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Certain features of increasingly widespread enterprise smartphones may aid criminals in hiding incriminating evidence, says the UK’s Serious Fraud Office. Criminals can remotely destroy incriminating evidence by exploiting security features on the Apple iPhone, a leading digital-forensics expert has warned. The head of the UK’s Serious…
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The security team for Google’s nascent open-source mobile platform, Android, has attempted to raise its profile with the security community The security team behind Google’s mobile platform, Android, has tried to raise its profile among security researchers by appealing for their vigilance in monitoring the platform. …
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Bill Gates told a Hong Kong gathering that society will need more explicit rules governing privacy boundaries around software as the mobile/PC line blurs. As software gets more powerful, privacy issues pose “an interesting software challenge”, said Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. Recounting a short history of software…
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A researcher claims to have found multiple flaws in mobile Java and Nokia Series 40 handsets, and wants Sun or Nokia to pay him almost $30,000 for the details. A Polish security researcher has claimed to have found multiple flaws in mobile Java, but is demanding ?20,000 ($29,790) in…
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Creating an epidemic of BlackBerry dependency may serve short-term business interests. But the trouble is one day the addicts might just fight back. Although he’s supposed to be on holiday, U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown admits his BlackBerry will remain on as he wanders pensively along the North Sea…
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There’s plenty that’s great about the new iPhone, says silicon.com’s Natasha Lomas. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t a few things for Apple to think about for the next time round. The 3G iPhone has finally arrived–a year and a half after CEO Steve Jobs first confirmed…
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What if you’re stuck in the middle of nowhere and your mobile phone’s battery is about to run out? Thanks to a new gizmo, you now just need to face the music and dance. LONDON–What do you do if you are stuck in a field at a pop festival…
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Nokia predicts the first phones using the new Symbian Foundation platform will arrive in two years’ time, although its device chief says this is subject to “shades of grey.” The first devices using Symbian Foundation open source code for mobile devices will become available in 2010, Nokia has said….
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Nokia is to buy out Symbian and set up a new open-source platform with Motorola, Sony Ericsson and NTT DoCoMo, forming a major rival to Google’s Android The mobile open-source world suddenly has a very major new player, after it emerged on Tuesday that the Symbian, Series…
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Nokia will pay $410 million for the remaining shares in UK-based Symbian and make its software open source to boost phone sales and respond to new rivals such as Google. HELSINKI–Nokia will pay $410 million for the remaining shares in UK-based Symbian and make its software royalty-free to boost…
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Gap is narrowing, but more needs to be done to ensure poorer countries reap tech revolution’s opportunities in growth, development, says report. The digital divide between rich and poor countries is narrowing as mobile phones and Internet use become more available, but the developing world still lags far…
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Research continues on effects of long-term use, but no evidence so far suggesting cell phones are unsafe. Using a mobile phone does not increase your risk of brain cancer, according to a new Japanese study that is the first to consider the effects of radiation on different parts…
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Expansion into mobile Web services includes N-Gage gaming service and “Share on Ovi” social-networking site. Nokia , the world’s largest cell phone maker, started to roll out its online gaming service N-Gage on Tuesday as it expands into mobile Internet services. Nokia also opened its social-networking site…
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Morgan Gillis discusses the LiMo Foundation’s first mobile Linux platform release and why it matters that Nokia bought Trolltech. On Monday, the LiMo Foundation, an industry consortium that wants to put Linux technology onto mobile handsets, announced the first release of its shared platform. The foundation also…
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Selected Lenovo ThinkPad notebooks will include mobile broadband modules beginning this year. Sweden’s Ericsson said on Monday it was working with Lenovo, the world’s No. 3 PC maker, to provide mobile broadband modules based on high-speed packet access for Lenovo notebook computers. Ericsson said selected Lenovo ThinkPad…
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The LiMo Foundation’s mobile Linux platform will be released next month, but the API is available to developers immediately. The LiMo Foundation has announced the first release of its mobile Linux platform. The foundation is one of several industry consortia seeking to create a standardized approach to…
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New risk-ranking system reaffirms smoking, alcohol, sunlight as leading risk factors, but allays concerns about others. Drinking coffee, using mobile phones or having breast implants is unlikely to cause cancer, according to a new risk-ranking system devised by an Australian cancer specialist to debunk popular myths. The…
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Unlike in Europe, mobile porn has yet to take off in the U.S. But that may change soon as phone companies plan to loosen control on their networks. Size matters in pornography, except when it comes to tiny mobile phone screens, the next frontier for erotica. If…
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PlayNow music-download service for mobile phones will soon include content from Sony BMG, Warner Music, EMI, others. Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson said it had signed deals with 10 music labels to add content to its PlayNow service, which lets users download music via their mobile phones. …
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Eric Schmidt says mobile Web access is a “re-creation of the Internet” that will turn location-based advertising into big business. The arrival of a truly mobile Web, offering a new generation of location-based advertising, is set to unleash a “huge revolution,” Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on…
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