Oracle to patch Java vulnerability on short notice
Oracle may release a patch for Java 7 as early as Tuesday to close serious security vulnerabilities. Oracle is reportedly working on a Java 7 patch that would be part of a major security update on Tuesday fixing a total of 86 vulnerabilities. …
Smartphone market grows by 47 percent
In the third quarter, 169.2 million smartphones were sold worldwide. An increase of 46.9 percent compared with the same period a year earlier. The entire mobile phone market accounted for 428 million units, a decline of 3.1 percent. The figure…
iPhone 5 Sales Peak at 46.5 Million Units
Apple will sell around 46.5 million iPhones by the turn of the year. That is a huge increase compared to the previous quarter, when it sold 'only' 26.9 million units. According to an analyst at investment bank Stern Agee, cited by Apple Inside…
Android at 75 Percent Market Share
Three-quarters of all smartphones in the world run on Google’s Android operating system. This is evident from figures published by research firm IDC. Apple, with the iPhone, holds a 14.9 percent market share. IDC’s figures relate to the third …
Online retailers report strong turnover growth
Dutch online retailers generated nine percent more turnover in the past half year than in the same period last year. Industry association Thuiswinkel.org reported this to public broadcaster NOS on Sunday. There were 42 million online orders, …
Mozilla Debuts Firefox OS
A designer of Mozilla’s Firefox OS has unveiled several screenshots of the new mobile operating system. Early next year, the OS is set to debut on mobile devices. Mozilla designer Robert Nyman has shared screenshots of the design of the forthc…
Privacy Can Make Security Impossible
Everyone agrees that privacy cannot exist without security. But the fact that privacy requirements sometimes stand in the way of, or even make impossible, that much-needed protection is far less widely recognized. For example, to prevent priva…
Dutch House of Representatives postpones ACTA signing
The House of Representatives wants the Netherlands not to sign the anti-piracy treaty ACTA as long as it is unclear whether the treaty conflicts with fundamental rights and other European treaties. A motion from GroenLinks, co-signed by D66, P…
Google Music launch on November 16
According to rumors, search giant Google will launch its own online music store next Wednesday. The company has sent out an invitation for an event on November 16 in Los Angeles titled ‘These go to eleven’, reports the website The Verge. The p…