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Taming Information-Stealing Smartphone Applications (on Android)

April 12, 2011 12:00am PDT

Smartphones have been becoming ubiquitous and mobile users are increasingly relying on them to store and handle personal in-formation. However, recent studies also reveal the disturbing fact that...

Provided by: NC State University

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Energy-Efficient Parallel Software for Mobile Hand-Held Devices

April 11, 2011 12:00am PDT

Energy efficiency is an essential design criterion for mobile hand-held devices. The authors underline the issue that parallel programs for mobile devices must be efficiently executable on the...

Provided by: Helsinki University of Technology

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Leaderboard 2011: The 10 best Android smartphones

April 1, 2011 9:25am PDT

Hot, new Android devices hit the market almost every week. To help you sort through them all, here's our list of the 10 best Android smartphones, especially with business users in mind.

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Software Testing of GPS Data Processing

April 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

There are different set of software for GPS data processing. Every manufactures of GPS receivers produce their own software for processing the observed field data in order to obtain adjusted...

Provided by: International Journal of Computer Science and Telecommunications

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Firefox for smartphones: An evolution (photos)

March 31, 2011 1:00pm PDT

Firefox has come a long way since its beginnings as a Windows Mobile browser. Here's a chronological look at its smartphone evolution.

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10 gadgets you should get rid of... maybe

March 30, 2011 9:38am PDT

The New York Times recently listed several consumer electronics you may not need, from digital cameras to e-books. Is this common sense or heresy? Andrew Nusca offers his take.

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Photos: HTC ThunderBolt, the Ferrari of smartphones

March 29, 2011 8:34pm PDT

The HTC ThunderBolt is the first smartphone on Verizon's 4G LTE network. This gallery includes extensive unboxing photos, comparisons with other top devices, and screenshots of 4G speedtests.

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Nintendo 3DS Teardown

March 29, 2011 6:57am PDT

Bill Detwiler cracks open the Nintendo 3DS. The handheld game system has chips from Nintendo, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Texes Instruments, and more.

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Database Scalability, Elasticity, and Autonomy in the Cloud

March 29, 2011 12:00am PDT

The proliferation of technology in the past two decades has created an interesting dichotomy for users. There is very little disagreement that an individual's life is significantly enriched as a...

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Best smartphones of 2011 ... for now

March 28, 2011 3:41am PDT

Now that CES, MWC, and CTIA are all wrapped up it is a good time to go through and list what we can consider the top 10 smartphones for the first half of 2011. That will likely change this summer...

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Contention Aware Routing for Intermittently Connected Mobile Networks

March 28, 2011 12:00am PDT

This paper introduces a novel multi-copy routing protocol, called Self Adaptive Utility-based Routing Protocol (SAURP), for Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) that are possibly composed of a vast...

Provided by: University of Washington School of Public Health & Community Medicine

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Hands-on with HTC ThunderBolt; the first LTE smartphone from Verizon

March 22, 2011 4:56am PDT

The HTC ThunderBolt is the first LTE smartphone on the Verizon Wireless network. The device is extremely fast, but traveling at that speed also hits the battery pretty hard.

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Facebook for BlackBerry 2.0: What's new?

March 18, 2011 7:20am PDT

A quick look around the new Facebook for BlackBerry 2.0, including a new user interface and integrated chat.

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Dell Venue: A quality Android smartphone you may not have considered

March 18, 2011 7:18am PDT

Dell used to make some fantastic PDAs, but then had a rough bit of luck with smartphones. They then released the Dell Venue Pro Windows Phone 7 device, my personal favorite, and followed up with...

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Poll: With wireless docking, will smartphones replace many laptops?

March 16, 2011 11:27am PDT

The idea of smartphones using a protocol like Wireless USB to "dock" and act like a desktop or laptop is intriguing. Do you see it becoming a legitimate PC replacement? Take our poll.

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HTC Freestyle (photos)

March 15, 2011 6:00pm PDT

For the right user, the HTC Freestyle offers a beginner smartphone experience without the high price.

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Creating Business Value Through Location-Based Intelligence

March 14, 2011 12:00am PDT

In spite of the growth of virtual business activities performed via the World Wide Web, every business transaction or operation is performed at a physical place. And as handheld GPS devices drive...

Provided by: SAP

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Reducing the Delay and Power Consumption of Web Browsing on Smartphones in 3G Networks

March 14, 2011 12:00am PDT

Smartphone is becoming a key element in providing greater user access to the mobile Internet. Many complex applications, which are used to be only on PCs have been developed and run on...

Provided by: Pennsylvania State University

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Improved Caching Strategy for Concurrent Transaction Execution in Mobile Wireless Environment

March 11, 2011 12:00am PST

Improved storage and processing capability of mobile handheld devices and qualitative data services of mobile networks enabled read write transactions, possible in mobile devices. Mobile...

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The bleeding-edge gadget binge will lead to an economic hangover

March 8, 2011 4:57am PST

TR member dcolbert thinks that our current bleeding-edge gadget binge will eventually leave us with an epic economic hangover. What do you think? Does the consumer public need a gadget intervention?