smart phones

A reader asks if the security of a 3G dongle is sufficient for all normal web use. If only it were that simple.

Far too many people use weak, guessable or the same passwords and PINs for everything. Many are careless and write them down and leave them lying around or store them on their laptops and smart phones, which are vulnerable to loss and theft.

The H Open: "Announced at the beginning of this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC), the partnership between Microsoft and Nokia will see smart phones from the Finnish manufacturer running the Windows Phone 7 operating system"

While smart phones and other electronic devices changed popular culture by offering an ability to always stay connected, they have so swiftly turned into such a compelling need that a simple walk down the street is considered wasted time.

One too many times stepping around a shuffling pedestrian immersed in e-mail led me to conduct a social experiment.

I decided to count the number of people I saw distracted by their electronic devices during my 25-minute morning walk to work from New York's Grand Central Station to the far West Side.

The company behind the magicJack, the Internet phone gadget heavily advertised on television, has another trick up its sleeve: free phone calls from computers, smart phones and iPads.

The healthy expansion is a sign that there is no recession, at least where smart phones are concerned, analysts said.

The Register: "Apple, not Windows, is Linux's prime competitor on smart phones, according to a top Linux representative."

Many experts are inclined to believe that Apple’s lawsuit against HTC has another real purpose that is to somehow precipitate Google, whose Android operating system and smart phones based on it are becoming a real threat to the iPhone.

Evernote, the popular tool for taking, saving, and sharing notes across multiple platforms, recently raised $10 million in funding.

The Standards Blog: "Ah yes — "The more things change, the more they stay the same." Isn't that how the old saw goes?

Or, in the more impatient parlance of today, simply "Same old, same old.""