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But ‘in the cloud’ doesn’t always mean secure, let along private...
http://recombu.com/news/is-your-mobile-data-safe-in-the-cloud_M15026.html

What to expect from Windows 8 ARM tablets
http://recombu.com/news/windows-8-arm-tablets-what-can-we-expect_M15354.html

Does the mobile OS matter? What's technically different about the various smartphone platforms?
Just about every smartphone these days is based on an ARM chip of some kind. Many of them are built on the same combination of ARM chip, graphics chip and phone radio from Qualcomm, although Apple notoriously puts together its own custom combination of hardware. But what each phone operating system does with that hardware is very different, and that affects what apps can do on each kind of phone...
http://recombu.com/news/what-is-a-mobile-operating-system-ios-android-webos-windows-phone-and-blackberry_M15293.html

Smartphone security: How safe is your operating system?
Your smartphone isn’t just your phone; it's your address book, your personal diary, your online banking system and fairly soon it could be your wallet, your train ticket and your front door key (when NFC handsets are common). That makes it an even more tempting target for hackers than your PC. If someone takes control of your phone they could potentially make money by sending premium rate text messages and downloading expensive apps and in-app purchases, and they could get your online banking password and use your Facebook account to spam your friends with malware. How secure are you on different phones?
http://recombu.com/news/smartphone-security-how-safe-is-your-operating-system_M15489.html

How does BlackBerry Messenger work?
BBM keeps BlackBerry the best-selling phone for teenagers in the UK because of the free messaging, but is it really better than texts - or iMessage?
http://recombu.com/news/what-is-blackberry-messenger-and-how-does-it-work_M15688.html

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I know the piece I wrote recently for TechRadar - Will Windows 8 run on ARM processors - is rampant speculation. I get the politest, friendliest "nothing I would say right now" no comment replies when I ask about this and yet I called out a comment from a member of the Windows Phone team talking about the potential for 'big Windows' to get some of the advantages of Windows Phone, like running on the smartphone silicon of choice. That kind of comment is well outside of Charlie Kindel's area - and the ideas of the Windows Phone team about cross fertilisation with Windows are likely to be pretty different from the plans of the Windows team.

But I think the question of pieces of Windows moving beyond the traditional x86 platform through the phone and the TV and the cloud and all the other devices and form factors is a very important piece of the future, especially in light of the iPad, and the confirmation from Intel that Android scales up from ARM to Atom  making at least two platforms that scale from phone to netbook and beyond). I think it's why Courier gets so much interest (beyond the fact that it just looks so cool, the way concept videos do). I like my PC and I'd like more of what I can do there to work on other devices without a lashup of manual syncing and connecting. I think that as Intel pushes Atom towards other platforms, Windows needs to push across to other devices in more ways than just Windows Live services (Hotmail and Messenger do not a Windows platform make). Every time I hear Mark Russinovich talk about how much abstraction is going down to the lowest levels of the Windows kernel, I hear that it's for making it easier to update Windows while maintaining compatibility - but I speculate about how that could unlock Windows from the Intel strangelhold.

Palm hasn't done so well at getting users and selling devices, but a lot of their strategy is aimed at the longer term; that's my view after talking to Palm’s directors of developer relations, Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith (some while before the sales figures came out.

Almaer and Galbraith say the mobile Web needs diversity and power - and an open source Facebook application; t it’s all about the power of the open Web. Despite their background with Mozilla Labs (where they were behind the open source Bespin cloud IDE project), they both emphasise the importance of the open Web over any specific browser. “It's important that the platform stays as the Web, not a specific implementation,” says Dion Almaer; “We want Firefox to do well, but you don't want it to be the 90% browser or people will start coding to Firefox instead of the Web.” Read the rest over at The H...