Classic comeback? Could Jaguar Design Director’s one-off MKII recreation signal something bigger?

News that Jaguar Design Director Ian Callum will design a special one-off of the Jaguar MKII makes you wonder what else he might have up his sleeve.

The iconic MKII, once used in the ‘60s as police vehicles to chase bank robbers, is considered one of the most timeless British car designs from the past 50 years and is a much sought-after collectors piece.

 “This is the first classic Jaguar I have ever owned,” Callum said in a statement. “I have greatly admired the Jaguar MKII since I was a boy. Now I have the chance to ‘build’ one to my exact design specifications.”

To design the MKII, Callum is teaming up with Classic Motor Cars (CMC), of Bridgnorth, England, which just announced that it will start supplying classic Jaguars to Stratstone, Europe’s largest independent Jaguar.

In addition to some different styling cues, the MKII that Callum and Classic Motor Cars will build will also include some engineering modifications.

Even as a one-off, it’ll be interesting to see if any of design cues on Callum’s MKII will wind up influencing any future Jaguars.

Callum, who is credited with helping to spearhead the rebirth of the marquee with cars like the XJ, speaks a lot about how cars of Jaguar’s heyday have influenced his design approach to current models.

However, maybe it’ll be Callum’s design work with some of the more recent Jaguars that will influence his recreation of the MKII with CMC with a limited-edition line of classic new Jaguars to follow.  

Either way, it’ll be an interesting project to follow and one that’ll likely wind up being one of the most coveted Jaguars to date.  

Marcus Amick has been writing about the world of cars for more than ten years and has covered everything from new automobiles to celebrity wheels. The longtime Detroiter, who now splits his time between Los Angeles and the “Motor City,” has penned works for a number of national publications including Automotive News, Rides magazine and Automobile magazine. Amick also works as a freelance consultant providing insight on automotive and related lifestyle trends.

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Ford and GENIVI Alliance could be a major tech triumph for the Blue Oval

Ford continues to push the envelope when it comes to in-car technology as the first American automaker to allow the GENIVI Alliance access to its AppLink code.

AppLink, which operates with Ford’s SYNC in-vehicle communication system, enables drivers to take control of compatible smartphone and tablet apps through dashboard buttons or voice commands.

GENIVI is a non-profit industry alliance committed to driving the adoption of in-vehicle infotainment open source development platforms.  

Under the partnership, Ford will give GENIVI developers access to all of the code and documentation required to implement the AppLink software into the vehicle audio system that allows for two-way communications with Google Android and Apple iOS devices.

“Ford wants to see app developers succeed in their new work with the auto industry,” said Doug VanDagens, global director of Connected Services at Ford.  “Contributing the AppLink software to GENIVI demonstrates our commitment to be developer-focused which supports our driver for consumer-focused innovation.”

The GENIVI partnership follows Ford’s announcement of the industry’s first open mobile app development program at the 2013 International CES this past January.

But Ford’s push to stay at the forefront of in-car technology has not come without some risk.  The automaker has come under fire a few times for SYNC with concerns that operating the technology is too distracting for drivers, forcing Ford to make a number of improvements to the system.

Still, SYNC has still been a major selling point for the automaker in luring in new customers. 

Last November, Ford celebrated the 5-millionth vehicle sold with SYNC since the carmaker and Microsoft first started collaborating for the groundbreaking technology in 2005.  And the partnership with the GENIVI Alliance gives the automaker an additional development resource to help pull in the next wave of consumers.

Marcus Amick has been writing about the world of cars for more than ten years and has covered everything from new automobiles to celebrity wheels. The longtime Detroiter, who now splits his time between Los Angeles and the “Motor City,” has penned works for a number of national publications including Automotive News, Rides magazine and Automobile magazine. Amick also works as a freelance consultant providing insight on automotive and related lifestyle trends.

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Korea gets Galaxy Note 10.1 with 4G LTE, U.S. could be next on the list

Samsung has announced a 4G LTE version of the Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet, but so far only for Korea. When the Note 10.1 debuted on August, Samsung teased the arrival of an LTE model in the U.S., so its release may not be far behind.

Samsung has announced the availability of a 4G LTE Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet, but only for the Korean market. As well as the introduction of 4G LTE and VoLTE — that’s voice over LTE — the new Note 10.1 has Android 4.1 Jelly Bean installed along with a few new features added to the S Pen’s functionality.

You’ll remember that the S Pen is Samsung’s name for a stylus, and now it can access a quick launch menu where you can search the web, easily copy and paste content, plus use the same Air View feature seen on the Galaxy Note 2. Here, when you hover the pen over a picture gallery or folder, the contents can be quickly explored, or when watching a video, it becomes a quick way to scrub through scenes.

Otherwise, it’s business as usual for the Note 10.1, which means a 10.1-inch screen with a 1280 x 800 pixel resolution, a 1.4GHz Exynos 4 Quad processor, 2GB of RAM and a 5-megapixel camera with 1080p video recording on the rear.

The Galaxy Note 10.1 was announced back in August, after Samsung took its first attempt off the market to update the device following a less than enthusiastic greeting during Mobile World Congress.

At the time, Samsung released the Galaxy Note 10.1 with Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi plus 3G, but not a 4G LTE model, although it did confirm a Wi-Fi and LTE Note 10.1 would follow later in the year. Now, with the Korean launch set for November 23, a U.S. launch can’t be too far away.

Samsung hasn’t given a price for the Note 10.1 LTE, but as the standard Note 10.1 is around $499 in the U.S., expect it to be more than this when it arrives.

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Google's working on a stock Android install for Sony, could they be charting a path for Open webOS?

