Title: Job/Career for a passionate hardware hacker
Company:
We are a data recovery and computer forensic investigative firm specializing in the recovery of data from malfunctioning hard drives, flash memory devices, Cell phones, RAID arrays and other digital storage solutions. In addition Data Analyzers provides digital forensic analysis and investigative services to aid in litigation and private matters.
We are currently looking for a skilled and ambitious individual to join our team. If you are a passionate hardware hacker or inspire to be one, if you don’t care for corporate politics and don’t care for having your creativity restrained, but are driven to solve problems and advance your skill, then this opportunity might be right for you.
The talented individual will become a vital part of our data recovery team and will focus on the recovery of critical lost data, due to hard drive crashes, server failure and or accidental file deletion. The individual will spend a significant amount of time on logical reconstruction of file systems and performing hard drive surgery in a clean room environment as well as cell phone data recovery. Additionally this individual will be part of R&D. Any experience in C/C++ , ARM, ASM, JTAG, Logic Analyzers, Oscilloscopes will be beneficial. This will be a career with many rewarding benefits and technical challenges. The desired individual for this position needs to be a highly motivated problem solver with a great passion for technology.
Benefits:
• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• 401K
• Growth potential
How to Apply:
In the first instance, please send a cover letter that describes in detail what your abilities are, and where you are particularly skilled, as well as your resume and salary requirements. Please send your application to [email protected].
P.S. This is not a staffing agency, but a direct hire for a position in Florida. Salary is dependent on qualification and experience.
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INQ Mobile, a new Hutchison Whampoa company, is here to revolutionise how you connect with your friends. The last transformation of the mobile came with arrival of text messaging, over ten years ago. So we’ve decided to do things differently. Through our platform we’ll enhance the way you use your phone to stay in touch with your friends. Our phones make using services that’d normally chain you to your desktop, such as Facebook, Windows Live, Skype and eBay, as simple as sending a text. The company launched the INQ1 in October of 2008 and won the GSMA's award for "Best Mobile Handset or Device" in 2009.
As a Mobile Software Lead, you will develop and ensure that the software ships. You are the one that gets it out the door, and balances the technical, product, and schedule risks to create a great product on time. You are expected to be a technical expert in software, ideally on mobile phones. You strive for efficient practices, are driven to get things done, and take great pride in having your work judged to be world-class. Software Leads are expected to have strong analytical skills, unwavering commitment to quality, collaborative work ethic, and cutting-edge technical skills.
Your responsibilities
Ensure on-time delivery of software.
Lead a team that's all over the globe, in-house and out-sourced, to tackle the difficult problems in management and the deep technical issues.
Design and implement new functionality for the Android platform. Your designs are flexible and clean: enabling others to write less code and learn from your software.
Demonstrate technical leadership by helping the team write world-class architecture, designs and code.
Apply the best combination of theory and practice in software management.
Drive development practices such as version control, bug tracking, reviews, design patterns, refactoring, UML, risk analysis and domain-specific languages.
Create a culture of excellence in technology, holding yourself and the rest of the team accountable to making the best software possible.
Design processes and software to increase quality and time to market for the project.
Qualifications & Experience
University degree in software development, numerate discipline, or other relevant degree.
Experience in being the technical expert for difficult software products.
Experience with developing for embedded or mobile products (preferably handsets).
Experience building major software products in Java.
A team player with excellent communication skills.
Highly desired: Mobile or embedded development experience.
Optional but desired:
Experience working with cross-functional, geographically diverse teams.
Android application development.
BREW development.
Familiarity with the underlying frameworks in Android, from C libraries through the Java UI frameworks.
Experience working closely with a UI or User Experience team.
Experience with Scrum or other Agile methodologies.
Most importantly, you must have:
Initiative to drive a vision, and never to wait for a vision that is handed to you.
Flexibility to customize that vision to the unique needs and people of INQ, incorporating feedback objectively and enthusiastically.
Willingness and desire to lead the organization to execute on that vision.
You will be requested to travel occasionally (<10%) internationally to meet with partners and vendors.
Office location: London
please visit the INQ Mobile website and send your cv via the general jobs address if interested
http://www.androidcentral.com/library-congress-updates-dmca-rooting-given-exemption#comment-51125
The Library of Congress has seen fit to specifically exempt rooting and jailbreaking (for the iPhone) from the DMCA. This means that it is now 100 percent legal to root to your heart's content without fear of legal action taken against you. Check out the exact wording:
"Computer programs that enable wireless telephone handsets to execute software applications, where circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of enabling interoperability of such applications, when they have been lawfully obtained, with computer programs on the telephone handset."
This does not mean that HTC, Motorola, and other manufactures can't (or won't) continue to try to keep their devices locked down; it just means they can't sic the lawyers on you if you do choose to root.
