The folks at 9to5 Mac have noticed that Apple’s iPad 2 Smart Cover lets you bypass a passcode lock on a device running iOS 5, albeit with limited access to the iPad’s applications. Here’s how the bug/exploit works. First, make sure your passcode lock is set to activate immediately when you lock your iPad (this will simplify testing, although the problem is still there if there’s a lock delay). Press and hold the iPad 2’s power button to elicit the “Slide to Power Off” slider — but don’t slide the control to actually turn it off.
For many independent or smaller-scale Mac developers, the promise and profits of international distribution for their apps is obscured behind a very practical challenge: internationalizing their projects, which can take months and plenty of money/resources as all the interface items are translated to the target language.Starting today, that’s going to become a bit simpler. The Tethras mobile application localization service.
Samsung has made it official: Its 7-inch Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus will arrive at U.S. retailers on November 13. Pre-orders start Oct. 23.The Wi-Fi-only Plus model with 16GB of storage will cost $400 at Best Buy, Amazon, Tiger Direct, Fry’s and other retailers. Samsung’s Friday announcement didn’t mention price and availability of other Galaxy Tab 7 Plus models with 32GB and/or cellular connectivity, although it’s likely they’ll arrive shortly.
The man responsible for HPs corporate and technological strategy is leaving the company. And he wont be replaced.On Thursday, HP announced that Shane Robison will hang up his spurs on Nov. 1, after 11 years at the technology giant. Sources inside the company tell Wired.com that after Robison vacates the position, a vast majority of his staff will now report directly to CEO Meg Whitman and the rest will report to various division CEOs. According to the company, this will drive strategy, research, and development closer to the companys various businesses.
In more bad news for bandwidth hogs, Sprint the last bastion of unlimited data plans among U.S. carriers will soon retire its unlimited 4G data plans for all non-smartphone devices.Effective this November, Sprint customers will have to pay for 3G and 4G data use combined, a departure from the companys previous policy of allowing unlimited 4G data while asking customers to pay only for 3G. Even worse, existing unlimited 4G hotspot data customers wont be grandfathered in. Thats right: Now everyone has to pay up.
Microsoft Research, the arm of Microsoft that’s seemingly from the future, has been busy creating what it has called a HoloDesk – a display, which allows a user to interact with digital objects.A video demo of the concept desk is impressive and shows off the technology that’s behind the kit.Using a webcam, a beam-splitter and some facial recognition technology, the HoloDesk creates the illusion that objects on a screen are actually projected on a desk below. The user can then play with these projections as if they are real objects.
Yesterday, Adobe made changes to a page on an Adobe website that controls Flash users’ security settingsor more specifically, to the Flash .SWF file embedded in the page that opens the Flash website privacy settings panel. The changes are intended to prevent a clickjacking attack that uses the file to activate and access users webcams and microphones to spy on them.The change comes a few days after a Stanford student revealed the vulnerability on his website.
We all know that soon a quad-core mobile processor from Nvidia is giving, is cut down to us, but this is the first video surfaced on the Web is with the various features in detail, almost too beautiful. No matter what you want to do with a tablet, the new Kal-El manages to smoothly and thanks to the new Android OS probably also in a few simple / few steps.
It seems Samsung has difficulties in keeping the strands and to conceal its new Nexus smartphone to the last moment from the presentation, that is going to be live in a few hours . The Samsung Galaxy Nexus Prime is already advertised on the Verizon Website in America where you can register for more information.
Asus has released a short video on its Youtube page online where the new Transformer 2 is probably visible. It is not specifically mentioned by name or shown exact functions, but you can see the clear contrast to the predecessor and “It’s coming” is probably enough information.
HTC is becoming popular with more and more customers, or at least known. This trend reinforces the smartphone company in Taiwan with an ” Inspired by You “have created campaign on Facebook in which thousands of members of a new fragrance. Together with the perfume expert Claude Zellweger and Kim Weisswange what’s right arose great. There are emotions, experiences and experiences are associated with it. The fragrance will also be harmonious.
In Hong Kong , the new Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and presented here ye may know well all the new features such as face matching. You find the place like a teaser for the new Samsung Galaxy Nexus (Prime) smartphone. It is of course a little knowledge of English required. Enjoy the show, we are already waiting for the first units in November!
D-Link has introduced a practical router that can do more than just connecting different computer to your home network. The D-Link HD Media Router DIR-657 has a SharePort installed Plus technology, which allows access to external hard drive, printer, scanner, or flash memory, from any device. So you can hook your TV in the Home Network and watch photos and videos directly from the SD card or USB.
Amazons second tablet, initially thought to be scheduled for a late 2011 or early 2012 launch, may not begin shipping to users until after the first quarter next year. According to a report from DigiTimes on Wednesday, Amazon will use manufacturing giant Foxconn to assemble its 10-inch tablets, and mass production is not set to begin until some time in the first quarter of 2012.
Intel has had four years ago, much before with their new mobile processors. At that time there were no tablet computer and the smartphone madness had just started first. Just recently they announced the 100th Millionth processor sold and many still go off the treadmill and for about 30 dollars a piece , with good profit, sold. Even AMD can compete with their $ 20 here, not much make up, among other things because she has been temporarily disrupted supplies.
Research in Motion is in trouble last time, not only in what the sales numbers of their Blackberrys are concerned, but in addition also had problems with their servers, through which all communication is the business phone. After three days we could not send emails or check, there is now a small reparation for the company. Private users get different apps from the store that have a value of over $ 100. The list can be found immediately following, among other things, Sims 3 and Vlingo Plus.
Nokia tried it with innovative accessories to put foot again and has brought interesting headphones on the market that can be connected via Bluetooth to the smartphone and 99.8 percent noises such as aircraft turbines or can suppress noise from the street.Thus you destroy the ears by listening to loud music and you simply must not even be angry with the touch screen control of your smartphone around.
Nice, my current favorite Messenger on Android called Chaton will also soon be available as a web version. Probably old hat, but I have just seen only by chance, when I visited the website. This could Chaton other mobile and web-messengers such as making Imo.im & Co competition.
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