Daily Mobile Computing Feed – Sep 2, 2012

Daily aggregation of mobile computing news from @cloud_aware, mobileaware.net.

  • Potential Flood of Malware Infection Used For Surveillance Of
  • Smartphones … The Droid Guy According to a study conducted by University of Toronto, a cyber-espionage software can target cell phones and other mobile computing devices. The researchers, led by John Scott-Railton, a doctoral student have found out that the program can take over … (more)

  • Google Assigned Patent for Position and Orientation Determination for a
  • Mobile … Equities.com 2 — Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,253,684) developed by Matthew I. Lloyd, Cambridge, Mass., for a “position and orientation determination for a mobile computing device.” The abstract of the patent published by the U.S … (more)

  • Bring Your Own Device – The CEO Blind Side
  • Link2Portal Suddenly, the bright promise of mobilisation was tarnished with a management and security nightmare. And thus, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) was born. But all is not doom and gloom; here are five ways that BYOD can foster innovation while ensuring the … (more)

  • Cisco Brings Secure BYOD Solutions to a City – Blogs – Cisco
  • We have seen an uptake of organizations announcing their plans for a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) strategy. To keep moving the dialogue forward on how to … (more)

  • Mobile Cloud Strategy Revealed
  • CloudTimes Even though they sound the same, mobile computing and mobile cloud computing is not the same thing. Basically, mobile computing only requires apps to run on a mobile device natively, with the application itself and all required data stored on the device. (more)