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Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google: in a month review Summary:  It's been a busy month in the mobile world and this recap pulls all the best coverage into a convenient place. If you missed something big, you'll find it here. From Recently announced Fire phone from Amazon to some new Windows 8 hybrid tablets. I've opined about the myth of the optimal tablet size and shared how to deal with that. All in all it's been a busy month and those interested in the mobile space should find lots of interesting things in the recap. The Big Guys — Apple, Microsoft, Google, Samsung, and Amazon Apple is fun again  — Things have seemed a bit stiff and unsure at Apple events since the passing of Steve Jobs. The WWDC keynote indicates that Apple is back, and fun things are about to happen. Microsoft Office for Android: Pushing Windows even further behind in mobile  — Microsoft came under some heat from Windows customers when it released Office for iPad before ...

Nokia paid millions to protect Symbian from code thieves Summary:  A Finnish television station has discovered that one time mobile phone giant Nokia paid millions in Euros to keep essential software for its Symbian operating system from being used to create malware and rootkills. Nokia  reportedly paid millions of euros  (Finnish) to blackmailers in 2007-2008 to keep a key part of the source code for its Symbian feature phone platform from being used to create malware, according to Finnish broadcaster station MTV. According to the report, which has been confirmed by Finnish police, the code blackmailers had stolen the Symbian's encryption key. With these few kilobytes of code, the code thieves could have created signed applications that would have appeared to have been, not merely legitimate Symbian applications, but Nokia programs and operating system "upgrades." In short, this would have given the cybercriminials the power to create...

It’s a bird, it’s a plane….it’s India's first pizza-delivering drone!   Summary: Mumbai's Francesco's Pizzeria stunned the world by delivering a pizza via a drone. However, the city's cops aren't too pleased about the stunt. Pizza delivery using a drone   Mumbai's Francesco Pizza recently delivered one of their Pizza's using a drone In perhaps the most audacious and value-for-money stunt that the city of Mumbai has yet seen, a once unknown hole-in-the-wall Pizzeria at Kemp's Corner in tony South Mumbai used a drone to delivery a Pizza to a location nearby (Worli), giving further credence to the notion that India can be both way ahead of its time and way behind it. While this is apparently not the first pizza in the world delivered by a drone—a Dominos franchise snagged that badge of honor by doing so in the UK last year—it certainly was the most attention grabbing. The idea was born when Francesco Pizza's owner, Mikhel...

Apple unveils iOS 8 for iPhone, iPad at WWDC 2014  Summary: Project "Okemo" finally has a name. Meet iOS 8.Apple on Monday unveiled its latest mobile operating system for the iPhone and iPad at its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, kicking off a week's worth of developer events for the app-building community. The new iPhone and iPad software was unveiled almost exactly one year to the day after the release of iOS 7, its immediate predecessor, following a major redesign of its user interface. Apple chief executive Tim Cook described the new software as a story of two fronts, adding that it includes new developer hooks to help app makers build new apps like never before. Senior executive Craig Federighi said on stage that iOS 8 builds on the successes of its predecessor, and lands with a bevy of brand new features. Included with the new software: Enterprise features:  iOS 8 will land with a number of enterprise-focused and manageabili...