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  In Pictures: Five very cool (but kinda creepy) mobile technologies

• Apple wins battle over nano-SIM standard

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 01 June, 2012 12:19

  Apple has won a battle over the standard for a smaller SIM card, use of which would leave more room for other components in future phone designs.

• BYOD's phone number problem

  By Tom Kaneshige | 31 May, 2012 22:06

  A simple smartphone number can be an incredibly important corporate asset, but companies will have to give it up in a BYOD scenario.

• CIOs extend unified communications to mobile devices

  By Lauren Brousell | 31 May, 2012 19:15

  A survey finds that IT leaders are accelerating their plans to invest in unified communications and collaboration technologies. But the systems aren't cheap.

• Analysis: How Facebook could integrate with iOS, OS X

  By Lex Friedman | 31 May, 2012 19:45

  Speaking at the All Things D conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook essentially sent Facebook a friend request. "I think the [Apple-Facebook] relationship is very solid," Cook said. "We have great respect for them. I think we can do more with them."

• Kyocera launches speakerless phone, uses vibrations to transmit sound to the ear

  By Jay Alabaster | 01 June, 2012 03:58

  Kyocera is demonstrating a new mobile phone that uses vibrations in its screen to transmit sound to the ear, in place of the traditional receiver speaker.

• NTT DoCoMo shows tablet-based virtual shared spaces, two-way clear touchscreen

  By Jay Alabaster | 01 June, 2012 01:44

  NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile operator, is developing a new platform that allows two remote tablet users to explore and share a virtual space.

• Freescale wants to make wireless charging cheaper, more ubiquitous

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 31 May, 2012 18:02

  With the introduction of three new reference designs, Freescale Semiconductor wants to cut the cost of wireless charging and offer the technology for tablets and power tools, the company said on Thursday.

• Emergency workers scan QR codes to quickly access health information

  By Kerry Davis | 31 May, 2012 02:06

  QR codes are being used for more than just advertisements in Marin County, California. There, paramedics hope the stickers could help save lives in emergency situations.

• WWDC 2012 forecast: Cloudy with a chance of new MacBooks

  By Ian Paul | 16 May, 2012 04:16

  Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference is less than one month away, and speculation is high about whether Apple will announce new iCloud features, refreshed MacBook Pros, overhauled versions of iOS and OS X and maybe even a new smartphone during the conference.

• The most annoying Android apps

  By Sarah Jacobsson Purewal | 19 April, 2012 23:35

  Not all Android apps are created equal, and most are far from perfect.

• Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) review: A nice price, but where's the 'wow'?

  By JR Raphael | 12 April, 2012 09:18

  Android devices - both smartphones and tablets - are getting increasingly affordable. With its new Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) tablet, Samsung is obviously hoping to claim its piece of the budget-price pie.

• In depth: Nokia's great Windows Phone hope - Beauty without brawn

  By Galen Gruman | 10 April, 2012 20:13

  Nokia may sell more cellphones than any other company in the world, but it's been all but excluded from the United States for years -- and it's seen its global sales steadily shrink as the iPhone and Android smartphones have become the darlings of buyers in an increasing number of countries. Nokia's relevance has been fast receding, and its Symbian, Maemo, and MeeGo efforts became a pattern of failure for a company that just didn't get it. In response, a year ago, Nokia bet its future largely on Windows Phone 7, Microsoft's answer to Apple's iOS and Google's Android.

• Embracing the educational iOS device

  By Christopher Breen | 11 April, 2012 03:03

  I recently offered some advice on how to configure an old iPad for a child, and while the subsequent reaction was largely positive, there were the few (and expected) replies that suggested exposing a child to an iPad would lead to a machine-dependent future, devoid of fresh air, firm muscle tone, and true human interaction.

• MDM: Part of the mobile security solution?

  By George V. Hulme | 10 April, 2012 01:27

  The good news for enterprises: Mobile devices are packed with power. A new iPhone is 100 times lighter, 100 times faster, and 10 times less expensive than the luggable notebooks of the early 1980s.

• iPad in the Enterprise: A videoconferencing dream machine?

  By Tom Kaneshige | 10 April, 2012 08:09

  Three IT workers with iPads gathered around a whiteboard in a conference room in Boston to figure out how to improve a long-standing technical service- and running into more questions than answers.

• Mobile malware: Beware drive-by downloads on your smartphone

  By Meridith Levinson | 23 March, 2012 07:39

  While Jeff Schmidt, the CEO of JAS Global Advisors, was surfing the Web on his new Android smartphone (his first Android phone) earlier this year, what appeared to be an ad popped up on his screen. The "ad" looked like the prompt that appears when his phone rings. He clicked the button on the ad to pick up the putative call, and the ad began downloading a binary file - malware - onto his Android phone. Schmidt had been hit by a drive-by download, a program that automatically installs malicious software on end-users' computers--and increasingly, smartphones--without them knowing.