Last year, it was found that approximately 60 Android apps were secretly uploading information about the smartphone’s hardware, contacts, and other user data. This helped create backdoors that would enable the apps to download other sensitive data. Google was able to flip their kill switch, removing the apps from the smartphones. They were also pulled ...

Ten years ago, who would have thought that various wireless solutions would be the reason that the world still spins today. Not literally, of course, just figuratively. Wireless technology is starting to make our lives a lot easier and a lot simpler than we could ever have imagined. These wireless solutions have not only altered ...

Dish is trying to get a foot up on Direct TV and if the stories about Dish starting a mobile service with Sprint through Sprint’s Nextel network, they may have that chance. Sprint knows that Dish has mobile airwaves that are unused and in return will allow Dish to sell its wireless technology to their ...

Compared to the past applications today are heavily integrated with wireless technology. Applications of the past could not leverage this technology because of concerns with security. Fast-forward to the present and those concerns have been addressed and wireless technologies can be found in many applications today. Take for instance applications on smart phones. These applications ...

Will mobile phones eventually replace how we surf and use the Internet? A wireless technology that is on the rise is a discovery made by a couple of German researchers. They have made a discovery that can help reduce mobile phones provided infrastructure cost and possibly reach rural areas as well. This discovers is with ...

Through December 27th Skype is offering free wireless internet connections at 50 of the busiest airports in America. Skype, one of the pioneers of internet calls, has added a free hour of Wi-Fi access for travelers this holiday season. If one hour isn’t enough time then additional time can be bought for as little as ...

With our wireless devices by our side, we face the world. The advanced technology that we have come to rely upon and often take for granted is that proverbial double-edged sword. Now, that prophetic writer Orwell would have a field day with today’s advanced technology. Big Brother is ever by our side and with the ...