Hardcore Android fans have been leery of the Motorola Droid X because of the chip and bootloader combination in the device that could potentially brick it if custom versions of the Android operating system are loaded on it.
But now, they are a step closer to doing just that. The Droid X forum has posted step-by-step [...]
Everyone wants faster Android phones and the common understanding is that to obtain them you need faster hardware. Android 2.2 has promised us a faster code execution with a JIT compiler that translates Java code to machine code and caches it right before it is executed. This is how Android 2.2 gets a performance boost [...]
Do you remember a time when Linux was a niche OS? Beyond college kids and a few converted Unix nerds, Linux was something for hackers, Ham radio operators and ivory tower dwellers. No one would ever put a Linux-based computer into a data center. How times and attitudes have changed. Once known as the "little [...]
Motorola has filed a lawsuit against Huawei, accusing the Chinese rival of conspiring with former employees to steal trade secrets over a number of years.
The Schaumburg, Ill.-based company claims that Huawei, a leading telecom-equipment provider, had secretly worked several of its engineers to steal confidential designs on its network equipment since 2001.
In the lawsuit, Motorola [...]
The GSM technology used by the majority of the world’s mobile phones will get some scrutiny at next week’s Black Hat security conference, and what the security researchers there have to say isn’t pretty.
On Friday, an open source group released software that cracks the A5/1 encryption algorithm used by some GSM networks. Called Kraken, this [...]
The wanted-dead-or-alive posters described him as a "rat bastard." Then there was the spitting and name-calling, things like Snitch! and A**hole! Not to mention the death threats — none credible enough to warrant Kevlar, but still, Adrian Lamo had good reason to check up on the security arrangements before setting foot in the Hackers On [...]
Mozilla has recently upped its bug bounty — meaning that any critical security bug you found and disclosed to Mozilla could net you a cool $3000.
Not to be outdone, Google has just announced that it will be awarding up to $3133.7 for critical bugs. This is not only $133.7 over what Mozilla offers, but also [...]