All the stories tagged with hack
Nexus Q hack gives you home replacement launcher, new apps including Netflix
07/09/2012, The Nexus Q was announced back two weeks ago at Google I/O and if you were an attendee you got one for free yourself. Although the device looks pretty cool, it doesn’t have much functionality out of the box. You’re pretty [...]
iCloud hacked?
05/17/2012, Life in the cloud is not all peachy keen it seems, as a handful of iCloud accounts have been compromised despite being protected by secure, randomly generated passwords. This has led to speculation by the iCloud community in general that [...]
Hackers break into Global Payments, over 50k credit card accounts compromised
04/01/2012, The modern method of doing business on the Internet equals to performing paperless transactions, and most the the time, these electronic transactions are pretty stable, except for the occasional breach of security. That is a particularly sensitive issue, since you [...]
Canon 5D Mark II with vintage camera lens
03/21/2012, What happens when you bring the old and new together? Well, take a 93-year old Contessa-Nettel Piccolette folding camera and hook it up with a Canon 5D Mark II, where this ridiculous looking lens-camera merger definitely looks out of place, [...]
iPhone 4S microscope is just a drop of water away
03/15/2012, If you think that the iPhone 4S is the bomb, then here is something that might just pique your interest in making the most out of your handset. All you need is a drop of water. Yes, I said a [...]
Nasdaq and BATS websites hacked in past 24 hours
02/15/2012, Exchange operators Nasdaq and BATS suffered from a hacker attack in the past 24 hours, and naturally that resulted in disruptions for folks who want to use the sites. For Nasdaq, their banner which sported the logo at the top [...]
Foxconn hacked in protest against poor working conditions
02/09/2012, There is right now the moral question of whether Apple should be doing more in their capacity to help raise the working conditions of those at Foxconn, one of Apple’s major manufacturing partners, but this rather sensitive ground is not [...]
Spoka lamp from IKEA is smartphone-controlled
01/30/2012, The smartphone of today comes with its fair share of apps that allows it to control TVs and function as a universal remote control around the home, but who would have thought that it can also control a lamp? Of [...]
Anonymous target US government and copyright organizations after Megaupload shutdown
01/20/2012, Most people could have seen this coming – with the Megaupload file-sharing site taken down yesterday, there was bound to have some form of retaliation happen; and boy did it not take long. In fact, hackers have already targeted several [...]
MobileX hack on Apple TV
01/02/2012, Do you look at your Apple TV in a forlorn manner, wistfully wishing that it was able to run iOS apps? Well, that is now possible thanks to a new hack which crept up as we entered 2012, where MobileX [...]
Spammers take over New York Times e-mail list
12/28/2011, Nobody likes spam, unless it is the stuff that you find in between two slices of bread, and when coupled with a slice of cheese, it can be touted as the perfect breakfast. I guess The New York Times also [...]
Powermat hacked to offer vehicular iPhone charging
12/26/2011, The iPhone might be one of the more popular devices around right now, and for good reason, too – great design, a mammoth number of apps, and ease-of-use amongst others. Well, having said that, a smartphone like the iPhone certainly [...]
Remote controlled Camaro carries Xbox 360 within
12/06/2011, If this is not worthy of the Transformers badge, then I would not know what is. Your eyes might just see a yellow Camaro that reminds you of Bumblebee from the Transformers movies, but what is it doing with an [...]
