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DMCA rule insanity Unlocking your smartphone will soon be illegal

New rules governing exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) dictate that it will soon be illegal to unlock your smartphone without carrier permission. Jailbreaking your tablet is also forbidden, as is ripping a DVD into a digital format. Every three years, the Register of...
- xelosia
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- Oct 27, 2012
- dmca illegal insanity rule smartphone unlocking
- Replies: 4
- Forum: General Discussion
PlaceRaider: The Military Smartphone Malware Designed to Steal Your Life

The US Naval Surface Warfare Center has created an Android app that secretly records your environment and reconstructs it as a 3D virtual model for a malicious user to browse The power of modern smartphones is one of the technological wonders of our age. These devices carry a suite of...
- xelosia
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- Sep 28, 2012
- designed life malware military placeraider smartphone steal
- Replies: 2
- Forum: General Discussion
Report: AMD CEO Dirk Meyer Was Outed Over Tablets, Smartphones

Board thought CEO wasn't pursuing developing mobile CPUs aggressively enough. I find this really surprising considering how AMD has been doing so much better.
- shattered.likeness
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- Jan 12, 2011
- amd bulldozer ceo dirk dirk meyer meyer smartphone tablet
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Hardware News
SanDisk Introduces Coin Sized 64GB SSD

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/news/storage-news/sandisk-introduces-coin-sized-64gb-ssd/ Could you imagine this tiny thing (16mm x 20mm x 1.85mm) being put into a smartphone, video camera or DSLR? Compared to the fastest compactflash or SD flash, this is lightning fast ("can obtain speeds of up...
- eido.cohen
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- Aug 18, 2010
- camera slr smartphone solid state ssd video camera
- Replies: 6
- Forum: Drives & Storage