Google TV gets a major update with new Netflix, movable Dual View, Android remote app support
The first update for the Google TV platform since its release is now available on Logitech and Sony devices, and takes major strides towards addressing issues we pointed out in our review . The antiquated Netflix app is now sporting a new HTML5 based UI that resembles the one seen on the PlayStation 3 , while Dual View has addressed one of our biggest complaints by allowing users to move and resize the video window at will. Another major upgrade is support for an Android remote app arriving today with iPhone version "coming soon." The last major update should be appreciated by Kevin Bacon stalkers enthusiasts with a new info page for movies that pulls in plenty of relevant information and availability online and from the listings all on one page
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: engadget, enthusiasts, googletv, kevin-bacon, market, stalkers, updates-on-top, window
HTC slaps phone firmware site with cease and desist letter
You might be familiar with firmware impresario Conflipper by now, a man who's earned a reputation tearing apart ROMs -- often for unreleased devices -- and pulling out the juicy bits for everyone to see. Turns out the dude runs a site called Shipped ROMs with... yes, you guessed it, a bunch of shipped ROMs for a wide variety of phones on it, and it seems HTC's legal cats in Taiwan have taken issue, saying they've got "very strong reasons to believe that the HTC Intellectual Property was illegally obtained by fraudulent means" in a strongly-worded cease and desist letter sent to him earlier today.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: cease, conflipper, copyrights, endeavor, engadget, enthusiasts, flesh, htc, intellectual, juicy, kernels, legal, purpose, shippedroms, sole
GSM call encryption code cracked, published for the whole world to see
Did you know that the vast majority of calls carried out on the 3.5 billion GSM connections in the world today are protected by a 21-year old 64-bit encryption algorithm? You should now, given that the A5/1 privacy algorithm, devised in 1988, has been deciphered by German computer engineer Karsten Nohl and published as a torrent for fellow code cracking enthusiasts and less benevolent forces to exploit. Worryingly, Karsten and his crew of merry men obtained the binary codes by simple brute force -- they fed enough random strings of numbers in to effectively guess the password.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: a51, cracker, digital, engineer, enthusiasts, gsmassociation, having-the-code, karsten-nohl, open-source, security, voice calls