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Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 1 Overview

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Introducing Samsung Galaxy Note

I guess Samsung thinks there's a market for something like this.

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This is probably the most fanboy-ish thing I've ever done.

I love tech and I obsess over every gadget based on its merit but I never get into the whole fanboy craziness.

Q. So why did I put Android wallpapers on the iPads at my friendly neighbourhood electronics store?

A. Because I can.

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HP Touchpad at Sharaf DG

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So everyone knows by now that HP has pulled the plug on their Touchpad tablets only a month after its release. A 16GB Wi-Fi version used to retail for $400 but the same model is now being sold for $99.

Given this crazy sale price, everyone wants one now (as expected). It's impossible to get one in the States or UK (I didn't even know they sold these in the UAE). I took this picture at Sharaf DG and those guys have NO idea about the price cut. I feel sorry for the sales guy who spent about 5 minutes explaining the OS on the device (WebOS) and how this will be a strong competitor for the iPad. He thought I was joking when I told him that HP is discontinuing the device, even the manager confirmed that he had no idea about the price drop.

$99 roughly converts to AED 365 and would be an AMAZING price for a home tablet given the specs (scroll down and select "TECH SPECS"). Also, I'm pretty sure that a lot of people are working on Honeycomb to be ported to the device.

Now I gotta call them up every single day and hope for a price drop soon.

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Patrick Bolvin Releasing a “Kick-Ass Stop-Motion Animation” Video in October Featuring Optimus “Prime”

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Android App Turns Smartphones Into Mobile Hacking Machines - Andy Greenberg - The Firewall - Forbes

Dangerous hacks come in small packages.

Or they will, perhaps, when an app called Anti, or Android Network Toolkit, hits the Android market next week. The program, which Israeli security firm Zimperium revealed at the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas Friday and plans to make available to Android users in coming days, is designed for penetration testing–in theory, searching out and demonstrating vulnerabilities in computer systems so that they can be patched. Anti aims to bring all the hacking tools available to penetration testers on PCs to smartphones, with an automated interface intended to make sniffing local networks and owning remote servers as simple as pushing a few buttons.

 

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“We wanted to create a penetration testing tool for the masses, says Itzhak “Zuk” Avraham, founder of Tel-Aviv-based Zimperium. “It’s about being able to do what advanced hackers do with a really good implementation. In your pocket.”

 

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WASP Flying Wi-Fi Cellphone Hacking Drone

 

There are some people for whom being told that something is impossible is all the motivation they need. That seems to be the case for Richard Perkins and Mike Tassey, who were told that an in-flight hacking platform was impossible. In response, the pair plan on showing off their off their Wi-Fi hacking, phone-snooping, home-made UAV at the Black Hat and Defcon hackerfests in Las Vegas. They call their creation the Wireless Aerial Surveillance Platform, or WASP.

Built from an old Air Force target drone, the WASP packs a lot of technological power into a flying high-endurance package. A tiny on-board computer (Linux powered, natch) is bristling with hacking tools, along with a custom-built 340 million word dictionary for brute-forcing passwords, the BackTrack suite, a 4G T-Mobile card, an HD camera, and 32 GB onboard storage.

Just what does WASP do with those gigabytes? Originally, it was designed for Wi-Fi penetration — cracking network passwords while loitering above a target area. But the newly upgraded WASP can now trick GSM phones into connecting with its 4G card as if it were a standard cellphone tower. Once connected, the WASP quietly records any phone conversations or text messages while connecting the call via VOIP, thus giving the mark the impression that the call went through normally.

Keep in mind that nothing on the WASP is particularly new. The password cracking techniques have been around for quite some time, and the phone-spoof is based off a trick shown off at Defcon last year. But by placing them on a flying platform, Perkins and Tassey have shown that consumer technology and hacking techniques have progressed to the point where once untouchable targets are now vulnerable. In an enlightening quote from Forbes, they explain:

A military base like Area 51, Tassey points out, is surrounded by more than 25 miles of empty land to obscure it from outside snoops. “With WASP, we can cover that distance in about 20 minutes,” he says. “With radar designed specifically not to see birds, it’s very difficult to protect yourself from an object coming out of the sky and flying low.”

Not that they would ever dream of taking on Area 51, of course. Tassey and Perkins are both respected security researchers with lives and day jobs. Even when testing the hacking capabilities of the WASP, they took pains to ensure that they stayed within legal boundaries. They seem to have that motivation that has driven so many geeks, engineers, and tinkerers: Just to see if they can pull it off.

via geekosystem.com

 

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‪Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (Filmed: Feb. 13, 1957)‬‏ - YouTube

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Microsoft's internal Gmail parody video.

All Gmail has to do is point at Hotmail and have a laugh. Seriously.
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TouchPal Keyboard - the future of input

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