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Go Mobile™
# 230 - Jan. 29, 2010
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Mobile Enterprise News

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Enterprise Mobile Hardware
Bluebird releases Pidion BIP-6000 rugged Android handset (Engadget)
Honeywell to build next-gen handhelds for UPS drivers (Computerworld)
Wyse's portable thin client laptop adds Intel's Atom (WFD)
Home Depot to spend $60 million on handheld devices (BusinessWeek)
Study: popular handhelds show promise in emergency radiology (Healthcanal)
Enterprise Device & Network Management
AirWave's latest unifies wireless, wired and mobile control (Wi-Fi Planet)
Cisco VideoStream offers wireless video: how it compares (NetworkWorld)
Netgear announces new wireless network controllers for SMBs (PC World)
10 top iPhone apps for IT pros (Computerworld)
Bluebird Pidion
Act now to avoid the Apple tablet apocalypse (InfoWorld)
What ultimately wins in the enterprise, the Blackberry or the iPhone? (NetworkWorld)
Smartphones need smart security practices (Computerworld)
Improving network access security for unmanaged devices (NetworkWorld)
The case for centralized, vendor neutral WLAN management (EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet)
How to achieve 600Mbps with 802.11n (SearchNetworking)
Survey reveals enterprise WLAN plans and trends (NetworkWorld)

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Network Access News

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AT&T, T-Mobile roll out dueling 3G network upgrades (TechNewsWorld)
AT&T-Verizon price war debunked (FAQ) (Cnet)
MetroPCS reduces plan prices by 15 percent (Gearlog)
O2 vs Orange vs Vodafone: which wins the iPhone network test? (Pocket-lint)
Sprint drops price of mobile WiMAX by another $10 (FierceWireless)
T-Mobile acknowledges Nexus One 3G connectivity issue (BGR)
Truphone's Local Anywhere service will offer local US, UK calls (The Register)
U.S. Cellular joins price war (WirelessWeek)
Australians increase their mobile data use (Sydney Morning Herald)
Denmark & Sweden to get faster 3G networks thanks to 3 Group (Unstrung)
Sprint Overdrive
BearExtender
Mobile Routers & Gear
Cradlepoint CTR350 Mobile Router review (Ars Technica)
D-Link Wireless N Pocket Router to take on Novatel's MiFi (PC Mag)
Netgear previews two cellular broadband routers for spring release (Cnet)
Rokland's BearExtender n3 gives Mac users more Wi-Fi range (TUAW)
Sprint Overdrive 3G / 4G pocket WiMax router hands-on (BGR)
Trendnet TEW-639GR Wireless N Gigabit Router review (Cnet)
Wilson debuts "sleek" signal booster (Gearlog)

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Industry News, Trends, & Analysis

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Right: Palm's Ares dev tool
Apps: New iPad means iPhone devs need to think different (InfoWorld)
Apps: Apple takes 99.4% of mobile app sales in 2009 (ArsTechnica)
Apps: Nokia demos prototype "mobile radar" tech (The Register)
Apps: M-banking faces uphill battle in mature markets (Computerworld)
Apps: Report: Mobile web not so popular yet in India (Light Reading)
Developers: Adobe dev tool will support iPad & iPhone (IDG)
Developers: Palm fishes for devs with $1M lure (The Register)
Developers: Google outs Nexus One SDK (InfoWorld)
OS's: Android malware: How open is too open? (InfoWorld)
OS's: Microsoft re-org hints at possible Windows and Mobile merge (The Register)
OS's: The case for Windows Mobile (InfoWorld)
OS's: Windows 7 growing faster than Vista, overtakes Mac OS X (Ars Technica)
Phones: Apple, Nokia dominate worldwide mobile market, says AdMob (Cnet)
Phones: Nokia posts proposal for next year's smartphone UI (The Register)
Phones: Lessons from Nexus One's issues (InfoWorld)
Phones / Tablets: Apple wins patent for proximity-sensing multitouch screen (Gearlog)
Networks: Siemens wirelessly streams 500Mbps over white LED lights (Gizmodo)
Networks: Newest GSM encryption cracked (Gearlog)
Networks: Symbian Foundation expert wants mobile app for GSM security (ZDNet)
Networks: How 802.11n will revolutionize connectivity (NetworkComputing)
Financial News
Apple now a $50+ billion company (TechCrunch)
Apple to spend $275m on mobile ad broker Quattro (The Register)
Boku, a mobile payments company, banks $25M in financing (WirelessWeek)
Good buys CloudSync (WirelessWeek)
Micromax & other Indian handset firms grab market share in India (Light Reading)
Motorola, Kodak ask courts for a BlackBerry ban in the U.S. (Cnet)
Motorola posts Q4 profit, but outlook is low (AP)
Motricity files to sell up to $250M in IPO (WSJ)
Nokia Q4: sales down, profit up (The Register)
Nokia Siemens shrinks 18% in '09 (Light Reading)
Nuance acquires SpinVox (WirelessWeek)
Opera Software buys AdMarvel (The Register)
SplashData to acquire Iambic (Ubergizmo)
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