Category: Mobility

There have been isolated cases of devices running Android getting infected with spyware since last year, but this is the first occasion that an SMS-spewing Trojan, common in the world of mobile malware, has affected devices running Google’s operating system.

If a user agrees to permit an application to access premium rate service during installation, the smartphone may then be able to make calls and send SMSs without further authorisation.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/10/android_sms_trojan/

CouchDB, the open source database that is part of the NoSQL movement, is now available on Google’s Android. Palm, a division of Hewlett Packard, has already announced that the next version of its webOS will include services for syncing local data with CouchDB. According to Couch.io executives, applications — web…

So far AT&T is banking heavily on it and has even won some deals, in part because its GSM-based network is compatible with the networks used in the rest of the world, while Verizon and Sprint’s CDMA networks are U.S.-only. This issue of incompatible networks may be another reason that Verizon is pushing its LTE launch so aggressively, and why a transition to LTE will benefit Clearwire-Sprint in the long term.

While it[US] lags Japan and Korea in 3G penetration by a distance, due to higher penetration of smartphones and datacards, the consumption is much higher than its Asian counterparts. Sharma points out that U.S. consumers are data hogs on smartphones, using 230 MB on average — a number that’s up 50 percent in the last six months.

http://gigaom.com/2010/08/10/stats-the-age-of-the-internet-of-things-has-dawned/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OmMalik+%28GigaOM%29

“We have been waiting for any kind of data,” said Brenda White, senior VP-publishing activation director at Starcom Worldwide.

“I want to know if users are spending more time with advertising messages,” said Adam Kasper, senior VP-digital innovation for Havas Digital.

These early iPad ads are largely coming from test budgets, which will disappear if the ads don’t prove themselves. For clients to bring iPad out of test phase, he’ll need much more measurement. ABC has sold slots in its iPad app along with a commitment online.

“Premium pricing has been somewhat of a barrier [in addition to] no measurement,” said Starcom’s Ms. Havas’ Mr. Kasper estimates $100 cost-per-thousand views on iPad, which he says is three times as much as a video ad on Hulu and 10 times as much as a highly regarded banner on The New York Times website.

http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=145292

Enterprises should consider instituting provisions to acceptable-use policies, he added, including the requirement that employees back up their devices using iTunes. Certain enterprises, such as health care, demand more stringent security policies. For those companies, Jaquith recommends additional configuration profile settings: seven-character alphanumeric passcodes for stronger protection, hardware encryption with an AES-256 symmetric key, certificate-based authentication, and the application encryption supported by iOS4.

Those more-stringent requirements would also demand new policy provisions, including a company right to emergency device confiscation, and a requirement that users scrub their address books of sensitive information such as social security numbers.

Even with Apple’s more robust security measures, the report suggests that the iPhone and iPad “still lack some key security and management refinements that enterprises require.”

These include the iPhone’s inability to automate installation tasks, even as it generates configuration profiles; a lack of mature enterprise device management tools and support for smart-card authentication; no compliance with FIPS 140-2; and zero capability for logging and archiving SMS messages.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Apple-iPhone-iPad-In-Enterprise-Needs-Security-Policies-Forrester-578909/

“Enterprise Mobility Management has emerged as the essential tool top performing organizations use to take control of the full mobility lifecycle of their mobile ecosystem,” said Andrew Borg, senior research analyst for wireless and mobility, Aberdeen. Aberdeen distinguished the respondents as Best-in-Class, Industry Average and Laggard organizations.

+ EMM impacts the bottom line — By leveraging EMM, TCO per mobile employee in a Best-in-Class company averaged $189, 23 percent lower than the Industry Average
+ Best-in-Class organizations mobilize 84 percent of their employees — an increase of 22 percent over the last 12 months.
+ EMM reduces number of lost/stolen devices
+ Diversity and complexity of mobile platforms is exploding
+ 70 percent of Best-in-Class organizations developed a detailed inventory of all devices including employee owned
+ Remote control management capabilities contribute to competitive advantage

The Aberdeen survey also found that Best-in-Class organizations leveraged EMM capabilities to ensure that end user devices are properly authenticated before accessing company network and data.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Survey-Finds-Enterprise-iw-1578956769.html?x=0&.v=1