For Hackers, the Next Lock to Pick
New York Times
The company makes an app that scans other apps that people download to their phones, looking for malware and viruses. It automatically tracks 700000 mobile apps and updates Lookout whenever it finds a threat. Still, in some ways, it's an industry ahead ...
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New Mobile Apps in Korean Fill a Gap in Android Devices
MarketWatch (press release)
Free Fliq apps can be used as stand-alone mobile apps. If customers want to sync their Android device with a PC or Mac, The Missing Sync(TM) software from Mark/Space, sold separately, syncs Fliq apps wirelessly with Microsoft Outlook or Apple iCal. ...
See all stories on this topic »Facebook Mobile Head: We Barely Consider Ourselves A Social Network
San Francisco Chronicle
That is, it's a way for developers to add social elements to a huge variety of apps, both mobile and desktop. It's the classic Microsoft strategy -- get everybody to start using your product, then let developers extend it in a million different and ...
See all stories on this topic »We appear to be living in the golden age of apps
Memeburn
Android is coming on strong but other ecosystems, from Nokia to Windows Phone 7, still lag far behind. Recent events, and in no small part, my current overexposure to mobile phones and tablets, got me thinking that this obsession with apps may actually ...
See all stories on this topic »Apps are crucial to Windows Phone success
CNET (blog)
Luckily for Microsoft, the company has made in-roads in bringing on board some of the biggest developers and titles, and the company says it's got the majority of the top mobile apps in its own retinue. Today, the Windows Phone Marketplace includes ...
See all stories on this topic »Euronet and wipit to Launch Mobile Payment Service Targeting the Cash ...
MarketWatch (press release)
While users can choose to link a credit card as their account payment method, the offering is focused on enabling cash-preferred consumers to participate in mobile payments and in-app purchases. With the explosion of smart phone applications and the ...
See all stories on this topic »Senior Travel: The latest buying gimmick: 'Google Wallet'
Chicago Tribune
Briefly, the basic principle of "mobile payment" is the use of a "smart" phone to implement the payment. Instead of swiping a credit card, then either signing a chit or entering a PIN, the digital wallet makes the connection electronically through ...
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At Twitter, the Third Mobile OS Isn't an OS at All
PC Magazine
Speaking at the GigaOM conference Tuesday in San Francisco, Abbott said that, if he had to choose, the Web itself would step in as the third mobile OS. Abbott, the vice president of engineering at Twitter, said that native HTML 5 applications running ...
See all stories on this topic »Nokia N9 Is Company's First, Last MeeGo Phone
eWeek
Additionally, the handset offers mobile Internet radio, with a range of music and is available for the first time as part of the Nokia Music offering. To improve audio quality, the smartphone also comes with Dolby Digital Plus decoding and Dolby ...
See all stories on this topic »Fortune 500 Food Manufacturer Teams With Sprint and Illume Software to Enhance ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The company has configured iZup to block all mobile phone communications while vehicles are in motion with the exception of 911 emergency services. "We are delighted that an innovative, industry-leader has chosen to take a leadership position in ...
See all stories on this topic »Geolocation risks to enterprises examined
Continuity Central (press release)
50 percent of Smart phone users globally* access location-based applications such as Facebook, Groupon and Google Maps on their mobile devices, and that number is expected to grow significantly. But a new ISACA white paper cautions that regulating the ...
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Chinese operating systems 'no threat' to Google
Financial Times
By contrast, Android-based phones can run a variety of applications and services from competing providers because Google's operating system is open to all developers. Unlike in Europe and the US, China's mobile market still consists largely of ...
See all stories on this topic »VMware wants hypervisor hooked into Android kernel
GigaOm
Essentially, the company wants to enable the consumerization trend by virtualizing mobile devices like its technology already does for servers and desktops, and then delivering applications designed to run natively on these new form factors such as ...
See all stories on this topic »Review: BlackBerry Curve 9360
IntoMobile
The T-Mobile version is coming out soon, and you might want to know the answer before picking one up. The BlackBerry Curve 9360 is a slight phone, only 11 mm thick, versus the old Curve 3G that was 14 mm. Despite shaving off a lot bulk, it's still just ...
See all stories on this topic »MetroPCS Unveils the LG Esteem, the latest 4GLTE Android Smartphone for ...
