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Photos: Android marches onto even more smartphones
Photo It's two years since Google announced it was building an open mobile OS platform - and the number of smartphones with Android inside is on the up. Sony Ericsson's first Android phone is a bit of a looker. [06 Nov 2009]
Maemo and Android: Symbian's open source rivals up the pressure
News New OSes such as Android and Maemo will cut away at Symbian market share," Allen Nogee, In-Stat analyst, said in a statement, adding: "Although there are relatively few open source OS-based smartphones in the market... [02 Nov 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Augmented reality
Cheat Sheet According to ABI, an entirely new mass market for AR has opened up in the mobile world, thanks to the increasing availability of technology such as video cameras, GPS, compasses, and accelerometers on smartphones. [27 Oct 2009]
Augmented reality's time is coming thanks to smarter smartphones
News Today's increasingly feature-packed smartphones are likely to propel the use of augmented reality into the mainstream in the coming years. This growth will be stoked by smartphones packing a range of... [26 Oct 2009]
It's a dog's life for police BlackBerrys
News He said the force, which rolled out BlackBerrys to its officers in June 2008, has seen a steep rise in PNC checks since it put smartphones in the hands of its officers because they cut out the need for radioing into an... [20 Oct 2009]
Photos: 10 of the best open source mobiles
Photo Smartphones have come a long way in the last few years. Smartphones have come a long way in the last few years With Juniper Research predicting smartphones shipped with an open source OS... [12 Oct 2009]
How a tech 'watch list' can save CIOs from being caught out
News For example, mobile apps on smartphones might not be important to a manufacturer, though they might be very interesting to a professional services firm, the Forrester Research report The Top 15 Technology Trends EA... [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 this TechRepublic... [08 Oct 2009]
Amazon offers to be man in the middle for mobile payments
News For more, see Amazon sets up payments on smartphones on ZDNet UK. Amazon is moving into the world of mobile payments with the launch of a new service that will allow consumers to buy goods, services and mobile apps using... [07 Oct 2009]
Adobe's Flash coming to smartphones, netbooks
News The company has just announced Flash Player 10.1 which will let users view Flash video and play Flash games on smartphones, netbooks and other mobile hardware. For more, see Adobe takes Flash to... [05 Oct 2009]
A Study of the Performance of SSL on PDAs
White Paper PDAs and smartphones are increasingly being used as handheld computers. Today, their network connectivity and their usages for various tasks over the Internet require privacy and authenticity. This paper conducts a... [04 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Symbian
Cheat Sheet Psion, you may recall, was big in PDAs - the connectivity-free electronic organisers that preceded smartphones - while Ericsson, Motorola and Nokia dabbled in mobiles. Smartphones are not necessarily the... [01 Oct 2009]
Stephen Fry
AS Profile Fry's status as the popular face of technology enthusiasts was cemented in 2007 with the launch of his column in The Guardian newspaper about gadgets, named Dork Talk, and his personal blog, the first post of which extolled the virtues... [30 Sep 2009]
Warren East
AS Profile East has been CEO since 2001, presiding over a period of impressive growth in chip shipments as mobiles, smartphones, netbooks and other embedded electronics continue to proliferate. Chipmaker ARM is the powerhouse... [29 Sep 2009]
Dell ditches the wires with Latitude Z for business
News The secondary processor - used mostly in smartphones - also draws much less power than a more robust desktop or notebook processor and so while it's running in the background it doesn't drain the battery as fast: using... [29 Sep 2009]
