Dozens of phone calls and emails today made one thing clear: none of Australia's telcos or handset manufacturers have briefed their staff on when mobile phones running Google's Android system will be made available locally, if they are at all.
Hackers have broken into BusinessWeek's online site and set up an attack scenario in which visitors to a section of the site could have their own computers compromised and their data stolen, a security researcher said on Monday in the US.
Sony Ericsson has announced that the Xperia X1 smartphone will be released in the UK, Germany and Switzerland on 30 September, but Australia will not see the X1 until at least three months later.
The browser company Opera has signed up to the Symbian Foundation, a Nokia-led consortium that was set up in June to turn the Symbian mobile operating system into an open-source platform.
Sony has suspended its PlayStation 2.40 firmware upgrade following reports it has fouled up some users' systems Sony has also removed hacked pages on its Playstation web site.
Pronouncing that a given device doesn't need any more storage is a near-foolproof recipe for looking stupid somewhere down the line. However, I'm sceptical that many people need a 16GB mini-SD card for their phone.
If you hang around mobile rumour sites then you may have heard the latest Chinese whisper doing the rounds -- Sony is making a PSP mobile phone all of its own.
You wait for some hot news on smartphone software -- well, I do -- and then several bits come along at once. This week has seen some seriously fascinating movements in the field -- but what does it all mean for your mobile?
Sony has once again been outed for putting its customers at risk from attack by creating software that could help criminals hide malware on a PC.
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Nobody, least of all Yahoo and Google, doubted that the two companies' search-advertising deal would escape any antitrust scrutiny.
Reality has been cruel to virtual worlds, with most failing to live up to expectations, especially in business environments. Did analysts get that right or are they also guilty of second-degree Second Life hyping?
Given the hype around anything with a single-letter prefix m-commerce, e-learning, iPhone last year's speculation over a Google "gPhone" sent the blogosphere into overdrive. The Android mobile phone platform that Google actually launched, however, took things in quite a different direction.
Symbian is the mobile world's dominant operating system, but can it walk the walk in the business world or will it always be the poor cousin to Windows Mobile in the enterprise? David Braue finds out.
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, ZDNet Director Josh Taylor talks to Editor in Chief Dan Farber about his impressions of the show, including his thoughts on Sony's new OLED TVs, the HD DVD format war, and a prototype of Yahoo's next generation portal.
Although there are some design quirks, the Samsung Omnia promises to be a solid alternative to Apple's iPhone.
Lenovo has continued the ThinkPad tradition of no-nonsense business laptops with the SL500, which provides good value and is powered by the Intel Centrino 2 architecture, and comes loaded with Windows Vista Business.
Apple has set the Nano back on track with the thinnest, lightest design yet, and has features that are hard to ignore.
Fujitsu's foray into Centrino 2 laptops is solid, but the competition is offering more features at a lower price.
Beneath its iPhone-esque exterior lurks a very capable business phone.The Palm Treo Pro may not have the snazzy interface designs of the competition, but this means it performs better in most areas.
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