Facebook, Google- European privacy battle looms: European regulators are investigating whether the practice of posting photos, videos and other information about people on sites such as Facebook without their consent is a breach of privacy laws.
The Swiss and German probes go to the heart of a debate that has gained momentum in Europe amid high-profile privacy cases: To what extent are social networking platforms responsible for the content their members upload? continue reading…
Sceptre 46-Inch HDTV on sale for $598 (with free shipping to a local store). Newegg has the same model marked down to the same price, $598, plus $50 shipping.
Either way, that’s a substantial discount from the current regular price of about $730. The 46-inch LCD HDTV has a 1080p resolution, a 60Hz refresh rate, and a 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio.
The security researchers developed an undisclosed attack on the iPhone’s mobile Safari browser to get access to a phone and then run a program that sent the phone’s SMS messages to a Web server.
It is the first fully functioning attack on an iPhone since Apple released version 2 of the device in 2008, said Charlie Miller, the hacker who is set to follow the iPhone attack with an exploit he hopes will hack into the contest’s MacBook Pro (his takeaway, should he succeed: the laptop and $10,000). continue reading…
The Zipcharge Quick Charger is another device that allows you to charge up your mobile phone, PDA or MP3 player while on the move.
The device is available over at Firebox where they claim the charger can charge a phone up to four times quicker than a regular lithium-ion charger. Just 15 minutes of charging time is capable of giving your iPod another 20 hours of music playback and a standard mobile phone about 10 hours of talk time. Obviously those numbers won’t match up for the iPhone and other large screen smartphone devices, but for a smaller phone that requires a lot less battery juice to keep running it certainly will come in handy.
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Mobile phone cameras, no matter how many megapixels they have still tend not to be as good as a regular digital camera. I’ve actually only seen one camera phone that actually takes quite nice shots (the 8 megapixel LG Renoir). Others just make do although some are obviously better than others.
The InVisage Technologies QuantumFilm chipset aims to sort that problem out by using quantum dots that can absorb about 90 – 95% of the light that hits the sensor allowing for better quality images in varying light conditions with pictures being captured up to 12 megapixels in size. Compare that 90 – 95% to a regular mobile phone camera sensor (which gets about 20% at most) you potentially have a great camera.
