Mobile Application Security Promised by Veracode
Permalink: Mobile Application Security Promised by Veracode by Franz Bicar
As mobile applications become more popular, one question lingers in our minds – are these mobile applications safe? Can I trust my mission critical data through these mobile apps? Even now, as technology advances and shifts its focus towards the cloud, these apprehensions prevent major companies from adopting this form of setup.
This is why [...]
Second Life for Satellite Phones Could Happen this Year
Permalink: Second Life for Satellite Phones Could Happen this Year by Franz Bicar
Making phone calls anywhere could be a possibility. Well technically, now, with wide signal coverage offered by different carriers, you can actually do that.
You’re up in the mountains where cellphone signals can’t reach you, or these carrier services go down due to cataclysmic phenomenons, then what you do? Satellite phones! That’s the answer to the [...]
Classic Games Headed to the App Store
Permalink: Classic Games Headed to the App Store by Franz Bicar
Yeah, you heard it right. Huge fans of classic games such as Quake and Doom should rejoice for your favorite first-person shooters are headed to the iPhone via Apple’s App Store.
Doom Resurrection has been released for some time now so those early adopters know the capability of the iPhone as a gaming platform for [...]
Single charger for all phones from 2010
Permalink: Single charger for all phones from 2010 by David Masters
From next year, all mobile phones sold in the EU will fit the same phone charger.
Major manufacturers including Apple, Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, NEC, Research in Motion, Samsung and LG have signed up to a voluntary EU agreement to create a common charger based on the mini-USB connector.
Currently there are more than [...]
Sony cell phone/game station combo
Permalink: Sony cell phone/game station combo by Alan Harten
Rumours are afloat in the gaming industry that Sony may be considering a cell phone/game station combo that is based loosely on the Playstation platform by Sony.
The company will set up a project team to work on the new combo which would integrate Sony gaming technology with Sony Ericsson mobiles, in the next couple [...]
Motorola’s Latest – Karma QA1 Slider
Permalink: Motorola’s Latest – Karma QA1 Slider by Franz Bicar
This could be Motorola’s next big thing. The Motorola Karma QA1 slider phone will hit markets today and is aimed for social network activities. With the Karma QA1, users will have direct interaction with social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and other services.
The phone basically measures around 3.5 by 2.5 inches, has a [...]
RFID Chips on All Phones by Next Year
Permalink: RFID Chips on All Phones by Next Year by Franz Bicar
So what exactly is an RFID chip? What makes it so important? Well from Wikipedia, RFID, otherwise known as Radio-frequency Identification, is the use of an object applied to or incorporated into a product, animal, or person for the purpose of identification and tracking using radio waves. This would allow phones the ability to open [...]
HP Ipaq 910C Review
Permalink: HP Ipaq 910C Review by Franz Bicar
For today, let’s deviate from our usual consumer smartphones and try to look at some of today’s leading business models. Most of these devices include features that are at times missing from today’s smartphone models - given that these devices cost a little bit more. Of course, basic features for performing office tasks are there, [...]
June 25, 2009Anam’s Bully Filter wins award
Permalink: Anam’s Bully Filter wins award by Jan Harris
Dublin-based Anam, which provides mobile operators with messaging services solutions, has been recognised at the Global Messaging Awards 2009.
The company’s Bully Filter for Telenor was named ‘Best Social Use Application’ at the awards.
Telenor Group, which provides telecommunication services in 13 countries across Europe and Asia, uses Anam’s Parental Control solution to power its [...]
Future of Mobile Devices Bright with Intel and Nokia Partnership
Permalink: Future of Mobile Devices Bright with Intel and Nokia Partnership by Franz Bicar
On Tuesday, Intel, the world’s largest semiconductor chip maker, and Nokia, one of the leading manufacturers of mobile phones and mobile devices, announced their partnership in developing future mobile devices. This announcement could serve as the cornerstone for the future of mobile devices and the mobile market.
Both companies are still silent on specific products or [...]
