Monthly Archives: April 2015

Avast

Avast Battery Saver raises the bar with new Wi-Fi-based smart profiles

Avast Battery Saver increases battery life by an average of 7 hours.

Avast Battery Saver increases battery life by an average of 7 hours.

We’ve recently told you about Avast Battery Saver, an application which saves your Android’s power without hassle. It optimizes phone settings such as Internet connectivity, screen brightness, and timeout according to your needs. We’d now like to announce an exciting new feature of the app: Wi-Fi-based smart power profiles. These profiles are activated automatically based on designated local Wi-Fi networks that are detected.  Users can now assign specific wireless networks to be used within their home or work smart profiles. Not only are Wi-Fi-based profiles more precise than GPS-based profiles, but they are also more efficient and require less energy to detect.

In contrast to other battery-saving applications, Avast Battery Saver learns about your daily routine and thus suggests the best smart profiles for your phone. It doesn’t require you to change your behavior or usage, nor does it affect voice calls, text messages, or the ring volume of your phone.

“Everyone needs more battery life for their mobile devices, but most battery savers shut down the wrong apps,” said Jude McColgan, Avast’s President of Mobile. “Avast Battery Saver learns which apps are most important to the user, and shuts down only those that are less used.”

Avast Battery Saver significantly improves battery life, saving up to 20% on one charge — and it’s free from the Google Play Store.

New Wi-Fi-based profiles have been added to make the app’s convenient features significantly more efficient

 

  • Smart profiles activate automatically based on time, location, user-designated Wi-Fi networks and battery level.
  • App consumption detects and permanently stops apps that drain too much battery life.
  • Precise estimate of remaining battery life based on actual phone usage and historical data. Battery level is displayed in a percentage and time remaining in status bar notification.
  • The application can turn off Wi-Fi when there are no known hotspots nearby.
  • Your phone limits connections to the Internet to every 5, 10, 15 or 30 minutes, based on your current profile configuration, when its screen is turned off.
  • Emergency mode is activated when your battery level is very low, and it turns off all functions that require significant energy, saving power for when you really need it (e.g. Wi-Fi, data connection, Bluetooth or GPS).

Emergency mode helps you get the most out of your device's remaining battery life.
Optimize smart power profiles for improved usability.
Users can easily navigate to smart profiles directly from the app's home screen.

 

The app currently works with the following four profiles: Home, Work, Night, and Super-Saving Emergency Mode. You can easily access the list of profiles by clicking the “Smart Profiles” button on the app’s home screen. Avast Battery Saver is available for download in the Google Play Store.

AVG

AVG Business lights up Europe!

It’s been a really exciting week for AVG Business as we’ve launched AVG Business Managed Workplace 9.1 globally. As part of its development process, we spoke to hundreds of partners around the world to get their input and feedback. There’s been significant effort behind the scenes here, and we’re delighted to be have been able to share the new version with our partners.

This week, we’re taking AVG Business on the road to “light up” Europe. On April 22nd, Francois Tschachtli, Sales Director, DACH (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) & Benelux and I spoke to 20 journalists in Munich about the company’s new vision and offering.

We are proud to have launched localized German language versions of AVG Business Managed Workplace, AVG Business CloudCare and AVG Business Secure Sign On. All data and products will be hosted at an AWS data center in Frankfurt. This is a significant step forward in our effort to be a major force in the German Internet security and remote monitoring and management (RMM) markets.

Today we’re speaking to a group of Swiss journalists in Zurich, where we will confirm our commitment to this market through our investment in infrastructure, people and products.

We’ve been joined on this press tour by our valued partners Centrify, Infrascale and Jackobsoftware. It’s been great to have them alongside to help get the word out. This press tour will be followed in May by a series of partner dedicated roadshows in Germany, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland, where we’ll be sharing this new vision and offering with existing and potential partners.

Our commitment is and has always been to put partners first. Not just in the DACH region, but globally. Our vision is to help our channel partners and their customers be confident in their choice of services for their business.

Fedora

Fedora 21 Security Update: curl-7.37.0-14.fc21

Resolved Bugs
1214183 – CVE-2015-3148 curl: “Negotiate” not treated as connection-oriented [fedora-all]
1214184 – CVE-2015-3143 curl: re-using authenticated connection when unauthenticated [fedora-all]
1214181 – CVE-2015-3144 curl: host name out of boundary memory access [fedora-all]
1213351 – CVE-2015-3148 curl: “Negotiate” not treated as connection-oriented
1213306 – CVE-2015-3143 curl: re-using authenticated connection when unauthenticated
1213335 – CVE-2015-3144 curl: host name out of boundary memory access
1213347 – CVE-2015-3145 curl: cookie parser out of boundary memory access
1214182 – CVE-2015-3145 curl: cookie parser out of boundary memory access [fedora-all]<br
– require credentials to match for NTLM re-use (CVE-2015-3143)
– fix invalid write with a zero-length host name in URL (CVE-2015-3144)
– fix invalid write in cookie path sanitization code (CVE-2015-3145)
– close Negotiate connections when done (CVE-2015-3148)