Mobile Platforms
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APAC firms pass on remote admin via phones
News Businesses in Asia have yet to warm to using mobile phones to perform systems administration tasks remotely, according to industry observers.
Friday, September 18 2009 05:51 PM
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Mobile platforms, Mobile applications, Infrastructure/architecture management, Network administration/implementation, Wipro Technologies, GUI, Infrastructure Management, Asia, Administrator
Mozilla moves ahead with mobile Firefox
Insight newsmaker The Fennec-developed handset version of Firefox will be open to add-ons, unlike existing mobile browsers, says Mozilla's head of mobile business Jay Sullivan.
Thursday, February 26 2009 10:47 PM
Tags: Web browsers, Mobile platforms, Mobile applications, Handhelds, Mobile, Web Browser, Fennec, BlackBerry Platform, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Symbian Inc.
Mobile networks key to online games take-off
News Mobile online gamers in Asia are rising steadily, but market development will be "fragmented" due to the state of mobile infrastructure, says new IDC report.
Friday, October 03 2008 06:25 PM
Tags: Network infrastructure, Mobile/Wireless, Mobile platforms, Games, Multimedia, Mobile, India, Online Game, Japan, phone
Palm opens doors to WebOS applications
News New developer program will allow mobile apps to be sold and installed without review by Palm, waiving fees for open source developers.
Wednesday, October 07 2009 09:45 AM
Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Open Source, Palm Inc., Apple Inc., software, Palm Pre, mobile, WebOS, Developer
Coders to get 70 percent of Android Market revenue
News Google has promised that beginning next year, programmers will get the lion's share of revenue from applications sold on the download site for the company's mobile phone operating system.
Thursday, October 23 2008 11:21 AM
Tags: Open source, Mobile platforms, Smart phones, Sales/revenue, Apple Inc., Application, Mobile, Google Inc., Programmer, phone
Is there life in Google’s Android?
Insight Last year's speculation over a Google "gPhone" sent the blogosphere into overdrive. The Android platform that Google actually launched, however, took things in quite a different direction.
Wednesday, June 25 2008 09:45 AM
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Mobile platforms, Mobile, Google Inc., Android, software, LiMo Foundation, brand name, Apple iPhone, U.S.
Open source, features to drive smartphone market
News Symbian remains dominant mobile OS but market share will dip, with emergence of competing open source platforms Android and Maemo, predicts In-Stat.
Tuesday, October 27 2009 04:06 PM
Tags: Mobile platforms, Applications and tools, Nokia Corp., Open Source, Symbian Inc., Phone, Operating System, mobile, handset, Smart Phone
iPhone apps will challenge Google's mobile search
Insight commentary Google's biggest challenge in mobile search is not other search engines or platforms--it is iPhone apps, says TechRepublic's Jason Hiner.
Thursday, June 18 2009 10:44 PM
Tags: Mobile applications, Mobile/Wireless, Mobile platforms, App, Mobile, Smart Phone, ABI Research, Google Inc., Search Engine, mobile search
Microsoft seeks to lure mobile developers with un-Apple-like perks
News Microsoft's new mobile development policies are designed to be the antithesis of Apple's.
Thursday, March 12 2009 12:18 PM
Tags: Mobile applications, Mobile platforms, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Mobile, Developer, Portal, Microsoft Windows Mobile, phone, Microsoft Windows
Android security team appeals to bug hunters
News Security team for Google's nascent open source mobile platform has attempted to raise its profile with the security community.
Wednesday, August 20 2008 09:29 AM
Tags: Security, Smart phones, Open source, Mobile platforms, Mobile, Google Inc., Security Team, Vulnerability, RFC, software
Mobile threat a 'ticking time bomb'
News Mobile botnets are currently non-existent but factors that make such a scenario possible are already in place, says security vendor F-Secure.
Friday, October 24 2008 06:41 PM
Tags: Viruses and worms, Business applications, Mobile platforms, Malware, Security, Mobile, F-Secure Corp., Cell Phone, Bot, operating system
Nokia confirms flaws in Series 40 handsets
News The company says the flaws, revealed by a Polish researcher, do not pose a significant risk to handsets using the operating system.
Monday, August 25 2008 10:19 AM
Tags: Cellular phones, Mobile platforms, Mobile platforms/communications, Java, Security, Mobile, J2ME, operating system, Flaw, Sun Microsystems Inc.
Mobile Linux group plans enterprise push
News Announcing new members, including Mozilla and Verizon, the LiMo Foundation claims to be in talks with two major enterprise Linux-distribution companies.
Thursday, May 15 2008 08:21 AM
Tags: Mobile platforms, Linux, Browser, Mobile, Research In Motion Ltd., Mobile Linux, Mozilla Corp., intellectual property, enterprise computing, software
Microsoft readying apps store for Windows Mobile?
News According to a job posting, the software giant expects to launch an applications store called "Skymarket" this fall for its Windows Mobile platform.
Monday, September 01 2008 09:57 AM
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Smart phones, Mobile platforms, Microsoft Corp., Mobile, Google Inc., Microsoft Windows Mobile, monetization, software, Microsoft Windows
Sony Ericsson: Xperia not tied to Windows Mobile
News The manufacturer hints that non-Windows Mobile handsets may in future appear under the Xperia brand, but says it is satisfied with Windows Mobile for now.
Thursday, September 18 2008 09:32 AM
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Mobile platforms, Smart phones, Battery, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Mobile, Google Inc., Microsoft Windows Mobile, Touch Screen, phone






