Mobile Stories for 2011

How the Year Looked On Slashdot 161
Speculating On What a Microsoft Superphone Might Mean 371
Creating the World's Cheapest Tablet 192
Verizon Backtracks On $2 Convenience Fee 281
Malicious QR Code Use On the Rise 234
Attack Tool Released For WPS Setup Flaw 164
Ask Slashdot: Best Android Tablet For Travel? 356
Researchers Demo New GSM Attacks at Chaos Communications Congress 17
HTC Unlocks Bootloader For All of Its Devices 133
Verizon Adds $2 Charge For Paying Your Bill Online 562
Free Wi-Fi Coming To Japanese Vending Machines 81
Why We Agonize Over Buying $1 Apps 523
Samsung Reconsidering Android 4.0 On the Galaxy S 192
Intel Medfield SoC Specs Leak 164
New WiFi Setup Flaw Allows Easy Router PIN Guessing 86
Charlie Kindel On Why Windows Phone Still Hasn't Taken Off 397
More Details On Drug Cartel's Clandestine Communications Network 84
Android Approved By Pentagon 160
Television White Space Spectrum Approved For Use By FCC 107
Dell and Baidu Introduce a Smartphone With Forked Version of Android 146
Game Developers Eyeballing Kindle Fire 48
Apple Increases Dominance of Mobile Shopping 136
FCC Approves AT&T's $1.9 Billion Qualcomm Spectrum Purchase 52
Why 2012 Will Be the Year of the Android Tablet 584
EFF Reverse Engineers Carrier IQ 103
ITC Judge: Motorola Mobility Infringed Microsoft Patent 141
Intel Demos Phone and Tablet In New Mobile Chip Push 99
Kindle Fire and Nook Upgrades Kill Root Access 275
Apple Patents Using Apps During Calls 434
Google Working On Siri Competitor Majel 360
AT&T Officially Ends Plans To Acquire T-Mobile USA 176
Businesses Now Driving "Bring Your Own Device" Trend 232
Dell Ditches Netbooks 354
How To Thwart the High Priests In IT 417
Sony's Next-Generation Portable Is Out, In Japan 134
Spectrum Fragmentation Means Pricier Mobile Networking 80
Apple Outsources A5 Chip Manufacture ... To Texas 330
Google Rolls Out Official Android 4.0 ICS Update 92
Sprint Orders All OEMs To Strip Carrier IQ From Their Phones 156
Android Update Alliance Already Struggling 364
Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones 1003
Nokia Exec: Young People Fed Up With iPhone and Android 532
Carrier IQ Responds To FBI Drama, EFF Wants More Information 140
NTSB Recommends Cell Phone Ban For Drivers 938
EU Regulators Delay Google's Motorola Buy, Seeking More Info 45
FBI Rejects Freedom of Information Act Request About Carrier IQ 156
Many Early Adopters of the Amazon Fire Are Unhappy 463
Tizen, webOS, & the Future of Mobile Open Source 94
German Court Issues Injunction Against iPhone & iPad 349
Ask Slashdot: Best Tablet For Running a Real GNU/Linux Distribution? 277
LightSquared Disrupts 75% of GPS Connections In Government Test 197
Kindle Touch Gets World's Simplest Jailbreak 161
Apple Transfers Patents Through Shell Company To Sue All Phone Makers 422
Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Print From an Android Tablet? 203
HP Making webOS Open Source 169
Why Android Upgrades Take So Long 226
HP Reviving the $99 Touch Pad On December 11th 121
RIM Gives Up After Losing Initial Battle Over BBX Trademark 90
AT&T Repeats As Lowest-Rated Wireless Carrier 201
PlayBook Jailbreak Tool Released 60
Dell Kills Streak 7, Bails On Android Tablets 232
An iPad Keyboard You Can Type On and Swipe Through 93
Sub-$100 Android 4.0 Tablet Coming Soon 278
Researchers Say Carrier IQ Isn't Logging Data, Texts 130
How To Avoid Infringing On Apple's Patents 323
Discouraging Playstation Vita Details 275
Senator Uses FCC Nomination Process To Question National Wireless Network 101
Google Employees Are Receiving Ice Cream Sandwich Upgrade 71
Syria Bans iPhone, Protest App 69
First Quad-Core Android Tablet Reviewed 218
An Easy Way To Curb Smart-Phone Thieves, In Australia 234
Apple Can't Block US Sales of Samsung Devices 213
Mexican Gov't Shuts Down Zetas' Secret Cell Network 300
Carrier IQ Drama Continues 244
Video Game Consoles Are 'Fundamentally Doomed,' Says Lord British 374
Researchers Find Big Leaks In Pre-installed Android Apps 136
FCC OKs On-Body Medical Networks 41
RIM PlayBook Tablet Jailbroken 63
OpenMoko's FreeRunner Rises From the Ashes 133
Ask Slashdot: Best Flash-Friendly Router To Replace Aging WRT54GS? 334
NVIDIA's Tegra 3 Outruns Apple's A5 In First Benchmarks 390
