As expected, the Mozilla Project has officially announced the release of version 8.0 of its open source Firefox web browser. Based on the Gecko 8 engine, Firefox 8 adds Twitter as a new default search option for select locales (more locales will be added in the future) and improves how add-ons are controlled.
We recently told you about the hidden panorama mode in the iOS 5 Camera app that could be enabled by editing a .plist file. Since then, a jailbreak tweak called “Firebreak” has been released that automatically enables the feature on any jailbroken iOS 5 device.
Panorama mode in the iOS Camera actually works, and you can get it on your own device right now without jailbreaking.
Barnes & Noble made it clear at the launch event for its Nook Tablet that it has the Amazon Kindle Fire firmly in its sights. The tablets from the two companies are pushing media sales for both, and ratcheting up the ebook wars a notch. With so much on the line, and both companies depending on selling content to make a profit, will these be the first Android tablets that get locked down from hacking?
The Duqu malware that targeted industrial manufacturers around the world contains so many advanced features that it could only have been developed by a team of highly skilled programmers who worked full time, security researchers say.
We’ve previously seen Apple’s much raved about Siri intelligent assistant feature hacked to work on an iPhone 4, but now developers have managed to hack the feature to work on an old iPhone 3GS. The hack comes from developers Grant Paul and Steve Troughton-Smith, while a video demoing the hack was posted by Ryan Petrich.
After demonstrating that an app can download malicious code after being accepted into the App Store, developer Charlie Miller found out that his iOS developer credentials were pulled by Apple.
Charlie Miller exposed a threat to the security of iOS devices by creating an app that could exploit a javascript exception in mobile Safari. The exception allowed the download of malicious code after an app has already been accepted into the App Store.
Is it FUD, a hoax or a real complaint about MongoDB? That is the question being asked by many after an anonymous posting on Pastebin called "Don't use MongoDB" created a flurry of controversy around the open source NoSQL database. The posting, alledgedly by an ex-user of the database, claimed that MongoDB loses data in various situations, including deleting the entire dataset, and that 10gen, the company behind MongoDB, was not prioritising reliability and instead chasing benchmarks.
Apple has fixed a security flaw affecting the Smart Cover for the iPad 2, it has been reported.
9to5Mac reports that among the changes in iOS 5.0.1 is a fix for the bug in how iOS handles the Smart Cover that makes it possible to bypass the iPad's passcode screen.
It works by preventing the iPad 2 to go to sleep when the Smart Cover is closed while the iPad 2's power off menu is being displayed. iOS 5.0.1 has been issued to developers as a beta after Apple yesterday conceded that there is a problem in iOS 5 that affects battery life.
Nokia Drive, Nokia’s turn by turn GPS navigation solution for their Windows Phone 7.5 handsets is one of their crown jewels, and being exclusive to the system it is expected to sell their phones over their Windows Phone 7 competitors.
Since Apple initially scheduled to implement this requirement in November of this year, this announcement is nothing new and is more of a timeframe shift than anything else; however, it still raises questions and concern over what this means for developers and end users.
Sandboxing is a security technique that acts as a last line of defense against exploited, buggy, or otherwise compromised applications, which Apple is implementing to ensure programs distributed through the Mac App Store are as safe and secure as possible.
