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With our latest update to our Google Translate app for Android, we’re aiming to get one step closer to the Babel fish. By integrating Google Goggles’ optical character recognition (OCR) technology, we’ve made it possible for you to use the camera of your Android smartphone to input text without typing. This makes Google Translate for Android one of our most intelligent and machine learning-intensive apps.

Speech recognition, handwriting recognition, OCR, and machine translation all rely on powerful statistical models built on billions of samples of data. Here’s how it comes together:

Read more:

http://googletranslate.blogspot.com/2012/08/point-tap-brush-and-listen.html

Sophos Mobile Security is a lightweight app which protects your Android device without reducing performance or battery life. Using up-to-the-minute intelligence from SophosLabs, we automatically scan apps as you install them. This anti-virus functionality helps you to avoid undesirable software and malicious code which can lead to data loss and unexpected costs. And if your device is lost or stolen, a remote lock will shield your personal information from prying eyes.

Keep malware at bay
• Scans apps as you install them
• Scans previously installed apps both on your device and on your SD card
• Gray-lists apps which could pose a potential threat
• Uses SophosLabs threat intelligence from the cloud with up-to-the-minute information.
Lock or locate a device which is lost or stolen
• Performs a remote lock on any Android device which you have lost or stolen
• Uses tracking technology to attempt to find your device (optional feature)
Use our Privacy Advisor to stay safe
• Detects apps which access personal data such as your address book
• Lets you easily identify apps which could create costs

Read more:

http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sophos.smsec

While schools are right in teaching students about the dangers that exist online, a new website aims to promote the benefits of internet use—as well as bridge the generational gap in online use and knowledge between youth and their teachers and...

Gust MEES: A very good approach which I agree too, but the need of learning IT-Security is still there and a MUST!

Critical-Thinking: Existing problems don't go away with a makeup ;) Internet will not look more sexy after that, sorry...

Protect your computer and you protect ALSO the community on Internet, check my free courses to learn more:

- http://gustmeesen.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/beginners-it-security-guide/

- http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/visual-it-securitylearn-with-videos/

-  http://gustmeesen.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/why-ict-security-why-the-need-to-secure-a-computer/

Gust MEES: A MUST READ ===> I love it as it reflects reality!

“BYOD is top of mind for myriad organisations; however, it’s causing some concern among IT. The increase in personal devices accessing the network may complicate the process of ensuring devices are secure and compliant with company policies, making it difficult for IT to justify broad BYOD acceptance,” said Stacy K. Crook, senior analyst, Mobile Enterprise Research, IDC. “Solutions with features like those found in the latest version of Sophos Mobile Control allow organisations to develop BYOD strategies without compromising on security, or complicating the overall management of the network.”

In addition, if it a mobile device becomes non-compliant, the new release will alert IT, so the administrator can send messages to the user for minor violations. For more serious incidents, the administrator can configure a set of tasks, which will be applied automatically. Examples include corporate or full wipes as well as policy changes to avert any risk for corporate data.

Gust MEES: a MUST read for anyone who uses "Bring Your Own Device" (Hashtag for Twitter =#BYOD):

http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=13423