So, why not head into the Android Central forums and get your hack on? Check out the full legal wording after the break. [Copyright.gov via Engadget, NPR]
Statement of the Librarian of Congress Relating to Section 1201 Rulemaking
Section 1201(a)(1) of the copyright law requires that every three years I am to determine whether there are any classes of works that will be subject to exemptions from the statute's prohibition against circumvention of technology that effectively controls access to a copyrighted work. I make that determination at the conclusion of a rulemaking proceeding conducted by the Register of Copyrights, who makes a recommendation to me. Based on that proceeding and the Register's recommendation, I am to determine whether the prohibition on circumvention of technological measures that control access to copyrighted works is causing or is likely to cause adverse effects on the ability of users of any particular classes of copyrighted works to make noninfringing uses of those works. The classes of works that I designated in the previous proceeding expire at the end of the current proceeding unless proponents of a class prove their case once again.
This is the fourth time that I have made such a determination. Today I have designated six classes of works. Persons who circumvent access controls in order to engage in noninfringing uses of works in these six classes will not be subject to the statutory prohibition against circumvention.
As I have noted at the conclusion of past proceedings, it is important to understand the purposes of this rulemaking, as stated in the law, and the role I have in it. This is not a broad evaluation of the successes or failures of the DMCA. The purpose of the proceeding is to determine whether current technologies that control access to copyrighted works are diminishing the ability of individuals to use works in lawful, noninfringing ways. The DMCA does not forbid the act of circumventing copy controls, and therefore this rulemaking proceeding is not about technologies that control copying. Nor is this rulemaking about the ability to make or distribute products or services used for purposes of circumventing access controls, which are governed by a different part of section 1201.
In this rulemaking, the Register of Copyrights received 19 initial submissions proposing 25 classes of works, many of them duplicative in subject matter, which the Register organized into 11 groups and published in a notice of proposed rulemaking seeking comments on the proposed classes. Fifty-six comments were submitted. Thirty-seven witnesses appeared during the four days of public hearings in Washington and in Palo Alto, California. Transcripts of the hearings, copies of all of the comments, and copies of other information received by the Register have been posted on the Copyright Office's website.
The six classes of works are:
(1) Motion pictures on DVDs that are lawfully made and acquired and that are protected by the Content Scrambling System when circumvention is accomplished solely in order to accomplish the incorporation of short portions of motion pictures into new works for the purpose of criticism or comment, and where the person engaging in circumvention believes and has reasonable grounds for believing that circumvention is necessary to fulfill the purpose of the use in the following instances:
(i) Educational uses by college and university professors and by college and university film and media studies students;
(ii) Documentary filmmaking;
(iii) Noncommercial videos
(2) Computer programs that enable wireless telephone handsets to execute software applications, where circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of enabling interoperability of such applications, when they have been lawfully obtained, with computer programs on the telephone handset.
(3) Computer programs, in the form of firmware or software, that enable used wireless telephone handsets to connect to a wireless telecommunications network, when circumvention is initiated by the owner of the copy of the computer program solely in order to connect to a wireless telecommunications network and access to the network is authorized by the operator of the network.
(4) Video games accessible on personal computers and protected by technological protection measures that control access to lawfully obtained works, when circumvention is accomplished solely for the purpose of good faith testing for, investigating, or correcting security flaws or vulnerabilities, if:
(i) The information derived from the security testing is used primarily to promote the security of the owner or operator of a computer, computer system, or computer network; and
(ii) The information derived from the security testing is used or maintained in a manner that does not facilitate copyright infringement or a violation of applicable law.
(5) Computer programs protected by dongles that prevent access due to malfunction or damage and which are obsolete. A dongle shall be considered obsolete if it is no longer manufactured or if a replacement or repair is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace; and
(6) Literary works distributed in ebook format when all existing ebook editions of the work (including digital text editions made available by authorized entities) contain access controls that prevent the enabling either of the book's read-aloud function or of screen readers that render the text into a specialized format.
All of these classes of works find their origins in classes that I designated at the conclusion of the previous rulemaking proceeding, but some of the classes have changed due to differences in the facts and arguments presented in the current proceeding. For example, in the previous proceeding I designated a class that enable film and media studies professors to engage in the noninfringing activity of making compilations of film clips for classroom instruction. In the current proceeding, the record supported an expansion of that class to enable the incorporation of short portions of motion pictures into documentary films and noncommercial videos for the purpose of criticism or comment, when the person engaging in circumvention reasonably believes that it is necessary to fulfill that purpose. I agree with the Register that the record demonstrates that it is sometimes necessary to circumvent access controls on DVDs in order to make these kinds of fair uses of short portions of motion pictures.
wait... our government did this? lol wow haha
#1 rocks my world lol I hate the movie industry
For some reason I see it now that someone like NTP will patent rooting a phone and end up suing everyone that roots their phone.
dwertz said:
For some reason I see it now that someone like NTP will patent rooting a phone and end up suing everyone that roots their phone.
