PIN patterns go mobile
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Though shoulder surfing is less of an issue GrIDsure has teamed up with secure communications firm Masabi to create a mobile version of the pattern technology that's touted as a replacement to PIN-based identity systems.â¦
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Blog: This ambitious suite will go beyond basic antivirus and firewall protection for your mobile device.
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Company unveils 'WidSets' for Java-enabled phones.
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By RACHEL METZ  NEW YORK - Fingers all tired from typing Web addresses from Bebo to Zebo to hit all your social networking and media sharing sites?  Daniel Graf believes he has an all-in-one solution - one you can put in your pocket.
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Camera phones that automatically know their locations, digital cameras that can show where a photo was taken and GPS devices that take geotagged pictures,  are coming to a pocket near you.
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What is sexy? Mobile workshop We spent some time last week discussing requirements for mobile devices and got quite a bit of feedback on how to select and deploy the right kit for professional users.â¦
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New service sends color maps and directions to cell phone users.
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Good things come in small applets UK mobile application developer Masabi has launched a lightweight Java security package for mobile phones in a bid to make m-commerce applications more user-friendly and secure.â¦
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DevShed charges right ahead with its emphasis on design patterns in PHP with a new start of a new series today that looks at the Flyweight pattern.   Among the considerable variety of structural design patterns that can be implemented with PHP 4 (and PHP 5, by the way), there's one in particular that deserves special attention. It's easy to apply in the context of a given web application, and it offers remarkable functionality when it comes to preventing the unnecessary instantiation of different classes. This two-part series covers that pattern.   As they explain, the Flyweight pattern helps to keep your code light and simple by preventing the instantiation of unneeded objects and resources. They go with a HTML form example, illustrating how to prevent a submit button or an input button's class to be reinitialized every time a new form field is needed.
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Reg review Mobile phone styling comes to the MP3 world
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Photos tagged with location data are becoming popular, and new devices are tapping into the trend by offering GPS features.
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Bank customers may soon be able to check their balances on mobile phone screens in an initiative from the Link cash machine network and Morse.
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Optical sensors and touch screens are  the leading technologies that cell phone makers are likely to  use as improvements to the tiny keypads on many of today&#39;s  handsets.
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DotMobi, the group that promotes and manages the mobile-phone top-level domain, is publishing a list of specifications for virtually all phones on the market in a bid to make life easier for developers.While such lists are available from other companies, this one will be cheaper, making it more accessible to smaller developer companies and individuals, said Paul Nerger, vice president of advanced services and applications for dotMobi.Unlike the PC market, where most computers and widely used browsers comply with accepted standards, mobile phones each have different specifications and attributes. Developers must tweak their applications and content for different phones, even those running the same operating systems, so that the content fits onto the phone screen and so that applications work properly on phones that might not have certain capabilities.In the U.S., the same phone might even have different requirements based on the operator that sells it, since service providers sometimes disable features. That makes it hard for developers to build applications that can be used by a very wide population of phone owners.While dotMobi&#39;s list doesn&#39;t solve that problem, it does make it easier for developers to identify characteristics of phones and deliver applications to them that will work well. That should encourage more mobile development, Nerger said. &quot;Our job is to make the mobile &#39;Net happen,&quot; he said.The database will be free for anyone to view and browse. Developers can also choose to buy dotMobi&#39;s device detection software, which they can use to detect attributes of phones that are connecting to their Web pages in order to deliver content and services that best suit the devices. The price for that was set to cover costs for dotMobi, Nerger said. Developers will pay US$99 a year for the software; dotMobi customers will pay $79.DotMobi first announced that it was developing the list, which aims to include phones for sale worldwide, in the middle of last year and originally intended to release it at the end of 2007.One developer of a similar list thinks the dotMobi effort will be good for smaller developers, but likely won&#39;t meet the needs of bigger companies. Mobile Research maintains a database of all phones sold in the U.S. Workers there actually buy each phone, testing them for over a thousand different attributes, said David Adams, the founder of Mobile Research.Subscribers to the list, such as mobile Web sites, mobile application developers and content providers, plug it into their databases so that when a phone hits their sites, they can deliver the formatted site or content to fit the phone.Subscribers pay upwards of $10,000 per year for the list, which is continually updated.DotMobi is compiling its list by collecting information from a variety of sources, including phone makers like Nokia and operators like Vodafone. It will also use the data available from WURFL (Wireless Universal Resource File), an open-source project that compiles information about phones around the world, collected from users and developers. DotMobi isn&#39;t planning to buy and individually test each phone and so Adams suspects the list won&#39;t cover as many attributes as his.Mobile Research counts Microsoft, Google and T-Mobile among its customers.
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InfoWorld - Widgets, or small Web applications that supply useful information direct to the desktop, could soon be appearing on your cell phone screen.
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Sharp designs and colors fight the impression made by older devices.
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It may soon no longer be considered quite so gauche, in the midst of a restaurant meal, to reach into one&#39;s pocket or purse for a cell phone.