I was planning to write some article on the mobile trends on this year based on news-feed from MWC 2020 mobile event. It seems that I have to change those plans because of this news that was just published: The GSMA, the organization behind MWC, the world’s largest mobile trade show, has announced that it →
This week there has been news on problems with high profile mobile apps for politics and aviation. Iowa has already won the worst IT rollout award of 2020: Rap for crap caucus app chaps in vote zap flap Untested tech, no training, last-minute rollout, buggy code – sound familiar? https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/04/iowa_caucus_software/ ‘We Feel Really Terrible,’ Says →
Cyberpunk 2020! Omg lasers directly into the retina! Lol! Whew. I think I’ll skip this one, but it is super rad. Check out this article: Bosch Gets Smartglasses Right With Tiny Eyeball Lasers A tiny laser array paints images directly onto your retina https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/consumer-electronics/gadgets/bosch-ar-smartglasses-tiny-eyeball-lasers “Lightweight and slim, with a completely transparent display that’s brightly visible →
The EU’s cyber security agency ENISA has published “ENISA threat landscape for 5G Networks” report that draws an initial threat landscape and presents an overview of the challenges in the security of 5G networks. It presents 5G architecture, the identification of important assets, the assessment of threats affecting 5G, the identification of asset exposure and →
Uusiteknologia.fi is a Finnish language electronics and technology professionals magazine. In the newest issue have written articles on many high tech topics (text in Finnish with short introduction in English). The new number has been published as an electronic magazine that looks like a regular printed magazine. I have written to two articles to this →
There has been questions like those on 2600 magazine Facebook group: How do you prevent your phone from being used as a bug so malicious individuals can spy on you? What’s the best way to temporarily block/disable the microphones in an iPhone. Does anyone know of a phone case with a built-in shutter? The idea →
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/09/creators-of-modern-rechargeable-batteries-share-nobel-prize/ Nice that the Nobel prize created by inventor who made dynamite is now given to inventors who invented technology that has put small potential explosives to pocket of almost everybody in developed countries. →
SimJacker is 0-day vulnerability under active attack according to this article: Dubbed “SimJacker,” the vulnerability resides in a particular piece of software, called the S@T Browser (a dynamic SIM toolkit), embedded on most SIM cards. New SIM Card Flaw Lets Hackers Hijack Any Phone Just By Sending SMS https://thehackernews.com/2019/09/simjacker-mobile-hacking.html Huge security issue claims need some →
For World Emoji Day, the Unicode Consortium redesigns its site to be more user-friendly | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/17/for-world-emoji-day-the-unicode-consortium-redesigns-its-site-to-be-more-user-friendly/ The World Emoji Day is on Wednesday, July 17. For it Apple and Google had announced plans to bring an expanded set of emoji to their respective platforms. The Unicode Consortium, the nonprofit organization responsible for determining which →
I saw this sign few days ago at Särkänniemi park at Tampere Finland. →