Mobile apps boom was clearly started by Phone introduced 2007 (there were some attempts earlier but they were not hat successful). The mobile app boom kicked off in July 2008, when Apple introduced the App Store. Not it seems that the interest in apps seems to be fading. Recode article The app boom is over →
Tim Cook discovers iPhone in painting from 1670 article: “At one point Tim rushes over and tells me ‘Come take a look, I found a painting with an iPhone on it!’ So he takes my arm and shows me a Rembrandt with a person seemingly holding an iPhone…” Tim Cook finished the story, saying “I always →
Here is some very interesting reading related to the obvious buzzword of the year, The Internet of Things. This article series I was tipped to take a look is about embedded firmware hacking and reverse engineering of an IoT device, a TomTom Runner GPS Smartwatch. Hacking Smartwatches – the TomTom Runner, part 1 article introduces →
http://www.vox.com/2016/5/27/11797924/cellphones-cancer-bad-reporting Another bad research reporting is spreading FUD that cell phones would cause cancer – and many magazines spread this false “news”. Stop this kind of bad science reporting. →
I wrote in earlier in New Full Duplex Radio Chip Transmits and Receives Wireless Signals at Once posting about article New Full Duplex Radio Chip Transmits and Receives Wireless Signals at Once – IEEE Spectrum that told about a new chip that makes full dupled radio communications (tranmitting and receiving at the same frequency time at →
http://www.geek.com/microsoft/microsoft-cuts-1850-mobile-staff-signalling-the-end-of-lumia-phones-1656162/ This is the end of devices formerly known as Nokia mobile phones and smart phones. 😩 Microsoft bought this business from Nokia, but could not stop the downturn. Most workers that designed those phones are in Finland. →
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/wireless/5-myths-about-5g?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IeeeSpectrum+%28IEEE+Spectrum%29&utm_content=FaceBook 5G is hottest thing in wireless. There are so many things in 5G so open that I think that nobody can really say exactly what kind of system it will be. This article gives one overview to 5G. →
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/05/the-privacy-problem-with-digital-assistants/483950/?utm_source=atlfb Digital assistants will quickly get more information on you than you might expect or want them to get. That’s one price of convience they offer. →
Smart phone cameras are useful in many ways. Smartphone cameras are great, or at least close enough to great that you don’t notice the difference in many cases to traditional camera.Compared to a DSLR, smart phone cameras are still pretty lame. But the camera in your pocket is crazy good considering the limitations manufacturers work →
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/security/mobile-forensics-ceo-proposes-controversial-publicprivate-key-access-for-smartphones This article discusses different potential approaches how law enforcement could get access to encrypted phones when needed but still have some security left. Is that possible or practical? Does not look good. →