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Living in an App Driven World
According to market studies conducted by the Yankee Group, there is currently an insatiable interest in both paid and free applications among many different categories of costumers. The company’s updated prognosis now approximates total US application revenue in 2010 to revolve around the staggering figure of $1.6 billion, compared to initial projections of $537 million. The research firm believes the application frenzy will gradually lead to bigger sales over the next few years, until the $11 billion margin is reached, by 2014.
Continue reading »HTC feeling Apple’s fury over smartphone patents
Apple has filed a lawsuit against smartphone maker HTC, alleging that it violates as many as 20 patents that Apple has on the iPhone interface and hardware architecture. A parallel complaint has also been filed with the International Trade Commission to block imports of devices that violated the patents in question. “We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it.
Continue reading »A single smartphone can DoS federal wiretaps
As the telecommunications world went wireless and digital, the tried-and-true method law enforcement agencies used for wiretaps—splicing into the local loop—was in danger of becoming an anachronism. In 1994, Congress passed the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act , which required telecommunications switches to incorporate a capacity for government monitoring of phone calls and other communications. That requirement ultimately produced an ANSI standard, J-STD-025, that dictated the capabilities of the hardware interface used by law enforcement agencies.
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