Handhelds Stories for 2012

A Wish List For Tablets In 2013 453
Bloomberg: Steve Jobs Behind NYC Crime Wave 311
Samsung Retaliates Against Ericsson With Patent Complaint 43
Google Skunkworks Working on 'X Phone,' Reports WSJ 97
Reexamination Request Filed Against Another Apple Patent 85
Mobile Raspberry Pi Computer: Build Your Own Pi-to-Go 97
KDE's Plasma Active Ported To Nexus 7 55
Huge Security Hole In Recent Samsung Devices 153
Will Tablets Kill Off e-Readers? 333
Nokia Abruptly Closes Application Store In China For N9 66
Company Turns Your Android Smartphone Into a Game Console 126
Microsoft Surface Struggles to Ship A Million Units 375
Steve Jobs Was Wrong About Touchscreen Laptops 526
Ask Slashdot: Tablets For Papers; Are We There Yet? 180
Happy (Early) Bday! :) SMS Txt Msgs Turn 20 54
Why Microsoft's Surface Pro Could Fail 442
PressureNET 2.1 Released: the Distributed Barometer Network For Android 82
Slashdot Mobile: Now For Tablets As Well As Phones 123
The Wii Mini Is Real, Arrives December 7 — In Canada 139
US Judge Orders Apple To Share HTC Deal Details With Samsung 106
Mozilla Makes Prototype of Firefox OS Available 101
Windows Phone 8 Users Hit Some Snags 391
Dual-Booting PengPod Tablet Can Run Linux/Android 109
Nintendo Wii U Teardown Reveals Simple Design 276
Linux On the TI-Nspire Graphing Calculator 49
Just In Time for the Holidays, Nintendo Wii U Gets Its US Release 174
Just Days After Release, Google's Nexus 4 Has Already Been Rooted 85
One Step Toward a Babel Fish: Real-Time Voice Translation For Phones 131
Google Targets Android Fragmentation With Updated Terms For SDK 154
Nokia Releasing Maps for Competing Devices 57
Motorola Wants 2.25% of Microsoft's Surface Revenue 278
Project To Build Dual-Booting Linux, Android Tablet For $100 114
Microsoft Surface Touch Cover 'Splits Within Days' 135
Why You Can't Build Your Own Smartphone: Patents 179
Bungled Mobile Bet Will Be Ballmer's Swan Song 300
Australian Telcos Declare SMS Unsafe For Bank Transactions 42
Samsung's Galaxy S III Steals Smartphone Crown From iPhone 348
iPad Mini Costs $24 More To Make Than Kindle Fire HD 260
Verizon To Shut Down App Store By January 59
Software Uses Almost 1/2 the Storage On 32GB Surface Tablet 471
MIT Research Tweaks Smartphone Amplifier Voltage To Gain Battery Life 47
Microsoft Reportedly Working On Its Own Smartphone 215
Hurricane Sandy Fails To Stop Line For iPad Mini Launch 103
To Mollify Google on Moto Patents, Apple Proposes $1/Device Fee 582
48-Core Chips Could Redefine Mobile Devices 285
Ubuntu Now Available On the Nexus 7 87
Apple Posts Non-Apology To Samsung 413
A Look At Competitors to the Surface and iPad 193
Can Nokia Save Itself? 317
Ask Slashdot: How Can I Protect My Android Devices From Hackers? 295
iPad Mini Could Retail For $250, Delete iPad 2 211
Amazon Overcharging Publishers For Tax 184
Black Sheep Blackberry Blackballed By Business 349
Italian Supreme Court Accepts Mobile Phone-Tumor Link 190
Smartphone Mugging More Popular Than Ever 285
Is Qualcomm the New AMD? 331
Poor SSL Implementations Leave Many Android Apps Vulnerable 141
Surface RT vs. iPad: a Comparison 357
Is Microsoft's Price Model For the Surface Justifiable? 417
Microsoft Surface Pricing Goes Toe-to-Toe With Apple iPad 521
Google Wades Further Into Hardware With "Nexus Call Center" 58
Apple Quietly Releases New iPods 153
The Case That Apple Should Buy Nokia 286
Samsung Galaxy Note II Source Code Released 32
UK 'Virtual ID Card' Scheme Set For Launch 84
Apple iPad Mini Could Complicate Things For Windows 8 Tablets 200
Indian Minister Says Telecom Companies Should Only Charge For Data 177
PlaceRaider Builds a Model of Your World With Smartphone Photos 120
HP Releases Open webOS 1.0 51
Why It's Bad That Smartphones Have Banished Boredom 351
Barnes & Noble's Nook HD Tablets Face iPad, Kindle Fire HD 134
Samsung Smartphones Vulnerable To Remote Wipe Hack 151
Book Review: Digital Forensics For Handheld Devices 87
Flatlining User Base May Spell End of RIM 180
