IDG News Service-Verizon Wireless is closing down its app store by January next year,it said in a notice on its developer community portal. The operator said it will start removing in January the Verizon Apps application from all ...
Tags: Verizon Wireless, app store, application
One-quarter of more than 400,000 Android apps examined in the Google Play store pose security risks to mobile-device users,according to new research. SECURITY:Android malware market exploding,says Trend Micro Security vendor Bit9 ...
Tags: Security Research, Android apps, mobile-device, Google Play
One-quarter of more than 400,000 Android apps examined in the Google Play store pose security risks to mobile-device users,according to new research. SECURITY:Android malware market exploding,says Trend Micro Security vendor Bit9 ...
Tags: Google, android apps, android malware market, Bit9
Valve,the company behind the popular games platform Steam,has opened its Linux-based Steam portal for beta registration. The private external beta–which the company is requesting that only experienced Linux developers ...
Tags: Valve, Steam, Linux, popular games platform Steam
CSO-In Windows 8,Microsoft has greatly improved the operating system's ability to detect malware before it has a chance to run,experts say.Windows 8 should also make it more difficult for people to unknowingly install malware in the first ...
First came the heavy adoption of Apple's mobile platform by consumers whose heavy use of the devices for business tasks forced the IT operations at their companies to support them. Android was the next mobile platform pushed onto IT and ...
Tags: Apple, mobile platform, IT operations, Android, Gartner, tech trends
Suffolk County Council is to roll out an app development tool to enable students across the region to design their own smartphone apps. Suffolk County Council will trial the Weejot.com mobile app publishing tool from Jadu across five ...
Tags: App Design Tool, app development tool, smartphone apps
IDG News Service-Mobile malware is rising fast,infecting nearly 13 million phones in the world during the year first half of 2012,up 177%from the same period a year ago,according to Beijing-based security vendor NetQin. In a report ...
Tags: Mobile malware, NetQin, smartphones, running Android
IDG News Service - Verizon Wireless has agreed to pay US$1.25 million to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to resolve a complaint that it blocked third-party tethering applications on Android phones, the FCC said Tuesday. ...
Tags: Wireless, Protection, Tethering Apps
An app known as"Find and Call"has been targeting users of both the iPhone App Store and Google's Play market,say researchers at security firm Kaspersky Lab. At first,it was thought to be an SMS worm spread through text messages,rather ...
Tags: Find and Call, app, iPhone App Store, Google's Play market, security
As personal mobile devices flood the corporate workplace,you'd think every company would have its own app store,right? Not so fast.Despite the obvious benefits of efficiently and securely distributing mobile apps to employees to use their ...
The app store model popularized by Apple is gaining further adoption in the world of ERP(enterprise-resource-planning)software,with new stores announced this week by Syspro and Unit4. Syspro's app store,which was announced on Friday,will ...
Tags: ERP vendors Syspro, app stores, Michael Krigsman, Unit4