Planet of Tech

Samsung confirms Galaxy S3, "still reviewing" release

2012-01-27T17:56:00.001Z

http://www.t3.com/news/samsung-galaxy-s3-delayed-beyond-mwc-2012-unveiling

Nasa spacecraft orbits moon on New Year's Eve as part of $500m mission to scan Earth¿s nearest neighbour from crust to core | Mail Online

2012-01-01T01:50:00.001Z

New Year's Mission: One of the two twin Grail probes entered orbit on New Year's Eve

Grail is expected to help researchers better understand why the moon is asymmetrical and how it formed by mapping the uneven lunar gravity field. The mission will cost nearly $500million. Previous lunar missions have attempted to study the moon's gravity -which is about one-sixth Earth's pull - with mixed results. Grail is the first mission devoted to this goal.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2080881/Nasa-spacecraft-orbits-moon-New-Years-Eve-500m-mission-scan-Earth-s-nearest-neighbour-crust-core.html

Nokia Lumia :(

2011-12-27T12:08:00.002Z

It would apear that @Nokia_uk & @microsoft have a big problem with
their new flagship Lumia handsets.
Problems apear to be centred around the battery or power management.
Customers report their phone will not power up, some have to
disconnect the charger a few times and press the power button
intermitantly.

Forum link here

http://bit.ly/vhf1cl

Three SIM card Template / Cutter update iPhone / iPad

2011-12-17T13:01:00.001Z

Standard SIM card

Please see my past entry re a the template for cutting your standard SIM card to fit a micro SIM ( MicroSim ) card slot.

Military Wives shoot for the number one spot.

2011-12-14T09:00:00.000Z

It has been revealed that Military Wives and Gareth Malone’s Wherever You Are has become record-breaking as the most pre-ordered music item ever on Amazon ahead of its official release by Decca on December 18.

It looks like X Factor winners Little Mix’s chances of hitting the topspot are getting slimmer by the day as phenomenal pre-order figures have been reported for the Military Wives single.

Amazon UK’s music manager, Roger Greensmith, revealed: “Pre-orders for the single have been so strong they have outstripped those achieved by Take That’s 2010 album Progress almost three times over.”

“This is a tremendous achievement when you consider that Take That’s album marked Robbie’s return and was one of the most highly anticipated music releases ever. With a week of pre-orders still to go, this puts the Military Wives choir in a great position to be Christmas number one.”

Get your order in today !!

Music Week

Kevin D. Mitnick has been globe trotting publishing his new book.

2011-12-12T23:21:00.001Z

Kevin Mitnick (@kevinmitnick) has been doing the rounds of late apearing on verious podcasts including techzilla and Hak.5
He has a new book out called Ghost in the wires, well worth a read, definitely on my Christmas list.
kindle version here :-

There is also a paper back version and an audio book too.

Check out some of the other books Kevin has published on Amazon here Other titles

The Register launched its 1st Kindle book, “The Life and Times of Steve Jobs”

2011-12-06T21:42:00.000Z

Rik Myslewski has followed Apple since the beginning, as a member of the Homebrew Computer Club, editor of MacAddict, and as San Francisco editor for The Register. In this Reg book he plots Jobs' career from Silicon Valley Hellion to Apple Mk 1, NeXTS, Pixar, Apple Mk II, the iPhone and Cancer. Dick? Prick? Nasty? Mercurial? The world's greatest salesman? Rik considers all these Jobs and more in "The Life and Times of Steve Jobs".

New Xbox kinect software to bring voice commands to Tv services

2011-12-05T09:46:00.001Z

The Kinect controller will allow users to use gestures to scroll through options. Microsoft says "the new software update will create the biggest interactive TV service in the world"
A free update to the Xbox 360 games console will bring new catch-up TV services and integrated voice control to 35 million users.
The new software will see users able to command their televisions with words such as pause or play, and to ask Xbox to search the web or its own associated services for films, music, TV and other digital content such as games.

Get your Kinect today!

Telegraph

Motorola confirm ICS upgrade to 3 product lines.

