Apple Spyphone

At a technology conference in California, United States, Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden revealed that the iPhone and the iPad record the movement of users. The second engineer found a hidden file in the iPhone and the iPad which shows the location of users based on GPS coordinates, altitude, and time down to seconds. A creepy, even though the file is hidden, but the file is not encrypted. This means that this file can be easily copied and read by anyone who wants to spy on you.
With the existence of this file, Apple Inc. can be charged with breaking the law because it violates a person's privacy rights. Apple Inc. is still silent though urged by a variety of questions from various parties, including from some members of the U.S. Congress. Fortunately, Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden found no evidence that the information is delivered to a site. As far as their knowledge, the file containing the info is only stored locally.

However, this did not dampen criticism from many quarters. "It's not a smartphone, but spyphone," said John M Simpson, Director of Consumer Privacy Project Watch. He is not making this up because there is no way to turn off the recording location. In addition, the file cache is not like a computer that can be removed at will. Pete Warden argued that the file contains this info will carry on, we synchronize updated every tool, and even carried away when we migrate to newer devices.
However, there is still a glimmer of good news. For those of you who have to jailbreak your iPhone or iPad, you can use UnTrackerD. This applet can not stop the tracking, but can forcibly remove the log files on your device.
Apple alone has sold a lot of iPhone and iPad that affect the increase in revenue this year and increase the value of Apple stock ($ 351 at the close yesterday). However, this also means that many users are affected dampa, with a possible class action lawsuit is very big.
If you are curious about the file locations on your iPhone or iPad you, Pete Warden provides guidelines and an application to access it. Pete Warden of Apple itself had been an employee for 5 years before retiring three years ago.

Filesonic File Sharing Services closed

Are you one Filesonic premium account users? Maybe this time you're disappointed with the service from Filesonic. This is of course related to the turnaround of its own services Filesonic. Yep, Filesonic was once a site with a file-sharing services like Rapidshare, Fileserve, and the recently closed by FBI, Megaupload, now turned into a cloud storage service Dropbox and Box.net personal kind.

Cause to move bows Filesonic a cloud storage service might be caused by the forced closure site by FBI Megaupload file sharing. Today, millions of links that have been made ​​for file sharing directly from Filesonic useless. When the link is opened, will open a page like the picture above. However, the premium service users can still access the file itself.

Will this be the beginning of the collapse of all file sharing services? Only time will tell. Hopefully, other file sharing services, such as Rapidshare, Fileserve, Wupload, Hotfile, etc. do not end up like Megaupload and Filesonic.

Thorsten Heins will make significant changes in Blackberry

CEO of Research in Motion (RIM) Thorsten Heins, the newly appointed on Sunday (1/22/2012), are urged to immediately make changes to the company's business. Not only focus on hardware, Heins also asked to focus on the software for this many users complained.

So far, the BlackBerry OS platform judged unable to compete with Apple's IOS operating system or Android from Google. However, RIM BlackBerry still has the possibility of 10 or QNX could become the ultimate weapon for RIM again triumphed in the midst of competition antarvendor phones.Note in VentureBeat mentions that several years ago, the fall of RIM's difficult to predict. However, if I hear from people in the Silicon Valley, the decline in business since RIM has their predictions a decade ago.
Anything that is currently occurring in the body of RIM, Heins must immediately make changes, among which are:1. Repair Software Since 2002, RIM's business is always rubbing against the Silicon Valley. Bruce Dunlevie, a partner at Benchmark Capital, has said that RIM's hardware really stuck in the past because it does not have the support software that is qualified, let alone help from Silicon Valley. Increasingly lagging behind the BlackBerry platform from IOS and Android, especially the sinking platform vendor has experienced great success, such as Apple and Samsung.

2. Development and DeveloperUntuk App World to compete with Apple's App Store and Android Market from Android, RIM urged to improve its application and its virtual store developers (developers) who sell there application. This is because the App World is still considered less competitive and not providing value-added revenue for the company when compared to the App Store or Android Market.

3. Restore the iPhone's stock price RIMSejak embed global positioning system (GPS) in mobile in 2008, RIM's shareholders lost 70 billion dollars or about 82 percent of the value of the company. Until now, RIM's enterprise value of only 8 billion dollars, far less than Apple's still 400 billion U.S. dollars.
4. Increase mobile phone sales BlackBerry based on source CNet, BlackBerry phones - especially those that use the BlackBerry platform 10 - also canceled launched until mid-2012. Speculation about the unpreparedness of the platform should be pushed over with the launch of a powerful device, especially a better than previous devices. This was done so that RIM did not lag further and further from its competitors.

