Mobile: News

Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8, not Apple's Safari, will be the first browser to fall in next week's Pwn2Own hacking challenge, the contest organizer said today.

Fine-grained network controls that are coming with next-generation mobile technology could make some demanding mobile applications such as video perform better but may also raise net neutrality concerns.

Google has made its new gesture search application compatible with smartphones based on Android version 1.6, and is also opening it to users outside the U.S., the company's said in a blog post on Tuesday.

Payment gateway and service provider PayPal has launched version 2.0 of its Send Money mobile commerce application which supports transfers by “bumping” iPhones together.

Tyfone is putting the pieces together for a commercial mobile wallet offering, forming an alliance with First Data.

In another sign that the 4G wireless Internet market is revving up, market research firm reports that shipments for WiMAX devices grew by 147% in 2009.

Microsoft Monday announced at its MIX 10 conference the immediate release of free versions of its core development tools, all designed to get developers off to a fast start building applications for Windows Phone 7 smartphones.  

Light coming from lamps in your home could eventually be used to encode a wireless broadband signal, according to German researchers.

One ex-Sun Microsystems employee who will not be cashing an Oracle paycheck is XML co-inventor Tim Bray, who has opted instead to work for the Google.

Laying more fiber is one way to make more efficient use of wireless spectrum, former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said on Wednesday.