Every year, scores of security experts gather up in Las Vegas, Nevada, for the annual Black Hat conference, and plenty of major companies have swallowed their pride and involved themselves in an event which doesn't view exposing security vulnerabilities as taboo. Apple, however, has always been a glaring absentee, but in a real turn up for the books, the Cupertino company has agreed to give a presentation at 2012's Black Hat, taking place this Thursday.
Jelly Bean (4.1) is Google's latest and greatest Android release, and while many of the newer devices will be seeing (or already have seen) an OTA update of the buttery new operating system, it now appears the Samsung Galaxy S II - an oldie but goodie - will also be treated to the tasty new firmware.
Before Ice Cream Sandwich, manufacturers put their Home, Menu, Back and Search buttons in different order just to differentiate themselves from one another. Companies like Samsung even went head and removed the all-important Search button* altogether which results in a different Android experience.
Apple and Samsung's court battles are well documented in the blogosphere, and in the very latest, Apple has been granted an EU-wide injunction preventing sales of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 7.7.
As Apple fans lose themselves amongst the talk of the next iPhone, as well as the murmurs regarding a smaller iPad, the iPod touch continues to be overlooked, but according to Japanese blog Macotakara, the Cupertino company is planning to give the forgotten device a fairly significant upgrade.
It’s believed that over nine months have passed since Apple publicly released iOS 5, bringing with it a whole host of new features and developer APIs including the much loved Notification Center. The previous notifications system - if you can call it that - on iOS devices was clearly in need of a revamp with Apple deciding that the best route to go down was to overhaul the system entirely and introduce a notifications hub where all app announcements are placed together.
Electronic Arts' collection of sports games are possibly the company's real cash cows these days, and one that is quite possibly up there with the best of the money makers is the FIFA series. One of the longest running football (or soccer, depending on your particular persuasion) games that originally made its debut back in the Sega Genesis days, EA is now getting ready to usher in the latest update to the franchise.
Two new Smart Cover-like Nexus 7 cases have been outed by a UK accessory retailer, with the two protective options both featuring similar magnet technology that allows the tablet's screen to be turned on or off based on the case's position and orientation.
Google's new Nexus 7 tablet has already proved to be extremely popular gadget amongst technology fans. As expected, it hasn't flown off the shelves as fast as we generally see the iPad go, but recent reports have shown that consumers have already depleted official supplies of the 16GB model, with prospective purchasers now needing to wait until more come off the manufacturing line before they can get their hands on that Jelly Bean goodness. With Google only recently launching their first Nexus 7 commercial via YouTube, it represents a pretty decent success story without any actual defined advertising and we are pretty sure the popularity will continue as we move forward.
A couple of days ago, we reported of a hacker by the name of Alexey Borodin, who had found a way to exploit the in-app purchasing system of iOS. Apple always responds properly whenever there's a whiff of a security flaw, and as well as promising developers the issue will be completely resolved when iOS 6 arrives around October, the Cupertino outfit has delivered an interim fix.
