mobile devices

Mobile usage is the fastest-growing part of LinkedIn's business, but it's not a big revenue driver -- yet. That could soon change, as LinkedIn plans to test out advertising across mobile devices, now that it's gotten the product and user experience right on those platforms.

CIO: "The little hobby project from Finland turned 20, rolled over the 3.0 milestone, and dominated almost everything from mobile devices to supercomputers."

PC World: "The battle to lead the IT marketplace will 'start to be won and lost' next year, with Amazon's Kindle Fire taking 20 percent of media tablets, and growing Android momentum taking on the mobile OS field."

Enterprise Apps Today: "TenDigits Software continues to extend Microsoft CRM beyond Windows-based mobile devices."

Sprint announced new data plans Starting at $19.99 for up to 1 Gigabyte of monthly data usage. They are hoping the new affordable data plans will boos sales of their mobile hot spot and laptop mobile devices.

Developers can use open source technology to write applications that look and work the same on the Web, mobile devices, and tablets.

ReadWriteWeb: Creating a new platform for mobile devices is more than just rallying developers to the cause (that certainly does not hurt).

Gamers interacting in chatrooms via live avatars could be the start of a larger trend. The Kinect sensor may one day be miniaturized for laptops, smartphones and other mobile devices, according to Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer.

Webopedia: "Chromebook is a new category of notebook computers and mobile devices that runs Google's cloud-based Chrome OS operating system."

Google and Skyhook Wireless may have records of the physical location of your computers or mobile devices, CNET has learned.

Read this blog post by Declan McCullagh on Privacy Inc..