Smartphones targeted by porn scams
Cyber criminals have gone back to their old-school tricks to target innocent smartphone users.
Stories by Lexton Snol
802.11n in 87% of Wi-Fi smartphones by 2014
Although 802.11n Wi-Fi technology was found in less than 1 percent of Wi-Fi-enabled smartphones last year, in 2014 at least 87 percent of Wi-Fi-capable smartphones, such as Apple's iPhone, will feature this latest of the 802.11 protocols.
Blade Runner family sues Google over Nexus One, Android
The family of Blade Runner author Philip K. Dick is to sue Google for infringement of intellectual property rights over the name of its recently announced Nexus One smartphone.
Stephen Fry quits Twitter ... again
Top British blogger Stephen Fry has quit the micro-blogging service while he writes the second volume of his autobiography.
Social media terms are Words Of The Year 2009
Words from the world of technology and social media are among those identified as the "Words of the Year 2009" in a list commissioned by Oxford University Press.
Massive web archive planned for libraries
The UK government is fast-tracking new legal powers to allow the British Library to archive millions of websites.
Mobile device shipments to double by 2015
2009 will see a total of 1.2 billion mobile devices shipped, including all categories of wireless devices such as mobile phones, MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices), netbooks, mobile consumer electronics products, and cellular modems.Shipments of these devices will have nearly doubled in 2014 to a total of 2.25 billion, according to the latest data from ABI Research. "The next five years will see a shift in the breakdown between types of mobile devices shipped," comments industry analyst Michael Morgan.
Android eats iPhone market share in five years
Mobile application downloads will reach five billion by 2014, say analysts at ABI Research. This is an increase from an estimated 2.3 billion applications downloaded in 2009.
Mobile accessories worth $55 billion in 2009
By the end of 2009 the world's mobile handset accessories market will have chalked up a value of nearly $55 billion. That represents a small decrease from the 2008 figure, surprising only in that the decline hasn't been larger.
Apple more profitable than Nokia
Apple surpassed Nokia in the third quarter of 2009 as the mobile phone maker with the highest operating profit.
Top 10 UK iPhone stats by O2
What were you doing two years ago today? I was queuing outside a Carphone Warehouse (number two in a queue of four) waiting to get my hands on one of the first official iPhones in the UK.
Touchscreen mobiles see 159% growth
Touchscreen mobile phone adoption in the US has shown a significant 159 percent growth rate during the past year to 23.8 million users in August 2009.
30,000 O2 iPhones at risk of return
UK iPhone carrier O2 is bracing itself for thousands of returns as recent customers send back their iPhones to wait for better deals from rivals Orange and Vodafone.
Smartphones racing past boring mobiles
Worldwide mobile phone sales totalled 286.1 million units in the second quarter of 2009, a 6.1 percent decrease from the second quarter of 2008, according to Gartner. However, smartphone sales surpassed 40 million units, a 27 percent increase from the same period last year, representing the fastest-growing segment of the mobile-devices market.
Mobile app stores under threat from cloud
Apple's iPhone App Store is a huge success, with over 50,000 mobile applications available and more than a billion downloads.