2011-12-04T22:23:00.001Z

A note about Ice Cream Sandwich:

We are planning to upgrade DROID RAZR™ by Motorola, Motorola RAZR™, Motorola XOOM™ (including Family Edition) and DROID BIONIC™ by Motorola to Ice Cream Sandwich. We will provide more precise guidance on timing after post-public push of Ice Cream Sandwich by Google, as well as any possible additions to this list of devices.

https://supportforums.motorola.com/community/manager/softwareupgrades

Time for a new Xbox ?

2011-11-25T18:20:00.001Z

CES could we see a new microsoft xbox ? there are definite rumors and
its about time to get people to upgrade.

iPhone 5

2011-10-04T13:37:00.000+01:00

18:00 GMT+1 (London Time) http://engt.co/roe3Ng

Well turns out iPhone 4s not iPhone 5

CERN scientists 'break the speed of light'

2011-09-22T22:50:00.001+01:00

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/8782895/CERN-scientists-break-the-speed-of-light.html

Satellite to crash to earth

2011-09-22T13:07:00.000+01:00

The UAR Sattellite is due to re-enter the earth atmosphere some time in the evening on Friday 23rd Sept GMT+1

The craft weighs in at 5.6 tonnes and has currently a large area it could re enter, anything from 57 degrees above and 57 degrees below the equator.

The satellite was put into a disposal orbit on 15th Dec 2005.

Up-to-date location and time of re-entry can be found here :-

Facebook adds Google+ features

2011-08-31T19:31:00.001+01:00

Facebook has tided up the comment bar for status updates, now you can
add friends and locations or check in right from the comment bar, also
they have added a very Google + feature of posting your comments to
different feeds, so you can post to public different information that
you would post to friends or you can make a custom feed to post to.

Facebook is always very quick to strip features it likes from other
developers and integrate them into it's own product, it's hard to see
how others will compete as they have the users and can update the
service so quickly.

Nokia will be releasing 4 new Symbian phones

2011-08-25T09:27:00.001+01:00

These new handsets will feature Belle the new flavour of the Symbian OS.
It looks up to date and easy to use, The register are leading with the OS that Nokia should have released 3 years ago.
Well maybe they should.

New models are :-

Nokia 701 (Helen)

Nokia 700 (Zeta)
Nokia 600 (Cindy)

Nokia 500 (Fate)

Some links http://www.flashfly.net/wp/?p=3862
http://www.reghardware.com/2011/08/24/symbian_belle_expected/

Get Google+ on your iPhone Here !

2011-07-20T08:28:00.000+01:00

Google + is it the new Facebook ? give it a try on your iOS device.

iTunes app store says only available for users 18 and older for some reason.

http://goo.gl/ce762

Nokia will support MeeGo for years to come.

2011-07-07T15:14:00.000+01:00

Klas Ström from Nokia has confirmed ongoing support for the ill fated N9 MeeGo handset.

I realy would like to see this handset succeed, a mix of Nokia build quality an OS that is very flexable.

MeeGo for the win !

Klass tells us not to worry all will be well for years to come see his tweet here :-

Google+ invites

2011-06-29T18:54:00.001+01:00

If anybody has some google+ invites please feel free to send one this way.
Cheers @PlanetCypher

We want Nokia to keep MeeGo

2011-06-22T14:56:00.000+01:00

Sign the Twitition to get MeeGo back !

This Twitition after the post of Interlingua_TV on the Nokia Conversations forum: http://conversations.nokia.com/2011/06/21/video-diving-into-the-nokia-n9-ui-and-specs/#comment-230866683 "This is the most beautiful phone OS ever: Meego simply rocks! Having this phone N9 with so many features, Maps offline, Maps 3D, all the messages, SMS, social updates in one page, Carl Zeiss AF 2.2f, HD Stereo video recording, NFC, USB, 1 Ghz processor, 1 Gb RAM, 16/64 Gb storage, how can Elop say MeeGo is just a disruption and he wants to abandon this beauty for WP7 when WP7 does not sell, with all the free Xbox console, tons of advertisement and OEMs like Samsung, LG and HTC??? Elop made Nokia to jump in icy water on Feb 11, having this beauty in the pocket? 20 billions lost in market capitalization, NOK stock is lowest in 13 years, 16 billions lost in smartphone sales as a result of Elop Feb 11 speech? When he killed MeeGo and Symbian and Ovi, Nokia own kids, like a saboteur, to only embrace WP7 from his former company? How he could kill MeeGo? MeeGo looks to be the best phone OS ever!Nokia, please don't take the troll or trojan advice and this to be the single and last MeeGo device released!Nokia, you need to fight, you are under US/M$ occupation now, but make your point: MeeGo needs to survive! Qt needs to survive. They are the future, people don't want a closed platforms like iOS and WP, they want openness and liberty! They don't want Microsoft Bing advertisement everywhere on Maps, email, all the data tracked to serve advertisement. People want privacy and openness and freedom! People want open source driven by free minds, not corporations like M$ to drive and track their actions!" You agree? Sign! Share!