Agito announces Blackberry VoIP app
Permalink: Agito announces Blackberry VoIP app by David Masters
Agito has launched a new VoIP app for Blackberry handsets, enabling Blackberry users to make VoIP calls over Wi-Fi.
The app is a development of Agito’s RoamAnywhere Mobility Router, which aims to help businesses integrate unified communications (UC) with mobile devices.
Research in Motion’s (RIM) Blackberry handsets dominate the corporate smartphone market, making a Blackberry app essential [...]
T-Mobile to Introduce the Android myTouch
Permalink: T-Mobile to Introduce the Android myTouch by Franz Bicar
As the Summer for smartphone heats up, another one is being released that will give consumers more choices to choose from. This is T-Mobile’s next Google Android device, named myTouch. This new smartphone will be announced on Monday and will be the carrier’s second device utilizing Google’s open source mobile operating stytem. Last fall, T-Mobile [...]
June 22, 2009Surveys Indicate Phones Getting More Complicated
Permalink: Surveys Indicate Phones Getting More Complicated by Franz Bicar
You think you know all the features in your smartphone - both inside and out? Well think again. A survey from FoneBank is telling us that nearly two thirds of Britons are having a hard time knowing all of the features on their phones and that mobile phones today are getting way complicated than when [...]
June 20, 2009Palm Releases Web OS 1.0.3 Update
Permalink: Palm Releases Web OS 1.0.3 Update by Franz Bicar
Not to be outdone with the latest release of Apple’s iPhone 3.0 OS, Palm also released its first updates to their very own Web OS. Palm’s Web OS is at version 1.0.3 and is currently being used by their latest hit, the Palm Pre. Although no new apps were introduced for this release, several key [...]
June 18, 2009Summer Release for the T-Mobile Dash 3G
Permalink: Summer Release for the T-Mobile Dash 3G by Franz Bicar
The long awaited refresh of the T-Mobile Dash has been released by T-Mobile. The phone, named the T-Mobile Dash 3G, is part of what many is calling the best summer for smartphones, even with the ongoing recession. It started this month with the launch of the Palm Pre and will continue this week with the [...]
iPhone OS 3.0 Officially Released
Permalink: iPhone OS 3.0 Officially Released by Franz Bicar
After months of waiting, the much anticipated iPhone OS 3.0 is finally here. Said to have addressed some of the most awaited features such as copy, cut and paste and push notification, the OS is coming in with a bang! The iPhone OS 3.0 was released to developers last March, and now, it is freely [...]
June 17, 2009Solar-powered Phone Debuts from Samsung
Permalink: Solar-powered Phone Debuts from Samsung by Franz Bicar
You want to go green? Then maybe this is the phone built especially for you. You don’t only help save the planet, you will also never worry about your phone running out of juice again.
Samsung announced the E1107, it very first solar-powered GSM mobile phone. The E1107, also known as the Crest Solar, can be [...]
LG Neon Simple Messaging Phone
Permalink: LG Neon Simple Messaging Phone by Franz Bicar
After the LG Xenon, the Korean company released another phone named the LG Neon. As with the Xenon, the Neon sports similar capabilities, except that it doesn’t have 3G. Also, the Neon has a touch screen, but only for its phone dialer. I guess LG made the Neon a simpler version of the Xenon and [...]
June 12, 2009BlackBerry Curve 8900 Review
Permalink: BlackBerry Curve 8900 Review by Franz Bicar
The BlackBerry Curve 8900 was released last May. It was praised as a very good messaging smartphone. However, it was criticized for lacking one important feature that seems to be present in today’s smartphones – 3G support. So how good is the Curve 8900? Is 3G capabilities really that important that the devices’ lack thereof [...]
June 11, 2009Recharge your phone without using the mains?
Permalink: Recharge your phone without using the mains? by Alan Harten
Nokia may not have to worry about deciding whether or not to use the universal charger in the next few years if its newest technology works out, with the ability to charge mobile phones simply by using radio waves.
Aiming for 2013, Nokia hopes to fine tune its technology so that ambient electromagnetic radiation (AER) can [...]