A new report from Alcatel-Lucent suggests that more than 11.6 million mobile devices are infected with malware. It’s based on figures from Alcatel-Lucent’s Kindsight subsidiary, which is able to measure the impact of network traffic.
Mobile malware infections were said to be up by 20% in 2013, with 4G LTE devices the most likely to be infected.
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Recent figures released by ABI Research have prompted the market intelligence company to ask whether Google is losing control of the Android ecosystem.
At first glance, Android dominated smartphone shipments for the final quarter of 2013. ABI Research says 77% of the 287 million smartphones shipped in Q4 2013 were running Android.
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Managed communications service specialist Azzurri Communications says its CEO is stepping down at the end of the current financial year.
It follows a refinancing process that saw the company’s ‘senior debt’ reduced to £25 million from around £103 million.
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Weve - the mobile marketing and mobile wallet business launched in 2011 as a joint venture by EE, O2 and Vodafone - has launched a beta version of its mobile display advertising service.
The company says this means it’s just one of a few organisations that can use verified first-party data to deliver targeted mobile display advertising.
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Google is selling its Motorola Mobility mobile phone business to Lenovo for $2.91 billion (£1.76bn). Lenovo, which already produces Android smartphones, will maintain Motorola as a separate brand.
Google will keep most of the Motorola Mobility patent portfolio, although it will license these to Lenovo.
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