Having your e-mail compromised can be a serious problem – there is a lot of potentially sensitive data sat around in your inbox. For many Gmail users, it is not just e-mail that is at risk if their account is compromised. Nowadays, many of us have documents, calendars, pictures and even some location information associated with our Google Inc. accounts.
When Google Inc. announced it was adding free turn-by-turn navigation to its Maps app on Android, many of us, incorrectly it would appear, predicted a major blow to the paid navigation industry.
Industry analytics outfit ComScore Inc. has released their latest figures for mobile operating system market share, covering the fourth quarter of 2010. The quarter is always the biggest period of the year for any retailer, covering Black Friday and the festive season. So how did the major operating systems do?
Korean telecom giant SK Telecom Co. (SKM) said it will begin offering Apple Inc.'s iPhone 4 beginning March 16. The device will include the same specifications as when it was launched last summer including access to Apple's App Store.SK Telecom said the device would...
There is a growing response to security lapses on mobile. Last week, Google Inc. discovered more than 20 malicious applications that were uploaded to Android Market. For it's part, Google says the applications were removed "within minutes of becoming aware."Rich Cannings, head of security...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
In the wake of last week's discovery of a tranche of malicious apps residing in the Android Market, Google Inc. has leapt into action to protect those users affected by the malware, which not only collected and transmitted identifying information, but also left devices open to further attack.
As with most Android devices, it was only a matter of a few hours after launch until the Xoom was rooted, allowing would-be tinkerers access to the nuts-and-bolts of the device's Android operating system.
It isn't easy to define "The Daily." Publisher Greg Clayman relishes this fact for a few reasons.It looks pretty like a magazine, but it's not a magazine. It's not a newspaper or website, and yet it is."It's really something new," he said at yesterday's...
A while ago, I was able to give you my impressions of Gingerbread based on the emulator Google released. It is all very well playing around with a mobile OS on an emulator, but it was never going to be the same experience as using it day to day on my phone. So here are my impressions of using Gingerbread in anger!
KDDI | February 28, 2011 | Press Release
-The first WiMAX compatible smartphone in Japan with ultimate speed-
KDDI Corporation and Okinawa Cellular Telephone Company will release "htc EVO WiMAX ISW11HT" (manufactured by HTC Corporation), the first WiMAX compatible Android™ smartphone, after first half of April, 2011.
"htc...
KDDI | February 28, 2011 | Press Release
-The first WiMAX compatible smartphone in Japan with ultimate speed-
KDDI Corporation and Okinawa Cellular Telephone Company will release "htc EVO WiMAX ISW11HT" (manufactured by HTC Corporation), the first WiMAX compatible Android™ smartphone, after first half of April, 2011.
"htc...
The openness of Android is what many people love so much about the mobile OS - you can run your own code on it, customise it however you see fit, and generally tinker about much more so than you can with it's competitors. The Android Market is open too - anybody can put an App on there and wait to start raking in the cash.
AUSTIN-Samsung Electronics will host a series of free, interactive, full-day bada platform code camps in Austin, Texas; Atlanta; Boston; Denver and Vancouver, B.C., Canada, to cover the basics of the open platform and how to deploy applications into the bada app store for use...
It would seem that after all those rumours attributing an astronomical price point to the Motorola Xoom, common sense has won out and the Honeycomb-powered tablet will indeed be relatively affordable at launch.
Qualcomm Inc. has inked another partnership deal to help developers enhance their applications that run on Snapdragon processors.This time it's Gameloft, the game publisher behind "SpiderMan Total Mayhem HD," "Real Football 2011 HD," Modern Combat 2: Black Pegagus" and others.Gameloft has already worked with...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.In my last column, “Navigating consolidation in the network equipment industry,” I discussed consolidation in the global...
BARCELONA, Spain—The world's largest operators, handset makers, infrastructure providers and chip makers used the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to show off their latest wares and discuss industry trends. This year, the 60,000 or so attendees seemed focused on cross platforms, the Internet of...
Just last week we brought you word that a company had developed a software solution to allow Android apps to run on MeeGo devices, now it appears similar forces are at work in the world of Blackberry. Several revelations in the past few days are now strongly pointing towards the appearance of a runtime to allow Android apps to be put to work on Blackberry OS.
Editor's Note: This article first appeared in RCR Wireless News' January Special Edition: "Unwrapping the Opportunities, the next generation of smart devices. To see all of the articles from that issue, click here.Every year we sit back and marvel at the advances made...
Have you ever wondered what you would look like as an android? Wonder no more! Because Google is holding up a magic green mirror, giving us possibly the most useful app for Android so far: Androidify.
Nokia Corp.’s announcement it would be dropping MeeGo and going Windows Phone 7 caused quite a “kerfuffle” inside Intel Corp., admitted Peter Biddle, general manager of Intel’s AppUp products and services.
It's an irrefutable fact that there's nothing more crowd-pleasing on the internet than mashing up otherwise mundane numbers into swanky visualisations. Be it infographics, flowcharts, or, in this case, videos, you're bound to attract eyeballs if you can turn boring data into pretty visuals.
Research firm Integrasco has released a particularly interesting report summing up Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, based on social media buzz surrounding various announcements and devices.The firm monitored social media sites and mined them for data regarding key announcements at the show, resulting in...
