Separate reports Wednesday morning show that Research in Motion, despite being battered this year for everything from outages to late products to lost market share, hasn’t been without its admirers.
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt today distanced his company from Carrier IQ's software, even as he described the technology as a keylogger. Schmidt's comments came at an Internet freedom conference in the Netherlands.
Apple is one of eight companies that have been named in another class-action lawsuit filed over the use of Carrier IQ software in mobile handsets.
Qualcomm has promised that its quad-core Snapdragon chips, designed to run Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 operating system, will appear in tablets in the second half of next year.
In what could be a precursor of legal action to come, mobile software vendor Carrier IQ has been hit with two lawsuits over the use of its <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9222332/FAQ_Behind_the_Carrier_IQ_rootkit_controversy">controversial tracking technology</a> in tens of millions of mobile phones worldwide.
A Cornell University professor is calling the controversial Carrier IQ smartphone software revelations a privacy disaster.
A controversy over smartphone privacy has reignited following a coder's recent post detailing how a hidden software application on Android-based HTC phones can collect a range of information about the user's activities.
Facebook is working with HTC to build an Android-based smartphone with Facebook social networking services at its core, according to a report.
Amazon.com's Kindle Fire tablet will leapfrog most competitive offerings to quickly become number two in the market behind Apple's iPad, according to a survey conducted by ChangeWave Research.
Which <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/102011-tech-arguments-corporate-employee-mobile-devices-252229.html">smartphones</a> pose the biggest <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/security.html">security</a> and privacy risks to consumers and corporations?
The National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) is trialling a new system designed to modernise the way police forces around the UK process the growing volume of digital evidence.
The Apple iPhone might not be dominating the smartphone market like its iOS cousin, the iPad, is commanding the emerging tablet market, but recent signs point to an upcoming iPhone boon that will go bonkers this holiday season.
Right now the mobile operating system wars have only two main combatants: <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2009/060309-apple-quiz.html">Apple</a>'s iOS and Google's <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/110910-google-android-useful-resources-smartphones.html">Android</a>.
HTC's strategy of flooding the U.S. market with lots of devices and hoping some of them hit is really paying off.
The <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/241087/apple_unveils_the_new_iphone_4s.html#tk.hp_fv">iPhone 4S</a> may look identical to the iPhone 4, but that's where the comparisons stop. Under the hood the iPhone 4S is full of hardware and software innovations that help Apple catch up with its rivals. Here’s how Apple’s iPhone 4S stacks up against its Android, Windows Phone 7 and BlackBerry competitors when it comes to specs.