Find: Financial Times pulls iOS apps, directs users to new Web app
Financial Times pulls iOS apps, directs users to new Web app
Find: Sony Enters Tablet Market
Sony Enters Tablet Market - Announces Two Tablets
Find: Microsoft gesture patents reveal possible dual-screen tablet focus
Microsoft gesture patents reveal possible dual-screen tablet focus
Find: Microsoft pico projected shared workspace
Microsoft patent application details pico projected shared workspace, sounds vaguely familiar
Find: Sprinkle brings Water Physics to Honeycomb
Sprinkle brings Water Physics to Honeycomb
NVIDIA has talked in the past about its Tegra Zone marketplace, which is home to Tegra-optimized games. Well, today they've announced availability of a game which caught our eye called Sprinkle by a developer named Mediocre. While the developer might be named Mediocre, the game is actually anything but. Sprinkle does an impressive job simulating water physics and using it as a game mechanic to solve a variety of puzzles. The objective is to put out the fires (caused by falling meteorites) fast enough by using a user-controlled firehose. Fail to do so with limited water and time, and things don't go so well for the inhabitants.
Find: RIM is in trouble: who will buy the BlackBerry pie?
RIM is in trouble: who will buy the BlackBerry pie?
Event: NCDevCon conference on September 17/18 in Raleigh
Event: Mobilities conference 2012
Find: Google's Motorola Mobility acquisition will make it more like Apple
Google's Motorola Mobility acquisition will make it more like Apple.
Find: RIM’s Month in Three Letters: WTF?
RIM’s Month in Three Letters: WTF?
Find: 53% of mobile users happy to hand over location data for discounts
53% of mobile users happy to hand over location data for discounts
Find: "A sort of PC": how Windows 8 will invade tablets (and why it might work)
Feature: "A sort of PC": how Windows 8 will invade tablets (and why it might work)
Visualization: Where Does Mobile Malware Come From & How Do You Protect Yourself? [((tags: visualizations, mobile, security)(
Where Does Mobile Malware Come From & How Do You Protect Yourself? [Infographic]
What is mobile malware? Where does it come from? How does it get into your phone? These questions are just beginning to surface in the public mindset as splashy headlines warn smartphone users of the dangers lurking to take over their shiny, new mobile device. Security company BullGuard came up with a very informative infographic that shows where mobile malware comes from and how it spreads. Mobile malware does not come from malevolent a cupid shooting poison arrows into users' phones. Like PC viruses, malicious mobile programs are perpetrated by people that control botnets and want the information stored in your smartphone for their own means.
Mobile malware can come from just about any vector you could think of. It lurks in application stores (especially third-party stores), text messages, emails, websites, search results and images. Some malware can snoop your device if you are on an insecure public Wi-Fi channel. Take a look at the infographic below and let us know what steps you take to protect your smartphone from those who would do it harm.
Several months ago we posted an infrographic titled "Where Does Your Malware Come From?" Just as with that infographic, we made sure to fact check this infographic (you would be surprised how much false, old or half-information these infographic makers try to slip by busy tech reporters) and the numbers check out. We have written about much of what is in the infographic over the last several months. See the very bottom of the image for BullGuard's sources, though note that no other security company is listed as a source of the information in the image. It looks like BullGuard has superseded some of the research of its competitors while still remaining technically accurate by sourcing it to various research organizations and institutions such as Juniper and the University of Virginia.
Check it out and tell us what you think:
Find: Windows 8 Will Span Devices, Include an App Store
Windows 8 Will Span Devices, Include an App Store
Find: android Users Prefer Native over Web Apps
Android Users Prefer Native over Web Apps, Study Finds
Find: Hewlett-Packard Kills webOS Devices to Save webOS
Hewlett-Packard Kills webOS Devices to Save webOS
Viz: Who is Suing Whom In the Mobile Patent Wars
Chart of the Day: Who is Suing Whom In the Mobile Patent Wars?
Patents are all the rage right now. More precisely, applying for, purchasing and suing the nearest competitor over patents is causing a craze in the mobile business environment. Did Google ever actually want the Nortel patents? Or did they just bet crazy sums (like Pi, the distance from the sun, etc.) because they knew they were going to acquire Motorola and its patent portfolio anyway? Next on line are the InterDigital patents, which are supposedly more in-depth and numerous than the Nortel or Novell patents. Some say we are in serious need of patent reform because the current ecosystem has become anti-innovation and toxic.Thomson Reuters came out with a great chart yesterday that shows the current legal battleground for mobile patents. It is interesting to note who is getting sued and who is doing the suing. For instance, as much legal hot water that Google has been in, they are technically only being sued by Oracle over Java in the mobile realm. Microsoft has multiple suits going against Barnes & Noble, Foxconn (Apple's primary factory where iOS devices are made), Motorola and Inventec. Yet, Apple takes the crown. It is being sued, is suing, or has settled suits with five different corporations.
Apple is being sued by Kodak and has settled a suit and countersuit with Nokia. Yet, Apple is in a suit and countersuit situation with most of the major Android OEMs (except, oddly, LG) - HTC, Samsung and Motorola. Samsung is having a devil of a time trying to keep its Galaxy Tab on store shelves across the world, with injunctions being filed in Australia and in the European Union, specifically by Germany and the Netherlands, both of whom want to keep all Galaxy devices off the shelves.
Microsoft is licensing patents to both HTC and Amazon (it worth noting that the Amazon vs. Apple legal battles do not involve actual patents and hence are not on this chart). The only entity on this list that appears to have escaped the patent wars is Qualcomm, which has already settled a suit and countersuit with Nokia. Qualcomm is a dark horse in this ecosystem because their chips power millions of devices and its owns (or owned) thousands of patents as well as a chunk of the wireless spectrum. They are, as they say, the straw that stirs the drink.
Who is missing off this list? Intel probably has some legal issues over patents, but not related to mobile. IBM and Cisco surely fall in here somewhere.
Take a look at the chart below. Outside of the nature of patent...
Find: Latitude API helps your users find themselves
Latitude API helps your users find themselves
By Kenneth Leftin, Software EngineerTool: Apple’s Brazen Revenue Grab Boosts Open Web Apps
Apple’s Brazen Revenue Grab Boosts Open Web Apps
Find: First 7-inch Android Honeycomb tablet hits stores this weekend
First 7-inch Android Honeycomb tablet hits stores this weekend
Find: Durham among nation's top ten iPad-friendly towns
Durham among nation's top ten iPad-friendly towns
It's a well-known fact that the Triangle is consistently top-rated for raising a family, for business climate and other such laurels of wholesomeness.
Now we get a thumbs-up from Men's Health, the cool dude's guide to hot sex, ripped abs, pickup lines and unabashed self-absorption.
The September issue of Men's Health ranks Durham among the nation's top 10 iPad-friendly cities. Charlotte's not so shabby, either, meriting an 11th-place ranking.
The muscle-bound publication based the rankings on ad impressions from mobile ad network Chitika, number of Apple and Best Buy stores and percentage of households that own tablets, notebooks or laptops.
The top ranking cities are Plano, Tex., San Jose, Cal., and San Francisco.
Other Tar Heel cities on the list are Raleigh (23), Greensboro (36) and Winston-Salem (63).