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Orange plots Eee PC mobile broadband coup
News Francois Mahieu, devices director of Orange UK, said the company plans to expand the range of laptops offered in the future. In a fight between an iPhone smart phone and an Eee PC netbook, which chunk of mobile hardware would win? [23 Jul 2008]
Police to get thousands more mobiles
News The government is to spend an extra £25m to put thousands more mobile devices in the hands of police to further reduce paperwork and give officers on-the-spot access to info when out on patrol. Mobile devices can play an important role in... [22 Jul 2008]
EC shies away from data-roaming regulation
News The best idea, in my view, is if companies could say on devices how much data you are using, or give a fixed allowance on data roaming. Mobile users should be made more aware of how much data they are using while abroad in Europe, the director... [22 Jul 2008]
Home servers latest trend to sweep market?
News And that's not even including the proliferation of iPods, mobile phones and other portable devices that need access as well. By contrast, a home server acts as a central storage hub for all the content in the home, and multiple devices can link to... [21 Jul 2008]
Has Barclays stamped out fraud with PINsentry?
News U is for USB sticks/devices Take-up of the devices has been higher than expected, exceeding 30 per cent of the online user base, Barclays said. Barclays began distributing the authentication devices in the second half of last year, initially... [18 Jul 2008]
NFC payments to reach tipping point in three years?
News NFC mobile wallet devices will remain limited next year - except in the Far East and China region where they are already established - but the number of devices shipping will begin to ramp up from 2010 onwards, says Juniper. [18 Jul 2008]
Security heading for the cloud
News U is for USB sticks/devices Gartner said the increase in use of cloud-based office software, such as Google Apps or salesforce.com, means online security services will be necessary to protect mobile IT users accessing business data and services... [17 Jul 2008]
Malware threat for iPhone 2.0
News Howard Schmidt, former advisor to the White House on cyber security, similarly noted in April that the availability of SDKs for mobile devices increases the likelihood of malware writers creating malicious code specifically for mobiles. [14 Jul 2008]
3 jumps on board Symbian Foundation
News The original members of the Symbian Foundation are Nokia, Symbian, Motorola, AT&T, NTT DoCoMo, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone.s director of products, Fergal Walker, said yesterday: "3 is pleased to... [11 Jul 2008]
Only one in 10 Brits recycle old mobiles
News However, just three per cent of the 6,500 people surveyed said they recycle their unwanted devices, and close to half weren't even aware a mobile phone could be recycled. And while only nine per cent of Brits recycle these old phones, it's not all... [09 Jul 2008]
Prison tech: Mobiles blocked and bodies scanned
News U is for USB sticks/devices Body scanning chairs and mobile phone blocking technology will be rolled out to UK prisons to stamp out drug abuse in jails. Mobile phone use will be blocked and Bodily Orifice Security Scanner (Boss) chairs will be... [08 Jul 2008]
Skype calls on ex-Motorola exec
News Durchslag spent more than five years at Motorola where he was most recently corporate vice president of global product and experience invention for the mobile devices business unit. and Kodak to bring new services to Motorola's mobile devices. [02 Jul 2008]
Jonathan Zittrain on why the internet is on a knife edge
News He points to the rise of closed, "tethered" systems used by devices such as iPhones and Xboxes or "cloud computing", where people use online software such as Google Docs. I think they can see the rise of both unmanaged - the internet - and managed... [30 Jun 2008]
Mobile Ubuntu invites developers to build
News Canonical this week released its first publicly available developer edition of Ubuntu for mobile internet devices. Ubuntu Mobile Internet Device Edition works on two devices at present, the Samsung Q1U and the Intel Crown Beach development station... [26 Jun 2008]
Google: Server efficiency needs different approach
News Luis Barroso, a Google engineer who closely studies the company's power consumption, speaking at the O'Reilly Velocity conference in California, said: "The data centre is a different device than the key targets for mobile electronics, laptops and... [25 Jun 2008]
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