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Twitter News: HeyTweets Helps Twitter’s Mobile Usage Grow Worldwide
HeyWire Announces “HeyTweets,” the First Free Text-to-Tweet Global Service
Consumers Can Now Tweet Anywhere in the World via SMS
Using HeyWire’s Popular Social Messaging Hub
MediaFriends announced that its HeyWire real-time social messaging hub, which combines text, chat and IM across multiple screens, is the world’s first mobile service to enable its users to access Twitter via SMS from anywhere in the world through it’s new feature HeyTweets. HeyTweets enables HeyWire users to stay socially connected via Twitter regardless of their geographic location, representing the next phase in the expansion of borderless geographic and mobile technology innovations worldwide. HeyWire enables users already to text from their own real dedicated phone number anywhere in the world and now HeyTweets does the same for Tweets using the shortcode 40404. Read more
Trend Micro #1 in Worldwide Server Security Market Share
Trend Micro cloud and virtualization security leadership further validated by strength of its server security market position
Trend Micro is leading the worldwide market for corporate endpoint server security with an estimated 22.9 percent market share, according to a recently published report by IDC. The “Worldwide Endpoint Security 2010-2014 Forecast” November 2010, market analysis report identifies server security as a new sub-segment of the endpoint security market.
Revenue was up 13.2 percent in the third quarter from global server sales, according to the IDC research firm. With shipments of virtualized servers growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14 percent from 2009 to 2014, “IDC expects that this robust growth in server virtualization will continue through 2014 as datacenter adoption is increasingly considered mainstream in mature economies and as organizations in emerging regions look for data center efficiencies while they rapidly increase their server investments over the period”.
As more enterprises use virtual servers, they will be searching for security solutions that will protect the server hosting the virtualized environment; the hypervisor; and shield the virtual servers from malware and hacker attacks. Read more
PandaLabs Recaps Year of Malware With Its Virus Yearbook 2010
Mariposa, Stuxnet and MSNWorm listed as most noteworthy malware
PandaLabs is closing the year with a look at some of the unique and noteworthy viruses that have appeared over the last twelve months. The list of viruses is vast and varied, since in 2010, PandaLabs received more than 20 million new strains of malware.
This compilation does not contain the most prolific threats or those that caused the most infections, but is simply some of the viruses that caught PandaLabs’ eye. The viruses that are included in the ‘Virus Yearbook 2010′ are:
- The Mischievous Mac Lover: This title was earned from a remote-control program with the unsettling name of HellRaiser.A. This virus only affects Mac systems and needs user consent to install on a computer. Once installed, it can take remote control of the system and perform a host of functions, including opening the DVD tray. Read more
Dictionary.com Marks 20 Million Downloads with Next-Gen Mobile Dictionary
Dictionary.com Marks 20 Million Downloads with Next-Gen Mobile Dictionary
Upgraded Apps Transcend Definitions to Offer Immersive Word Discovery Experience that Features Voice-to-Text
Dictionary.com announced that its mobile products have exceeded 20 million downloads, making it the world’s most downloaded dictionary across iPhone, iPad, Android and BlackBerry platforms.
Demand for Dictionary.com apps – further evidenced by iTunes App Store’s recent listing as the #2 free reference app for iPhone (#8 paid) and #3 for iPad for 2010 – is currently growing at a rate of 1M downloads/month. The company marked this milestone by launching next-gen iPhone and Android apps that offer voice-to-text functionality, access to fresh, exclusive word-related content and other features representing the next wave in mobile capability.
“As one of the few companies to reach the 20 million download mark, we’ve learned that the mobile environment is quickly becoming an extension of the individual,” said Shravan Goli, President, Dictionary.com. “Your vocabulary, and the way you employ it, is one aspect that defines and distinguishes you. Our new apps deliver that personalization.” Read more
China promises progress on legal software use by government and state-owned enterprises
Software Industry Looking for Meaningful Improvement on Piracy After Latest Trade Talks with China, Says BSA
China committed to allocate sufficient budgets and implement a software asset management system to ensure that its government agencies use legal software in this week’s ministerial sessions of the Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT). US and Chinese officials will work over the next 30 days to develop a sustainable way of verifying that China is complying with these commitments. China also announced its intent to promote legal software use in enterprises through a pilot project involving 30 major, state-owned companies.
The Business Software Alliance welcomed the developments, but said objective sales and export figures will serve as the ultimate indication China is successfully reducing its unacceptably high rate of software piracy. This will require a sustained effort, not just a short-term campaign.
“We will know China has made real progress in reducing piracy only when software companies start seeing substantial increases in sales,” said Business Software Alliance President and CEO Robert Holleyman. “At the end of the day, that is what we are looking for.”
“The commercial value of pirated PC software in China has nearly doubled from $3.9 billion in 2005 to $7.6 billion last year,” Holleyman said. “That is why we have called for trade negotiations to start focusing less on pledges and more on tangible results. We will evaluate today’s announcements based on whether or not we see a rapid reversal of the commercial losses that have been dramatically escalating in recent years.” Read more