Carrier IQ Software May Be in iOS, Too 234
Mobile Industry Rolls Out Game Rating System 49
News Corp. Hacking Scandal Spreads To Government 105
Android Dev Demonstrates CarrierIQ Phone Logging Software On Video 322
Australian Federal Court Ends Ban On Samsung Galaxy Tab Sales 129
RIM To Offer Multiplatform Device Management 55
iPhone Auto-Combusts On Australian Airplane 277
Study Hints That Wi-Fi Near Testes Could Decrease Male Fertility 307
Amazon Releases Kindle Source Code 153
CyanogenMod 9 Working On the Nexus S 218
Terahertz Wireless Chip Will Bring 30Gbps Networks 177
Next Apple iPhone To Have a 4 Inch Display? 330
How Even a Failed AT&T/T-Mobile Deal Hurts Rivals 51
QT 5 Will Be Available For Raspberry Pi 80
IPCom Trying To Ban HTC's 3G Phone Sales In Germany 35
Carrier IQ Relents, Apologizes 78
Bionic Implants and Spectrum Clash 98
OSHA App Costs Gov't $200k 234
Malls Track Shoppers' Cell Phones On Black Friday 198
Ask Hacker and Security Gadfly Moxie Marlinspike 70
CarrierIQ Tries To Silence Security Researcher 216
AT&T/T-Mobile Merger 'Not In the Public Interest' 190
Ask Slashdot: Tablet With Root Access By Default? 168
Facebook Said To Be Developing Phone With HTC 78
Are There Any Smartphones That Respect Privacy? 478
Separating Fact From Hype On Mobile Malware 46
Sources Say Apple Originally Planned AMD Chip For MacBook Air 197
Ask Slashdot: Updating a Difficult Campground Wi-Fi Design? 237
A Kindle Fire Review For Those Who Plan To Void the Warranty 103
Whither the Portable Optical Drive? 440
Controlling a Robot From a Smartphone's Headphone Jack 94
Intel's Plans For X86 Android, Smartphones, and Tablets 151
Syrian Protesters Roll Out New iPhone Apps 105
CarrierIQ: Most Phones Ship With "Rootkit" 447
Steve Jobs Wanted an iPhone-Only Wireless Network 263
Raspberry Pi PCB Layout Revealed 112
Google To Allow Location Service Opt-out 284
Man Calls 911 To Fix Broken iPhone 244
Army Plots Its Smartphone Strategy 125
iOS App Acoustically Measures Distances Up To 25 Meters 154
Motorola Reinvents the RAZR 208
Google Pulls the Plug On BlackBerry Gmail App 122
How Cell Phone Money Laundering Works 39
China Telecom Mulls Entry Into US Telecoms Market 161
ARM Claims PS3-Like Graphics On Upcoming Mobile GPU 217
HP Delays WebOS Decision 77
Asus Unveils Quad-Core Transformer Prime Tablet 274
Windows Phone Unlock Tool Goes Official 118
Apple Security Chief Steps Down After iPhone Gaffe 93
Mozilla Developers Testing Mobile OS 109
How Android Phone Makers Are Missing the Marketing Boat 373
Did Feds' Use of Fake Cell Tower Constitute a Search? 191
Ask Slashdot: Touchscreen Device For the Elderly? 155
B&N Nook Tablet vs. Amazon Kindle Fire 138
Verizon Announces Pay-Per-Use 'Turbo Boost' For Smartphones 129
AT&T Pushes 'Connected' Clothing For Healthcare 63
Hardware Running Android Fails More Than iPhone, BlackBerry Hardware 357
Mobile App Search: So Broken AltaVista Could Do It 86
Hotmail Mobile Usage Spikes Thanks To Apple iOS 5 122
Spanish Firm Wins Tablet Case Against Apple 151
Apple Acknowledges iPhone 4S Battery Problems 315
OLPC Project To Air-Drop Laptops 130
Siri Gives Apple Two Year Advantage Over Android 800
The Story Behind the Demise of the Microsoft Courier Tablet 200
Rare-Earth Mineral Supply Getting Boost From California, Australia 84
Is RIM's Centralized Network Model Broken? 104
HTC Becomes Highest Shipping Smartphone Vendor In the US 151
First Android Device Certified For DoD Personnel 79
Ubuntu Heads To Smartphones, and Tablets 281
iPhone 4S Has Been Jailbroken, Hack Enables Siri on iPhone 4 148
Is That an Android On Your Wrist? 119
Quiet Cellular Antenna Tech To Boost S. African SKA Bid 38
Nokia Unveils OLED Phone You Control By Bending 110
HP Officially Out of TouchPads 127
RIM Helps Indian Authorities Access BlackBerry Messages 74
Samsung Takes the Lead In the Smartphone Market 406
Sony Buys Ericsson Out For $1.47 Billion 64
Android Orphans: a Sad History of Platform Abandonment 770
Man Has Nokia Phone Embedded In False Limb 171
RIM PlayBook Email App Nowhere In Sight 163
Nokia Unveils Its First Windows 7 Phone 349
Apple Granted Patent For Slide To Unlock 622
Ask Slashdot: DD-WRT Upgrade To 802.11n? 196
IT Shops Coping With Overloaded 2.4GHz WiFi Band 165
Sprint Cutting Unlimited 4G Data Plans 325
Hyperion Promises An AmigaOS Netbook 258
