Mobile Stories for 2012

What Windows Phone 8 Needs To Do To Succeed 246
Is iPhone Battery Usefulness On the Decline? 222
Fragmentation Comes To iOS 244
Alibaba Says Google Threatened Acer With Banishment From Android 352
Apple Announces iPhone 5 1052
School Regrets Swapping Laptops For iPads 504
Cutting the Power Cable: How Advantageous Is Wireless Charging? 284
Samsung Expected To Sue Apple Over iPhone 5 LTE Networking 283
UK Finally Gets 4G Networking 49
Bill Moggridge, GRiD Compass Designer, Dies 29
Majority of Mobile Malware Now Reliant On Toll Fraud 39
WhatsApp Is Using IMEI Numbers As Passwords 102
No Opt-Out For Ads On New Kindle Fires 383
Judge Rules Sniffing Open Wi-Fi Networks Is Not Wiretapping 308
For Android Users, 2012 Is Still the Year of Gingerbread 257
Samsung: Android's Multitouch Not As Good As Apple's 176
Windows Phone 8 SDK — By Appointment Only 153
Chinese Students Say They Are Being Forced To Build Your Next iPhone 481
Amazon Debuts Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Fire HD In 2 Sizes 307
AT&T Promises To Expand LTE To More US Markets 105
Nokia Apologizes For Misleading Lumia 920 Ad 233
Apple Says "No" To Releasing New Dock Connector Specs 393
Nokia Claims a Memory Card Slot Would Have "Defiled" New Phone 371
Google Awarded Face-To-Unlock Patent 194
First Impressions of Windows 8 Powered Nokia Lumia 920 and 820 396
Sprint Allows LTE Service Over Mobile Virtual Network 45
Leaked Photo Shows Touch-Screen BlackBerry 10 Phone 112
Leave Your Cellphone At Home, Says Jacob Appelbaum 306
EU Calls for Unified Approach to Allocating "White Space" Spectrum 25
Taking Telecommuting To the Next Level - the RV 365
The Danger In Exempting Wireless From Net Neutrality 161
FCC To Review the Relative Value of Low, High, and Super-high Spectrum Licenses 58
Ask Slashdot: Ad-Hoc Wireless Mesh Network For Emergency Vehicles? 200
BBC Keeps Android Flash Alive In the UK 102
Russia's New Secure Android Tablet Keeps Data From Google 127
Ask Slashdot: Keeping Personal Tech Cool In Extreme Heat? 165
HP Launches Beta of Open webOS 56
Leak Shows What Could Be Nokia's New Windows Phone 8 Devices 110
Side-Effect of the Apple v. Samsung Trial: Increased Sales for Samsung 385
IDT and Intel Join Forces For Wireless Charging 87
Kindle Fire Is Sold Out Forever 309
Japan Considers '911' Calls From Twitter, Social Networks 116
Samsung Unveils Windows Phone 8 Device and Android-Based Camera 179
Apple Seeks To Block 8 Samsung Products After Court Win 396
FAA To Reevaluate Inflight Electronic Device Use 336
PC Makers In Desperate Need of a Reboot 622
StethoCloud Project Diagnoses Pneumonia On the Cheap 55
Gartner Says Application Development Is a $9 Billion Industry 65
Amazon, Apple Expected to Strut Their Small-Tablet Stuff Soon 115
App Can Prevent Users From Texting While Driving 144
Would You Open Your Home To a Hacker – For Free? 118
Serious Problems With USB and Ethernet On the Raspberry Pi 202
Ask Slashdot: Best Use For an Old Smartphone? 301
Satellite Uplinks For the Masses 49
Why Cell Phone Bans Don't Work 335
T-Mobile Returns To Unlimited Data Plans 152
Workers Working An Extra 20 Hours a Week Thanks To BYOD 202
AT&T Defends Controversial FaceTime Policy Following Widespread Backlash 220
Polish MP Returns iPad Citing Lack of Control 148
Mobile Operator Grabs 4G Lead In UK — But Will Anything Work On It? 81
US To Drive 3,000 Wi-Fi Linked Vehicles In Massive Crash Avoidance Trial 89
10 Internet Connections At Same Time 152
