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'Phreaking' or frequency hacking is coming back from the grave

Last week, NY Times published an article - 'It’s Possible to Hack a Phone With Sound Waves, Researchers Show' - that since gained a lot of attention and a lot of echoes in other media outlets. It’s not just about smartphones, as the title might suggest; but any system incorporating a particular class of sensors (an accelerometer, in this case) allows under certain conditions a knowledgeable person to influence, control or disable the device that incorporates it.
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Lost your iPhone? Siri can 'gossip' about you even if your phone is locked

Apple has taken repeatedly a strong stance on privacy protection, especially when it comes to their flagship product, the iPhone. While, undoubtedly, a lot of effort has gone into making it more secure, a lot still hinges on how conscious is the user of the dangers posed by some combinations of enabled settings on the iPhone.
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Perceived creativity, mobile apps and ROI: 5 ideas worth knowing

For a number of years now, Adobe conducts a global survey to capture how people view creativity, it’s role in the their lives, it role in the business environment, etc. The most recent report - Adobe State of: Create 2016 - was published at the beginning of October and has many interesting findings businesses would do well to think about.
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Mobile speed advantage: twice the revenue and way ahead the competition

Even those that haven’t watched the movie Zootopia, the iconic scene depicted above is probably resonating with some of our own experiences with systems that seem to thrive on delay. Time isn’t, of course, money, but it is still a very precious commodity for most of us to be squandered uselessly.
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ke Solutions is growing: visible vs invisible portfolio

The most visible parts of our work are websites and apps, but it would be a mistake to assume that what you can see in our Portfolio is all ke Solutions does.
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What if you could boost sales by 60-70% with minimal costs overnight?

Just imagine it for a second: your business (whatever it may be) is working. Along comes an email claiming that there a simple way to boost your business by 71% with minimal costs. Spam or stroke of genius? Surprisingly, it turns out there is at least one case where the claim is true!
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Livestreaming: a big something or a small nothing?

Take some time and examine The Conversion Prism: some names will surely be familiar, others will ring a bell and many won’t mean a thing. But there is no other way to visualize just how complicated is this thing we call 'social media'.
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JanusVR - the next generation browser?

Virtual or Augmented Reality (VR / AR) are hot topics these days; magnets for all kinds of online content. Usually interest in VR is coupled with a focus on enabling hardware and tech. Sometimes the interest switches to innovative ways one may use VR; Nonny de la Pena riveting TED talk 'The future of news? Virtual reality' was able to generate a significant spike.
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Who leaks your personal information more: web vs apps?

I vividly remember the moment the water main burst on our street when I was a kid; a spectacular geyser raising to the height of the second floor windows and us, the kids, gleefully enjoying a mini catastrophe that left the whole city block without water for a couple of days.
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Mobile device sensors: the biggest advantage and the biggest privacy threat

Mobile devices are often presented as a miniaturized desktop or laptop computers. The next step of the evolution. Why? Because a mobile phone or tablet - in addition to everything your desktop of laptop has - is also packed with sensors provide a lot of inputs a clever developer can use to create new services or products.
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Method to this madness: what people share on social networks and why?

How do you make people hear you out about something everyone knows is boring and would rather avoid? One answer is to create content that goes viral and repeatedly shared.
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Useless apps: why are they still a thing?

Apps are proliferating at an amazing rate: according to this Statista graph there were around two million apps registered on Google Play in February 2016 and around 1.5 million apps on Apple Store. Which made the next bit of data even more interesting: the percentage of apps used only once after their installation from 2011 to 2015 seems to hover around 25%.
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Summer start: would our servers heat up the local weather?

Summer is starting to heat up and so are our servers. More websites being prepared, more work done on apps, more background work we do for all sort of customers that want to remain anonymous. We have to admit: if this summer turns out to be hotter than usual, we should be at least be partly to blame. Work generates heat!
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