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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Silverlight gets its own one-day developer event]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>orenavava</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:CNET)If there were any remaining doubts about Silverlight's importance to Microsoft, the company seems to be going out of its way to put them to rest. Next month Microsoft is holding a Silverlight-focused, one day event both at its Redmond campus and streamed online, which is aimed at giving developers a look at what's coming next for the Silverlight platform. The event will also offer developers hands-on training sessions showing them how to make use of the runtime inWindows Phone 7 applications, online, and in native desktop software applications.Microsoft is billing the event, which is part of the company's Firestarter series, as a being &quot;just like an extra day of PDC, dedicated to Silverlight.&quot; This is of special note given Silverlight's relative absence from Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference, which took place just a few weeks ago. The move was not overlooked by developers, many of whom wanted to know how Silverlight factored into some of the latest Internet Explorer 9 platform developments that were unveiled during the company's keynote address.The issue was later compounded during an interview with Microsoft's president of server and tools, Bob Muglia, who told ZDNet that the company's strategy with Silverlight had &quot;shifted.&quot; Shortly thereafter, Muglia posted to Microsoft's Silverlight Team Blog in an attempt to reaffirm the company's ongoing efforts and dedication to the product, which was followed by news that Silverlight would no longer be required to use some functionality found in Bing maps.Silverlight continues to be an integral part of Windows Phone 7 development, as the platform makes use of it in the developer tools to build applications. As such, a large portion of next month's event sessions will be focused on Microsoft's new mobile platform. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft taking direct route on Windows Phone updates]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>orenavava</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[The Windows Phone 7 update screen.(Credit:Josh Lowensohn/CNET)Good news for those who were worried about getting bottlenecked roll-outs of system software updates onWindows Phone 7 devices: Microsoft, and not the carriers or the device manufacturers, will be in charge of that duty.In an e-mail exchange with ZDnet, Microsoft reiterated that it will &quot;push Windows Phone 7 software updates to end users,&quot; while adding that &quot;all Windows Phone 7 devices will be eligible for updates.&quot; These are two very big things that bode well for early adopters of the handset, but also put pressure on Microsoft to keep that promise as the Windows Phone platform ages. Microsoft's position is of special interest given the current climate of smartphones system software updates, which up until a few years ago had been either few and far between or nonexistent.To put the current update landscape in perspective, Apple pushes out what has become an annual update directly toiPhone owners through its iTunes software, instead of through over-the-air carrier updates. Though with its latest OS update, Apple began limiting what features would be available on older models, and even cutting out the original iPhone from getting the newer software. Apple's cycle could be considered generous when compared to Google, which came under fire during most of 2010 for its Android update strategy. Unlike Apple, and now Microsoft, Google has mostly gone through the carriers and device manufacturers to deliver over-the-air software updates. This has led to some considerable delays in getting version 2.2 of its operating system out to users who may have purchased new phones just a few months after the software was released. There's also the continuing march of Android hardware requirements for each OS iteration, which has left large groups of early adopters unable to get even parts of the updates. RIM faces similar timing challenges in rolling out the sixth version of its OS to BlackBerry users.Of course the bigger question is how long Microsoft will have to keep up this promise of offering software updates to Windows Phone 7 users as the platform ages. Given what's happened with competitors, it's fair to expect that new features that require additional hardware adjustments simply get saved for the next major version of the OS. But even there, that could get a little sticky given the pace at which new phone hardware is released. And it could end up leaving some wiggle room akin to what we've seen on the PC side for buyers to pick up &quot;Windows Phone next&quot;-ready devices that would be eligible--and more importantly, capable, of the next major upgrade. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Jammie Thomas hit with $1.5 million verdict]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 07:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>orenavava</dc:creator>