"Knitted" Wi-Fi Routers Create Failover Network For First Responders 97
HP Hires Ex-Nokia Exec, Spins Off WebOS, Reportedly Returning To Tablets 128
Finland Hosts Mobile Phone Throwing Championships 70
"SMSZombie" Malware Infects 500,000 Android Users In China 116
State Dept. Cancels $16.5M Kindle Contract 117
The ThinkPad Goes Ultrabook — ThinkPad X1 Carbon Tested 278
Apple Loses Bid To Exclude Evidence In Samsung Patent Trial 227
Ask Slashdot: I Want To Read More. Should I Get an eBook Reader Or a Tablet? 415
Motorola Releases an Official Bootloader Unlocker 123
Google Seeks US Ban On iPhones, iPads, Macs 404
iPhone Bug Allows SMS Spoofing 92
Humble Bundle For Android 3 Released 48
Project Byzantium: Zero To Ad-Hoc Mesh Network In 60 Seconds (Video) 124
Gov't Approves Parts of Verizon-Cable Spectrum Sale 76
Insurer Measures Driver Safety With Smartphone App To Calculate Premiums 345
Judge Suggests Apple Is "Smoking Crack" With Witness List In Samsung Case 318
First Pictures of Apple's New Mini Connector 303
Ask Slashdot: A Cheap US Cellphone Plan With an Unlocked Phone? 288
Nokia Researcher Puts Firefox OS On Raspberry Pi 75
The Strange Nature of the Nigerian App Market 110
Verizon Bases $5 Fee To Not Publish Your Phone Number On 'Systems and IT' Costs 331
Police Don't Need a Warrant To Track Your Disposable Cellphone 312
Samsung: Apple Stole the iPad's Design From Univ of Missouri Professor 362
Thoughts On the iPad Mini 214
BBC Delivered 2.8PB On Busiest Olympics Day, Reaching 700Gb/s As Wiggo Won Gold 96
Alternative To QR Code Uses NFC and Cheap Rectennas 164
Nokia Spinning Featurephones as Smartphones 210
DOJ Says iPhone Is So Secure They Can't Crack It 454
Barnes & Noble Cuts Prices on Nook Color, Tablet 154
Why Apple Is Suing Every Android Manufacturer In Sight 738
How Will Amazon, Barnes & Noble Survive the iPad Mini? 354
CyanogenMod 9 Achieves Stable Release 75
IBM Reportedly Eyeing RIM's Enterprise Services Unit 15
Ask Slashdot: Rugged E-book Reader? 126
Indian Government Mulls Giving Away Mobile Phones To the Poor 104
FCC Asked To Reassess Cell Phone Radiation Guidelines 78
Zeus Trojan Hits Blackberry Devices 37
Samsung's Comparison of Galaxy S To iPhone 383
Starbucks Partners With Square 145
Acer: Microsoft Surface 'Negative For The Whole PC Industry' 360
Nuance Launches Siri Rival "Nina" 87
Carriers Blame the iPhone For Data Caps and Increased Upgrade Fees 272
Why Intel Should Buy Nokia 200
Apple Comes Clean, Admits To Doing Market Research 221
Researchers Turn Home Wi-Fi Router Into Spy Device 108
EA Sues Zynga For Copying Sims Game 197
AT&T Killing Its 2G Network By 2017 102
'Wi-Fi Police' Stalk Olympic Games 268
Why the Tablet Market is Really the iPad Market 657
Open WebOS Releases Core Apps; Reveals Touchpad Won't Be Supported 49
Should Developers Support Windows Phone 8? 345
FCC Rules That Verizon Cannot Charge For 4G Tethering 218
Two Arrested For Hacking Personal Data of 8.7 Million Phone Users 43
Nintendo 3DS XL Is Out Now 90
GM Working On Wi-Fi Direct-Equipped Cars To Detect Pedestrians and Cyclists 111
Fighting the iCrime Wave 170
Did Apple Buy Fingerprint Security Firm For Mobile Wallet? 35
Microsoft: Surface Tablet May Alienate OEM Partners 164
Man Claims Cell Phone Taken By DC Police For Taking Photos 318
Google Warned Samsung Galaxy Tab Was "Too Similar" 251
Researcher Wows Black Hat With NFC-based Smartphone Hacking Demo 95
Nokia Aborts Meltemi Linux-Based Feature Phone 105
Ex-Sun Employees Are Taking Java To iOS 115
