John Dixon Contributor John Dixon is director of IoT marketing and strategy at Freescale Semiconductor. The Internet of Things (IoT) presents a significant mix of opportunity and risk. Compared to the connected devices of the past, the gazillions of new IoT devices that are being predicted for our homes, transportation, cities, medical devices and elsewhere represent…
Three years ago, a common human being interested in the privacy policy of a gadget or service it was using was a rare bird. With the revelation that a large amount of the communications and private data of both foreign nationals and native residents of the U.S. were being collected and scrutinized by the government,…
You wait ages for the next gen of pro-privacy smartphones to come along and then a couple of contenders start making noise at once… Today, Silent Circle’s Blackphone 2 has gone on sale — with an RRP of $799 (excluding taxes). The company started taking pre-orders for the device last month, having first announced the phone back in March…
As a college student, most of my friends and family are spread out in tons of different cities across the country. While I’d love to keep track of major weather events in all of these cities, it is way too time-consuming to constantly check iOS 9’s weather app. Enter PocketWatch. The service lets you create notifications for cities…
Gary Davis Contributor Gary Davis is the chief consumer security evangelist at Intel Security. More posts by this contributor How data thieves hook victims — and how to beat them How To Start Fresh And Stay Safe With A New Device As many have noted, we’re entering a new era where wearable gadgets — from…
Kevin Mahaffey Contributor Kevin Mahaffey is co-founder and CTO of mobile security leader Lookout. When you connect a car to the Internet, it is no longer just a car: It is a computer on wheels. For years, the security industry has asked itself, “When will cyberattacks affect the physical world?” The connected car is a…
Though Apple has long been vocal about its stance on security and privacy, it has recently begun utilizing that stance as a sales tool. If you’d like to keep personal data — anonymized or not — to yourself as much as possible, the company has messaged, then you should invest in Apple hardware. That policy,…
We got a glimpse of BlackBerry’s rumored Android-powered smartphone last month, in the form a render shared on Twitter by notorious leaker Evan Blass. Now photos of the Android BlackBerry have apparently leaked too — published by Taiwanese website Tinhte (spotted earlier by TechTimes). The latest photos appear to confirm the rendered form factor we saw in last month’s leak, with a trademark BlackBerry physical Qwerty tucked under…
Google’s Chrome web browser keeps getting better. According to a new post on Google+, the company says that, starting on September 1st, Chrome will begin to pause many Flash ads by default in order to improve performance for its users. This change was first announced in June, and initially rolled out to the beta version of the…