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vendredi 1 mai 2015

Top 4 Websites To Sell Your Old iPhone For the Most Money

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Whether you want to sell your old iPhone, or buy a used iPhone to save money instead of buying one that is brand new, you will need to shop around until you find the sites that offer the best deals. After all, if you are selling, you want to get the most money possible, and if you are buying, you want to get the best savings. Here are the top five websites where you can sell and buy older iPhones and make or save money.

1. Craigslist

You can buy and sell old iPhones for anywhere from $70 to $800, depending on the age and condition of the phone. The only problem with Craigslist is that you need to be careful about who you are dealing with, because no one is screened. Completing the deal in a public place is always recommended for your safety. Craigslist is free and easy to use. All you have to do is post your ad with all of the pertinent information (including contact information) and photos of the item. You can get great deals if you are looking to buy an older phone, and you can often get top dollar when you are selling an iPhone.

2. Sell My iPhone

Sell your old iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5 or iPhone 5C quickly and easily at this website. You will receive accurate quotes, and after the phone is delivered to Gadget Salvation, you will receive payment within a day or two. Simply send in the phone (for free), and an inspection will be performed. Within 48 hours, you will receive confirmation about the sale, and the payment will be issued.

3. Amazon

One of the best options is the Trade-In program from Amazon. No matter what the age of your iPhone is, you are going to make some money. All you have to do is a short Q&A on the type of phone you have, your carrier (if you have one), the condition, and if there are any accessories included. Then, you will get a flat rate from Amazon in the form of an Amazon gift card. It doesn’t get much simpler than that, and you can redeem the gift card for other items, including putting it toward a new iPhone. Another option is to act as an individual seller, but there is a bit more work involved because you will need to set up an account. But, you can choose your own selling price. When the item sells, you will have the money in your account within two to three weeks.

4. Best Buy

Earn anywhere from $5 to $310 for your old iPhone (depending on the model, condition, and accessories included) when you sell it to Best Buy. You can go online and get an estimate for what the company will pay for your iPhone. Then, simply print out the estimate and take it to a participating store in your area. You will receive a Best Buy gift certificate, which you can use towards the purchase of a new iPhone. Keep in mind that they do not take original iPhones

jeudi 30 avril 2015

Hackers can steal fingerprints from a Galaxy S5

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You may not be the only one swiping fingerprints on your Galaxy S5. Criminals could be doing it, too, and without your knowledge.
Researchers at FireEye discovered a serious flaw in some Androidphones — not just the Galaxy S5, though other affected models weren’t named. While fingerprint data is locked away in Android’s trusted storage area, the biometric scanner itself is exposed. With the right access, a criminal can perform a man-in-the-middle attack and siphon off scans while they’re in transit.
Resident malware does the dirty work silently in the background. Once criminals have acquired those tasty bits, “you can generate the image of [the] fingerprint,” Yulong Zhang explained. He added “after that you can do whatever you want.”
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Scary, right? It would be, if not for a few important caveats. First, this particular flaw was fixed in Android 5.0. Most new devices are shipping with Lollipop pre-installed, and it’s been rolling out to more older devices lately. If your carrier has already updated your handset, you’re good.
Second, FireEye’s researchers say that an attacker needs to be able to “break the kernel” in order to gain the required access to a phone’s fingerprint scanner. Unless you’ve rooted your device, you probably aren’t in harm’s way when it comes to this particular exploit.
That malware would also have to find its way onto your phone somehow, and if you’re only installing apps from the Play Store the chances of that happening are pretty slim. Samsung is, nevertheless, investigating FireEye’s claims.
As worrisome as this exploit is, it’s much scarier to think that someone with access to the right lab equipment can reproduce your fingerprint with nothing more than a photo they found on the Internet.

