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The Forced Touchables | Tech Talk Today 155

chris — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 09:57:52 +0000

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Apple Watch reviews are hitting the web & we’ll give you a quick meta-roundup of the Internet’s opinion of Apple’s new wearable.

Plus the Android App that truly saves battery life, Popcorn Time expands & more!

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Apple Watch Review Roundup: The ‘World’s Best Smartwatch’, But ‘Not For Everyone’

Apple has given members of the media several hands-on experiences with the Apple Watch following its special events, but ahead of Apple Watch pre-orders, select sites have been able to get a much closer look at the device. Apple has provided a handful of publications with Apple Watch review units, giving them a chance to spend multiple days with the watch, and they’ve now shared their opinions in reviews published today.

Stop Android Lollipop from killing your battery – TechRepublic

I was wrong. As is the case with many upgrades, I quickly ran into a troubling side effect: significant battery issues.

Greenify

Greenify help you identify and put the misbehaving apps into hibernation when you are not using them, to stop them from lagging your device and leeching the battery, in an unique way! They can do nothing without explicit launch by you or other apps, while still preserving full functionality when running in foreground, similar to iOS apps!

Popcorn Time’s Launched on iOS

While Popcorn Time has been available on Android for some time, it’s now arrived on iOS with an installer that can put the app on non-jailbroken devices. It’s likely that it uses a test key from an enterprise device to achieve that.

The new development could cause serious headaches for both Apple and legal streaming services like Netflix. In fact, Netflix itself singled out Popcorn Time as a serious competitor in a shareholder letter earlier this year.

Heartbleed One Year Later: Has Anything Changed? – Slashdot

It was on April 7, 2014 that the CVE-2014-0160 vulnerability titled “TLS heartbeat read overrun” in OpenSSL was first publicly disclosed — but to many its a bug known simply as Heartbleed. A new report from certificate vendor Venafi claims that 76% of organizations are still at risk, though it’s a statistic that is contested by other vendors as well as other statistics. Qualys’ SSL Pulse claims that only 0.3 percent of sites are still at risk. Whatever the risk is today, the bottom line is that Heartbleed did change the security conversation — but did it change it for the better or the worse?

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The Big Apple | Tech Talk Today 59

chris — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 09:37:06 +0000

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We meta-cover the iPhone 6 reviews & discuss the pros and cons of large format mobiles. Then the updates coming to almost all Android phones, Microsoft’s bad news, Docker’s great news & hacking your Amazon account via an ebook exploit!

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iPhone 6 Plus review | The Verge

I can’t see myself ever using my iPad mini again after having the 6 Plus, and it’s getting harder and harder to justify pulling out my iPad Air. With the right software changes, I could basically use an iPhone 6 Plus all day long, for everything from sending messages to editing documents to watching videos. A do-everything phone like the 6 Plus would eventually allow Apple to push the iPad even further towards becoming the true laptop replacement it was always meant to be.

We’re going to need bigger hands.

t I have no desire to use an iPhone 6 Plus as my personal phone. I ordered an iPhone 6 for my own use. And if the iPhone 6 Plus were the only new iPhone this year, I probably would have stuck with the iPhone 5S.

Google Play Services Updated for Testing Google Fit Apps

oogle has begun rolling out Google Play services 6.1 with a set of new APIs for developers. The new features include an Enhanced Ecommerce extension for analytics, improvements to Drive support, and testing capabilities for the upcoming Google Fit platform.

Enhanced Ecommerce provides “richer insights into pre-purchase shopping behavior and into product performance.”

Round two of Microsoft layoffs coming September 18: Sources | ZDNet

Microsoft cut 13,000 employees total in the first wave back in July. That wave included some, but not all, of the former Nokia employees, my contacts say. It also included employees in the Operating Systems Group and just about every other group across the company. Microsoft also is planning to reduce its dependency on “contingent” (non full-time) employees by 20 percent as part of its realignment.

I am not sure how many will be cut in this week’s round, which I’ve heard will be announced internally this Thursday, September 18. But I do hear that the second round of cuts will span across almost every group at the company. I’ve also heard there still will be more cuts happening as part of the original 18,000 total at further dates in the future.

Docker Raises $40M, Plans New Enterprise Tool for 2015

Docker Inc., the lead commercial sponsor behind the open-source Docker container technology, today announced that it has closed a $40 million Series C round of funding. The new round of funding comes on the heels of the Docker 1.0 release and the emergence of a commercial ecosystem around the container virtualization technology.

The Series C round of funding is the second funding event for Docker in 2014. In January, Docker announced a $15 million funding round.

The latest funding round brings Dockers’ total funding since its founding to $66 million, CEO Ben Golub said, adding that Docker has only now just begun spending the Series A funding money and is starting to tap into the Series B funds. “We closed the Series C pre-emptively, so we would have a full powder keg to go after the market opportunity,” G

Amazon Kindle vulnerability lets hackers take over your account – The Inquirer

AMAZON’S KINDLE has been found to be vulnerable to a type of malware that is triggered by downloading an ebook with a booby-trap.

Security researcher Benjamin Daniel Mussler has demonstrated a proof of concept attack the uses cross-site scripting (XSS) to infect a computer opening a sideloaded title containing code.

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Browser War 2.0 | CR 44

chris — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:36:29 +0000

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Blink a new fork of Webkit announced by Google looks to reignite the age old browser war, but this time around Mike and Chris think it’s only going to hurt developers, support personnel, and end users.

Plus the return of a notorious patent troll, and you won’t believe what they are claiming this time. Betting on the OUYA, a big batch of your emails, and much more!

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Khalil share some more disappointing USC news
Nick writes in asking if SPAs are crazy? And is looking for tips on how to influence the technical direction of his company without stirring the pot.
Juris has been coding nights and weekends but does not work in IT and would like to make the leap. But how?
Lots of Play! feedback.
Tushar doesn’t feel that the cloud is “ready yet” and has some questions about the QT license.
Krasi’s email: Trying something New

Dev World Hoopla

Lodsys: Patent troll Lodsys sues 10 mobile game makers, despite Apple’s intervention
Chrome gone wild!
Ouya Smackdown: Ouya review: can an indie console take on Sony and Microsoft? | The Verge

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