Smartphone Users Not Cautious - Symantec

Smartphones, which combine PC-like features such as e-mail and internet access with mobile phone functions, are becoming increasingly popular worldwide; in the first quarter of 2005 shipments of smartphones rocketed by 137 percent. Businesses in particular are being drawn to the functionality of smartphones and are increasingly equipping mobile staff with the smart devices. With increasing business use, data stored on the phones could potentially be of a sensitive nature, a fact that worried respondents to the Symantec survey.

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