Tag: mobile devices

Finding Our Way with Digital Bread Crumbs

By Evan I. Schwartz | 08/18/2010 | 5 Comments

A Microsoft research project explores whether sensors in mobile devices could help us navigate without GPS.

Mobile Flaw Could Cloak Clicks

By Robert Lemos | 08/17/2010 | 2 Comments

Researchers demonstrate that mobile phones are exceptionally vulnerable to a browser bait and switch.

App Lets You Know When Friends Are Nearby

By Erica Naone | 07/26/2010 | 1 Comment

New services try to make location information useful but not invasive.

Mobile Banking Sees Success in Senegal

By Nidhi Subbaraman | 07/19/2010 | 4 Comments

Financial services are reaching the world's poorest by mobile phone.

How Wi-Fi Drains Your Cell Phone

By Tom Simonite | 06/24/2010 | 0 Comments

A study finds problems, but also offers software fixes that could help cell phones last significantly longer between charges.

An Invisible Touch for Mobile Devices

By Kate Greene | 05/25/2010 | 5 Comments

A simple gesture-sensing interface could add new meaning to mobile-phone conversations.

The Need for Speed on the Web

By Erica Naone | 05/11/2010 | 12 Comments

A startup hopes to exploit the growing interest in making websites speedier.

How Android Security Stacks Up

By Simson Garfinkel | 04/01/2010 | 6 Comments

An Android phone's approach to security is radically different from an iPhone's--but is it better?

Wireless Controlled from the Cloud

By Duncan Graham-Rowe | 03/19/2010 | 4 Comments

An IBM project promises cheaper network management.

Creating Apps Just for Cars

By Erika Jonietz | 03/17/2010 | 0 Comments

Ford and the University of Michigan are developing social networking apps.

Getting More from Location Data

By Christopher Mims | 03/08/2010 | 0 Comments

Companies are working to add value to geospatial information.

Phone Game Needs No Server

By Duncan Graham-Rowe | 02/19/2010 | 0 Comments

Multiplayer games on mobile devices usually need remote servers--but not this one.

Mobile Touch Screens Could Soon Feel the Pressure

By Duncan Graham-Rowe | 01/27/2010 | 2 Comments

A quantum switch could add pressure sensing to mobile screens.

Next Generation Cell Networks

By Rachel Kremen | 01/14/2010 | 2 Comments

New systems could improve service for those with old and new smart phones.

Experts Break Mobile Phone Security

By Erica Naone | 12/29/2009 | 0 Comments

A researcher has shown that attacks on a long-standing mobile phone standard are possible.