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March 10, 2010

Coming soon: phone that sees through buildings

Filed under: Daily News, Entertainment, LBS and GPS, Mobile Apps and Content, Public, mobile phones — fmmonteverde @ 6:07 am

A mobile phone that can see through walls or around corners could be just a year away, according to Australian researchers.
 

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March 9, 2010

Smartphones become a botnet target

Mobile phones could be the next target for computer hackers using botnets, after a computer security firm proved the malicious code can be installed in smartphones.
 
Security outfit TippingPoint say installing botnets in smartphones is a relatively easy task, after already installing corrupted software on nearly 8,000 of the mobile devices, via a downloadable

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March 8, 2010

Korean regulator wants marketing culled

The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) has announced plans to limit telcos’ marketing spending to less than 20% of sales by 2011.
 

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Apple bans Wi-Fi hotspot sniffers from App Store

Apple has banned another category of apps from the iPhone app store without notice – this time Wi-Fi hotspot detection applications.
 

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Touchcreen market to double in 2010: Gartner

Sales of touchscreen devices will grow 97% this year and will account for 58% of all mobile device sales by 2013, Gartner predicts.
 
The research firm said 362.7 million units would ship in 2010, up from 184.3 million last year, and expects touch interface technology to be one of the k

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March 5, 2010

Mobile access to Twitter surging: ComScore

Facebook remains the most popular social networking site for mobile users, despite rival Twitter enjoying a 347% rise in the number of subscribers accessing the site on their phone.
 
Figures from ComScore show 4.7 million users accessed Twitter from their phone in January, up from 1.1 million in January 2009.

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March 4, 2010

Nokia launches Skype for smartphones

Skype can be downloaded onto 23 devices from Nokia starting today, Nokia has announced.
 
However, users on the Official Nokia Blog site are reporting problems with the downloading the app.
 
Nokia yesterday released Skype for Symbian, w

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Mobile data traffic boom outweighs rise in sales

US mobile network operators are struggling to keep up with a surge in data traffic, with diminishing returns to show for their efforts, according to Chetan Sharma Consulting.
 
Mobile data consumption soared 193% in 2009 to nearly 400 petabytes, yet data service revenues grew by just 29% to $44 billion, it says in a new

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March 3, 2010

Apple’s smartphone battle plan

Filed under: Apple, BusinessWeek, Google, HTC, Mobile Apps and Content, Public, iPhone patents, mobile phones — fmmonteverde @ 1:36 pm

Apple’s attempt to block the import of smartphones made by HTC Corp. underscores the growing prominence of the International Trade Commission in settling patent disputes over smartphones, one of the fastest-growing areas in technology.

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Apple sues HTC over iPhone patents

Apple has sued Taiwan-based HTC for allegedly using iPhone technologies in Nexus One and other smartphones.
 

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