Apple announced a lot of new features at the WWDC event. The highlights included big announcements about iOS 8, Mac OS X Yosemite, an improved Apple Store and a new programming language Swift. The conference lasted 2 hours in which the company tried to fit all announcements and their details. However the magnitude of changes […]
Samsung unveils Tizen-based smartphone to depart from Android
In a move to cut ties with Google and propel the company’s venture into the software and services market, Samsung unveiled its latest flagship smartphone that does away with the Android operating system and instead runs the untested Tizen OS.
Apple challenging Android’s market foothold with iOS 8
Developers were quite surprised that this year’s Apple World Wide Developer conference did not take the wraps off a new smartphone, say the long-awaited iPhone 6, which has been circulating in the rumor mill lately, or an iPad enhancement. Instead, Apple unveiled a refreshment for its exclusive operating system for mobile devices.
Pirated version of Card Recon sold to cybercriminals
When retail company Target was targeted by cybercriminals in December of last year through point of sale service attacks, there was growing anxiety over the security layer being put on customer data of other retail stores.
iTunes App Store takes the lead with 75 billion downloads and 1.2 million apps
In San Francisco, Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference happened this morning. Among many other announcements the company announced that the iOS App Store has now reached 1.2 million applications.
GPRS roaming network exposed to Internet-based attacks
In 2013, alongside reports on the National Security Agency’s spying program that had raised the hackles of privacy advocates, the British intelligence agency GHCQ was also discovered to have breached the routers and mobile roaming traffic of Belgacom, a Belgian telecommunications service provider.