Sacramento Bee
As part of this top-level association, LG acquires exclusive designations and marketing rights as the official consumer electronics, mobile phone and data processor of this global sporting event. For more information, please visit www.lg.com The LG ...
See all stories on this topic »Northeast Voip Mobile Voip revolution
Prfire (press release)
Northeast voip provides international and domestic phone and mobile calling services with best Voip quality. The technology of Northeast Voip Phone Service essentially provides mobility to the users to make cheap long distance calls working at home ...
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Windows 8 And Windows Phone 7 Justify Microsoft At $28
Forbes
While we anticipate Microsoft's revenues from PC games, Windows Mobile and other consumer software will increase from $2.9 billion in 2012 to $3.9 billion by the end of our forecast period, Trefis members expect an increase from $3.2 billion to $4.7 ...
See all stories on this topic »Digital Business Card Apps Tested: The Future Is Not Quite Ready
PCWorld
The Cardcloud app is available for iPhone, Android, and other smartphone platforms via a mobileversion of its website. It allows you to carry multiple business cards, with information that it pulls from LinkedIn or that you enter manually when you ...
See all stories on this topic »Samsung Galaxy Ace Now Free At £13 a Month
PRWire
The Samsung Galaxy Ace is the perfect mobile phone for anyone after a good looking, well-specced Android phone without wanting to pay through the nose for all the latest dual-core wizardry. Being Android based means the Ace offers all of the Google ...
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Isobar Announces Winners of Isobar Create 48 NFC "Hackathon"; Event Marks ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The Isobar Create 48 top trophy went to team "Beer Pants Meeting," whose members each took home a new Google Nexus S phone for developing "OnTap." The "OnTap" Android application enables bar and restaurant patrons to use their mobile phone to view a ...
See all stories on this topic »Google Wallet holds promise but challenges ahead
ZDNet Asia
This, he noted, is an "open invitation" for mobile phishing apps that can capture secure customer data. "Understand the real price at which you are trading your data with Google in exchange for using the Wallet service for no direct fee. ...
See all stories on this topic »Doodle Celebrates Google's 13th Birthday: Here are 13 Milestones
PCWorld (blog)
Google continued to reach beyond its search roots in 2008 when it launched a mobile phoneoperating system to compete with Apple's popular iPhone, and it even waded into the browser wars with its own offering, Chrome. Browsers and mobile operating ...
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Your Digital Life? It's Worth Nearly $55000 -- and It's at Risk
DailyFinance
With hundreds of thousands of apps available, the sheer variety of offerings opens a slew of possible gateways for nefarious software. The growing trend toward mobile payments and banking -- last week, Google launched its own version of an e-wallet ...
See all stories on this topic »Samsung Droid Charge Receives Unofficial Android 2.3.4 EP1W Gingerbread Update
Mobile bloom News
The Samsung Droid Charge has been available exclusively on Verizon's 4G LTE mobile broadband network for about five months now. Samsung's TouchWiz user interface Android overlay has also been updated through this software upgrade also. ...
See all stories on this topic »The web's next wave
New Scientist
Sometime in the not too distant future, you may receive an alert on your mobile phone. It's your car. It wants to be friends. On Facebook. Sounds crazy, but in a world where cloud computing permeates every aspect of business, it could happen. ...
See all stories on this topic »Microsoft to launch Lync for Windows Phone 7
Outsourcery
In an interview with Information Week, senior director for Lync at Microsoft's Office division Kirk Gregersen said the mobile application will be released for Windows Phone 7 handsets in the coming weeks. As well as Microsoft Lync 2010, the company is ...
See all stories on this topic »PennyStockScholar.com: Inova Technology (OTCBB: INVA), Reach Messaging Inc ...
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
Reach Messaging Holdings Inc. helps companies extend their brands through customized mobile applications. The Company is currently developing a variety of apps for social media platforms including Facebook and all of the major mobile devices such as ...
See all stories on this topic »The cloud's the limit
Christian County Headliner News
“It's not a game-changer, but in a moment, students can see how they did—even from their phone.” Docs allows viewing and editing of documents through mobile devices like cell phones and iPads. Collectively, Apps for Education could even replace the ...
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Will Amazon Kindle Fire up tablet market on Apple iPad?
Chicago Sun-Times
If you can open and edit a file on your desktop at home, you can do it on your mobile device and your laptop too . . . and any album you've ever bought is always just a click or two away. That's the promise of cloud storage. It's a force-multiplier for ...
