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Monday, February 22, 2010

Beware the rogue AP in Windows 7; Next Wave of iPhone Apps Emerges

Next Wave of iPhone Apps Emerges | Watching the creative destruction of the mobile industry at MWC

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Beware the rogue AP in Windows 7
The consumerization of IT is alive, well and causing all sorts of enterprise security challenges in the mobile arena. But highly visible issues, such as the consumer-centric Apple iPhone, represent only the tip of the vulnerability iceberg. Microsoft Windows 7, for example, contains software that allows a user's laptop to do double-duty as a rogue Wi-Fi access point that masks the entry of unauthorized users onto the corporate network. Read More


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Next Wave of iPhone Apps Emerges
Super-smart iPhone apps will replace silly iFart-like apps in the second wave of iPhone app development, said iPhone app developers at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco last week. Read More

Watching the creative destruction of the mobile industry at MWC
The continued mobile client innovation in handsets and operating systems is just the surface of an industry still re-inventing itself. Read More

LTE devices to come in all shapes and sizes
The continued progress of LTE (Long-Term Evolution) was one of the biggest trends at Mobile World Congress this week. Besides modems, vendors showed netbooks and portable Wi-Fi hotspots that are compatible with LTE. Read More

Mobile banking doubling every year
In 2015 about 244 million people worldwide will carry out financial transactions with their banks using their mobile phones. Of those, some 66 million will be in North America say new forecasts from ABI Research. Read More

AT&T gets its first Android phone next month
The last holdout has fallen -- all four major U.S. wireless carriers now offer Android-based phones. Read More


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RIM expands market opportunity for BlackBerry platform
A newly released free new server software from Research In Motion (RIM) can wirelessly and securely synchronise BlackBerry smart phones with Microsoft Exchange or Microsoft Windows Small Business Server. Read More

Google CEO preaches 'mobile first'
Google CEO Eric Schmidt put mobile devices squarely at the center of the computing universe in his first keynote at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Read More

Symantec pledges smartphone support for Norton security/storage software
Symantec Wednesday will ship a new version of its Norton 360 security and online storage/backup product and announced that applications for mobile devices are on the way. Read More

Verizon Users to Get Skype App...Is There a Catch?
Verizon Wireless and Skype yesterday announced a deal that will produce a new, exclusive mobile Skype-calling and -messaging app for Verizon customers with select 3G BlackBerry handhelds, as well as Motorola DROID and HTC DROID ERIS users. Read More

Smartphone OS leaves one hand free
Today's smartphones are too much of a handful, according to Israeli company Else: You either need to grab them with both hands and punch away at the keyboard with your thumbs, or you hold them with one hand and touch the screen with the other. Read More


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Will your iPhone become your GPS? Not likely
TomTom car kit for iPhone is a docking station for your iPhone that can mount to your car's windshield or dashboard for when you want to use the separate TomTom navigation application. Read More

Security experts wrestle with cyberattack scenario
Imagine a scenario in which a downloadable application turns smartphones into network-clogging bots, causing U.S. mobile-phone networks to fail, and eventually spreads to the wired Internet. Read More

Moving Toward Fixed-Mobile Convergence
This week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is highlighting the coming stampede of 4G wireless services across the globe. Cisco and Juniper are set to announce new products to ease service provider transition to 4G, support new service offerings, and enable easier transition for users roaming between 2G, 3G, 4G and WiFi services. Read More

Microsoft demonstrates Windows Phone 7
My collegue John Cox has an interesting take on Microsoft's Windows Mobile 7 announcements. He notes that the technical details were sparse, and the official Web site doesn't add much. Microsoft didn't reveal what changes, if any, it had made to the operating system kernel, which in the past has been based on Windows CE. Read More

RIM fights back with freebie BlackBerry Enterprise Server
RIM will soon be releasing a free version of its one of its most prized possessions, the server that synchs the BlackBerry with Microsoft Exchange. The news gets even better: BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express can support up to 2,000 users. It is expected to be available in March. Read More

Look Ma, no hands (while texting)
Despite the fact that bans on texting while drive are more frequently becoming law and that the issue has become such a big deal that it warrants its own Distracted Driving Summit, many realize that plenty of drivers will continue to sneak peeks at their mobile devices for incoming and outgoing texts. Read More



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