BlackBerry has opened a new QNX Autonomous Vehicle Innovation Centre (AVIC) in Canada. The centre was inaugurated by BlackBerry executive chairman and CEO John Chen and he was joined by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Housed ...
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It's been suggested that some of Apple's engineering team might quit their jobs if the company loses its court battle with the FBI. The two parties are currently in the middle of a high-profile legal dispute over a locked iPhone ...
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Oracle has issued a comprehensive list of its software that may or may not be affected by the OpenSSL (secure sockets layer) vulnerability known as Heartbleed, while warning that no fixes are yet available for some likely affected products. ...
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The Facebook deal for WhatsApp drew attention for its whopping price tag, but has also brought out fresh criticism over security for the billions of messages delivered on the platform. WhatsApp, which is to be acquired for $19 billion, ...
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Trend Micro has outlined its security predictions for 2014, and it has forecast that one major data breach will occur every month next year. It has also predicted an increase in advanced mobile banking and targeted attacks, along with ...
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The majority of today’s CIOs see value in mobilising enterprise applications and in deploying mobile-related innovations such as GPS features, location-based services (LBS), mobile payments and QR codes. Many also say their ...
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BlackBerry's chief operating officer, Kristian Tear, and chief marketing officer, Frank Boulben, have both left the company with immediate effect, while chief financial officer Brian Bidulka will leave at the end of the financial year, the ...
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BlackBerry has continued its clear out of top level staff by removing COO, Kristian Tear, and CMO Frank Boulben. Interim CEO, John Chen, who was appointed on November 4 after the ousting of Thorsten Heins, hasn’t hesitated to pull ...
Salesforce is taking security on its platform more seriously than ever, with a number of upgrades to its existing two-factor authentication on the horizon, a senior security director told Salesforce 2013 Dreamforce delegates today. ...
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Mobile management vendors including Good Technology and MobileIron are increasing their efforts to pitch Android and iOS as alternatives to BlackBerry, thanks to improved security and management tools. On Monday, BlackBerry announced it ...
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IBM yesterday announced an agreement to acquire Fiberlink Communications, saying the purchase is a key part of a broader mobile-security strategy to provide assurance in transactions conducted via devices such as iPhones and Android ...
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Google chairman Eric Schmidt has claimed that Android smartphones have better security than that of Apple's iPhone. Schmidt made the statement at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Florida during a question and answer session following a ...
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NQ Mobile Inc. (NYSE: NQ) said that agreement has been inked with Huawei Technologies, ZTE Corporation (SEHK: 0763 and SZSE: 000063) and Lenovo Group Limited (SEHK: 0992), whose smart phones will be pre-installed with mobile security ...
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With its $7.2 billion agreement to buy Nokia’s handset business, Microsoft is in a position to surpass Apple and Android smartphone makers in providing an enterprise-class mobile platform, experts say. However, whether Microsoft is ...
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Samsung Knox smartphones will include mobile security software from Lookout to protect business users from mobile threats, the San Francisco company said Tuesday. The deal is part of Lookout's plan to build and offer security products for ...
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