Larry Barrett

Has there ever been a better time to be a mobile IT buyer? Ever since Apple re-energized the smartphone market with the iPhone, there’s been a flurry of competitive models, new features and services. Now Research In Motion, the company that primarily defined the market for business smartphones with its BlackBerry line, is giving IT […]

Venture capital spending in the third quarter went into a nosedive as large funds simply invested fewer dollars in more companies and some sectors, particularly clean technology, just fell off the cliff. As Datamation reports, software companies managed to hold the top spot among all industries with more than $1 billion in investments. Security apps […]

Research In Motion used to be the gold standard in the smartphone space. And while the BlackBerry still has a formidable user base, the tide is changing with each passing day. As Enterprise Mobile Today reports, mobile devices running the Android mobile OS picked up 6.5 percentage points in overall market share in the past […]

PayPal delivered an updated iPhone application for its popular online payment system within 24 hours after learning that some users connecting via an unsecured Wi-Fi connection could have been hoodwinked out of their account information. As eSecurity Planet reports, the security flaw and subsequent fix underscore the inherent and mounting security risks that consumers, vendors […]

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a trio of new features for the social networking site’s mobile platform, including something called Deals that will give local merchants and vendors the opportunity to immediately and directly market and advertise to mobile users. As Enterprise Mobile Today reports, the new features should make life easier for mobile users […]

Google got another slap on the wrist this week, this time from the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office which found the company’s Street View cars did in fact violate privacy laws as they collected citizens’ personal information while mapping and photographing the country. As eSecurity Planet reports, Google will now be subject to an audit of […]

Phishers are making another run at military personnel and their families this week, according to an advisory from security software maker AppRiver. As eSecurity Planet reports, the scam uses USAA, an insurance and financial services firm that primarily services soldiers and their families, as a lure to get unsuspecting victims to cough up their most […]

Adobe Systems’ security team is busy at work again, racing to fix a security hole in Flash, Reader and Acrobat that makes it possible for hackers to steal data and commandeer users’ PCs and mobile devices. As eSecurity Planet reports, this flaw is just the latest in a series of security snafus that has kept […]

Security software vendor Sophos is making it as easy and inexpensive as possible for Mac users to protect their PCs and data from being infected with malware. As eSecurity Planet reports, the free A/V app will scan files and email and be on the lookout for pieces of malware that may have originally been written […]

A seemingly innocent mistake has put more than 40,000 former University of Hawaii students’ at risk after a faculty member posted their names, Social Security numbers and other personal information on the school’s website. As eSecurity Planet reports, this latest serious data breach is the second one this year for the University of Hawaii and […]

Devices running Google’s open source Android mobile operating system outsold their competitors at an even faster rate in the third quarter than the prior two, another clear sign that Apple, Research In Motion and Nokia all have their work cut out for them. As Enterprise Mobile Today reports, the popularity of Android-based smartphones shows no […]

The iPhone’s popularity has been so sweeping and universal that it’s managed to lift Apple, a company that only makes smartphones, into the No. 4 spot in worldwide mobile phone sales. As Enterprise Mobile Today reports, Apple’s ascent can only mean good things for smartphone vendors and application developers that have their hands on the […]