Boston University patent suit over Apple's iPhone 5 could net $75M

By Kevin Bostic Apple's iPhone is at the center of another patent dispute, as the Trustees of Boston University have filed suit against the Cupertino company, alleging that not only the iPhone 5 but also the iPad and MacBook Air infringe on a BU professor's patent. At issue in the suit is U.S. Patent No. 5,686,738, covering a method of "highly insulating monocrystalline gallium nitride thin films." Theodor D. Moustakas, Ph.D., a BU professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is listed as the inventor of the '738 patent, and the University as the assignee owns the right, title, and interest to the patent. The process...

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Questions for Google about Android security, Glass privacy

As European officials continue to voice concerns about privacy, surveillance, and Google’s products, researchers released a report this week on the security of the search engine company’s operating system: Security researchers believe they have found a major security flaw in Google’s Android mobile operating system, which could affect up to 99 percent of Android phones now in consumers’ hands . . . The problem lies in the security verification process that has been used on the Google Play applications store since the release of Android 1.6. It could leave up to 900 million devices open to hackers. The flaw, the research firm said, is a weakness in the way that Android applications verify changes to their code. The weakness would allow hackers to “turn any legitimate application...

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Hidden Google Glass code hints at 'Boutique' app store

As Google continues to shape its pre-release version of Google Glass, the latest firmware update has brought new features such a web browser - but it turns out that there are also a few other hints below the surface. The most interesting new discovery lying dormant in the XE7 APK update code is a "Boutique" which hints at being a centralised app store. Google Glass is currently lacking a go-to destination for applications, and the new discovery reveals that something is coming to fill that gap, well ahead of its consumer release. Lock 'n' load Another welcome new feature hinted at is a locking mechanism, which would function by the wearer swiping in a specific pattern. This is something Google has mentioned in the past in response to questions over what happens when someone steals...

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Sources: Feds probe possible $90 million fraud tied to Bohemia firm

Federal law enforcement officials are investigating whether nearly $90 million in bank loans to a Bohemia finance company were the object of a "massive fraud," according to court records and sources familiar with the case. The investigation involves Oak Rock Financial Llc, at 3900 Veterans Memorial Hwy., a commercial lending company that often provides capital that other lenders would then loan for transactions such as automobile and business-related purchases. Last week, Israel Discount Bank of New York, the lead institution of the five banks that have loaned as much as $90 million to Oak Rock, asked a federal bankruptcy court...

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Genpets, Real living Pre-packaged, Mass produced, Bioengineered pets!

Does anyone find this as disturbing as we do? Are Genpets Real animals? How? Genpets are living, breathing mammals. Bio-Genica is a Bioengineering Company that has combined, and modified existing DNA to create the Genpets lineup. Genpets have blood, bones, and muscle; they will bleed if you cut them, and die if mistreated just like any other animal. The electronic components are only in the packages and are for basic life support, outside of the packages the Genpets are wholly organic. Genpets are packaged like toys though. Genpets are designed to be sold on retail store shelves, not traditional pet stores. This is why they are...

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20 YEAR OLD ARAB TERRORIST ARRESTED, 12 DEAD, 50 INJURED

The New York Post is reporting that a Saudi national has been placed under guard at a New York hospital under suspicion that he planted the bomb that, at last count, killed 12 and injured 50 people running in and observing the Boston Marathon: Law enforcement sources said the 20-year-old suspect was under guard at an undisclosed Boston hospital. The man was caught less than two hours after the 2:45 p.m. bombing on the finish line of the Boston race. Assuming the Saudi man did indeed place the bombs as part of a terrorist operation, here are the latest FACTS: 20-year-old Arab terror suspect in custody 8-year-old dead 12 people projected...

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Boston Marathon Bombing - ACTUAL EXPLOSION - GRAPHIC VIVID RAW FOOTAGE

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Live Radio Scanner Fee Boston Police, Fire and EMS

Listen LiveTune In A Live Radio Feed Includes Mass State Police, Boston Media Massport Fire/F Troop, Fenway Park and Boston Garden Security...

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UTMB: Virus missing from secured facility

   GALVESTON, Texas - A virus disappeared from a secure facility at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, officials said. Officials said they discovered the that the virus was missing during a routine internal inspection on March 20. The missing vial contained less than a quarter teaspoon of a virus called Guanarito, which is native only to Venezuela and can cause hemorrhagic fever, officials said. The vial was stored in a locked freezer within a secure laboratory. Officials said they've confirmed there was no breach in the facility's security, so they don't suspect foul play. UTMB officials...

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U.S. dairy industry petitions FDA to approve aspartame as hidden, unlabeled additive in milk, yogurt, eggnog and cream

 (NaturalNews) You probably already know that the FDA has declared war on raw milk and even helped fund and coordinate armed government raids against raw milk farmers and distributors. Yes, it's insane. This brand of tyranny is unique to the USA and isn't even conducted in China, North Kora or Cuba. Only in the USA are raw milk farmers treated like terrorists.But now the situation is getting even more insane than you could have imagined: the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) have filed a petition with the FDA asking the FDA to alter the definition of "milk" to secretly...

