My first blog !: February 2014

Samsung S5 Official Unveiled : 4K Video Capture, Dust & Water Resistant, Finger Print Scanner And Heart Rate Monitor - Advanced Tech Tips Blog

Samsung S5 Official Unveiled : 4K Video Capture, Dust & Water Resistant, Finger Print Scanner And Heart Rate Monitor

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 12:55 AM PST

Samsung has officially unveiled their new flagship cellphone Galaxy S5, with tagline "going back to basics to focus on delivering the capabilities that matter most to our consumers" the phone features a 2.5GHz Quad core application processor, 2GB RAM, 5.1-inch 1920×1080 display, fingerprint reader on the home button, a heart rate monitor next to camera flash, dust and water resistant body, 16 megapixel camera with 4K video capture and adjustable focus powered with the latest Google Android 4.4 (KitKat).

Samsung Galaxy S5

Samsung Galaxy S5 features 4K video capture, dust & water resistant body, finger print scanner and heart rate monitor and is powered by 2.5GHz Quad core application processor running Google Android 4.4 (KitKat)

Manufactured by: Samsung

Model: Galaxy S5

Product ID: S5

Microsoft Confirms Windows 8.1 Update 1 For Spring Release, Gets Leaked On File-sharing Sites Today - Advanced Tech Tips Blog

Microsoft Confirms Windows 8.1 Update 1 For Spring Release, Gets Leaked On File-sharing Sites Today

Posted: 23 Feb 2014 09:36 PM PST

While we have already started hearing whispers about Microsoft Windows 9, the company has officially acknowledged a spring release for Windows 8.1 Update 1 with much demanded features like the ability to boot directly to the Desktop by default and the capability to minimize Metro apps making them behave like regular Desktop app which users are familiar with. Incidentally, a build of Windows 8.1 Update 1 has already got leaked onto various file sharing website with all new major changes including booting straight to the desktop, the menu bar on Metro apps with mouse-and-keyboard friendly behavior for non-touch device users.

This is what Google's 3D phone Project Tango can achieve... - Advanced Tech Tips Blog

This is what Google's 3D phone Project Tango can achieve...

Posted: 22 Feb 2014 05:17 AM PST

We shared the news about Google's experimental 3D phone - Project Tango yesterday. Here's an actual 3D map of a room captured with Project Tango phone, you can clearly see there is definitely a potential for this device to get success.

[Video] Google’s "Project Tango" Is An Experimental Phone With 3D Vision - Advanced Tech Tips Blog

[Video] Google’s "Project Tango" Is An Experimental Phone With 3D Vision

Posted: 21 Feb 2014 03:27 AM PST

Google has now lift the curtain off their experimental 3D phone codenamed - Project Tango. The phone in it's current prototype avatar is a 5" gadget having customized hardware and software designed to track the full 3D motion of the device, while simultaneously creating a map of the environment. These sensors allow the phone to make over a quarter million 3D measurements every second, updating its position and orientation in real-time, combining that data into a single 3D model of the space around you. The phone features a custom version of Android and is now being provided to interested developers across the globe, the software's includes development APIs to provide position, orientation, and depth data to standard Android applications written in Java, C/C++, as well as the Unity Game Engine. A demonstration video showing capabilities and use-case scenarios was also shared with public as posted below.

Facebook to buy WhatsApp for $19 billion, the question is what about your privacy now? - Advanced Tech Tips Blog

Facebook to buy WhatsApp for $19 billion, the question is what about your privacy now?

Posted: 19 Feb 2014 10:20 PM PST

Facebook "Likes" WhatsApp in a big way, so big, that they bought it for a whooping deal valuing $19 billion. The deal involves paying WhatsApp team a total of $4 billion in cash, $12 billion in stock and $3 billion in restricted stock vested over several years. It is to be noted that this deal is worth more than what Facebook raised in its own IPO, this is not all - the acquisition is not only the company's largest but also bigger than any that Google, Microsoft or Apple have ever done.

WhatsApp strictly stuck to the "No Ads" and "100% Private" no data sharing policy for long maintaining the 450 million monthly active userbase, with this acquisition the big question is "What about privacy and intrusive advertising which facebook is often associated with?". Well both facebook and WhatsApp has written about this as shared below.

Asus Leaves Router Users Wide Open For Anybody To Access Their Disks - Advanced Tech Tips Blog

Asus Leaves Router Users Wide Open For Anybody To Access Their Disks

Posted: 19 Feb 2014 05:47 AM PST

We have already seen how vulnerable routers can be a security threat, but ASUSTeK Computer Inc (ASUS) made everything feel small by leaving two critical flaws allowing anybody in the world to simply open a web-browser and access any Asus routers data with full read-write permission by simply typing a URL. This is not all, when notified about the severe design flaw, the company did nothing and ignored emails and phonecalls by researcher Kyle Lovetts who discovered the flaw.

To make their point and expose the vulnerability, a group did some guerrilla styled attack hacking into 13,000+ IP addresses using vulnerable Asus routers and left a text-file explaining the hack into user's router attached media disks. The text file informed users : "This is an automated message being sent out to everyone effected [sic]," the message, uploaded to his device without any login credentials, read. "Your Asus router (and your documents) can be accessed by anyone in the world with an Internet connection. You need to protect yourself and learn more by reading the following news article: http//nullfluid.com/asusgate.txt."

Visiting the mentioned url (as shown below), shows details about the exploit and how Asus has left users with an wide-open ftp server allowing anonymous login with full read-write privilege and AiCloud usernames and passwords stored in a plaintext file which is available for download without logging in. The group also made public a torrent link containing 10,000+ list of files stored on the Asus-connected hard drives for anybody to access.