After a year in which some people called into question Research in Motion's future,the maker of the BlackBerry smartphone is hoping that the much-delayed BlackBerry 10(BB10)operating system will help turn the company around. Further ...
Tags: BlackBerry 10, BYOD, US government agency, BB10, Holleran
VMware has confirmed that the source code for its enterprise-level virtualisation platform – ESX hypervisor – has been leaked online and is urging users to apply security patches. This is the second time the ESX source code ...
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Mac owners still running 2009's OS X 10.6 are not about to give up on the operating system,making arguments strikingly similar to those trotted out by diehard Windows XP users. A news story Monday that cited statistics from Web metrics ...
Tags: Snow Leopard, Windows XP, Rosetta, aka Lion, Mountain Lion, apple
Computerworld-Microsoft has confirmed what many had suspected,that it didn't offer a 16GB Surface RT tablet because there would have been virtually no room for customer content on the device. According to a FAQ published Monday,a 32GB ...
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Apple's iPad has lost ground in the tablet market,with Android devices gaining momentum during the third quarter,according to a report by IDC. Q3 saw worldwide tablet shipments reach 28 million,up 50 per cent on the same period last ...
Tags: iPad, tablet market, drops, smartphones, iPad Mini
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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Computerworld - One in four Macs now run OS X Mountain Lion, Apple's newest operating system, data released last week showed. But there are signs that OS X Snow Leopard, an edition shipped in August 2009, may be the Mac's equivalent of ...
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Infoworld - Thinking about the bits of data you leave behind is a one-way ticket to paranoia. Your browser? Full of cookies. Your cellphone? A beacon broadcasting your location at every moment. Search engines track your every curiosity. ...
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Vupen, the controversial security company that specialises in finding vulnerabilities in commercial software, has claimed a zero-day vulnerability in Windows 8, the new operating system from Microsoft that was launched just one week ago. ...
It's not exactly the type of advertisement most people would understand. For sale:"Our first 0day for Win8+IE10 with HiASLR/AntiROP/DEP&Prot Mode sandbox bypass(Flash not needed)."It's part of a recent message on Twitter from Vupen,a ...
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IDG News Service - Five years after its inception, Android is more dominant than ever in the smartphone OS market, despite facing a number of challenges along the way. Android has endured legal battles, platform fragmentation, security ...
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Android-operated devices now represent three-quarters of the smartphone market, according to third quarter figures, far ahead of the iPhone in second place with 15 per cent. BlackBerry is a distant third, according to the research by ...
Tags: Smartphones, Android, group IDC
Acer,one of the big-five PC vendors,has put back the launch of its own Windows RT tablets following the launch of the Microsoft Surface and the mixed reviews that it has received. The company is unlikely to release a similar product ...
Tags: Acer, Microsoft, Windows Tablets, Microsoft Surface
Driven by millions of upgrades,Windows 8's global usage share climbed by a third last month,but the new OS's adoption pace remained lethargic compared to that of its predecessor three years ago. According to data released Thursday by ...
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Disconnecting Microsoft heritage Low cost iPhones Deploying MobileIron London Borough of Brent is planning to provide staff with up to 3,000 iPads and iPhones as it phases out Blackberry smartphones. London Borough of Brent will use ...
Tags: London Borough of Brent, iPads and iPhones, Blackberry smartphones