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Outrage over Joe Biden's London, Paris $1M hotel bills.

Republican opponents are berating Vice President Joe Biden on Twitter for running up more than $1 million in hotel bills for two nights in London and Paris in the midst of sequester spending cuts. According to ABC News, the VP incurred hotel bills totaling more than $1 million for himself, his staff and security details for two nights in London and Paris. The official contract filing documents were first obtained online by the Weekly Standard. They show that the US State Department obtained contracts with two five-star hotels in London and Paris where Biden stayed during a five-day tour of Europe in February. According to the...

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Appeals Court Rejects CIA Secrecy on Drones

A federal appeals court has just ruled that the CIA cannot continue to “neither confirm nor deny” the existence of the drone war, in a court case prompted by a Freedom of Information Act request by the American Civil Liberties Union. ACLU press statement: “This is an important victory. It requires the government to retire the absurd claim that the CIA’s interest in the targeted killing program is a secret, and it will make it more difficult for the government to deflect questions about the program’s scope and legal basis,” said ACLU Deputy Legal Director Jameel Jaffer, who argued the case before a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit...

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More People Moving Into NYC Than Moving Out for the First Time in Over 60 Years

Mayor Bloomberg announced that more people are moving to New York City than are moving out for the first time since before 1950, according to the latest U.S. Census Bureau estimates released today. The estimates show New York City’s population has hit an all-time record high of 8,336,697. The city’s population increased by 161,564 since 2010 – about two percent in two years. This increase is among the largest two-year increases in recent decades. The increase is fueled by a continuing increase in people moving to the city and a decline in the number of people leaving the city, as well as the continued growth in the surplus of births...

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Privacy backlash against CISPA cybersecurity bill gains traction

A petition to the White House asking the president to "stop" a controversial cybersecurity bill passes the 100,000 mark. The only problem: President Obama has already threatened to veto it. House members during last year's floor debate on CISPA (clockwise from top left): Jared Polis, who warned it would "waive every single privacy law ever enacted"; Adam Schiff; Sheila Jackson Lee; Hank Johnson; Mike Rogers; Jan Schakowsky (Credit: C-SPAN)  It's not exactly a secret where President Obama stands on a controversial Republican-backed cybersecurity bill: he's already promised to veto it. But a cadre of Internet activists opposed...

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Internet Activist, a Creator of RSS, Is Dead at 26, Apparently a Suicide

Aaron Swartz, a wizardly programmer who as a teenager helped develop code that delivered ever-changing Web content to users and who later became a steadfast crusader to make that information freely available, was found dead on Friday in his New York apartment. An uncle, Michael Wolf, said that Mr. Swartz, 26, had apparently hanged himself, and that a friend of Mr. Swartz’s had discovered the body.  At 14, Mr. Swartz helped create RSS, the nearly ubiquitous tool that allows users to subscribe to online information. He later became an Internet folk hero, pushing to make many Web files free and open to the public. But in July ...

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U.S.A.: Sorry, We’re Not Signing the ITU Treaty

The United States laid down the law on December 13, 2012: No dice, ITU. An official statement by Terry Kramer sealed the deal, and the U.S. ambassador had this to say to those in attendance at the World Conference on International Telecommunications: “It is with a heavy heart and a sense of missed opportunities that the U.S. must communicate that it is not able to sign the agreement in the current form.” The proposed ITU treaty revisions included many deeply troubling limitations to the Internet. If passed, the self-contained global network we know and love would become, essentially, answerable to the United Nations. Hence, this...

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Iran Stages Cyber Warfare Drill Alongside Hormuz Naval Exercise

Iranian forces have conducted a cyber-warfare drill for the first time as their naval forces conducts major exercises in the Strait of Hormuz, testing a brand new air defense missile system. The Iranian navy has staged a cyber-attack against the computer network of its defene forces in order to simulate a hack or a virus infiltration of a foreign aggressor, the English language Iran Daily reported, quoting Rear Admiral Amir Rastegari. The Rear Admiral continued that the fake cyber-attack was successfully blocked by Iranian forces. Tehran has developed military and civil cyber units in the past few years to counter cyber-attacks on its...

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Revealed: The Internet’s Biggest Security Hole

Two security researchers have demonstrated a new technique to stealthily intercept internet traffic on a scale previously presumed to be unavailable to anyone outside of intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency. The tactic exploits the internet routing protocol BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) to let an attacker surreptitiously monitor unencrypted internet traffic anywhere in the world, and even modify it before it reaches its destination. The demonstration is only the latest attack to highlight fundamental security weaknesses in some of the internet’s core protocols. Those protocols were largely developed in the 1970s...

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