Siri Envy? Iris Brings Some Voice-Assistant Features to Android 402
Kobo To Release Android Tablet E-Reader 80
Study Finds No Link Between Mobile Phones and Cancer (Again) 150
Trademark Trouble For RIM Over New "BBX" Name 95
Ballmer Slams Android As Cheap and Overcomplicated 645
Will Apple Let Siri and Apps Connect? 185
Galaxy Nexus Designed To Avoid Infringing Apple Patents 226
Android Ice Cream Sandwich SDK Released 309
iPhone Keylogger Can Snoop On Desktop Typing 103
RIM Unveils New OS Based On QNX 262
Microtouch: 8-bit Open Source Media Device 115
Ask Slashdot: Which Android Phone (and Carrier) For WiFi Proxy Support? 125
Installing Android On an HP TouchPad 96
Making Sensitive Data Location Aware 69
Samsung Vs. Apple Tit-For-Tat Down Under 313
UAE Police Claim BlackBerry Outage Made Roads Safer 206
NoScript For Android Devices Released 107
Verizon's 'Can You Hear Me Now' Fleet Testing 4G 81
RIM Offers Free Apps Following Outage 122
Google Improves Android Translator To Battle Siri 185
Nanomaterial May Allow Devices to Rewire Themselves 61
A Day In the Life of Privacy 103
District Attorney Critiques Gizmodo Emails In iPhone 4 Prototype Case 155
Sony Reader T1 Hacked 50
LibreOffice Going Online and Mobile 114
OccupySF IT Admins Using Pedal Power For Protest 202
100,000 iPhones Overwhelm Activation Server 166
NASA CTO Says Help Desks May Disappear 131
Samsung Lawyer Fails To Differentiate iPad and Galaxy Tab In Court 495
US Blocks Huawei From Building LTE Network 156
Scientists Build Wireless Bicycle Brakes 213
Android Phones Get Dual Accounts 109
Woz Is First In Line For iPhone 4S 287
CyanogenMod Ports Android To HP TouchPad 86
NATO Exercise Banned From Jamming GPS 260
iOS 5 Update Available 473
iPhone 4 Prototype Finder Gets Probation 334
Acacia Sues Amazon Over Kindle Fire 126
Opera Proposes Switching Browser Scrolling For 'Pages' 320
California Governor Vetoes Ban On Warrantless Phone Searches 462
Tablet Makers Try To Beat iPad's $500 Pricetag 338
Nexus Prime, And Ice Cream Sandwich, Go For a Video Tour 246
iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Sell Out 327
B&N Yanks DC Titles After Exclusive Amazon Deal 125
Was the iPod Accessory Port Inspired By a 40-Year-Old Camera? 263
Apple Tries To Patent 3rd Party In-App Purchasing 244
Sprint Details Shift To LTE 183
Sony In Talks To Buy Ericsson Out of Phone Venture 61
HP Investigates Android TouchPads Delivered With Android 86
Calif. Appeals Court Approves Cell Phone Searches 367
Samsung Seeking Ban of iPhone 4S in Europe 331
News From Apple's iPhone Event 392
One More Thing For Apple Stores: Food? 176
Ask Slashdot: Advice For Using a Cell Phone In China? 149
So Far, More Than 50,000 Kindle Fire Pre-Orders Per Day 291
Zune Dead, Then Not Dead, Then Officially Dead 181
Sony Ericsson Helps Out FreeXperia Developers 50
Patent Troll Says Anyone Using Wi-Fi Infringes 436
Sprint Bets Big On the iPhone 366
Why Linux Is Good For Low-End Smartphones 163
Amazon Disables 3G Web Browsing For New 3G Kindle Touch 206
Russian Software Company Says Its App Can Crack BlackBerry Security 78
Florida Reduces Penalties For 'Sexting' Teens 295
Citigroup Questions Whether US Spectrum Shortage Exists 131
Ask Slashdot: Websites Friendly To eReader Browsers? 96
AT&T Starts Throttling Heavy Wireless Data Users 158
Nokia Preps Linux OS For Low-End Smartphones 199
Amazon To Lose $10 Per Kindle Fire 181
The (Mostly) Sad Fates of 32 First-Generation iPad Rivals 270
Security Flaw Bypasses AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Screen Lock 49
Analyzing Data Retention By Wireless Carriers 25
How Google Drove Samsung Away 231
Top 1% of iOS Game Developers Make a Third of All Revenue 244
Congress May Permit Robot Calls To Cell Phones 619
Rob Malda Casts a Jaded Eye at Amazon's Silk 143
HP Touch Pad Still Popular ... With HP Employees 131
London Needs 70,000 Cells For 4G 124
IBM Launches Parking Meter Analytics System 111
Microsoft Begins Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) Rollout 127
Samsung Joins Ranks of Android Vendors Licensing Microsoft Patents 186
Intel Drops MeeGo 121
Man-In-the-Middle Remote Attack On Diebold Voting Machines 251
Apple Says Samsung 3G Patents Violate RAND Requirements 282

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