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| Forum: Smartphone, Wireless, and Mobile Technologies | ||||
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| 1: |  "Google does not vet Android applications""Google doesn't test Android Software Apps for malware or security issues. Report of an online banking phish causes Google to pull 50 apps from their Android marketplace." | Jan 12, 2010 | ||
| 2: | 802.11n Wi-Fi Standard Finally Approved "Finalization of the new wireless networking standard--which is capable of delivering throughput speeds up to 300 megabits per second (and even higher)-- took exactly seven years from the day it was conceived..." | Sept 14, 2009 | ||
| 3: | AT&T 30% Call Drop Rate Acceptable in NYC "The average iPhone drops 30 percent of all calls." | Sept 30, 2009 | ||
| 4: | AT&T Selects Yahoo to Replace Google on Android Phones "... AT&T went out of their way to replace Google search with Yahoo." | Mar 2, 2010 | ||
| 5: | AT&T Vulnerability Exposes 100K iPad Email Addresses "The hacker group that claims to have discovered the weakness - the group calls itself Goatse Security - said it was able to trick AT&T's site into coughing up more than 114,000 e-mail addresses, including those apparently of famous media personalities and important government officials." | June 10, 2010 | ||
| 6: | Adobe Discontinues Flash on Mobile Devices Adobe announced it is ceasing development of its Flash plugin for mobile devices, as the company refocuses its efforts on HTML5. | Nov 12, 2011 | ||
| 7: | Adobe Ditches Development Of Flash For iPhone "Adobe Systems has gone from touting its technology for building Flash applications that run on the iPhone to canceling future development of that technology." | Apr 21, 2010 | ||
| 8: | Amazon Launches Appstore Developer Portal For Mobile App Developers "It is a new self-service tool that allows mobile application developers, Android developers in particular, to join our Appstore Developer Program and submit apps for the upcoming launch of the Amazon Appstore for Android." | Jan 5, 2011 | ||
| 9: | Amazon, Apple, Google, HP, Microsoft and RIM Agree To Improve Privacy In Mobile Apps These platforms have agreed to privacy principles designed to bring the industry in line with a California law requiring mobile apps that collect personal information to have a privacy policy. The majority of mobile apps sold today do not contain a privacy policy. | Feb 23, 2012 | ||
| 10: | Android App MarketPlace Limited to Smart Phones "We ask our partners to build compatible devices, and we provide handset manufacturers with a Compatibility Test Suite" | Apr 5, 2010 | ||
| 11: | Android App Reviews Now Require Google+ Account When users attempt to post a review, they will be presented with a pop-up box notifying them of the new policy. | Nov 27, 2012 | ||
| 12: | Android Trojan Discovered: Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a "Purporting to be a harmless media player application, the Trojan, once installed, actually sends out SMS text messages without the users' knowledge or consent." | Aug 11, 2010 | ||
| 13: | AntiTrust Division of DOJ Said to be Investigating Apple App Policies "... the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission are locked in negotiations over which of the watchdogs will begin an antitrust inquiry into Apple's new policy of requiring software developers who devise applications for devices such as the iPhone and iPad to use only Apple's programming tools." | May 3, 2010 | ||
| 14: | Apple Sells Two Million iPads In Under 60 Days "Apple today announced that iPad sales have topped two million in less than 60 days since its launch on April 3." | May 31, 2010 | ||
| 15: | Apple To Buy Mobile Ad Network Quattro Wireless "The announcement of the acquisition might come as soon as tomorrow, upping the ante in the mobile advertising business significantly." | Jan 5, 2010 | ||
| 16: | Apple and AT&T Sued Over iPhone 4 "The lawsuit focus on the antenna design problems, making several claims..." | July 2, 2010 | ||
| 17: | Apple purchased Placebase in July to replace Google Maps On Iphone? "Placebase is similar to Google Maps in that it is a mapping service and has the world mapped out." | Oct 1, 2009 | ||
| 18: | Apple to Encourage iPhone Application Developers "Mr. Jobs announced a low-cost software development kit that outside programmers can use to create programs for the iPhone, much as they now write the vast majority of the programs created for the Macintosh." | Mar 7, 2008 | ||
| 19: | Apple vs Google : Apple Sues Android Phone Manufacture HTC "...By going after the biggest Android manufacturer, Apple is putting all Android cell phone makers, and by extension Google, on notice. The battle lines are now drawn." | Mar 2, 2010 | ||
| 20: | Consumer Reports "we can't recommend the iPhone 4." Our findings call into question the recent claim by Apple that the iPhone 4's signal-strength issues were largely an optical illusion caused by faulty software that "mistakenly displays 2 more bars than it should for a given signal strength." | July 12, 2010 | ||
