Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave his first interview Tuesday since the company’s troubled initial public offering earlier this year saying the performance of the stock has “obviously been disappointing” but said Facebook ...
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BitDefender Labs has discovered Android malware that regularly broadcasts the location of the infected mobile device to a remote server. What the malware creators intend to do with the privacy-invading information is not clear. The app ...
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Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt will meet with Samsung’s mobile executives — and likely discuss the latest patent clash with Apple — while in South Korea for the launch of the Nexus 7 Android tablet. At a press ...
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USA TODAY,a multi-platform news and information company,announced today its new app for Android is now available in the Google Play Store.The USA TODAY app includes an all-new design and layout that is optimized for the latest Android ...
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AA Russian firm has been handed a £50,000 ($79,500) fine and ordered to repay all UK customers for marketing a dubious Android app that generated a £10 premium rate £10 SMS charge simply for downloading it. According to ...
Tags: Android app, PhonePayPlus, phone service, smartphone
Google's new app scanner in Android 4.2 Jelly Bean moves the platform closer to Apple's model of vetting software before it is made available to mobile device users, a security expert says. Google isn't expected to copy Apple's model of ...
Tags: Android, app, Apple, application, Gartner, Google, Jelly Bean 4.2, smartphone
Google Play has seen business boom this year with a 311 per cent rise in revenue,but the Android app store still has a long way to go before catching up with Apple's iOS App Store. Those are the findings of a new report by app store ...
Tags: Google Play, Revenue, Android app store, Apple's iOS App Store
CIO-With three major mobile platforms to choose from,what is an ambitious mobile app developer to do? There are Android and iOS,with 700,000 available apps each and huge market exposure--and the fierce developer competition that comes ...
Tags: mobile platforms, mobile app developer, Windows Phone 8, Android and iOS
Web users and people shopping online during the upcoming holiday season should watch out for a new crop of scams, some of them targeting users of mobile devices, cybersecurity vendor McAfee warned. Many of the scams in McAfee's 2012 ...
Tags: McAfee, holiday season, mobile devices, operating systems
Push-to-talk,once the killer app of Nextel's iDEN network and more recently a feature offered on certain Sprint Nextel phones,has finally made the transformation into a downloadable Android app called Sprint Direct Connect Now. The ...
Tags: Sprint, Direct Connect Now, push-to-talk, Android app, Nextel, iDEN
IDG News Service - Citrix Systems has released an enhanced GoToMyPC app for Android devices allowing anyone with an Android phone or tablet, including Amazon's Kindle Fire family, to access their Internet-connected Mac or PC over a mobile ...
More than 50% of devices running Google's Android mobile operating system (OS) have unpatched vulnerabilities, opening them up to malicious apps and other attacks. Security provider Duo Bulletin assessed 20,000 Android devices worldwide ...
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UK premium phone services regulator PhonepayPlus has fined a Moscow-based firm £50,000 for failing to provide accurate pricing information and charging without consent. Connect Ltd, trading as SMSBill, is the firm behind a malicious ...
Tags: phone services, PhonepayPlus, Android smartphones, popular games
Tesco.com,one of the biggest retail websites in the UK,is to be asked to explain the alleged poor security practices of its website to the Information Commissioner's Office(ICO). The inquiry follows investigations by security ...
Tags: ICO, retail websites, Android app, secure web page
Computerworld - Looking to get in on the booming mobile market, social network Pinterest has unveiled mobile apps for its pinboard service. Pinterest announced Tuesday new apps for Android-based smartphones and for Apple's iPad. It also ...
Tags: Android, Ipad, registration