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Mobile World Congress 2009 roundup

Mobile World Congress 2009 roundup

This year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is in full swing, with a flood of new handsets and exciting software announcements.

Gartner questions iPhone's enterprise security

Gartner questions iPhone's enterprise security

Apple 's new 3G iPhone 3G should not be given the same kind of broad access to internal applications that PCs typically enjoy, despite the enhanced security it offers, according to Gartner analysts.

Mobile Web leaders push for open standards

Mobile Web leaders push for open standards

The current morass of proprietary handheld devices, closed-off carrier networks, and specialised wireless applications must be eliminated if the mobile Internet is to become as powerful and ubiquitous as it should someday be.

New rules will drive single EU telecoms market

New rules will drive single EU telecoms market

Reforms to the European Union's telecoms rules due today (13 November) mark the most ambitious attempt yet to shape a single market out of 27 national telecoms markets in the EU.

BlackBerry becomes Crashberry after network failure

The network failure that caused so much frustration to BlackBerry users in north America should be a timely reminder to everyone whose business depends on a mobile workforce of the pitfalls they may have to overcome.

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RFID security row hits Black Hat conference

Although RFID is a well established technology unseemly rows over its security are just emerging

Spotting the trends for 2007

At the end of the year, we look back at the big stories of the year. For the future, 2007 will see continuation of 2006's trends, with the fight to extract more computing power from within a rigidly confined power envelope becoming an over-arching limitation.

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