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Mobile Users Need Bill of Rights, Privacy Advocate Says PCWorld (blog) "[G]iven the sensitivity of the data that many consumers store on their phones, the stakes are even higher for manufacturers, carriers, app developers, and mobile ad networks to respect user privacy in order to earn and retain the ever-important trust ... See all stories on this topic »

Android mug shots have no lock and key PhysOrg.com (PhysOrg.com) -- If Google loyalists will persist that this Internet Goliath can do no evil, they at least need to admit, based on new evidence this week, that Google can do a lot of mindless harm. A security door in Android smartphones is left open ... See all stories on this topic » PhysOrg.com

As It Stands: Help! I don't have my mobile phone, and I'm nomophobic Times-Standard I remember growing up with one phone in our house. It was considered a luxury, not a necessity. You couldn't take the phone outside, but if you were out in public, there were things called phone booths. If you're 30 or younger, you can Google "phone ... See all stories on this topic »

Cellphones track Christchurch's earthquake diaspora National Business Review With the rise of location-based services like Google Latitude, Foursquare and mapping applications, consumers are now well aware of the fact that their mobile phone is also a sort of homing beacon, that can pinpoint your location as you move around. See all stories on this topic »

Android Apps Can Access, Copy Photos Stored on Your Phone Search Engine Watch by V3, March 3, 2012 Comments Android users have been warned that applications could be sending back photos stored on their phone to remote servers without their permission in yet another major security worry for the popular operating system, ... See all stories on this topic »

From Zynga To Flipboard: Why All Eyes Are On China For The Next Mobile Boom TechCrunch Rise of the Smartphones China has over 980 million mobile users. While this number is staggering, the majority of users own feature phones. As such, many local developers create apps that cater to feature phones. However, in the past few years, ... See all stories on this topic » TechCrunch

National Security Agency defines smartphone strategy: Think Android (maybe) ITworld.com March 04, 2012, 7:42 AM — America's intelligence agency, the National Security Agency (NSA), today disclosed how it's going to handle mobile security. The NSA has come up with a security design that currently depends on Google Android smartphones, ... See all stories on this topic »

Here's how to fix the Android Market crash after updating to Android 4.0.2 MobileSyrup.com By Daniel Bader on March 3, 2012 at 6:03pm in Mobile News Over the last few days, thousands of Canadians have been prompted to update their Galaxy Nexus smartphones from Android 4.0.1 to 4.0.2. Along with a few essential bug fixes, the new version adds ... See all stories on this topic »

Global Mobile Awards: Creme dela Creme of Mobile Industry Dubai Chronicle Though the iPad 2 won the Best Handheld Tablet award, many of the notable winners at the GMAs were Android-flavored, including SwiftKey, an Android keyboard, for most Innovative Mobile Apps, and Google Maps for Android, for Best Consumer Mobile Service ... See all stories on this topic »

Concerned with Google's new data sharing policy? There are ways to deflect it Austin American-Statesman Manu Fernandez/AP Google Chairman Eric Schmidt speaks at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on Tuesday. Google's new unified privacy policy went into effect Thursday. As part of a technology change, commenting will not be available on some ... See all stories on this topic » Austin American-Statesman

ASUS says they'll be in "the first wave to offer the Jelly Bean update" MobileSyrup.com By Ian Hardy on March 4, 2012 at 9:01am in Mobile News Jelly Bean is the rumoured name of Google's next big Android OS. This tasty name hasn't been confirmed, but has been hinted at various times and will follow other names such as Gingerbread, Eclair, ... See all stories on this topic » MobileSyrup.com

Root? Flash? Brick? Put your fears aside and master your smartphone Lewiston Sun Journal The junk that came bundled in with your phone, mostly. If you've taken even a cursory stroll through your app drawer, you'll know what programs you want gone. Go to Google, your best friend in these matters, and type in "Android apps safe to remove" ... See all stories on this topic » Lewiston Sun Journal

Google "Assistant" coming late 2012, will best Apple's Siri Android Community Create a personalization layer — Experiments like Google +1 and Google+ are Google's way of gathering data on precisely how people interact with content. — Build a mobile, voice-centered "Do engine" ('Assistant') that's less about returning search ... See all stories on this topic » Android Community

iPhone 4S Fails, Android Browser Leads Mobile Market Race PopHerald.com Despite recording an impressive iPhone 4S sales number last quarter, Apple's "iPhone web browser" fails to grab mobile web browser's top spot, Android leads while Opera drops 1 place. Now you know why Google wants a big shift from Android web browser ... See all stories on this topic » PopHerald.com

Is Another Version of Android too Many Versions of Android? Forbes Most people struggled to not say it, but after Mobile World Congress the next build of Android, v5.0, looks set to debut in the Autumn. Expect lots of noise from tech reporting circles and at least one "hero" device that will deliberately not be from ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Assistant to take on Siri, work in different apps CNET UK And not only that, it'll also be offered up for developers to integrate it into their apps, so we could see voice activation becoming part of your phone's everyday function, rather than a separate app. A source tells Tech Crunch that the Assistant ... See all stories on this topic » CNET UK

