Boston, MA 10/08/2014 (wallstreetpr) – AVG Technologies NV (NYSE:AVG) partnered with Sony Mobile Communications (Sony Mobile) to offer mobile security for its users. Consequently, the mobile users will get the protection for their devices from online activities.
According to the partnership, Sony’s Xperia Z3 series smartphones and tablets will include the AVG AntiVirus PRO for its Android app. Xperia users will get a free access to the AVG AntiVirus PRO for 180 day’s trial, and then they will purchase the subscription version or get the default version AVG AntiVirus FREE for Android.
The mobile app will protect the phone data from online threats and enhance the performance while optimizing the mobile data usage, storage capacity and battery usage.
Growing trend over online activities
AVG Technologies NV (NYSE:AVG)’ General Manager, Consumer & Mobile, David Ferguson said that more people require mobile security due to the growing popularity on trends like bringing your own devices to the workplace. So, the consumers exchange wide range of information including personal and financial data while spending more time on connected devices. Therefore, they need security solution in mobile devices like smartphones and tablets during their purchase.
He also said that AVG is also coming up with AVG Zen, an application for Android smartphones and tablets and Windows PCs. It also protects the smart, connected devices such as home and personal devices like wearables. As a result, consumers will get online security (AVG’s security apps) protection for their smartphones and tablets.
Final take
AVG Technologies NV (NYSE:AVG) expanded its mobile security solutions while partnering with mobile device manufacturers like Sony Mobile to provide protection, privacy and performance of consumers’ connected devices.
The FREE app for Android already exceeded 100 million in the Google Play Store and became the first mobile security application. The launch of a new version will further enhance the company’s operational performances in mobile security.
