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Posts tagged iPhone
24% of iPhone users in the UK are too broke to fix it when they break the screen
01 month ago
24% of iPhone users in the UK are too broke to fix it when they break the screen. Probably because it cost so much to buy and use…they couldn’t even afford a case to protect it.
More interestingly, 57% of iPhone users in the UK break the screen at some point (most within the first three month), regardless or whether they have a case or not. Talk about a horrible design for a phone 
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More figures on PC Advisor
Criminals are having a field day with smartphones built to please and gain market shares
07 months ago
Let’s face it. The most popular smartphones on the market today are loved for their fun and useful features, not because they protect your privacy. They were not designed with security in mind, even though they hold so much information about an individual or an organization. And it’s worse if you jailbreak it in order to be able to customise it.
Some security researchers say all smartphones are vulnerable to malware and this could lead to identity theft, among other things. And it’s true, even though BlackBerrys offer better protection than iPhones (no sandbox) or Androids (no review system), it’s still possible to trick a user to go visit an infected website that could help leak information.
Choose your smartphone and the content you will put on it wisely. Treat everything that is on it as public information or just remove data you’d rather not see fall in the wrong hands, whomever they may belong to 
Guardian article about malware:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2011/jul/22/smartphones-hacked-zeus-malware
Guardian article about how easy it is to steal your data if you leave the Wifi on your phone constantly on:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/apr/25/wifi-security-flaw-smartphones-risk
Students prefer to develop mobile apps in Java
01 year ago
It comes as not surprise, really, since that’s what’s being taught at “IT school” and since you don’t need a Mac to develop mobile apps, but still, it’s interesting to see that even though more students at the University of Pennsylvania own iPhones than Android or Blackberry devices, they prefer to develop for Android.
Blackberrys have a new browser (on a low res screen), but they can’t even beat other smartphones
11 year ago
Expectations were high for RIM’s new baby, the 9800 Torch, but it seems the hardware is getting too old to stay in the competition when it comes to browsing.
Even with a low resolution screen, the browser can’t beat iPhone 4, let alone an Android Froyo device.
And it’s not just browsing, the whole UI is sluggish…
Flash is notorious for its security problems, but there are ways to protect yourself without banning it from devices: Blitzableiter
11 year ago
Most people creating Flash content don’t have a degree in Computer Science and fail to really understand OOP and to build optimized and secure applications. Worse, some content is loaded dynamically, meaning that what you put on your website (ads), may not be what’s going to be displayed to your visitors after all. All that and the fact that the Flash player has a long release history and contains 2 VMs means that it’s bloated and is not restrictive enough.
Some hypocritical extremists (#Apple) went for a total ban of the technology on their mobile devices, claiming that it was too slow and insecure, instead of trying to make it work like most other mobile companies are doing. We all know that wasn’t the real reason for the ban and we’re not surprised by more lies coming from a company that denies the Antennagate, but there is truth to the claims that Flash has security problems.
I loved one of the slides of Recurity Labs’ paper on their Blitzableiter application that filters flash files, removing malware, etc. It was titled “Native Security Functionality of Adobe Flash” and was left empty 
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Recurity Labs are offering an interesting solution for people concerned with what a website can do with their personal data and I encourage you to read more about it on the project’s page:
http://blitzableiter.recurity.com/projects/show/blitzableiter
