Posts Tagged ‘ Mobile ’
One quarter of enterprises do not have a policy in place to govern the use of personal mobile devices on their network
August 25, 2011 | No Comments | PHP
According to a recent Courion Corporation survey to assess organisations’ confidence levels in controlling user access to corporate data via mobile devices and cloud services, whilst organisations are confident that they can assure appropriate user access to resources on-site, they become less so when users connect via the cloud or a mobile device.
The problem is exacerbated as the volume of m
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Hackers Crack Crypto For GPRS Mobile Networks
August 10, 2011 | No Comments | Uncategorized
SpeedPlate is designed specifically for all in-vehicle, mobile or portable ANPR operations
August 4, 2011 | No Comments | Web
NDI Recognition Systems’ latest version of mobile ANPR software called SpeedPlate meets the demand for a powerful, high accuracy ANPR recognition engine, coupled with a modern, intuitive and easy to use touch-based interface.
Available to all law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom, SpeedPlate V8 has been designed specifically for all in-vehicle, mobile or portable ANPR operations. The n
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SecurEnvoy’s New App turns any mobile phone into an authentication device
August 1, 2011 | No Comments | PHP
SecurEnvoy’s SecureAccess Version 6.0 turns any mobile phone into an authentication device either by receiving an SMS message or, if the user prefers, simply downloading an app such as Google authenticate. End-users now will have total flexibility with zero admin or overhead costs providing a mobile security solution to suit the operator’s lifestyle and location.
This latest version of Secu
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Prototype drive-by attack shows mobile threat
July 27, 2011 | No Comments | Security
As smartphones increasingly hold interesting data, attackers will target the devices using known vulnerabilities in common software packages.
One security researcher plans to show off just such an attack at next week’s Black Hat Security Briefings in Las Vegas.
In a presentation at the conference, Neil Daswani, chief technology officer for Web security firm Dasient, will show off a proof-of-concept attack that demonstrates a drive-by attack on an Android phone using a vulnerability in the Webkit framework that powers the common browser for the platform. The attack opens up a channel through which Daswani exploits a vulnerability in Skype to read information from the application and eavesdrop on chat conversations.
Mozilla eyes mobile OS landscape with new Boot to Gecko project
July 26, 2011 | No Comments | Security
Mozilla has announced a new experimental project called Boot to Gecko (B2G) with the aim of developing an operating system that emphasizes standards-based Web technologies. The initial focus will be on delivering a software environment for handheld devices such as smartphones.
The current mobile landscape is heavily fragmented by the lack of interoperability between each of the siloed platforms. Mozilla says that B2G is motivated by a desire to demonstrate that the standards-based open Web has the potential to be a competitive alternative to the existing single-vendor application development stacks offered by the dominant mobile operating systems.
The project is still at the earliest stages of planning. Mozilla has some ideas about how it wants to proceed, but seemingly few concrete decisions have been made about where to start and what existing technologies to use. The project was announced now despite the lack of clarity so that contributors will be able to participate in the planning process.
Mobile Banking Could Be Hacked By ‘Trojan Horse’
July 25, 2011 | No Comments | Security
Malware attacks Android phones to steal financial data as security experts warn of ‘fraudsters’ heaven’…
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Daily Deal Stats: The Big Players Still Control The Game, Mobile Is Up (Oh, And Animal Names Are In)
July 20, 2011 | No Comments | Technology
Today, at BIA/Kelsey’s “Deals 3D” conference in San Francisco, Dan Visnick, VP of Marketing at The Dealmap, shared some insights into the current landscape of daily deals. Dealmap, a repository of daily deals collected from over 350 sources, allows users to view local deals in map form, along with reviews and pertinent information — on the Web and on mobile. Both through its API and its DealExchange service, which allows businesses to easily distribute deals across various channels, The Dealmap is enabling new entrants to the space to quickly populate their applications with a bulk of deals.
Through the data the company has been collecting via DealExchange and beyond, Visnick said that it has become very clear that the industry is still very top heavy, as 80 percent of deals are offered by as few as 20 sources. Inventory, then, is still largely controlled by the top deal players, with nearly 70 percent of inventory controlled by 10 sources, and 40 percent controlled by the top two. I assume, though Visnick did not say specifically, that those two sites are none other than Groupon and Living Social.
Among the top sites, the average inventory for each market, Visnick said, is 6.25 per day — compared to the median inventory per day, which is 1.29. Thus, it seems that discrepancy in inventory between the bigs and the startups is still fairly significant, with half of the 350-plus deals sites only offering 1 to 2 deals per day.
And when it comes to national distribution, the majority of daily deals sites are in less than 10 big markets. Just under 20 percent of daily deals players are in a single market, while 69 percent of sites are in between 2 and 9 markets, meaning that nearly 90 percent of sites are in less than 10 markets. Of course, as Laura Hazard Owen of paidContent point out, this will likely change in the near future as the web giants like Facebook (which just partnered with AmEx to create a daily deals platform) and Google — those with established national networks — roll out their own versions.
In other notable trends, Visnick said that mobile is becoming a much bigger factor in the space, sneaking up to 32 percent of the deal space, compared to the web at 61 percent, and email at 2 percent. The mobile deals space has really started to heat up of late, with AT&T jumping into the daily deal game yesterday, offering daily deals through YP.com. Foursquare also announced last week that it would be distributing AT&T’s Deal of The Day to its 10 million+ users.
Yet, the most interesting trend of all cited by Visnick would have to be that 5 percent of all daily deals sites are now using some form of animal name. DealChicken, Rhino Deals, TownHog, Deal Stork, Rabbit Pack, and Rumba Fish are among the animal-related sites that come to mind. It seems that there’s just something about an animal that says “discount”.
