 February 3rd, 2012 by lhaas
Reports are surfacing over the past couple of weeks regarding CyanogenMod’s plans for an app store. This venture would provide much needed income for the organization as well as providing a home for Google-banned apps.
Koushik Dutta, a developer of the popular CyanogenMod firmware for Android, is tossing around the idea of a black market [...]
January 12th, 2012 by lhaas
Support is ramping up for smartphone wireless payment systems.
Visa announced today its approval of Samsung, LG and BlackBerry smartphones to utilise its new Visa payWave technology, as part of efforts to widen adoption of mobile device wireless payments.
It’s a step in the right direction, but the path to wireless payment success is still [...]
January 11th, 2012 by lhaas
The Defense Department is taking the point in the federal government’s campaign to deploy mobile devices. But in its role as trail blazer, DOD must also wrestle with a number of issues key to a successful rollout of approved smart phones and tablets.
Among those issues are security, authentication and the logistics of [...]
December 19th, 2011 by lhaas
Good news for Nexus S users: Google is rolling out OTA upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich. Early reviews are favorable.
Installing Ice Cream Sandwich on the Nexus S is like getting a completely new phone. The device is smoother and most responsive, which you notice from the moment you start using it. The [...]
December 8th, 2011 by lhaas
Great new resource. Dark Reading is launching a subsite focusing on mobile and wireless security.
While Dark Reading has been covering mobile and wireless security issues for more than five years, we are excited to have a special place in which to explore the emerging issues surrounding mobile devices and the “consumerization” of [...]
December 7th, 2011 by lhaas
A new and important milestone for Google’s Android mobile operating system. Some 10 billion applications have been downloaded from the Android Market to date. An impressive number and one that’s growing at a rapid pace. It took about 20 months for the Android Market to serve up it first billion apps and just [...]
December 5th, 2011 by lhaas
According to a member of Android-x86.org, Google’s Android 4.0 OS has been ported to work with x86 processors:
The source code of Android 4.0.1, which is code-named Ice Cream Sandwich, is for developers and designed to work with tablets based on Advanced Micro Devices’ low-power x86 chips code-named Brazos, which are typically used [...]
November 18th, 2011 by lhaas
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has already approved use of its first Android device, the Dell Streak 5, and has a number of other efforts going in regards to mobile device security. Now DISA is working with the Army’s 5th Signal Command to procure thousands of smart phones or mobile devices:
The Army’s 5th [...]
November 15th, 2011 by lhaas
Google to stop providing Gmail app for Blackberry:
Beginning November 22, 2011, we will end support for the Gmail App for BlackBerry (installed native app). Over this past year, we’ve focused efforts on building a great Gmail experience in the mobile browser and will continue investing in this area.
Users may continue to [...]
November 9th, 2011 by lhaas
1 comment', '  % comments', '' billion"> New report shows that Android hardware fails more, and proves more costly, than devices running on other operating systems. However, these failings have more to do with factors not related to the operating system itself:
“One thing we must be absolutely clear on,” says Tim Deluca-Smith, Vice President of Marketing at WDS, “is [...]
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