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Windows Phone 7 has a kill switch
Microsoft has just revealed that embedded inside their Windows Phone 7 operating system, it has a kill switch that will allow software controllers to remotely kill apps and remove them from handsets if they pose a security or privacy risk. So if there are malicious programs or trojan horses hiding in a WP7 app, Microsoft can easily get rid of it. They can remove apps that somehow made it through the app approval process on the Marketplace, or apps that were once approved but somehow ended up breaking some guidelines. Though Microsoft don’t plan to use the kill switch unless necessary, it allows users to have peace of mind in the event of a malicious software epidemic. But even though this kill switch is meant to be a security benefit for WP7 users, what would happen if the wrong people manage to find a way to abuse it? All sorts of havoc could be easily wrecked with this much power. What are your thoughts of a kill switch in your phone’s operating system?
The title says it all, and that was pretty quick. It was only yesterday when the iOS 5 was announced and the beta was made available to developers but yet wasting little to no time, hackers MuscleNerd and Co have managed to jailbreak iOS 5 on the iPod touch fourth generation. The exploit they used was the limera1n jailbreak which means that iOS 5 presented the hackers with little surprises when it came to closing the loop holes that would make the limera1n exploit work.
Naturally the iOS 5 is currently in beta which means there are probably still plenty of holes to be exploited and we can only assume that in the final release iOS 5 would-be hackers will have a harder time trying to jailbreak it. However this is good news for those on jailbroken devices who were worried that they might be in for a rather long wait when it comes to getting the jailbroken version if iOS 5 on their devices.
Anyone who has owned an iOS device knows that upon out of the box, the first thing they see is their device asking them to tether it to their computer in order to set up synch with iTunes. Not necessarily a bad thing but what if the person’s computer was not well equipped enough to run iTunes properly or what if they didn’t know what all these synching meant?
Tabbed browsing isn’t new. In fact there are browser apps already available for iOS that features tabbed browsing, but either way we are happy that Apple has decided to sit up and take notice of what users want in their browsers and finally implemented tabbed browsing in their native iOS browser app, Safari.