Wed, November 18, 2009 - Research In Motion's VP of BlackBerry Security says he's concerned that online miscreants could increasingly target BlackBerry devices and other smartphones in the future, in attempts to take control of the handsets and employ them to bring down wireless carriers' cellular networks via distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
Wed, November 18, 2009 - South Korean regulators gave Apple a business license on Wednesday that would allow it to launch the iPhone in the country at any time.
Wed, November 18, 2009 - Japan's biggest wireless service provider plans to shut off its 2G mobile phone network in March 2011 because most of its customers will have moved on to 3G, the company CEO said Wednesday in Hong Kong.
Wed, November 18, 2009 - The world's largest mobile phone service provider by subscribers is still in talks with Apple about offering the iPhone in China even though rival China Unicom started selling the handsets there last month.
Tue, November 17, 2009 - NASA's Website connects everyday folks to the goings on of the universe (and the goings on of the American space agency that eats up a substantial part of the national budget). The site is packed with information, and it delivers NASA's day-to-day activities in a clean, intuitive, and visually compelling way. Now you can get all the information the Website offers on your iPhone or iPod touch through the free NASA app for iPhone.
Tue, November 17, 2009 - A new report from a mobile security vendor details how the most popular smartphones, including the iPhone, are very vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks, carried out via public Wi-Fi connections.
Tue, November 17, 2009 - Workers at T-Mobile UK have been selling customer data to brokers who work for the competition, T-Mobile and the U.K.'s Information Commissioner's Office said on Tuesday.
Tue, November 17, 2009 - Antwerp, Belgium is well known as one of the diamond capitals of the world (host to at least one major heist in the past decade). But the latest place in the city to be pilfered wasn't a vault full of gems, but a warehouse full of iPhones.
Tue, November 17, 2009 - This week, Verizon filed a sarcastic and defiant response to the lawsuit filed by AT&T earlier this month alleging that Verizon's "There's a Map for That" ads falsely assert that AT&T has major gaps in its wireless coverage.
Tue, November 17, 2009 - Thinking about creating an iPhone app? A contest run by retailer Gap shows off five common strengths of winning iPhone apps. Here's a look at the lessons learned -- and the apps.
