mobile platforms

When it comes to HTML5 implementation, Android has historically been lacking most of the other major mobile platforms. iOS is considered the crown jewel of HTML5 performance and even Windows Phone has faired better than Android.

That may all be about to change. In Sencha's latest HTML5 benchmark, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus running Android 4.0.1 Ice Cream Sandwich was put through the paces.

The newest flagship Android device acquitted itself well. As Sencha puts it; "The Galaxy Nexus is a big step forward for developers looking to leverage HTML5 on Android." See the details below....

Imagine buying your SIM-free mobile phone from a local electronics store, logging in as soon as you turn the phone on for the first time and having the phone ready to use immediately.

In the future, even the phone number itself will disappear.

When former telecom giant Nortel was reduced to just a pile of questionable patents, we knew there would be a fight over who got them.

Google made a lot of news a couple months back, by placing a $900 million stalking horse bid on those patents.

By 2013, the number of internet-connected mobile devices will exceed the num

Pandora, an online music service, got hit with a subpoena that appears to be part of an investigation into the information sharing processes of apps that run on Apple and Android mobile platforms.

Another Mobile World Congress is behind us, and as they urge us to clear out the media center, which has been a safe haven for journalists desperate for a stable Internet connection (the Wi-Fi was spotty and slow throughout the event), we’re reminiscing about the things we’ve seen this year.

Besides the hundreds of mobile startups, app developers, operators and other companies of all sizes trying to find their place under the mobile sun, this MWC has been mostly about two things: tablets and Android.

Help Net Security: "In a major cybercrime turning point, scammers have begun shifting their focus away from Windows-based PCs to other operating systems and platforms, including smart phones, tablet computers, and mobile platforms in general, according to the Cisco 2010 Annual Security Report."