Android Password Pattern is easy to Find Through Touchscreen Smudge

Aug 162010
 

Now the Android smartphone users should be more cautious about their nine-dot lock patterns. A recent study paper by the University of Pennsylvania revealed most astonishing facts on this subject. Every fast food cognoscenti should read these astonishing facts in learning about the Android password pattern security on the touchscreen.

The oily smears on the touchscreen are a easiest way to identify or find an Android nine-dot lock pattern for anyone. Various lighting and camera orientation settings are the easiest way for the smear analysis. This study paper and results are demanding attention from every Android user and perfect remedy measures are necessary against to this touchscreen smudge. Perhaps some more bitter experiences from the users only can bring attention from the smartphone manufacturers on this issue.

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Cathay Pacific Airline Plans To offer 50Mbps in-flight broadband

Jul 092010
 
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Hong Kong based Airline Cathay Pacific are working with Panasonic Avionics the Supplier of in-flight Entertainment and Communication systems, to roll out a 50Mbps internet service and in-flight GSM cellphone service, as well as live and pay-per-view television to all its Customers by early 2012. Continue reading »

Letter from Apple Regarding iPhone 4

Jul 062010
 

Apple said about the signal problem:

“discovered the cause of this dramatic drop in bars” and that it was surprised and stunned that “that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally wrong.”

Our formula, in many instances, mistakenly displays 2 more bars than it should for a given signal strength. For example, we sometimes display 4 bars when we should be displaying as few as 2 bars. Users observing a drop of several bars when they grip their iPhone in a certain way are most likely in an area with very weak signal strength, but they don’t know it because we are erroneously displaying 4 or 5 bars. Their big drop in bars is because their high bars were never real in the first place.

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Decrease in Youth Activity Blamed on New-Fangled Smartphones

Jan 202010
 

The technologically-challenged are sure to be overjoyed with the findings of a newly released report, entitled “Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-year-olds,” published by the Kaiser Family Foundation. According to the report, young people from ages 8 to 18 devote an average of 7 hours, 38 minutes a day to sedentary pursuits such as TV, video games, and computer media. That totals up to a hefty 53 hours per week. Since bad news come in big helpings, you should know that this represents an increase of over an hour, in the last 5 years. For the sake of being merciful, we’ll spare you the depressing annual total.

Why the sharp increase in new-fangled gadget use? The study’s director, Vicky Rideout, cites the cell phone’s evolution into a “content delivery device”. Techies will obviously know this is a reference to data-enabled devices or as they are more insidiously known, smartphones. So, if one is looking for a solution, the obvious one is for parents to supervise and restrict their children’s time spent with anything electronic…just as they should do with all aspects of their children’s lives. Ultimately, it probably won’t be that hard…if the parents can free up the time to do it by actually detaching themselves from their own iPhones and BlackBerries. In the worst case scenario, though, Mom and Dad can just text, email, or DM their kids to arrange a video-conference.

Sources:

Kaiser Family Foundation Report

Los Angeles Times Article

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