Your camera phone photos could soon look a whole lot better thanks to a chip designed by scientists at MIT. They say it automatically gives a professional look to shots by instantly making adjustments to things like lighting and color.
Your Cell Phone Is A Bacteria Farm
A professor at The University Of Surrey asked students to make imprints of their mobile phones in a Petri dish to find out how much bacteria the phones carried around. Turns out your phone is home to a lot of nasty bugs.
Smudge Attack! How Dirty Phone Screens Help Thieves
Your dirty touchscreen not only looks messy, it could help a thief break into your phone, tablet or touchscreen computer. Crooks are staging "smudge attacks" where they follow the pattern of your fingerprints to determine passwords, credit card numbers and other sensitive information.
Smartphones Killing Magazine Sales At The Checkout
Smartphones are being blamed for a drop in sales at the supermarket checkout line. Instead of flipping through a magazine or picking up some candy and lip balm while waiting for that person checking out 45 items in the 10 items or less lane, people are checking their Facebook, replying to texts or getting in a Words With Friends move.
Walking While Texting Can Be Dangerous
There are a lot of warnings about the dangers of texting while driving, but a recent study shows that texting while walking can be unsafe as well. The Consumer Product Safety Commission says more than 1,000 people were treated in emergency rooms in 2011 for injuries that happened because they were using a cell phone while walking and not paying attention.
FTC Calls For “Do Not Track” App Registry
The Federal Trade Commission is calling on mobile platform providers and mobile app developers to establish a national "Do Not Track" registry similar to the "Do Not Call" registry to prevent apps from tracking the locations of unsuspecting users.
Is Your App Keeping Tabs On You? – 10 Surprising Apps That Track You
You would expect an app like Google Maps to pinpoint your location, but why do the Angry Birds need to know where you are? Many popular Android apps also track your location, check your device ID and even access the contacts on your phone.