Posts Tagged “source the register”
Mar
09
2010
 
Smartphone app botnet experiment blows up a stormPosted by CompareMobiles.com in Mobile News
WeatherFist shows phone vulnerability, devs claimSecurity researchers fooled nearly 8,000 iPhone and Android users into joining a mobile smartphone “botnet” under the guise of installing an apparently innocuous weather app.…
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Samsung’s iPhone pitch comes to lifeSamsung has been showing its first Bada phone, able to download applications from Samsung’s version of iTunes and nowhere else. But will Bada really challenge Apple and the iPhone?…
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Mar
09
2010
Mobile-phone wallet stymied by lack of understandingPosted by CompareMobiles.com in Mobile News
Either that or people just don’t careThe financial industry’s lack of understanding is what’s preventing us from using our phones to pay for things, so the Mobey Forum is going to educate it.…
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Mar
09
2010
Steve Jobs says ‘No’ to iPhone-to-iPad tetherPosted by CompareMobiles.com in Mobile News
(One) word from the mountaintopSteve Jobs has spoken: Apple’s “magical and revolutionary” iPad will not allow iPhone-to-iPad 3G tethering.…
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So there is competition then?Developers kicked out of the iTunes store for using private APIs are turning to the unregulated Cydia store, and think the demographic might even suit them better.…
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Mar
08
2010
Microsoft flaunts cross-platform gaming goodiesPosted by CompareMobiles.com in Mobile News
Woo! Convergence!Ninety per cent of a game’s source code can now be shared between an Xbox, a PC and a phone – assuming one wants an Xbox game on a three-inch screen.…
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Mar
05
2010
US judge puts freeze on Apple-Nokia patent kerfufflePosted by CompareMobiles.com in Mobile News
Let the feds sort itA US federal judge has sent Apple and Nokia lawyers to their respective corners until the feds get their chance to sort through the competing patent infringement claims.…
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Mar
05
2010
Could Vodafone nab 3 UK after T-Orange merger?Posted by CompareMobiles.com in Mobile News
Hutchison ‘looking for options’With the merger of Orange UK and T-Mobile UK approved by the European Union, the current UK leaders, O2 and Vodafone, will be mulling their competitive responses. So far, Vodafone has mainly focused on revamping its software brands and its higher-value services, but it could also move to acquire the country’s smallest cellco, 3 UK, say analysts.…
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Lawyers go for developersTwo iPhone developers have been slapped with a 10-page cease and desist order from the BBC for trying to create an app that would cache iPlayer content.…
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Mar
05
2010
Google says desktop PC is three years from ‘irrelevance’Posted by CompareMobiles.com in Mobile News
‘We succeed because we celebrate failure’Google’s European sales chief says that desktop PCs will be “irrelevant” in three years.…
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Mar
04
2010
Big Phone’s first Google Android defaults to…Yahoo!Posted by CompareMobiles.com in Mobile News
Yahoo! goes where Ballmer fears to treadThe first Google Android-based handset offered by the iPhone-hugging AT&T will not use Google as the default search engine. It will use Yahoo!.…
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Mar
04
2010
Brits blame Apple, Nokia, RIM et al for smartphone woesPosted by CompareMobiles.com in Mobile News
Yet most problems appear network relatedSmartphone owners are a vocal lot, willing to vent spleen to all and sundry when their handsets don’t work as well as they expect them to.…
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Live at the OviOne day after Skype yanked support for Windows and Java mobiles, citing a lack of consistent quality across handsets, the proprietary VoIP outfit is showing its love for Symbian.…
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HTC won’t fix, blames OrangeThe latest update to Orange’s Hero handset, manufactured by HTC, is blocking access to the Android marketplace again.…
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Music phone offersAfter Nokia’s sexy X6 music phone? Both Virgin Media and 3 this week said they will be offering the handset this month.…
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As Netflix mulls iPhone appApple executives are shopping around the idea of enabling iTunes users to back up movies, music, and television on the company’s servers and to access them from any internet-connected device.…
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Touchy feely infringement accusationApple has filed a lawsuit against Taiwanese manufacturer HTC, citing 20 patent infringements including UI and hardware as well as architectural design.…
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Mar
02
2010
Windows Phone 7 blocks out popular HTC model, blames buttonsPosted by CompareMobiles.com in Mobile News
Other smartphones fail to meet criteria tooWindows Mobile 6.5 devices will not be upgradeable to Windows Phone 7.…
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Mar
01
2010
SCO’s Linux litigation architect angles for SCO’s mobile bizPosted by CompareMobiles.com in Mobile News
Former CEO strikes backDesperate to fund its seemingly-endless legal battle for Unix copyrights against Novell and others, SCO Group has found someone willing to buy the bankrupt company’s mobile assets – and it’s none other than Darl McBride, the former SCO chief executive sacked as a result of his ruinous crusade to claim Unix.…
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Mar
01
2010
DARPA wants military iPhone and Android appsPosted by CompareMobiles.com in Mobile News
Pentagon boffins spit on Windows phonesBandwagon-bothering boffins at everyone’s favourite military tech hothouse DARPA have announced that they would like some apps written for the iPhone or for handsets running Google’s Android OS – “with potential relevance to the military specifically and the national security community more generally”.…
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