BROWSING: iOS

Palo Alto Networks has identified a new virus that it said can attack iPhones and iPads when they are connected to Macintosh computers via USB. 'WireLurker' is the name given to the malware, which is embedded in some apps for Macintosh computers. More than 350,000...

Microsoft clearly values mind share and market share more than software royalties when it comes to mobile, at least in the short term. The software giant is making more features of its ubiquitous Office software available for free on Android and iOS devices. The...

Mobile Minute The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus are in Apple stores today, although supplies are limited and lines stretch for blocks in some areas. Carriers also have the phones today, as do some big box retailers. The new iPhones sport larger screens, as well as...

A new benchmarking report based on data from more than 1 billion users around the world focuses on the iOS ecosystem and the impacts that different mobile carriers, Wi-Fi, and geography have on app performance and user experience. The report pegged T-Mobile US as...

Apple has been gearing up for months to release the latest version of its mobile operating system, and the company has outlined rules that strictly limit developers' use of personal health data that will be collected within the new iOS 8. Apple has its own "health" app that...

The hacker nicknamed “NerveGas,” also known as the forensic scientist Jonathan Zdziarski, claims to have identified back doors, attack points and surveillance mechanisms running on all Apple iOS devices. Zdziarski, who was a development team member on many of the early iOS jailbreaks, recently detailed...

--Good Technology has closed a deal with NTT DoCoMo for secure mobility for businesses. The Japanese carrier now has Good for Enterprise, the Good Collaboration and the Good Dynamics Secure Mobility Platform available. In addition to device data security, the company's mobility platform also...

Mobile games are thought to generate more revenue than all other apps combined, and mobile devices are expected to be the top platform choice of gamers within the next few years. Service providers have seen network traffic spike when a new game hits an...

In the past few years the iOS and Android device revolution has firmly and irreversibly shifted consumer online activity to a mobile-first experience. The majority of consumer traffic growth,

Smartphones connect us to one another through voice, text and video, and soon they will be connecting us to our home appliances as well. As connectivity chipsets find their way into everything from televisions to ovens, smartphones are set to become remote control devices...

Android may dominate the smartphone market, but Apple continues to own the most desirable smartphone customers: those who spend money. On the heels of two reports showing iOs users outspending Android users heavily during the holidays, Apple said yesterday that it sold $10 billion...

Welcome to our weekly wrap-up of everything in the world of telecom software. We hope everyone had a fun and safe New Year's Eve and Day. Due to the holiday things have been a little slow in the world of telecom software, so this...

Welcome to our weekly wrap-up of everything in the world of telecom software. With winter in the air and the year winding down, it seems like everybody's either wrapping up unfinished business for 2013 or building out new opportunities to start 2014 with a...

Welcome to our weekly wrap-up of everything in the world of telecom software. After last week's focus on looking back, this week seems to be all about the new: new high-profile lawsuit; new version of Android with new security and headaches for Verizon Wireless;...

Acquisition, analytics and mobile payments. These are just a few of the recurring topics in the world of telecom software this week. Welcome to our weekly telecom software wrap-up, where we gather together all of the biggest news stories on the topic in one...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently circulated a report to government agencies including fire departments, ambulance services and police, warning of the risks of Android mobile devices.

When it comes to deciding on the right platform for mobile apps it’s so easy to get caught up in incorporating all of the latest bells and whistles. Very often, it seems, brands are eager to use the latest technology because they

Apple and Samsung continue to solidify their dominance of the smartphone market, according to the latest MobiLens report from comScore. The iPhone 5 helped Apple boost its market share to 37.8% of U.S. smartphone subscribers for the 3 months ending in January, up from...

The one thing that I’ll say about this industry is it never fails to surprise. 2013 will be no exception. Overall, we’ll see much more emphasis on mobile operators trying to take back the subscriber

40 billion apps, 7 billion dollars and a quarter of a million different apps for iOS -- those are the numbers Apple is touting this week. The company says that users have downloaded 40 billion iOS apps to date, with almost half of those...

Enterprise adoption of Google’s Android operating system is quickly catching up to Apple’s iOS, according to ThreatLabZ, the research arm of cloud security company Zscaler. The company just released its third quarter "State of the Web" research infographic, which shows that Android accounted for 45.2%...

Skype, the voice-over-IP service that carriers once viewed as a major threat, is emerging as a possible source of incremental revenue for operators.

Worldwide sales of mobile phones to end users decreased 2.3% in the second quarter of 2012 to 419 million units, according to Gartner, Inc. Samsung remained the leader and accounted for 21.6% of the total market, higher than its 16.3% global share in 2Q11. Finland-based Nokia...

Strategy Analytics' Neil Shah analyzes the Apple/Google smartphone platform duopoly.