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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High-risk and dangerous applications targeting users of Google’s Android platform increased from nearly 30,000 in June to almost 175,000 in September, according to Trend Micro’s security roundup report for the third quarter of ...
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Starbucks is investing $25 million in mobile payment venture Square, and will allow customers to use a Pay with Square smartphone application to buy coffee at its retail stores starting this fall, the companies announced Wednesday. As ...
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Next year could well be the year that many IT leaders finally start to get their mobile computing management house in order. The process of integrating consumer smartphones, tablets and other devices into the workplace has been chaotic ...
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Over half of Android devices are vulnerable to known security flaws that can be exploited by malicious applications to gain complete access to the operating system and the data stored on it, according to a report from mobile security firm ...
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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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Traxon Technologies, a global leader in solid state lighting and control systems, is pleased to announce its all new Lighting Application Suite (LAS) 6.0, a milestone makeover of the intelligent lighting control software used to program the ...
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ROAM Inc., the leading mCommerce Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider, announced that TaylorMade-adidas Golf Company is the first retail customer to integrate ROAM's software developer's kit (SDK) in its TaylorMade Performance Labs (TMPL). ...
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Continuing its tradition of developing innovative lighting products and solutions, Philips today introduced hue, the world's first Web-enabled LED home lighting system available direct to the consumer. Offered exclusively through Apple ...
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The imminent arrival of Hurricane Sandy has caused Google to cancel an event in New York today where it was to show off new Nexus devices. The"super storm"has seen US authorities shutting down much of the Atlantic seaboard,putting the ...
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Google's Android mobile operating system(OS)is under siege by attackers,with malware and information stealing adware targeting the platform up 483%in the last quarter. While Apple's relatively rigorous approach to vetting apps before ...
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It's no secret that more people are buying smartphones and tablets,but there's an explosion in ownership going on in the U.S. Half of U.S.adults now have a mobile connection to the Web through a smartphone or tablet,up sizably from a year ...
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When it comes to replacing the soon-to-be-obsolete incandescent light bulbs in our homes, LEDs are certainly a good way to go – they're highly energy-efficient, they last for years, and they emit a nicer quality of light than compact ...
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HARRISONBURG,Va.--Long lines formed for days outside of Apple stores in major cities to buy the iPhone 5 today,but smaller crowds also gathered in college towns like Harrisonburg,Va.,where the longest wait was overnight in front of the AT&T ...
Google-owned Motorola Mobility is infringing a Microsoft patent related to text input,a lower regional court in Munich decided on Thursday.The verdict will result in a sales ban on some phones,and Motorola will also be liable for damages if ...
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