A new data from security firm F-secure revealed that malware targeting Android users has nearly quadrupled since 2011. The number increased for two quarters in a row, then dipped for one, and then finally settled at 37 in Q1 2012, means a year-over-year growth of 270 percent. The trend was revealed today in the company’s 47-page Mobile Threat Report Q1 2012 (PDF)....
A big picture coming up from Facebook IPO side is that company is looking out to increase its share volumes by 25%, bringing the total higher than it what it originally announced, according to CNBC. The social giant increased its initial public offering range from $28-$35 to $34-$38 per share, and offered 50.6 million more shares and with the current news seems Facebook does not want to keep any stone unturned. Calculating now some facts and figures based on this rumor, if Facebook amends its IPO for an eight time, it will be offering...
It would not going to be great for potential UK Microsoft users as the software giant has revealed that it will increase volume licencing prices in the country by an average of 29% in order to adjust the sustained ”currency differences between European countries”. The increase in license price will be effective from July 1. “From July 1 in the UK, these adjustments will result in pound sterling price list rises for new volume licensing contracts of between 7.5 percent and 33.5 percent, to ensure greater consistency with the equivalent...
ZDNet reports that Avira, German security company has sent a defective antivirus update which has been downloaded million of times results in creating a mess for a lot of users around the world, according to user reports [1][2]. The result is that the AntiVirProActiv component starts detecting critical processes as malware, including the following: \windows\system32\dllhost.exe \windows\system32\explorer.exe \windows\system32\iexplorer.exe \windows\system32\notepad.exe \windows\system32\regedit.exe \windows\system32\rundll32.exe \windows\system32\taskeng.exe \windows\system32\wuauclt.exe The...
ZDNet reports that Toshiba is updating Canvio 3.0 and Canvio 3.0 Basics with increasing the capacity up to 1.5 terabytes. Furthermore, the company is also working towards make the Canvio 3.0 to work easily between Macs and PCs without the need for a reformat. The 1.5 TB Canvio 3.0, which also features software back up and internal shock sensors, will run for $199. The 1.5TB Canvio Basics 3.0, which offers a more simple (or perhaps basic) set of features, will run for $189. Although there is a difference of mere $10 so it would be better...
Red Hat publicly celebrated the 10th anniversary of its flagship solution Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its recent success at hitting the $1 billion mark in a webcast, but what amazed the most is that the company plans to deliver its Enterprise Linux 7 in Q2 of 2013 with its three-year upgrade path. “We’re straddling both worlds …. we’re driving the future,” said Red Hat’s engineering chief, Paul Cormier, noting that the stack of Red Hat software once described as the Open Source Architecture is the cloud computing platform...
Embedly has something meaningful for you that lets you understand that how Facebook dominates the (social) Web. According to Embedly 42 percent of all URLs that the service processes have one or more Open Graph tags. The data comes from Embedly co-founder and CEO Sean Creeley says: If you aren’t familiar with Open Graph, it’s the semantic metadata that...
General Motors (or GM in short), which has over 378,000 Likes on its main Facebook Page, plans to stop advertising on social giant after the company’s marketing executives determined their paid ads had little impact on consumers, reports WSJ. Citing the “sources”, the publication states that GM reportedly started re-evaluating its Facebook strategy earlier this...
Red Hat, known as an open source solutions provider on global scale, celebrated its 10th anniversary of its flagship solution, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which has transformed the deployment of business-critical applications for IT organizations around the globe. Introduced back in 2002 May, Red Hat dramatically changed the software industry with the first-ever open...
We last reported that Oracle might end up with getting only $150,000 (only) in damages from Google, but now the condition seems to be worsen a bit as Judge clearly warned Oracle that it could end up with nothing in IP trial. There is unwanted confusion that merges up in the court as Judge has to decide what the future of the trial going to be as the motions heading...
