Mobile Device

Facebook's Mobile Phone: Three Reasons to "Unlike" This Strategy Technorati Facebook is set to announce this Thursday the release of the Facebook Phone in partnership with HTC. According to the latest mobile report from The New York Times, the plans are to manufacture the first smartphone designed around the total social ... See all stories on this topic » Technorati

Poll: Do mobile devices make your small business more efficient? The Guardian So why has mobile technology become so important to small businesses? Well, CDW's vice president of small business, Jill Billhorn, put it down to small businesses considering "productivity and business apps on mobile devices to be game-changers that ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian

US Army mobile device cybersecurity slammed ComputerworldUK Cybersecurity is lax for some 14,000 commercial mobile devices used at the US Military Academy and the United States Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center, according to a report by the US Department of Defense Inspector ... See all stories on this topic »

YouTube clip shows first mobile phone was in 1938 Times of India The short clip, which has been viewed 3,42,000 times on the video sharing website, is said to feature a woman named Gertrude Jones who is seen speaking on a pre-war prototype of a mobile phone developed by a communications factory in Leominster,... See all stories on this topic » Times of India

Mobile device security in the US military comes under fire Naked Security Mobile devices were not secured to protect stored information. The US Department of Defense (DOD) did not have ability to wipe devices that were lost or stolen. Sensitive data was allowed to be stored on commercial mobile devices acting as removable ... See all stories on this topic » Naked Security

A look at Quick Heal Mobile Security ZDNet But while the ability to remotely disable and selectively delete specific data from the mobile deviceis unique, a simple firmware upgrade to the mobile device's OS would render this useless. Also, most mobile devices these days already have built-in ... See all stories on this topic »

St. Charles unveils city app for mobile devices Chicago Tribune St. Charles residents can now request city services or get information on the go with a new mobile application commissioned by the city. With the growing use of mobile devices like smart phones and tablets, city officials began investigating creating ... See all stories on this topic » Chicago Tribune

San Francisco DA met with Apple over phone thefts, hints next two iPhones ... 9 to 5 Mac The San Francisco Examiner reports on meetings between San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón and mobile device makers regarding phone thefts. Because Apple's iPhone was reportedly involved in over half of robberies in San Francisco over the ... See all stories on this topic »