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O2 UK Sends Users’ Numbers to Visited Web Sites

Mobile phone carrier O2 UK has been found to send users’ mobile numbers to all of the websites they are visiting on their handsets. There are millions of users on O2’s mobile network, and all of their numbers are delivered to web sites when they access the web from their mobile devices. Lewis Peckove...

25 January 2012
06:46 GMT

Updated Google Docs for Mobile Available Now

Mountain View-based Internet giant Google has just announced the availability of a new version of their Google Docs for mobile, aimed at bringing a range of new features on the smaller screens of mobile phones. At times when they are not near a computer, users can take advantage of the various capabilities that G...

8 July 2011
02:13 GMT

Opera Mini Reaches 102.4M Users in March

Norwegian software giant Opera has just announced the its popular mobile browser Opera Mini has reached a number of no less than 102.4 million users in March, marking an increase of 14.1 percent when compared to the previous month. The software giant also announced that the browser's unique users grew by 85.4 p...

21 April 2011
13:01 GMT

Verizon: More Users Access their Account Online

Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless has just announced that an increasing number of users it taking advantage of various online tools for the controlling of usage, or for the managing of their wireless accounts. The wireless operator notes that a number of no less than four out of five eligible Verizon Wireless cu...

24 March 2011
17:41 GMT

Google Maps Has 150 Million Mobile Users

Google Maps is becoming increasingly popular on mobile phones, Google’s VP of Location and Local Services, Marissa Mayer, stated a few days ago at the SXSW Conferences & Festivals.With over 150 million mobile users on Google Maps at the moment, the service is among the most popular around the world. The fact ...

14 March 2011
02:37 GMT

Rogue Online Pharmacy Websites Adapted for Mobile Users

Researchers from cyber intelligence firm Cyveillance report that rogue online pharmacy owners are adapting their websites to look better on mobile phones in an attempt to reach this increasingly active market.Running rogue online pharmacies and selling drugs without prescription remains one of the most lucrative cybe...

8 March 2011
08:47 GMT

Google Launches Cloud Print for Mobile

A new Google service is now available for mobile phone users, one that would offer users the possibility to easily print documents while on the go, namely Google Cloud Print for mobile. Google launched Cloud Print last year, a service available in beta, through which users would be able to print from any app or devi...

25 January 2011
07:11 GMT

Google Revamps Weather Search on Mobile

Mountain View-based Internet giant Google has just announced that a new experience is available for iPhone or Android-powered device owners who are fond of accessing weather information on their devices.According to the company, the changes were meant to provide users with a more fun way to find the info that intere...

25 January 2011
01:41 GMT

A Large Percentage of Facebook Scam Victims Are Mobile Users

Security researchers from BitDefender have found that a large percentage of users who clicked on a Facebook scam link were using mobile platforms.The analyzed scam was similar to the many others that can be spotted on Facebook at any given time for over half a year now.It started with an enticing message that tricked...

11 January 2011
11:50 GMT

Mobile Users More Susceptible to Phishing

According to an investigation performed by Trusteer, a provider of secure browsing solutions, mobile users are three times more likely to fall victim to phishing attacks.The company's researchers analyzed the access log of several Web servers that hosted phishing websites recently and got some very interesting r...

5 January 2011
02:59 GMT

75% YouTube Mobile Users Access YouTube Primarily on Mobile

YouTube Mobile is enjoying increasing usage, with hundreds of millions of video views reported for m.youtube.com for each month, and with a wide range of users accessing YouTube mainly from their mobile phones. According to a recent survey from YouTube Mobile, 75 percent of users say that they access YouTube primari...

11 November 2010
06:17 GMT

Opera Launches Open Mobile Ad Exchange

Norwegian company Opera Software has just announced that its Open Mobile Ad Exchange service, which provides cloud-based advertising on feature phones and smartphones, is now open for business. According to the company, the new solution can provide advertisers, publishers, and wireless operators with access to the l...

6 October 2010
04:08 GMT

Ovi Store Downloads Hit 2.3 Million per Day

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia today announced some new stats regarding the services it currently offers to its users, unveiling that the Ovi Store applications portal has reached a number of 2.3 million downloads per day. Moreover, the company enjoys a number of more that 140 million users all around the world, n...

