Entrust updates IdentityGuard Mobile Credential

Entrust announced updates to its mobile smart credential. In addition to offering a multi-purpose digital identity for secure physical, logical and cloud access, the Entrust IdentityGuard Mobile Smart...

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Rackspace launches Mobile Cloud Stacks

Rackspace released its new mobile cloud stacks for developers. These stacks are purpose built to help developers design, build, test, deploy and scale mobile apps in the hybrid cloud. The cloud s...

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Security professionals don't have secure mobile habits

Security professionals have embraced BYOD and they?re taking ?anytime, anywhere? access to some pretty interesting locations according a new survey by Ping Identity. Most also admit to employing poor ...

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More Teachers Use Mobile Devices In The Classroom

Recent studies by Pew Research Center have shown that over 73% of teachers use cell phones/smart phones for the classroom environment. Additionally, 45% of the surveyed teachers use e-readers and 43% use tablets as teaching tools. The study also covered the differences between mobile use of teachers with lower, middle and upper- class students. This revealed that teachers with students from high- income families are more likely to be able to connect to their students by tablets and cellphones, since the students are more likely to own a device. Teachers become tech savvy The use of these new electronic mediums in the classroom is inevitable.  With instant connectivity and an endless amount of education materials, many teachers are embracing the benefits of mobile computing devices. Smart phones, tablets and other computing devices can allow an individual or groups of users’ instant access to videos, websites and academic journals that pertain to that particular course. This is becoming more and more prevalent in the Elementary and Intermediate grade levels.  Association and familiarity with electronics in a classroom setting is reaching children at a younger and younger age. Connecting educators and students Teachers can also share experiences and unique methods of teaching [...]

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Shift Your Innovation Game Through Mobile And Social

Have you done a shift on your innovation game this 2013? Don't let the world leave you behind. There is one area that could be an added catalyst to your efforts. Patrick Meyer, a mobile innovations expert, introduces Business 3.0, which includes innovating through mobile, social, and e-tail.

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Mobile World Congress: Phablets the Way Forward?

At this year’s Mobile World Congress, the annual wireless industry trade show, the spotlight was focused on the trend toward big phones. As Apple did not participate with this show, the Android phones were the major smartphone platform at the show. The trend toward larger phones began more than a year ago with the Samsung Galaxy Note, which had a screen that measured at 5.3 inches. This phone started the half phone half tablet “phablet” craze. Subsequent editions proved that there was a market for even larger screens. Samsung continued to push the envelope with a 5.5 inch screen in their Galaxy Note II. There is clearly a shift in the market toward bigger devices. Samsung has reported that in the month following its release, 3 million Note IIs were sold. Although Samsung may have started it all, other companies were quick to follow suit. Lenovo offers a 5.5 inch screen with their K900 phone, and LG also offers a screen of that size with their Optimus G Pro. For those looking for something even bigger, the ZTE Grand Memo phone has a span of 5.7 inches.  Even larger is the Ascen Mate from Huawei.  It features an impressive 6.1 [...]

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Users confused about safe use of mobile devices

One in four average mobile users store intimate photos or videos on a smartphone or tablet, but despite the obvious risks to personal privacy if a device is lost or compromised, some 70 percent of con...

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Mobile phishing geared towards online banking users

When it comes to deploying phishing sites designed to trick mobile users, the great majority of cyber criminals opts for targeting those who engage in e-banking and e-commerce via their mobile devices...

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Week in review: Facebook, Apple hacks, APT1, and mobile phishing

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, reviews and articles: Facebook employees ambushed by zero-day exploit Facebook has admitted that they have been targeted with a "...

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Centrify offers multi-application SSO for mobile and web apps

At the RSA Conference 2013 in San Francisco, Centrify announced that Samsung Electronics has selected Centrify to provide key enabling technology for Samsung�s next generation mobile enterprise soluti...

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Centralized security management for physical, virtual and mobile endpoints

At the RSA Conference 2013 in San Francisco, Bitdefender announced GravityZone, a centralized security management system for physical, virtual and mobile endpoints. Using cloud computing architecture,...

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Mobile phishing geared towards online banking users

When it comes to deploying phishing sites designed to trick mobile users, the great majority of cyber criminals opts for targeting those who engage in e-banking and e-commerce via their mobile devices...

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Duo Security launches secure mobile ID

Duo Security announced that the high level of security traditionally associated with hardware smart cards is now available on consumer mobile devices that use Duo�s two-factor authentication service....

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F5 Networks releases hybrid cloud solution for mobile application management

F5 Networks announced F5 Mobile App Manager, a new hybrid cloud solution for mobile application management that enables organizations to safely support enterprise BYOD initiatives. Enterprises can ext...

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The sophistication of risky apps, mobile misbehavior and spyware

McAfee released the results of a new report, documenting sophisticated and complex risky apps containing multi-faceted scams, black market crimes, drive-by downloads and near-field communication threa...

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Smartphone Wars: Micron’s Slide-to-Unlock Patent

by Dennis Crouch

Adding a bit of drama to the slide-to-unlock debate, Micron has just received its own patent covering a "system and method for controlling user access to an electronic device." U.S. Patent No 8,352,745 issued in January 2013 but claims priority to an original application filed in February 2000 and lists Jim McKeeth as inventor.

Claims:

1. A system comprising:

a touch screen upon which a user is to enter, by drawing, a geometric pattern in a specified direction to gain access to the system; and

a processing circuit coupled to the touch screen to compare the user entered geometric pattern to a predefined geometric pattern stored in a memory.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein the user entered geometric pattern is a line.

Apple's slide-to-unlock patents claim priority only to the 2004-2005 timeframe and, although they may be separately patentable, Apple's patents will not serve to invalidate Micron's new patent.

Samsung has a 10-year cross-license deal with Micron. I have not seen reports of any similar deals with Apple, Google\Motorola, or RIM. It will be interesting to see whether Micron holds onto the patent or shifts it two an enforcement company as it did in 2010 in sending 4,000+ patents to John Desmarais for enforcement. Micron is a major manufacturer of computer memory with a market valuation of about $8 billion, perhaps they should just ask for Apple to endorse-over its recent billion dollar patent infringement judgment. One complicating factor is that I suspect Micron is a supplier for all of the potential defendants.

Security intelligence solutions for mobile technology providers

Webroot announced the availability of a portfolio of internet security solutions that give mobile technology providers – from carriers to device manufacturers to mobile device management (MDM) companies – easily deployable and cost-effective services to make security an integral part of their own offerings.

The Webroot Security Intelligence for Mobile Suite draws on the power of the Webroot Intelligence Network (WIN), the world's most comprehensive cloud-based security intelligence service, to deliver the most advanced threat defense to tablets and smartphones.