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If you tend to exercise a bit more caution when using your mobile machine, we imagine you’ll welcome McAfee ‘s Mobile Security 2.0 with open arms. The Intel-owned security connoisseur has just introduced its refreshed apps, designed to protect Android handsets and slates, along with BlackBerry and Symbian smartphones.
Nokia announced the anticipated Lumia 900 smartphone earlier this week at the Consumer Electronics Show, and we decided to spend some well-needed hands-on time with the device. Simply put, the Nokia Lumia 900 may be the single best phone Nokia has produced in years.
The Year of the Dragon is quickly approaching, and Vertu is in a celebrating mood. So much so, in fact, that it’s added three new luxury Dragon handsets to its Signature collection .
This week HP announced that their mobile operating system webOS will be contributed to the open source community. While HP assures us that they will be active in the development and support of webOS in the future, they’re now offering the operating system up to the “development power” of the open source community where they’re sure both applications and web services will be developed en masse for the next generation of mobile devices.
Google’s lead among smartphone platforms grew wider in the United States last quarter as Research In Motion and Microsoft each lost share to Android. Just-released data from Nielsen for the third quarter shows that Google’s share of the smartphone market in the U.S.
Samsung has demanded the iPhone 4S source code so that it can hunt for potential Apple patent infringement, in the latest escalation of the legal battle between the two companies. Just weeks after Apple secured a sales ban against the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia, Samsung’s lawyers asked courts in the country to order Apple to hand over the iPhone 4S code, Smart Office reports, in addition to details on subsidies agreed with Australian carriers.
Apple has made its Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) open-source , the company’s codec for compressing audio files without losing data – and hence music fidelity – along the way. Introduced to OS X back in 2004, and now supported on Macs, in iTunes, on iPods, iPhones and iPads, ALAC is also used in AirPlay on the AirPort Express.
CEM4Mobile: Android on Track to Take the Pole Position ESPOO, Finland, October 24, 2011/PRNewswire/ – New Research and a Forecast: iOS Leading, Android and Symbian Head to Head Over the past several years Finland’s and the world’s leading supplier of Mobile Analytics and Customer Experience Management (CEM) for mobile content and value-added services, CEM4Mobile Solutions, has been monitoring the different trends in the mobile market. The past year has shown extremely strong growth for the market share of Android OS based devices when analyzed from usage of mobile services.
Nokia is rumored to be developing an open-source OS for its low-end handsets, codenamed Meltemi, despite having failed to drive MeeGo to the point where it could save the company’s smartphones. Apparently being led by Nokia EVP of Mobile Phones Mary McDowell, so the WSJ ‘s sources tell them, Meltemi named after “the Greek word for dry summer winds that blow across the Aegean Sea from the north.” Whatever the etymology, the rumors are likely to surprise long-time Nokia watchers who have seen the company struggle to find its footing amid the cellphone OS shake-up of the past five years.
“We … are standing on a ‘burning platform,’ and we must decide how we are going to change our behaviour,” Nokia chief executive Stephen Elop (pictured right) wrote in an infamous memo that’s been making the rounds among news sites today. The memo, which clocks in at 1,300 words, was confirmed as legitimate by Engadget and is a clear sign that Elop aims to shake things up on Friday, when he’s due to unveil his new grand strategy for Nokia.