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Smartphone Browser Shootout: Palm, BlackBerry, HTC Vs. iPhone: An article by David DeJean at InformationWeek. The author describes a series of tests of various mobile phone browsers. It discusses both rendering and usability. The author describes the overall winner as the iPhone. It’s unfortunate that the review did not include a Symbian model and did not compare the Opera Mobile or Mini browser. For example, the latest Nokia’s use a WebKit based browser as does the iPhone.

What’s Good for a Business Can Be Hard on Friends: A New York Times piece by Angel Jennings on how pricing of mobile to mobile minutes and SMS messages affects usage. In particular the author discusses the affects when friends switch carriers and are no longer part of the same network.

Banks Test ‘Text Messaging’ Security: A piece in CNN Money (from Investor’s Business Daily) on using text messaging as part of two factor authentication for banking logins instead of a one time password token. One advantage that the article left out was that if users have multiple institutions that issue tokens, they rapidly become inconvenient to carry around. Second factor authentication using text messaging solves this problem although the penetration of text messaging to US consumers is still behind many other countries.