It’s not unreasonable to be hacked by anyone….

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It’s not unreasonable to be hacked by anyone….
Number 2541
Broadcast Date JULY 21, 2015
Episode Length 44:35
Hosts Tom Merritt
Guests Patrick Beja

Patrick Beja and Tom Merritt discuss the state of the mobile Web. Can it be fixed? Also your car can now be hacked wirelessly. So– come on car companies. Time to take this seriously.

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People of St. Louis County. On the same highway you take to Forest Park, the Galleria, Frontenac Plaza and Chesterfield Mall. Hackers disabled a Jeep Cherokee driven by Wired reporter Andy Greenberg killing the transmission and changing the channel… to HIP HOP. Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek were 10 miles away demonstrating a wireless exploit they will discuss at Black Hat. The exploit allows them to engage or disable brakes, kill the engine and more. It works by finding the IP address of the car through Chrysler’s UConnect service, rewriting the firmware of the entertainment system’s chip making it capable of sending commands to the car’s internal network, the CAN bus. Chrysler issued a patch for the hack on July 16th available by USB or a visit to the dealer.
Twitter removed wallpaper images from its web users' timelines and notifications page Monday, according to The Verge. Wallpaper can still be seen on individual tweet pages, list pages, and collections pages. Twitter has not given a reason for the change.
Engadget passes an Inside Sources report that Google, Facebook, eBay, Dell, HP and other tech companies submitted a “friend of the court” brief July 1st supporting Samsung’s case against Apple. Apple won a $1 billion award for Samsung’s violation of several patents including tap-to-zoom and single-finger scrolling. The Court of appeals lowered the amount to $548 million earlier this year. The brief argues basing the award on total profits of infringing devices doesn’t make sense.
Geekwire cites the Wall Street Journal report that Audi, BMW and Daimler AG are about to pull the trigger on their team purchase of Nokia’s HERE digital mapping service. The Journal claims Uber dropped out of the bidding weeks ago. Meanwhile ReCode claims its sources say Nokia will announce a virtual reality project at a VIP event in Los Angeles next week.
Fortune notes the WSJ says Apple has hired Doug Betts, former head of global quality at Fiat Chrysler. It’s the latest in a string of high quality auto experts that Apple has hired. The WSJ believes secret project cod-named “Titan” is an Apple-branded electric car.
Fortune reports that around two dozen tech companies— led by Google— launched the Cloud Native Computing Foundation Tuesday. The foundation centers around the use of Google Kubernetes system for scheduling application containers on a large scale. IBM, Intel, VMWare, Cisco, Docker and more are part of the foundation. Amazon and Microsoft are not. Kubernetes 1.0 is to be released at OSCON in Portland this week.
TechCrunch reports a study from the Mobile Association of India and KPMG estimates there will be 500 million Internet users in India by 2017. Currently 350 million of the 1.25 billion population use the Internet. Inexpensive smartphones and affordable 2G and 3G service will drive the growth. India is second behind China in total number of Internet users in the world but with a penetration of just 19%.
BizTechAfrica reports Africa’s biggest lender, Standard Bank, has expanded InstantMoney payments to Botswana and Uganda as it rolls out the service across the continent. InstantMoney lets customers send cash to anyone by text message. The recipient, who doesn’t need to be a bank customer, uses an access code and PIN to withdraw the money from a Standard Bank ATM.
The Next Web reports Sonovation announced its method of putting ultrasonic biometric sensors under gorilla glass. In other words, your whole screen can be a fingerprint reader. So when will see this show up in phones? OH hey! Did we mention it works with wet and dirty fingers!
Apple has shared its Q3 2015 earnings results reporting revenue of $49 billion and $10.7 billion in profit during the April to June period. This is the first quarter includes initial Apple Watch sales. Revenue: $49.6 billion versus $49.4 billion expected (up 33% annually). EPS $1.85, up 45% versus analyst expectations of $1.81. iPhone units sold: 47.5 million (versus 48.8 million expected - there's some back and forth about this expectation). "Other” revenue which includes the first Apple Watch sales: $2.64 billion up from $1.77 billion a year ago, when Apple did not have the watch or Beats. iPad units: 10.9 million versus 10.9 million expected. Mac units: 4.8 million versus 4.9 million. Revenue Guidance $49-$51 billion versus $51.06 billion expected. Apple’s stock is down 7% in after hours trading.

Also Microsoft reported revenue of $22.2 billion and adjusted earnings per share of $0.62. Analysts reported $0.56 a share and revenue of $22.06 billion. Windows income fell 22% year over year. Office 365 subscribers rose by 2.8 million. Commercial cloud revenue grew 88% year over year. Surface revenue was up 117% year over year.

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