Mobile Platforms
295 Stories
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Mobile platforms, Smart phones, Battery, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Mobile, Google Inc., Microsoft Windows Mobile, Touch Screen, phone
