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Posted in E-Week on January 29th, 2012 by E-Week
Data privacy was on everyone's minds this past week as the European Union proposed changes to its 17-year-old regulations while Google changed its privacy policy and Android malware scanned user data. - Data privacy dominated security headlines this past week as
the European Commission set out to change its 17-year-old data privacy law. The
changes would not be applicable to just companies that are based or operate in
the European Union, but to every company that does business with an EU citizen...
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Posted in E-Week on January 29th, 2012 by E-Week
Microsoft's week included its decision to end its MIX conference, and some hard data on Nokia's Windows Phone sales. - 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 ...
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Posted in E-Week on January 29th, 2012 by E-Week
Apple and Samsung battled throughout 2011 for the No. 1 spot in global smartphone shipments. That battle will continue into 2012. - Apple retook the No. 1 spot in global
smartphone shipments in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to a new report
from research firm IHS.
In doing so, Apple managed to knock
Samsung out of the top-ranked position it held in the third quarter. From store
shelves to courtrooms, the two compani...
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Posted in E-Week on January 29th, 2012 by E-Week
Google+ is now accepting teenagers aged 13 and up in the U.S. and most other countries, as it seeks to expand the footprint of its fledgling social network. -
Google+ is now
accepting teenage members aged 13 and up in most countries, giving the social
network a major demographic to target as it seeks to grow its current user base
of 90 million users.
Twitter and Facebook have also set 13 as the minimum age users can
join their social networks, so...
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Posted in E-Week on January 29th, 2012 by E-Week
Symantec has detected a new Trojan horse called Android.Counterclank, which attaches to applications in the Android Market and may be used to run malicious code on users' smartphones and tablets. -
A nasty piece of malware called Android.Counterclank that
Symantec (NASDAQ:SYMC) said has the highest distribution of any malware this
year to date is making the rounds on Android smartphones and tablet computers.
Symantec counts anywhere from 1 million to 5 million
combined downloads of the...
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Posted in E-Week on January 28th, 2012 by E-Week
NEWS ANALYSIS: Improvements to flash memory technology may spell the end for spinning media as the primary storage mechanism for enterprise tier 1 storage. - When
it comes to performance, flash-based memory has always been the undisputed
king. However, flash memory has also been the leader in another area as
well expense. Until recently, flash memory has proved to be far too expensive
for the typical enterprise to deploy for tier 1 storage. Simply pu...
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Posted in E-Week on January 28th, 2012 by E-Week
Jon Rubinstein was the last link to Hewlett-Packards ill-fated webOS-centric mobile efforts, which included the now-defunct TouchPad. - Former Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein has left Hewlett-Packard. His departure is the final nail in the coffin of HPs current round of mobile-device efforts.
Once an Apple executive who helped shepherd the iMac and iPod to production, Rubinstein later became CEO of Palm and launched the Pre, a smartphon...
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Posted in E-Week on January 28th, 2012 by E-Week
Amazon Wireless is selling the Samsung Galaxy Nexus for $99 on contract to new Verizon Wireless smartphone subscribers for a limited time. -
Consumers may purchase the Samsung Galaxy Nexus for $99 from Amazon Wireless for a limited time, a $200 discount, the e-commerce giant said Jan. 26.
The stipulation for this deal is that consumers must sign up for a new Verizon Wireless contract, including individual or family plans.
The Gala...
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Posted in E-Week on January 28th, 2012 by E-Week
Google is under fire in Congress for its new privacy policy changes to unify user information from 60 Web services under one single policy. -
Several U.S. senators Jan. 26 fired off a bipartisan
letter to Google CEO Larry Page, asking for more information about the search
engine provider's revised privacy policy.
Google Jan. 24 announced that it will aggregate 60 of its Web services under
one single privacy policy.
Under this new...
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Posted in E-Week on January 27th, 2012 by E-Week
Users express their displeasure with Twitters decision to block content in some countries, such as pro-Nazi content in Germany. - A new rule imposed by Twitter that would see certain comments from particular countries censored is drawing the ire of many Twitter users.
Twitter has said it could block a Tweet in a country where what was being said is illegal in accordance with that countrys laws but the rest of the world would ...
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