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Thursday, 30th July 2009

Messaging Services

All Your Messages Belong to Us: Silentale Prepares to Launch

Silentale is a soon-to-launch startup whose goal is to consolidate your conversations and contacts from all the platforms you use including webmail, social networks, and even your mobile phone. Running as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform on top of Amazon Web Services, the oddly named Silentale will function not just as an aggregator, but…

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Wednesday, 29th July 2009

Are Mobile Botnets in Our Future?

Today at the cybersecurity conference known as Black Hack, researchers Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner will present an SMS exploit that could take over your iPhone with just one text. Once the phone is compromised, the hacker would have access to all the functions on the phone allowing them to send email, access your contacts, make phone…

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Internet of Things

The End of Lost Luggage? RFID Slowly Coming to Airports

In this latest installment of our ongoing series on the Internet of Things, we look at one of the big advantages of Internet-connected objects: trackability. In other words, knowing precisely where an object is at all times - and even better, its condition. This is important particularly for goods that are perishable, such as food. We recently…

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A New Commercial Ontology from Hakia

Editor's note: we offer our long-term sponsors the opportunity to write 'Sponsor Posts' and tell their story. These posts are clearly marked as written by sponsors, but we also want them to be useful and interesting to our readers. We hope you like the posts and we encourage you to support our sponsors by trying out their products. We at Hakia are…

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Immersive Social Gaming: Twitter and Facebook on XBox

Companies in the internet TV space should start worrying. It seems Microsoft's foray into life streaming on the XBox 360 will arrive as early as autumn. As promised in early June at the E3 event, 360 Live users will see Twitter, Facebook and streaming radio service Last.fm available to their community as downloadable apps. Additionally, the…

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