How to Keep Your Smartphone Safe

How to Keep Your Smartphone Safe
PC Magazine
However, your smartphone has nearly as much computing power as that PC (more, if the PC is really old), and opportunities for smartphone loss or theft are almost limitless. We'll show you how to protect both your iPhone or Android device and the ...

Android chief: We didn't believe we needed a license from Sun
CNET
Rubin said that it took roughly three years from inception to completion of Android 1.0 in 2008. He also explained that what was released in 2007 -- an Android SDK -- wasn't enough for a smartphone, but rather just enough for third-party developers to ...

Monthly smartphone bills down at AT&T
USA TODAY
By Peter Svensson, AP NEW YORK – Hidden in AT&T Inc.'s financial statements is a story that runs counter to its optimistic profit projections: The company is generating less revenue from each new smartphone subscriber. Calculations by The Associated...

USA TODAY

Pre-Orders for Sprint's HTC EVO 4G LTE Start May 7
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius "On May 7, call dibs on an HTC EVO 4G LTE. Only online, you can pre-order your EVO 4G LTE and we'll do our best to get it to you before others get a glimpse," Sprint said in a note on its website. Customers can sign up to be ...

Report: Facebook-centric smartphone may launch later this year
Washington Post
HTC and Facebook, two companies already familiar with one another from their partnership on the ChaCha and Salsa handsets, are reportedly in the midst of jointly developing a new Android smartphone. DigiTimes cites insider sources in reporting that a ...

Could a 4G iPhone actually hurt Sprint?
CNET
An iPhone with LTE capabilities could highlight the fact that Sprint's 4G rollout lags far behind its rivals. Sprint doesn't believe it will be an issue. by Roger Cheng April 25, 2012 9:05 AM PDT Follow @RogerWCheng Will a 4G iPhone be good for Sprint?

Hands On With Google Drive: Cloud Storage for Google Loyalists
Wired News
By Nathan Olivarez-Giles The Google Drive app for Android on a Samsung Galaxy Nexussmartphone. Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired One of the worst-kept secrets in the technology space, Google Drive, is finally here — live and yours to explore, if you're game.

Android chief: We didn't think we needed a license from Sun
ZDNet (blog)
Rubin said that the Android team went forward to build the mobile operating system on its own. “We wrote code ourselves, obviously,” said Rubin, “In developing Android, we assembled it from various pieces.” Although it is constantly evolving, ...

Motorola Solutions earnings beat expectations
Chicago Tribune
In the first quarter of 2011, Motorola Solutions had an income tax benefit of $189 million. Related ICC: Microsoft infringed on Motorola Mobility patents ICC: Microsoft infringed on Motorola Mobilitypatents Compensation triples for Motorola's Jha ...

Google Drive: The Pros and Cons
PCWorld (blog)
And unless you're an Android user, the mobile experience for Drive is not great. Google officially launched Drive on Tuesday featuring 5GB free online storage and the ability to buy more storage such as 25GB for $2.50 per month ($30 per year) up to a ...

HTC's to release 'Facebook smartphone' in Q3: report
ZDNet (blog)
By Zack Whittaker | April 25, 2012, 4:08am PDT Summary: HTC and Facebook are reportedly working “in cooperation” on a new Facebook smartphone. It comes less than six months since Facebook's “Buffy” project emerged. HTC is reportedly working “in ...

Sprint Reverts To Familiar Theme: Contract User Losses
Wall Street Journal
Sprint has committed billions to building out a new high-speed mobile broadband network known as4G LTE that it hopes will draw new contract customers and help it keep pace with its larger rivals that are also rolling out the new faster service.

In Race to Beat iPhone, One Android Weighs In
Wall Street Journal
On May 7, Sprint will take pre-orders for its EVO 4G LTE, and though it lacks the One name, this is nearly a twin of the One X. Verizon so far isn't joining the party; a spokeswoman would only say the carrier's next phone wouldn't be part of the One ...

Facebook, HTC Developing Customized Android Smartphone: Report
Fox Business
A new report hit today stating that Facebook and HTC are co-developing a customized Android smartphone. This phone, said to be developed exclusively for Facebook, would integrate all of the social network's functions into the mobile platform.

Sprint confirms unlimited data plan for next iPhone
CNET
Sprint won't be moving away from its unlimited data plan even if the next iPhone is 4G LTE. by Roger Cheng April 25, 2012 8:51 AM PDT Follow @RogerWCheng Sprint Nextel is banking that its unlimited data plan will continue to set its iPhone apart from ...