See all stories on this topic »Apple iPhone 5 Launch: Here's What to Expect
Mashable
T-Mobile is out. AT&T is trying to buy them and it's clear Apple wants any part of that mess. Sprint may not get the iPhone 5, however. Since I do expect that to be a 4G phone, my guess is that Apple goes with Verizon and AT&T as the first two carriers ...
See all stories on this topic »RIM Takes Further Pounding Over Doubts On Patent Portfolio's Value
Seeking Alpha
The value of mobile patents has gained enormous attention recently that was started with the auction for Nortel's patents portfolio, in which Google was outbid by a consortium of Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), RIM, EMC (NYSE:EMC), ...
See all stories on this topic »
New York Times
The company makes an app that scans other apps that people download to their phones, looking for malware and viruses. It automatically tracks 700000 mobile apps and updates Lookout whenever it finds a threat. Still, in some ways, it's an industry ahead ...
See all stories on this topic »
| Mobile phone use while driving is a growing problem, RAC warns The Guardian Adrian Tink, RAC motoring strategist, said: "Drivers using handheld mobile phones is still an all-too common sight, and one that appears to be getting worse. "The popularity of smartphones and apps, especially among younger drivers who have grown up ... See all stories on this topic » | The Guardian |
MarketWatch (press release)
Free Fliq apps can be used as stand-alone mobile apps. If customers want to sync their Android device with a PC or Mac, The Missing Sync(TM) software from Mark/Space, sold separately, syncs Fliq apps wirelessly with Microsoft Outlook or Apple iCal. ...
See all stories on this topic »Facebook Mobile Head: We Barely Consider Ourselves A Social Network
San Francisco Chronicle
That is, it's a way for developers to add social elements to a huge variety of apps, both mobile and desktop. It's the classic Microsoft strategy -- get everybody to start using your product, then let developers extend it in a million different and ...
See all stories on this topic »We appear to be living in the golden age of apps
Memeburn
Android is coming on strong but other ecosystems, from Nokia to Windows Phone 7, still lag far behind. Recent events, and in no small part, my current overexposure to mobile phones and tablets, got me thinking that this obsession with apps may actually ...
See all stories on this topic »Apps are crucial to Windows Phone success
CNET (blog)
Luckily for Microsoft, the company has made in-roads in bringing on board some of the biggest developers and titles, and the company says it's got the majority of the top mobile apps in its own retinue. Today, the Windows Phone Marketplace includes ...
See all stories on this topic »Euronet and wipit to Launch Mobile Payment Service Targeting the Cash ...
MarketWatch (press release)
While users can choose to link a credit card as their account payment method, the offering is focused on enabling cash-preferred consumers to participate in mobile payments and in-app purchases. With the explosion of smart phone applications and the ...
See all stories on this topic »Senior Travel: The latest buying gimmick: 'Google Wallet'
Chicago Tribune
Briefly, the basic principle of "mobile payment" is the use of a "smart" phone to implement the payment. Instead of swiping a credit card, then either signing a chit or entering a PIN, the digital wallet makes the connection electronically through ...
See all stories on this topic »
| The flywheel effect of Android and iOS (and why their rivals are grinding to a ... VisionMobile (blog) Likewise, as more applications become available, the platform gains more functionality for users, who will then be more inclined to buy a mobile phone that supports these apps. This becomes a virtuous cycle, a positive feedback loop which is so strong ... See all stories on this topic » | VisionMobile (blog) |
PC Magazine
Speaking at the GigaOM conference Tuesday in San Francisco, Abbott said that, if he had to choose, the Web itself would step in as the third mobile OS. Abbott, the vice president of engineering at Twitter, said that native HTML 5 applications running ...
See all stories on this topic »Nokia N9 Is Company's First, Last MeeGo Phone
eWeek
Additionally, the handset offers mobile Internet radio, with a range of music and is available for the first time as part of the Nokia Music offering. To improve audio quality, the smartphone also comes with Dolby Digital Plus decoding and Dolby ...
See all stories on this topic »Fortune 500 Food Manufacturer Teams With Sprint and Illume Software to Enhance ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The company has configured iZup to block all mobile phone communications while vehicles are in motion with the exception of 911 emergency services. "We are delighted that an innovative, industry-leader has chosen to take a leadership position in ...
