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McAfee Labs predicts the targets of 2011 cyber attacks
Top security vendor McAfee has recently unveiled its list of predicted targets for cyber attacks in 2011. Researchers at McAfee Labs shockingly includes many of 2010’s most talked about devices and platforms including Google’s Android, Apple’s iPhone, foursquare, Google TV and the Mac OS X platform. McAfee believes that Geolocation services, social media and mobile [...]
Adobe strengthens relationship with Google
Adobe and Google are working together even more tightly to try and make Android the long term market leader. Following Adobe’s recent rift with Apple, the software manufacturers has strengthened it relationship with Google, whose Android-based phone are integrated with Adobe’s components. Image by: Yodel Anecdotal
Adobe PDF security increased with sandboxing
Adobe Systems Inc. has announced that it will further secure its popular PDF Reader from attacks by adding “sandboxing” technology. The sandboxing process is well known for its use in Google’s Chrome browser. It isolates processes from one another and the rest of the machine, stopping malicious code from escaping an application and infecting the [...]
Toshiba launches its first Android laptop
Toshiba has officially launched its first laptop that runs on Google’s Android mobile operating system. The AC100 notebook comes with a 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 250 processor, a 10.1 inch 1024 x 600 pixel resolution display, 8Gb of in-built storage, 512Mb RAM, an SD reader and a 1.3 megapixel camera. It also has great connectivity with [...]
Samsung Galaxy S Android smartphone hits the shelves
Samsung’s latest release into the mobile market has been causing quite a stir. The Galaxy S is an iPhone lookalike, it has to be said, and sports a SUPER AMOLED with HD playback. It runs on Google’s Android OS and comes with Layar augmented reality, ThinkFree Office Mobile, an Aldiko ebook reader, a 1Ghz processor, [...]
Google launch Android 2.2 with full Flash support
Google has unveiled its next-generation OS (operating system), known either as Android 2.2 or by its codename Froyo. The new features found in Android 2.2 mean that users will experience full support for Adobe Flash and Adobe Air for the first time. This will give anyone with an Android 2.2 based smartphone full access to [...]
Apple TV gets a revamp
Following the announcement that Google that will be released its own TV service, Apple has decided to refresh Apple TV. It will now run the iPhone’s operating system (iOS4) and can be integrated with services such as Hulu and Netflix. Apple TV was launched in 2007 and connects to a TV to allow users to [...]
Dell looking into using Chrome OS on laptops
It has been revealed that Dell is in talks with Google about use of the Chrome OS on its laptops. Amit Midha, Dell’s president for Greater China and South Asia told Reuters in an interview: “There are going to be unique innovations coming up in the marketplace in two, three years, with a new form [...]
Google introduces new online video editing tool
Rosie Khdir reveals Google’s next weapon in its bid to take over, well, everything! The YouTube video editor allows you to edit videos without the hassle of uploading Gb crunching software.
Rumours adrift that Microsoft’s IE9 will not support Flash [UPDATED]
Another one bites the dust; yes another tech giant rumoured to have snubbed Adobe by not supporting Flash. Rosie Khdir looks further into the war against Flash.
