Samsung said Wednesday it is working on an update for a software flaw that could allow attackers to siphon personal data from a phone. The vulnerability affects Samsung’s S2 and S3 phones and several models of its Galaxy line, ...
Marissa Mayer, participating in her first Yahoo earnings conference call since becoming CEO, outlined a broad range of areas in which the company needs to improve. “It was an active and solid quarter with some nice ...
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In a new twist, spammers have built a botnet that sends SMS spam through infected Android phones, shifting the potentially pricey cost of sending spam to victims. The trend, spotted by security vendor Cloudmark, poses a new challenge ...
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About 200 Android applications currently hosted on Google Play create spoofed SMS messages on the devices they are installed on, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor Symantec. This technique can theoretically be used ...
HTML5 tools vendor Sencha unveiled today Sencha Complete Team, which bundles existing tools with an Eclipse plug-in, a desktop application packager, and data connectors. Developers using the suite can build HTML5-based business ...
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Yahoo Mail has gotten a makeover intended to make it faster, streamline its interface and simplify its use. The improvements are being applied to Yahoo Mail’s Web version and to its Android application, as well as to new apps for ...
Tags: Android, IOS, iPhone, mail, smartphone, tablet, web, Yahoo, Yahoo Mail
Android’s 2012 security overhaul hasn’t stopped the volume of global threats targeting the mobile OS continuing to rise at an alarming rate, F-Secure’s latest mobile threat report has found. The company noticed 51,447 ...
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AT&T* today announced the Samsung Galaxy Camera, the 4G connected camera, will be available for customers beginning Nov. 16 for $499.99.2 For a limited time, AT&T customers will receive up to $100 off the purchase of a second Samsung Galaxy ...
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About 200 Android applications hosted on Google Play create spoofed SMS messages on the devices on which they are installed,according to security researchers from antivirus vendor Symantec. This technique can theoretically be used for SMS ...
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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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Infoworld-Google this week is extending an invitation to developers to try out its new Google Play Developer Console,which is centered on developing and publishing applications to the Google Play online store for Android applications. The ...
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Electronic Arts and nine other game developers are being sued by Uniloc which claims that some of their Android applications infringe a patent for preventing unauthorized access to electronic data Uniloc has claimed for example that ...
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Smartphones running Google's Android operating system(OS)have been hijacked by a botnet,according to a Microsoft researcher. Researcher Terry Zink said he had come across spam being sent from Yahoo e-mail servers by Android ...
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Google is readying a new set of Analytics usage reports designed specifically for mobile applications,the company announced at its I/O developer conference on Friday. So far,Google Analytics has approached mobile-application tracking ...
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Google at its I/O conference is emphasizing its growing number of music,movies and TV shows available for Android tablets and smartphones through its Play store,and those entertainment options will be available on Google TV devices in the ...
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