With Android Sliver Google has More Control Over Mobile Industry

Whenever we hear the word Smartphone, the thing which will hit our mind is Google Operating System for Mobile which is Android Phones, which are powered by the their OS. The Google’s new project which is under working called Android Silver, which was reported earlier this year. Firm has plans to launch it next year, but the questions is why, the intention is not just improve the customer base but to gain more power on mobile industry and develop a Nexus like program with more sophisticated hardware and more features. The program is more likely to overcome the indirect payments which company paid to hardware developer, OEMs, Carriers. Silver have now expensed about $1 billion on promoting the project through number of campaigns and store displays. In response company have agreed to remove their apps or can be removed by end user.

TechCrunch says “Google isn’t limiting the Silver program to software edicts, either; The Information says the program will help support development of advanced hardware features including waterproofing, as well as improved software features like voice recognition. At least initially, the program will likely target OEMs who are underrepresented in the current Android spread, like current Nexus participant LG, and Motorola is also said to be a likely early partner. Others like Samsung, HTC and Sony, which have invested heavily in their own custom Android skins, are thought to be less likely to participate.”

The silver technology is more like an advancements of the Nexus or Google Edition programs, currently Nexus devices are very popular and high specs devices at very cheap cost but Silver is something meant for outliners and early adopters. This campaign will be launched in those countries where firm seen worth to launch.

Apple New Move On World’s Earth Day To Go Green

The Environment concern website Greenpeace which rate companies on the basis of their involvement into saving the atmosphere with their technology so as WEEE legislation in all concern about that the e-waste from these companies should be dumped properly without applying any harm to the environment. Greenpeace rated the Apple is one of the worst companies who destroying the nature with their products and Data centers and with the e-waste in 2006 this time Apple did something which take them to companies who cares for the environment yes, This time Greenpeace has Apple with A sign which is a proof of Apple doing some gardening. On Earth day Apple released a video which was a take a look at company’s wide recycling program and CEO Tim Cook promises the work is yes to be done.

Apple’s datacenters are now 100% powered by solar, wind and geothermal power. Cook got a bit angry at Apple’s annual shareholders meeting when challenged on the costs of this by a climate-change skeptic. As reported in The Mac Observer, Justin Danhoff of the National Center for Public Policy Research was advocating that shareholders approve a proposal requiring Apple to disclose the costs and benefits of its green initiatives. Cook shot back: “When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind. I don’t consider the bloody ROI… If you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock.”

Apple is doing a little more than what WEEE legislation says, there headquarters running on 100% clean energy and the E-waste is properly dumping in order to protect the environment. Once a talker about changing the world with their products now talks about doing a little more than just doing business.

Supreme Court Judges Says They’re Prone To Rule On NSA Surveillance

US Supreme Court Members have indicated at Thursday night that finally they have to decide on security agency NSA’s surveillance plans. The indications comes from two justice Antinin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, they was attending a public event at the National Press Club in Washington and answering the questions from journalists about whether court will take any decisions against US intelligence surveillance which are disclosed by Ed Snowden. The justices did not talked about any specific programs because there is hundreds of lawsuit still waiting for hearing which are confronting the administration well known bulk collection of phone recordings.

TechCrunch says “the two judges “agreed that freedom of speech is the most important of the freedoms enumerated in the Bill of Rights.” This is topical given the recent awarding of the Pulitzer Prize to the Guardian and the Washington Post for their reporting on the NSA’s mass surveillance activities. Justice Ginsburg went on to praise the media, and even excuse it of possible sin: “I think the press has played a tremendously important role as watchdog over what the government is doing. That keeps the government from getting too far out of line. Yes, there are excesses in the press, but we have to put up with that.”

Antonin Scalia

Recently, US government released a new commandment which is US Government Will DiscloseInternet Exploits, but wouldn’t be able to put all the controversies to rest. A Federal judge says that the program did not pleased the law but another judge says in that month is not so both the cases are waiting for hearing. Scalia says that he did not think that they would be a perfect phenomenon for judging on security Matters because of its lack of experience.

