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Google Programs Android as Next Mobile Operating System

There is no Google phone, but what Google revealed Nov. 5 could be even bigger.Google unveiled a complete mobile phone stack under an open-source...

Google, Allies in Open Linux Phone Initiative

Google and 33 other companies have announced an ambitious industry alliance that will maintain a completely open-source mobile phone stack. The OHA (Open Handset...

Analysts: Google Android Faces an Uphill Adoption Battle

Google's Android mobile platform is raising more eyebrows for what it isn't than what it is.For one, Android is not the elusive Google Phone...

10 Tech Essentials for Emergency Evacuations

10 Tech Essentials for Emergency Evacuations When the firestorm erupted in San Diego in October, there was a sickening feeling of d-j vu that descended...

Canadian Firm Launches Patent Attack

Wi-LAN, a Canadian patent licensing firm, filed patent infringement lawsuits Nov. 1 against 22 technology companies, including Apple, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Intel. The lawsuits...

Smartcard RFID Market Projected to Soar

With contactless payment leading the way, the market for smartcards is expected to hit $1.42 billion by 2011, up from about $472 million today,...

Mobile Assembly

As the power of mobile devices continues to increase, so, too, does companies' desire to increase the number of applications running on them. Developers,...

Moving Targets

Microsoft's recent announcement of its new System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 should be a galvanizing moment for the mobile security industry. While the...

Symantec’s Mobile Security Suite Misses Mark

Symantec's Mobile Security Suite 5.0 provides a good mix of security features for devices based on Microsoft's Windows Mobile 5.0, but the product ultimately...

Apple Stealthily Updates Laptops

These things usually happen on Tuesdays, but Apple quietly refreshed its MacBook and MacBook Pro laptop lines Nov. 1. So quietly, in fact, that...