Google's Android software is available on quite literally hundreds of devices. But on all but a select few it's been tinkered with at a bare minimum (or wholesale overhauled), moving it away from a 'true' Android experience. In fact, the number of 'Google' devices, i.e. those with unadulterated Android installed out of the box, can be counted on two hands. most of those are Google-directed Nexus devices. That's not to say that there's anything wrong with the modifications made by Samsung, HTC, Sony, Amazon, and everybody else toying with Android, but there's a contingent of people that want to be able to install stock Android on their device without the interference of others.

Part of the code to make that possible has always been available as part of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). Anybody can download that and do with it as they please, and installing it on a device should yield a 'pure' Android experience. So long as you're okay with probably not having access to a number of vital components with drivers that aren't open source and thus aren't part of AOSP. That hasn't stopped groups like CyanogenMod from repurposing the open source code of AOSP, including the project to install Android on the TouchPad.

Google's head of the AOSP, Jean-Baptiste Queru, isn't content with that, and wants to bring the pure, unadulterated Android experience to more devices. His first experimental target: the Sony Xperia S. Despite Sony's history of siloing themselves off in proprietary technologies (MiniDisc and Memory Stick, anyone?), they've recently come to terms with being more open and have become more supportive of open source development. So it should come as no surprise that a few weeks after Queru started his quest to bring AOSP to the Xperia S, Sony's gone ahead and made available the binaries for the device. While such code won't be useful to the average homebrew ROM cooker, they should prove quite useful to the Xperia S AOSP project.

We've said before that the biggest technical hurdle facing the adoption of Open webOS on the vast majority of devices is the lack of open source supporting software like the drivers and whatnot in the Xperia S binaries. With Google publicly pursuing getting stock Android onto at least one non-Nexus device, we have to wonder if this approach might be a useful one for HP and Open webOS.

As of right now there are two forms of Open webOS, both in beta: one for Linux desktop installations, and another for embedded devices. The Linux version isn't exactly a cakewalk to install outside of the instructions provided by HP, so throwing it on that tablet you have sitting around isn't a simple task. And while the OpenEmbedded-enabled version of Open webOS is technically installable on any number of theoretical devices, it's missing a fairly major component: a user interface.

But let's assume that HP's plans involve setting up Open webOS to run on more devices than just a 32-bit install of Linux Ubuntu, because that's simply not going to be useful to most people. In fact, we have to question whether it'd really be useful to any but a select handful. But thanks to a distinct lack of open source drivers for many things, there aren't a whole lot of options for Open webOS. That is, unless a company such a Sony is willing to step up as they have with the Android Open Source Project and pitch in useful code to make exciting things happen.

While there's the obvious advantage to webOS enthusiasts such as ourselves who strongly desire to run webOS on new hardware, there's an advantage for the assisting device manufacturer as well. We're not talking about just goodwill here, of which there'd be plenty from a yearning-to-offer-goodwill webOS community. No, there's the advantage that said manufacturer would have an additional operating system in their quiver should they want to take the webOS route, and they'd have let the community do most of the work for them.

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SMS vulnerability could allow text spoofing on iOS devices

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pod2g has just published a blog regarding an SMS vulnerability he's found in iOS that could allow someone to abuse the protocol for SMS in order to spoof or send fake text messages. The exploit has been an issue since the incarnation of iOS and is still present in iOS 6 beta 4.

He's now urging Apple to fix it.

He goes on to explain a bit about the protocol that is used to send SMS messages, PDU (Protocol Description Unit), and how it works.

PDU is a protocol that is pretty dense, allowing different types of messages to be emitted. Some examples : SMS, Flash SMS, Voice mail alerts, EMS, ... The specification is large and pretty complex. As an example, just to code the data, there are multiple possible choices : 7bit, 8bit, UCS2 (16bit), compressed or not, ...

The problem is that if you own a smartphone or a modem you have the ability to send messages in this raw type of format. There's also an optional section, UDH (User Data Header), that not all smartphones are compatible with but that allows more advanced features to be sent in a message. Some of these "more advanced features" include changing the reply-to address or sending the message from a different number altogether. The iPhone does support these features and contains a vulnerability that makes it susceptible to attacks by hackers that may choose to abuse this system.

pod2g lays out a few ways in which hackers could take advantage of this exploit:

pirates could send a message that seems to come from the bank of the receiver asking for some private information, or inviting them to go to a dedicated website. [Phishing] one could send a spoofed message to your device and use it as a false evidence. anything you can imagine that could be utilized to manipulate people, letting them trust somebody or some organization texted them.

There are tools already available that make it rather simple to manipulate this data on smartphones. He's also created a tool for the iPhone 4 that he also plans on releasing. He is currently urging Apple to fix the issue before the public release of iOS 6 and warns that you should never trust an SMS message containing sensitive data on your iPhone in the time being.

Do you think releasing the tool will get Apple's attention or just cause more issues in the mean time for end users?

Source: pod2g

Allyson Kazmucha

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Reply kch50428 says: Aug 17, 2012 at 2:06 pm - 2 days ago

Anybody that would send sensitive, personal information in an SMS reply is not practicing the best in protection and data security. Never send sensitive info over SMS - if anybody needs that info, give it to them over the phone, or best - in person.

Reply GlennRuss says: Aug 17, 2012 at 4:59 pm - 2 days ago

So true. Never send sensitive information in any kind of electronic mail system. The only reason these types of scams work, is because people will still give out sensitive information. I had the bank call me about a problem. I asked for the persons name, and extension. I advised him, I would call him back. I then called the number on the back of my credit card, and finally got a live person, then got the fraud agent that called me. Never trust anything.

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