Information Technology

$99 Touchpad anyone? maybe loaded with honeycomb?

There is already a movement to put honeycomb on the Touchpad. Now that HP has discontinued the Touchpad, you can search for one from Walmart and start loading a proper OS. http://rootzwiki.com/showthread.php?t=3327 http://touchpadroid.blogspot.com/   Update! ok, by 11:31 on August 24th most retailers are sold out. But it is rumored that another shipment should arrive …

Google buys Motorola, maker of the Droid smartphone for 12.5B!

Kinda big news, the maker of the popular Droid smartphone, Motorola,  is being purchased by Google. Apparently Google needs patents and Motorola has plenty. They also have made of of the best hardware platforms for Google’s Android smartphone software. Motorola owns something like 17,000 patents on mobile phones, and plenty more in the pipeline. Larry …

CDMA and 4G possibly vulnerable to man in the middle attack! (Confirmed!)

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/92370-4g-and-cdma-reportedly-hacked-at-def-con Ill write more later.. it seems this may be legit.. if so I wonder which 4g was hacked…   Update, apparently this has now been confirmed by a second source, still no word of which 4g this affects.. Also no word from the carriers yet. I would say that this is not good news …

Something i’ve known for awhile…”Beware of Macs in enterprise, security consultants say”

I’ve long preached about the false sense of security Mac users have and how this assumption that they do not need to consider security could end up with users being compromised. Certainly as user acceptance grows and Apple gains market share, this would only increase. Other factors to consider is the lack of enforcement and …