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McAfee Adds App Protection in Mobile Security 2.0 |
| News added: 30 January 2012 |
McAfee has launched Mobile Security 2.0, a comprehensive suite that adds app management and text/voice blocking features on top of anti-virus and anti-theft protection first seen in last year's McAfee Mobile Security. The app costs $29.99 a year for new users and can be downloaded from the Android Market. Existing McAfee Mobile Security... read entire news → |
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McAfee Updates Mobile Security With Remote Tracking, Data Wipes |
| News added: 30 January 2012 |
McAfee introduced a new version of Mobile Security to protect smartphones and tablets from malicious applications and Web malware. Mobile Security 2.0 offers antivirus, anti-theft services and protection from malicious Websites and apps, McAfee said Jan. 30. The security software also includes online device management where users can remotely wipe... read entire news → |
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Android, Apple Dominate at Home But Share Work with BlackBerry |
| News added: 30 January 2012 |
The tussle for dominance between Apple iPhones and Google Android smartphones is the main story in the consumer device space. But a new global survey from Forrester Research shows a different story in the workplace. When nearly 4,000 information workers were asked which operating system their work device runs, Apple, Android and Research In Motio... read entire news → |
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Yahoo Shuts Down 10 Mobile Apps, Says Its Going “Mobile First” (?) |
| News added: 30 January 2012 |
Yahoo is moving forward with a &8221; mindset, the company stated via blog post late last week, then incongruously announced it would be shuttering 10 of its mobile applications. The list, which contains a mix of iPhone, Android and BlackBerry apps, includes an odd, and somewhat surprising group of underperforming properties. Yahoo Deals, New... read entire news → |
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Judge interprets '263 patent in Apple's favor in HTC Android appeal |
| News added: 29 January 2012 |
United States Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner has issued an interpretation of Apple's '263 patent that is likely to result in a jury finding HTC (and Android in general) of infringement in the key "realtime API" case previously passed over by the ITC. The '263 patent is very significant because it represents technology at the core of Android, ra... read entire news → |
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Microsoft's Week: MIX Conference Nixed, Nokia Windows Phone Sales |
| News added: 29 January 2012 |
Microsofts week centered on its decision to end its MIX conference, as well as some new sales data on Windows Phone. We have decided to merge MIX, our spring web conference for developers and designers, into our next major developer conference, which we will host sometime in the coming year, Tim OBrien, Microsofts general manager for Developer &am... read entire news → |
| Pursuing iPhone Thief, Officer Knew Right Buttons to Push |
| News added: 28 January 2012 |
Follow @NYTMetro Connect with us on Twitter for breaking news and headlines in New York. And at a pace that may shock any reader of a long-winded Victorian detective novel, it was all wrapped up within a half-hour. The case involved the robbery of a similar iPhone from a handbag store. On Friday, the arresting officer, Robert Garland, shared det... read entire news → |
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