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CTIA Survey Finds Consumers Know Their Mobile Devices are Vulnerable to Cyberthreats Yet Don't Do Much to Protect Themselves

By Peter Bernstein

The second day of CTIA 2013 wireless extravaganza in Las Vegas produced some sobering information. A survey on cybersecurity, done for the wireless industry's trade association by noted research firm Harris Interactive was released. The high level headlines were more than a bit disconcerting:
05/22/2013

Sprint Increases Its Offer Submission for Clearwire

By Joe Gottlieb

On Tuesday, May 21, 2013 Sprint announced that it had submitted a new proposal to the board of directors at Clearwire. Sprint wants to buy out the remaining 50 percent of Clearwire that it does not already own.
05/22/2013

Has Intel Begun to Focus on Mobile Tech?

By Joe Rizzo

Intel is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer. It is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers. Intel Corporation is a hybrid of Integrated Electronics, and everyone the world over knows its name.
05/22/2013

e-Cycle Receives Blackberry Global Achievement Award

By Wayne Adam

Blackberry's Global Achievement Award was recently handed out to e-Cycle, a provider of wireless buyback, recycling services, for its commitment to "Making the World a Better Place," at the 2013 Blackberry Live event in Orlando, Florida.
05/22/2013

Jennifer Lopez Launches VIVAmovil to Target Latino Shoppers

By Paula Bernier

In an effort to benefit from the country's growing Latino population, Superstar Jennifer Lopez is expanding her enterprise to include mobile device and services marketing via a new online and bricks-and-mortar retail brand called VIVAmovil. The effort, in which Lopez is the key shareholder and for w…
05/22/2013

A New Standard May be Coming Soon: Powermat Acquires PowerKiss

By Steve Anderson

Last night, news emerged that brings the wireless power standards battle a little closer to conclusion. Powermat, one of the wireless charging firms working as part of the PowerMatters Alliance, announced the acquisition of PowerKiss, a Finnish company that had been a part of the Qi alliance.
05/22/2013

Qualcomm, Samsung Knock AMD to 4th Place in Processor Market

By Rory Lidstone

Intel and AMD have been the top two processor manufacturers for quite some time but, according to new research from IC Insights, this has changed. While Intel retained its position as the top manufacturer of processors in the world in 2012, AMD fell from second to fourth place as Qualcomm and Samsun…
05/22/2013

BeQuick Brings MVNOs Real-Time Data Session Control, Self-Service Activation

By Paula Bernier

BeQuick Software this week at CTIA unveiled two new capabilities - real-time data session control, and the BYOD Portal - addressing the MVNO space.
05/22/2013

Unity Makes Mobile Development Tools Free

By Kayvon Ghoreshi

Unity Technologies, provider of the Unity multi-platform engine and development tools that have led to a rise in independent studios, has announced today that it will be furthering its influence on independent developers by making its tools free. Starting today, members of Unity's gigantic indie dev…
05/22/2013

63 Percent of U.S. Internet Access Is from Mobile Devices

By Gary Kim

Assessments of the coverage or quality of Internet access are more complicated than once was the case, simply because the number of mobile broadband accounts now surpasses the number of fixed broadband connections by quite some measure in the U.S. market.
05/22/2013

T-Mobile Czech Republic to Deploy Cisco ASR 5000 Series Platform

By Rory Lidstone

T-Mobile Czech Republic, in support of its latest batch of network upgrades, recently selected the Cisco ASR 5000 Series to manage mobile traffic from its new LTE network, along with its existing 2G and 3G networks. Scheduled to be implemented this year, the ASR 5000 routing platform will enable T-M…
05/22/2013

ClickTale Touch Enables Retailers to Understand Consumer Behavior on Mobile Sites

By Rachel Ramsey

There's a very high chance that you are one of the billions of smartphone users in the world today, or maybe even one of the 85 percent of smartphone users that would rather give up water than mobile apps. The point is, mobility has become an enormous, critical part of consumers' and businesses' day…
05/22/2013

Mobile Devices Have a Security Option for Safe Internet

By Jerry Biolchini

As mobile banking explodes and more users are taking advantage of it, criminals will look to mobile devices in order to gain access to users' data such as banking records. AnchorFree's Hotspot Shield VPN App has hit 10 billion downloads and provides a valuable service to mobile users.
05/22/2013

Aruba Networks 802.11ac Solution Designed for the Next-Generation Workplace

By Peter Bernstein

It has become apparent as the relentless adoption of bring your own devices (BYODs) continues, that the workplace of the future, whether at a headquarters location or a remote site, will be wireless.
05/21/2013

SAP AG Partners with Mocana on New Security Application

By Monica Gleberman

SAP AG has entered into a new strategic partnership with Mocana, a global security platform. Together, the two companies will work on reselling Mocana's mobile security application coined Mocana Mobile App Protection with a SAP added technology.
05/21/2013