Monthly Archives: September 2012
Nokia, Samsung Events Herald Windows Phone 8 Surge
Nokia's introduction of the Microsoft Windows Phone 8-based Lumia 920 and 820 was what has become a typical product launch in the wireless business-with...
iPad Mini: 10 Features Apple Users Can Expect
Apple's iPad Mini is rumored to be launching in October. At a special press event, Apple will discuss its focus for the product, and...
Facebook Closes Devalued Instagram Acquisition
Five months after it announced the acquisition of photo-sharing application provider Instagram for a little more than $1 billion, Facebook closed the deal Sept....
iPhone, Android App Shortens Time From Heart Attack to Treatment
Application developer mVisum aims to shorten physician response time when a patient suffers a heart attack by pushing alerts to an iPhone, Android, BlackBerry...
Western Digital Updates My Passport Edge Portable Hard Drives
Western Digital Corp. subsidiary WD announced the latest version of My Passport line of portable hard drives for PC and Mac with the debut...
Phone-Focused Cyber-Criminals Move to Premium Scams
While malicious software targeting mobile phones has surged, it's still a drop in the bucket compared with the horde of viruses, Trojan horses and...
AlgoSec Releases Security Management Suite 6.3
Network security specialist AlgoSec announced version 6.3 of its Security Management Suite, which extends support to a wider breadth of network security devices and...
IBM Interactive Unveils New Services for CMOs, CIOs
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Knowing the value of a handshake in closing a deal, IBM established a world record for the longest handshake as it...
VUPEN Exploit Enables Virtual Machine Escape
VUPEN Security has detailed how to exploit a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Xen hypervisors to break out of virtual machines and execute code.The...
Microsoft Bing to Google: Our Search Is Better Than Your Search
Microsoft is asking millions of Web searchers to break their longtime Google search habits and give the software giant's Bing search engine a new...