Motorola Solutions Posts Lower 1Q Net Income
ABC News
Motorola Solutions Inc., which sells communications equipment to government and corporate customers, said Wednesday that its first-quarter net income declined from a year ago, when the company recorded a large tax-related gain.

Motorola Solutions profit beats estimates
Reuters
(Reuters) - Communications equipment maker Motorola Solutions Inc (MSI.N) reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit, helped by an 11 percent jump in sales to government customers, and forecast second-quarter results in line with estimates.

Motorola Solutions Reports First-Quarter 2012 Financial Results
MarketWatch (press release)
Motorola Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:MSI) announced today its first-quarter 2012 results highlighted by sales of $2 billion, up 7 percent from the first quarter of 2011 and driven by strong worldwide demand in its Government segment. "Motorola Solutions had ...

Why are Virgin and Boost Launching WiMAX?
PC Magazine
By Sascha Segan Sprint CEO Dan Hesse announced today in an earnings conference call that his company's prepaid brands, Virgin Mobile and Boost Mobile, will launch WiMAX 4G, just as the main Sprint brand is moving away from WiMAX and towards LTE.

Motorola Solutions profit drops 68% vs prior-year
MarketWatch
The provider of public safety radios, handheld scanners and telecommunications network gear was created last year in the split of Motorola Inc., which spun off the higher-profile mobile-devices and TV-set-top-box operations into Motorola Mobility ...

Motorola Mobility, MacroSolve, Google: Intellectual Property
BusinessWeek
By Victoria Slind-Flor on April 25, 2012 Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (MMI) (MMI) won a partial victory from a US International Trade Commission judge in its bid to block imports of Apple Inc. (AAPL) (AAPL)'s devices including the iPhone and iPad ...

HTC Evo 4G LTE site now up for preorder
CNET
Not only does this follow up to the wildly successful HTC Evo 4G look like a worthy successor, it actually could out do the legendary Android smartphone. Instead of WiMax, the new Evo flaunts a connection to the more robust and importantly faster LTE ...

Motorola Bests Apple in Patent Skirmish
E-Commerce Times
By Erika Morphy The ITC handed Motorola an important victory in its contest with Apple over several wirelss patents, but the decision isn't final, and the larger battle is far from won. However, "ifMotorola Mobility ultimately prevails, it would have ...

HTC One line to get the company back in the game
ZDNet (blog)
The One X derivative for Sprint, the EVO 4G LTE, is a deserving bearer of the successful EVO name. The troubles for HTC in the Android space can be traced to the company trying to do too much at a time. No OEM has produced more handsets than HTC the ...

ZDNet (blog)

Google Tests Direct Sales With Smartphone
Wall Street Journal
By AMIR EFRATI Google Inc. Tuesday began selling a smartphone directly to consumers through its online store, a revival of a strategy that could be a prelude to direct sales of other devices such as tablets. The Internet company began selling the ...

Camera Defies Smartphone Onslaught, Stays In Frame
Huffington Post
"For several years, it has been predicted that smartphone adoption would cut into digital camera sales," said Prashant Malaviya, Associate Professor of Marketing at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. "In fact, the exact opposite has ...

Motorola DROID 4, RAZR and BIONIC modded for AT&T and T-Mobile
Android Community
Some of the tireless modders over at XDA have found that Motorola's recent hardware for Verizon features global GSM roaming bands (not unlike the HTC Rezound). With a little hacking, they found that these LTE devices could accept SIM card from AT&T and...

Android Community

Is Facebook working on its own smartphone?
USA TODAY
By Brett Molina, USA TODAY Citing "industry sources," the report claims thesmartphone will launch as early as the third quarter of 2012. The report doesn't get into details about how this Facebook-branded device would function, other than it would...

USA TODAY

Sprint plans to bring WiMax to Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile
CNET
by Roger Cheng April 25, 2012 6:17 AM PDT Follow @RogerWCheng Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile customers will be getting 4G -- albeit the older WiMax variant -- in the next quarter. Sprint Nextel is keeping its older 4G standard alive and plans to bring ...

Oracle Grills Google's Schmidt, Rubin
InformationWeek
Oracle is suing Google because it believes Google's Android operating system copied its copyrighted Java APIs and violates its patent rights. Oracle bought Sun in 2010 and obtained Sun's Java-related intellectual property. The day began with Oracle ...