Motorola Says Product Strategy Will Remain Intact After Merger With Google Mobile bloom News A senior executive at Motorola said that despite the $12.5 billion acquisition by Google, there is to be no change in the product strategy of the company, at least in the very near future. In an interview at the Mobile World Congress by Fierce Wireless ... See all stories on this topic »

E-trash recycle: Chips are up Business Standard A survey by Nokia reveals that only about three per cent of people recycle their mobile phones. A big reason why old gadgets and electrical appliances gather dust is because of consumer indifference to environment-friendly disposal methods or recycling ... See all stories on this topic »

Online privacy at risk in data grab Sydney Morning Herald Once upon a time, before mobile phones, it was really hard, without direct surveillance, for anyone else to know where you were. Now add in smartphones and apps such as Path, Twitter and Foursquare, as well as web-based companies such as Facebook and ... See all stories on this topic » Sydney Morning Herald

Farmers Insurance Claims Teams and a Farmers Mobile Claims Center Bus (MCC ... Einnews Portugal ... a Farmers Mobile Claims Center bus will be set up Sunday at the Henryville, IN Community Presbyterian to help customers there. "The MCC is equipped with state-of-the-art satellite communications equipment and satellite laptops and phones for use by ... See all stories on this topic »

Android takes iPhone battle to office, narrows security gap Chicago Daily Herald Software companies attending the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week are displaying solutions designed to prevent corporate data from being compromised when employees use their personal phones for work. Samsung Electronics, the biggest maker ... See all stories on this topic »

Android 5 Jelly Bean: what features we can look ahead to Northern Voices Online Google's next major Android update is excitedly rumored on the web. Google launches updates for its Android mobile OS with short intervals. We had Honeycomb (Android 3.0) early 2011 and Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) late the same year. See all stories on this topic »

Sony Xperia P & Xperia U Pricing And Availability Details Finally Released Wireless HDTV News (blog) Sony attracted quite a lot of attention at the recently concluded Mobile World Congress 2012 held at Barcelona, Spain, thanks to their two new Xperia phones. Running on the Android OS from Google, the Xperia P and Xperia U presented a refreshing change ... See all stories on this topic »

Is Asus Eee Pad Memo 370T variant the alleged Google Nexus tablet? AndroidOS.in What is more intriguing that we did not hear a single thing from Asus during Mobile World Congress despite the fact they were quite excited about it at CES. So, it is very possible that 370T has been shelved to turn it into a Google experience tablet. See all stories on this topic » AndroidOS.in

Apple speeding toward 25 billion app downloads ITworld.com While the 25 billion mark doesn't have any particular intrinsic relevance, it does demonstrate the sheer volume of demand for mobile apps. Apple alone has seen its total number of downloads served more than double in the past 14 months, while Google ... See all stories on this topic »

Asus Windows Phone will launch 'when time is right' CNET UK Asked whether the company would make a Windows Phone, Benson Lin, global head of Asus' handheld division, said: "We are very close with Microsoft. When we think it is the right time of course we will do it." He was speaking at Mobile World Congress. See all stories on this topic »

The Nerve! Microsoft Accuses Apple Of Releasing New iOS Versions That Don't ... The iPhone 5 News Blog (blog) The San Francisco Chronicle reports on how "New Microsoft mobile head Terry Myerson says that Apple's habit of releasing software updates for current iPhones is really just a way to sell more hardware," quoting him as saying, "I think Apple — you're ... See all stories on this topic »

'Stay hungry, stay smarter' Korea Times Integrating ERP with mobile devices helps to transform business-to-consumer (B2C) relationships, to create new services and to improve client retention. Business-to-business (B2B) mobile applications are being widely adopted to improve supply chain ... See all stories on this topic » Korea Times

Are Google Glasses the Beginning of the End of Gadgets? Forbes A look at the growing mobile phone market in the developing world supports that, too. It's hard to tell what effect Google Glasses will have, especially since very few people have seen them. They might not be great at first. See all stories on this topic »

SciTechTalk: NFC offers benefits but with some cautions UPI.com In the same way that credit cards have been targeted, sensitive financial data stored on mobile phones will become targets for hackers and identity thieves. Phishing and spoofing attacks against mobile phones with NFC have already been demonstrated by ... See all stories on this topic » UPI.com

Samsung Galaxy Nexus now making its way to Sprint Mobile bloom News In addition to that, the Sprint version of the current Google flagship device will include support for Google Wallet, a service not found on the variant being offered by Verizon. Since then, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus LTE has already reached official ... See all stories on this topic »

Bane of CDMAs: Zoom Mobile Transformation in Perspective THISDAY Live But Zoom Mobile has remained undaunted in the midst of all the uncertainties as it recently began a journey of transformation, writes Malachy Agbo The CDMA segment (otherwise known as private telecom operators) of the Nigerian telecommunications ... See all stories on this topic »