NASA engineer builds Halloween costume that syncs with your Smartphone
By Patrick Clark for Businessweek From Mashable Two years ago, Mark Rober was an engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., part of a team that worked on the Curiosity rover. For Halloween, he strapped an iPad to…
The iPhone 5S’ Touch ID is perfect for criminals
By Neha Prakash, From Mashable Last week, Apple unveiled the iPhone 5S’ Touch ID fingerprint scanner, which serves as the phone’s new unlock feature. While some marveled at this revolution in mobile security, others found the Touch ID to be…
BBM available for Android on September 21 and iPhone on September 22
Instant mobile to mobile messaging with privacy and control you can count on, that lets you know that your message is read, is a free download for Android and iPhone customers. Waterloo, ON – BBM™ – the iconic mobile social…
BlackBerry introduces the new BlackBerry Z30 Smartphone with 5” display and BlackBerry 10.2 OS
Biggest, Fastest, Most Advanced BlackBerry Smartphone Lets You Take on Any Task and Always Be in Control Waterloo, ON – BlackBerry® (NASDAQ: BBRY; TSX: BB) today introduced the new BlackBerry® Z30 smartphone, BlackBerry’s biggest, fastest and most advanced smartphone. Featuring…
Girl’s suicide points to rise in apps used by cyberbullies
By Lizette Alvarez From NY Times MIAMI — The clues were buried in her bedroom. Before leaving for school on Monday morning, Rebecca Ann Sedwick had hidden her schoolbooks under a pile of clothes and left her cellphone behind, a…
LIME and Digicel both announce 4G LTE
CWC to launch 4G LTE in Cayman Cable & Wireless (C&W) will launch Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile data services in the Cayman Islands, where it trades as LIME. C&W will launch LTE services in the 2013/14 financial year initially…
Celebrating one year of BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) in the Collins English Dictionary
BBM Abbreviation for 1. BlackBerry Messenger: an instant messaging application for BlackBerry devices Noun 2. a message sent or received using BlackBerry Messenger Verb 3. to send a message using BlackBerry Messenger One year ago today, the authoritative Collins…
Apple iPhone 5S and 5C handsets unveiled in California
By Leo Kelion Technology reporter From BBC Apple has unveiled two new handsets: the top-end iPhone 5S and a cheaper iPhone 5C at an event in California. The 5S introduces a fingerprint sensor built into the phone’s main button to…
Researchers discover ‘KINS’ a new professional-grade banking Trojan
By Fahmida Y. Rashid From Security Week Researchers have uncovered a new professional-grade banking Trojan that could soon rival Zeus, SpyEye and Citadel in how effectively it spreads. Dubbed KINS, the new banking Trojan has several features in common with…
Belize to host sixth CaribNOG Regional Meeting
From Gerard Best, Guardian Media The Caribbean Network Operators Group, (CaribNOG) will stage its sixth regional meeting in Belize in September. CaribNOG is a not-for-profit, independent, technical community that provides a regional forum for building technical capacity and promoting relevant…
