Nokia may be trailing Samsung in smartphone sales, but it definitely has a publicity edge this month with its on-the-street smartphone speed tests. Nokia representatives offer cash rewards to any smartphone user who can upload a video to Facebook faster than a Lumia Windows...
All four of the major US wireless carriers have agreed to work with the Federal Communications Commission to disable lost or stolen mobile phones. The so-called PROTECT initiative will create a national database into which carriers will enter the IMEI numbers of phones reported...
The world's largest seller of mobile phones says its devices and services unit will lose money during the first half of this year as it struggles to make the transition from feature phones to smartphones. So far Nokia says it has sold 12 million...
Mobile is a key pillar for the German enterprise software giant SAP's future growth. SAP is relying on mobile platforms to reach its global strategy of 1 billion users for its solutions by 2015. Following this move, SAP announced on April 10 that it...
Next time your mobile device asks you to update firmware, think twice before procrastinating that update. A new study on mobile device security found that roughly three quarters of the devices tested in small-to-medium sized businesses could eliminate "severe vulnerablities" by upgrading to the...
Apparently taking its cue from Samsung, Toshiba is focusing on thinner, sleeker offerings in the tablet market, but the Japanese company is not skimping on screen size. Today Toshiba said it's upgrading its Excite line of Android tablets with three new products named for...
Sales of the Galaxy Note propelled Samsung (005930.KS) to record earnings in the first quarter – estimated operating profit was $5.1 billion on revenue of $340 billion. The Korean company will report final results April 27, after an external audit.
Samsung has sold more than...
Taking notes on a tablet when you're on the go can mean balancing the slate in one hand while trying to type with the other. The HTC Flyer is for those who want to make quick notes or pictures on a tablet - it's...
Eyeing the growing range of connected devices, ARM, Gemalto and Giesecke & Devrient have created a joint venture focused on delivering a secure and accessible environment for advanced services running on platforms such as tablets, smart-TVs, games consoles and smartphones.
All three companies will contribute...
About 5 million DirecTV subscribers in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and 16 other U.S. cities are able to again watch local TV stations that went dark early Sunday. Bankrupt Tribune Broadcasting pulled the programming after failing to reach an agreement with DirecTV, but late...
When it comes to bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies, chief information officers (CIOs) tend to become resistant, mostly because of management and security issues. BYOD is a trend which sooner or later will catch up with many companies, so IT managers must become more open to...
Google is gobbling up a growing share of the smartphone operating system market, according to the latest report from ComScore. The market research firm says that for the three months ending in February, Google's Android operating system had just over half the U.S. smartphone...
American teachers are spending more and more time telling students to put away their smartphones, but that didn't stop Qualcomm from funding a program that gave free smartphones to 150 North Carolina algebra students. The students used the 3G phones to communicate with teachers...
April has already been a busy month for Dell (DELL) - the company has announced two acquisitions in two days. Wyse Technology is the larger purchase. The California-based maker of software and clients for cloud computing should help Dell stay competitive as enterprise demand...
Security experts are warning Android users about a potential new malware strain that they say has already infected more than 1,600 smartphones. DKFBootKit piggybacks onto legitimate apps that require root privilege, such as those that manage other installed apps, or those that unlock games...
Cloud services have rapidly moved from buzzword status to mainstream offering, but implementing a successful cloud service involves more than just buying some storage/computing from Amazon, throwing together a website and building an iPhone and/or Android app. From our experience at NewBay in powering...
Another quarter of disappointing results for Canadian Blackberry-maker Research in Motion (RIMM) has the company's new CEO finally considering what his predecessors would not: a sale of the company. New CEO Thorsten Heins wrote in the company's 4th quarter earnings release that he will...
On Thursday Verizon Wireless will begin offering the LTE-ready LG Lucid for just $80 with a contract, hoping to trump AT&T Mobility's upcoming launch of Nokia's Lumia 900 for $100 on April 8. The LG device is powered by a 1.2 GHz processor and...
Enterprises from Fortune 500 companies to hospitals to schools are adopting iPads and other tablets to replace much of the work that personal computers used to do, and the people who use these devices want to use them for a lot more than work....
Taiwan's HTC, currently number five in worldwide smartphone shipments, wants to differentiate itself by working with the companies who deliver the content users want most on their smart devices. After investing in Beats Audio last year, HTC yesterday said it would take a 20%...
The Easter Bunny will bring Nokia's high-end Windows Phone to AT&T this spring - the Lumia 900 goes on sale for $99 on Easter Sunday, according to CNET's Roger Cheng. The phone will be ready for AT&T's next-generation LTE network, and boasts a 4.3-inch...
Deploy Fiber-Based Ethernet Backhaul Without Disrupting Your Business. Have you considered migrating your backhaul network to Ethernet? Worried it will negatively impacting your business? It doesn't have to. This white paper from Tellabs outlines the key steps for upgrading a backhaul network to Ethernet...
Emerging markets will drive growth in worldwide smartphone sales in the years ahead, International Data Corporation (IDC) said in a recent survey entitled the Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. According to the consulting and research firm, China will become the leading country-level market for...
Calling 2012 a "breakout year for 4G LTE technology," Strategy Analytics today released a report predicting tenfold growth this year in shipments of LTE phones. The firm's Neil Shah projects that 67 million LTE phones will ship this year, primarily manufactured by Apple, Samsung,...