Samsung Galaxy S3 Stripped of Local Search 243
Apple Blames Earnings Miss On iPhone 5 Anticipation 242
Gadget Addiction or Work Intrusion? 111
Apple Wins EU Ban of Smaller Samsung Tablet, Demands $2.5 Billion In Damages 377
Reports Say Apple Is Shrinking Its Docking Connector With iPhone 5 427
USB 3.0 100W Power Standard Seeks To End Proprietary Chargers 247
Microsoft Lays Out Money-Making Options For Windows Store Developers 85
Staples Executive Outs Six New Kindle Fire Tablets 79
Australians Receive SMS Death Threats 192
Google Releases Jelly Bean Updates For the Nexus S 104
Judge: Cops Can Impersonate Owner Of Seized Cell Phones 213
Don't Super-Size My Smartphone! 660
Apple Yanks Privacy App From the App Store 136
Google Releases Android 4.1 SDK 58
iOS 6 Beta 3 Jailbroken Already 68
Dell To Offer Ubuntu Laptops Again 218
Jolla Confirms MeeGo App Store Is Coming 66
MIPS Technologies Porting Android 4.1 to MIPS Architecture 100
AT&T Introducing Verizon-Style Shared Data Plans 307
Apple Wins Mobile Patent On Displaying Lists, Documents 306
Firefox OS Will Win Big With Developers - Mozilla 229
It Costs $450 In Marketing To Make Someone Buy a $49 Nokia Lumia 363
MeeGo Startup Jolla Signs Phone Deal 63
Sprint Finally Joins 4G LTE Wireless Race 67
Thirty Years of Clamshell Computing 135
Georgie: Smartphone For the Blind and Visually Impaired 77
Cell Phones: Tracking Devices That Happen To Make Calls 196
Apple Tells Retailers To Stop Selling Certain Samsung Devices 308
Judge Rules iDevice Speaker Docks Don't Infringe On Bose Patent 67
O2's UK Network Crash Hits Offender Monitoring System 56
UK Government To Offer Free TV Filters For 4G Interference 94
Ask Slashdot: Managing Encrypted Android Devices In State and Local Gov't? 138
New York Experiments With Wi-Fi From Payphones 56
Apple Hacker Charlie Miller To Demo Dangers of Near-Field Communications 149
Holy iPad Slayer! Company Releases World's First Christian Tablet 326
Is It Time To End Our Love Affair With the QWERTY Keyboard? 557
An Android Tablet Victory May Be Problematic For Free Software 208
Steve Ballmer: We Won't Be Out-Innovated By Apple Anymore 610
Hackers Steal Keyless BMW In Under 3 Minutes 486
Chinese Company Sues Apple Over Siri 174
Samsung Blames Galaxy SIII Burn On "External Energy Source" 169
Cell Carriers Responded Last Year To 1.3M Law Enforcement Data Requests 155
Preparing For Life After the PC 636
Controlling Linux Using an Android Phone As Mouse, Keyboard, and Gamepad 93
Ex-Nokia Staff To Build MeeGo-based Smartphones 200
Apple Forces Google To Degrade Android Features 498
Telefonica Shows Prototype Firefox OS Phone 91
Amazon Reportedly Plans Smartphone 78
Former Microsoft Exec: Microsoft Has "Become the Thing They Despised" 488
Apple Wins Patent For Head-Mounted Display Tech 116
First iOS Malware Discovered In Apple's App Store 171
Credible Reports of a 7.85 Inch iPad Mini Emerge 193
In UK, HTC Defeats Apple's "Obvious" Slide Unlock Patent 165
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Review 255
John the Ripper Cracks Slow Hashes On GPU 61
HTC Defeats Apple In Slide-To-Unlock Patent Dispute 149
Bill Gates: the Traditional PC Is Changing 552
Facebook API Bug Deletes Contact Info On Phones 178
Ask Slashdot: Are Smart Meters Safe? 684
First Firefox Mobile OS Phones Announced 116
'Wearable Computing Will Be the Norm,' Says Google Glass Team 196
How a Lone Grad Student Scooped the FTC On Privacy Issue 120
UK Company Demos Color Video Animation On Electronic Paper 61
