Free mobile apps pose a serious threat to privacy because of their ability to capture large amounts of user information, a study has revealed. Free mobile applications are 401% more likely to track user location and 314% more likely to ...
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An average of 96% of the top 100 paid mobile apps have been hacked, a study has revealed. Android is the most susceptible platform, according to the State of Security in the App Economy report by security firm Arxan Technologies. The ...
Tags: mobile apps, iOS apps, Google Android platform, Hackers
During the holiday gift exchange and paper shredding frenzy,you may have received an electronic traveling companion.Before tossing the packaging,consider if that portable GPS navigator the best one for your needs.Or should you trade it in ...
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VELUX America released free apps for iPhones,iPods,iPads,&Android Phones that allow users to easily visualize rooms bathed in daylight from both traditional and tubular skylights. Chan Hoyle,national marketing and communications manager ...
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Computerworld - The success of Windows RT, and to a lesser extent Windows 8, will hinge on the quality and quantity of apps in the Windows Store next month, analysts said today. And they don't like what they've seen so far. "History ...
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An application privacy report by Juniper Networks’ Mobile Threat Center (MTC) indicates that permissions and capabilities in apps could expose sensitive and personal data in mobile devices. A wider group of application developers ...
Tags: Juniper, mobile device, personal data, sensitive data, smartphone
Google's mobile operating system(OS),Android,has been targeted again by malicious malware,which causes the device to send out spam SMS messages. The infected malware,known as SpamSoldier,has been hiding in free versions of popular Android ...
Tags: Android, Malware, Attack, Google Play Store
Google Maps' return to the iPhone and iPad this week may not be permanent, an analyst said today. "It would have been out of the question," said Ezra Gottheil, an analyst with Technology Business Research, referring to a rejection of ...
Tags: Google, Computer Products, Google Maps, Ios
According to the L.A. Times, Walmart started Black Friday on Thanksgiving Thursday this year, with shoppers who lined up between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. promised at least three "good deals." The International Business Times reported that a Best ...
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A team of researchers from two German universities has released a study asserting that many of the most popular free apps available through the Google Play store may be vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks — seriously threatening ...
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Research In Motion (RIM) announced that the BlackBerry App World storefront is now available for customers in Iraq, offering them easy access to a broad range of mobile applications that are purpose-built for BlackBerry smartphones and ...
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Free smartphone apps pose huge threats to user privacy by collecting unnecessary information,says a report from Juniper Networks. The network security firm analysed 1.7 million applications on the Android market over an 18-month period ...
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Computerworld - Apple yesterday updated its iWork suite -- Pages, Numbers and Keynote -- for the iPad and iPhone, beefing up compatibility with Microsoft's Office. The Cupertino, Calif. company may be trying to get the jump on ...
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Computerworld-Microsoft yesterday made it official,saying that the replacement for the now-dead-and-buried"Metro"brand for apps on Windows is"Windows 8 Store." In a session at the company's BUILD developer's conference Tuesday,Will ...
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The FBI on Tuesday denied that the 1 million unique device identifiers for Apple devices(UDIDs)posted publicly by hacker group AntiSec on Monday had come from its computers. In a brief statement,the FBI's national press office said the ...