Apple iPhone users’ hopes of officially reinstalling Google Maps on their devices now settles at the deeper side of the back burner, as Google revealed it will not bring back Google Maps to iOS anytime soon.
The Cupertino-based company released its own mobile mapping service last week in a highly criticized and derided move for the app’s inaccurate directions and locations, including the lack of public transport information.
It appears iPhone and iPad owners will struggle with Apple’s …

Adobe Systems Incorporated has announced Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 and Adobe Premiere Elements 11, newly designed versions of its No. 1 selling consumer photo- and video-editing software.
Photoshop Elements 11 offers a complete solution for editing, organizing and sharing photo creations while Premiere Elements 11 offers easy creation of engaging home movies with professional flair.
Available as stand-alone products, Photoshop Elements 11 and Premiere Elements 11 can also be purchased …

Red Hat has announced updates to its messaging, realtime and grid platform, Red Hat Enterprise MRG, with the general availability of its 2.2 release. Among many updates across all three components, highlighted enhancements include greater security with client authentication for management tools, better manageability through integration with LDAP and more boot options by allowing the realtime kernel to act as a diskless client.
Red Hat Enterprise MRG is a next-generation IT infrastructure …

A researcher has found vulnerability in an older version of Oracle’s database software that exposes user passwords to cybercriminals.
Security expert Esteban Martinez Fayo said his discovery of the critical security flaw means hackers can gain unauthorized access through simple passwords stored on the database in just five hours.
David Emm, security researcher at Kaspersky Lab, said passwords are procurable if the criminals mount a brute force attack.
“Data sent by the server during the …

Qualcomm has modified its benchmark tool, dubbed as Vellamo, with better focus on HTML5 and JavaScript while revealing support for Intel Medfield processors.
The leading mobile chip maker has dedicated an in-depth update to its Vellamo benchmark suite, including additional tests to offer results demonstrative of real-life usage settings.
Qualcomm also added the first video streaming test and an Android version on x86 for tests on Intel Medfield-based smartphones.
The firm divided its Vellamo …

Microsoft is alerting users of its Internet Explorer (IE) that almost all versions of the web browser are vulnerable to a malicious attack.
The software giant says only IE 10 – the latest version – is safe from the vulnerability and that the millions using earlier versions have been advised to proceed with caution.
Microsoft has warned that the flaw is exploitable through remote code execution, possibly brought by a malware-infested website, and is advising users to install the free …

Amazon, like Apple’s team up with TomTom, will stop using Google Maps with the launch of its own mobile Maps API for developers.
Hashing out through its Mobile App Distribution blog, Amazon said the API allows developers to insert interactive maps directly into mobile applications and permits users to have pan and zoom functions.
The in-app mapping service can locate a user and switch between standard and satellite map views similar to that in Google Maps.
“The Amazon Maps API makes it …

Amazon.co.uk today announced the launch of Amazon Cloud Player, enabling customers to securely store music in the cloud and play it on any Android phone, Android tablet, Kindle Fire, Kindle Fire HD, iPhone, iPod Touch, Mac or PC – wherever they happen to be.  Customers can get started at www.amazon.co.uk/cloudplayer, where they can easily import their music using Cloud Player’s new scan and match technology.  Customers’ iTunes and Windows Media Player music libraries are scanned and …

The smartphone application market is very large and has grown exponentially in recent years. This is due to the large number of applications, a good thing in terms of variety. From a practical standpoint, we like to look through hundreds of offers to find an application that we need. To this end, Playboard Best App Guide has been launched.
Before discussing about this application, we will need to bring into question the discovery of applications and social network service, called AppAware, …

Google has released free updated Google Drive apps for Android and iOS devices that allow users to edit documents.
The new feature intends to give the search giant’s cloud-based storage service an advantage over the competition.
“Starting today, if you’re using the Drive app on your iOS device you can also edit Google documents, just as you can with the Android app,” Google senior product manager Anil Sabharwal wrote on the Drive blog.
“From your iPhone or iPad, you …