- The "World's Young and Hungry": Where Real Mobile Innovation Will Come From
Companies are scrambling to develop products and operating systems for the developing world, but any old phone will do.
For some time now, smartphones have become tediously similar (see “The New Smartphone Incrementalism”). We’ve been to the glitzy U.S. launches—the Motorola Droids, the Nokia Windows phones, the iPhone 5, the Blackberry 10, and so on. Let’s face it: they are much the same. Mobile World Congress this week in Barcelona was filled with the latest advances—but, again, these were at the margins.
- Experiments on Cadavers Settle 100 Year-Old Puzzle Over Human Skin Strength
Langer lines map out the pattern of forces within the skin but nobody knew what caused them. Until now.
- A Plan to Give Mobile Data Bills a Makeover
What if mobile subscribers could click a button and top-off their data plan, or even buy mobile Internet access to a single app?
Most people have enough to worry about without micromanaging their smartphone use, but that’s what it’s come to for many device owners. To avoid exceeding a data cap, and incurring a costly penalty, many people try to meter their phone activities or resist the temptation to click on that Pandora app or YouTube link near the end of a billing cycle.
- Data Espionage Sleuths Aim to Put Chinese Corporations in Court
CrowdStrike says it can help U.S. companies identify the companies that benefit from stolen data.
In recent years, computer security companies and even U.S. government officials have alleged that attackers in China and elsewhere routinely steal company secrets from U.S. corporate computers. But tracing the perpetrators of such breaches and showing which companies may have received the data copied is extremely difficult. Now a startup company, CrowdStrike, has developed tools that it says can track attacks in enough detail for victims to publicly accuse those benefiting. The companies can then take legal action or lobby for international trade sanctions.
- LG Acquires WebOS for Smart TVs
Ultimately, the operating system will live or die by its engineering talent.
LG is acquiring WebOS from Hewlett-Packard, reports CNET’s Roger Cheng, for use in LG’s future smart TV’s.
- Brain Implants Can Reset Misfiring Circuits
Pacemaker-like treatment calms an overactive circuit in the brains of OCD patients.
A study that combined electrical stimulation of the brain with advanced imaging has shown how correcting misfiring neural circuits can lessen the symptoms of a common psychiatric disorder.
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