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iPhone not getting a full Flash like Android
News Lynch also demonstrated AIR 1.5 running on a Linux-based Aigo miniature computer - what Intel likes to call a MID, or mobile internet device. The company has worked for years on a lightweight incarnation of its Flash... [18 Nov 2008]
All-seeing I-Ball gives troops remote skinny on the enemy
News The all-seeing device, known as the I-Ball, is intended to be thrown or launched by a mortar into areas of combat in order send back video to troops ahead of an assault, providing vital intelligence on enemy numbers and... [17 Nov 2008]
Nokia lowers handset sales predictions
News As a result of the rapid change in global consumer spending, which has impacted the mobile-device market, Nokia now expects that the industry mobile-device volumes will be lower in the fourth quarter of... [17 Nov 2008]
How CIOs learned to stop worrying and love the iPhone
News About half of CIO Andy Jurcyzk's 1,800 employees worldwide use some kind of mobile device, and at the moment, 200 of those people are using the iPhone 3G. My philosophy is that devices are personal, and it's difficult... [14 Nov 2008]
3 does facebook phone for Generation Data
News The device has been designed for always-on integration with a range of mobile social networking and IM services including facebook, Windows Live Messenger and Skype. On 3, the pay monthly tariff will be £15, while the... [13 Nov 2008]
Bye bye BlackBerry, hello Moto in £1m deal
News The data is guaranteed, the data is auditable by every bit and every byte… They even know what time the engineer charged their device and how charged the device is so we know exactly whether an... [12 Nov 2008]
VMware gets into mobile virtualisation game
News Isolating device drivers from the handset's operating system would also allow manufacturers to spend less on porting applications between models, VMWare claims. VMware has announced a major push into the mobile market... [11 Nov 2008]
Beat bobbies need more cash for smartphones
News Figures from Thames Valley, West Yorkshire and Bedfordshire forces put the average cost - for training, infrastructure and the device itself - at 80p to £1 per officer per day. Despite calls for more money to give all... [10 Nov 2008]
Visa demos the credit card with its very own PIN pad
News The demo tests a SIM toolkit application devised by Visa which sits alongside a Visa payment applet, allowing customers to manage their payments through the mobile device and make payments by waving the... [10 Nov 2008]
Microsoft's Ballmer not threatened by Google Android
News The Telstra leader also wondered if Google had the expertise to follow through, saying that there are always issues in a first generation device which had to be ironed out. Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer today... [06 Nov 2008]
Windows 7 aims for netbooks as well as PCs
News For hardware makers, Microsoft has a feature called "device stage" that lets them offer up things like manuals, links to services, and access to content stored on the device in one place. On stage,... [06 Nov 2008]
End of data losses no loss to NHS Lothian
News That's why we need the granularity of 'that device is fine, that isn't'," he said. Lumension Security's Sanctuary Device Control and Becrypt Disk & Connect will now be deployed to cover some 25,000... [05 Nov 2008]
Protecting the Beijing Olympics from hackers
News Automated real-time security audits also allowed Atos Origin to examine every new or reconfigured device connected to the Games' system to check the device had the proper security settings and antivirus... [30 Oct 2008]
HP to shake up netbook market with mainstream line
News Second, there are more options depending on the features a person needs, and a cheaper low-end device, now starting below $400. After a brief experiment in the education market, HP on Wednesday is set to introduce a... [29 Oct 2008]
Google Earth maps onto the iPhone
News Peter Birch, Google Earth's product manager, said: "The idea of having Earth on a mobile device is something people dreamed of back to the Keyhole days [satellite imagery company Google acquired in 2004] and before. [27 Oct 2008]
