With Android forming the base of the phone, you get instant entrée tothe Android market. Download your favourite music tracks, videos andgames. With the custom-built screen, organizing and playing theapplications is a matter of seconds.
By Brian Prince
The role of botnets in click fraud is on the upswing, according to a report by Click Forensics. The percentage of click fraud traffic driven by botnets has increased to more than 27 percent of all click fraud traffic, surpassing its reported all-time high of 25 percent, set the previous quarter.
Click fraud may [...]
By Clint Boulton
Symantec and Google didn’t get Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s memo that SAAS and cloud computing are overhyped. Symantec bought security SAAS provider MessageLabs for a bundle while Google simplified pricing for its security SAAS. Web services security for enterprise applications and messaging and collaboration tools is alive and well.Oracle CEO Larry Ellison roiled [...]
By Brian Prince
MessageLabs is looking challenge its SaaS security rivals with plans for new services and integrated policy enforcement across its messaging and Web security offerings. MessageLabs competes in a crowded SaaS space with the likes of Google, Microsoft and ScanSafe, as well as against traditional security vendors like Symantec.
The quickening adoption of software-as-a-service must [...]
By Eric Auchard, Reuters
Google will launch Chrome in beta on Windows Tuesday, challenging Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Opera in the Web browser market. Google introduced Chrome’s application development details in a professional 38-page comic book, detailing Chrome’s security, speed, stability, simple interface and open source traits. Chrome could be what Google needs to [...]
By Clint Boulton
Big news in application development for the Google OpenSocial effort: An open-source programmer who does not work for Google, Facebook or MySpace created a sample social Web site that will let other programmers test and deploy OpenSocial applications in a safe environment. The site could give OpenSocial some needed momentum.
Google’s OpenSocial API has [...]
By Clint Boulton
Google Gmail and Google Apps went dark this past week, creating a firestorm of fury among those using the messaging and collaboration software to communicate or use one of their key enterprise applications. What does it mean when your hosted infrastructure collapses? Analysts from IDC, Forrester Research, Ferris Research and Burton Group weigh [...]
Google’s DoubleClick ad-serving unit, the group on which Google’s video ad hopes hinge, said it can now serve video ads on video platforms forged with Microsoft Silverlight 2.
Silverlight, Microsoft’s Flash killer, is a programmable Web browser plug-in that lets users run animation, vector graphics, and audio and video media.
With the new feature in [...]
By Brian Prince
Security researchers at Black Hat laid bare some of the security risks users of social networking sites such as MySpace face as Sophos releases new information about an attack targeting Facebook.
LAS VEGAS — Sometimes our friends aren’t really our friends. Just ask security researchers Nathan Hamiel and Shawn Moyer.
Hamiel, who is senior consultant [...]
By Clint Boulton
Google Gmail and Google Apps messaging and collaboration services in the cloud suffered an outage of nearly 15 hours. Google Gmail and Google Apps users spent their time away from the messaging and collaboration platforms flogging the company on the Google Apps discussion group. Can Microsoft and other SAAS newcomers take advantage of [...]
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