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The anti-malware experts from McAfee said they’ve seen a 1.5 million increase in malware since the first quarter of this year. Moreover, they’ve also identified new threats such as mobile “drive-by downloads”, the use of Twitter for control of mobile botnets, and the appearance of mobile “ransomware”. According to McAfee, as PC malware writers master…
As many big companies, Canada’s TELUS is involved in the wider community by donating a portion of its profits to good causes. Over the years, they’ve been huge supporters of breast cancer research, and now they’ve extended their relationship with Free The Children to become a National Co-Title of the “We Day” initiatives. Under the…
Classic 2D shooter Duke Nukem Mobile may soon hit the AppStore, with Machineworks preparing to launch a Kickstarter project and raise funds to make that happen. The idea is release both Duke Nukem Mobile and Duke Nukem Mobile II: Bikini Project as a single title called Double Duke Deal. The game itself will be free…
Looks like T-Mobile will be among the first carriers in the U.S. to get the hot-new Galaxy Note II. The “about phone” screenshot from a mysterious handset marked as SGH-T889 has been caught in the wild, as you can see from the image above. As far as we know, this could be fake but why…
Nokia admitted that its Lumia 920 promotional ad contained video recorded by a DSLR and not its PureView camera as claimed in the video. According to a post by Youssef Sarhan, the Finnish company also faked some of the still photos in that video, too. Sarhan points to the still picture above that allegedly shows…
Google apps for iOS are being slowly but surely updated by Mountain View, and today the Gmail for iOS app was updated to give users the option to open links in Chrome for iOS instead of Apple’s Safari browser. The update moves Google towards providing Google Apps users an ecosystem within the bigger iOS ecosystem…
When the original Kindle Fire was released, it ran on an outdated version of the Android operating system. The move was expected, however, as Amazon built an extensive user interface atop the Android operating system so that the end-user would be presented with an experience that was truly Amazon’s. Still, we like it when a…
Amazon announced its new lineup of Kindle Fire devices today at an event in California. The retail giant expanded its portfolio from a single Android tablet to an incredible four. Now that the excitement of the announcement has passed, it is time to take a step back from the hype and let you know what the…
We have some news to drop for those of you out there considering one of the new Kindle Fire HD tablets. It turns out that Amazon is going to push out ads through all its new Kindle Fire slates. The refreshed 7-inch Kindle Fire, along with the new 7 and 8.9-inch Fire HD, is going…
Amazon announced multiple Kindle Fire’s today, including a 8.9-inch version packing 4G LTE. The e-commerce giant had already unveiled its 8.9-inch 16GB Kindle Fire HD, but then decided to do one better by revealing a 32GB Kindle Fire HD with 4G LTE. The 32GB model will carry the same specs as its 16GB brethren, which includes an OMAP 4470…