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The antivirus industry is in major transition as threats have evolved from being just the viruses and worms written to exploit holes in Windows that plagued computers in the 1990s to the exploits that target vulnerabilities in Web applications and end user gullibility today. Many consumers fork over at least $40 for Norton AntiVirus or something similar, many more are turning to free [...]

Matt Cutts, Google’s antispam search engineer and part of the team that decides the strategies behind Google’s algorithms. (Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET) The obvious reality that never seems to come up quite as often is that even algorithmic Internet search is very much driven by humans. Computers and algorithms may be what handle incoming queries and generate search results hundreds [...]

Steve Jobs just dropped a few numbers on us. Firstly, that big one above, 120 million iOS devices have been shipped since the iPhone’s debut back in 2007. 230,000 is the next number of significance — that’s the tally of daily iOS activations. Moving down to even more granular stats, Apple says 200 apps are being downloaded every second, which has resulted in the mind-bending 6.5 [...]

Cricket’s Al Moschner (Credit: Leap Wireless) Q: You operate your own network, yet you also act as an MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) for Sprint. Why be an MVNO, too? Why not just funnel people onto your own network? A: It’s about national reach. An important part of our strategy is to become national. We’re not going to stop building out our own infrastructure, but given [...]