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Sistema operacional móvel mais usado no mundo, o Android é o principal alvo de vírus do mercado. Em 2012, o sistema do Google concentrou 79% das ameaças digitais criadas para dispositivos móveis, segundo pesquisa da finlandesa F-Secure. Na sequência estaria o Symbian, da Nokia, que foi descontinuado, com 19%, seguido pelo iOS, da Apple, com 0,7%.

    Além de ser a plataforma mais usada no mundo, com cerca de 70% do mercado – o equivalente a sete em casa dez smartphones –, o Android é um sistema aberto, o que aumenta os riscos. “Sistemas como Windows Phone e Blackberry OS são fechados e possuem poucos vírus. Já o usuário de Android não pode se dar ao luxo de não usar antivírus”, afirma Fábio Assolini, da Kaspersky.

A estudante Alana Monteiro Leal redobrou os cuidados com seu Android após ter enfrentado problemas no smartphone mesmo tendo instalado aplicativos direto da…

The star of Disney Channel’s A.N.T. Farm, Stefanie Scott, will be live on air with Static Beach radio during their Friday Night Live segment! She will be answering questions asked by you, the fans. Static Beach radio is broadcasted from Hermosa Beach in California.

If you don’t live nearby, no worries! Static Beach’s website gives you an opportunity to listen in on the interview since it is a 24/7 broadcasting station!

Just go the radio’s website here and press play! Stefanie will be interviewed tomorrow, Friday, January 17th at 8 p.m. PST! So make sure you tweet in those questions to her and she’ll do her best to answer them!

Happy listening!

Will 2014 be the year when scrappy new challengers take on the might of Android(s goog) and iOS(s aapl)? Never say never, but the challenge won’t come from Tizen nor Ubuntu Touch.

Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo(s dcm) has indefinitely suspended its plans for a Tizen phone launch this year, and Ubuntu backer Canonical has admitted that there’s unlikely to be any Ubuntu handset coming from a major manufacturer or carrier this year.

Tizen train stalls

Tizen began life in 2011 as an evolution of two other Linux-based OSs that never lived up to the hype, Intel(s intc) and Nokia(s nok)’s MeeGo, and LiMo, which you will have never encountered if you don’t live in Japan. Samsung hopped aboard the Tizen train in early 2012, merging in its own, regionally successful, low-end platform, Bada.

Samsung remains Tizen’s biggest proponent, having revealed in November that it’s using the lightweight OS to power…

A Comissão Nacional Francesa de Informática e Liberdades (CNIL), competente em proteção de dados, anunciou nesta ultima semana que impôs uma sanção de 150 mil euros ao gigante Google por não respeitar as regras do país em matéria de confidencialidade.

O buscador deverá, além disso, publicar antes de oito dias em sua página um comunicado demonstrando a sanção durante 48 horas, indicou a CNIL em comunicado.

A multa imposta ao Google é a máxima prevista pela legislação francesa para este tipo de faltas e a maior da história do organismo dado “o número e a gravidade das faltas constatadas”, acrescentou.

A CNIL reprova o grupo por não respeitar a lei francesa em sua política de proteção de dados imposta em março de 2012, quando decidiu fundir as regras de confidencialidade de cerca de 60 serviços que presta, tais como o buscador tradicional, o de vídeos do YouTube, o Gmail e…

The 2014 North American International Auto Show has been going on this week in Detroit, and there have been a number of interesting car debuts. The internet is full of all the minute details, and plenty of long-winded coverage about cars that nobody has driven yet. I have seen the details, and sat through much of the coverage, and now I want to bring you my concise, informed take on the cars that have debuted at NAIAS 2014. So here it goes.

2015 Acura TLX:
Pretty much unsurprising, but it’s good Acura consolidated the TL and TSX into one model. They should throw the 370hp hybrid drivetrain from the RLX into this car and have a legitimate Audi S4 competitor.

2015 Audi A8:
What exactly is different again?

Audi Allroad Shooting Brake Concept:
The Allroad Shooting Brake could be an incredibly badass modern rally car for the road…

Barack Obama will announce on Friday that he intends to take telephony metadata out of the hands of the National Security Agency, according to a Reuters report about a scheduled speech by the President on NSA reform. The report suggests Obama has heeded some of the calls made by an advisory panel in December, but it remains unclear who will hold this metadata. Intelligence agencies will also need a “judicial finding” in order to query the database, according to the report, and Obama will apparently scale back surveillance of foreign leaders and for the first time put a public advocate into the secret court process that governs surveillance targeting.

Satoru Iwata has remained adamant that he will see Nintendo through its financial crisis by continuing as the company’s president after its 2013-14 fiscal sales predictions fell short. Earlier today, Nintendo announced it had lowered its sales forecast for the Wii U and 3DS hardware and software, bringing its fiscal year predictions down from 9 million units to 2.8 million units for the Wii U and 18 million units to 13.5 million units for the 3DS.

But in a press conference today, as Nikkei reports, Iwata apologised to the company’s shareholders saying that he felt responsible for Nintendo’s poor business performance. However, he also reiterated that he would not resign, saying that the most important action was to restore business momentum as soon as possible.

In a press release published on Nintendo Japan’s website, Satoru Iwata explained that the company would post an ordinary income despite posting an operating…