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  • RIM bows to pressure, yanks BlackBerry DUI checkpoint app

    Posted March 24, 2011 - 2:32 pm

    Research in Motion said Wednesday that it would comply with a request made by four U.S. senators and will pull BlackBerry apps that alert drivers of police drunk-driving checkpoints.

  • Google yanks 21 malicious apps from Android Market, phones

    Posted March 2, 2011 - 3:01 pm

    Openness, one of Android's big advantages, can also be the Achilles' heel of the platform. Google has pulled the kill switch on 21 free malware apps from the Android Market and from around 50,000 devices, according to reports. The apps were free illegal downloads of popular apps in the Android Market, repackaged with malware able to steal details from a user's phone.

  • How secure is Windows Phone 7 app code?

    Posted November 29, 2010 - 1:32 pm

    A recent Microsoft glitch made it possible for developers to bypass the Zune marketplace and download their Windows Phone 7 app of choice. Though Microsoft closed that loopohole, the incident sparked debate over how to secure application code, a problem that affects more than WP7 developers.

  • Microsoft crafts shrewd apps plan for Windows Phone 7 launch

    Posted November 8, 2010 - 11:38 am

    Microsoft has shrewdly created an application environment that makes the new Windows Phone 7 handsets -- on sale Monday November 8 -- instantly useable to buyers, in many of the e-mail, photo, social networking and work activities they pursue daily.

  • Facebook mobile users triple this year

    Posted November 11, 2008 - 6:19 pm

    Facebook said that use of its mobile products has tripled since the beginning of the year and the popularity of some features has surprised the company.

  • The 10 best Google Android applications

    Posted September 9, 2008 - 4:32 pm

    Late last year, Google announced that it would give $10 million worth in prizes to software development companies to develop innovative and useful applications for their open source mobile Android platform. Roughly nine months later, Google has announced the winners, and the applications it has selected help users do everything from calling their nearest taxi cabs to comparing sale prices at different stores to calculating their carbon footprint.

  • Jobs confirms iPhone application 'kill switch'

    Posted August 11, 2008 - 1:53 pm

    Last week's news that Apple had incorporated some form of application blacklist into the iPhone 3G certainly got people talking. While the purpose of said blacklist wasn't apparent, there was still quite a bit of argument over whether or not an application blacklist was a method that Apple should be employing.

  • Apple removes 'stabbing app' for iPhone

    Posted August 11, 2008 - 9:51 am

    It is unclear how Slasher, a 'stabbing game' for the iPhone, became available in the App Store as Apple claims every game featured on the App Store must be checked by Apple to ensure it does not infringe its terms and conditions.

  • Another iPhone application slashed from App Store

    Posted August 8, 2008 - 2:30 pm

    There's a serial killer on the loose, and he's picking off iPhone applications one by one. The Machiavellian criminal has already done away with NetShare, Box Office, and I Am Rich--now he's set his sights on an application near and dear to his own heart: Slasher. The application in question has vanished; its last known whereabouts place it squarely in the vicinity of the App Store, the same place the other three missing applications were last seen.

  • Apple resurrects iPhone tethering app, then kills it again

    Posted August 4, 2008 - 10:15 am

    The on-again, off-again saga of NetShare, an iPhone tethering application, continued over the weekend as Apple Inc. briefly returned the program to the App Store on Friday, but then yanked it from the mart a second time.

  • Amid transition, Symbian starts paid partner program

    Posted July 7, 2008 - 8:25 pm

    Symbian launched a partner program for software developers working with its mobile OS, taking an interim step to attract more developers while the OS moves toward open-source availability.

  • Apple ships iPhone SDK beta 8

    Posted June 27, 2008 - 1:55 pm

    Apple has introduced iPhone SDK Beta 8, revealing the software to be compatible with the final iPhone OS 2.0 release.

  • Microsoft to buy mobile software maker MobiComp

    Posted June 27, 2008 - 9:40 am

    Microsoft on Thursday announced plans to buy MobiComp, a Portuguese company that makes software for the mobile world, including mobile posting to Web sites such as Facebook.

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