Trendit’s IPO Set To Drive Growth In $1.5 Trillion ‘Smart Cities’ Market

The announcement by Trendit, an Israeli-registered provider of cutting-edge technology for real-time monitoring of crowd behavior, population movement and trend analytics, to raise £4 million (c.$6m) imminently through a new share offering on the London Stock Exchange’s main market could pave the way for an “exit at some stage” over the next few years. It chose London over New York to list as a result of strong investor interest in data analytics firms and the UK’s handy international time zone.

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FinTech Firm Backed By HRH Prince Michael Of Kent Aims To Improve Remittance Market For Migrants

London is currently enjoying its reputation as the fastest growing FinTech hub in the world. With its entrepreneur friendly start-up ecosystem the city has helped to push the envelope and drive innovation, disruption and change this year, most notably in the international remittance markets, where Transferwise has achieved the fabled “unicorn” status (a valuation of $1 billion) whilst a host of others, like Azimo and The Money Cloud, are making significant strides.

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From ‘Wearable Power’ To Virtual Sex: Best Pre-CES Press Releases of 2016

Every January, hundreds of thousands of tech executives, retailers and press trek to Las Vegas to explore the 2.4 million-square-foot trade show floor that is the Consumer Electronics Show. And while the big brands make the biggest noise -hundreds of small companies are vying for attention. Making that noise is what PR people do every December – as they flood reporters inbox’s with their crafty, sometimes over-the-top attempts.

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Alleged OnePlus 2 Mini gets approved by TENAA

The upcoming OnePlus 2 Mini just got a bit more real. The phone was just approved by TENAA, which is the telecommunications equipment certification center in China.

According to the certification page, the phone, model number One E1000, has 4.99-inch 1920×1080 AMOLED display, 2.0GHz octa-core Snapdragon 810 processor, 3GB of RAM, 16GB storage with microSD support, 13 megapixel rear camera, 8 megapixel front camera, and Android 5.1.1 Lollipop.

The phone measures in at 140 x 69 x 6.9mm and weighs in at 138g. The images suggest it will have glass panels on the front and back with a metal frame around the sides, similar to the OnePlus X.

Some of the specs contradict the previous ones we have seen on GFX Bench results, although TENAA is infinitely more reliable than any benchmark info, as the latter can easily be forged.

We will have to wait and see when OnePlus decides to take the wraps off the new model.

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Valve comes clean, admits Christmas day Steam glitch was due to DoS attack

We reported earlier that a weird glitch took over Steam on Christmas morning, as several users reported seeing other users’ account information instead of their own. The issue was sorted out in a few hours, and later Valve confirmed that it was due to a caching issue.

While that may have been the direct cause of the glitch, it was caused due to another problem altogether. Turns out, Steam was the target of a DoS (denial of service) attack, which prevented serving of store pages to users. It caused the traffic to the store to soar by 2000% over average traffic.

In response to the attack, one of Steam’s web caching partners deployed caching configuration to minimize the impact on Steam Store servers and continue to route legitimate traffic. A second caching configuration was deployed during the second wave of the attack, which incorrectly cached web traffic for authenticated users. This is what caused some users to see other users’ pages.

According to Valve, this would have allowed users to see the billing address, last four digits of their Steam Guard phone number, their purchase history, last two digits of their credit card number, and their email address. That’s still a fair bit of information, especially since Valve initially said that no real information was seen by other users.

The issue has since then been resolved but it shows rather poor communication from the company, especially since it concerned user…

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Cómo proteger tu Android contra capturas de pantalla.

Cómo proteger tu Android contra capturas de pantalla.Hoy os voy a mostrar en este nuevo post, la manera de proteger tu Android contra capturas de pantalla para proteger la privacidad de las aplicaciones que consideremos oportuno y que estás estén a salvo de la funcionalidad incorporada en el sistema operativo Android que permite, mediante una simple combinación de teclas, tomar una captura de pantalla de cualquier parte o aplicación instalada en nuestros dispositivos.

A parte de servir para proteger tu Android contra capturas de pantalla mediante la combinación de teclas, también nos va a servir para que ninguna aplicación de toma de capturas de pantalla haga valer esta funcionalidad en las aplicaciones que consideremos oportuno, y por supuesto, ninguna aplicación maliciosa nos pueda robar información delicada usando esta funcionalidad integrada en Android que nos permite la toma de capturas de pantalla.

Screen Shield – Protección, una app gratuita para proteger tu Android contra capturas de pantalla

Cómo proteger tu Android contra capturas de pantalla.

La aplicación en cuestión se llama Screen Shield – Protección y la podemos descargar desde la tienda oficial de aplicaciones para Android, el Google Play o Play Store, en una versión gratuita con la limitación de poder usarla tan solo en siete aplicaciones. También tenemos la posibilidad de adquirir la versión PRO o de pago, la cual nos va a permitir poder habilitar la protección contra capturas de pantalla en cualquier aplicación instalada en nuestros terminales Android, ya sea aplicaciones descargadas, aplicaciones integradas en el sistema operativo o cualquier ajuste de nuestro Android.

A continuación os dejo enlace directo al Play Store de Google desde donde podréis instalar la versión gratuita, si deseáis comprar la versión PRO de la app lo tendréis que hacer mediante la opción de compras in app que hay dentro de la versión gratuita.

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HTC’s cost-cutting measures lead to sale of Taoyuan City factory

HTC may not have any plans to close up shop in 2016, but the company’s plans to reduce overall operating costs by 35% has led to the sale of its Taoyuan City factory and property. The assets have been sold to Inventec for $174 million, but HTC is planning to relocate its employees that still work at the factory. In 2013, HTC temporarily stopped smartphone production line at its Taoyuan City factory due to slowing sales of HTC phones.

During the third quarter of this year, HTC announced that its overhead reduction plan would lead to layoff of 15% of its employees, leaving nearly 2,000 people without jobs. While making massive cuts to its work force and selling a factory may seem like dramatic measures to take, they are required sacrifices that need to be made if HTC plans to survive in the current environment. Hopefully, HTC’s 2016 flagship can help turn the tides a little and allow HTC to pull its head above water.

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