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Steve Jobs already has a Patent on that.
dwertz said:
For some reason I see it now that someone like NTP will patent rooting a phone and end up suing everyone that roots their phone.
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Thanks for the idea patent application is in the mail
j/k
My question is does this effect warranty status at all? In other words will rooting my device no longer void the manufacturer's warranty on parts?
nukedukem said:
My question is does this effect warranty status at all? In other words will rooting my device no longer void the manufacturer's warranty on parts?
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Rooting can still void your warrenty
wildgillis said:
Rooting can still void your warrenty
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rooting still does... and with sprint both you and sprint [in the TnC] agree to binding arbitration in case of a dispute. If you can prove rooting your phone didn't adversely affect the unability of your phone or violate fcc rules then they will lose. and if you come with that proof they probably won't waste their high priced lawyer's time
Seems as though it mainly protects the developers, (which is a great thing). The end users will benefit also.
it doesnt protect devs, it is still illegal to distribute rooting/jailbreaking methods, just not illegal to use them.
davebu said:
it doesnt protect devs, it is still illegal to distribute rooting/jailbreaking methods, just not illegal to use them.
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Says who? Do you have links? I ask because I had not heard this before. The ruling here actually quantified the amount of code that was being changed as trivial and not to be considered.
davebu said:
it doesnt protect devs, it is still illegal to distribute rooting/jailbreaking methods, just not illegal to use them.
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Where did you come up with this?!
I'm creating a small team, contract to start, that would be interested in possibly relocating (for privacy and security reasons) to make an app for a thriving industry (not porn).
- no commitment needed at this early a stage, just a "Yes I'd be interested and am capable of developing full-time for Windows crossover application", portfolio required
- the applicant would need good network knowledge as well
- I have at least one member, likely two, that are willing to go on a moment's notice
- I have a way (this is the biggest question mark at this time) into the industry and am relatively confident it isn't already developed for Android (second biggest issue)
Any developers qualified and interested in developing full-time for this burgeoning platform, send me a PM.
Thanks for your time,
Will
I was contacted by a recruiter through my LinkedIn profile and have no affiliation and gain nothing from posting this. My hope is that good Android developers are placed in good positions that help grow the platform.
Please see the description below if you are interested.
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I have a great opportunity regarding the following position….
Android Architect – SMARTPHONE
We are looking for an experienced software architect in developing and troubleshooting Android devices. You will be the resident expert on Android with knowledge and experience with programming all levels of the Android stack. You will be responsible for architecting and coding Android system middleware and working with a cross-discipline engineering team to support integration and validation. Many people can develop a Smartphone application, only a few can develop Smartphones…that is exactly what our client is wanting to hire!
Candidates must have a strong technical background and be capable of coming up to speed with a new team quickly. Good analytical, problem solving, and communication skills are essential as well as the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment. Excellent teamwork and written and verbal communication skills are essential. Creativity, responsibility, self-direction and self-motivation are hallmarks of our team and we expect the same from all who join us.
Duties and Responsibilities
Leads the development and maintenance activities of an Android device.
Quickly ramping up and becoming a key contributor within an Engineering team.
Ability to fix issues on a wide range of drivers from display to USB to Bluetooth to Ethernet.
Stays abreast of technically area and provides knowledge transfer to fellow team members.
Skills / Attributes Required
8+ years of software development experience with a strong preference for embedded device experience.
2+ years of direct Android stack development and integration experience with a strong knowledge of the Android SDK.
Knowledge of Android startup, integration and porting to new chipsets.
Experience with Java, C#, or C++. Familiarity with web transport protocols (HTTP, HTTPS, SSL)
Candidate must have a BS degree (MS preferred) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent
Experience with other mobile platforms or mobile-web development a plus
Deep knowledge of the software development lifecycle, including scoping, planning, conception, design, implementation, deployment and maintenance.
The ability to work to agreed deadlines. Good troubleshooting / communication skills / team player.
Sorry, no relocation or sponsorship…local candidates only.
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I am not familiar with Facebook app development, but my company is sorely in need of it, I believe. My company is fairly small and I don’t have anyone on staff that is skilled in development, so I need a company that can complete an application project without huge fees. Does anyone know of a reliable company I could hire for a project?
No matter the size of your company
No matter the size of your company, Facebook application development can help your company grow exponentially in terms of customer size, as well as sales and revenue. Sometimes it is better to outsource application development projects rather than assigning the project to someone on staff - if you even have anything on staff! When you outsource this kind of work, it is completed more thoroughly and more quickly. I know that a company like ConvoSpark, which is based in San Francisco, is able to complete projects both large and small in a short amount of time. They are definitely one of the best out there and can help you reduce the costs associated with application development.