1 October 2010
09:33 GMT

Mobile Users Targeted in Samsung-Themed 419 Scam

Advance-fee fraudsters are targeting UK mobile users in a scam that involves impersonating employees from Samsung, NatWest Bank and the Financial Services Authority (FSA).An outfit called Scam Detectives reports that this particular scam starts with an SMS message, informing potential victims that they won a pri...

28 September 2010
03:04 GMT

Twitter's Mobile Usage on the Rise

Accessing social networking sites from a mobile phone is something pretty common these days, and the impressive growth Twitter has seen lately in terms of mobile usage is meant to prove exactly that, it seems. According to a recent report from the social media destination, a number of around 46 percent of its users ...

4 September 2010
05:31 GMT

Google Mobile Gets New YouTube Channel

Google Mobile has just got an upgraded feature in place for its users, in the form of a new YouTube channel, which sports a new look and more. “By now, some of you may have noticed our new Google Mobile YouTube channel, with a fresh look that includes a video box that rotates among multiple axes (we love the R...

31 August 2010
03:10 GMT

62.3m Use Opera Mini in July, View 29.6b Pages

The usage of Opera Mini is still on the rise, and the same applies to the number of women that are accessing the mobile Web, a recent report from Opera shows. According to the software company, the number of women accessing the web from their mobile devices increased 575% during the past two years, reaching 23% of t...

28 August 2010
04:37 GMT

Adobe Announces Photoshop Express for Mobile Devices

Software giant Adobe has just announced the availability of new applications for mobile phones, including Adobe Photoshop Express Editor, Photoshop Express Organizer, and Photoshop Express Uploader.Although the names might sound new, the applications are not, since all that Adobe did was to re-brand Photoshop.com, a...

26 August 2010
07:03 GMT

108.6M Users to Make Mobile Payments in 2010

The number of users to make mobile payments all around the globe during the ongoing year is expected to grow by 54.5 percent when compared to the last year, a recent report from Gartner shows. That number should reach 108.6 million users during the ongoing year, the research firm states, adding that only 2.1 percent...

21 June 2010
15:11 GMT

Windows Live Calendar Now Mobile

One of the latest features available for users of Windows Live Calendar is the possibility to access the service straight from their mobile phone. According to the developing team, users now have the possibility to access and manage their Windows Live Calendar from any handset that benefits from Internet access, wi...

21 June 2010
10:16 GMT

TIM Delivers Opera Mini 5 to Users in Brazil

TIM and Opera Software announced recently a new partnership through which the latest version of the Opera Mini browser is delivered to mobile phone users in Brazil. According to the duo, the mobile browser is set to offer users an experience similar to the one offered by a PC browsing solution, as the Web pages will...

22 March 2010
14:31 GMT

Google Buzz Tips for Mobile Users

Google released a few weeks ago a new solution for users of iPhone and Android-based mobile phones, namely Google Buzz for mobile, and now the company has delivered a series of tips for the owners of such devices so as to offer them the possibility to get the most out of the Google Buzz web app. According to the com...

4 March 2010
06:11 GMT

Facebook Has Over 100 Million Mobile Users

Facebook, one of the most popular social networking sites in the world, announced today that its usage is on the rise, and that it now has a number of more than 100 million mobile users all around the world. According to the SNS, its goal is to offer access to its functionality to a number of people as large as poss...

11 February 2010
08:13 GMT

100 Million Mobile Users to Access App Stores by 2013

It seems that mobile application stores are expected to see a growing popularity in the years to come, at least this is what a recently publishes research report from In-Stat states. The number of smartphone users that are likely to access app stores for their devices is expected to reach 100 million by 2013, says th...

25 March 2009
10:08 GMT

Flash Player Available Now on YouTube's Mobile Interface

Mobile phone owners have been able to access videos on YouTube for quite a while now, as the site offered its own mobile interface for this type of users, and also had a mobile application to view the files, only that most of the times they would find themselves reach a dead end. Basically, mobile phone users willi...

16 March 2009
06:47 GMT

More On Mobile Users' Insecurity

I read a recent study made by Trend Micro researchers, and - as you might have guessed - things are not too great when it comes to mobile users' security. The study concerned users from 4 countries: Japan, Germany, UK and the US, all being known for their high level of technology. Also, all of these 4 have recen...

29 August 2007
04:43 GMT


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