Tag: mobile

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Data Privacy Day 2016 is About Protecting Not Hiding Your Information

by Lee Rickwood
From cyber-criminality to targeted advertising, from corporate spies to commercial retailers, from government agencies to technology developers, it seems almost everyone is looking at our online activity. And not just looking: our digital fingerprints are being are being tracked, collected, stored, analyzed, cross-referenced and re-purposed, often without our knowledge and often by entities unknown to us.

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Are Mobile Phone Sniffers in Use by Police Forces?

By Lee Rickwood
Incoming and outgoing calls as well as text messages can be monitored and recorded, encryption keys can be extracted, and all this can happen to one or several phones simultaneously, without an owner’s knowledge or permission.

How the mobile OS landscape changed in 2015

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

There’s certainly more to the mobile OS landscape today. A few years ago we had smartphone wars that focused on handsets and app ecosystems as well as the challenge of maintaining user loyalty and getting competing users to switch. All that has changed and in a big way.

Buying a smartwatch? Here are the latest to choose from

By Ted Kritsonis

Looking for, or intrigued at the notion of buying a smartwatch, either as a gift or for yourself? The category is still a mixed bag, but compared to last year, the added polish has made them noticeably better than the initial batch that came to market. We lined up some of the best available to you now.

Camera shootout: Comparing the top smartphone cameras

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Innovation in cameras may seem to have stalled for point-and-shoots, ILC’s and DSLR’s which will never compare in size and portability to smartphones which are becoming the preferred way to shoot pictures.

Going wireless: Bluetooth earbuds compared

By Ted Kritsonis

The term “cutting the cord” usually refers to cable and satellite subscriptions, but wires are slowly being cut out of in-ear headphones (or earbuds) because of Bluetooth wireless streaming. Now that there is a greater level of choice, how do some of the latest models stack up?