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Photos: Android marches onto even more smartphones
Photo The Xperia X10 runs version 1.6 of the Android OS - aka Donut - and is skinned with a propriety UI which the mobile maker says will be used for other Android devices in future. It's two years since... [06 Nov 2009]
Maemo and Android: Symbian's open source rivals up the pressure
News New entrants to the market including Google's Android will continue to snap at Symbian's heels, according to market watchers In-Stat, with the company also seeing increasing competition from a new quarter - Maemo, a Linux-based OS for... [02 Nov 2009]
Can I use a netbook as my everyday work machine?
Comment Now although my 14.1-inch Toshiba, weighing in at just under 2.5kg, is hardly the largest laptop around, netbook devices touting weights of as little as 1kg seem more than a little tempting. Was Apple's COO Tim Cook... [02 Nov 2009]
Amazon's Kindle ignites legal upheaval
Comment The explosion of increasingly sophisticated mobile devices, coupled with the recent app phenomenon will also contribute to the proliferation of e-reader technologies, allowing e-publications to be viewed... [27 Oct 2009]
It's a dog's life for police BlackBerrys
News The government has committed £80m to ramp up police smartphone use by funding the deployment of 30,000 mobile data devices by 2010 - with the Home Office's plan being to increase police visibility in... [20 Oct 2009]
Photos: Google Android dual boots with Windows 7 on Acer netbook
Photo One of the devices to debut was this dual-boot version of its Acer Aspire One D250 netbook (pictured above in white). Acer has also shown off a smartphone running Qualcomm's Snapdragon chipset for low-power... [16 Oct 2009]
Comparing Research In Motion and Microsoft Mobile Solutions
White Paper This paper compares the Research In Motion BlackBerry solution (BlackBerry mobile devices and BlackBerry Enterprise Server) with the Microsoft® mobile solution (Microsoft Windows... [15 Oct 2009]
T-Mobile's Sidekick data: All may not be lost
News There may be some good news for Sidekick owners: users' data which was thought lost after a server failure at Microsoft subsidiary Danger - the company that makes the devices - may yet be retrieved. Users of... [13 Oct 2009]
Photos: 10 of the best open source mobiles
Photo Mobile maker Motorola is involved in two open source movements - it has several devices running the LiMo platform but pictured here is its first Android device, known as the Dext in the UK. Despite being... [12 Oct 2009]
Dell-Customized Mobility Solutions
White Paper From notebooks, netbooks, and handheld computers to WiFi, smartphones, and mobile broadband, there really is no end to the number of devices now available for a wide variety of business applications. In... [08 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: The Kindle, Amazon's e-book reader
Cheat Sheet That's exactly what it is.e-book readers are typically small, thin devices - about the size of a paperback novel - that can store hundreds or thousands of books in digital form. Research by analyst Forrester has... [07 Oct 2009]
Windows Phone is here: Microsoft gunning for smartphone rebirth
News Microsoft has announced the first devices to bear the Windows Phone brand are ready to hit the market. The Windows Phone brand covers handsets running on Windows Mobile 6.5, and is a shift away from the... [07 Oct 2009]
Securing Personally Identifiable Information
White Paper Files are copied to laptop hard drives and mobile devices. Sensitive information - such as credit card numbers and social security numbers combined with a person's first and last name, (a.k.a. Personally... [05 Oct 2009]
MiFID Compliance With Tripwire
White Paper The EU created MiFID to succeed 93/22/EEC because investors are now offered a more complex set of investment services and opportunities that can be exercised in more complex ways, such as online trading, use of PDAs and other... [05 Oct 2009]
Providing Secure Access to Corporate Resources From BlackBerry Devices: Leveraging Two-Factor Authentication
White Paper BlackBerry devices are becoming ubiquitous throughout the enterprise, as organizations improve employee connectivity and communications. The BlackBerry Enterprise Solution - designed and manufactured by Research In... [05 Oct 2009]
