Pre-pwned snafu not so isolated after all Vodafone Spain has accepted that 3,000 customers were potentially exposed to malware after Mariposa botnet agents strayed onto the HTC Magic smartphone.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud

All networks covered Orange and high-street retailer HMV will next week launch what they claimed is a first for a UK mobile phone operator: an online games download store for Java-enabled phones.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Ignored Oz opt-outs Virgin Mobile has been fined for sending spam messages to Australian mobile users who'd already opted out of receiving promotions.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud

As Android crowds the iPhone The market for mobile apps - be they for smartphones, less-capable "feature phones," or carry-alongs such as Apple's iPad - will swell to $17.5bn by 2012.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Earlier this year, we wrote about some Fourth Amendment questions when it came to information stored in the cloud -- and a recent legal ruling provides some new troubling views on this matter. Slashdot points us to Orin Kerr's excellent analysis of a recent 11th Circuit decision, that basically says once an email is delivered, there's no Fourth Amendment protections of that email. But, a...

Anything Apple can do... Windows Phone 7 Series won't be able to cut and paste, as Microsoft continues to create something with all the limitations of the iPhone and little of the charm.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Apple is facing a fresh challenge from a UK start-up for control of video delivery to the iPhone and the iPad. Jobaya has developed a Video on Demand solution for both devices based entirely on Amazon’s AWS cloud infrastructure. Content will be stored, transcoded and streamed from the Cloud. The service will use custom web apps for each type of device supported, starting with the iPhone and ...

On-demand digital music services provider MOG announced the introduction of MOG All Access, an all-you-can-eat mobile streaming application optimized for the iPhone and Android platforms. Scheduled to launch in early Q2, the cloud-based MOG All Access--priced at $10 per month--promises unlimited listening to more than 7 million songs as well as MOG Radio, which offers streams based on selected tra...

AT&T announced a line-up of four new Quick Messaging Devices that will offer a new suite of  enhanced messaging, video and photo sharing, and contacts management. The service includes address book syncing with a web-based service, enhanced messaging, and photo/video sharing. They claim that the cloud-based services give AT&T subscribers peace of mind, knowing that their contacts, and ...

Ninety-quid NanoNote runs Doom, Quake The NanoNote is a £90 portable computer, sporting open source hardware and software, but no wireless and little more than a Vi editor in the way of applications.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud