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  • Nokia reveals details of Symbian deal with Accenture

    By Jeremy Kirk | 22 June, 2011 23:29

    Nokia said on Wednesday it has finalized an agreement with Accenture to develop the Symbian mobile OS as the company retrenches in a competitive mobile device market.

  • Cellcrypt releases voice encryption app for Android

    By Jeremy Kirk | 15 June, 2011 02:37

    The company Cellcrypt released an application on Tuesday for mobile phones running Android that encrypts voice calls, addressing increasing concern that voice traffic over cellular networks could be intercepted with off-the-shelf equipment.

  • Google pulls more malware from Android Market

    By Gregg Keizer | 13 June, 2011 20:55

    Google removed more malware-infected applications from its Android Market last week, according to a security researcher who reported the rogue software to the company.

  • How to manage BlackBerry application permissions

    By Al Sacco | 14 June, 2011 02:30

    Research In Motion's (RIM) BlackBerry smartphone OS is known for security, and that's for good reason. RIM designed the mobile OS with security in mind from the start, and it shows; the BlackBerry OS offers a number of ways for smartphone owners and IT administrators to control how mobile applications interact with your device and all of the data stored on it.

  • The 5 best features in Apple's iOS 5

    By Michael deAgonia | 10 June, 2011 00:48

    Earlier this week at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple finally offered up a look at iOS 5, the planned update to the company's mobile OS. Although it wont be out until this fall -- Apple isn't yet saying exactly when -- iOS 5 promises to deliver much-needed changes to the OS, which is used on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

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Features about Mobile operating systems

  • 5 features iOS needs, in order to sway me from Android

    By Jared Newman | 30 March, 2011 07:54

    With Apple preparing to talk about the future of iOS at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June, and the rumor mill churning, it's time for an old tradition: the iPhone feature wish list.

  • Android vs. iOS vs. Windows Phone

    By Preston Gralla | 18 March, 2011 05:43

    The past year has been a remarkable one for smartphones, with the meteoric rise of Google's Android OS, the restart of Microsoft's mobile strategy with its much-ballyhooed release of Windows Phone 7 and the continuing success of Apple's iPhone, buoyed by its new availability to Verizon subscribers. Never has there been so much choice in the smartphone market. As a result, hype and overstatement have been the order of the day.

  • Android Honeycomb: Powerful, but not perfect

    By JR Raphael | 05 March, 2011 06:26

    Honeycomb is a whole different beast from the Android we've come to know. While previous versions of Google's mobile operating system were built for smartphones, Honeycomb -- also known as Android 3.0 -- is the first to be designed specifically for tablet-size devices. And seeing it in action, it certainly shows.

  • Why Android is stealing share from iOS

    By Katherine Noyes | 08 September, 2010 07:45

    Hardly a week goes by without some fresh evidence of Android's growing success.

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