“Nearly three years after it was announced, the joint venture in mobile payments between AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon will finally go national by the year’s end.”
Samsung Galaxy S3 tops iPhone in smartphone satisfaction poll
“A couple of Samsung phones shot past those of arch-rival Apple in a new survey measuring satisfaction among smartphone users. The Galaxy S3 and Galaxy Note 2 both took home grades of 84 out of 100 in a study released Wednesday by the American Customer Satisfaction Index.”
Google steps back from net neutrality, claims banning servers is ‘industry standard’
“It looks like Google is starting to see that whole net neutrality thing a little differently now that it’s in the business of providing internet service.”
Google to speed up Starbucks’ free Wi-Fi
“Expanding its internet services ever further, Google has teamed up with Starbucks to outfit 7,000 of its coffee shops with faster Wi-Fi connections. The deal sees Google replace AT&T as the official internet provider in stores, offering customers internet speeds up to ten times faster than before.”
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Netflix user profiles begin appearing on the Apple TV for some accounts
“The new Netflix user profiles for shared accounts are set to be rolled out by the end of August, but according to reports the feature is already beginning to show up on the Apple TV for some.”
Low-Cost Plastic iPhone Outed in Labor Report
“Apple hasn’t yet announced a low-cost iPhone, let alone plans to build one. But the company is indeed working on one, according to a new report from a human-rights group that recently infiltrated a factory operated by one of its manufacturing partners.”
Court stops scientists from publishing codes that could wirelessly lockpick Porsches
“Three cryptography experts from a Dutch university have cracked the codes used to start luxury cars such as Audis, Bentleys, Porsches, and Lamborghinis, knowledge that could allow anyone with the right tools to wirelessly lockpick a $300,000 car.”
Nexus devices updated to Android 4.3 will now have TRIM support
“It seems that the curious case of the sluggish Nexus 7 has been solved with the inclusion of TRIM support in Android 4.3. TRIM is essentially a way for the device’s software to communicate with the on-board storage to let it know when blocks are sitting unused and ready for garbage collection.”
Google engineer blasts domestic spying after receiving NSA award
“Google engineer Joseph Bonneau is the first person to be awarded the NSA’s “Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper” award for his paper “The Science of Guessing,” which analyzed over 70 million user passwords in an effort to study why we’re all so horrible at making strong passwords.”
