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Aug 2010 |
South Korean police raided Google's offices Tuesday to see whether the company broke local laws by collecting user data in kicking off its Street View service in the country.
The Korean National Police Agency confirmed the probe of the search giant in a statement sent to Reuters and other news sources.
"[The police] have been investigating Google Korea LLC on suspicion of unauthorized collection and storage of data on unspecified Internet users from Wi-Fi networks," the agency said in the statement. "... |
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Aug 2010 |
Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces that the first malicious program classified as a Trojan-SMS has been detected for smartphones running on Google's Android operating system. Named Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a, it has already infected a number of mobile devices.
The new malicious program penetrates smartphones running Android in the guise of a harmless media player application. Users are prompted to install a file of just over 13 KB with the standard... |
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Aug 2010 |
A reporter at the BBC has created a smartphone application which spies on the owner of the device, in an attempt to prove how straightforward it is to create malicious software for mobiles.
Reporter Mark Ward designed a simple noughts and crosses game using a popular smartphone application toolkit. However, the crude game was a cover for a piece of malware, which hid under the hood gathering contacts, copying text messages, logging the phones location and sending it to a specially set up email address.
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Aug 2010 |
Mobile satellite company Inmarsat has announced more details of a plan to expand its mobile broadband network delivered by satellite.
In a statement this week, the company said it had agreed to purchase three 702HP Ka-band satellites from Boeing. The new satellites will be used to create the Inmarsat-5 constellation of satellites, which the company says will provide a worldwide high-speed mobile broadband service called Global Xpress.
The new service is expected to be up and running by 2014 and will p... |
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Aug 2010 |
The German government has advised ministers not to use BlackBerry and iPhone devices due to "a dramatic increase of attacks against" its networks.
A general ban on the use of smartphones in certain German ministries is also being considered, Federal Interior Minister Thomas de Maizire confirmed to the countrys business daily newspaper Handelsblatt yesterday.
He said that ministers and senior civil servants had been told to instead use Simko2 gadgets offered by T-Systems, following advice from the Germ... |
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Aug 2010 |
Employees who fritter time away on Facebook, Twitter and other social media websites are costing British businesses billions, new research suggests.
British employment website MyJobGroup.co.uk said it polled 1 000 British workers and found that nearly six percent, or 2 million, of Britain's 34 million-strong workforce spent over an hour per day on social media while at work, amounting to more than one eighth of their entire working day.
"Our results clearly show that UK workers are spending increased ... |
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Aug 2010 |
Voice-over-IP provider Vonage is giving Facebook a voice, announcing on 4 August the availability of an application that lets owners of iPhones, iPod Touches and Android-running smartphones place free calls to Facebook "friends."
Free to use and download - it's available in the Android Market in 48 countries and in Apple's iTunes store in 87 countries - the Vonage Mobile App for Facebook works over Wi-Fi or 3G/4G networks.
To get started, download the application from either store or at vonage.com/tal... |
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Aug 2010 |
A Google-backed satellite network operator, O3b, has signed a long-term agreement with Europe Media Port to provide gigabit IP network connectivity and bandwidth services to clients located in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East.
The teleport in Nemea, Greece is the first of multiple teleport sites to be located worldwide that will allow O3b to provide global, low-latency, high-speed network and connectivity services to compete with optical fibre networks.
O3b aims to attract mobile backhaul ope... |
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Aug 2010 |
Smartphones running Google's Android software were the top seller among consumers in the United States in the second quarter, industry tracker NPD said on Wednesday.
Android accounted for one-third of all smartphones purchased in the April-June period, with Research in Motion's BlackBerry sliding to second place for the first time since 2007.
BlackBerry lost nine percentage points of market share, falling to 28 percent. On Tuesday, RIM unveiled a new touchscreen device as the company tries to reinvigo... |
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5
Aug 2010 |
Microsoft has released what it says is the final preview of Internet Explorer 9, promising a number of performance improvements and interoperability tweaks.
The IE9 preview is the fourth to be released by Microsoft, and is aimed at developers. General users will not see another IE release candidate until the beta is published in September.
The company offered some third-party test results to support its performance gain claims, saying that WebKit.org's SunSpider rated IE9 11 times faster than IE8 than... |
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5
Aug 2010 |
The ability to receive free-to-air terrestrial television networks via cellphones is shrinking the market for dedicated mobile TV services, according to research.
By 2013 there will be 10 million users of mobile TV but more than 180 million mobile customers will be subscribing to 3G/4G/Wi-Fi-enabled mobile TV services, according to the report from research firm Juniper.
Windsor Holden, principle analyst at Juniper, said, "Dedicated TV networks are often not seen as financially viable, with many people... |
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Aug 2010 |
Google CEO Eric Schmidt said on Wednesday that Google believes that some 200,000 new Android devices are being sold each day, leading to significant revenue in the form of increased mobile search traffic.
"People are finally beginning to figure out how successful Android is," Schmidt said at the inaugural Techonomy conference here, pointing to recent studies showing the growth of the mobile operating system outpacing even the popular iPhone.
"The number was about 100,000 (a day) about two months ago,"... |
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Aug 2010 |
Sharp Corp plans to take on Apple's iPhone by the end of the year, with the international launch of a smartphone featuring a 3D panel that can be viewed without special glasses, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
The new phone will also likely have a 3D capable camera, the spokeswoman said.
Though Japan's biggest mobile phone maker, Sharp is a small player in global terms and has so far failed to capitalize on rapid growth in the smartphone market.
A previous venture into the segment, the Kin model m... |
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4
Aug 2010 |
Saudi Arabia has ordered the country's cell phone service providers to halt all BlackBerry services this week, the latest Mideast nation to announce moves to exercise greater control over data sent by the Research In Motion phones.
The country's Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) on Tuesday asked Saudi Telecom, Mobily, and Zain Saudi Arabia to suspend service to BlackBerry phones on Friday, the Saudi state news agency SPA said in a report detailed by Al Jazeera. The suspension wa... |
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4
Aug 2010 |
Google is waving good-bye to Wave.
The company said on its blog on Wednesday that it is halting development on Google Wave, a real-time collaboration tool aiming to combine various forms of online communication.
"Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked," Senior Vice President Urs Holzle said in the blog post. "We don't plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site, at least through the end of the year, and extend the technology for use in other... |
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