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O2 and its telephone number leak update
O2 has now posted on its blog, its own description of the problem that occurred today. It describes it pretty much as a misconfiguration that allowed a provision for ‘selected partners’ to receive the client’s phone number in the headers of the HTTP request to spread to be applicable to all sites. Although seemingly a [...]
O2 and its Telephone number leak
This morning a twitter comment alerted me to an issue with the O2 mobile phone broadband data service. In common with all broadband internet services, O2 passes its traffic from customers via a transparent proxy which can additionally do things like reduce the file size of pictures through compression. This is normally specified in the [...]
Laptop Size–How big is big enough
The main thing that defines a laptop these days is how big it is, and the thing that defines that more than anything else is the screen size. It used to be the fact that every laptop had a 15” screen but the smaller device has grown more popular and it is easy to see [...]
Google Chromebooks–nowhere…
There has been some focus on Google’s failures of last year and they included the Google Chromebook in that. I am not going to argue that they are wrong – they are very right. The Chromebooks are not capturing the public imagination and are making their way into the niche arenas of people who have [...]
Apple and Android–what is a Post PC device
Last March, when the iPad 2 was released, Steve Jobs described it as a Post PC device. Rather scathingly I could not agree to that as under iOS4 you still needed to activate it using iTunes and a PC of Windows or OSX flavours. The promise was that once iOS5 was available, this would be [...]
Protect You And Your Clients
I have talked about this before, but this article has reminded me and I am passing it on to every reader of this blog… The New Year is upon us, and you might be partaking in the tradition of making a resolution for the coming year. This year, why not make a resolution to protect [...]
Battery Life is a Feature
I do not always follow every iDevice rumour but the one I do hope would come true (and not just for iDevices) is extending battery life further. High End Version of New iPads Get Extra Battery Life Reports are coming in that Apple will be unveiling two versions of iPad3 this early 2012, one for [...]
Happy Holidays and a Fruitful New Year
Everyone’s thoughts are now focusing on relaxation, family and, for the tech inclined, what interesting gadget will be acquired either through the gifting process or via the retail sales that follow soon after. We wish you all a relaxing and enjoyable holiday, and let all your tech be good and at least be cutting [...]
Very Low Cost Honeycomb Tablet
Trawling the bargain bins should start right now, particularly if you are after a decent 7″ tablet. The Dell Streak 7″ has been terminated with extreme prejudice by Dell but there are quite a few still out there and it is well worth the £159 (in airports) to £200 (in stores) price, particularly because of [...]
SMS and Old Tech
19 years ago last Saturday, a momentous event occurred… The first SMS message[21] was sent over the Vodafone GSM network in the United Kingdom on 3 December 1992, from Neil Papworth ofSema Group (now Mavenir Systems) using a personal computer to Richard Jarvis of Vodafone using an Orbitel 901 handset. The text of the message was “Merry Christmas”.[22] I wouldn’t have mentioned it but [...]