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Tuesday, 22nd November 2011

NFC Expected in iPhone 5 Next Year

In all the rumor-crazed lead-up to the launch of the iPhone 4S, one feature that was speculated about but never that likely was the inclusion of near field communications. Next year, when the iPhone 5 is actually, finally released, there's a very good chance it will have NFC, according to a report from DigiTimes. Citing sources at Taiwan-based…

Mobile John Paul Titlow comments

Europe Patent Reform Changes the Global Infringement Landscape

What if a patent granted in the State of Texas were invalid in Delaware? If the United States were a loose federation of states, as originally envisioned by its Articles of Confederation (the forerunner to its current Constitution), the validity of an invention in one state may have been challenged by another. In the European Union - which is not…

Enterprise Scott M. Fulton comments

5 Ways Android Phones Are Like Buffy

Yesterday AllThingsD announced the launch of the Facebook phone, again. Codenamed Buffy, this Android HTC phone will feature deep Facebook integration and support for HTML5. It is expected to arrive in 12-18 months. Facebook had to do something mobile if they really want to compete with Google and Apple, right? Facebook chose Android as its…

Mobile Alicia Eler comments

Cloud Providers

A New Cloud Drive With a Twist From Pogoplug

Yesterday, Richard's cloud drive article made note of Dropbox and Google Docs and other cloud storage providers. There is a new take on this from a company called Cloud Engines with their Pogoplug service. It combines the typical cloud drive with a piece of hardware. Here is how it works. You purchase the device, called Pogoplug Mobile for $80. It…

David Strom comments

IBM's Andy Piper (Part 2): How MQTT Averts a 'Thing-in-the-Middle' Attack

Although we've described it as a separate Web for devices, not people, Andy Piper of IBM's WebSphere MQ messaging team emphatically describes MQTT protocol in ways that are not at all analogous to the HTTP protocol we're accustomed to. Endpoint devices with low battery power and extremely limited networking - the kind embedded in sewer pipes whose…

Hack Scott M. Fulton comments

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