A report released today by the Local Search Association and prepared by comScore, Inc. finds that local search via non-PC devices continues its significant pace of growth, driven by the rapid adoption of smartphones, tablets, and other ...
Tags: Local Search, Consumer Electronics
Samsung is second to Apple in tablet sales and coming on strong, though Samsung Galaxy Tab users remain well behind iPad users in how much they use the Web, according to Chitika, an online advertising network. Apple iPad users generated ...
Tags: Apple Ipad, Web Traffic, Samsung Galaxy
Security vendor Sophos has released an update for the software used on its Web gateway security appliance in order to address three serious vulnerabilities in the product's Web-based user interface. The vulnerabilities could allow ...
Tags: Web Security Appliance, Security, Computer Products, web, Security vendor
Industry Dive, a business-to-business digital media company, announced today it launched Education Dive, a free smartphone app serving leaders in education. The app pulls together the best in higher education and K-12 news, social ...
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The US government plans to reinforce its cybersecurity programme by expanding web monitoring, using a process which currently scans traffic going in and out of defence contractors and expanding it to private firms. That means employees of ...
Tags: US, Computer Products, web monitoring
Two researchers from security firm Imperva have devised new techniques that could allow attackers to extract sensitive information from users' encrypted Web traffic. The new methods build on those used in an attack called CRIME revealed ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Reporters Without Borders named five countries that regularly spy on journalists and dissidents, a practice the group contends is made possible with advanced technology from private companies. The Paris-based group, which is an ...
Computerworld - Web traffic on Android tablets from various vendors grew substantially after the Christmas holiday, cutting the iPad's share by more than 7%. Nonetheless, Web traffic on Apple's iPad continues to outdistance the ...
Tags: Android, Web traffic, iPad, Web page, Web
Network World-Traditional news companies and other websites covering this year's presidential election are preparing for a flood of Web traffic over the coming months,and not just from political junkies.Politically motivated hactivist ...
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Undoubtedly 2012 has been another big year for mobile. From high-profile launches to security scares, from hot tablets entering the enterprise to huge players trailing with their tails between their legs, mobile is certainly the direction ...
Tags: mobile, security scares, tablet, IT infrastructure
HTML5 is more than a few years old and no longer a curiousity. Web pages that used to simply emulate a piece of paper are now expected to do something snazzy to justify their existence. Thanks to HTML5, along with innovations in JavaScript ...
Tags: HTML5, slide apps, Zoho, Google Docs, Aviary, HootSuite, Scribd, Angry Birds
Security supplier Sophos has combined its endpoint protection and unified threat management (UTM) products into a single physical or virtual appliance. Sophos claims UTM 9 will cut the time and resources IT teams have to spend on ...
Tags: Sophos, UTM, Endpoint Security, Computer Products
Tablets are now nearly as popular as desktops and laptops for buying items on the Web, according to data from Web merchandising firm Monetate. In the second quarter of 2012, 3.17% of tablet users on the Web made an online purchase, while ...
Tags: Tablets, desktops, laptops, Web Purchases
More than half of the peak-time traffic to the London 2012 Olympic Games' web servers came from mobile devices – a huge demonstration of the consumer switch to mobile at the highest–profile sporting event of the year. Users ...
Tags: mobile devices, web servers, mobile app, Gerry Pennell
CBR rounds up expert opinions after Ofcom revealed that the UK is the leading country for internet shopping and the top European country for mobile data usage. Internet shopping is now more popular in the UK than any other major country, ...