Archive for Mobile

Foxconn losses and busting thieves!

Yeah, I know it is April Fools day, and the jokes are flying around like poo in the monkey cage at the zoo.  I decided I’d pull my jokes somewhere else. Instead, I wanted to bring to your attention that Foxconn posted a surprising $218.3m loss. Foxconn, if you didn’t know, is the largest assembler […]

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Top Four ways to protect yourself from NFC hackers.

NFC is an acronym for Near Field Communication.  It’s a fancy way of describing radio frequency based communication over a very short distance.  If you grew up in the 80s and ever got some of those really cheap CB walkie-talkies, you know a thing or two about RF over short distances. With NFC, we’re talking […]

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The iPhone 5’s 64GB SSD that’s smaller than a quarter?

    Update (Oct 1, 2013) – Please note, this blog post was written before the release of the iPhone 4s, widely speculated to be called the iPhone 5. Thanks! Foremay announced an extremely small SSD today. How small? How about slightly smaller than a quarter.  Although 64GB doesn’t really compare to the 2 TB […]

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