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Researchers from the Cheetah Mobile Security Lab have found a dangerous Trojan, dubbed Cloudsota, pre-installed on certain Android tablets. Tablets infected with this Trojan are still on the shelves of Amazon, ready to be shipped to customers around the world. Origin: Complaints from victims This Trojan has existed for quite some time and victims have been consistently asking for help at Android forums like XDA, TechKnow and others. A few complaints from customers can be found on Amazon as well. Evil: Malicious activities of the Cloudsota The Cheetah Mobile Security Lab has detected that Cloudsota can install adware or malware on the devices and uninstall anti-virus applications silently. Furthermore, we found that the Trojan replaces the boot animation and wallpapers on some devices with advertisements. Cloudsota also changes the browser’s homepage and redirects search results to unsecured ad pages. Impact: More than 153 affected countries According...

Buffer became one of the many companies to have noticed a sharp decline in social media referral traffic and engagement. Actually, many business owners, social media pros, and marketers will tell you the same thing about their blogs. Does it mean that blogging is dead? Not really. People are just overwhelmed because: There is too much content available. According to MarketingProfs , 2 million blog posts are published every single day! Posts are also getting too long. We try to speak to too many readers at the same time. The tone doesn’t feel as personal as it used to be. And let’s call a spade a spade. Our infatuation with numbers (of followers, social shares, etc.) has become almost pathological. “People need to have at least 100,000 followers to be able to contribute to our platform. How can we measure someone’s influence otherwise,” someone told me a couple of weeks ago. Wanting your audience to have the most detailed information possible is defini...

We know the Internet of Things is big and going to be massive in scope, impacting all aspects of marketing and communication.  Some recent data points from some of the very large companies fueling the growth yet again highlight just how big a deal this is. Within five years, 200 billion so-called smart objects will be deployed,  according to Intel’s latest guide to all things IoT. That translates to 26 smart objects for every human being on earth. Of course, many of those objects will be in all types of locations, like homes, buildings and cars. However, no one really knows how quickly consumers will adopt connected devices for their homes. For example, most (64%) consumers say they don’t even know much about smart home technology, according to a recent Harris Poll survey of 2,000 consumers. The most obvious and also most popular connected home device is the smart thermostat, which may be driven by the practical ability to save money by more accurately managi...

Alcatel-Lucent acquired U.S.-based Mformation, a specialist in mobile and 'Internet of Things' (IoT) security and device management solutions for mobile operators, service providers and enterprises. The Franco-U.S. equipment manufacturer, which itself is in the process of being acquired by Nokia, said the terms of the deal were not disclosed. Mformation will be incorporated into Alcatel-Lucent's IP platforms unit, and will bring in an IoT security and control platform that can be used across different industries including automotive, healthcare, utilities, manufacturing and the digital home. Additionally, Mformation's software products are expected to extend and enhance the capabilities of Alcatel-Lucent's Motive device management solution for home, mobile and enterprise networks. Alcatel-Lucent noted that security concerns are on the rise as networks become increasingly virtualised, wireless devices become mainstay components of complex machi...

What's the Apple Watch good for? Report from 2,000 users. There’s a ton of information in Wristly’ s State of the Apple Watch report, which for reasons known only to itself the survey firm chose to release on the eve of an Apple event that’s not about the Watch. The 97% satisfaction rating should be taken with a grain of salt, given the inherent pro-Apple bias in the self-selected sample. But the chart below, which compares a couple thousand owners’ expectations for the Watch with their actual use of the device, is the real deal. Remember, Apple pitched the Watch as three things in one: An incredibly precise timepiece Entirely new ways to stay in touch A smarter way to look at fitness Wristly’s findings: Read More Here   <==>  http://fortune.com/2015/09/08/apple-watch-satisfaction-survey/  

Nokia and industrial investment company China Huaxin agreed to establish a joint venture combining Nokia China and Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell (ASB) once the proposed merger of the Finnish equipment manufacturer with Alcatel-Lucent has been closed. This is stated in Nokia release . The move, which appears to resolve the question of what would happen to the European vendors' respective China-based assets following their merger, will see Nokia holding 50 per cent plus one share in the new joint venture, with China Huaxin holding the remainder. The proposed combination will require approval from Chinese authorities. Nokia stressed that the new joint venture "is conditional on and would be formed after the closing of Nokia's planned combination with Alcatel-Lucent." Under the terms of a memorandum of understanding, the new venture would operate under the English name of Nokia Shanghai Bell and would be registered in the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Tra...

Too many people have become obsessed with an idea and quit their jobs impulsively only to find their potential business isn’t as strong as they thought it would be. Before you do anything reckless, be sure to take these five steps: 1. Make sure your idea is viable. This should go without saying, but unfortunately, it needs to be said. Billions of ideas are born every day, but not every idea is a good idea, and unfortunately, not every good idea is a viable idea. That “viability” factor is what usually fools people. In theory, your business idea might be brilliant—solving a very real need in an innovative and interesting way—but if it can’t be produced effectively or if the market isn’t ready for such a solution, even a great idea can fall flat. Your job, long before you put in your two weeks’ notice, is to thoroughly examine the viability of your idea . Do some market research. Look at your potential competition and see if they’re doing anything similar. See if anyone...