| 21: | Does the Proprietary iPhone Hardware Mean the Competitors Have an Opportunity? "Apple is doing what they did with desktops back in the 80's. They made a closed system again. Android is going do to the Iphone what Windows did to IBM. I don't get why they can't learn from their mistakes. Money has never been in hardware it is all about software. | Dec 27, 2009 | ||
| 22: | Firefox OS Developer Preview Phones Announced These developer phones are being developed by Geeksphone in partnership with Telefonica and Geeksphone. | Jan 22, 2013 | ||
| 23: | First PDA to Use Opera Browser The new Sharp Zaurus features embedded Opera browser. | Sept 5, 2002 | ||
| 24: | Google Changes In-App Ads To Combat Accidental Clicks On Smartphones ...we're introducing confirmed clicks into all in-app image ad banners on smartphones, which reduces accidental clicks by prompting the user to confirm that they intended to click on the ad. | Dec 14, 2012 | ||
| 25: | Google Maps for iOS Google has finally released the long awaited Maps application for iPhone. | Dec 13, 2012 | ||
| 26: | Google Tackles Android Fragmentation With New SDK Licensing Agreement "You agree that you will not take any actions that may cause or result in the fragmentation of Android, including but not limited to distributing, participating in the creation of, or promoting in any way a software development kit derived from the SDK." | Nov 16, 2012 | ||
| 27: | Google to acquire AdMob for $750 million "This morning we announced that AdMob has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Google." | Nov 9, 2009 | ||
| 28: | Hewlett-Packard to Buy Palm for $1.2 Billion "Hewlett-Packard said Wednesday that it would acquire Palm, the struggling cellphone maker, for $1.2 billion in cash, including the assumption of debt." | Apr 28, 2010 | ||
| 29: | Judge Dismisses iPhone Battery Lifetime Lawsuit "Apple Inc. won't face a lawsuit claiming it didn't immediately tell customers about the limited life of batteries for its iPhone..." | Sept 27, 2008 | ||
| 30: | Microsoft Opens Up CE "Developers will be able to license one copy of Windows CE 5.0 for just US$3 to begin working on any changes they wish to make to the code, and manufacturers start paying a fee only when they begin shipping commercial products." | June 29, 2004 | ||
| 31: | Microsoft Previews Deepfish Mobile Browser "Deepfish's unique interface enables you to zoom in and out of page, quickly getting to the areas you are interested in without screen length after screen length of scrolling." | Mar 29, 2007 | ||
| 32: | Microsoft and Nokia Team Up Over Smartphones Nokia has joined forces with Microsoft in an attempt to regain ground lost to the iPhone and Android-based devices. The deal would see Nokia use the Windows phone operating system for its smartphones, the company said. Microsoft's Bing will power Nokia's search services, while Nokia Maps would be a core part of Microsoft's mapping services. | Feb 11, 2011 | ||
| 33: | Mobile Broadband To Come Bult-in To Laptops "Phone firms, chip makers and PC manufacturers are uniting to push mobile broadband on laptop computers." | Sept 30, 2008 | ||
| 34: | Mobile Networks Want Apple, Facebook, Google, To Pay For Bandwidth "As mobile and Web companies add videos, music and games, operators including France Telecom SA, Telecom Italia SpA and Vodafone Group Plc want a new deal that would require content providers like Apple and Google to pay fees linked to usage." | Dec 9, 2010 | ||
| 35: | Mobile Web Has Teething Trouble "It all looks good, but the wireless communications business smacks of a soap opera, with disaster lurking like your next dropped call." | Nov 28, 2007 | ||
| 36: | Mobile Web Sites - Why so Little Interest? "I just don't understand why there is so little interest in mobile web site development. Any idea why?" | Dec 23, 2009 | ||
| 37: | Most Phones and PDA's Sold on Ebay Contain Private Data Be careful when you sell that phone on ebay or to a buddy! "sensitive information is retained in the Flash memory of the devices because of a widespread failure to perform the advanced hard reset required to delete data." | Aug 30, 2006 | ||
| 38: | Mozilla Plans To Build Mobile and Tablet OS, Boot To Gecko Mozilla revealed preliminary plans today to take the Gecko engine that drives its Firefox browser and turn it into an open-source operating system that will eventually work on phones and tablets. | July 26, 2011 | ||
| 39: | Mozilla Smartphone Open OS Ready Late 2012 Speaking at a press conference in Sao Paulo, Gary Kovacs, chief executive of Mozilla, said this openness would make a difference to the way applications on phones operate.[br][br]B2G aimed to make apps more like webpages and able to share data and links, he said. It did this by basing everything on the latest web standard known as HTML5. | Apr 21, 2012 | ||
| 40: | New WiFi Frequency Set to Turbo Charge WiFi "Wi-Fi is about to lay claim to a new frequency band that could result in speeds at least 10 times faster than what's currently available." | May 10, 2010 | ||
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