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Nancy White

who has written 388 posts for White Hat News.

Feb
8
2010
Jan
29
2010

iPhone gets VoIP over 3G network

(Mobile Phone News) – Apple has given up blocking voice-over-IP (VoIP) calls over 3G data networks on the iPhone, and has changed the SDK to reflect the allowance. Of course, carrier has to also comply for VoIP calls to work over 3G in addition to Wi-Fi. AT&T in the U.S. is already on board.
By using [...]

Jan
4
2010

CVX, NIV, IVAC, BUCY, JOYG, KNDI, FTK, UNH Popular Stocks

U.S. stocks were higher Monday as the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.52% to 10587, the S&P 500 added 1.57% to 1133 and the Nasdaq Composite gained 1.60% to 2305.
An article in Barron’s said Chevron Corp.’s (NYSE:CVX, $79.16, +$2.17, 2.82%) shares could rally about 20%, to $95, in the next year, as oil prices climb [...]

Dec
30
2009

Google’s Nexus one @ $530

Details for Nexus One, the most anticipated Google Phone is finally leaked out in the market.
The Nexus is expected to be launched at an invitation-only Android-themed special event on January 5 2010. According to the leaked details from Gizmodo, the Nexus One will retail for $530 unlocked, which could be used with any GSM [...]

Dec
30
2009

Giant’s battle continues: Nokia & Apple

Nokia’s in its latest move filed complaint with U.S. ITC to prove Apple guilty of infringement their patent in wider variety of products including smartphones.
The battle between the giant cell phones manufacturers got heated up with Apple replying back to Nokia for the complaint they filled against Apple in October, with a lawsuit earlier [...]

Dec
29
2009

GSM privacy: staked with decrypted Code

A new research by German Scientist has alarmed all the 4 billion GSM users about their phone calls privacy.
Karsten Nohl jointly with a few other scientists are claiming that they have published material that would crack a 22-year-old code, the A5/1 algorithm. The secret code is used to protect the conversations of more than 4bn [...]

Dec
29
2009

AT&T faces same issues which O2 suffered from last summer

AT&T users are not the only one fighting with the network congestion problems while using their smart Apple iPhone. The recent acknowledgment from UK based O2 about the network problems tells that the high increase in the number of smartphones had even made them to went through the same situations from last six months.
As reported [...]

Dec
28
2009

AT&T reopened online iPhone sale to NYC

AT&T on weekend made a very strange and startled move by prohibiting the online sale of iPhones through their web sites. The latest update to the news is that their move is now restored back.
Earlier when the AT&T blocked the online sale through att.com they defended the move by several statements like “increased fraudulent activity [...]

Dec
28
2009

Google Chrome netbook specs: here it is!

Google Chrome OS netbook specs are out, specs comes from some unnamed source as reported via IBTimes. There is no official Google stamps over these specs so we can categories them under live humors. But no doubt these specs if true are as such to be liked by one and all.
The Google netbook [...]

Dec
26
2009

Celebrations shopping hit with DDoS attack

Before the celebrations, shopping sites in Northern California were affected by an attack from DDoS service outage.
Neustar Inc. runs UltraDNS service provides DNS service to Amazon.com and Amazon Web Services. The sites were blocked because their DNS provider Neustar was hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Wednesday.
During the denial-of-service attack, web [...]