Darrell Etherington / GigaOM:
Study: Apple’s iPhone, iPad account for 90 percent of mobile purchases — If people are buying through mobile online retail site, they’re most likely doing so on Apple devices, according to a new report this week from retail analysis firm RichRelevance. iPads and iPhones accounted …
Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
Browser Study Sheds Light On Firefox’s Insecurity (And Google Approves This Message) — Illustration by Galit Weisberg. Click on the image to see his original. — Updated with a response from Mozilla. — When Google funds a study on browser security and allows it to be published …
Newswise — Computer viruses, botnets, trojans, worms, cyber-attacks and identity theft are among the frightening examples of online mischief and crime that many today find scarier than Hollywood’s classic sci-fi monsters. Battling this menace requires …
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John Markoff / New York Times:
Study Shows U.S. Lagging in Use of Technology — The United States continues to lag other nations in its use of computing and communications technology, according to an annual study issued Tuesday by the World Economic Forum. — For the second year in a row, the United States finished fifth …