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Google, Adobe Prepare Flash for ‘Ice Cream Sandwich’
Adobe (NASDAQ:ADBE) may be winding down the clock on its mobile Flash multimedia software, but it’s still going to be available to support Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) new Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” smartphones and tablets. It’s fair to call support for ICS mobile Flash Player’s swan song, as Greg DeMichillie, senior director of product management for…
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Carriers, Manufacturers Fail to Update Android Phones
Security firm Bit9 on Nov. 21 released its "Dirty Dozen" list of insecure smartphones. The list focused on Android smartphones because approximately 56 percent of Android phones in the marketplace are running out-of-date and insecure versions of the mobile operating system, Harry Svedlove, CTO of Bit9, told eWEEK. Smartphone manufacturers Samsung, HTC, Motorola and LG…
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Acer Vows to Continue Netbook Production
Acer will continue to manufacture netbooks, even as many of its manufacturing rivals shift their focus to super-thin ultrabooks and tablets. Netbooks once proved a white-hot seller, snatched up by consumers interested in their low price and portability. Two opposing forces helped wither that market: manufacturers own desire to push products with higher margins (in…
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Mobile Malware Proliferates as Smartphone Market Booms
According to a new report out last week from McAfee Labs, the rapid proliferation of malware has caused researchers to bump up their estimates for cumulative the number of unique samples to float around the Internet by the end of 2011. In its McAfee Threats Report: Third Quarter 2011, the firm reported that its increasing…