Mobility

HTC Pays $75m For Wireless Patents

HTC has paid a US firm for dozens of patents including 4G-related intellectual property

13 years ago

BlackBerry Bold With Touch-Screen, NFC Seen In Video

A leaked video has shown a RIM BlackBerry Bold with touch capabilities and Near Field Communication

13 years ago

Apple iPhone 5 Rumoured To Sport 8MP Camera

Apple's iPhone 5 will reportedly contain an 8 megapixel camera following comments from Sony's CEO

13 years ago

Vodafone Exits France As It Offloads SFR Stake

Vodafone has ended its French stalemate by selling off its minority stake in SFR for £7 billion

13 years ago

Photos Of New BlackBerry Touch Leaked Online

RIM's BlackBerry Touch phone looks exciting and will have NFC, but can it revitalise the company?

13 years ago

Android Malware Highlights Smartphones Risks

The very freedom that makes Android-based devices so attractive also makes them a malware threat, says Wayne Rash

13 years ago

EMC Cloud Backup Service Arrives On iPad, iPhone

EMC Mozy has launched versions of its software for Apple iOS devices, with Android versions coming soon

13 years ago

Analyst Refutes IDC Windows Phone 7 Prediction

ABI Research has disagreed with IDC's prediction that Windows Phone 7 is set to become a leading mobile OS

13 years ago

Mozilla Launches Speedy Firefox 4 For Android

Mozilla has made a mobile version of its Firefox 4 web browser available for Android-based devices

13 years ago

IEEE Approves Next Generation WiMax Standard

The IEEE standards body has given the nod to 300Mbps WiMax mobile broadband

13 years ago

Dropped Call For London Tube Phone Access Tender

Plans to take Wi-Fi underground on London’s Tube have hit the buffers over funding and access agreements

13 years ago

Samsung And Visa To Offer Olympic Mobile Payments

Visitors to London for the Olympics will be able to use NFC-equipped mobile phones to buy snacks and drinks

13 years ago

DAFT Investigations, iPad Frypans: April Fools!

Pointy-fingered smartphone users, green-fingered data centre managers. April Fools, or true?

13 years ago

Asus Pad Is A Split Personality Tablet: First Look

The Asus Eee Pad Transformer touches all bases against the iPad 2 and wins out - except for marketing

13 years ago

AMD Aims Its Enterprise Chips At The Cloud

The trend toward cloud computing and virtualisation dovetails with AMD's enterprise strategy, according to Vladimir Rozanovich

13 years ago

Symbian Source Code Uploaded By Nokia

Nokia announces its transfer of the Symbian platform source code to the open community

13 years ago

Samsung Laptop Spyware Confirmed As False Alarm

Samsung "keylogger" spyware was a Windows Live Slovenian language directory detected as a false positive

13 years ago

Android Trojan Shames Illegal App Buyers, Steals Data

Users downloading pirated Android apps may get called out by a high-minded Android Trojan

13 years ago

iPad-Wielding Watson Outsmarts Fry On Qi

Geek god Stephen Fry beaten in a Turing-esque iPad-fuelled face-off with IBM's new super-duper computer

13 years ago

Microsoft Points To Positive Windows Phone 7 Numbers

Microsoft is claiming strong developer support for Windows Phone 7, despite ongoing sales concerns

13 years ago

Bagging Gosling Is A Major Coup For Google

Despite the Oracle Android case, Google wins big in hiring James Gosling, the creator of the Java language, says Darryl…

13 years ago

Microsoft Files EC Antitrust Complaint Against Google

Microsoft claims that Google is abusing its dominance in the online search market to block out rivals

13 years ago

Samsung Installed Stealth Keyloggers On Laptops

A report claims Samsung admitted to shipping laptops with an active keylogger deliberately installed

13 years ago

Critics Slam Lack Of Android Honeycomb Apps

With Motorola's Xoom and Asus' Transformer due to bring Android 3.0 tablets to the UK, where are the apps?

13 years ago

Microsoft And Dell Forecast iPad Demise

Microsoft executive Craig Mundie and Dell's Andy Lark reckon Apple’s iPad could lack staying power

13 years ago

O2 Offers Free Internet Tethering With New Tariffs

No more tethering charge for O2 customers as the operator unveils a new range of 'simpler' tariffs

13 years ago

Gosling Will Boost Google’s Defence Against Oracle

Google's hiring of Java creator James Gosling in the midst of a legal brawl with Oracle over Java patent infringement…

13 years ago

Twitter Plays Twister As Dempsey Returns

Jack Dempsey is back in to steer Twitter development while Evan Williams is out looking for a challenge

13 years ago

HP’s Apotheker Reveals Roadmap Milestones Up Ahead

HP CEO says webOS is a legitimate alternative to Windows because it can run all devices across the spectrum

13 years ago

Android To Lead Booming Smartphone Market In 2011

IDC expects Android to grab nearly 40 percent of a worldwide market shipping more than 450 million devices this year

13 years ago