iPhone 4S not iPhone 5
Technically the iPhone 4S doesn’t really pull ahead of the competition: Android-based phones like the Samsung Galaxy S II. The iPhone 4S even has some worse specifications than the iPhone 4. It is 3...
View ArticleDroid Razr first look.
First impression is very good. The industrial design on this makes the iPhone look clunky. The screen is much bigger, the overall feel reeks of quality, just like the iPhone. The haptic feedback felt...
View ArticleMobile Virtualization
According to Electronista, ARM’s next generation of chips for phones and tablets should start shipping in devices at the end of this year. These chips are based on ARM’s big.LITTLE architecture....
View ArticleITExpo: BYOD – The New Mobile Enterprise
If you are going to ITExpo West 2012 in Austin, make sure you attend my panel on this topic at 1:30 pm on Wednesday, October 3rd. The panelists are Jeanette Lee of Ruckus Wireless, Ed Wright of...
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ABI projects rapid uptake of 802.11ac
An interesting graphic from ABI research projects ongoing rapid growth in Wi-Fi in phones out to 2017, when the penetration will be approaching 100%. This doesn’t seem to be unrealistically fast to me,...
View ArticleBig Brother
Some ideas are so obvious once you hear them that you feel like you already had them yourself. One such is a new application for Wi-Fi from a company called Euclid Analytics. Euclid’s idea is to...
View ArticleMobile Security and HTML5
Smartphones and tablets have plenty of computing power to host malware, and they are simultaneously connected to the Internet via a cellular connection and to the LAN via Wi-Fi. So everybody in your...
View ArticleMobile Malware Update
Blue Coat Systems has published an interesting report on the state of mobile malware. The good news is that in the words of the report “the devices’ security model” is not yet “broken.” This means that...
View ArticleBYOD Cyber-Security. How concerned should you be?
According to ComputerWeekly.com, “Nearly half of firms supporting BYOD report data breaches.” PWC’s 2013 Information Security Breaches Survey said “9% of large organisations had a security or data...
View ArticleGesture recognition in smartphones
This piece from the Aberdeen Group shows accelerometers and gyroscopes becoming universal in smartphones by 2018. Accelerometers were exotic in smartphones when the first iPhone came out – used mainly...
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