Up to 10 percent of mobile apps expose user passwords and login names, 25 percent expose personally identifiable information and 40 percent communicate with third parties, according to research results released today by ThreatLabZ, a ...
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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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A variation of the attack that can wipe data from Samsung Android devices when visiting a malicious Web page can also be used to disable the SIM cards from many Android phones, researchers have said. Ravishankar Borgaonkar, a research ...
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Different hacker groups claim to have breached servers belonging to ImageShack, Symantec, PayPal and other organisations. On Sunday, a hacker group called HTP claimed to have compromised Web servers, MySQL databases, routers and ...
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Bahrain’s flagship airline, Gulf Air and leading travel technology partner, Amadeus, announced today that they have renewed their distribution agreement and expanded their scope to provide full content access for travel agents ...
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Green data centres may have gone out of fashion as a topic of conversation, but rising energy costs, increasing demand for computing power, environmental concerns, and economic pressures are continuing to drive the market. The data centre ...
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Internet freedom could be at stake at a secretive meeting of governments that begun on Monday in Dubai. The United Nations International Telecommunication Union will negotiate new international telecom regulations, including Internet ...
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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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Google announced 14 new customers for its Apps for Education cloud suite, as it continues to jockey for position against rivals like Microsoft in this important vertical market. The new customers, which include Carnegie Mellon University ...
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Microsoft plans to issue an over-the-air fix next month for a problem that has caused some Windows Phone 8 handsets to reboot themselves unexpectedly. Hundreds of users of the Nokia Lumia 920 and HTC 8X smartphones have reported on ...
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Nigeria has become the first country in Africa to ban telecom operators from engaging in the type of promotions and lotteries that are being blamed for deterioration in the quality of mobile services. The action by Nigeria, Africa's ...
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Redis, an open source in-memory data store maintained by VMware, has been upgraded to be more stabile and make more judicious use of memory, two traits that should make it more appealing for enterprise deployments. “Redis 2.6 is ...
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Work under way to draft new regulations at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) in Dubai this week could harm the Internet, warned Internet pioneer and Google executive Vint Cerf. “The Internet is under ...
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HP today announced it is expanding its Converged Cloud portfolio with joint HP and Microsoft solutions that aim to simplify and enhance every aspect of a client's private cloud journey. The HP and Microsoft Joint Private Cloud initiative ...
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Skype has been battling wily adversaries who are abusing the Internet calling application to direct people to scam websites, but the Microsoft-owned service says the sham calls are decreasing. The automated calls feature a ...
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