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Monthly Archives: April 2015
Tattoo You?
Reports are surfacing that Apple’s iWatch does not always work with those sporting them!
Smart Pedals
Connected Cycle’s Smart-pedals GPS-tracking idea is a good idea and crowd-funded concept that’s already achieved 171% of their goal. Nevertheless, it would seem that an internally-based, frame-device is also an anti-theft consideration (which may or may not already be under-development).
Posted in Convergence for a Converging World
Tagged Bicycles, Bikes, Blogski, GPS, Technology, Tracking
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There’s an Error for That?
The faulty third-party application that caused American Airlines to cancel a number of flights demonstrates once again the increasing and on-going challenges of hardware/software reliance…
Posted in Convergence for a Converging World
Tagged Applications, Apps, Blogski, Tablets, Technology
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Hacked.
Russian hackers who gained access to the White House’s email system (last year) demonstrate once-again the on-going, e-vulnerability that global organizations ranging from business to governments potentially face.
Posted in Convergence for a Converging World
Tagged Blogski, e-Security, Espionage, Government, Hacking, Technology
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iReady?
With Apple’s official iWatch just roll-out under way, only time will tell (pun intended) how well the First-generation fares. Leaving the advance order backlog aside, if preliminary reviews are accurate the firm looks to have hit on their hands.
Project Fi.
For the sake of genuine competition, let’s hope that Google’s Project Fi (Wireless Service) shakes-up America’s (essentially) Telecommunications duopoly!
In the Cloud…
Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) continues growing robustly despite the firm’s reported overall losses last quarter. While this is good news for the firm it also shows the increasing Cloud-dependence of organizations s ranging from the CIA to Netflix and the potential hacking … Continue reading
Posted in Convergence for a Converging World
Tagged Amazon, Blogski, Cloud, Computing, Hosting, Testing
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Steal This!
Two researchers have reportedly discovered a way to capture identification data for Samsung’s S5 fingerprint recognition software via hacking the handsets’ memory… just another day in the never-ending saga of ‘the-more-humanity-becomes-tech-dependent-the-greater-the-level-of-hacking-possibilities.’
Posted in An Alp View
Tagged Android, Blogski, Fingerprint, Fingerprints, Google, Hacking, ID, S5, Samsung, Technology
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Yokatta!
Congrats to Japan for breaking their own maglev (high-speed) train record (603km/h | 374mph!)
Posted in Convergence for a Converging World
Tagged Blogski, Bullet, Infrastructure, Japan, Maglev, Nippon, Shinkansen, Technology
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No Static At All…
Norway will become the first nation to officially switch-off their FM radio signal in 2017.
Posted in Convergence for a Converging World
Tagged Blogski, Digital, FM, Streaming, Technology
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