Isha Suri

Isha Suri is a staff writer for SiliconANGLE covering social news and security trends. If you have a story idea or news tip, send it to @SiliconAngle on Twitter.

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Mobile Web Traffic Shooting High, Expected to Explode by 2015

A recent Cisco report has predicted the explosion of mobile web traffic by year 2015. The research revealed that only between year 2009 and 2010, the mobile data traffic has increased with a whopping rate of 159 percent. Moreover, it is expected to increase 26 times between 2010 to 2015. The credit for this dramatic increase in ...

Microsoft’s Survey for Location-Based Services and Data Privacy

Did you know that last Friday was Data Privacy Day?  It sounds kind of geeky, but it’s an important reminder of the era we live in, where your data could be used in ways you’re unaware of.  As the enterprise and consumer sectors delve deeper into the realm of cloud computing, it’s necessary for everyone ...

Tablet Growth for Android, Apple iPad Loses Lead

Google’s Android-based tablets are seeing huge growth in terms of sales as well as  shipment, and has doubled up in the fourth quarter of 2010. On the contrary, Apple’s iPad is on the verge of becoming a declining market leader.  In fact, Android OS has won the overall market share from the iPad, and is ...

HubSpot Updates Make Better Mobile Ads for Users

HubSpot has announced some significant improvements in its inbound marketing software to enhance the user experience. The announcement was made by Brian Halligan, CEO of HubSpot, at the company’s Q1 Show-and-Tell event, organized at HubSpot’s headquarter in Cambridge. The news was accompanied with live demonstrations, all with aims to deliver better mobile and social experience ...

Researchers Uncover More Malware Opportunities With Android

A group of researchers at the Black Hat DC Conference has shown a new way of attacking laptops and smartphones, just by plugging the phone into PC via USB. They have developed a low-profile Trojan horse program for Android that steals data, with little chance of getting traced by antivirus software. This makes use of ...

Google Reigning In Control Over Android Platform, Bans Kongregate

It was just two days back when we heard about GameStop launching the Kongregate Arcade, a new app that allowed customers to download over 300 free Android games.  This app provided several popular Flash-based games, including Vector Runner, Assembler, Perfect Balance 2, Barry Lost His Marbles, Billy’s Hill and G-Switch.  Just when things kicked off, ...

The Guardian’s New iPhone App Launches, Industry Hopes for Big Profits

The Guardian has just reported the launch of its latest app for the iPhone and iPod Touch, marking another far-reaching initiative from the print media industry. This app is now free to download from Apple’s app store, and boasts of several improved features, like award-winning video, reader comments on articles, improved live blogs, sports scores, ...

HP Revives Old Product TV Commercials, Gears up for Solid Growth

Remember the television commercials of Polaroid cameras and Timex watches? Well, Hewlett-Packard is going to revive these old TV commercials by migrating them to new media. HP is making a tie-up with YouTube for a live show called Branded Entertainment that will be aired on YouTube’s home page from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern ...

GameStop Launching Free Android Games with Kongregate’s Flash Arcade

GameStop has introduced the Kongregate Arcade, a new smartphone application that allows customers to access over 300 free Android games. This arcade is available on Android 2.2 and above OS with Flash 10.1. It provides access to hundreds of popular flash-based games including Vector Runner, Assembler, Perfect Balance 2, Barry Lost His Marbles, Billy’s Hill ...

Nokia Pulls Ovi Music in 27 Countries

The world’s leading mobile producer, Nokia, has decided to end its bundling of free music downloads in 27 out of 33 markets. Nokia rolled out a subscription to Ovi Music Unlimited with many of its phones in 2008. The feature called “Comes with Music” allowed users to download an unlimited number of music tracks on their ...