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Android Market Malware Proliferates as Platform Grows
As Android market share continues to grow, malware developers are increasingly targeting the platform, according to security researchers. While the total volume of mobile malware and malware specifically targeting Android remains very small in comparison to malware targeting the Windows platform, recent reports found the numbers are growing, and will likely continue in 2012. Malware targeting Android…
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Amazon Developing 8.9-, 10.1-Inch Versions of Kindle Fire Development: Report
Whether Amazon’ s Kindle Fire proves to be the iPad challenger expected by pundits and analysts, the next version of the tablet may already be in development: According to the Taiwanese publication DigiTimes, the online retailer is working on 8.9- and 10.1-inch models. Amazon is developing 8.9- and 10.1-inch next-generation Kindle Fire models, and has…
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Businesses Not Ready to Support Mobile Workers: Citrix
Citrix announced findings from a recent global survey that examined how consumer-focused communications devices are being increasingly adopted in the workplace, revealing small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) are coming under growing pressure to enable their employees to use their personal smartphones, tablets and other devices for business use. Some 25 percent of companies are already…
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HP’s Whitman Promises ‘No More Surprises’
Hewlett-Packard’s new CEO, Meg Whitman–as well as the company’s embattled board of directors, 324,000 employees and shareholders–breathed easier Nov. 21 after the company turned in a fourth-quarter 2011 earnings report that outperformed Wall Street analysts’ projections. The news bolstered the company’s stock price early in the day by 4 to 6 percent, but ultimately the…