<category>Marketing and advertising</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the Minnesota woman who has been fighting the recording industry over 24 songs she illegally downloaded and shared online four years ago, has lost another round in court.A jury in Minneapolis decided today that she was liable for $1.5 million in copyright infringement damages to Capitol Records, or $62,500 for each song she illegally shared in April 2006. Jammie Thomas-Rasset(Credit:Jammie Thomas-Rasset)The Recording Industry Association of America--the trade group that represents the four major music labels--applauded the verdict.&quot;We are again thankful to the jury for its service in this matter and that they recognized the severity of the defendant's misconduct,&quot; the RIAA said in a statement. &quot;Now with three jury decisions behind us along with a clear affirmation of Ms. Thomas-Rasset's willful liability, it is our hope that she finally accepts responsibility for her actions.&quot;Thomas-Rasset is expected to appeal today's judgment before Michael Davis, the chief judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, who had previously slashed the damage award in an earlier judgment against Thomas-Rasset.  &quot;We intend to raise our constitutional challenge again before Judge Davis,&quot; Kiwi Camara, an attorney representing Thomas-Rasset, said in a statement to CNET. &quot;The fight continues.&quot; The trial is the third for Thomas-Rasset, who was originally accused of sharing 1,700 songs--enough to fill about 150 CDs. After one jury found her liable for copyright infringement in 2007 and ordered her to pay $222,000, the judge in the case later ruled that he erred in instructing the jury and called for a retrial. In the second trial, which took place in 2009, a jury found Thomas-Rasset liable for $1.92 million. Thomas-Rasset subsequently asked the federal court for a new trial or a reduction in the amount of damages in July 2009. But earlier this year, the judge found that amount to be &quot;monstrous and shocking&quot; and reduced the amount to $54,000. Following that, the RIAA informed Thomas-Rasset that it would accept $25,000--less than half of the court-reduced award--if she agreed to ask the judge to &quot;vacate&quot; his decision, which means removing his decision from the record. Thomas-Rasset rejected that offer almost immediately.Updated at 8:20 p.m. PT with comment from Thomas-Rasset attorney, and at 9:10 p.m. to emphasize the illegal sharing aspect of the copyright complaint.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft says business demand picking up]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>orenavava</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[REDMOND, Wash.--Citing a pickup in business spending, Microsoft today reported quarterly earnings and revenue that topped what many had been expecting.For the three months ended Sept. 30, Microsoft said it earned $5.41 billion in net income, or 62 cents per share, on revenue of $16.2 billion. Sales were up 25 percent from a year earlier, although the prior year results included the effects of a deferral of revenue ahead of the release ofWindows 7. Without that, sales were up 13 percent and net income rose 16 percent.&quot;This was an exceptional quarter combining solid enterprise growth and continue strong consumer demand for Office 2010, Windows 7 andXbox 360,&quot; CFO Peter Klein said in a statement.The company also said it is seeing strong sales of long-term enterprise agreements with business customers. &quot;We are seeing improved business demand and adoption,&quot; Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner said in a statement.Shares of Microsoft, which rose less than 1 percent in regular trading today ahead of the earnings report, were trading after hours at $26.56, up 1 percent from the $26.28 closing price.The company earned $4.3 billion from its Windows and Windows Live division, on revenue of $4.79 billion, as PC sales grew by an estimated 9 percent to 11 percent from a year ago. Buoyed by the release of Office 2010, the Microsoft Business division posted $3.39 billion in earnings on sales of $5.13 billion. Overall revenue was up 14 percent, although consumer sales grew at more twice the rate of business spending.The Server and Tools unit posted a $1.63 billion operating profit on revenue of $3.96 billion as the company saw double digit growth in both multi-year agreement and one-time sales as well as a pick-up in the mix of premium versions of Windows Server. Additionally, the company said subscriptions of its still new Windows Azure grew 40 percent quarter-over-quarter.However, despite an increase in online advertising revenue, Microsoft continued to lose money in its online services unit, which lost $560 million in the quarter, on revenue of $527 million.The Entertainment and Devices unit posted a $382 million operating profit on sales of $1.79 billion. Xbox console sales grew 38 percent as the company introduced a new, slimmer version of the game hardware.Update 2:40 p.m. PT: On its conference call with analysts, Microsoft said that it has seen a shift from low-end PCs to higher-end models, but has not seen a significant impact from tablets such as Apple's iPads. &quot;We have not seen a material shift,&quot; Klein said.As for PC growth, Microsoft did say that growth in emerging markets was three times as strong as that of mature markets.In addition to record sales, Klein said that the company generated $8 billion in cash flow for the first time amid a significant jump in both revenue and a strong pipeline of future bookings.As for Office 2010, early sales have been strong, Klein said, with unit sales up 20 percent from Office 2007 in its early days.3:00 p.m. PT: Microsoft said it expects sales of PCs and servers to businesses to continue to be strong for the rest of the fiscal year, which goes through June, but declined to predict how long the buying cycle would last beyond that.The company also predicted revenue in the entertainment unit would grow around 30 percent in the current quarter, as compared to a year earlier, amid strong sales of Xbox and Kinect. However, Microsoft makes less of a profit on those products, so margins could take a hit. