There's seldom a shortage of a few dedicated techies on standby ready to dissect and examine the nitty gritty interior of the GUI that the average Joe downloads and installs. A little look under the bonnet of Facebook's new exclusively-IM app for iOS and Android reveals the hallmarks of something even more significant lurking around inside.
If you use Facebook on your mobile device, you might be a frequent user of its messaging service. If so, you might become the newest fan of Facebook's just-released standalone messaging app for both Android and iPhone.
Results from a new study published today suggest that teenagers who are addicted to The Facebook Drug are at risk of catching a wide variety of psychological disorders.
A ten-year-old artist, athlete, girl scout and now “hacker” nicknamed CyFi has figured out a way to speed through time-based iPhone and Android games and showed it off on Sunday at DefCon Kids, part of the hacking-oriented DefCon 19 conference. While simple in its nature, this exploit works with many mobile games.
Picture yourself back in the 2006 holiday season: if you were a geek, you were most likely struggling with your Windows Vista upgrade (those were the days!) and dreaming of owning that then-brand-new smartphone. More likely than not, it had a physical keyboard, had a rudimentary built-in web browser and definitely not a multi-touch display. When the iPhone first launched, the whole smartphone space was taken into a whole different direction.
Today, two well-known members of the jailbreak community won awards for very different kind of work. Comex, the developer of the well-known JailbreakMe 3.0, has earned an Pwnie Award for discovering such an exploitable vulnerability. George Hotz, the man who first unlocked the original iPhone back in 2007, won a very different kind of prize: read on!
Ladies and gentlemen! We present to you: The Angry Birds Bra aka Angry B**bs. Angry Birds, developed by Rovio Mobile, is a popular series of puzzle-based video games which involve throwing little angry birds at mischievous pigs placed in different configurations on different levels. The first game, simply titled Angry Birds, was released on the App Store back in 2009. Today, it is the most popular game on every iOS device, namely the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
After barely seeing the light of day on Google+ a couple of weeks ago before being hauled off, the hacktivist group who go by the name Anonymous stated its intention to come up with it's own social networking site with a more open-source, anonymous platform. Promising to deviate from the censorship which affects the Facebookers and Googlers of this world, it was said to be aimed at those who “simply want a better internet”.
It's no secret that we've been gaming more and more on our mobile devices, but just how much? The folks at Geekaphone have put together a comprehensive infographic demonstrating to main areas of growth. So what are they? Read on.
Co-founder of Microsoft Corporation William Henry Gates III aka Bill Gates is now “richer” than the federal government of the United States of America.
