Google to offer up to US$2.7 million for people to hack Chrome OS at Vancouver conference

Care to earn some extra cash and in Vancouver this March? Google is opening registration for Pwnium contest this March at CanSecWest security conference to be held in the coastal seaport city. The tech giant uses the Pwnium contest to discover bugs in both the Chrome operating system and browser.

Google will be offering US$110,000 for each exploit satisfying the criteria “browser or system-level compromise in guest mode or as a logged-in user, delivered via a web page.” And $150,000 for those who can “compromise with device persistence: guest to guest with interim reboot, delivered via a web page.” There will also be “significant bonuses for demonstrating a particularly impressive or surprising exploit.” The hacks can be performed on the Intel-based Acer C270 or ARM-based HP Chromebook 11. Registration is open until 5pm Pacific Time on March 10.

Motorola revamps Gallery app

Motorola brings a fresh look to its Gallery app with a new update that works with Android 4.4-powered Droid Maxx, Droid Mini, Droid Ultra, Moto G, and Moto X. It gets a new light-coloured design and added more ways to view photos. You can now view images in a timeline view, which groups images according to the date they were taken. There is also Camera Roll mode, which offers larger thumbnail views of images taken by the phone’s camera.

Source: The Verge

Facebook introduces photo post scheduling for Pages Manager iOS app

Following the announcement of prioritizing image- and link-based updates for Pages, Facebook updated its Pages Manager app for iOS to add the option to schedule photo posts. The app was recently redesigned for iOS and includes the ability to tag users in comments and posts.

If you’re an Android user and Page administrator, the feature is already available on the app as well.

Source: The Next Web

Nokia Lumia sales drop from 8.8 million to 8.2 million Q4 2013

Nokia closes its last year as a full-fledged handset manufacturer on a sad note. Ubergizmo reports the Finnish company reported a $270 million loss for fourth quarter of 2013 and sales of both smartphone and feature phones have declined in the last quarter of the year. The sale of Lumia smartphones dipped by 600,000 units from third quarter of 2013 as Nokia sold 8.2 million units in Q4 of 2013. Nokia will not disclose how many Asha feature phones they have sold in the past quarter.

 Nokia agreed to sell its device unit to Microsoft with the deal expected to close by the end of this quarter.