Tag Archives: Threat

Hon Hai’s Apple pie under threat from Pegatron

Posted by on May 13, 2013

By Clare Jim TAIPEI | Sun May 12, 2013 5:16pm EDT TAIPEI (Reuters) – Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd (2317.TW), the world’s largest electronics contract manufacturer, faces growing competition from cross-town rival Pegatron Corp (4938.TW), a company that is …

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Telecoms’ texting nemesis WhatsApp says it’s no threat

Posted by on April 5, 2012

By Jeremy Wagstaff SINGAPORE | Wed Apr 4, 2012 8:50pm EDT SINGAPORE (Reuters) – U.S.-based software startup WhatsApp, the fast-growing mobile messaging service, denies it’s a threat to telephone carriers and the cash they earn from SMS messages. Instead, its …

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Darpa Warns: Your iPhone Is a Military Threat

Posted by on February 29, 2012

Photo: MastroBiggo/Flickr There’s a growing threat to the U.S. military, according to the Pentagon’s premier research wing. No, it’s not Iran’s nukes or China’s missiles. It’s the iPads, Android phones and other gadgets we all carry around with us every …

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First Siri, Now Threat Detection: Inside SRI's Amazing R&D

Posted by on December 30, 2011

Pat Lincoln, director of SRI’s Computer Science Laboratory, stands next to a huge display running BotHunter, SRI’s botnet detection software. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired Who invented Siri? Like it says on the box… I was designed by Apple in California. Didn’t …

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Carrier IQ: How big a threat is it?

Posted by on December 2, 2011

The maker of the software that monitors smartphone performance is facing increasing scrutiny, following a security researcher’s report on Carrier IQ. How to disable Carrier IQ on your iOS device While it isn’t 100 percent clear exactly what information Carrier …

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Does Apple’s Siri Pose a Serious Threat to Google Mobile Search? – eWeek

Posted by on November 29, 2011

By Clint Boulton on 2011-11-29 Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) captured the consumer technology market by storm with the iPhone 4S last month, but the biggest piece of news wasn’t about the phone itself so much as its Siri virtual assistant software. Siri marries …

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Siri may pose ‘competitive threat’ to Google, Eric Schmidt tells Senate subcommittee

Posted by on November 7, 2011

Back in September, Google chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt sat down before a Senate antitrust subcommittee to discuss his company’s competitive practices. As you would expect from anyone in his situation, Schmidt spent much of his time defending Mountain …

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BlackBerry blackout is new threat to brand – USA Today

Posted by on October 15, 2011

NEW YORK – The longest BlackBerry outage in many years left customers outraged this week, threatening to cost the granddaddy of all smartphones more business when it’s already struggling to keep up in a crowded marketplace. Laurent Fievet, AFP/Getty Images …

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Free Texting Apps Are Threat to Wireless Carriers

Posted by on October 10, 2011

At a time when e-mail and many other forms of electronic communication are essentially free, wireless carriers are still charging as much as 20 cents to send a text message to a phone, and another 20 cents to receive it. …

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