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Trend Micro wants some ride on the “iPhone wave,” hence they’ve recently announced their first iPhone app called Trend Smart Surfing to enable secure browsing on the platform. Now, don’t get this wrong – there’s nothing wrong with the built-in Safari browser. What Trend Micro tries to do is make the web surfing even more secure, by alerting you which sites could be malicious. That said, the application blocks access to suspicious website, and color-codes search results (so you could identify harmful web pages). Moreover, it provides users with three protection strength levels that can be modified according to one’s needs.
The main technology behind the app is the so called Trend Micro Smart Protection Network, a cloud-client infrastructure that checks the security of more than five billion URL, email, and file queries daily, “providing customers with real-time protection against web threats.”
As I said, it’s a free application and you can grab it from here (iTunes link).
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
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