NFC, Bluetooth, WiFi, mobile data, plain ole voice calls. Your phone has no shortage of ways to connect with things, but that hasnt stopped a group of Finnish scientists finding a way to communicate through your smartphones built-in compass. Just because they could.
A feature introduced in Android 3.1 (Honeycomb) that allows the device to seek familiar WiFi and switch to them from mobile data in order to save battery broadcasts the WiFi connection history in the case of some phones, thus allowing for location tracking.The researchers at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) found that the devices emit […]
Opera Mini for iOS has always been a thoughtful – if not particularly handsome – alternative to Apples mobile version of Safari. Now its finally gotten an overdue, iOS 7-friendly facelift and a new web surfing mode for mobile data misers who dont want to give up all their visual flair. You see, in days […]
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