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SignalRefresh Promises To Boost Your iPhone's Weak Network Signal [Jailbreak]
Full signal a rare sight on your iPhone? Try SignalRefresh. Struggling to get a decent signal on your iPhone? If you’ve jailbroken your handset with the latest Absinthe 2.0 release, then you may be in luck. SignalRefresh is a new, $0.99 iPhone tweak that promises to boost your signal streng...
The Navy Is Equipping Its Ships With 4G Networks [Military]
Bandwidth on Navy ships is a scarce, expensive commodity. For sailors using non-essential systems, like recreational computers? Dial-up speeds - if they're lucky. But by the end of the year, for the first time, the Navy will put a 4G LTE wireless network aboard some of its ships, giving a whole n...
Want To Know Which iOS Apps Are Accessing Your Personal Data? Clueful Tells You Everything
Clueful promises to identify "misdemeanant apps on your iPhone." There has recently been a lot of concern into the way in which our iOS apps access our personal data, and then what they do with it once it has been collected. Since the whole Pathdebaclein particular, users seem to be more ...
Tablet market continues to be the iPad market
Looks like Steve Jobs wasn’t kidding when he proclaimed Apple a mobile devices company at the original iPad unveiling in January 2010. Fast-forward to today and the tablet market is still by and large dominated by theiPad.According to latest research data by NPD, Apple shipped 17.2 million ...
Approved: iCloud getting biogas cell farm, too
Apple’s plan touse renewable energy sources to power its $1 billion data center in Maiden, North Carolina by the end of this year has received another important nod fromThe North Carolina Utilities Commission.The agency just greenlighted a4.5-megawatt fuel cell installation that will produc...
IBM bans the use of Siri on its network over data privacy fears
Have you ever wondered what happens to your conversations with Siri? Obviously your queries are sent over the internet to Apple’s servers for processing, but what then? Does Apple store these conversations? Does anyone have access to them?These questions seem to be heavy on the mind of IBM&...
Sprint axes 5GB/$30 mobile hotspot plan, replaces it with 2GB/6GB tiers
Sprint Nextel, the nation's third-largest wireless operator, announced this morning that it's doing away with its 5GB $30 a month mobile hotspot add-on for smartphones and tablets.Instead, beginning May 18, customers can choose between 2GB or 6GB data plans priced at $20 or $50 a month, respectiv...
Scientists Turn DNA Into Rewritable Memory [Science]
DNA, the strings of chemicals which define us, acts like a kind of read-only biological data storage device. Now, though, synthetic biologists have managed to turn DNA into a form or rewritable memory, just like that in our computers.More »
How Private Is Your DNA? [Science]
Unlike the contents of your inbox, bank statement, or Facebook timeline, your DNA quite literally defines you. It's strange, then, that in an age where sequencing the genome is becoming trivial, we don't give a second thought about the privacy issues surrounding the chemicals that make us who we ...
Take that, Greenpeace! Apple's iCloud solar farm is a go-go
Apple doesn’t run the cleanest of clouds, we all know this.Fortunately, the company’s strides to reduce reliance on “19th-century coal energy", as Greenpeace put it, have received a boost fromThe North Carolina Utilities Commission which has now approved plans for a massive...