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Elon Musk&'s swing for the skies, SpaceX, scores $50 million]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Sweet-talking South African entrepreneur Elon Musk has done it again, raising more than $50 million for his space-transportation company SpaceX, according to an SEC filing dated Oct. 28.Silicon Alley Insider first reported the funding.SpaceX is currently developing a squadron of launch vehicles, which it says will ultimately reduce the cost and increase the reliability of space access significantly.Musk has long said that the combination of a newly emerging market for private space travel with commercial space transport is inevitablea4&quot;and that SpaceX aims to be at the front of any a4Are-ignitiona4 of efforts to explore and develop space.As such, the Hawthorne, Calif.-based company has created two launch vehicles so far, the Falcon 1 and the Falcon 9, and patented its own rocket engines, the Kestrel, Merlin and Draco.Founded in 2002, the company now tests its products from a launching site in the Marshall Islands and has collaborated with NASA on several occasions, including scoring $1.6 billion to resupply the International Space Station once the Space Shuttle is retired in 2011, and $500 million to launch iridium satellites via its Falcon 9.The founder of PayPal and CEO of electric car maker Teslaa4&quot;which lost around $35 million dollars in the third quarter, a seven-fold increase from the same period last yeara4&quot;apparently has found more interest from investors looking to get a slice of that public and private interest in space exploration.&amp;''Existing investors expressed an interest in making an incremental investment and we accommodated their request,&amp;'' a company spokesperson told SAI.The SEC filing named existing investors Musk, the Founders Fund and Draper Fisher Jurvetson as the largest investors in the company to date. Thus far, SpaceX has raised about $200 million.Previous Story: LeisureLink raises $9M to do for hotels what Captain Kirk did for flightsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: space tourism, space transportationCompanies: Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Founders Fund, SpacexPeople: Elon Musk          Tags: space tourism, space transportationCompanies: Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Founders Fund, SpacexPeople: Elon MuskRiley McDermid is a contributing reporter to VentureBeat. She was previously the online editor at institutional investing and trading forum Markets Media, which she joined in 2008 from Dow Jones/MarketWatch in New York. Her work has appeared in the The New York Times, the Associated Press, Portfolio Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Barrona4a4s. She has won awards from the American Society of Business Publishers and Editors, the Magazine Association of the Southeast, the Mississippi Press Association and the Atlanta Press Club, and was a finalist for the Pacemaker Prize for excellence in news reporting.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Responds To Bonus/Raise Story, Cites Importance Of &''Competitive&nbsp'Compensation&'']]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Earlier this evening, Henry Blodget of Business Insider reported that a &amp;''loyal reader&amp;'' told them that Google was giving all employees a $1,000 holiday cash bonus and a 10 percent raise starting on January 1, 2011. If true, that&amp;'s a very significant gesture likely to the tune of well over a billion dollars (though dampened a bit by a roll back of certain other bonuses). Usually with these types of stories, Google doesn&amp;'t bother to respond or simply gives a &amp;''no comment.&amp;'' But I decided to ask anyway. And the answer is far from a denial.&amp;''While we dona4a4t typically comment on internal matters, we do believe that competitive compensation plans are important to the future of the company,&amp;'' a Google spokesperson tells us. So while that&amp;'s not a &amp;''yes&amp;'', it&amp;'s just about as close as you can get to a &amp;''yes&amp;'' without saying &amp;''yes&amp;''. And it&amp;'s definitely not a &amp;''no&amp;'', which if they were willing to comment, you&amp;'d think they&amp;'d say if the story weren&amp;'t true. In other words, it seems as if Blodget&amp;'s source is accurate.And that makes sense given what we reported back in September: that Google was making &amp;''extraordinary&amp;'' counteroffers to stop the flow of employees to Facebook. Google had a great year and is awash with cash, they can afford to give their employees some nice pay bumps in order to make sure they&amp;'re happy. But it&amp;'s still a little crazy that they&amp;'re giving all of them this 10 percent pay hike.In previous years, for