mobile

Facebook Testing VIP App With Some Celebs

Facebook Testing VIP App With Some CelebsIn case you thought I was becoming a Facebook fanboy, let me just say that this celeb crap is something Zuck will be adding to his list of regrets within the year. Granted, that’s probably a very short list, but this VIP thing is a distraction an a gimmick …

101 million of Facebook's 128 million daily U.S. users are on mobile devices

101 million of Facebook’s 128 million daily U.S. users are on mobile devicesMy headline says it all. If you still had any doubt about the importance of mobile to anyone doing anything on the Internet, this stat should disabuse you of that uncertainty. Amazing.

Twitter kills TweetDeck, announces it on Posterous, which they're also killing

Twitter kills TweetDeck, announces it on Posterous, which they’re also killingI admit, squeezing the entire post into the title is lazy, but at least it’s informative. I’ll link to Twitter’s death notice for Posterous and call it a post.

NYPD subpoenas call logs of stolen cell phones

NYPD subpoenas call logs of stolen cell phonesJoseph Goldstein, writing for the Times: Mr. Sussmann suggested that the Police Department could limit its subpoenas to phone calls beginning on the hour, not the day, of the theft, and ending as soon as the victim has transferred the number to a new …

Philly is lost-phone central

Philly is lost-phone centralThis includes theft and just plain misplacement. I’m more of a dropper myself. Just ask my twice-cracked Galaxy Nexus. I’m not proud, but disclosure will help shame me into being more careful.

Over 50% of Android phones still run Gingerbread

Over 50% of Android phones still run GingerbreadThe greatest argument against Android is that the “Android” I am talking about when I describe the experience on my Galaxy Nexus is still very foreign to a majority of Android users.

Samsung shipped a stunning 57M smartphones in Q3 — twice as many as Apple

Samsung shipped a stunning 57M smartphones in Q3 — twice as many as AppleHow many Samsung devices are on the latest version of their respective operating systems? Many consumers don’t know or care that they’re buying an outdated version of Android, but that ignorance will not last forever. Samsung …

Sloppy SSL implementation begets Android app vulnerabilities

Sloppy SSL implementation begets Android app vulnerabilitiesDan Goodin at Ars Technica explains how researchers found that 8% of apps in a 13,500-app sample were susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks. Hopefully developers will revisit their SSL implementations or, better yet, Google will update …

Verizon Activated 3.1 Million iPhones In Q3 2012, But Only 651K Were iPhone 5s

Verizon Activated 3.1 Million iPhones In Q3 2012, But Only 651K Were iPhone 5sMG Siegler, commenting on the TechCrunch post by Chris Velazco, linked above: In other words, the iPhone 5 was on sale for just nine days before the quarter ended. And it was supply-constrained the whole time. Mr. …

Apple Is Heavily Promoting Alternative Map Apps In The App Store

Apple Is Heavily Promoting Alternative Map Apps In The App StoreRelated

Virgin Mobile USA's inadequate response to a good-faith vulnerability disclosure

Virgin Mobile USA’s inadequate response to a good-faith vulnerability disclosureDeveloper Kevin Burke describes in damning detail how easy it is to brute force Virgin Mobile USA account PINs, as well as the company’s incompetent and opaque handling of the situation.

The New Feedly Mobile

The New Feedly MobileAnti-disclosure: This post raves about the new Feedly. They didn’t pay me, I don’t know them, and all I get out of writing the below is the satisfaction of pointing fellow Android users to one of the best-designed apps in the Play Store. I love both Pulse and Flipboard and I …

Apathy and ecstasy for the iPhone 5

Mat Honan, writing at Wired’s Gadget Lab blog: It is an amazing triumph of technology that gets better and better, year after year, and yet somehow is every bit as exciting as a 25 mph drive through a sensible neighborhood at a reasonable time of day. I am still waiting for Verizon to push Jelly …

Apple's Comfortable Middle

Hamish McKenzie, writing at PandoDaily : With two product launches in a row that show Apple is merely keeping pace with innovation rather than leading it, the world’s most valuable company will start to seem mortal. I disagree. For the record, I’m usually on board with Mr. McKenzie’s analyses, and …

Say Hello to Samsung's Fanboy Factory - The Mobilers Program

Say Hello to Samsung’s Fanboy Factory - The Mobilers ProgramIndian mobile tech blogger Clinton Jeff of Unleash the Phones, talking to The Next Web's Brad McCarty: We got a call from Samsung India saying ‘You can either be a part of this and wear the uniform, or you’ll have to get your own …

Cloud startup aims to make “dumb” cell phones smart

Cloud startup aims to make “dumb” cell phones smartSean Gallagher reports at Ars Technica on biNu, a company developing an asynchronous, server-side smartphone emulator in Java. The system’s low-bandwidth, high-security nature makes it a perfect fit for countries where the next iPhone is out of …

Flipboard, Condé Nast, and the Mobile Advertising Problem (Updated)

Howard Mittman, VP and publisher at Condé Nast property Wired Magazine, told Ad Age's Nat Ives: I’m interested in ways to bring advertisers in front of our community. When Flipboard becomes that, I would love to reengage and reinvigorate our product. Until then, we have to wait and see and not …

No Pressure

Analyst Brian Marshall, to SFGate’s Jun Yang: As the markets get more saturated, the pressure will be much stronger to add more screen sizes. "Today, the answer is no," he said. "Down the road, the answer is yes," he said. No way. The only source of pressure on Apple to do anything is the …