Oh look, more security articles today! First, HotHardware reports on a rootkit exploit in Intel processors that has existed since 1997. It is research based, so it does not sound like it has been used in the wild. On Bits Please they talk about a TrustZone exploit for Qualcomm. This has already been fixed, so… Read More Geek Reading August 11, 2015
It was another slow news weekend. So, we lead with another car hacking story from VentureBeat. A researcher is claiming to be able to hack GM’s OnStar app, open the vehicle and start the engine. This is not entirely surprising, but thankfully not as bad as the hacked Jeep story we had recently. On the… Read More Geek Reading August 3, 2015
Google continues to lead the news as they announced their new security offering, My Account. This allows you to take control of your Google account and all of the related security information. David Pichsenmeister discusses what startups can do better by building minimum loveable products. As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the… Read More Geek Reading June 2, 2015
Microsoft leads most of the news due to the announcements at their conference. As reported by The Next Web, they announced that developers will be able to reuse their Android code to bring apps to Windows 10. Having a bridge between ecosystems should help drive the availability of apps. Also reported by The Next Web,… Read More Geek Reading April 30, 2015
Some more unpleasantness leading off today as VentureBeat reports on the DDoS attack on GitHub continuing and evolving. Also from VentureBeat, Google has started morphing some of Google+ as photos and videos are now available in Google Drive. By itself, this is not a big thing, but we know that Google has not been thrilled… Read More Geek Reading March 31, 2015
It was a much slower day, as can be seen by the lead story. Reuters reported on some research that cockroaches have personalities. This is interesting from the “seeing how life evolves” perspective. Google released the Android 5.1 Lollipop SDK, but this is not a huge release like some previous ones. Whenever Avinash Kaushik writes,… Read More Geek Reading March 11, 2015
Today we lead off with a post from Dave Winer at Scripting News. It is not really about reporters, but more about making applications simpler to use. Admin Ofunne has a good post regarding when to scale. The main point is that if you have done this long enough, you start making applications fairly complex… Read More Geek Reading March 3, 2015
Finally, we have the last job trends post in August, mobile development job trends. These trends are not quite as clear cut for job demand as the language trends given how often these terms get used. However, the trends can still measure the amount of buzz these technologies are generating. The terms included in this… Read More Mobile Development Job Trends – August 2013
Today is the final winter job trends post, mobile development job trends. Initially, this was a look at how mobile phone development was moving, but now tablets have become a major force as well. Obviously, these trends are not . The terms included in this list were iPhone (including iOS and iPad), Android, WP7 or “Windows… Read More Mobile Development Job Trends – February 2013
Today we have the last installment of the job trends posts, mobile development job trends. Everyone is talking about mobile development because it really is the future of interaction. With smart phones and tablets, app development is becoming hugely important even for the enterprise. The terms included in this list were iPhone, Android, WP7 or… Read More Mobile Development Job Trends – August 2012
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