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Hackers can abuse the iOS mobile device management protocol to deliver malware

The attack bypasses the restrictions for enterprise app deployment introduced in iOS 9, Check Point researchers said

By Lucian Constantin

Mar 31, 2016 4 mins

Mobile Small and Medium Business iOS

A feast of the sensors

Nearly everything in our world is becoming sensor-laden. How can you benefit from the pervasiveness?

By David Knight

Mar 31, 2016 6 mins

Big Data Internet of Things Small and Medium Business

Older people use apps very differently than youngsters

Oldies are using mobile apps for ‘desktop-era’ services, like e-mail; whereas the youth of today rely on newer app-concepts, such as messaging, says a study. IT needs to cotton-on.

By Patrick Nelson

Mar 31, 2016 3 mins

Computers and Peripherals Mobile Apps

Add more antennas to base stations for 5G efficiencies, say researchers

Spectrum efficiencies can be gained with ‘massive’ antenna arrays, says scientists.

By Patrick Nelson

Mar 30, 2016 3 mins

Mobile Networking Small and Medium Business

This Android smartphone and barcode reader comes in a 10-oz. package

Janam's rugged XT2 computer is designed for a variety of mobile workers

By Matt Hamblen

Mar 30, 2016 2 mins

Android Small and Medium Business Smartphones

US has asked Apple, Google to help unlock devices in more than 70 cases

About 30 of the cases are as recent as 2015, according to the ACLU

By Grant Gross

Mar 30, 2016 3 mins

Mobile Security Small and Medium Business

Five signs 40-year-old Apple is having a midlife crisis — and five reasons it isn’t

Sometimes a comb-over is just a comb-over

By Stephen Lawson

Mar 30, 2016 6 mins

Apple Mac Small and Medium Business

What Microsoft’s multi-platform strategy means for mobile app developers

The Xamarin acquisition proves Microsoft is more interested in its developer tools than its own struggling phone operating system.

By Paul Rubens

Mar 30, 2016 6 mins

Android Microsoft Small and Medium Business

Court vacates iPhone hack order against Apple, focus shifts to New York

The order was vacated after the FBI said it had accessed data on a terrorist’s phone

By John Ribeiro

Mar 30, 2016 4 mins

Security Smartphones

FCC magic will turn TV channels into mobile signals

The agency's months-long incentive auction began Tuesday

By Stephen Lawson

Mar 29, 2016 4 mins

Internet of Things Mobile Small and Medium Business