iDEN PTT now works on Moto WLAN; iPhone passcode bugs revealed

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I just recently learned that the company has added iDEN PTT to its suite of Wi-Fi enterprise mobility services. iDEN, of course, is best known as a service operated by Sprint Nextel in the U.S. Read full story Related News: iPhone passcode bugs revealed It has already been proven that the passcode on an iPhone can be removed. The purpose of this article is to point out the false sense of security delivered through Apple's marketing of iPhone features for the enterprise. My testing has revealed that the enterprise security features do not behave correctly and I will point out three flaws with how passwords are handled with the iPhone and EAS. Sprint readies its first Android smartphone Sprint will release its first-ever handset featuring the Google-developed open-source Android operating system next month. Smartphones: A Tower of Babel for developers In the fast-moving world of smartphones, application developers must make choices: Develop native applications for Apple's iPhone or perhaps for the Palm Pre. Or maybe build for Symbian, the RIM BlackBerry, or Google's Android. If you have the time and skills, you can build your application again and again for different phones, using native development resources. AT&T opens device certification lab AT&T opened up a wireless device certification lab to help put developers and manufacturers on a fast track to getting their devices running on AT&T's network. Group asks IRS to repeal tax of personal mobile-phone use A little understood 20-year-old U.S. Internal Revenue Service rule that taxes employees' personal use of employer-provided mobile phones should be repealed, trade group CTIA said. 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