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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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Google Chromebooks From Samsung, Acer Discounted to $299

    Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Chromebooks, the notebooks running the lightweight Chrome Operating System designed for powering Web applications through the Chrome browser, are getting discounted to $299. Google introduced the Chrome notebooks from Samsung and Acer at the Google I/O developer conference last May as speedy machines that boot up in less than eight seconds and power…

  • Privacy Concerns, Social Media Will Dominate Health Care in 2012: PwC

    Social media, privacy and security, and health insurance exchanges (HIXs) will be among the top issues in health care in 2012, according to a report by consulting firm PwC’s Health Research Institute. In the report, "Top Health Industry Issues of 2012: Connecting in Uncertainty," PwC suggests that more people are using social media tools such…

  • 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…

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