On the iPhone and Apple's Meteoric Rise To the Top 317
Adobe Stops Flash Player Support For Android 332
Does RIM's "Huge Loss" Signal Wider Handset Market Deterioration? 278
FTC Files Complaint Against Wyndham For Hotel Data Breaches 46
Australian Telco Causes Minor Panic While Preparing Web Filter 105
Bill Gates Says Tablets Aren't Much Help In Education 575
Eben Moglen: Time To Apply Asimov's First Law of Robotics To Smartphones 305
Asus Joins High Density Display Club With New Transformer Tablet 265
New iPhone Prototypes Have Integrated NFC chips and Antenna 114
"Twisted" OAM Beams Carry 2.5 Terabits Per Second 142
Nintendo's Big-Screen 3DS XL Meets Lukewarm Reception 192
RIM Considers Spinning Off Handset Business From Messaging 87
Posner Dismisses Apple/Motorola Case, With Prejudice 146
How Madefire Is Changing the Visual Grammar of Comics 74
Will Microsoft Extend Surface Model And Manufacture Windows Phones? 118
RIM Drops Playbook Price By 66% 302
New Film Renders Screen Reflection Almost Non-Existent 112
Google To Pay $0 To Oracle In Copyright Case 250
Windows Phone 8 Officially Unveiled 414
Locked-Down Tablets Endanger FLOSS For End Users 242
Samsung Galaxy S III Launched, Hands-On Testing 107
Microsoft To PC and Tablet Makers: You're Not Our Future 530
Google's Nexus Tablet To Be Unveiled Next Week 198
Microsoft Announces 'Surface' Tablet 712
Motorola To Buy PDA-Inventor Psion For $200 Million 144
Samsung Focusing On Phone Software 124
The $45 Windows Laptop 299
Mozilla Shows Off Junior, a Simple Browser Built for iPad 137
Ask Slashdot: Instead of a Laptop, a Tiny Computer and Projector? 339
Nokia Seeks More Leverage In the Forever Mobile Patent War 70
Microsoft To Sell Its Own Windows RT Tablet 288
FCC Revisiting Mobile Device Radiation Standards 80
Why Intel Needs Smartphones More Than They Need Intel 134
Ask Slashdot: What's Your Beef With Windows Phone? 1027
Ubuntu 12.04 Ported To the Allwinner A10 MK802 Mini PC 54
Nokia To Cut 10,000 Jobs and Close 3 Facilities 350
Verizon Wireless Goes Ahead With 'Bucket' Data Plans 376
Apple News From WWDC and iPhone 5 Rumors 683
The Billions In Mobile Ad Money Nobody Can Grab 203
No Tech Panacea For Tech-Distracted Driving 257
Universal Android Laptop Dock: Microsoft Nightmare, Or Toy? 262
Which Fading Smartphone Company Is More Valuable To Microsoft, RIM Or Nokia? 222
Subject To a "Stop and Frisk"? There's an App For That 201
In Australia, Apple Fined $2.5 Million For '4G' Advertising Claims 154
Why Young Males Are No Longer the Most Important Tech Demographic 240
Apple To Unveil iOS 6 At WWDC 2012 110
Sprint Moves To Eliminate 'Blood Minerals' From Cell Phones 74
Apple Granted Broad Patent On Wedge-Shaped Laptops 326
Odd Laptop-Tablet Hybrids Show PC Makers' Panic 251
London Tube Stations Finally Get Wi-Fi 140
Inside the Death of Palm and WebOS 188
Buttons That Morph Out of Your Touchscreen 134
ARM Expects 20-Nanometer Processors By Late 2013 73
Ask Slashdot: Provisioning Internet For Condo Association? 257
Ask Slashdot: Syncing Files With Remote Server While On the Road? 239
Facebook Smartphone a Dumb Idea, Says Farhad Manjoo 128
SSID As the New Community Bulletin Board and Yard Sign 165
Is Australia's CSIRO a Patent Troll? 175
Apple, Google: Battle of the Cloud Maps 179
AT&T Expects Data-Only Phone Plans Within 2 Years 97
Smaller SIM Format Standardized 83
Google Files Antitrust Complaint Against Microsoft, Nokia 233

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