US Government Will Disclose Internet Exploits, Only When They Want To

The Internet is a place where all the data and the whole information about anyone is saved on internet company’s servers but the recently discovered security bug called Heartbleed was the biggest flaw of all time in internet history with its own logo. This bug could damages billions of dollars information stored on server, compromise all the credit card details and lots of destruction but US government was one of like sit and watch the destruction type organization and report suggests that they took advantage of the it and spied and hack firms. Based in different reports the things is U.S. government now declare to have bowed to disclose all the bug they would find for which they would make a law enforcement. Well Ed Snowden should be applauded and warded for what he did lately but there has to be a law which will see Govt. to provide all the details of their programs.

The Guardian says “The agency’s recently-disclosed minimization procedures permit “retention of all communications that are enciphered.” In other words, when NSA encounters encryption it can’t crack, it’s allowed to – and apparently does – vacuum up all that scrambled traffic and store it indefinitely, in hopes of finding a way to break into it months or years in the future. As security experts recently confirmed, Heartbleed can be used to steal a site’s master encryption keys – keys that would suddenly enable anyone with a huge database of encrypted traffic to unlock it, at least for the vast majority of sites that don’t generate new keys as a safeguard against retroactive exposure.”

So over all we can say the protector of ours means the Government turned the back on to us and trying to exploit their own citizens and the Heartbleed bug was well known to them but they didn’t disclose it to take advantage of it."

OpenSSL Heartbleed Bug Leaves Much Of The Internet Danger

A large number of companies are using the OpenSSL encryption to protect the servers and databases which contains trillion GB’s of Data of Several users which leaves them at risk without risk assessment. The openSSL contains a security flaw from 2 years and if it had exploited by any third party or hacker it could be huge data breach on those servers which uses the 64 KB chunks. It was very repeatable flaw if third party could hit the 64 KB button again and again, eventually they will be passes by the validation. Here why it’s very harmful because you probably changed the security keys and generate new one without knowing that your servers had previously been compromised so the thing which protects you is to changing the keys constantly. An expert said ““I bet that there will be a lot of vulnerable servers a year from now. This won’t get fixed”

Yahoo sent out an email “vulnerability, called Heartbleed, was recently identified impacting many platforms that use OpenSSL, including ours. As soon as we became aware of the issue, we began working to fix it. Our team has successfully made the appropriate corrections across the main Yahoo properties (Yahoo Homepage, Yahoo Search, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Food, Yahoo Tech, Flickr and Tumblr) and we are working to implement the fix across the rest of our sites right now. We¹re focused on providing the most secure experience possible for our users worldwide and are continuously working to protect our user’s data"

So this is not a good thing for the data companies, when their whole business runs on user trust and NSA has already paid a good amount to RSA to accept a random encryption. But companies thinking to encode your data through the voice or any biometrics of your which probably could be more difficult to crack.

Voice Analysis Pioneering Novauris Acquired By Apple To Improve Siri

Recently, Apple has made quite move which would definitely be helping them to advance their personal assistant Siri. Yes Apple announced that they will acquire the voice analysis pioneer flagship company called Novauris Technologies, which just get separated by Dragon Systems from UK.  Novauris begin to work in March 2002 after separating from Dragon System. Company founded by Jim baker started his work on self funding and originally owned it, but then Bridle and Hunt join him with a little help with internal investment. The purchase was happened last year but they didn’t disclose it and then started working to improve Siri, the speech detection virtual assistant tool pre-installed on iPhones. The Novauris may no longer any name but it’s founder’s are still called as a voice researcher’s.

Siri's User InterFace in iOs 7.1

TechCrunch Posted “Novauris had been developing its own large-vocabulary, automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology for access to information stored locally on mobile devices or remotely on servers, which they patented in the U.S. and abroad, and licensed to major corporations worldwide. One of the biggest differentiators about Novauris in terms of the competitive landscape is that they operated in both the embedded and server space, and they also owned the core engine. This of course would make them a valuable asset for Apple, which had tried to acquire Nuance, the technology that powers Apple’s Siri – a partnership that has long been known, but only officially confirmed last year.”

Novarius Voice Detection Tool on Smartphone

As companies are acquiring more and more information of their customers, no matter in terms of customer’s voice and if they didn’t respond to the government they get the consequences as we seen twitter gets banned in turkey for almost a week for not responding the govt. call.