The Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3i is a budget friendly laptop that should handle basic computing …
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iPhone’s Enterprise Ready Security = Non Existent
The new iPhone 2.0 and iPhone 3G have been advertised as being enterprise ready and all, but it turns out there’s a major security flaw in the iPhone operating system. Check out this article on Gizmodo to see how easy it is to bypass the iPhone’s password protection. Windows Mobile’s security on the other hand is a lot more advanced. Originally published on Pocketnow on August 28, 2008. More Smartphone News articles from the Pocketnow …
Continue readingRosario Uses Windows Mobile 10?
In the very beginning of the first episode of The Gemini Division, an online-only web television series produced by NBC, we see the main character, played by Rosario Dawson, using an ultra-thin widescreen Windows Mobile device to record and send her video messages to a friend via Windows Live Messenger. I’m not sure why she wasn’t using full duplex video calling. Perhaps her friend wasn’t online at the time and she had to send an …
Continue readingLocation Aware Web Pages Now Available Exclusively on Windows Mobile
Google has launched their new Gears Geolocation API which currently works exclusively on Windows Mobile devices. The Geolocation API allows web developers to access user device locations via GPS or cell ID tower locations. Don’t worry about stalkers, though: The privacy of users’ location information is extremely important. The first time your site calls the Geolocation API to request a user’s location, that user will be shown a permissions dialog where they can choose to …
Continue readingAutomatic Stylus/Finger Input Switching
We just posted about the new program for the HTC Touch Diamond and Touch Pro that lets you customize the application launching behavior activated when removing or inserting the stylus into the device’s silo. It turns out there’s an even more useful program out there that lets you customize which software input panel is active depending on whether the stylus is in its slot or not. The application is available here and was created by …
Continue readingCustomize Diamond’s Stylus Actions
Normally, when removing the stylus from the HTC Touch Diamond, the device will automatically turn on and unlock. Or if you’re in a call and remove the stylus, it will open the Notes application. Well, now you can customize the actions or applications launched when you both remove and insert the stylus into the Diamond’s silo. The software costs $7 and can be found at Kai’s Pocket PC Software. source: MSmobiles Originally published on Pocketnow …
Continue readingFictional Smartphone Market Share Numbers Are Fun
Michael Mace of Mobile Opportunity has posted an interesting article called “Does anybody really know what smartphone market share is?” The first surprise is that Nielsen shows Apple in fourth place in smartphone share. That’s wildly different from what Canalys, the source usually reported, has been saying (link). Canalys shows Apple’s market share as 28% in Q3 2007 while Nielsen shows it at 8% at the same time. The conflict in the numbers underlines how …
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