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Tuesday, 31st May 2011

Cross-Platform Mobile Development Tool Acquired by Software AG

Following its acquisition of Terracotta last week, Software AG announced today that it is acquiring mobile development platform company Metismo. Metismo makes a product called Bedrock that enables developers to build apps that run on multiple mobile platforms, including Android, BlackBerry, iOS, Symbian and many more. Developers write apps in J2E…

Enterprise Klint Finley comments

RingCube vDesk Helps Make For Better VDI Personalization

At the Citrix Synergy show last week, RingCube Technologies announced the latest version 4 of its vDesk VDI personalization software. This allows better customization of particular desktops that can be deployed with XenDesktop and VMware View VDI solutions. The new version has easier setup and management routines and the company claims it can be…

David Strom comments

How to secure your VMs in the cloud, Part 1

Choosing a protection product for a virtual infrastructure is a lot like buying an anti-virus product for the Mac OS: most people would say why bother when few attacks have been observed to date. (Although that situation is changing see our coverage here on Mac Defender. )Nonetheless, as more IT shops make use of the cloud, it is only a matter of…

David Strom comments

30,000 to 120,000 Android Users Affected by New Variant of Droid Dream Malware

Between 30,000 and 120,000 users of Android devices are believed to have been affected by new mobile malware which has its roots in an earlier scourge known as Droid Dream. This variant, called Droid Dream Light, appears to have been created by the same developers whose malware had infected over 50 applications back in March. According to Lookout…

Mobile Sarah Perez comments

Android Cements Mobile OS Market Share Lead

According to the latest numbers from Nielsen, the growth patterns of the mobile operating ecosystem have stabilized in the last several months. Android, which enjoyed wild growth to become the market leader in 2010, has topped out with a consistent 36% of the mobile OS market share while Apple's iOS hovers around 26% and Blackberry has stopped…

Mobile Dan Rowinski comments

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