5. BlackBerry Repair PlaybookBlackBerry Playbook is considered as failed for the rim because the product did not sell despite all-out sale. Heins job ahead is to increase sales of the BlackBerry tablet with a reliable platform and provide benefits to develop application in it.

Pilot Use iPad for Flight

iPad replace paper flight data charts in order to save millions dollar of  American Airlines flight. Data charts are usually available in printed paper form. But the pilots no longer need to store lots of data of paper weighing up to 16 pounds, because they will soon use the iPad.

American Airlines was running a test program that contains the application iPad aviation charts. Without paper, this airline will be able to save the cost of millions of dollars.
The first iPads testing will be conducted on a flight between Los Angeles and Tokyo and Shanghai. This method has previously been applied to Alaska Air in May.
U.S. aviation administration institutions previously called the iPad as a single class of electronic devices that can be used in aviation pilots. They also have approved the use iPad tablet.
This is contrary to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), which said the existence of any portable electronic device can endanger the flight.

Raspberry Pi, The cheap computer for kids only $25

Raspberry Pi, the cheap computer for kids  that have long awaited is finally soon enter the production stage and marketed immediately. This computer has a mission to inspire children to be technology literate.

Computer named Raspberry Pi uses a similar Arm processor found in the phone. Additionally, this computer will operate using the operating system (OS) Linux.

Video game veteran David Braben claimed to have an idea to make Raspberry Pi is currently thinking about how to inspire young people to begin his career in the tech world.

Computer Raspberry Pi test version is already selsesai and was checking stage. For mass production will be conducted in January 2012. "If a satisfactory test version, we will make this computer a large scale in more than one factory," he said.

The computer Raspberry Pi itself will be made ​​two versions, namely model A for U.S. $ 25  with no network connector and Model B for U.S. $ 35  which have an Ethernet socket as quoted by the BBC.

Hackers Steal Apple, Microsoft and U.S. Government Data in stratfor website

Anonymous Hacker group again make a trouble. This time the group claims to have successfully hacked the Stratfor website, the company that has clients such as Apple, Microsoft and a number of important institutions of  the United States government.

Stratfor itself is one company that offers consulting services about the tactical and strategic intelligence, security analyst at a company, and demographic politics in some countries.

It is said that companies from the United States that have very few clients are kept confidential as the U.S. Defense Department, U.S. Army, Air Force, law enforcement agencies, security contractors, and leading technology companies like Apple and Microsoft.

Quoted from AFP on Monday (12.26.2011), Anonymous hacker group claimed to have managed to get thousands of critical data owned by companies that use the services of Stratfor, including Apple and Microsoft.

It was also proved by trying to expose some evidence like a screenshot of the data, as well as special links Stratfor refer to the actual client is strictly confidential.

Ironically, a group of hackers who stuck out his name in the scandal sites 'whistleblower' WikiLeaks says that Stratfor does not encrypt data on its users, allowing you to easily read.

Claremont, Processor with Super Power Save

Intel introduces some future computing concepts in day-to-3 Intel Developer Forum 2011 at the Moscone Center West, San Francisco (15 / 9). One of them is Claremont.

The presence of two days ago Claremont enough to invite attention, mainly because of the power saving capability.

As demonstrated two days ago, the Near-Threshold Voltage Processor is able to work only with the supply of power from solar cells the size of a postage stamp. A new circuit developed Intel Labs allows transistors to work at the turn-on voltage (threshold).

But this is not thought to slow the processor works. In the light workload conditions, power consumption is decreased up to 10 milliwatt, but their performance improved immediately when needed. In a guided demo that Justin Rattner (Intel CTO), the processor code-named Claremont is able to run the game Quake with Windows OS.

As disclosed Intel CEO Paul Otellini, Claremont yet to be realized. But it is quite possible if the Intel integrated circuits near-threshold voltage in the range of its products later. In addition to pressing the power consumption five times lower, the ability of this kind can support the always-on features on a variety of computing devices.

On the memory, power efficiency is done by Hybrid Memory Cube. Configuration memory chips stacked up to form a cube and use the interface is very efficient so as to save power up to 7-fold, without interrupting the data transfer process. Collaboration between Intel and Micron will be very beneficial to the server cloud, ultrabook, television, tablets, and smartphones.