McAfee unveiled the results of its Mobile Security: McAfee Consumer Trends Report – June 2013, which reveals new ways that cybercriminals abuse app permissions to commit fraud and install malware. The report also shows that games are the most common form of malware-infected app.“Most consumers don’t understand or even worry about the app permissions they agree [...]

Rogers launched their “suretap” mobile payment solution last year, leveraging a secure SIM card inside NFC enabled devices. Today the carrier has announced that suretap has been certified for Android and BlackBerry 10, meaning mobile payments will soon be making their way to both platforms on Rogers’ network. The certification simply means that suretap apps [...]

At long last, Facebook is becoming a bit more like Twitter by enabling a feature long-requested by mobile users of the service: a share button. Don’t fret, the Android and iOS version are both coming soon, although no date is actually known. Let the snarky ecards fill up your timeline! [via MobileSyrup] Tweet

We’ve spoken about it before, but low and behold, screen shots of the app for Microsoft Office for iOS (this one specifically for iPad) in all its glory. Apparently, on launch, Office Mobile will available as free apps, with iOS launching first, that allow Android and iOS users to view Microsoft Office documents on the [...]

  At my other gig, on Notable.ca, I recently wrote about the UNTETHER.talks Mobile Summit. Put on by the good gents (and TheCellularGuru contributors) at UNTETHER.tv, I wrote that UNTETHER.talks has the potential to be the TEDx for Mobile in Toronto. That was before they landed Microsoft as a sponsor and Microsoft’s Paul Laberge as [...]

Day 1 of the Canadian Telecom Summit was packed with highlights, all which can be found by searching hashtag #CTS12 under my cellguru handle. Now, we arrive at Day 2. What’s on the agenda? Read below to find out: Robert McFarlane - Exec-VP and CFO, TELUS Leonard Katz - Acting Chairman, CRTC John Bitove - [...]

Word has come through Bloomberg that Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile have responded to the Google Wallet project, investing $100 million collectively in an NFC mobile payment project, named Isis. While Sprint has stayed away from the project at this time, likely due to their involvement in the Wallet project, those involved in the Isis project [...]

  Update: Late last night - and shortly after publishing this post - TheCellularGuru.com was personally approached by Mobilicity CEO Dave Dobbin who assured that any rumors going around of Mobilicity’s financial pains are simply just that, rumors. Since securing their 250 Million dollar round of funding back in April the company continues to thrive in the very [...]

Some interesting stats reported today on the amount that Canadians are using SMS to communicate. In 2010, Canadians collectively sent 56.4 billion text messages, and that number is steadily growing. With 18 billion text messages sent in Q1 of this year alone, we are well ahead of the curve to make this another year of [...]

According to BBC News, Microsoft is paying $8.5 billion to acquire Skype. It’s unclear why Microsoft is so interested in Skype, whose growth has been stagnant over the past few years, but BBC news business editor Tim Weber speculates that Microsoft could have plans to integrate the technology into the Xbox Kinect and Windows 7 [...]