-bit in the shortest possible time. Woo said that there is considerable demand for 64 bit based mobile gear and it was pressing ahead with its roadmap. The whole concept that Apple invented 64-bit first is naïve to say the least. PCs progressively moved to 64-bit and there is pressure to have mobile with the same amount of power. For the mobile revolution to work, 64-bit is an obvious no brainer, particularly if you want PC performance from smaller toys. Central to mobile development is the ability to address larger memory sticks, something that 32-bit chips can't do. True, Apple was one of the first off the boat to realise this, but hell following the logical technology progression is hardly copying Jobs' Mob. Sheesh. |
| Posted: 07 Nov 2013 02:24 AM PST Chip designer Beyond Broadband has developed a password-free anti-piracy chip. The outfit, founded by a quartet of cable industry veterans, has been granted a patent for making a chip to solve the problem of getting entertainment content and data securely over the Internet, broadband or wireless. Steve Effros, one of the BBT partners and a former president of the Cable Telecommunications Association claims that the chip provides a totally secure communications path. The chip does not involve software, which is too easy to hack, instead it has a "downloadable conditional access system," with its hardware specifically designed so only a licensed user can access the content. According to the Hollywood Reporter it is an open system which different parties can use to protect data and intellectual property. The plan would be that a distributor or company sends the content or data to a consumer or company by wired line, the Internet or over the air. The consumer downloads the movie, medical record or whatever kind of data to a cable box, TV, computer, game system or even bank, scientific or industrial database. The pre-programmed computer chip inside the device receives the download and provides the only authorisation needed. The person receiving it does not need a password or a trusted authority or public/private key. BBT plans to license the tech to cable tech providers, chip and hardware manufacturers, and consumer electronics companies. It is $5 a unit in comparison to the current cable card system. Once it comes out, we will open a book on how long it takes hackers to knock it over. We also wonder if the NSA has come up with a backdoor for it yet, after all it should be able to send anything encrypted, not just movies. |
| Chinese hackers are back in action Posted: 07 Nov 2013 02:22 AM PST The Chinese hackers who went quiet after the US made a big noise about their operations, appear to be back in business again. Earlier this year, the US moaned about a secretive Chinese military unit believed to be behind a series of hacking attacks. Shanghai-based Unit 61398 was named and shamed for a large number of US attacks, although China's Defence Ministry denied the claims. However the attacks stopped. Now it seems that with the US being outted as the country with a serious cyber spying problem, the Chinese are back. The US-China Economic and Security Commission, a panel which advises the US Congress on China policy, said Mandiant's revelations brought a brief pause in cyber intrusions by that PLA unit. The commission said in a draft of its annual report to Congress that there was no indications the public exposure of Chinese cyber espionage in technical detail throughout 2013 has led China to change its attitude toward the use of cyber espionage to steal economic and trade information. According to Reuters, Mandiant's revelations "merely led Unit 61398 to make changes to its cyber 'tools and infrastructure' to make future intrusions harder to detect and attribute." The Chinese embassy in Washington said that the cyber attacks are transnational and anonymous and no one knows how the evidence against China is collected. It is fairly likely that the unit re-activated with new tools and methods after it was revealed by former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden's that the US NSA had conducted cyber-operations against targets in China and Hong Kong. |
| North Korea will destroy your gadgets Posted: 07 Nov 2013 02:20 AM PST The Glorious People's Republic of North Korea is developing Russian-made electromagnetic pulse weapons to disable all the electronic equipment in South Korea. Announcements like this often come from the office of the office of North Korean ex-girlfriend murderer Kim Jong-Un. Normally we file them in our "we have discovered a unicorn basket" for slow news days but this time they come from the South Korean spooks who have spotted the technology being deployed. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the National Intelligence Service (NIS) said in a report to parliament that the North had purchased Russian electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weaponry to develop its own versions. EMP weapons damage electronic equipment and can cause damage including to aircraft. It also means that at a press of a button Kim Jong-Un can switch off every tablet and smartphone in the South and show the Imperialist lap-dogs what it is like to live in North Korea. Kim Jong-Un sees cyber-attacks as an all-purpose weapon along with nuclear weapons and missiles and is trying to hack into smartphones and lure South Koreans into becoming informants. North Korea is believed to run an elite cyberwarfare unit of 3,000 people and staged thousands of cyber attacks against the South in recent years, causing financial losses of about $805 million. |
| Twitter to float for $14.4 billion Posted: 07 Nov 2013 01:17 AM PST A company that limits you to 140 characters to say something to the #universe will float on the New York Stock Exchange (#NYSE) today. |
| Intel sets up internet of things division Posted: 06 Nov 2013 07:55 AM PST Chipzilla has set up a business division aimed at making money out of the internet of things. Once much mocked in the TechEye offices as the talking fridge technology, and now dubbed the internet of fangs, Chipzilla thinks that will be the next thing to happen after mobile and it needs to keep its hands on its things or lose them. 'Internet of Things Solutions Group' will report directly to Chief Executive Brian Krzanich and will be under the control of a thingee me bob Doug Davis. Krzanich wants a higher level of focus on things to help Intel to grow into a bigger thing, Davis said. In September, Krzanich announced that Intel was working on a new line of ultra-small and ultra-low-power microchips for wearable devices like watch things and bracelet things, along with an edibale thing for biomedical uses. The new thingee group combines an existing Intel business focused on chips for commercial and industrial devices with Intel's Wind River subsidiary, which sells software for commercial and industrial devices. Intel was pulling together a couple of its things that are already doing well and wants to accelerate those efforts, Davis said. |
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