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The findings weren't very sweet when researchers tested Android 4.2 Jelly Bean's beefed-up security Of the 1,260 malware samples the team at North Carolina State University tossed at the OS, only 15 percent of them were detected by Google's app verification service....

Those delectable M&M's characters seen in commercials are making their way to the iPhone. An advergame app titled "M&M's Brand Chocolate Factory" recently became available on iTunes for US$0.99. Mars Retail Licensee Alchemy3 developed the app with cooperation from various groups within Mars....

Those delectable M&M's characters seen in commercials are making their way to the iPhone. An advergame app titled "M&M's Brand Chocolate Factory" recently became available on iTunes for US$0.99. Mars Retail Licensee Alchemy3 developed the app with cooperation from various groups within Mars....

Enterprise CRM of the future is all about social and mobile.In fact, Blackbaud, which specializes in providing CRMproducts and services to the nonprofit sector, even has anacronym for it: SOMO "We're looking at how we can extend our technology intosocial and mobile spheres," Tiffany Crumpton, seniormarketing manager for CRM with Blackbaud, told CRM...

Dell World 2012 was fascinating this year for a number of reasons. First, Bill Clinton was the big keynote and he didn't disappoint. I think he took an interesting Libertarian view on how the U.S. government could fix the financial problem. Unfortunately, he implied that the first step would be to get rid of the politicians whose zero-sum game was pretty much assuring a really bad outcome.

AOL is shifting toward decentralization of its marketing efforts. The online company this week named Allie Savarino Kline as chief marketing officer of its Advertising.com unit. In the newly created position, she will have global oversight of Advertising.com and will handle marketing strategy for the group's advertising solutions for publishers, advertisers and agencies...

For those who spend enough time playing World of Warcraft, the line between what is "real" and what isn't probably blurs from time to time. However, a far deeper and more philosophical question has been raised: whether life, the universe and everything is actually just a computer simulation ...

Belgium down -- a bunch more to go Google has struck a deal with Belgian newspapers that will allow it to avoid paying large copyright fees.

The United States, the United Kingdom and Canada are among the countries refusing to sign a United Nations treaty on telecommunications and the Internet Trouble at the World Conference on International Telecommunications began earlier this week when many participants took issue with the way a proposal to encourage governments to expand Internet acc...

Google has come up with a way to reduce the number of accidental clicks that occur when "fat fingers" meet the small screen. These unintentional clicks are the bane of mobile advertising, causing advertisers, publishers and consumers grief. ...

SolarCity enjoyed a much better IPO than some of its green industry peers have had in recent months. Its stock rose 47 percent on Thursday, netting about $92 million for the day. SolarCity opened at US$8, skyrocketed to about $15, and closed at $11.79 per share. The stock continued to perform well on Friday, trading around $12 at midday.

I am a Left Leaning Authoritarian -- a person characterized as submissive to authority and who advocates significantly more government regulation, especially in economic behaviors. At least, that is how I have been classified by YouStand, a new social network formed around the notion that people like talking and networking with others of similar political, ideological and spiritual bent...

Software as a Service has become an accepted alternative to traditional on-premises enterprise applications, and a broader set of cloud services is becoming a viable option for businesses seeking more flexible and economical computing capabilities Despite occasional service disruptions, the adoption of these services is acceleratingrapidly, because...

CoreMotives, a Silverpop company, has launched a new integration that ties revenue-tracking capabilities embedded in its CRM system to the Ticketmaster sales application. The upshot is that teams that use Ticketmaster to market tickets can also easily track which campaigns actually led to a sale ...

Sun Surveyor (Sun & Moon), an app from Adam Ratana, is available for US$6.49 at Google Play....

Apps are threatening to relegate favorites and software to the recycle bin TechNewsWorld's All Things Appy looks at the best apps for our mobile devices today. This week, our focus is on entertainment apps for the Windows 8 ecosystem....

Pope Benedict XVI made his Twitter debut on Wednesday in front of a congregation of more than 1 million faithful Benedict has eight separate accounts to deliver messages in various languages, including Polish, Portuguese, Arabic and English, according to The Guardian.

Sprint Nextel has made a US$2.1 billion offer for the shares of Clearwire that it doesn't already own, according to a regulatory filing. The news comes after rumors surfaced earlier this week that the company was in talks with Intel and Comcast to buy out their stakes The offer, which works out to $2.90 per share, also comes with interim financing...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested 10 individuals from around the world, including the United States, which it alleges are part of an international cybercrime ring linked to the Yahos malware. Yahos is associated with the notorious Butterfly botnet, which compromised more than 11 million computer systems and resulted in an estimated US$850 million in losses from the theft of consumers' credit cards and bank accounts...

RIM is getting some positive government attention for the yet-to-be-released BlackBerry 10 platform. Just months after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced it would abandon its longstanding use of the BlackBerry system and give its employees iPhones instead, the agency has decided to give RIM another try.