Opposition to Google’s Safari privacy settlement to be heard next month
A San Francisco court will hear arguments next month against a proposed US$22.5 million privacy settlement between Google and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, over Google’s use of cookies to track the Web movements of users running Apple’s Safari browser. The settlement, the largest ever secured by the FTC for violating one of its orders, was announced in August but quickly drew criticism from privacy advocates. They...
Microsoft’s Sinofsky says Windows 8 PCs can undercut Apple’s ‘recreational’ iPad mini
By Jon Fingas posted Oct 26th 2012 11:55PM It just wouldn’t be a major Apple launch if there wasn’t a Microsoft executive calling out his old rival, would it? In a chat with AllThingsD, Windows division lead Steven Sinofsky has expressed doubts that Apple’s iPad mini is really a cost-effective pick against the just-launched Windows 8. It’s a $329 “recreational tablet” when there are work-ready...
iPhone 5 Pre-Orders Top Two Million in First 24 Hours
With support for the latest wireless technologies, iPhone 5 connects to more networks all over the world.* And Wi-Fi is faster, too. So you can browse, download, and stream content at remarkable speeds, wherever you happen to be. Learn more about the features of iPhone 5 More here: iPhone 5 Pre-Orders Top Two Million in First 24 Hoursview it
HTC One X sees Jelly Bean rollout in Taiwan and Singapore, One S update reportedly coming soon
By Alexis Santos posted Oct 27th 2012 1:29AM We’ve known for months that HTC intends to upgrade the One X to Jelly Bean, but now it appears the update is finally going live, at least for folks in Taiwan. Members of the XDA Developers forum are chiming in about a 352.87MB OTA update that’s available within both HTC’s home country and Singapore, which brings Android 4.1.1 and HTC Sense 4+ to the One X. Jelly...
ASUS unveils RT-N12HP WiFi router with extra-long antennas: compensating for anything?
By Jon Fingas posted Oct 27th 2012 3:03AM If getting long-range WiFi is a perpetual battle, ASUS just started a nuclear war. Its fresh RT-N12HP router carries a pair of (thankfully removable) high-gain, 9dBi antennas and a separate signal amplifier that can jointly boost the range of the router’s 802.11n wireless up to 300 percent versus challengers that reach the same 300Mbps peak speed. Beyond that, the hotspot mostly claims...
