Ahleen is a tech columnist who has written about a wide range of technology from high-end mobile phones to electronic diapers. She is a graduate of Mass Communication and is a certified nerd.
So what country does mobile phone usage constitute as a war crime? North Korea. In a seemingly comedic story, The Telegraph is reporting that in North Korea, anybody who is caught using his/her cell phone or attempting to escape to china during the 100-day mourning period for Kim Jong-il is subject to punishment as it is [...]
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Ovum Research has unveilied its annual developer survey. And the results are quite surprising. The results showed that Android appears to be closing in on Apple as the platform of choice by developers. It also said that majority of the developers preferred to support both the iOS and the Android platforms. Another unexpected result that came [...]
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Nokia is continuing its downward spiral as they posted a 74% fall in earnings during the fourth quarter of last year. This includes the sales of their latest Windows Phones, which has fell behind their rivals Android and iPhone. The world’s largest mobile phone maker, when we speak about volume, disclosed a new scheme in [...]
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Twitter announced last Thursday that they are going to begin restricting Tweets in some countries. This comes as a huge surprise since Twitter has helped public upheavals against governments. This was more pronounced in the Middle East. According to a blog post by the company, “As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries [...]
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The release of the jailbreak for iDevices using Apple’s A5 chipset, such as the iPhone 4S and the iPad 2, was welcomed by Apple users with open arms. Much to the chagrin of Windows fans, their jailbreak has yet to be developed. But according to iPhonefaq, the jailbreak that is being used by Apple can [...]
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Hacktivist group Anonymous is letting you join their attack just by clicking at their tweets. Users may unwittingly know that they are allowing Anonymous to do this to them. Senior technology consultant of Sophos, Graham Cluley, reported the new “tactical attack technique”. This was used to attack the US justice department website a week ago. [...]
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After we saw how the cruise ship Costa Concordia was humbly turned over to her side by a small coral, people immediately thought about the tons and tons of oil the Concordia was carrying with her and how it could affect the small island of Gigli and its surrounding waters if the oil escapes from [...]
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The iPhone is taking over the world one user at a time. While they are wrecking havoc in the smartphone market, Apple’ executives are grinning from ear to ear as this only maximizes profit for the company. Apple said last Tuesday that they were able to sell 37 million units of iPhones in the past [...]
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Looking to brandish a new smartphone that screams “I’m rich and can afford anything”? Or you just want to prove that you belong to the elite class? Well, if you have $2,400 to spare you don’t have to look any further. BlackBerry is launching its BlackBerry Porsche Design P’9981. The smartphone’s mere price makes the [...]
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Google is now upping its security features by changing its privacy policy. This goes out to all of their services like, Gmail, YouTube and Google+. This change will take effect this coming March 1st. Google said that these changes will give the people much better search results and will enable advertisers find customers. This comes [...]
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