Archive for May, 2010

New research reveals troubling security issues for iPhones

Chris Foresman, ArsTechnica, 5/28/2010 Though Apple has added additional data security features to the iPhone with every iteration of the OS—including encrypting files on-device for the iPhone 3GS—vulnerabilities still exist. These issues are of particular concern to enterprise users, since sensitive corporate data may exist on any given employee’s mobile device. A new vulnerability revealed [...]

CDMA iPhone seen at Verizon in November

Electronista Staff, Electronista, 5/28/2010 Analyst believes CDMA iPhone being sped up The Verizon iPhone could be on store shelves in November, Rodman Renshaw analyst Ashok Kumar claimed today. Checks with manufacturers have ASUS’ manufacturing arm Pegatron building iPhones soon enough that it could ship two months before the end of the year. Most rumors have [...]

Symantec to Move Security to Phone, Smart Devices

Neil J. Rubenking, PCMagazine, 5/27/2010 Symantec on Thursday announced a significant initiative it is calling “Norton Everywhere”, aimed at busting Symantec’s security know-how out of the yellow box and bringing it to new markets. Elements of the strategy, to be rolled out over the next few months, specifically include mobile security products for iPhone and [...]

MeeGo for Netbooks

Sam Churchill, DailyWireless.org, 5/27/2010 MeeGo, the open source, Linux-based operating system that combines Intel’s Moblin project and Nokia’s Maemo smartphone OS, is now available for netbooks and soon the Nokia N900. The MeeGo group says Version 1.0 of MeeGo supports the N900 in addition to a number of Intel Atom based netbooks. Nokia said yesterday [...]

The real world: Comparing 3G/4G speeds

Mike Dano, FierceWireless, 5/27/2010 T-Mobile USA this week laid down the gauntlet by declaring its HSPA+ network will provide “4G speeds.” While that’s debatable (I realize the International Telecommunication Union has a definition for 4G, but no carrier abides by that definition in its marketing, and for all practical purposes it’s irrelevant), T-Mobile’s assertion certainly [...]

T-Mobile Expands HSPA+ Coverage Areas With “4G Speeds”

Kevin C. Tofel, GigaOM, 5/25/2010 T-Mobile today announced availability of its HSPA+ network in three new Northeast corridor areas comprised of upstate New York (Albany, Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse), Connecticut (Hartford, New Haven, Milford and Stamford) and Providence, R.I. The carrier says that Washington, D.C. and Boston are next on the HSPA+ implementation list “in [...]

Bolt 2.1 mobile browser supports HTML5 video, Facebook integration

Todd Haselton, MobileBurn, 5/24/2010 Today Bitstream announced version 2.1 of its popular Bolt mobile web browser. Bolt 2.1 now supports HTML5 videos on websites, some Flash video support, and offers tighter integration with Facebook, including Facebook chat. It also supports tabbed browsing. Bolt 2.1 is available for Java devices as well as BlackBerry smartphones from [...]

Google adding over-the-air app installation and iTunes streaming to Android

Nilay Patel, Engadget, 5/20/2010 Froyo is great and all, but Google just blew our minds with two previews of upcoming Android features at I/O: OTA application installation and remote music streaming. OTA installation is just as simple as you’d expect — after browsing to an app on your desktop, you can push it to your [...]

‘Nothing new’ on iPhone tethering plans, AT&T insists

Gregg Keizer, Computerworld, 5/20/2010 But the iPhone OS 4 beta hints that tethering may finally arrive this summer AT&T may finally offer tethering on the iPhone, according to multiple reports about the latest beta of iPhone OS 4, Apple’s mobile operating system upgrade. Several technology blogs, including MacRumors.com and Gizmodo, published screenshots of a configuration [...]

Sprint evaluating options, open to LTE

Sue Marek, FierceWireless, 5/20/2010 Sprint has issued a request for proposal for its next-generation of mobile network technology and LTE may be one option. Light Reading Mobile reports that at the LTE World Summit in Amsterdam this week Kevin Packingham, senior vice president of product and technology development at Sprint, said that the company is evaluating [...]

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