Posts Tagged ‘mobile phone’
Millions of Smartphone Users at Risk of Cyber Crime
Cyber crime and cyber attacks are becoming more and more common as technology increases in volume and complexity. Millions of smartphone users may now be at risk of giving away their personal information, banking information, gps location and contacts list among other things. The danger comes from free flashlight apps that contain malware [...]
Cloud Of Uncertainty Over Android
Is it or isn’t it? That is the big question people are asking about the clash between Oracle and Google over the Java-based Android system. Oracle acquired Sun System, makers of Java, last January. Sun’s Java provided both licensed and free or open source versions. Java allows developers to write software for a variety of computers and [...]
Brits to waste 747.3m on unused mobile phone apps in 2010
According to a study by MyVoucherCodes, of 1,476 British mobile phone owners, four fifths, 79% say they are 'highly unlikely' to use applications they have paid to download more than once. The survey, commissioned by the UK's leading discount voucher code website, http://www.MyVoucherCodes.co.uk, has found that just 9% of smartphone users [...]
