Well, well. It turns out that the iPhone, aka the “Jesus phone,” can be hacked by text message.At the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas this week, security experts Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner explained that all it takes is a front-loaded malware-licious ...More
Thanks in large part to a feature in the iPhone 3.0 that enables auto-authentication at AT&T Inc.’s 20,000 hotspots, the carrier enjoyed a 41 percent increase in Wi-Fi connections last quarter.Almost 15 million users connected to its Wi-Fi network in places like ...More
It’s not just the Tier 1s getting into the netbook trend: Cellular South said Thursday that it’s taking preorders for the Dell Inspiron Mini 10 netbook with built-in 3G high-speed mobile broadband data.The sub-notebook will be priced like a smartphone and ...More
The summer solstice might be past but AT&T Inc. is still appealing to the sunnier sides of life, with the launch of the social media-focused Samsung Solstice, available Aug. 2.The Solstice is a 3G touchscreen phone (with virtual landscape QWERTY keyboard) that provides ...More
NexAira Inc. has signed a strategic distribution agreement with D&H Distributing wherein the distributor will carry NexAira's line of NexConnect 3G/4G Wireless Routers for consumers and businesses.D&H ships out of five separate locations in North America, including ...More
Siemens Enterprise Communications is touting its recent success in unified communications, boasting $100 million in managed services agreements with enterprises. “Managed services, like those offered by Siemens Enterprise, can help companies cost-effectively maintain ...More
AT&T Inc. will provide free in-store Wi-Fi at Barnes & Noble Inc. at locations nationwide, it said on Tuesday. The two will also launch a mobile promotion campaign.While AT&T has provided hotspots at Barnes & Noble since 2005, now it’s free to anyone ...More
Lucky smartphone shoppers were able to walk away from a Bay Area Best Buy over the weekend with a new Palm Pre that cost them just $99, instead of the $199 you pay just about everywhere else.The reason for the “deal” was a snafu in a newspaper ad that listed the ...More
OK, so maybe you won’t be the hippest iPhone user on your block – but your wallet might be the fullest.AT&T used Twitter to announce that it’s offering refurbished versions of the iPhone 8GB 3G for just $49. That’s half the price that a brand-new ...More
It may not have been the best kept secret, but Verizon Wireless confirmed today that it will sell the Palm Pre early next year. Many in the industry believe it will happen in January 2010.If that’s the case, that will end Sprint’s exclusive stranglehold on the ...More
