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.
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IDC: Apple Catching Up With Market Leader Samsung
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 [...]
T-Mobile Will Start Selling iPhone 5 on April 12th
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, [...]
Nick D’Aloisio: Mobile Apps Millionaire At 17-Years-Old
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 Summlyfor $30 million. Although the terms of the sale haven’t been disclosed yet, Summly creator D’Aloisio is touted to [...]
News Digest March 31, 2013MIT-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 [...]
KPMG Study on Government Cloud Use Urges Faster Adoption
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 [...]