Archive for February, 2010
Fidelity’s iPhone App Helps You Manage Your Investments On The Go
Leena Rao, Tech Crunch, 2/24/2010 Investment giant Fidelity is getting into the mobile game with a new iPhone app. Fidelity’s free app allows you to monitor your portfolio, trades, research investments, and follow daily market news on the go. With the app, you can track your portfolio and monitor positions, balances, and intraday valuations of [...]
In: iPhone, Mobile Technology
Blackberry Call Control Promises to Curb Unwanted Calls
Kyle McInnes, Blackberry Cool, 2/24/2010 The Kedlin Company have announced their BlackBerry app Call Control, which was voted the Best Save Time App by the Verizon development community. The app syncs with a community-generated blacklist of spam callers, to help stop telemarketers and unwanted calls from reaching your phone. Call Control features include: Call Control [...]
In: Blackberry, Mobile Technology
AT&T, Google, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless respond to FCC early termination fee inquiry
Todd Haselton, MobileBurn, 2/24/2010 AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, and T-Mobile USA recently sent responses on February 23rd to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regarding their respective early termination fees (ETF), which the government has questioned. The carriers have all said that the fees are in place to help recoup the cost of subsidizing handset prices. [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: AT&T, FCC, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon
Scribd goes mobile, adds sharing to iPhone, Kindle
Josh Lowensohn, CNET, 2/24/2010 Trip Adler, CEO of document-sharing service Scribd.com, could be commended for having an unorthodox presentation style. At a time when companies big and small have gone to great lengths in trying to channel Steve Jobs, Adler is the one thinking different. On Tuesday, as I sat in Scribd’s San Francisco offices [...]
In: iPhone, Mobile Technology, WinPhone · Tagged with: Flash, SMS
Clearwire Races to Grab 4G Customers
Stacey Higginbotham, GigaOM, 2/24/2010 Clearwire today reported fourth-quarter and 2009 results showing how heavily the carrier is spending to gain customers. As part of its efforts to triple its subscribers this year, Clearwire reiterated its plans to cover 120 million people by the close of the decade and said it will spend up to $3.2 [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 3G, 4G, AT&T, Clearwire, HSPA, LTE, T-Mobile, Verizon, WiMax
Hordes of new threats ahead for mobile networks
John Leyden, The Register, 2/24/2010 Faked femtocells will eff up your ess Malware on smartphones is just the first in a series of new security threats for mobile networks ushered in by the embrace of internet technologies, according to mobile phone encryption firms. Dr Bjoern Rupp, chief exec of GSMK CryptoPhone, warns that criminal gangs [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile Technology, Palm (HP), Symbian · Tagged with: 3G, Femtocell, GSM, JailBreak, Linux, Malware, WiFi
iPad has no camera, but Apple’s SDK mentions video chat, flash
AppleInsider Staff, 2/24/2010 Adding to the already-strong evidence that Apple toyed with the idea of a forward facing camera in the iPad, references to video conferencing, as well as camera flash and zoom, have been discovered in the latest beta of the iPad software development kit. Digging through the PLCameraController.h frameworks in iPhone OS 3.2 [...]
In: iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: SDK
Rutgers researchers warn against rootkit threats to smartphone security
Alpha Doggs, Network World, 2/23/2010 Say infiltration could lead to eavedropping on infected mobile devices Rutgers University researchers have demonstrated how rootkits can be a threat to smartphones sporting operating systems not much unlike those in full-blown computers. They say those wielding rootkits could do dirty tricks like turning on an infected smartphone’s microphone to [...]
In: Mobile Technology
Visage Mobile Gets A $4.5 Million Infusion From Qualcomm And Others
Leena Rao, TechCrunch, 2/23/2010 Visage Mobile, an enterprise mobility management company, has raised $4.5 million in Series B funding from Qualcomm Ventures with Worldview Technology Partners, ATA Ventures, Vesbridge Partners, and Emergence Capital Partners participating in the round. This funding brings the company’s total funding up to nearly $100 million. Visage Mobile’s SaaS application basically [...]
In: Mobile Technology
Hack Shows How to Get Android 2.1 On Some Windows Mobile Phones
David Pierce, PCWorld, 2/23/2010 As a long-time Windows Mobile user who finally gave up on it and switched to an Android phone, I’ve been thrilled with the new operating system. Now, it looks like others who are fed up with WinMo might be able to switch a little more easily. Over at XDA-developers, a forum [...]
In: Android, Mobile Technology, WinPhone · Tagged with: AT&T, Bluetooth, HTC