The Guardian has obtained top secret documents from Edward Snowden that show that both the NSA and GCHQ (its UK equivalent) have been developing the ability to siphon personal information from "leaky" smartphone apps such as Google Maps and Angry Birds. In one document, the agency lays out the "perfect scenario" of…
It's a story as old as time: Boy has smartphone stolen from his pants; boy finds out thief never disabled the function that automatically sends all the photos taken with the smartphone to a shared Dropbox folder; boy discovers phone is now owned by a young Moroccan woman; boy offers to let young Moroccan woman keep…
The White House has a challenge for you, software developers: They want you to devise a smartphone app whose purpose is to prevent rapes on college campuses.
In an attempt to restore justice within the smoking community, Marlboro has released a student has invented a smartphone app called Bump a Smoke that enables people to trade virtual cigarettes for real ones. Based on bump technology, the app seems to "work" like this:
