Tuesday, 1 January 2013

Android only detects about 15 percent of known malware

If Google wants Android to continue being a good operating system that wins many hearts, it had better listen to various comments made about the OS. And security is one of them at the top of the list.

Security flaws found in many Samsung mobile devices

Security experts have discovered many vulnerabilities in Samsung's Exynos 4-powered devices, including the Galaxy S2 and Galaxy Note, that bypasses system-wide security permissions, like letting data be extracted from RAM or malicious code to be injected directly into the device.

Larry Wall's open source programming language Pearl is 25 years old

Developed on December 18, 1987 by a programmer called Larry Wall, Perl is an open source programming language used by developers and Unix/Linux system admins all over the world to automate any number of data management tasks, and yesterday Perl celebrated its 25th birthday.

Dell abandons Android

Amazon is selling books and Google is making it up with search, but Dell could not find a way to build a business on Android, Clarke said.

Google heads for total war with Microsoft

Google has declared war on Microsoft saying that it wants to get 90 percent of users who don't need to have the most advanced features of Office.

More Technical Difficulties at Netflix

This holiday season has been a rough one for Netflix. Following a lengthy outage of its Internet video streaming service on Christmas Eve, the company has been hit anew with technical difficulties.

Gloves come off at low end of the tablet market

According to Digitimes, Asustek's tablet shipments will reach 6.3 million units in 2012 with Google Nexus 7 accounting for 4.5 million units. In 2013, Asustek is set to ship 12 million tablets and with expected 24 million notebook shipments, the company aims to ship totally 36 million mobile devices