The two Silicon Valley giants have been at odds since Google launched its Android mobile phone software, a direct challenge to Apple's popular iPhone.
But the London force is also reportedly using software that masquerades as a mobile phone network, allowing it to intercept communications and gather data about users in a targeted area, such as a demonstration.
Hewlett-Packard has finally figured out a viable option for WebOS, the mobile phone operating system software it bought in the ill-fated acquisition of Palm.
This is technically possible and secure (any amount of security software and hardware could be incorporated in a mobile phone), and it would not generate the fear of fraud that currently exists with credit cards.
It uses free software called FrontlineSMS that turns a laptop and a mobile phone into a text-broadcasting hub.
Meanwhile, Bloomberg reports that Microsoft is tinkering with a new version of its Windows Phone 7 software that will allow mobile payments.
Snapdragon is an application processor, which is an integral part of a smartphone and is used for giving the computing power for handling mobile phone software and applications.
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The online payment service providers and the mobile phone manufacturers (particularly nowadays with smartphones where it is a software-driven market) seem genetically indisposed to interoperability among their services: they are used to working in markets where relentless competition and one-upmanship is what moves the industry forward.
In October, T-Mobile began selling the G1, a handset built around Google's smart phone software.
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From the beginning of Microsoft's mobile efforts in the PDA era, its touchscreen phone software has had a Start button and windows that could be minimized like the classic Windows desktop.
Leveraging industry-leading voice-recognition software, integrated GPS technology and a customer's Bluetooth-capable mobile phone, SYNC with Traffic, Directions and Information provides simple hands-free access to personalized traffic reports, precise turn-by-turn driving directions and up-to-date information including business listings, news, sports and weather.
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The Mogul doesn't look quite as futuristic or elegant as the iPhone, but it has some features Apple's phone lacks, like a removable battery, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard for thumbing messages, access to a "third-generation" (3G) Internet connection for fast mobile Web access and downloadable software applications that let you turn your smart phone into a mini computer.
It will start to advertise Ovi in 2009, but it will not be easy to create a brand that can rival the coolness of Apple's iPhone or Google's new mobile-phone software, called Android.
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