An analysis by Coverity, the code analysis group, of the most critical part of the Android smartphone operating system has turned up programming errors, some of which could allow hackers or malicious applications to access users’ e-mail or other sensitive information … more

Verizon can get shirty about the word “fibre”. America’s second-biggest telecoms operator successfully complained to the Better Business Bureau that competitors had touted “fibre-optic fast” to consumers, even though their broadband networks did not run fibre all the way to the home, as Verizon does. This is not just a techies’ argument. By an order of magnitude, an all-fibre network is the fastest way to move information from one place to another on the internet and Verizon has the largest such network in America. The difficult bit is making money from it. … more

India has followed the United Arab Emirates in backing off from a threat to ban popular services on Blackberry devices, amid growing global concern over access to encrypted information. … more

A mobile phone application which helps jealous lovers keep tabs on their partners by secretly forwarding their texts has been removed from sale by Google after the company decided it violated its terms. … more

Mount Everest climbers can now surf the internet and make video calls through a 3G network, Nepalese telecoms firm Ncell says. … more

Mobile operators have started using 4G to describe a variety of different services, which analysts and consumer organizations think can end up confusing consumers. … more

More than half of mobile device users access their employer’s networks every day without permission, a survey has found. More than 80% of users of mobile devices, whose security is not controlled by a company, say they have accessed work information. … more

Making a mobile battery last ten times longer is a first target for a large research project that IBM, Infineon and a number of European universities unveiled this week. … more

Cellphone market growth slowed slightly in the September quarter due to worries over economic growth and component shortages, and the market growth would slow further in the current quarter, researchers said on Friday. … more

Motorola on Thursday reported that its mobile-device business posted an operating profit for the first time in three years. … more