Mobile Technology - Infoworld

Much of Western U.S. lacks 3G access, says FCC

admin — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:17:16 +0000

Anyone making a road trip across America should expect their mobile data service to basically not exist throughout much of the Western United States.

Apple and Google disagree over licensing of essential patents

admin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:28:12 +0000

Google is at odds with Apple, Microsoft, and Cisco over the licensing and litigation of patents. While Google wants to make the most of patents it will receive if its acquisition of Motorola is approved, the others want to change the way so-called essential patents are licensed.

Mobile, cloud, and big data pros in high demand for 2012

InfoWorld Tech Watch — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0000

Recession-fueled stagnation is slowly drawing to an end as U.S. companies are signaling they're ready to sink some cash into growth and emerging markets. That spells opportunity for certain IT professionals.

Intel launches new push into mobile

admin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0000

Intel moved to defend its turf -- and possibly its future -- by inking deals to supply next-generation Atom chips to smartphone makers Motorola and Lenovo Motorola and Lenovo.

The agreements, announced this month at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, mark Intel's latest effort to enter the burgeoning -- and lucrative -- smartphone market, where most devices currently feature chips designed by ARM Holdings.

Game on: The consumerization of IT

Eric Knorr — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0000

InfoWorld has just launched a new Consumerization of IT channel, where you'll find all articles relating to this prevailing trend plus Galen Gruman's insightful new blog on the topic, Smart User, which has already featured such instructive and entertaining posts as "How to thwart the high priests of IT."

Top 7 truths about consumerization of IT

admin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0000

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Users are no longer ignorant about technology; many are passionate and knowledgeable. Consumer-grade tools are ever more capable for business usage -- and sometimes superior to traditional tools.

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The phenomenon is only growing stronger. Here's what IT and business leaders need to know

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Tizen to merge with Samsung's Bada

Pete Babb — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:53:12 +0000

The story of Tizen has been a tumultuous one since its birth last year, but now the MeeGo-based OS is stepping up to the big leagues thanks to a planned merger with Samsung's popular Bada platform.

According to Forbes, Samsung will be merging Bada with Tizen, an offshoot of the MeeGo mobile operating system:

Seize the power: 10 awesome chargers for mobile devices

admin — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0000

Here are 10 chargers to keep your tablets, smartphones, and MP3 players juiced up

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Here are 10 chargers to keep your tablets, smartphones, and MP3 players juiced up

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Windows 8 on ARM: You can look but you can't touch

admin — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:04:51 +0000

For a touch-based interface, it was awfully hard to get hold of. Microsoft's Windows 8 OS was shown on a handful of prototype ARM-based tablets at the Consumer Electronics Show this week, but almost no one was allowed to try it out.

Nvidia had three Windows 8 tablets in its booth but they were all behind glass. Texas Instruments showed a Windows 8 tablet in a meeting room off the show floor, but a reporter who asked to try it was told that wasn't permitted. Qualcomm, the third vendor of ARM-based chips working with Windows 8, wasn't showing it at all.

Intel fights for its future with smartphone deals

admin — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:14:22 +0000

With Intel finally breaking into the burgeoning smartphone market, analysts say the company is moving to defend its turf -- and possibly even its future stability -- against an encroaching competitor.

Red Bend aims to bring mobile virtualization and BYOD to the masses

David Marshall — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:20:30 +0000

The idea behind mobile virtualization technology is quite simple: Platform developers take a smartphone and add some type of a virtualization layer to it to provide users with a personal/corporate all-in-one device, which will help with corporate BYOD initiatives. Corporate data can be protected from personal applications, and users can keep their personal information private and free from corporate management and company policies.

The year's best hardware, software, and cloud services

Doug Dineley — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0000

Was it the philosopher George Santayana who said, "Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it?" Did he offer any hints for those of us who want to repeat the past, especially the successes? We're beyond the teary elegies of 2011 and deep into making resolutions for 2012. If we're going to stand half a chance of creating something great this year, it only makes sense to pause and celebrate what went right in 2011.

Picking the top technologies in a wild year

Eric Knorr — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0000

Whenever someone asks me how InfoWorld differs from other IT publications, I cite two facts off the bat: Most of our articles are written by experienced, working IT people -- and we're one of the few publications that still does real enterprise product reviews.

Software whiz Ray Ozzie re-emerges with startup Cocomo

admin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:15:29 +0000

Lotus Notes creator and former Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie is coming back with a startup named Cocomo that seems to be focused on mobile communication.

The future is now: CES 2012 video sneak peek

admin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:38:00 +0000

Vendors show cool gadgets ahead of next week's consumer gadget-a-thon

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Mobile 2012: More coming than just the 'iPad 3'

Galen M. Gruman — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0000

Let's get the easy stuff out of the way: Yes, Virginia, Apple will offer a new iPad model (the so-called iPad 3 that gets so many rumor reports) this year -- likely in March or April, as it has for the last two years. What will be in it?

BYOD: You ain't seen nothing yet

Galen Gruman — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:00:00 +0000

Some IT trends move fast -- way fast. BYOD, the "bring your own device" phenomenon that raised its head in late 2009, is one of them. Like Internet and email, it caught on with users faster than IT and corporate risk management expected. In 2010, businesses were asking the question "Who should own your smartphones?" Today, that question is moot -- more than half of companies let employees use their own smartphones at work, along with tablets.

Amazon pushes Kindle Fire touch update

admin — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:36:46 +0000

Amazon on Wednesday issued a software update for its Kindle Fire tablet that it said addresses some of the most vocal complaints about the device, including sluggish response to touch and a lack of parental controls.

VMware 2011: The good, the bad, and the cloudy

David Marshall — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:10:06 +0000

VMware was a busy company in 2011. Instead of resting on its laurels, the currently crowned virtualization technology leader continued to be a mover and a shaker -- although not everything went its way.

DOJ to review Verizon spectrum purchase

admin — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:11:16 +0000

The U.S. Department of Justice is reviewing a proposed $3.6 billion spectrum purchase by Verizon Wireless, a spokeswoman there said Tuesday.

Verizon announced this month that it plans to buy the spectrum, covering about 260 million U.S. residents, from SpectrumCo, a joint venture among Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks. A DOJ review of a deal of this size in the telecom sector is expected.