example, all many Googlers got was a G1 phone. Those retailed for $199 and cost Google far less than that, obviously. So yes, this is a significantly nicer gift.Below, find the email supposedly sent by Google CEO Eric Schmidt to employees, which Business Insider obtained:CONFIDENTIAL: INTERNAL ONLYGOOGLERS ONLY (FULL TIME AND PART TIME EMPLOYEES)Ia4a4m pleased to share some very, very good news with Googlers worldwide. But first let me say, on behalf of everyone on the management team, that we believe we have the best employees in the world. Period. The brightest, most capable group of this size ever assembled. Ita4a4s why Ia4a4m excited to come to work every day&amp;8211'and Ia4a4m sure you feel the same way. We want to make sure that you feel rewarded for your hard work, and we want to continue to attract the best people to Google.So that is why wea4a4ve decided&amp;8230'to give all of you a 10% raise, effective January 1st. This salary increase is global and across the board&amp;8211'everyone gets a raise, no matter their level, to recognize the contribution that each and every one of you makes to Google.Therea4a4s more. Wea4a4ve heard from your feedback on Googlegeist and other surveys that salary is more important to you than any other component of pay (i.e., bonus and equity). To address that, wea4a4re moving a portion of your bonus into your base salary, so now ita4a4s income you can count on, every time you get your paycheck. Thata4a4s also effective January 1st. Youa4a4ll be receiving an email shortly with further details about these changes to your compensation. And one last thing&amp;8230'today wea4a4re announcing that everyone will get a holiday cash bonus, too.Googlers, you are what makes this company great, and our goal here is to recognize you for your contribution, in a way thata4a4s meaningful to you. Thank you for all that you do, and for making Google a place where magic happens.EricCrunchBase InformationGoogleInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Find Photos For Your Blog In Three Easy&nbsp'Steps]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[photo a4s 2008 Gloson Teh | more info(via: Wylio) Let&amp;'s say you&amp;'re a cat blogger who has just come across some breaking cat news, and you&amp;'re racing against the clock to beat the other cat publications to it but need a photo.  By the time you search Flickr Creative Commons for something copyright friendly, resize it in Photoshop and attribute back to the original photographer, you&amp;'ve been beaten to the the post.Wylio, a startup out of Dayton, Tennessee, has a solution for you. Wylio basically boils down the 20 or so steps it takes to find suitable blog photos into 1) Search Flickr Creative Commons through Wylio 2) Resize/position and 3) Copy and paste the Wylio code, which includes an attribution to the original photographer, into the post.Wylio founder Dan Evans tells TechCrunch that the startup plans on adding more features like customizing the color of the Flickr photo credits, tracking photo use as well as building the option for user accounts in near future.Wylio, which has been up an running in its present form for about a couple weeks, is looking for seed funding in order to expand what is currently a nifty blogger time saver into a full blown service.CrunchBase InformationWylioInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[DeskMetrics Wants To Be A Google Analytics For Desktop&nbsp'Software]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[There&amp;'s a lot of talk about how web apps and the cloud are heralding a new age of computing, but for the forseeable future many people are still going to be relying heavily on desktop software a4&quot; especially as operating systems start to bake in their own App Stores. a4sAnd while desktop apps may offer advantages in terms of performance and user experience, in some ways web apps are actually better for developers a4&quot; it&amp;'s much easier to track how people are using your application and iterate accordingly.That&amp;'s where DeskMetrics comes in. The Brazilian startup, which launches today to the public, offers developers a set of components that will allow them to analyze how their desktop applications are being used, down to each click. This means developers can analyze which buttons users are clicking, how far along in various sign-up flows they&amp;'re getting, and more a4&quot;a4sjust like web developers have been doing for years.To get DeskMetrics working, a developer needs to integrate special native components into their application, which will allow them to track both clicks and when their users are installing, running, or a4&quot;a4sheaven forbid a4&quot;a4suninstalling their application. All of this data can be followed from the DeskMetrics web interface, which updates in real-time and also features geo-mapping so you can see where in the world your app is taking off.DeskMetrics isn&amp;'t the first company to tackle this problem. Founder Bernardo Porto says that competitors include Eqatec and PreEmptive Solutions&amp;' Runtime Intelligence. But he says that DeskMetrics differentiates itself in a few ways. First, he says that DeskMetrics has support for more programming languages, including C, C++, Delphi, Visual Basic, and .NET (C) (he says the competitors only support .NET). He also says that DeskMetrics is the only one of the three that reports data back in real-time.Pricing