Posts by TheRegistrar

Nexus 9: Google and HTC deliver Android 5.0 'Lollipop' at iPad prices

Not giving up the TouchPad for this...

Apart from performance, screen and camera improvements, I don't see much reason to replace a 64GB firesale 4:3 aspect ratio HP TouchPad running Evervolv with wireless charging and bluetooth keyboard, which all together was cheaper than the 16GB Nexus 9 offering presented now. It serves perfectly well for consuming video using VLC or Youtube with the previous branding of speakers used by HTC here, while the Nexus 7 is the perfect form factor for games, browsing, reading, maps or streaming to the ChromeCast. With such a poor showing from HTC and Motorola removed from under Google's wing, I wonder if Nokia will Nokus for six Nexia with their return to tablets?

Google took a bath on Android in 2010, judge reveals

Re: Maths buffs only please.....

**** all / 2 = ** all.00000000000000001

RIM slashes BlackBerry PlayBook tablet prices

I hope RIM survive, cause I don't want to be RIMmed

Got the 64GB Playbook for £245 at the start of the new year before the Playbook OS 2.0 announcement at CES and have just realised, I haven't needed to restart it since setting it up.

I don't have a Blackberry to pair it with, so looking forward to the QNX update next month to add messaging, browser stability, improved battery life and Android runtime features. Hopefully RIM will streamline AppWorld submissions for developers to encourage the porting of apps.

pcAnywhere let anyone anywhere inject code into PCs

InsecurITy software only used by out-of-school sysadmins

As Framitz indicates, most companies have banned PC Anywhere since the early DoS vulnerabilities

http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-76/product_id-423/Symantec-Pcanywhere.html

The current struggle is forcing off-shore support to stop infecting every server they touch with old versions of Dameware

http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-2014/Dameware-Development.html

Best Buy fires parting shot at Dixons with closing down sale

Bargain shopping strategy

I'll be making a shopping list of stuff they stock and checking the prices every weekend up till the 15th of January, to see whether they actually make any worthwhile reductions to act on.

Microsoft takes fight to Google over cloud apps defections

Can make a cost saving here...

“Customers do not need on-premise servers to utilize the collaboration capabilities in Office 365,”

So we didn't need to purchase licenses and deploy multi-site ADFS & ADFS Proxies and DirSync to synchronise our AD with their cloud and provide authentication? We don't need to further provision WRMS and an on site Exchange server to skirt around certain Office 365 limitations and an on site Lync server for integration with our existing phone system? And there was no need to patch endpoints with special hotfixes to allow them to interact with this leap-year ignorant service?

In that case, switching it all off tomorrow, because somebody read the wrong technet articles.

Not even Paris would have made that mistake.

Kindle Fire gets root access

Beyond the content comsumption selling point...

Root access might be the next most desired feature, considering the missing content creation abilities (i.e. camera)

iPad baby baffled by paper magazine

The function the change the lights does begin instantly, but they run Java on a 50Mhz CPU and sometimes the Garbage Collection kicks in, hence the delay.

Ten... Androids to outshine the iPhone 4S

Android hardware isn't the problem

CyanogenMod 7.03 works better on the ZTE Blade (600Mhz) than the rubbish bloatware Orange released on the handset.

Post the incorrect memory configuration on the HTC Desire, most phones with unlocked boot-loaders will run the latest version of Android 2.3.x very comfortably and unless Sandwich suddenly requires a minimum quad-core 2Ghz processor with 2GB of RAM, many current devices would be capable of running it and may end up doing so, if Google return to open sourcing the code if it is any good, but that is a big IF.

These same phones will continue to be upgraded by the developer community for a long time just to show that it can be done if nothing else, whereas users will get bored of their 3G's and want to move on, if they don't just use them as a phone, but there is no denying they had a good run.

Nightly build if is

Didn't know the stable build was causing the lockup, thanks

The $35 android tablet, a snip at $50

Would they dare?

Wouldn't M$ chasing Datawind in such a manner, look bad in the eyes of the India government, the market of which, M$ is also chasing? Same for any other big company with surplus lawyers.

If these are destined for children in India, the bad PR just wouldn't be worth the bother, considering they will never have a competitively priced product to replace it.

Meltemi is real – Nokia’s skunkworks Linux

Still hope

I'm still waiting for a non-developer-only replacement communicator for the E90 with UK availability. If it is running Linux, that has to be a bonus once XDA developers get their hands on it and I reckon it will outlast it's second battery.

HTC Android handsets spew private data to ANY app

If affected, expect an update

All HTC need to do is update affected systems so that authorisation isn't just given to any app requesting internet permissions, which is what the issue seems to be. Add authentication to the logging app and lock down the permissions to the log file.

Even those who root their phones tend to run superuser control apps, which alert the user to requests for privileged access from apps that make use of it. These apps could add a feature to authorise to the HTC logged data.

Microsoft cloud evaporated by one busted file

They couldn't pay us to use their cloud

But funnily enough they do.

Higher ROI with service credits than shares.

At this rate of failures, we're be using them for free.