Security flaw affected 99.7% of all Android smartphones

2011-06-03T15:10:00.000+01:00

Google is in the process of updating its Android operating system to fix an issue that is believed to have left millions of smartphones and tablets vulnerable to personal data leaks."We recently started rolling out a fix which addresses a potential security flaw that could, under certain circumstances, allow a third party access to data available in calendar and contacts," a Google spokesman said in a statement.

Full story here :-

Potentially all Facebook password have been leaked !

2011-05-19T18:17:00.001+01:00

Everybody who has apps or games installed on their Facebook pages
could have their account hijacked.
Basically some Facebook apps have leaked software tokens that have the
access to your account.

Everybody must change their Facebook password immediately !

Facebook has fixed the Leaks now but the old tokens are still out
there on servers and logs.

Don't say we didn't tell you !

Link here :- http://goo.gl/cFjad

Trade show stacking gas heaters

2011-05-18T11:43:00.001+01:00

This made us chuckle, a trade show vendor decided to have a fire next to the gas canisters that fuel it. Some people never fail to astound me.

Google Help out by extending Person Finder to aid Japan

2011-03-12T19:50:00.000Z

http://goo.gl/sagas
As long as people can get online, and with a serious lack of power due to power grid seriously damaged and the lack of operational power stations and Telecom / data networks, this could be a while before its found its feed as a useful tool.

Japanese Language

（消息情報）へは http://goo.gl/sagas でもアクセスできます

Thunderbolt: Introducing a new way to hack Macs

2011-03-09T18:30:00.001Z

Apple and Intel have introduced a new notebook connection technology called Thunderbolt that will hopefully replace all the other cables coming out of your laptop. However, it appears to share the same security flaw as some of these older technologies: attaching a hostile device can break into your computer. A hacker can walk up to your laptop while you are not looking, connect a device for a few seconds, disconnect it and walk away with your data (such as passwords). This works even when your laptop is "locked" with the password screen. We can't prove this until we get our hands on the hardware, but all signs point to hackers being able to exploit Thunderbolt.

Imagine that you are at a conference. You innocently attach your DisplayPort to a projector to show your presentation on the big screen. Unknown to you, while giving your presentation, the projector is downloading the entire contents of your hard disk.

Posted by Robert Graham
Copied from the owners site :-

http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2011/02/thunderbolt-introducing-new-way-to-hack.html

I'm now rocking GingerBread

2011-03-01T20:03:00.000Z

After I got an Over The Air notification to say 2.3.3 was available for my Google Nexus One, I decided to take the opportunity to change my gmail email address from googlemail.com to gmail.com.
When I did this some months ago now it broke some of my apps on my Nexus one due to sign in details that could not be changed, the only option to me was to wipe the phone and start again.

So this is what I did, restored factory defaults on the phone then change my gmail.com details, then set the freshly wiped phone with the new google details.

Then i wanted to download gingerbread via the OTA update but the notification had disappeared from the phone.

I then looked to see if there was a way of forcing the update or manually installing.
I came across the code to force the phone to check *#*#2432546#*#* (*#*#checkin#*#*) which i put into the phone dialler, got a msg back checkin successful , but still nothing.

I then found a site detailing instructions on downloading the gingerbread update then putting on the MicroSD card and then rebooting the phone in a loader mode.
I cant find the original site but this link details what i did. androidcentral.com

Found more details on the Google Mobile Help Forum some report google voice can break on the Nexus One, cant get this in the UK so im not bothered about this.
Android Developers Site details