Tag: mobile phones

Making Android More Secure

By Erica Naone | 08/14/2009 | 1 Comment

The open platform calls for a different approach to security.

Sending Cell Phones into the Cloud

By Christopher Mims | 05/01/2009 | 0 Comments

New technology offloads processing from a mobile device to its cloud-based doppelganger.

Why Helio Didn't Connect

By Michael Fitzgerald | 07/03/2008 | 0 Comments

The flashy cell-phone company is in a very tough business.

Targeted Ads Designed for You

By Erica Naone | 04/11/2008 | 4 Comments

Companies are finding novel ways to target advertising to your cell phone and television.

Mobile Carriers See Gold in Femtocells

By John Borland | 02/15/2008 | 17 Comments

If consumers buy in to private wireless phone networks, the industry could save money.

Rethinking the Cell Phone

By Kate Greene | 02/14/2008 | 5 Comments

An Israeli startup has made a modular mobile phone that can work on its own or slip into other electronic devices. Will it catch on?

The Year in Software

By Erica Naone | 01/02/2008 | 4 Comments

In 2007, life online continued to meld with life offline.

The Year in Hardware

By Kate Greene | 12/26/2007 | 0 Comments

The past 12 months have featured touch screens, context-aware gadgets, autonomous vehicles, and brain-computer interfaces.

What Your Phone Knows About You

By Kate Greene | 12/20/2007 | 6 Comments

MIT's Sandy Pentland finds surprising implications in patterns of cell-phone use.

A Better Resonator

By Prachi Patel | 12/05/2007 | 0 Comments

Researchers have made defect-free gallium-nitride nanowires that could replace bulky quartz crystals in cell-phone receivers.

Targeting Mobile Ads

By Andrew Schrock | 11/21/2007 | 0 Comments

Nokia's Enpocket acquisition paves the way for contextualized mobile advertising.

Preserving One Web

By Erica Naone | 11/16/2007 | 7 Comments

The W3C hopes that its new tool will help developers build websites that will work well on any device, be it a phone or a video-game console.

Terabyte Storage for Cell Phones

By Kevin Bullis | 10/31/2007 | 3 Comments

A nanotech-enabled device could replace the flash memory used in portable electronics.

Samsung's High-Resolution Phone Display

By Kate Greene | 10/24/2007 | 1 Comment

A new device offers a pixel layout that saves battery life and presents a sharper picture.

Skype Goes Mobile

By John Borland | 10/22/2007 | 5 Comments

Long seen as a threat to cellular carriers' revenues, Internet phone calling will be the basis of a new service from 3 Mobile.