The US Government is trying very hard to shatter any illusions that we might have about the right to privacy on the internet. They are currently in the process of going after a few of the smaller privacy oriented email services with the intent of getting user information out of them; very specific user information. Right now the current focus is on the company Lavabit who has the unfortunate distinction of having been used by Edward Snowden on multiple occasions to send email to the press and others. This distinction has gotten them into some hot water and now they are actually closing their doors in order to not comply with a government request to hand over the contents of Snowden’s email (and possibly others). This incident has sent a shiver through the small yet strong market for private email and web services.
A hefty sum of $32 million was asked by Mark Shuttleworth from good people of the Internet, in order to make their phone Ubuntu Edge. If you are one of those who have paid money for the campaign, it seems that the phone will never see the light of the day and you should get your money back.
In the current climate with accusations flying back and forth about user data collection you would think that telling people they are actively being tracked and monitored by a device you are selling is a bad idea. However, this is what Apple is doing with a new “feature” in iOS 7 and they seem to think that it is something people will be interested in. The new feature is innocuously called Improve Map, but what it does is something that we are not sure people will want to leave turned on.
At an event in New York, LG's new flaghship smart mobile phone has been unveiled. The LG G2 is based on 2.26 gigahertz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor with Adreno 330 graphics subsystem and Full HD IPS LCD screen with a diagonal of 5.2-inches that extends almost to the edge of the device. There is also support for a mobile network based on LTE-Advanced technology, rear view camera with a resolution of 13 megapixels, 16 or 32 GB of storage and 2GB of RAM, a battery capacity of 3,000 mAh, and the operating system will be Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean.
Nvidia has already given up the fight and announced cancellation of the GK114 Kepler refreshments for the current year, and AMD decided to take advantage of the situation and release their Hawaii/Volcanic Islands series of chips, which means they will release the products based on those chips by the end of the year.
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