Wireless Phone Service from Google Challenges Major Carriers

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Google is trying to shake up the wireless phone industry with a low-priced service designed to pressure major carriers into making it more affordable for people to get online and use Google's services.
The service, called "Project Fi," debuted Wednesday, about two months after Google revealed its plans to expand its ever-growing empire into providing wireless connections for smartphones.
Google Inc. is selling the basic phone service for $20 a month and will only charge customers for the amount of cellular data that they use each month, instead of a flat rate. Each gigabyte of data will cost $10 a month. That means a customer could sign up for a plan offering three gigabytes of data and get $20 back if only one gigabyte was used in a month.
Most wireless phone carriers allow their customers to roll over unused data into another month of service without refunding any money.
Project Wi-Fi initially will only be sold to a narrow audience that owns the Nexus 6, a smartphone that Motorola Mobility made with Google's help.
Google's pricing setup makes Project Fi less expensive than most of the comparable plans offering by the four biggest wireless phone carriers -- Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint. The monthly prices for a single line of smartphone service with up to one gigabyte of cellular data at those carriers range from $45 to $50 compared to $30 from Google, before subtracting any potential credits for unused data.
The major carriers, though, offer a variety of family plans that could still be better deals than Project Fi. Those bundled plans allow several phone lines to share a pool of cellular data.
Besides trying to bring down the prices of wireless phone plans, Google is promising subscribers that their Nexus 6 model will automatically connect with the fastest network  available.
Rather than building its own network, Google is leasing space on cellular towers built by Sprint and T-Mobile, which are hoping the deals will boost their profits without costing them too many customers tempted to defect to Project Fi. Google is promising Project Fi will automatically switch over to an available Wi-Fi network if that is running at a higher speed than the cellular alternatives.
"As mobile devices continually improve how you connect to people and information, it's important that wireless connectivity and communication keep pace and be fast everywhere, easy to use, and accessible to everyone," Nick Fox, the Google executive overseeing Project Fi, wrote in Wednesday blog post.
T-Mobile CEO John Legere, whose company already has been cutting its prices and rolling out new options, said it was a "no-brainer" to work with Google on Project Fi.
"Anything that shakes up the industry status quo is a good thing -- for both US wireless customers and T-Mobile," Legere wrote in a blog post.
Google has an incentive to promote cheaper and faster wireless service because it operates some of the world's most popular online services, including its search engine, maps, Gmail and YouTube video site. The Mountain View, California, company believes most people will visit those services more frequently if they are enticed to stay online for longer periods, giving Google more opportunities to show the digital ads that generate most of its revenue.
Similar motives prompted Google to begin building high-speed, hard-wired networks capable of navigating the Internet at speeds up to 100 times faster than existing broadband services. Although Google is only selling its broadband service in a handful of U.S. cities so far, AT&T and Comcast are now offering options with comparable speeds in a few communities.

From Kaspersky To Webroot, Major Security Firms Can't Even Get Basic Android Encryption Right

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When recently-appointed president of RSA, Amit Yoran, opened his company’s flagship conference yesterday, he warned the security industry was living in the dark ages. Protections just aren’t working, he said. Various anti-virus firms, including big names like Kaspersky and Webroot, have offered proof that the market’s many players get it wrong; they’re on a list of companies whose Google Play Android apps don’t do proper encryption checks, according to research from the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) at Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute.

The CERT discovered a whopping 22,000 apps that weren’t carrying out “SSL validation”, where the software is supposed to check certificates over encrypted communications to ensure the parties involved are verified. Kaspersky’s Internet Security app and Webroot’s free offering and its “complete” tool (an apt name, perhaps?) both failed to carry out these checks, meaning an attacker sitting on the same network as a target user could, in theory, spoof those services and collect data the victim hands over to the fake application. That could be credit card data, especially where in-app purchases are taking place, as in both Kaspersky and Webroot anti-virus, or usernames and passwords. Users would understandably assume that apps using encryption were safe, so would likely be oblivious to such “man-in-the-middle” attacks.




Microsoft loses ~12 cents on every phone sold

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Despite hitting a record 10 million sales in the second quarter of 2015, Microsoft's phone division is in trouble. Competitors, including Apple and Google, are pushing the envelope even further, leaving Microsoft in the dust. Redmond has seemingly chosen to produce only low-end phones with a flagship phone conspicuously absent from the current lineup.
A filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission highlights just how bad things have become. Microsoft acquired Nokia back in 2013 for around $7.2 billion (a figure which has since risen to over $9 billion, according to the filing) and the division, named "Phone Hardware", brought in $1.4 billion in Q3 2015 with the cost of revenue exceeding that figure by $4 million. This means that Microsoft lost around 12 cents per phone according to analysts, even before R&D costs, among other expenses, are applied, despite exceptional unit sales.
The filing talks of a potent write-off of the Nokia acquisition, too. Microsoft describes a "potentially material charge to earnings" as "impairment adjustment is required" due to "[d]eclines in expected future cash flows, reduction in future unit volume growth rates, or an increase in the risk-adjusted discount rate used to estimate the fair value of the Phone Hardware reporting unit." This wording is similar to that which Microsoft issued before taking a $6.2 billion write-off of its aQuantive acquisition.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella described a need to "take further action to reduce our costs across devices as we execute on our Windows 10 first-party hardware plans." According to ComputerWorld, Microsoft does its impairment calculations in May, factoring them into its April to June quarter and so if a write-off occurs it would be announced in July.
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