mobility

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• Near field communication use growing outside smartphones

  By Agam Shah | 23 May, 2012 05:17

  A growing number of smartphones have near field communication (NFC) capabilities to make mobile payments, but accessories and ultrabooks also now increasingly have the same technology.

• Mobile malware: Beware drive-by downloads on your smartphone

  By Meridith Levinson | 23 March, 2012 07:39

  While Jeff Schmidt, the CEO of JAS Global Advisors, was surfing the Web on his new Android smartphone (his first Android phone) earlier this year, what appeared to be an ad popped up on his screen. The "ad" looked like the prompt that appears when his phone rings. He clicked the button on the ad to pick up the putative call, and the ad began downloading a binary file - malware - onto his Android phone. Schmidt had been hit by a drive-by download, a program that automatically installs malicious software on end-users' computers--and increasingly, smartphones--without them knowing.

• Guide: How and when to build a mobile website

  By Jennifer Lonoff Schiff | 16 February, 2012 03:39

  As of November 2011, 91.4 million people in the United States-owned smartphones, according to comScore. That was an 8 per cent increase over just a few months before. And if the trend continues, as most analysts and smartphone vendors believe it will, the number of individuals in the United States with a smartphone will be close to, if not exceed, 100 million by March 2012 - that's nearly one out of three Americans. And that's not including the number of people using iPads and tablet PCs, which was well over 15 million as of June 2011, per CTIA, the Wireless Association.

• Google's Ice Cream Sandwich - a new era for Android

  By JR Raphael | 23 November, 2011 03:18

  Google's Android 4.0 operating system is more than just another upgrade.

• Mobility in the enterprise - Part 3

  By Matt Rodgers | 24 August, 2011 09:19

  No CIO wants to be the person who says ‘no’ to productivity -- especially when the request for iPads comes from the company’s senior executives. But when it comes to mobile devices entering the enterprise, CIOs face the ultimate challenge: How to best service their employees while keeping a lid on costs and security.

• Sounding board: iPads in the enterprise

  By Rodney Gedda | 17 January, 2011 12:00

  Peer advice from the CIO Executive Council.

• Mobile technologies ring in change

  By Brad Howarth | 17 June, 2010 09:18

  When it comes to getting closer to your customers, Ryan Klose says nothing beats mobile technology. As chief information officer for Australia at the global wine and spirits group, Pernod Ricard, Klose is getting applications for Blackberries and iPhones into the hands of sales representatives, major customers, winemakers and consumers. And it seems to be working.

• Five Trends Influencing the CIO Smartphone Agenda

  By Ajay Mishra | 05 February, 2010 05:42

  I've spent most of 2009 meeting with CIOs and their IT organizations to understand their concerns and challenges about managing and securing mobile phones. In my conversations with people across the country and across industries, it became clear that smartphones are now finally on the CIO agenda and, in fact, one of the most difficult topics.

• Is 2010 the year of location-based services?

  By Giles Nelson | 29 January, 2010 07:51

  Dr Giles Nelson, director of strategy at Progress Software, says 2010 is the year location-based services finally become mainstream.

• MS Pushes for Business Customers to Use 'Windows Phone'

  By Al Sacco | 08 October, 2009 08:28

  Microsoft on Wednesday announced the availability of a number of handsets running its brand new mobile operating system, Windows Mobile 6.5. While most of the new features and enhancements are aimed at consumers, the company says it isn't overlooking the enterprise.

• Golfshot GPS for iPhone: More Bogeys Than Birdies

  By Tom Kaneshige | 09 October, 2009 04:52

  When one reporter takes Golfshot's GPS app for a stroll around the links, he discovers worrying about battery life can be a real distraction.

• CEATEC: New gadgets, prototypes to debut next week in Japan

  By Martyn Williams | 02 October, 2009 17:08

  Japan's biggest electronics and gadgets show, Ceatec, runs all of next week and many new technologies and prototype gadgets are expected to be on show.

• Microsoft's mobile trouble: can it buy its way out?

  By Shane O'Neill | 18 June, 2009 05:11

  Microsoft recently announced that Oct. 22 is the ship date for its coveted Windows 7 OS. But last week as the tech world buzzed loudly about the unveiling of Apple's new iPhone 3G S and Palm Pre smartphone, it was easy to forget about the next version of Windows.