| iPhone winning over some corporate security skeptics
Apple's iPhone is slowly but surely winning over some enterprise security skeptics. As a result, it's now showing up alongside, or instead of, Research in Motion BlackBerries and Microsoft Windows Mobile handsets, despite the fact Apple offers none of the security and management features that are hallmarks of those two platforms. AT&T tops in 3G wireless speeds, study finds
Although AT&T has been taking a pounding lately from Verizon ads and from customer satisfaction surveys, a new study suggests that the carrier can take solace in the fact that its 3G wireless network is the fastest in the nation. 30 years of handheld game systems
Thirty years ago this fall, Milton Bradley released the world's first handheld video game system with interchangeable cartridges, the Microvision. Prior to 1979, handheld electronic games were stuck with one predetermined game (or set of games) per unit. After the Nintendo Game Boy debuted a decade later, the market for cartridge-based handheld devices exploded, inspiring hardware vendors both prominent and obscure to release gadgets for playing multiple games on. In honor of the technology's pearl anniversary, let's take a look at some notable successes and notorious failures in the history of handheld gaming. Verizon updates Droid software; Users hope it fixes echo problem
An over-the-air software update to the Droid smartphone started yesterday, but it wasn't clear whether the 14 enhancements address a voice echo problem that hundreds of users complained about in online forums. Intel: No Handheld Device Can Do It All
Intel researchers say an all-in-one device won't do any one task very well, but gadgets will become more personalized. First Look: Google Goggles tries to ID your world
Googles Labs' latest is a smartphone app that identifies whatever you take photos of. But Google Goggles is still very much in beta. 2 billion Bluetooth chipsets to ship in 2014
Two billion Bluetooth chipsets are forecast to ship in 2014 alone, according to new market data released by ABI Research. AT&T unveils iPhone app that marks poor service spots
AT&T today released an application for Apple's iPhone that lets customers submit complaints about dropped calls, poor coverage and substandard voice quality. Walking, talking on cell phone a dangerous combo
A University of Illinois study found that there's significant danger in crossing the street while talking on a cell phone. Service cracks WPA, steals Wi-Fi passwords
For US$34, a new cloud-based hacking service can crack a WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) network password in just 20 minutes, its creator says. MIT wins DARPA's Great Red Balloon Hunt
Almost as soon as it was launched, in only nine hours in fact, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced that the MIT Red Balloon Challenge Team won the $40,000 cash prize in the DARPA Network Challenge, a competition that required participants to locate 10 large, red balloons at undisclosed locations across the United States. The MIT team received the prize for being the first to identify the locations of all 10 balloons. Today from the Subnet communities On Cisco Subnet: Oracle, Sun, and the Identity Management Waiting Game and An Early Gift for MySQL servers; On Microsoft Subnet: Running Windows 7 on a Mac; On Google Subnet: Will Google be left in the dark over white spaces? Network World on Twitter? You bet we are | 
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