iOS 6 Adoption Tops 25% After Just 48 Hours 513
Verizon-Branded iPhone 5 Ships Unlocked, Works With Other Networks 100
Mozilla OS Looking Grown Up On Its Own Developer Phone 114
Walmart Abandons Amazon's Kindle Lineup 104
Another EUSecWest NFC Trick: Ride the Subway For Free 135
6 Million Virgin Mobile Users Vulnerable To Brute-Force Attacks 80
Android Hacked Via NFC On the Samsung Galaxy S 3 198
Leak Hints Windows 8 Tablets May Be Dearer Than Makes Sense 365
Motorola's First Intel-Based Handset Launches In UK 64
Wireless Analysis With Monitor Mode On Android 49
Apple Confirms iPhone 5 Preorders Top 2 Million In 24 Hours 428
The Passing of the Personal Computer Era 329
AMD's Hondo Chip 'A Windows 8 Product' 229
Firefox OS: Disruptive By Aiming Low 286
Alibaba Says Google Threatened Acer With Banishment From Android 352
Apple Announces iPhone 5 1052
School Regrets Swapping Laptops For iPads 504
No Opt-Out For Ads On New Kindle Fires 383
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
Amazon Debuts Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Fire HD In 2 Sizes 307
Nokia Apologizes For Misleading Lumia 920 Ad 233
Nokia Claims a Memory Card Slot Would Have "Defiled" New Phone 371
HP Launches Beta of Open webOS 56
Side-Effect of the Apple v. Samsung Trial: Increased Sales for Samsung 385
Kindle Fire Is Sold Out Forever 309
Apple Seeks To Block 8 Samsung Products After Court Win 396
StethoCloud Project Diagnoses Pneumonia On the Cheap 55
Amazon, Apple Expected to Strut Their Small-Tablet Stuff Soon 115
App Can Prevent Users From Texting While Driving 144
Ask Slashdot: Best Use For an Old Smartphone? 301
Why Cell Phone Bans Don't Work 335
Polish MP Returns iPad Citing Lack of Control 148
HP Hires Ex-Nokia Exec, Spins Off WebOS, Reportedly Returning To Tablets 128
Finland Hosts Mobile Phone Throwing Championships 70
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
Insurer Measures Driver Safety With Smartphone App To Calculate Premiums 345
Judge Suggests Apple Is "Smoking Crack" With Witness List In Samsung Case 318
Ask Slashdot: A Cheap US Cellphone Plan With an Unlocked Phone? 288
Thoughts On the iPad Mini 214
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
Ask Slashdot: Rugged E-book Reader? 126
Indian Government Mulls Giving Away Mobile Phones To the Poor 104
Acer: Microsoft Surface 'Negative For The Whole PC Industry' 360
Why the Tablet Market is Really the iPad Market 657
Nintendo 3DS XL Is Out Now 90
Microsoft: Surface Tablet May Alienate OEM Partners 164
Google Warned Samsung Galaxy Tab Was "Too Similar" 251
Gadget Addiction or Work Intrusion? 111
Apple Wins EU Ban of Smaller Samsung Tablet, Demands $2.5 Billion In Damages 377
Staples Executive Outs Six New Kindle Fire Tablets 79
Google Releases Jelly Bean Updates For the Nexus S 104
Google Releases Android 4.1 SDK 58
iOS 6 Beta 3 Jailbroken Already 68
Jolla Confirms MeeGo App Store Is Coming 66
Apple Wins Mobile Patent On Displaying Lists, Documents 306
Georgie: Smartphone For the Blind and Visually Impaired 77
Apple Tells Retailers To Stop Selling Certain Samsung Devices 308
Ask Slashdot: Managing Encrypted Android Devices In State and Local Gov't? 138
Holy iPad Slayer! Company Releases World's First Christian Tablet 326
An Android Tablet Victory May Be Problematic For Free Software 208
Steve Ballmer: We Won't Be Out-Innovated By Apple Anymore 610
Preparing For Life After the PC 636
Ex-Nokia Staff To Build MeeGo-based Smartphones 200
Credible Reports of a 7.85 Inch iPad Mini Emerge 193
In UK, HTC Defeats Apple's "Obvious" Slide Unlock Patent 165
Bill Gates: the Traditional PC Is Changing 552
First Firefox Mobile OS Phones Announced 116
Does RIM's "Huge Loss" Signal Wider Handset Market Deterioration? 278
Bill Gates Says Tablets Aren't Much Help In Education 575
Asus Joins High Density Display Club With New Transformer Tablet 265
RIM Considers Spinning Off Handset Business From Messaging 87
Will Microsoft Extend Surface Model And Manufacture Windows Phones? 118
