Two-Way PIM Sync for Android and Windows Phone Devices Announced at CES 2012

Michelle Ruhfas, MobileBurn, 1/12/2012 CompanionLink Software announces two-way synchronization of contacts, calendars, tasks, and memos between popular CRMsolutions and the latest smartphones and tablets announced at CES 2012 in Las Vegas. Over 25 new devices on both the Android and Windows Phone platforms were announced, including the Samsung Galaxy Note, Sony Xperia S, EeePad Memo [...]

Carrier IQ: How To Find It, And How To Deal With It

Chris Velazco, TechCrunch, 12/1/2011 By now, you’ve probably heard all about Carrier IQ, the mobile logging software that an intrepid researcher named Trevor Eckhart found lurking on a number smartphones from multiple manufacturers and carriers. According to Eckhart’s research, Carrier IQ is capable of tracking what apps you’re running to where your phone is to [...]

Intel Ditches MeeGo Mobile OS for HTML5-Centric Tizen

Sara Yin, PCMag.com, 9/28/2011 After months of speculation, Intel has officially abandoned the Linux-based MeeGo mobile operating system it launched in 2010 with Nokia. Instead, Intel will focus on Tizen, an open-source Linux build being developped with Samsung. Like MeeGo, a hybrid of Intel’s Moblin and Nokia’s Maemo, Tizen is hosted by the Linux Foundation. [...]

Nokia Launches Three New Symbian Smarpthones

MobleTechNews, 8/24/2011 Nokia today announced the launch of three feature-packed, mass market smartphones, bringing the latest smartphone functionality at attractive price points and including market-leading innovation with Symbian Belle. The Nokia 700, Nokia 701 and Nokia 600 extend the range of available designs, features and functionality in the Nokia Symbian smartphone range. Symbian Belle powers [...]

20th Century Fox to launch movies on Android phones

Tim Bradshaw, Financial Times, 7/20/2011 Twentieth Century Fox is bringing movie downloads to Google’s Android smartphone and tablet platform for the first time later this year, setting up the fast-growing operating system as a media platform to rival Apple’s digital dominance. Buyers of Fox’s high-definition Blu-ray discs from October, starting with, will be able to download [...]

iOS, Android Big With Developers; Mobile Web Further Along Than You Think

MocoNews.net, 6/8/2011 Android and Apple have the greatest mindshare among mobile developers, but if you were wondering who is the strongest third player right now, walk right past Windows Phone, WebOS and RIM and stop at none other than the mobile web. Research presented by VisionMobile today at the Open Mobile Summit found that while [...]

Linux Foundation chief dubs MeeGo ‘unstoppable force’

Rik Myslewski, The Register, 5/23/2011 Nokialess mobile Linux rages on MeeGo, the Linux-based open source operating system born from the February 2010 shotgun marriage of Nokia’s Maemo and Intel’s Moblin and left at the altar when Nokia hooked up with Windows Phone 7, is an “unstoppable force” that speeds device-developers’ time-to-market, and it stands for [...]

Microsoft collects locations of Windows phone users

Declan McCullagh, CNET News, 4/26/2011 Like Apple and Google, Microsoft collects records of the physical locations of customers who use its mobile operating system. Windows Phone 7, supported by manufacturers including Dell, HTC, LG, Nokia, and Samsung, transmits to Microsoft a miniature data dump including a unique device ID, details about nearby Wi-Fi networks, and [...]

Microsoft Is Said to Plan Mobile Payments in Phone Software

Olga Kharif and Dina Bass, Bloomberg, 3/30/2011 Microsoft Corp is working on a version of its Windows Phone software that will let users buy merchandise with a flick of the handset at a checkout counter, two people familiar with the plans said. Microsoft plans to include mobile-payment technology in new versions of its operating system [...]

Nokia Confirms Symbian to Fade Away

Mark Kurlyandchik, DailyTech, 3/28/2011 Introduces new typeface and branding in effort to move forward It’s no secret that, even before Nokia announced its “strategic partnership” with Microsoft, the most popular mobile OS on the planet, Symbian, was in the midst of a slow death. But the deal to bring Windows Phone 7 to Nokia devices [...]

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