With just a little over a year into mobile advertising, Facebook is expected to at least corner 30% of the mobile display market this 2013. According to eMarketer, a market research organization, the social networking site can earn about $1 billion from its ad revenues for mobile phones alone. Being the second mobile advertisement publisher…
Now that cloud computing technology has already gone past the infancy stages, many industries have already realized the benefits it provides, and have already started adopting and integrating the technology to their businesses. One key sector that stands to benefit a lot from the cloud is marketing, as it has the ability to drastically change…
New Android Malware Hits Tibetan Activists’ Mobile Phones According to Kapersky Lab researchers Denis Maslennikov, Kurt Baumgartner, and Costin Raiu, this is the first time that there has been a target Android malware attack against mobile phones. Furthermore, people at Kapersky Lab had traced the malware to a Chinese server in LA. The […] Related…
According to Kapersky Lab researchers Denis Maslennikov, Kurt Baumgartner, and Costin Raiu, this is the first time that there has been a target Android malware attack against mobile phones. Furthermore, people at Kapersky Lab had traced the malware to a Chinese server in LA. The phishing email contained an Android Package file, “WUC’s Conference.apk”, refers…
With the release of iPad mini and iPhone 5, Apple has caught up with Samsung during the last quarter of 2012. However, Samsung still retains the top 1 spot with 21.2% share on smart connected device shipments. Apple, on the other hand, is a close second with 20.3%. Total revenues were about $168 billion or…
Beginning April 12, T-Mobile will be selling iPhone 5 to its customers. Customers who want to avail of the offer will have to pay $100 plus $20 monthly for 2 years as equipment fee. Also, T-mobile has already announced its no-contract plans beginning at $50 monthly for single users. This offer includes data plans, data…
The latest addition to the roster of mobile apps millionaire is a 17-year-old boy in London by the name of Nick D’Aloisio. Yahoo was reported to have bought the mobile news app Summly for $30 million. Although the terms of the sale haven’t been disclosed yet, Summly creator D’Aloisio is touted to be Yahoo’s youngest…
For the United Arab Emirates, the main type of risk being associated with cloud technology is legal risks, which basically means issues that could expose a provider or user to legal liabilities as it pertains to the country in which they operate. While the UAE doesn’t really have an extensive set of laws, policies,…
MIT-backed DBSeer Improves Cloud Computing Performance by 95% DBSeer, a software system developed by MIT researchers, can improve cloud computing performance as well as reduce hardware requirements by 95%. It makes use of techniques in order to create more accurate models of resource demands and performance in database-driven applications. This is basically the content of…
Cloud technology is already past the infancy stage, and is now being used by many companies in optimizing their asset utilization and flexibility while also reducing operating costs in manpower, hardware, and software areas of the business. Unlike many technological advancements in the IT sector during the past couple of decades, Cloud technology is more…