See all stories on this topic »Geolocation risks to enterprises examined
Continuity Central (press release)
50 percent of Smart phone users globally* access location-based applications such as Facebook, Groupon and Google Maps on their mobile devices, and that number is expected to grow significantly. But a new ISACA white paper cautions that regulating the ...
See all stories on this topic »
| Samsung Galaxy S2 T-Mobile vs HTC Amaze 4G PopHerald.com The Samsung Galaxy S II T-Mobile and the HTC Amaze 4G also have the same RAM power, a full 1GB making. Bigger RAM means more applications can run on a smartphone with little or no decrease in performance. The Samsung Galaxy S II and the HTC Amaze 4G ... See all stories on this topic » | PopHerald.com |
Financial Times
By contrast, Android-based phones can run a variety of applications and services from competing providers because Google's operating system is open to all developers. Unlike in Europe and the US, China's mobile market still consists largely of ...
See all stories on this topic »VMware wants hypervisor hooked into Android kernel
GigaOm
Essentially, the company wants to enable the consumerization trend by virtualizing mobile devices like its technology already does for servers and desktops, and then delivering applications designed to run natively on these new form factors such as ...
See all stories on this topic »Review: BlackBerry Curve 9360
IntoMobile
The T-Mobile version is coming out soon, and you might want to know the answer before picking one up. The BlackBerry Curve 9360 is a slight phone, only 11 mm thick, versus the old Curve 3G that was 14 mm. Despite shaving off a lot bulk, it's still just ...
See all stories on this topic »MetroPCS Unveils the LG Esteem, the latest 4GLTE Android Smartphone for ...
Sacramento Bee
As part of this top-level association, LG acquires exclusive designations and marketing rights as the official consumer electronics, mobile phone and data processor of this global sporting event. For more information, please visit www.lg.com The LG ...
See all stories on this topic »Northeast Voip Mobile Voip revolution
Prfire (press release)
Northeast voip provides international and domestic phone and mobile calling services with best Voip quality. The technology of Northeast Voip Phone Service essentially provides mobility to the users to make cheap long distance calls working at home ...
See all stories on this topic »
| Smartphone Users Wise Up About Device Security TechNewsDaily Last spring, Google's Android Market removed more than 25 apps after the latest DroidDream Android virus, which infected an estimated 30000 to 120000 phones. Verizon has partnered with Lookout Security's Mobile Threat Network to protect its VCast Apps ... See all stories on this topic » | TechNewsDaily |
Forbes
While we anticipate Microsoft's revenues from PC games, Windows Mobile and other consumer software will increase from $2.9 billion in 2012 to $3.9 billion by the end of our forecast period, Trefis members expect an increase from $3.2 billion to $4.7 ...
See all stories on this topic »Digital Business Card Apps Tested: The Future Is Not Quite Ready
PCWorld
The Cardcloud app is available for iPhone, Android, and other smartphone platforms via a mobileversion of its website. It allows you to carry multiple business cards, with information that it pulls from LinkedIn or that you enter manually when you ...
See all stories on this topic »Samsung Galaxy Ace Now Free At £13 a Month
PRWire
The Samsung Galaxy Ace is the perfect mobile phone for anyone after a good looking, well-specced Android phone without wanting to pay through the nose for all the latest dual-core wizardry. Being Android based means the Ace offers all of the Google ...
See all stories on this topic »
| SDG Systems Announces Rugged Catchwell CW30 PR Web (press release) Running Windows Mobile 6.5 or Windows CE 5.0, the CW30 provides industry-standard operating system environments for running a wide range of applications. The CW30 is a highly cost-effective solution for indoor and many outdoor environments. ... See all stories on this topic » | PR Web (press release) |
| New Chips May Spur Mobile Payment Growth Mobiledia Paygo, Zong and ClearXchange are challenging Google Wallet, Square's mobile phone-based credit card reader, Visa's Paywave technology and the Isis consortium, among others. Some of these systems use different technologies besides NFC to allow instant ... See all stories on this topic » | Mobiledia |
| LG reveals two new gingerbread smartphones at Thailand Mobile Expo 2011 The Nation The two new devices are powered by version 2.3 of Google's Android mobile operating system that offers enhanced multimedia support, as well as better power management and gaming support. The first LG Optimus smartphone with a portrait bar QWERTY ... See all stories on this topic » | The Nation |
MarketWatch (press release)
The Isobar Create 48 top trophy went to team "Beer Pants Meeting," whose members each took home a new Google Nexus S phone for developing "OnTap." The "OnTap" Android application enables bar and restaurant patrons to use their mobile phone to view a ...
