Judy Mottl

Companies and consumers are using Wi-Fi networks more than ever, although security measures aren’t always keeping pace, according to a new study from security firm RSA. The seventh-annual Wireless Security Survey showed “dramatic” growth of wireless networks in New York, London and Paris. And at a time when concern over data security is at an […]

Demand for Internet data services is propelling growth in wireless services and helping mobile carriers’ earnings appear bulletproof to a macroeconomic climate that is prompting layoffs, slashed budgets and spending cuts in other industries. As one analyst said, wireless carriers, including AT&T and Verizon Wireless, are “immune” to the fallout from the national banking and […]

With the Android mobile application store now open for business, hot new apps are flooding in from developers — including the platform’s first Twitter client and a mobile weather alert program. Twidroid is a full-featured Twitter client, launched just as the Android Market opened its doors for developers to register to add their wares to […]

The T-Mobile G1 Android-based smartphone may have hit stores only last week, but a researcher is already warning about a flaw in the phone’s Web browser that could compromise users’ online activity. Charles Miller, principal analyst at security consultancy Independent Security Evaluators (ISE), said the vulnerability enables hackers to control and redirect browser activity and […]

I’ve spent hours these past two weeks talking to analysts about the Google HTC G1 that debuted this week, and yes the story is all about Android as we have reported. While I couldn’t get my hands on a review device, despite my usual begging and pleading, I did get to play with one at […]

Smartphone innovation is tethered to a constellation of factors coming together: the right hardware, a flexible operating system, good design, a fast network and, of course, nifty applications. After all, as smartphones grow in power, so do expectations of better experiences with those applications. “It’s just like the PC model,” Tim Bajarin, president of analyst […]

Over half of today’s desktop computer users are willing to trade the PC for a smartphone for Internet use, illustrating how mobile devices are fulfilling the promise of next-generation computing. That’s a top finding of a new IBM survey polling 600 users in the US, China and UK on how what they like and don’t […]

Samsung Epix. Click to enlarge.Source: Samsung Samsung pulled out all the stops this week, introducing an enterprise-friendly, Windows Mobile smartphone that not only includes a touchscreen and support for new video-sharing capabilities but what the Korean technology giant described as the first optical mouse on a high-end phone. Yet it’s possible that not many in […]

BlackBerry Bold. Click to enlarge.Source: RIM The BlackBerry Bold — Research in Motion’s first high-speed 3G device and its next entry in the increasingly competitive smartphone space — is now set to arrive on Nov. 4, six months after its official announcement from its manufacturer. The smartphone, which had reportedly suffered delays due to problems […]

The arrival Wednesday of the T-Mobile G1, the first Android smartphone, marks the debut of the most open mobile operating system yet. Android’s creators – the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), Google and T-Mobile – have pledged to fully support third-party application development, promising no one will dictate what users can download to the G1, or […]

Businesses’ demand for mobile messaging is paying off for Sybase, an enterprise database player that’s finding wireless messaging is helping to buttress weakness in other areas. The company reported revenue of $284 million for the third quarter of 2008, an 11 percent increase from $255.3 million in the third quarter of 2007. But messaging was […]

BlackBerry StormSource: RIM Research in Motion is following the leads of Apple and Android in creating an application storefront for its BlackBerry device, in a bid to make it simpler and more enticing for developers to create and sell their own apps for the mobile devices. The new BlackBerry store front, announced during RIM’s (NASDAQ: […]