is based on how many applications a developer is tracking and how frequently they&amp;'re used. A basic startup plan runsa4s$49/month for one app and 20,000 sessions, and a premium plan goes for $669/month for 10 apps and 1 million sessions (there are a few price points between those).I&amp;'m still a bit skeptical about how much real-time matters in this case a4&quot;a4safter all, developers can&amp;'t iterate on desktop software nearly as quickly as they can on the web. But the company has the endorsement of OpenCandy cofounder Chester Ng, who says that this was actually a problem OpenCandy wanted to solve early on (they provide add-on installs for desktop software) but haven&amp;'t gotten around to it yet a4&quot;a4sand they say DeskMetrics is the best solution that&amp;'s currentlya4savailable.CrunchBase InformationDeskMetricsInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[MLB&'s TagOramic Lets You Stare Into The Face Of Each And Every Fan At The World&nbsp'Series]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Were you lucky enough to attend one of the MLB playoff games this month Then you&amp;'ll want to check out TagOramic, a nifty feature on MLB.com that was built to celebrate the Fall Classic. Over the course of the playoffs, MLB has taken some absolutely massive panoramic photos of each stadium a4&quot; and they&amp;'ve taken them at high enough resolution that you can zoom in and see each and every fan.The site has also integrated support for Facebook Connect, so even if you didn&amp;'t get to attend one of the playoff games, you can sign in and see if any of your friends have been tagged in the photo. It sounds silly, but it&amp;'s surprisingly fun to see a shot of your friend mid-hot dog, surrounded by a sea of other fans.The panoramic photos are actually made up of hundreds of smaller photos, which were taken over a 20 minute span at each game. Each panoramic photo has a more specific description' here&amp;'s one of them:Panoramic image from the fourth inning of Game 1 of the World Series at AT&amp;amp'T Park in San Francisco, CA. Photo is made of 280 photos (28 across by 10 down) taken over a 17-minute span and merged together to make a single photo. The final hi-res file is 79,828 X 19,290 pixels or 1,539 megapixels.&amp;nbsp'One other thing to note: there&amp;'s a Like button next to each team to show how much support they&amp;'re getting on Facebook. The Giants are destroying Texas. No surprise there.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Android trojan horse Geinimi spotted stealing user data in the wild]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Another trojan horse for devices running Google&amp;'s Android mobile operating system a4&quot; this one capable of stealing information and uploading it to remote servers a4&quot;has been spotted on third-party Android application marketplaces.The Geinimi trojan horse gets onto your device via games and other applications that users download off third-party application marketplaces outside of the official Android Marketplace. Applications that are corrupted by Geinimi ask Android users to verify a much larger set of permissions than the application is supposed to verify, and then send that information off to remote servers.While Geinimi hasn&amp;'t made a malicious move yet, mobile cyber security firm Lookout suspects it is building a botnet a4&quot; an army of devices that can be controlled remotely a4&quot; like trojan horses and other types of malware do with typical computers.Malware on mobile devices is still a new trend. But it&amp;'s a little disconcerting to see another sophisticated trojan horse come out on Google&amp;'s Android operating system just a few months after one made a splash on Russian Android phones by forcing phones to send premium text messages.Lookout is warning Android users to stick to well-known and well-rated applications on the Android Marketplace. The Android operating system is particularly vulnerable to attack, since just about anyone can upload apps bearing malware to the Android Market. Those apps often trick users into giving them permission to do something to the usera4a4s phone.Cyber criminals are targeting smartphones because they arena4a4t as well protected as computers with anti-malware software, said Bradley Anstis, vice president of technology for M86 Security, a security technology company in Orange, Calif. Other mobile devices are also becoming increasingly ubiquitous a4&quot; mobile tablet computers are expected to be a big hit and bring in $24.9 billion in revenue next year.Google&amp;'s Android mobile operating system isn&amp;'t the only one at risk, either. TheZeus virus was released on Nokia phones running the Symbian operating system recently. It was able to compromise online-banking apps that use text messages to verify mobile transactions.Next Story: VentureBeat&amp;'s best and worst of cleantech in 2010 Previous Story: The biggest surprises of 2010: A lost iPhone prototype, Groupon snubs Google, and morePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Android, Geinimi, Google Android, malware, Trojan HorseCompanies: Google          Tags: Android, Geinimi, Google Android, malware, Trojan HorseCompanies: GoogleMatthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francsico, Calif. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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