RIM Drops Playbook Price By 66% 302
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
Motorola To Buy PDA-Inventor Psion For $200 Million 144
Nokia Seeks More Leverage In the Forever Mobile Patent War 70
Microsoft To Sell Its Own Windows RT Tablet 288
Ask Slashdot: What's Your Beef With Windows Phone? 1027
Nokia To Cut 10,000 Jobs and Close 3 Facilities 350
No Tech Panacea For Tech-Distracted Driving 257
Universal Android Laptop Dock: Microsoft Nightmare, Or Toy? 262
Subject To a "Stop and Frisk"? There's an App For That 201
Why Young Males Are No Longer the Most Important Tech Demographic 240
Inside the Death of Palm and WebOS 188
Ask Slashdot: Equipping a Company With Secure Android Phones? 229
LG Aims To Beat Apple's Retina Display 333
Is Facebook Working On a Smartphone? 160
Cisco All But Kills Cius Tablet 65
The Future of Browser Choice 188
Verizon To Kill All Unlimited Data Plans 331
Plastic Logic Shows Off a Color ePaper Screen 50
Windows RT Browser Restrictions Draw Antitrust Attention 375
Researchers Push Implanted User Interfaces 84
Apple Quietly Updates iPad 2's Processor 127
Wozniak Praises 'Beautiful' Windows Phone 362
Microsoft Invests $300 Million In Nook e-Readers 197
Kindle Fire Grabs Over Half of the U.S. Android Tablet Market 134
Newspapers Pollute Less On E-Readers and Tablets 113
Intel Aims 'One Tablet Per Child' Program at Developing Countries 93
Next Kindle Expected To Have a Front-Lit Display 132
Amazon Selling Kindle Fire Refurbs For $139 52
Canadian Man Releases Open Source Star Trek Tricorder 109
Ask Slashdot: Most Secure Mobile OS? 291
Apple vs. Nokia, RIM and Motorola On Nano-SIM Standard 144
Ask Slashdot: Any Smart Phones Made Under Worker-Friendly Conditions? 371
Time to Review FAA Gadget Policies 292
Using Apps To 'Soft Control' People's Movements 71
Throwing Light On Elcomsoft's Analysis of Smartphone Password Managers 48
PayPal Unveils Mobile Payment System 99
VisiCalc's Dan Bricklin On the Tablet Revolution 185
'Honey Stick' Project Tracks Fate of Lost Smartphones 222
NVIDIA Challenges Apple's iPad Benchmarks 198
Meet The Man Who Designed a Tablet Computer 15 Years Before the iPad 374
T-Mobile Exec Calls For End To Cell Phone Subsidies 355
7-inch Google Tablet Coming From ASUS 151
'Of Course We Are In a Post-PC World,' Says Ray Ozzie 399
Chief Replicant Dev On Building a Truly Free Android 113
Apple Unveils New iPad 989
Nearly Half of American Adults Are Smartphone Owners 267
After Complaints, AT&T Solidifies, Increases Data Limit 211
Will Tablet Price War Mean a Larger Amazon Tablet? 67
Asus PadFone Combines Smartphone, Tablet, Keyboard 77
Fraunhofer IIS Demos Full-HD Voice Over LTE On Android 99
Your Next TV Interface Will Be a Tablet 210
T-Mobile Announces LTE Network 75
Push Email Suspended On iPhones In Germany 164
PSVita Released In the USA and Europe 225
Playbook OS 2.0 Released 90
Canonical Puts Ubuntu On Android Smartphones 155
iPad 3 Confirmed To Have 2048x1536 Screen Resolution 537
Amazon Blocks Video Streaming On BlackBerry Tablet, Blames Apple 128
Golden Delicious Now Shipping Hackable Openmoko GTA04 71
Details Emerge About Spark Linux-Based Tablet 188
German Appeals Court Confirms Galaxy Tab 10.1 Ban 161
Rockbox Developers Talk Open Source Firmware 179
New Spark Tablet To Come Loaded With KDE's Active Plasma Interface 114
Yahoo's Project To Disrupt Mobile Publishing 120
CEOs of RIM Step Down 164
Intel Relying On Ice Cream Sandwich For Tablet Push 215
Jailbreak For A5 iOS Devices Released 169
NSA Releases Security-Enhanced Android 81
Ubuntu Tablet OS To Take On Android, iOS 237
$10M Tricorder X PRIZE Kicks off 111
Microsoft Scraps 'Where's My Phone Update?' Site 162
OLPC XO-3 To Debut At CES, Starting Under $100 (But Not For You) 119
Transformer Prime To Get ICS On January 12, Boot Unlocker Coming 168
Feature Phones Make Java ME, Not Android, the #2 Mobile Internet OS 286
RIM's Playbook On Clearance 141
Insiders Call HP's WebOS Software Fatally Flawed 191