Free apps drain smartphone energy on ‘advertising modules’. Researchers have shown that popular free smartphone apps spend up to 75 percent of their energy tracking the user’s geographical location, sending information about the user to advertisers and downloading ads. Continue reading
IBM’s 3270 machines are still running strong today, and that is only because they finally gave into the Telnet protocol developed to circumnavigate their proprietary-based and restrictive systems network architecture. Continue reading
PayPal is one of those online entities like Google that everyone knows something about. You may be surprised about what you don’t know about PayPal, though. Whether you’re using it to pay for purchases on eBay, to sell some things, … Continue reading
We’ve spent just about a day with the Motorola DROID BIONIC for Verizon Wireless, and while that’s not long enough to put together a thorough review, we can certainly report back on our first impressions. In short, the Motorola DROID BIONIC could be the best smartphone to ever grace Verizon Wireless’ airwaves, and that includes 3G and 4G devices. Continue reading
The internet is crawling with all sorts of scams. The desperate and the ignorant are often being taken advantage of through scams such as job hunter scams or debt relief scams. Others include work from home schemes, lottery scams and … Continue reading
It seems that nowadays most people don’t care about privacy on social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. The new location service rolled out by Twitter and a similar one under development on Facebook, are another source of potential security … Continue reading
Here is a list of some more useful technology links from CosmoBC.com InTheBlogs (oldest first): Pupils to study Twitter and blogs in primary schools Children in the UK will now learn much less of the traditional school subjects such as … Continue reading
