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FORENSICS   |  Comment

CSi: Crime Scene iPhones Yield Forensic Evidence, Confusion About Data Handling

What smartphone and tablet data can be captured and analyzed? How does one do that correctly? And how reliable is the information, anyway? These are other questions beguile law enforcement officials as they confront mobile forensics. READ»

Apple, iPhones, And Mobile Broadcasting's Bright Future

While the BBC is bringing smartphone tech to its journalists for on-the-spot newscasting, Apple has its own plans for this tech--and it's quite promising for everyone from foreign correspondents to citizen journos. READ»

Foldable Device Screens, Coming Soon To Your Pocket

A breakthrough in foldable OLED screen tech means a display can be folded in half like a sheet of paper without creasing. It's no exaggeration to say this could change every mobile device's design.READ»

Microsoft, Toyota Announce $12 Million Partnership for "Ultimate Mobile Device"

How your car is evolving from an automobile to a "mobile device."READ»

Apple-Loving App Developers Seduced by Android: Report

Apple is still the king of the app world, both on smartphones and tablets. But a new survey shows that Android is catching up--at least among the people who build apps.READ»

Apple's Solar Power Patent: Sun Powered Mac, iPods, iPhones in the Future

Apple's winning more patents all the time, but the latest one is fascinating: It's the first patent for solar powered portable devices that's been awarded to the company. Added to the company's other solar patents, it looks like sunny future for Steve Jobs' firm.READ»

INTERNET   |  Comment

Anarchy In U.K. TV: Brits Turning To Internet, 3-D Broadcasts

Watching TV on your laptop while chatting with friends, HD and 3-D TV ... U.K. viewing habits are changing rapidly, according to a Cisco/Forrester survey. Should TV providers be worried?READ»

APPLE   |  Comment

iPad Gets First Major Software Update - But Does Anyone Care?

Steve Jobs' magic and revolutionary device may have wowed the world earlier this year, but has the MacBook Air refresh rendered the iPad obsolete?READ»

CHIPS   |  Comment

AMD's Chip Architect Brad Burgess on Mobile Computing's Future

AMD's Brad Burgess is the chief architect behind the company's future low-power/portable device Bobcat CPUs. We spoke to him about them, but also about the future. READ»

CHIPS   |  Comment

Honey, I Shrunk The Memory! Scientists Heralding Smaller Gizmos, Again

Rice University scientists are reporting advances in shrinking the technology that makes computer memory work--a huge key to the next revolution in gadget design. Soon your supercomputer may be iPhone-sized.READ»

GOOGLE   |  Comment

Can Google Tablet Learn From Nexus One's Failings?

On Friday, as Steve Jobs was explaining just why the iPhone 4's antenna woes were not exclusive to his smartphone, Google quietly released a very short item of news on its blog. Two months after shutting up its online shop, its first ...READ»

E-PAPER   |  Comment

Nemoptic's E-Paper Plays Video, Teases the Future of E-Readers

E-paper isn't just for e-readers like the Kindle, or at least it won't be if a new tech from a firm called Nemoptic comes to fruition. The kind of e-paper display used in the Kindle, from market-leader E-Ink (electrophoretic e-paper), ...READ»

ANDROID   |  Comment

Eric Schmidt: 160,000 Android Phones Activated Each Day. Impressive, or Anti-iPhone PR?

Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, has given an interview to the Guardian in which he claims that 160,000 Android mobile devices are being activated each day. That's up 60% in a month. Schmidt also claimed that because Android is free, it ...READ»

WORLD CUP   |  Comment

World Cup: How Are You Watching?

This week, blogger Michael Surtees showed off his World Cup rig--that is to say, the gear that he's watching the matches on. When we saw the picture, it got us thinking. What kind of set-up are you using to get your football fixes? ...READ»

MEEGO   |  Comment

Can Nokia and Intel Conquer the Embedded Devices World With MeeGo OS?

Intel and Nokia have announced what seems to be an extremely odd partnership: They're melding Intel's Moblin mobile device OS with Nokia's Maemo into a new Linux affair called MeeGo. Odd? Yes. But it might just work. The companies' ...READ»

Awareness Is Everything

Constant awareness of the world... in our pockets.READ»

'Nokia Money' Will Turn Mobile Devices Into Banks, Nokia Into World's Largest ATM

Nokia has already said it plans to become the world's largest entertainment network through its vast share of the mobile handset market (read our September cover story for more detail). Now it looks like the Finnish mobile device ...READ»

MICROSOFT   |  Comment

Windows Marketplace Opens for Older Phones, Taking App Submissions Soon

Good news for Windows Mobile users from the Worldwide Partner Conference: by year's end, Windows Marketplace, Microsoft's upcoming app vendor, will be open to WinMo 6.0 and 6.1. Previously Microsoft was gearing the site toward WinMo ...READ»