Articles tagged with: android and Windows Mobile

Premium-rate SMS trojan shares code with SpyEye variant

A new piece of mobile malware targets Russian users of Symbian and Windows Mobile phones, and an Android strain may be in development. more

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iPhone Platform top for Software Developers

Fifty-three percent of developers quizzed by iGR build applications for the Apple iPhone OS, followed by RIM BlackBerry OS, android and Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5. This is a shift from iGR's 2009 developer study in which Windows Mobile was by far the most popular OS. Developers generally develop for multiple platforms and are increasingly developing for more. Respondents currently developed for 2.4 separate platforms, a number that is expected to increase to 3.4 over the next 12 months.  more

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Opera Ships Latest Mobile Web Browser to Handset Manufacturers

Opera Software has released the latest version of its mobile web browser, Opera Mobile 10 to operators and OEMs. ­This direct-to-distributor version is available on android, BREW, Windows Mobile and Symbian/S60 smartphones and includes Opera's new, cross-platform UI framework. As a part of Opera's shift to unify the look and feel of its mobile browsers, the cross-platform UI framework allows operators and OEMs to implement the same user experience quickly and cost-effectively across their entire range of handsets.  more

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LG Shows Off First Android Based Smartphone

..just a week after it announced plans for three new Windows Mobile based smartphones. The new android OS based LG-GW620 features a 3-inch full touchscreen and slide out QWERTY keypad. "The LG-GW620 will appeal to first-time smartphone customers more

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BlackBerry Becomes Dominant Platform on Handango Apps Store

Mobile applications retailer, Handango is reporting that for the first time ever, BlackBerry displaced Windows Mobile to become the dominant platform within the Handango content catalog, constituting 44% of all apps sold in the first half of 2009, up from its 31% share in 2008.  more

Related Tags: handango, blackberry, symbian, apps-store, palm, ea, email, palm-os, os, backup, mobile-apps, apps


Huawei Shows Off Android and Windows Mobile Based Smartphones

Huawei has showcased two new smartphones - the android-powered "U8230" and the Windows Mobile based "C8000" - in advance of their commercial release in the second half of 2009.  more

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Fewer than 10% of LBS Developers Will Port Apps to Palm & Symbian

Developers of location aware applications are not interested in creating apps for the Palm WebOS or Symbian platforms, according to a survey conducted by Skyhook Wireless, provider of the hybrid location system XPS. High quality location results are key for these developers, who are using location to enable over 20 different types of applications.  more

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Smartphone Market Share Increased Rapidly Worldwide According to AdMob

Mobile advertising agency, AdMob has reported that despite challenging economic conditions, smartphones continued to gain significant market share worldwide over the past six months, rising from 26 percent to 33 percent of hits to its adserver platform in February 2009.  more

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CIOs Can Cut 50 to 80 Percent of Communications Costs

Yankee Group has demonstrated that CIOs and corporate IT departments of small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) can save more than 50 to 80 percent on costs related to corporate wireless, e-mail and messaging by moving to an Anywhere IT environment.  more

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Android based Netbooks to Emerge in 2009

Opinion by Laurent Lachal, Ovum Open Source Research Director

Upwards view: Linux is losing ground

The upwards view of netbooks starts with netbooks and looks up to laptops. It leads to two conclusions. First, the laptop market is becoming increasingly complex, with market segments catered for by a growing variety of low-cost netbooks and laptops. Second, after a strong start, Linux netbooks have now been overtaken by Windows netbooks and Linux is lagging increasingly behind in terms of sales - although Linux's performance in the netbook segment is still outstanding compared to its overall performance in the desktop market.  more

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