Watchdog reveals illegal sale of phone users' data
Blog According to the statement, ICO investigators have been working with the unspecified mobile operator, who suggested that "employees allegedly sold details relating to customers' mobile phone contracts, including their contract expiry dates".
[November 17, 2009, 13:42]
RIM pushes boat out for BlackBerry developers
News He also described RIM as being well positioned to allow application purchases to be made via the handset owner's mobile phone bill, a key goal for mobile developers. One key API simplifies working with advertising networks.
[November 10, 2009, 15:26]
Moblin 2.1 Final Release
Blog There is also a large "Send file from your computer" button, which I suppose would be used with other computers, mobile phones and the like. Click it off, the bluetooth mouse stops working; click it back on and it takes a few seconds for the...
[November 10, 2009, 13:48]
Another Quango that continues
Talkback Regardless of the great and good reasons for NOMAD, it certainly cannot be said that it makes any benefit to the life of the people of this country. I always look at the many "bodies" established over the past decade or two and try to analyse what...
[November 5, 2009, 12:50]
Gov't mobile working project saved from axe
News The government programme to support mobile and flexible working in local authorities has been saved from the axe. Working closely with colleagues in Scotland, I believe we can take Nomad forward in a sustainable way and maintain a national identity...
[November 5, 2009, 8:50]
Sign-ups begin for BT's cloud-phone Ribbit service
News Ribbit Mobile will be available as a free beta trial in the first quarter of 2010, BT said on Tuesday. The service lets mobile-phone users make and answer calls on the internet, using their mobile-phone numbers.
[November 4, 2009, 11:50]
At what point should Microsoft get scared?
Blog From enterprise to consumer, from cloud to mobile, everything was included. Now, imagine Ballmer trying to put on an equivalent 45 minute performance where he seamlessly merges the Microsoft vision for mobile (can you even tell me what that is?
[October 29, 2009, 18:53]
Qualcomm targets open source with new subsidiary
News Qualcomm has reinforced its commitment to open-source software with the creation of a wholly owned subsidiary focused on mobile open-source technologies. The move is intended to demonstrate that Qualcomm plans to play a growing role in the...
[October 28, 2009, 15:21]
SAP, Nokia join forces against counterfeiting
News Original1's product-assurance services will be based on the SAP platform, with Nokia providing mobile authentication software. The services will add a tag to a physical item with a tamper-proof product code so it can be tracked from production to...
[October 28, 2009, 11:36]
ZDNet UK launches its Service and Reliability survey
News The survey covers 11 areas of enterprise IT: desktop PCs, notebooks, smartphones, mobile network operators, servers, network infrastructure, peripherals, business applications, unified communications, network security and cloud services.
[October 19, 2009, 16:27]
Components of a Unified Communications system
Blog From your mobile - if you start using the IM on your mobile, for example, then it can assume you are working away from the office e. Instead of keep a list of people in your e-mail, mobile phone, desk phone, IM client, video client, etc, you have...
[October 15, 2009, 16:13]
What Microsoft needs to do about the Sidekick fiasco
Blog As the Sidekick mobile phones rely completely on the service to maintain their data - they're thin clients with only battery-backed local storage - this has left the users with nothing. T-Mobile US's Sidekick service, run by Danger and thus Danger...
[October 13, 2009, 21:23]
Socitm unveils 'Council of the Future' project
News Its development involves looking at traditional IT issues such as mobile working, electronic document and record management, internet services and business applications, along with broader business issues such as key performance indicators...
[October 13, 2009, 9:07]
Apple tackling Snow Leopard data-loss issue
News Microsoft is currently dealing with a massive data loss at its Danger subsidiary, the company it acquired that makes the Sidekick mobile phone. For the past month, some Mac OS X users have been reporting their personal data missing after logging...
[October 13, 2009, 8:11]
Honey, I Shrunk The Flash Player
Blog Adobe is working on delivering on its new multi-screen promise, and thinking hard about what goes on each screen, from mobile to desktop to TV. That’s why the mobile version, Flash Lite, always lagged behind, as it was desktop Flash with bits removed.
[October 12, 2009, 9:43]
Nokia N900 operating system gets official Qt port
News Applications created for Nokia's N900 smartphone will be easier to port to future versions of the company's Maemo Linux operating system as well as to Symbian and Windows Mobile, after Nokia officially ported its Qt graphical toolkit to Maemo 5.
[October 9, 2009, 17:16]
TimeTTracker MX2 Pro Desktop/Mobile
Downloads Its interface is tailored to using a keyboard and a mouse, including custom keyboard shortcuts, as well as working with entire blocks of records in bulk.Synchronized and IntegratedTimeTTracker MX2 synchronizes your data effortlessly, integrating...
[October 8, 2009, 21:28]
Sneak Peeks reveals some of Adobe's thinking
News As for developer tools for Flash, the Sneak Peeks session saw a presentation of the forthcoming mobile version of the Flex framework and language, a reflection of Adobe's commitment to working with the next generation of mobile devices.
[October 8, 2009, 13:39]
Kindle, international ebook of mystery
Blog Not all content sources can be accessed over the wireless network of the Kindle, which uses a protocol called Whispernet over the Sprint network in the US to support nominally free mobile access. When you've got a hundred countries and goodness...
[October 7, 2009, 15:23]
Adobe takes Flash to smartphones
News A public developer beta of the software is scheduled for release later this year for Windows Mobile and Palm WebOS on mobile devices and for Windows, Mac and Linux on the desktop. While it is common on the desktop, Flash has not made much headway...
[October 5, 2009, 12:57]



