The move to mobile initiated the development of millions of mobile apps. Just in 2015, the amount of apps developed was record setting. Apps are usually thought to make life easier, but they bring threats as well as convenience. Newer apps are designed to gain access to valuable information on devices without the user’s knowledge. …
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Users of Google Apps Unlimited now have the option to increase their security. The new Data Loss Prevention tool supposedly decreases any chance of employees leaking sensitive information to unauthorized sources. This tool scans both the body and attachments of both outgoing and incoming emails for potentially malicious or vulnerable content. Business owners are able …
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This year marks the first year ever to see single-digit growth in the smartphone market. IDC reports overall smartphone shipments grew 9.8 percent, or 1.43 billion units, in 2015. IDC expects smartphone sales to maintain a slow growth rate until 2019. It’s theorized that the small growth percentage is attributed to lower shipments from the …
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This year, a record amount of 1.5 billion purchases were completed on mobile devices on Black Friday and Thanksgiving. Adobe reports the 1.5 billion contributed to the overall $4.45 billion online purchases completed in this time period. While the overall amount of online purchases during Thanksgiving and Black Friday has risen, the average amount of …
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International Data Corporation, IDC, estimates global tablet shipments will reach 211.3 million units in 2015. This number is 8.1 percent lower than 2014’s total amount of 236 million shipments. Jean Philippe Bouchard, IDC tablet research director, reported 20 percent, or 40 million, of the reported global shipments were to U.S. customers. This year’s low shipment …
VTech Holdings, a digital toy maker, suffered a data breach that exposed the information of 6.4 million children and 4.9 million adults. This attack was completed by an unauthorized source that gained access to the company’s “Learning Lodge” app data base on November 14, 2015. The compromised data included names, email addresses, passwords, some mailing …
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Android users everywhere can breathe a collective sigh of relief, there is officially a rose gold Android on the market. Oppo, a Chinese manufacturer, has released their R7S device in rose gold. While Oppo claims this is the first rose gold Android, consumers can anticipate other Android manufacturers to release devices in the popular hue. …
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