Larry Barrett

The news just keeps on coming when it comes to Android devices. The latest new Android device is the new LG Optimus Black smartphone, one of many mobile devices debuting at CES this week. Enterprise Mobile Today has the skinny on what features are included in the Optimus Black, which joins a crowded field of […]

Could Apple be a victim of its own success? Security experts warn that hackers are taking square aim at popular devices like the iPhone and iPad, particular as they become mainstays in the enterprise. Those threats become all too acute amid our growing compulsion to check into social networking sites like Facebook, now the favored […]

2010 was a scary one for consumers, companies and government looking to safeguard their data and their privacy while accessing the Internet for work and pleasure. As eSecurity Planet reports, this past year featured new and more dangerous security threats than ever before and there’s every reason to expect more of the same in the […]

Apple is revising its own internal sales and shipment targets for the iPhone, according to a report quoting some of its key component manufacturers in Asia. The new projections also reportedly call for at least 5 million new CDMA shipments in the quarter, yet another sign the popular smartphone will soon be available on Verizon’s […]

Motorola this week started a little pre-CES buzz for itself by releasing a video that suggests it’s about to release a new tablet PC running on Google’s much-anticipated Honeycomb mobile operating system for tablets. As Enterprise Mobile Today reports, the snarky video ad playfully takes swings at Apple and Samsung while creating some element of […]

This holiday season, security researchers at AppRiver want to put smartphone users on high alert. Projecting that 90 percent of users will tap their devices for business and personal use throughout the season, AppRiver has offered a seven-step guideline for keeping safe on the mobile Web. AppRiver urges caution when mobile users are accessing the […]

Security software vendors know just how frustrating and difficult it is to say one step ahead of malware authors and hackers looking for the next sneaky way to access enterprise data networks and steal consumers’ identities. But as eSecurity Planet reports, a new survey by Avira this week found something even more disturbing: one in […]

Ohio State University officials this week began notifying more than 760,000 current and former students and staff members that hackers this fall managed to infiltrate a server containing some of their most important personal information. As eSecurity Planet reports, the massive breach was first discovered during a routine IT security review in late October. Hackers […]

New malware strains designed specifically for smartphones surged 33 percent this year and will surely increase dramatically in 2011 as more smartphones and tablet PCs enter the consumer and business markets. As Enterprise Mobile Today reports, Android-powered smartphones were particularly hard hit this year hackers acknowledged the devices’ growing popularity and adjusted accordingly. AdaptiveMobile’s report […]

Research In Motion knows it needs to make its BlackBerry smartphones and tablet PCs more appealing to consumers if it wants to compete with the likes of Apple and Google’s Android devices in the long run. As Enterprise Mobile Today reports, the latest step in that more consumer-friendly direction came with today’s launch of MP3 […]

If 2010 was the year of Stuxnet and Mariposa, 2011 is looking like it will be the year of living dangerous on your smartphone. As eSecurity Planet discovered, a new report from security software vendor Panda Security makes it clear that mobile threats — including many that will target enterprise data — will consume IT […]

The worst-kept secret in higher education these days concerns the lax security policies and technology in place that’s allowing hackers to access millions of sensitive files each year. As eSecurity Planet reports, the latest data breach at the University of Wisconsin illustrates just how common these attacks have become and should serve as a wake-up […]