A new computer Trojan program attempts to install mobile banking malware on Android devices when they’re connected to infected PCs, according to researchers from Symantec. This method of targeting Android devices is unusual, since mobile attackers prefer social engineering and fake apps hosted on third-party app stores to distribute Android malware. “We’ve seen Android malware that attempts to infect Windows systems before,” Symantec researcher Flora Liu, said Thursday in a
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OCZ, the struggling SSD maker, is back in business with new products that use the flash memory manufactured by new parent company Toshiba. On Wednesday, OCZ Storage Solutions—now a Toshiba subsidiary—debuted the Vertex 460, an SSD available in either 120GB, 240GB, and 480GB capacities. Inside, the new SSDs use 20-nanometer flash from Toshiba. Toshiba concluded its acquisition of OCZ’s assets Wednesday, and the company indicated that it intended to have OCZ continue manufacturing SATA and PCI Express consumer drives for high-performance and mainstream applications as well as SATA, SAS, and PCIe enterprise drives supported by virtualization, cache, and acceleration software.
Apple’s “Find My iPhone” application led police in Silicon Valley to quickly arrest two suspected thieves after gadgets worth thousands of dollars were taken from a Palo Alto startup incubator. Staff at the AT&T Foundry arrived at work on Jan. 8 to find three laptops, 15 cell phones, an iPad and other electronics items had been stolen from the facility, which was opened by AT&T to work with local startups on smartphone apps and services. The gadgets were collectively worth around $14,000, according to Palo Alto Police Department. While police officers were still on scene investigating the break in, an AT&T Foundry employee used the “Find My iPhone” application to attempt to detect the location of the stolen iPad and quickly got a hit: a nearby parking lot.
Microsoft will detail its second quarter financial performance on Thursday, but it’s not clear whether the company will take the opportunity to also clear up some of the uncertainty over key products and corporate changes. Take Windows. In recent months, there has been speculation about the future direction of the OS, after the mixed reception for Windows 8 and its
I’ve seen this happen over and over again: A new, simple-to-use technology arrives, with its own new acronym. Then someone improves upon it, extending the acronym. Then there’s another one. Soon you’ve got a market of confusing alphabet soup. So let’s start with the basics. Secure Digital (SD) is the current standard for removable flash storage cards in mobile devices. They come in three physical sizes with numerous speeds and capacities.
Lenovo Group has agreed to buy IBM’s x86 server hardware business and related maintenance services for $2.3 billion, it announced Thursday. The deal encompasses IBM’s System x, BladeCenter and Flex System blade servers and switches, x86-based Flex integrated systems, NeXtScale and iDataPlex servers and associated software, blade networking and maintenance operations. IBM will retain its System z mainframes, Power Systems, Storage Systems, Power-based Flex servers, and PureApplication and PureData appliances. Lenovo
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Odds are, you're not using Windows Phone. If the forthcoming voice assistant is good enough, maybe you will.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: MapQuest Transfers Local Listings Management To Yext Last October, MapQuest started outsourcing local business listings management to Yext. The “claim your...
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Last October, MapQuest started outsourcing local business listings management to Yext. The “claim your MapQuest listings” page is hosted by Yext (I believe) with a co-branded look and feel. Yesterday, MapQuest notified business users that its local business center and basic local...
Google announced they are replacing the old smartphone crawler user-agent with a new one in order to make it possible for Google to index more smartphone content. Zhijian He, a smartphone search engineer at Google said that the previous user-agent “made it impossible for Google to index...
As retargeting becomes more widely used and better understood, its reputation is improving. Marketers are learning to avoid creeping people out through better targeting and less intrusive messaging. Early adopters now have a year or two (or more) of experience to share, which is exactly what I...
With the three major search engines migrating their default searches to secure search, over SSL/HTTPS, marketers and webmasters want to know what referrer and analytics data will be passed to them and what won’t. The majority of Google is secure search, Yahoo yesterday defaulted all searches...
I expect that most everyone working in SEO knows that PDFs are indexable by search engines. PDFs can also appear with an authorship-rich snippet in Google SERPs. But, just because a file format can be indexed doesn’t always mean that it’s the ideal approach. Today, I’d like to...
If you’ve been doing paid search for a while, you’ve undoubtedly run into a situation where you’re working on a campaign that’s been moderately successful, but has essentially been on autopilot and isn’t taking advantage of any new features that could enhance its...
Google has announced the formal rollout of a test that some searchers have been seeing for a few days now — a test that associates a Knowledge Graph popup with certain web pages in desktop search results. The popup adds more information about certain search results, which sounds like it...