Video: Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 Honeycomb tablet WiFi + 3G

Here's a preview of Samsung's middle child in the Honeycomb tablet space. The skinny, yet accomplished Galaxy Tab 8.9 which takes the best features of the 10.1 Tab but sizes it down for improved portability. It features a dual-core 1.5Ghz processor and many of the features that make its larger brother so impressive, including the thin profile and light weight. 

SourceCode: 5 ways Windows Phone Can Gain Market Share

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

I've gone back to using Windows Phone after a few months of setting it aside for iOS and hoping that the ecosystem would evolve and the much needed and long awaited Mango update would be available. Well Mango is still en route (September, Fall?) and the ecosystem is growing but not as fast as we would have liked. We still think Windows Phone is an extremely viable competitor to iOS and Android but some radical steps need to be taken to give this promising OS the advantage it needs to step up.

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Corporate tablets from Cisco and Lenovo look to change things in enterprise

Lenovo's recently revealed ThinkPad Tablet and Cisco's little known Cius tablet have their work cut out for them. These are two enterprise grade Android tablets that have no consumer aspirations and will be offered directly to corporate buyers for corporate uses. Lenovo is leveraging the famed ThinkPad name and goes back to the brand's roots since the very first ThinkPad was, you guessed it, a tablet PC.  Cisco's got the Cius geared gor business grade users (see below) and they even have their own developer community for Cius specific apps.

Pricing and avalabilty for both have not yet been revealed but we're betting they will be more expensive that the current crop of consumer tablets slugging it out in the market today.

Symantec study uncovers new threats to Android

According to Symantec's new study, In just the first half of 2011, the growth of mobile malware and the increasing boldness and strategy behind the threats are alarming. 

Symantec recently conducted an in depth analysis of the security features of Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android platforms, noting areas of strength and weakness in both. Symantec published a blog post detailing a staged download method used by two newly discovered Android threats, Android.Lightdd and Android.Jsmshider.

By borrowing the staged downloader strategy from their traditional PC cousins, these threats attempt to complicate infection to the point where simple uninstalls of the malicious apps are insufficient.

The blog post can be read here:http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/android-threat-trend-shows-criminals-are-thinking-outside-box