Kindle owners rich, iPad owners young and male
Kindle owners tend to be wealthier and more educated than Apple iPad and iPhone owners, while iPads are attracting a largely young, male following.
Stories by Bob Brown
Amazon prepping Android app store, tablet?
Amazon is said to be readying an Android app store and tablet, a move that should boost Google's mobile platform while also challenging Google's own Android Market.
Google Android smartphones winning over businesses, ChangeWave finds
Companies are increasingly spending their smartphone dollars on Google Android devices, at least in part at the expense of RIM BlackBerry devices, according to ChangeWave Research’s latest numbers.
Google Transparency Report shows U.S., Brazil make most data removal requests
Google has introduced a Transparency Report that lets you see which countries are asking the search company for data on its users and making requests for data removal.
Android security under scrutiny
Apple has done enough security-wise with its iPhone and iPad to make many CSOs comfortable with the mobile devices connecting to corporate networks, but Google's Android still has a ways to go.
Inside Intel's security organization
The "<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/090910-here-you-have-e-mail-worm.html?t51hb">Here You Have</a>" e-mail virus that ripped across the Internet last week didn't leave Intel unscathed: The 80,000-plus employee company had 4,400 employees click on the malware and wound up with 400 infected machines.
Google Android overtakes Windows Mobile
Google's Android has blown by <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/">Microsoft</a>'s Windows Mobile to rank third among smartphone operating systems, according to <a href="http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2010/9/comScore_Reports_July_2010_U.S._Mobile_Subscriber_Market_Share">ComScore's latest numbers</a>.
Forrester: Trust no one when it comes to IT security
Forrester Research is releasing a report titled <a href="http://www.forrester.com/rb/Research/no_more_chewy_centers_introducing_zero_trust/q/id/56682/t/2">"Introducing the Zero-Trust Model of Information Network" (excerpt here)</a> in conjunction with its Security Forum event in Boston this week.
Google: Android Froyo OS is hot, fragmentation remains
Google has released a breakdown of Android releases running on active smartphones, tablets and other devices and the results show that the latest versions are taking off along with Android itself.
Smartphone users gobbling up game apps
Americans are increasingly stuffing their smartphones with apps, with games leading the way and productivity apps in the middle of the pack.
NSF: Time for an Internet do-over
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has doled out grants worth up to $US32 million in total to a pack of universities dedicated to rethinking everything about the Internet from from its core routing system to its security architecture and addressing the emergence of cloud computing and an increasingly mobile society.
Google's Nexus One: The most popular unpopular phone
Google's Nexus One phone – yes, the same one that the company stopped selling via it's online store last month – is now so popular among developers that it has sold out.
Dell Streak teardown: Go ahead and drop the tablet
The Dell Streak tablet, which goes on sale Friday in the United States, is a sturdy device just daring you to drop it. But if you do need to take it apart and fix it, that's not a problem, according to iFixit, which this week tore the device open for peek inside.
How to roll out full disk encryption to PCs and laptops
Hardly a week goes by when some organization or another doesn't lose some laptops and face a litany of IT securityquestions. One that always comes up: Were the systems' disks fully encrypted?
Apple iPhone software chief joins Twitter
Scott Forstall, Apple's Senior Vice President of iPhone software, has joined Twitter, which has been hopping with tweets this week surrounding the iPhone 4's technical problems.