A German computer engineer said Monday that he had deciphered and published the encryption of GSM phones, reports the NY Times and ComputerWorld. About 3.5 billion wireless connections use G.S.M. phones, with about 300 million consumers in North America. The encryption standard was adopted in 1988.
“I don’t think anything we did was illegal,” Knoll [...]
Welcome to The Top Ten WiFi stories of the decade.
Dailywireless.org, has recorded achievements in broadband wireless for the last 8 years (since March 2002).
We are making a Top Ten of the Decade list in 10 categories.
Cellular
Wi-Fi (this page)
Municipal Wireless
Wimax & LTE
Bluetooth/UWB/Zigbee
Government Actions
Infrastructure
Satellites
RFID and Privacy
Devices and applications
Here are
The Ten Biggest [...]
You are not in Kansas anymore. You are on Pandora, ladies and gentleman.
– Avatar
On Thursday, 3D graphics took a significant step toward being built into Web browsers, notes C/Net.
The Khronos Group, which oversees the OpenGL graphics interface, announced that its work with Mozilla to bring hardware-accelerated 3D graphics to the Web has reached draft standard [...]
Cyanogen, a well-known Android modder, tweeted this afternoon “Droid does … ROOT” and linked to an Android message board where the exploit is posted
According to Wired.com:
A rooted Droid means the user will have administrative rights and the ability to control every aspect of the phone, not just those that Motorola or Verizon have provided [...]
When the stuff comes alive on you, you had better be in shape to handle it
- Ernest Hemmingway
Google today announced a new inititive called the living story. The experiment explores new ways to interact with news. Google hopes to make these tools available to any publisher that wants to use them.
Reporters and editors at [...]
Google has identified over 100,000 businesses in the U.S. as “Favorite Places” based on Google users’ interaction with local business listings. Each business is receiving a window decal with a unique QR code that you scan with your phone’s camera. Then you can read reviews or star the business as your own favorite.
QR Codes [...]
Libelium, a wireless sensor company, has launched the Waspmote, an open source ZigBee sensor platform. The line features seven different models of communication radios with a minimum consumption (0.7uA in the Hibernate mode).
Libelium says the Waspmote can achieve long range links: 7km at 2.4GHz, 24km at 900MHz and 40km at 868MHz. Virtually any remote environment [...]
Google today is open-sourcing the Chromium OS project. Google Chrome OS will be ready for consumers this time next year. It’s designed to be an alternative to Microsoft’s Windows, Apple’s OS and Linux. As with the Google Chrome browser, development will be done in the open from this point on, and open source.
In Google’s vision, [...]
The Department of Energy is launching a $32 million program to study how scientific codes can make use of cloud technology.
Called Magellan, the program will be funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), with the money to be split equally between the the two DOE centers that will be conducting the work: [...]
AT&T today announced a suite of cloud computing services to offer features similar to Amazon Web Services. Today it announced the Synaptic Compute As a Service, which offers processing power that can be used for “cloudbursting” of in-house apps or as a testing and development platform. The service can run as a public cloud, or [...]