See all stories on this topic »Google Wallet holds promise but challenges ahead
ZDNet Asia
This, he noted, is an "open invitation" for mobile phishing apps that can capture secure customer data. "Understand the real price at which you are trading your data with Google in exchange for using the Wallet service for no direct fee. ...
See all stories on this topic »Doodle Celebrates Google's 13th Birthday: Here are 13 Milestones
PCWorld (blog)
Google continued to reach beyond its search roots in 2008 when it launched a mobile phoneoperating system to compete with Apple's popular iPhone, and it even waded into the browser wars with its own offering, Chrome. Browsers and mobile operating ...
See all stories on this topic »
| How Your Android Phone Data Could Be 'Gone in 60 Seconds' SecurityNewsDaily ... namely keeping your phone to yourself, not leaving it unattended and not storing any sensitive information on it. Also, these apps highlight the need for running strong anti-virus software on your mobile phone. Android , Trojan , Google. See all stories on this topic » | SecurityNewsDaily |
DailyFinance
With hundreds of thousands of apps available, the sheer variety of offerings opens a slew of possible gateways for nefarious software. The growing trend toward mobile payments and banking -- last week, Google launched its own version of an e-wallet ...
See all stories on this topic »Samsung Droid Charge Receives Unofficial Android 2.3.4 EP1W Gingerbread Update
Mobile bloom News
The Samsung Droid Charge has been available exclusively on Verizon's 4G LTE mobile broadband network for about five months now. Samsung's TouchWiz user interface Android overlay has also been updated through this software upgrade also. ...
See all stories on this topic »The web's next wave
New Scientist
Sometime in the not too distant future, you may receive an alert on your mobile phone. It's your car. It wants to be friends. On Facebook. Sounds crazy, but in a world where cloud computing permeates every aspect of business, it could happen. ...
See all stories on this topic »Microsoft to launch Lync for Windows Phone 7
Outsourcery
In an interview with Information Week, senior director for Lync at Microsoft's Office division Kirk Gregersen said the mobile application will be released for Windows Phone 7 handsets in the coming weeks. As well as Microsoft Lync 2010, the company is ...
See all stories on this topic »PennyStockScholar.com: Inova Technology (OTCBB: INVA), Reach Messaging Inc ...
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
Reach Messaging Holdings Inc. helps companies extend their brands through customized mobile applications. The Company is currently developing a variety of apps for social media platforms including Facebook and all of the major mobile devices such as ...
See all stories on this topic »The cloud's the limit
Christian County Headliner News
“It's not a game-changer, but in a moment, students can see how they did—even from their phone.” Docs allows viewing and editing of documents through mobile devices like cell phones and iPads. Collectively, Apps for Education could even replace the ...
See all stories on this topic »
| BT-Nasscom Roundtable with Application Developers Business Today But these apps should be mobile specific as the mobile is very close to the user, like a spouse," said Makemytrip's Somani. Cheeni Labs designed Plan Hound, an application that performs two functions: it keeps track of a phone owner's usage - the... See all stories on this topic » | Business Today |
Chicago Sun-Times
If you can open and edit a file on your desktop at home, you can do it on your mobile device and your laptop too . . . and any album you've ever bought is always just a click or two away. That's the promise of cloud storage. It's a force-multiplier for ...
See all stories on this topic »Apple iPhone 5 Launch: Here's What to Expect
Mashable
T-Mobile is out. AT&T is trying to buy them and it's clear Apple wants any part of that mess. Sprint may not get the iPhone 5, however. Since I do expect that to be a 4G phone, my guess is that Apple goes with Verizon and AT&T as the first two carriers ...
See all stories on this topic »RIM Takes Further Pounding Over Doubts On Patent Portfolio's Value
Seeking Alpha
The value of mobile patents has gained enormous attention recently that was started with the auction for Nortel's patents portfolio, in which Google was outbid by a consortium of Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), RIM, EMC (NYSE:EMC), ...
See all stories on this topic »