Mobile Phones UK

Certification will allow large-scale UK Government deployment of encrypted voice calls on BlackBerry® smartphones London, UK - January 26th, 2012: Cellcrypt (www.cellcrypt.com), a leading provider of encrypted voice calling on mobile phones, today announced that Cellcrypt Mobile Baseline™ for BlackBerry® is in CESG CAPS evaluation. CAPS (CESG Assisted Products Service) is a UK Government Cryptographic Evaluation Service run by CESG, the UK's National Technical Authority for Information Assurance. Achieving CAPS certification will allow UK Government departments to use Cellcrypt Mobile Baseline™ to meet their Baseline (IL3, RESTRICTED) security needs. Cellcrypt Mobile Baseline™ is designed to provide end-to-end voice call encryption on commercially available off-the-shelf BlackBerry® smartphones for UK Government. It is an easy-to-use software application that makes ... (more)

Decline in Apple share of mobile internet usage shows battle to dominate mobile phones and tablets is far from over

Apple's dominance of mobile web traffic appears to be fading Android traffic now ahead in the US; Apple still leads in the UK BlackBerry share of web traffic remains stable Nokia starting to slide in India READING, UK 27th January 2012 51Degrees.mobi, the leading provider of device detection and web optimisation solutions, has today published an analysis of the mobile devices its online partners detected browsing the internet last year. The 51Degrees.mobi Mobile Web Trends 2011 white paper shows that the proportion of mobile web visitors in the USA with Android devices overtook A... (more)

Local Corporation Updates Mobile Flagship Site

Local Corporation (NASDAQ: LOCM), a leading online local media company, today announced an updated and optimized, mobile-enabled version of its flagship local search site, Local.com. The new mobile site enables users to quickly and easily search for local products and services from their mobile phone or device. The site features geo-tracking technology to provide users with businesses near them based on their current physical location. The new optimized site also features: Easy click-to-call functionality Simplified user interface and “app-like” navigation Maps and directions th... (more)

Microsoft Imagine Cup Grants Awarded to Students to Help Create Businesses and Nonprofits Aimed at Global Change

DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting today in Davos, Switzerland, Microsoft Corp. announced the winners of the inaugural year of the Imagine Cup Grants program, a three-year, $3 million competitive grant program for student technology and social entrepreneurs. Grant recipients include Team Apptenders from Croatia, Team Falcon Dev from Ecuador, Team OaSys from Jordan and Team Lifelens from the United States. The teams invented solutions that address issues, such as accessibility, health and education, and use technologies tha... (more)

The G-20's Internet Economy Is Set to Reach $4.2 Trillion by 2016 -- Up From $2.3 Trillion in 2010 -- As Nearly Half the World's Population Become Web Users, Says Report by The Boston Consulting Group

DAVOS, SWITZERLAND -- (Marketwire) -- 01/27/12 -- The Internet economy of the G-20 is projected to reach $4.2 trillion in 2016 -- nearly double the size it was in 2010 -- providing companies and countries with a vital source of growth as they battle to thrive in an era of uncertainty, according to The Boston Consulting Group (BCG).* The biggest driver is the dramatic increase in the number of users around the globe -- from 1.9 billion users in 2010 to a projected 3 billion users in 2016, about 45 percent of the world's population. The rise of the emerging markets, the popularity... (more)