Android threats are getting more advanced and refined in terms of their ability to mask themselves and spoof the Android Market. Lookout, a smartphone security service for safeguarding mobile devices, has found a new Android Trojan, GG Tracker. This particular malware affects users within the United States via interaction with several premium SMS subscription services ...

Google and Microsoft are still battling it out to the top, this time within the search realm. Microsoft Bing has been steadfastly snatching Google’s customers, as seen in the latest May 2011 Search Market Share Report by Compete. While Google remains the leader, Bing’s rapid growth has been stealing the spotlight away with a US ...

Storage and networking virtualization are two primary anchors of Dell’s refocused strategy and recovery plan. With Michael Dell expressing huge admiration on storage, it is not surprising to see the company chasing innovations within this platform. This rerouting tactic seems to be working out quite favorably with Dell’s second quarter margin and revenues up, having tripled compared ...

Google is gambling on cloud computing as the primary driver of the tech industry’s future. This line of thought may have led them, one way or another, to create Chromebook. The recent launch of this laptop has created a big buzz in the tech community.  What chiefly caught the public’s attention is its direct hit ...

Virtualization has become a crucial part of Dell’s long-term strategy.  They are learning their way around the burgeoning sector, and looking for areas to improve. Their recent partnership with Netuitive, a business focused on performance and capacity management physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure, seems to be one of the missing pieces of Dell’s virtualization stack puzzle. This team-up ...

Hewlett Packard is shifting its market towards devices in a revised manner (mobile in particular), and has been profoundly focused on the slated launch of TouchPad on July 1st. Also, the company is making some full-size changes to their manufacturing stream, moving it to a different country. With its finances still in the spotlight following ...

There are several things cluttering Facebook’s 2012 entree to IPO including the new proposed bill by lawmakers on raising the bar for private companies’ disclosure of information and the question of whether Mark Zuckerberg is equipped enough to handle a billion-dollar public company. The latter issue has created speculations on who will be Facebook’s Eric ...

Well thought-out strategies and better pricing are what Hitachi is capitalizing on to reach their goal of becoming the cloud content king. The company is planning on putting up a refined content storage cloud infrastructure that will fuse the power of Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) with the Hitachi Data Discovery Suite (HDDS).  This concept will ...

Pervasive—this could probably be the best word to describe the open cloud today. At the large scale that it is, the open cloud is now driving cloud adoption in varied industries, and even contributing to IPO fever. Some experts dub it as an old concept that is given a new approach, but no matter how ...

A few days ago Sony, Amazon, RSA, Nintendo and Android found themselves problem-solving on how their systems were hacked.  Today, ADP, Citibank, IMF, Codemasters, Bioware and list goes on—are the latest victims of security breaches by cyber criminals. These activities very well put customers’ data at unimaginable risk and organizations’ security forces costs to go ...