Archive for August, 2010
HTML5 raises new security issues
Joab Jackson, IDG News Service, 8/20/2010 As HTML5 enhances the Web, so too will it bring new vulnerabilities, security experts warn When it comes to new security issues, the security team for the Firefox browser have the new version of the Web HyperText Markup Language, HTML5, foremost on the mind. “Web apps are becoming incredibly [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: HTML5
RIM Touting HTML5 Capable WebKit Browser, Will it Finally Bring Mobile Web Apps?
Ronen Halevy, BerryReview, 8/19/2010 I have to say I have been loving the new web browser in BlackBerry 6. RIM really took the most pitiful smartphone browser and made it purr. They did take away shortcuts like spacebar to page down but hopefully they will reintroduce them later. One of the features that RIM and [...]
In: Blackberry, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: HTML5
Verizon, HBO planning on iPad streaming apps
Serenity Caldwell, Macworld.com, 8/18/2010 Netflix may provide a must-have app for your iPad, but it looks like it’s not going to have any such luck providing users with HBO content—HBO instead wants to build off its subscription service and release an exclusive iPad app, according to a report from Bloomberg. Meanwhile, Verizon is also in [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: Verizon
Yahoo Mail gains iPad-formatted HTML5 interface
Yahoo! News, 8/18/2010 Yahoo has deployed a new web interface for its Mail service, custom-tailored to the iPad. The page is based on the same HTML5 front-end developed for the iPhone, but with a reorganized layout better suited to a larger screen. Twin panes can be used to display messages and their contents, and photo [...]
In: iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: HTML5, WiFi
Tablet Rivals May Face a Smaller Apple iPad
Barry Levine, Mobile Tech Today, 8/17/2010 Apple is reportedly planning a smaller seven-inch iPad 2 even as its rivals scramble to introduce their own tablet computers. Apple’s 9.7-inch iPad is a hot seller with no competition at the moment, but Samsung, Hewlett-Packard, ASUS and others plan to grab a share of a growing market. ASUS [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile Technology, WinPhone · Tagged with: HP, Samsung
Dual-core smartphones on the horizon
Agam Shah, IDG News Service, 8/16/2010 Smartphones are on the verge of becoming more powerful, with chip makers readying dual-core chips that could accelerate multimedia and application performance on handheld devices. Most smartphones are only capable of 720p video and come with processors touching speeds of around 1GHz, but users are demanding more performance, analysts [...]
In: Mobile Technology
Security flaw creates Android, Palm Pre snoop risk
John Leyden, The Register, 8/13/2010 Security researchers claim to have uncovered an unpatched flaw that creates a means to plant bugging software on Palm Pre devices. The vulnerability means that the Palm Pre phone might be compromised through the receipt of a maliciously constructed message. This message would place a backdoor on compromised devices that [...]
In: Android, Mobile Technology, Palm (HP) · Tagged with: HP, Malware
Oracle Sues Google over Android OS
Shane McGlaun, Daily Tech, 8/13/2010 Google is a huge technology firm that is slipping its hand into any cookie jar it thinks may hold a profit. The company already rules the internet search and advertising market and is on track to rule the smartphone OS market as well. Part of the success of Google’s Android [...]
In: Android, Mobile Technology
Chrome to Phone now available in Android Market
Ross Miller, Engadget, 8/12/2010 Chrome to Phone isn’t a new product — we’ve been using it since May, in fact — but Google’s second mobile announcement today (behind Voice Actions) is that its continuous client app is now “official” and available to all users (with Android 2.2 Froyo) via Android Market. As it was before, [...]
In: Android, iPhone, Mobile Technology
Google Voice Actions
Sam Churchill, Daily Wireless, 8/12/2010 Google introduced Voice Actions for Android. Voice Actions are a series of spoken commands that let you control your phone using your voice. Call businesses and contacts, send texts and email, listen to music, browse the web, and complete common tasks, all just by speaking into your phone. To use [...]
In: Android, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: Motorola, Verizon