Lookout Finds Significant Increase in Mobile Threat Activity
Aug 4, 2011 phones, united states
Lookout Mobile Security, the loss leader in mobile security, today announced the results of its Mobile Threat Report, based on threat data from its Mobile Threat Network, which includes information collected from more than 700 thousand apps and 10 million devices worldwide. Lookout found that mobile malware has increased significantly, with Android users two-and-a-half times as likely to encounter malware today than just six months ago. Lookout estimates that between a half million and one million
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One Billion Payment Cards with Contactless Capabilities Expected to Ship in 2016
Jul 27, 2011 phones, united states
An estimated one one thousand million payment cards with contactless capabilities will be shipped globally in 2016, up from just 170 million in 2010. This includes EMV dual interface cards and the non-EMV pure contactless push in the US.
Smart card shipments, which include not only contactless payment card game, but also EMV and non-EMV payment cards, will reach one billion during 2011. ABI Research forecasts that smart card shipments will overtake mag-stripe card shipments by 2015.
“There
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Tags: cards smart research payment stripe market contactless businesswire kbusinesswire pressrelease technology wireless, china, united states
After RIM monition, all eyes on new wares lookout
Jun 15, 2011 phones, reuters, technology, united states
” “We believe RIM has now squandered nearly every chance and competitive reward it enjoyed through ineffective R&D resource management, delayed product launches and misreads of the competitive surroundings,” Morgan Stanley analyst Ehud Gelblum wrote in a note to clients.”
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Skype could be designated illegal in China
Dec 31, 2010 business, phones, reuters, united states
“China will cracking down feather on what it called illegal Internet telephone providers, according to a bill from the Chinese government seen on Friday that could potentially affect Internet calling service Skype.”
Tags: alex richardson, business, china, derek caney, gary hill, luxembourg, reuters, united states
Nokia files patent offence complaints against Apple in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands
Dec 16, 2010 phones, united states
Nokia announced it has filed claims in the UK High Court, Dusseldorf and Mannheim District Courts in Germany and the District Court of the Hague, Netherlands, alleging that Apple infringes Nokia patents in many of its products sold in these countries, including iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
“These actions add 13 further Nokia patents to the 24 already asserted against Apple in the US International Trade Commission and the Delaware and Wisconsin Federal courts,” said Paul Melin,
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Study golf course cellphones to child misbehavior
Dec 7, 2010 canada, ereader, united states
“Researchers perusal the health personal effects of cellphones say they wealthy person found evidence that when pregnant women use them regularly, their children ar more likely to wealthy person behavioral problems.”
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Clearwire eyes merchandising up to $2 one thousand million spectrum
Dec 6, 2010 europe, phones, united states
“Clearwire Corp expects to snag another round of financing late this class or early 2011 and may lift as much as $2 one thousand million from merchandising wireless spectrum, according to its finance chief Erik Prusch.
Clearwire, which is 54 percent owned by Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S – News), needs millions of dollars more funding to complete construction of its high-speeding radio meshing even after a $1.3 billion debt offering last workweek.”
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Clearwire Communications LLC Announces Pricing of Secured and Exchangeable Notes
Dec 3, 2010 internet, north america, phones, technology, united states
Clearwire Corporation today announced that its operating subsidiary company Clearwire Communications LLC (“Clearwire Communications”) has priced an offering of $175,000,000 aggregate principal amount twelve-tone system first-anteriority senior secured notes due 2015 at an issue monetary value of 105.1820s plus accrued pastime from December 1, 2010 (the “First Lien Notes”) and $five hundred,000,000 aggregate principal measure twelve-tone system second-priority secured notes due 2017 at an issuing monetary value of century.0% plus accrued pastime from December 9, 2010
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Dell switch off BlackBerry, onto own smartphone
Nov 5, 2010 canada, ereader, europe, software, united states
“Dell Inc will switch thousands of its employees off Research in Motion Ltd’s BlackBerry and over to Dell’s smartphones, the troupe said on Thursday.”
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Apple Joins Top Five Mobile Phone Vendors
Oct 29, 2010 hardware, internet, north america, phones, united states
The worldwide mobile phone marketplace grew 14.6% in the third tail of 2010 (3Q10), the fourth consecutive tail of two-base hit-digit emergence, driven in part by the fast-ontogeny converged mobile device class. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile River Phone Tracker, vendors shipped 340.5 1000000 units in 3Q10 compared to 297.1 million units in the third base quarter of 2009.
The ontogeny popularity of converged mobile devices, or smartphones, with consumers and businesspersons
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