Tech Review: Tuesday, August 2, 2011

• http://gcn.com/Articles/2011/07/29/Fastest-broadband-cities.aspx?s=gcndaily_010811&Page=2

Which cities have the fastest broadband?

18 cities in the US ranked in the top 100 of the world.

Riverside - 7.8 megabits/sec

Rhode Island - 894 kilobits/sec 

Idaho - 318 kilobits/sec (slowest)

Japan - 13.2 megabits/sec

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/mobile-news/lenovo-ideapad-k1-tablet-first-impressions/3510?tag=nl.e539

Lenovo IdeaPad K1 tablet: First impressions

• Android Honeycomb 3.1 (3.2 is current)
• 10" screen
• Nvidia Tegra 2 dual-core processor
• two cameras
• doesn't wake on press of physical home button
• 1.65 lbs

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/where-did-all-the-mac-malware-go/3628?tag=nl.e539

Where did all the Mac malware go?

• Mac Defender group doing attack
• cause the first release of Mac OS with patch target at virus
• Mainly stopped by Google shutting down the "poisoned searches"
• http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=10989

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/the-top-five-linux-desktop-vendors/9313?tag=nl.e539

The top five Linux desktop vendors

• Eight Vitrues looks like the best for mid range are lower Linux boxes.
• http://www.eightvirtues.com/support.html

http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/design-architecture/chinas-young-designers-create-products-that-merge-tradition-and-innovation/219?tag=nl.e550

China's young designers create products that merge tradition and innovation

• American born Aric Chen is running at state sponsored magazine to highlight Chinese architecture, graphics, and products.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/skype-facebook-critical-security-vulnerability/9163?tag=nl.e550

Skype + Facebook = critical security vulnerability

• Really a security hole in the newest release of MS Skype.

http://www.spi.dod.mil/lipose.htm

• From DOD
• Lightweight Portable Security (LPS)
• Any intel-base Mac or PC
• Accredited for LPS-Remote Access
• Mark Clute has played with it

http://www.spi.dod.mil/ewizard_down.htm

Encryption Wizard

• Encryption Wizard
• Run on anything that runs Java v1.5
• DOD
• Mark Clute recommended it

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Archos-501582/15567528

ARCHOS 70 7" Touchscreen Tablet PC: $229

• Capacitive multi touch
• Android 2.2
• Webcam

http://www.f3program.org/

• Jessica Pater works with
• http://virtualities.net/JessicaPater.aspx
• GT, Gov, Industry effort to ensure universal k-12 tech access.

http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=10989

• compromise a legit web site
• Usually Wordpress
• Introduces PHS scripts in sites' source code
•  Scripts monitor Google trend queries
• Create artificial web pages containing content
• Detects Google crawlers and deliver content
• Pics end up in image search database
• Exploit happens when user clicks thumbnail
• Google use iFrame
• PHP script checks if user came from Google results page
• redirect to another compromised site.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.netflix.mediaclient&hl=en&pli=1

• Android app for Netflex.  
• Installed it and it works great.
• Could not find when I searched in Market
• There is one for Blockbuster but it is in-compatable with my phone
• https://market.android.com/details?id=com.motorola.Blockbuster&feature=related_apps