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Nov’IT says flashing a new ROM onto your Android phone can make it more secure
Rooting your Android phone and flashing it with a new ROM — a different version of the OS — is usually accompanied by dire warnings from the manufacturer and occasionally even the supplier of the ROM image that it can make your phone less secure. Nov’IT, exhibiting at Mobile World Congress this week, says that its ROM will help keep your data and communications safe from prying eyes. The ROM is one element of Uhuru...
PlayStation 4 moves just shy of 350K units in first two days at Japanese retail
By Japanese game console launch standards, the PlayStation 4 is off to a great start. In the first 48 hours of availability, Japanese console buyers snapped up just under 350,000 PlayStation 4 systems (322,083 to be exact, according to Famitsu). That’s roughly four times what the PlayStation 3 moved at launch back in 2006 and about six times what Xbox 360 sold in 2005 — not too shabby! That’s just a drop in the...
Nokia chief: Nokia X Android smartphone is a gateway drug to Windows Phone
Nokia’s Android-based mobile phones are part of a strategy to grab more customers for Microsoft in countries that haven’t been saturated yet with smartphones – the intent being to upsell them to actual Windows Phones over time, according to the pending head of Microsoft’s phone division. By mixing in Microsoft services such as OneDrive cloud storage, Outlook.com and Skype in with Nokia X phones, the company...
Wind Turbine Technicians Use iPad to Keep Blades Spinning
Most people wouldn’t choose the challenge of working 250 feet off the ground, in extreme temperatures and unpredictable weather. But the technicians at Siemens Energy-Wind Service are working to help transform an industry. “Our technicians really believe in what they’re doing,” says Jennifer Dillon, Siemens manager of business improvement. “They’re on the front line, and they’re helping to change the way energy is generated.” And iPad...