Oppo teases 6.65mm-thick smartphone, about to steal 'world's ...
By Richard Lai
China-based Poop Oppo is back again with yet another smartphone, only this time there's no pretty girl teasing Mr. DiCaprio. Instead, what ... In other words, if all goes well then Oppo will have us the world's slimmest smartphone. Details are ...
Engadget

Chrome for Android coming out of beta soon | Android Community
By Michael Crider
Google's push to extend its Chrome browser to the Android platform has been a successful one for the most part, and apparently they're done making it sit at.
Android Community

Facebook Makes Android Apps More Viral With Social Discovery ...
By Rip Empson
In this attempt to extend its platform on mobile, Facebook brought its social channels and social app discovery to mobile web apps on Android and native apps on iOS. With a new update to Facebook forAndroid, the social network today ...
TechCrunch » android

Motorola wins Xbox 360 patent lawsuit, console import ban possible ...
By Matthew Humphries
Motorola has its own healthy patent portfolio, and it didn't take long for them to find a way to fire back at Microsoft. The company sued Microsoft because its Xbox 360 console infringes five patents covering video decoding, Wi-Fi technology, ...
Geek.com

Award Winning “Rigonauts” Coming Soon To Android – Renews My ...
By Chris Chavez
Developed by indie developer Engient, the game is looking to make a splash onto Android devices (also, iOS and PC) next month. Rigonauts lets players plan out, design, and unleash their gargantuan creations, in a physics-based battle ...
Android Phone Fans

ITC judge: Apple infringes on Motorola mobility patent | TUAW - The ...
By Kelly Hodgkins
In a setback for Apple, the International Trade Commission ruled on Tuesday that Apple infringes on one of Motorola's patents. The patent describes. ... ITC judge: Apple infringes on Motorola mobilitypatent. by Kelly Hodgkins Apr 24th 2012 at ...
TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

HTC, Facebook jointly developing smartphone, say sources
The new Android smartphone being developed by HTC will have a platform exclusive to Facebook to enable and integrate all functions available on the social networking site, the sources indicated. Previously, HTC launched two ...
DIGITIMES: IT news from Asia

Smartphone Search Engine Crawlers & Mobile URLs - Search ...
By Cindy Krum
The biggest problem that my clients and I always faced in mobile SEO was that their desktop pages would almost always out-rank their mobile pages, especially in smartphone search. This was because the desktop pages were older, and had ...
Search Engine Watch - Latest

Daily App Deals: Get SayHi Translate for iOS for 99¢ in Today's App ...
By Jeremy Hoag
Daily App Deals: Get SayHi Translate for iOS for 99¢ in Today's App Deals SayHi Translate (iTunes) Previously $2.99, now 99¢. SayHi Translate for iOS recognizes your speech and speaks the translation in any of 23 languages (and growing) ...
Lifehacker

Intel's smartphone: “The x86 power myth is finally busted.” — Mobile ...
By Kevin C. Tofel
…If you've been expecting the first x86 smartphone to end up at the bottom of every battery life chart, you'll be sorely disappointed. “ Intel's first commercially available Android smartphone went under the microscope at the always thorough site ...
GigaOM

iOS-Inspired iPhoto for Mac Update Coming This Summer ...
By Jordan Golson
The next version of iPhoto will be redesigned to be more like the iOS version of iPhoto, according to Belgian website Apple Weetjes [Google...
MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors...

Motorola wins preliminary ITC ruling against iPhone — Apple News ...
By Tom Krazit
The mobile patent wars continue to drag on, with Motorola scoring a point Tuesday with a preliminary decision against Apple at the International Trade Commission. Apple was judged to have violated one of four Motorola patents with the ...
GigaOM

Apple's iPhone and iPad violate one Motorola patent, ITC rules
By Dan Graziano
The International Trade Commission on Tuesday ruled in favor of Motorola Mobility in its patent infringement claim against Apple. The Cupertino-based company's iPhone and iPad were found to be in violation of Motorola's Wi-Fi technology ...
BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech

Trade Dog Poop for WiFi, Thanks to DDB | Adweek
By Tim Nudd
You really shouldn't have to be rewarded for picking up your dog's feces off the ground. It should be the automatic, decent thing to do. But sometimes people need to be incentivized. (I lived in Inwood, in upper Manhattan, for a few years—in ...
Adweek : Advertising & Branding

Motorola Mobility to Launch Two New Tablets in Turkey with Turk ...
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