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Researcher Shows How Smartphones Record Our Every Key Stroke

Trevor Eckhart, a researcher that not long ago publicly announced that a company called Carrier IQ installed tracking software in most smartphone, now came forward with a video that actually proves his findings. The video shows that Carrier IQ tracks every key stroke, including passwords, text message contents, web ...

1 December 2011
08:05 GMT

Zoombak Intros Tracking App for Android

Zoombak, a leading company in personal GPS tracking devices, has just announced the release of a mobile application for handsets running under Google's Android operating system. According to Zoombak, the new software solution offers its users the possibility to locate their tracking devices from an Android-base...

29 October 2010
06:45 GMT

RFID Can Now Be Inserted in More Production Processes

In a move that is bound to restrict people's privacy, as always, researchers have discovered a new way of implanting RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) chips into much more material and products than thought possible. Until now, only things that were made at temperatures of less than 100 degrees Celsius could...

25 November 2009
02:59 GMT

Rosetta's Earth Approach 'Within Expectations'

Last Thursday, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta space probe managed to perform one of the most successful trajectory correction maneuvers (TCM), according to officials at the agency. The spacecraft's gravity-assist maneuver was very close to projections, and it is now well on its way to meeting up ...

28 October 2009
15:51 GMT

Cellflare Releases Free GPS App for iPhone

A PDF news release posted over at Cellflare’s website reveals that the company’s first iPhone app has just been approved in the iTunes App Store, where it is available for free download onto any iPhone model running iPhone OS 3.0 or later. The navigation app uses your iPhone’s GPS system to locate y...

26 August 2009
10:37 GMT

There's an App for Swine Flu Tracking on Your iPhone

Developer IntuApps is preparing (hoping?) for the approval of a Swine Flu Tracker app for iPhone and iPod touch, a tool that will enable every handset owner on the planet to successfully zig-zag through the hotbeds of the infection. The app will be distributed free of charge, following its approval in the App Store. ...

4 May 2009
05:01 GMT

Updated TrailRunner Can Display Recordings Right from Your iPod

Many Mac OS X users have found a solution for tracking their long distance sports in TrailRunner. The latest version of the app (1.8.281) adds the ability to display recordings from iPhone 3G and iPod touch equipped with GPS functionality.Developed by Berbie, TrailRunner is aimed at sports dealing with long distance ...

5 November 2008
08:32 GMT

NSObjects Sells Calories App to danholt4mac

Mac OS X software developer danholt4mac has announced its acquiring Calories from its original makers, NSObjects. danholt4mac has an impressive portfolio of OS X apps, but apparently it wasn't complete without NSObjects' journaling app for daily nutrition activities.Calories will be developed from now on by...

5 November 2008
05:48 GMT

Stolen Notebook Contacts Owner, Sends Thief in Jail

Laptops are small, portable and lightweight devices that can be carried almost anywhere with a minimum amount of effort. However, their greatest advantage, portability, seems to also be their weakest spot. Thieves can easily snatch your unit while you are looking away, leaving you without both your favorite toy and y...

16 April 2008
08:55 GMT

Nanodisks Speak Binary

So, the nanotechnology managed to develop nanomaterials of nanoflakes, nanowires, nanorods... but what about the nanodisks? They must be useful at something! Researchers from Northeastern University agreed and, in order to demonstrate their use, they developed a method that uses nanodiks carved out of nanorods to en...

28 December 2007
04:38 GMT

Active RFID More Popular

Radio-frequency identification ( RFID for short) is an automatic identification protocol that is based on data transmitted by a number of wireless capable devices using RFID tags or transponders. Such a transponder can be inserted into almost any kind of object ranging from electronic components like computers and ce...

11 August 2007
07:37 GMT


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