Finding ways to browse the internet securely has become of great importance with the Edward Snowden leaks. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has offered HTTPS Everywhere add-on for desktop browsers for a long time. But as of yesterday, you can install the HTTPS Everywhere on Firefox for Android.
It automatically seeks out HTTPS connections on supported websites, and when there is, webpages will be loaded over a secure connection. So you no longer need to worry about third-parties or the NSA intercepting your traffic. To install the addon you need the latest version of Firefox for Android on your phone, then install the plugin via the EFF website.
Once it has been installed, firefox will display an icon in the address bar.
Google has released it's latest Android distribution figures and Android 4.4 KitKat is now on 1.8% of devices, up from 1.6% in January. This is still a significantly low figure compared to iOS, where at least half of devices that support the next update are updated within a month. It takes so long for updates to get around on Android, because phone manufacturers edit them, then phone networks do the same.
Jelly Bean is still at the top with 60.5%, Android 4.1 at 35.5%, 4.2 at 16.3% and 4.3 at 8.9%.
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is on a total of 16.1%, which is falling slightly from 16.9% last month. Honeycomb in comparison is on just 0.1% of devices.
Android Gingerbread is on 20%, falling from 21.2% in January, and lastly Android 2.2 Froyo is on 1.3%.
Any devices with versions earlier than 2.2 are not on the data because they don't support the Google Play Store.
What version are you running? How long does it take for you to get a promised update? Let us know in the comments below.
Samsung has confirmed another Unpacked event at Mobile World Congress, one of the biggest annual smart phone trade shows. Suggested by a few of the number 5's we could be seeing the S5.
Rumours suggest that the new Samsung Galaxy S5 could have 3GB of RAM, a 16-megapixel camera, a bigger battery and a 64-bit processor. Also an eye-scanner has popped up a few times in rumour world.
The reason Samsung could be releasing their phone earlier (under a year since the S4's release) because the phone didn't meet sale expectations.
What do you think we will see in the new S5? Will you wait till Apple show off their new handsets in Autumn?
So some of you may have heard that Samsung are opening there own stores to take on the Apple Store. But, what we just found out is that they're teaming up with Phones4u and Carphone Warehouse to create them.
Samsung (or should I say Carphone Warehouse) plans 60 Samsung-branded shops in Europe, with a spokesperson saying there will be around 20 in Britain.
There are not much details that have been confirmed, but the Samsung shops are going to be a mix of refitted Carphone Warehouse and Phones4u shops.
Phones4u already runs the Samsung flagship store in London's Westfield shopping mall.
The shops are expected to open in the next three months or so, which could be to show off the new S5 we may be seeing on the 24th February.
It doesn't look to good at Dell, as the company could be preparing to lay off over 15,000 workers this week, according to a report.
This is part of the reconstruction efforts after completing its return to private ownership. If the report is correct and true, then the computer manufacturer will be making staff reductions globally and in all departments.
Apparently employees in the US that are laid off get a package of two months pay with an extra week of pay per year of service, a 75 per cent bonus, COBRA health insurance for 18 months and outplacement services.
We hope this isn't true, as no one wants to lose there job when times are hard. So we have our fingers crossed and have our thoughts with the employees who could be at risk.
More than 70,000 homes and offices in Devon and Somerset will get super-fast broadband by the end of July.
It comes from a £94 million project called Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS), which partnered with BT a year ago. 19 exchanged have already been upgraded, and seven are due to go online by the end of March.
The latest exchanges that have gone live are Braunton, Kingskerswell, Pinhoe, Sowton, Swimbridge, Spaxton, Topsham, and North Pertherton. Although they are mostly rural areas, there are and will be some urban areas too.
The CDS project aims to make 24Mbps broadband available to at least 90% of all residents in Devon and Cornwall by 2016.
Although affected by flooding, they have said that the teams are working around the floods and doing the best they can.
More than 16,000 homes and businesses are already connected, are you?
How fast is your broadband, wherever you are? Let us know in the comments.
A coding error on the NHS website exposed users to harmful websites rather than health advice.
Over 800 pages on the NHS.uk website automatically redirected people to websites that contained malware or advertising.
In a statement, the NHS said its site had not been maliciously attacked and that it has fixed the problem.
"An internal coding error has caused an incorrect redirect on some pages on the NHS Choices since Sunday evening"
"Routine security checks alerted us to this problem on Monday morning at which point we identified the problem and correct the code."
The most common things when people were redirected is details on dementia, pregnancy, vaccinations, mental health, flu and other areas.
Were you affected? Let us know in the comments.
