Karsten Nohl suggests decrypt GSM with distributed computing, and to provide a complete code book. (Image: Hacking at Random) Security researchers Karsten Nohl wants a distributed computing project run that breaks the encryption on GSM. This he said at a lecture at the Dutch conference on “Hacking at Random”. Then it would be possible to [...]

Felipe Gomes in his video shows several ways to control applications using gestures for Firefox (screenshot: ZDNet). The browser Mozilla Firefox has since version 3.5 multi-touch capabilities. This means that it can be controlled with finger movements. But now Mozilla developers Felipe Gomes has demonstrated in a video that can be equipped as well as [...]

Belkin has revealed details of the availability of Gigabit Powerline adapters known in Europe. The adapter called F5D4076ea be offered from September as a two-bundle for suggested retail price of 149 € or 225 Swiss francs. They allow, according to the manufacturer’s first powerline adapter theoretical transfer rates of up to 1000 Mbit / s [...]

The e-mail offers from Web.de and GMX are now connected via a direct link to profiles on Facebook. Users can switch on the Facebook icon in the Navigator bar to your own Facebook profile. Re-entering your username and password is not necessary. This is made possible by the so-called OpenID technology. The single sign-on system [...]

The montage shows access to applications such as Facebook on a standard phone with Microsoft OneApp (Image: Microsoft) Microsoft has announced a program for low-end mobile phones that lets you access, for example on services like Twitter or Facebook. and can use Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger. OneApp be released in late 2009 exclusively in emerging [...]

Torch Mobile browser maker reports on his site that he had been bought by Research in Motion (RIM). A purchase price is not mentioned. Blackberry devices could also get in the near future a new browser. CNET News to RIM representatives in early August a better blackberry browser for the summer of 2010 had promised. [...]

The number of newly registered Jugendschutz.net of violations of the Child and Youth Protection on the Internet in 2008 has risen again and was the first time over 3000 Strong growth has established the initiative, especially in the area of ​​Web 2.0. But the success rate of labor is higher than before, the organization has [...]

A survey of Micro Focus says that companies use for their software testing to a large extent original data, including customers, employees and credit card information. This can facilitate abuse of confidential data clearly, the Company cautions not entirely altruistic, because with Data Express also has a product to generate test data in the program. [...]

Yahoo Messenger looks – like many others Yahoo’s core products – more and more like network of social issues (Image: Yahoo) Yahoo has redesigned most of its core products, including the search engine, mail and messenger.. You get additional “social”: Customers can upgrade from within the portal or in their messenger status, share photos and [...]

The British company ThumbsUp presented a solution for those who care about the security of information stored on an external drive: USB-Personal Pocket Safe USB stick with security codes. To gain access to protected data, the user must enter the PIN-code through the numeric keys located on the body flash. Attackers, to obtain a storage-room [...]

Several years ago, USB-drives have replaced floppy disks and archaic CD-RW discs. Large volume, high speed data transmission, mobility – these are the main advantages of the ubiquitous “flash drives”, without which the present life office worker, engineer and programmer in our time is impossible. Every day, USB-drives are becoming more affordable and more perfect [...]

The blog reported Areamobile that at the end of September, the successor to the BlackBerry Storm will be released. The BlackBerry Storm 2 is a video on YouTube, according to no set as its predecessor to have springs mounted touch screen, but a piezoelectric multi-touch display. The new screen responds supposedly easier and faster to [...]

The English edition of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia will soon introduce a function that submits the changes to articles about living people the control of an experienced Wikipedia editor. According to the Wikimedia Foundation, amended articles of the users are not visible until it has signed the editor. Wikimedia Foundation spokesman Jay Walsh confirmed in [...]

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About the supposedly new Tablet PC is little more known than this old sketch from an Apple patent application (Image: USPTO). After his return to Apple, Steve Jobs now to take care of the final details of the Tablet project, writes the Wall Street Journal – and appeals to well-informed insider. Especially important to him [...]