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Verizon, currently the largest mobile carrier in the U.S, is investing a lot in a relatively new trend that has a great deal of potential: the mobile wallet. Verizon’s goal is to set up a service through which customers can pay for …
Google Responds as More Malware Attacks End Users Trust Factor
Google pulled 10 malicious apps from the Android Market, after the latest mobile vulnerability was revealed by Xuxian Jiang, an assistant professor at North Carolina State University. Jiang published an analysis of rogue code – codenamed Plankton – the malware he discovered …
Xeround Releases Cloud Service for MySQL Applications
Cloud database service provider Xeround announced today that its cloud database service for MySQL applications has hit general availability. The service went through a nine-month beta period that started in September last year and already managed to gain 2000 users, according to …
Location Rides High for Business Tablet Apps: Best of iOS and Android
The tablet business apps scene is getting pretty hot as more users begin to unlock the potential of the tablet in the workspace, and more developers are responding by developing some increasingly handy applications. This week we’ve rounded up the top five …
Cloudy Times: From Enterprise to Consumer, HP to Apple
This past week features some of the biggest conferences for just about every industry in the cloud, from the customer to the enterprise level. On the hybrid cloud front, Hewlett-Packard announced it has made a $2 billion investment that will be used to …
Big Data Breaches: A 6 Month Downfall
These past few months seems to have spurred an unusually large number of hacks targeted against some of the biggest names in the tech industry. The first one to be highlighted on this list is Sony, which has been breached more than …
Bubble Talk is Cheap, Few Deterrents for SocNets Going Public
The social media realm had its fair share of IPO headlines this year, and the latest name to join the list of companies planning on going public is CafePress. The online vendor founded in 1999 offers printing services for just about everything …
EMC to Invest $3 Billion in Acquisitions This Year
Storage giant EMC is going to continue its growth-via-acquisitions strategy this year; one which may turn out to be a pretty pricey one, according to President and Chief Operating Officer Pat Gelsinger. He said in an interview that EMC will leverage acquisitions …
Stay Smart Anywhere with Stay’s Latest iPhone App Version
Norwegian startup Stay.com announced the third and latest version of its popular mobile app, that lets users use travel guides using their mobile devices. The app currently features some researching, social sharing and printing functionalities, and the release of version 3 aims …
Busting IPO Expectations, Fusion-io Follows LinkedIn’s Lead
There have been 36 IPOs in the past two months. Not all proven to live up to expectations, but some managed to go as far as surpass them – as in the case of LinkedIn, Russian search engine Yandex, and most recently …