Android malware may be transmitting personal user data to unauthorized computers, indicating increasing security vulnerabilities in the OS and drawing criticism and concern, especially as Android devices grow in business and government usage. Researchers at Calif.-
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The hospital said today that an unnamed computer service vendor had failed to restore proper security settings on the computer after performing maintenance on it. The machine was later found to be infected with a computer virus, which transmitted data …
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Colleen Taylor / GigaOM:
Twitter buys BackType to dig deeper with big data — Twitter announced Tuesday morning it has acquired BackType (see disclosure), an analytics platform aimed at helping companies and brands gauge their impact on social media websites. Post-acquisition, BackType will focus on developing tools …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft to make inbound data transfer free on Windows Azure cloud — Microsoft plans to tweak its Windows Azure pricing, come July 1, to make the platform more attractive to users who want to migrate lots of data to the cloud. — The change, announced on June 22, also will result …