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Microsoft's
not going to allow HTC to cover Windows Phone 7
Series with its Sense UI overlay (which is
going to be an
interesting thing to watch in and of itself), but there's no question that the homegrown user
interface has made a-many Windows Mobile
phones look and feel a whole lot better than stock. Sense is also gaining traction in the Android realm, a sector where it's far more likely to
either make a huge impact or be overlooked entirely. So, the question we're posing here today is
this: if you were granted an HTC badge for a day, how would you change Sense? Are you satisfied
with the quickness? Does anything simply get in the way? Any quirks that you just can't figure out?
Any tweaks that you'd love to see made? We aren't always serious when we say that these companies
are listening to you, but trust us when we say that design folks from HTC might just give your
comments a once over. Here's your chance. Don't screw it up.
We've seen all sorts of ridiculous claims by performance rights collection societies trying to
demand performance rights for things that clearly were not intended as "performances." There was
the woman stocking shelves in a store who was singing without paying. There was
the owner of a horse stable who played music to her horses. There
was the attempt to say that your mobile phone ringing with a ringtone was a public performance.
Basically, they're willing to claim just about any music playing is a public performance that
requires yet another fee.
Niall.e points us to a legal issue in Europe, where the Irish High Court has asked the European
Court of Justice to weigh in on a claim by the Irish collection society Phonographic Performance
Ireland Ltd (PPI), which is claiming that music
played in hotel rooms for guests requires a performance fee. Yes, you read that right. PPI is
claiming that since the hotel provides radios and televisions in the guest rooms, they need to pay
a performance right fee on the usage of those devices.
PPI can't honestly believe this is a public performance that deserves a performance right. This is
just a blatant money grab to try to force someone else to pay up. What's next? Auto dealers will
have to pay a performance fee for having radios installed in cars?
itwbennett sends us a few links from IT World tracing a story about infected microSD cards in
Vodaphone-supplied mobile phones. "The original report came on March 8 after an employee of Panda
Security plugged a newly ordered HTC Magic phone from Vodafone into a Windows computer, where it
triggered an alert from the antivirus software. Further inspection of the phone found the device's
8GB microSD memory card was infected with a client for the now-defunct Mariposa botnet, the
Conficker worm, and a password stealer for the Lineage game. At that point it was at thought to be
an issue with a specific refurbished phone. On Wednesday another phone surfaced with traces of the
Mariposa botnet. And now Vodafone is saying that as many as 3,000 HTC Magic phones may be
affected."
itwbennett sends us a few links from IT World tracing a story about infected microSD cards in
Vodaphone-supplied mobile phones. "The original report came on March 8 after an employee of Panda
Security plugged a newly ordered HTC Magic phone from Vodafone into a Windows computer, where it
triggered an alert from the antivirus software. Further inspection of the phone found the device's
8GB microSD memory card was infected with a client for the now-defunct Mariposa botnet, the
Conficker worm, and a password stealer for the Lineage game. At that point it was at thought to be
an issue with a specific refurbished phone. On Wednesday another phone surfaced with traces of the
Mariposa botnet. And now Vodafone is saying that as many as 3,000 HTC Magic phones may be
affected."
Want to watch a March
Madness live stream on your Android mobile phone? Then let’s hope that you’ve got
some good friends at Adobe. The company’s Platform Evangelist Ryan Stewart just published a video on
YouTube that demonstrates watching March Madness live via 3G on a Google Nexus one, thanks to
a yet-unreleased version 10.1 of Flash for Android (hat tip to
Flashstreamworks.com).
Stewart’s demo makes use of the fact that CBS is offering a live Flash stream of the
tournament in addition to its Silverlight-based March Madness player. Silverlight users will get
better video quality (up to 1.8Mbps), but the Flash stream should be good enough to watch on a
mobile device like the Nexus One. Adobe has announced that it will release Flash 10.1 for Android
within the first half of 2010. The company showed off a version of 10.1 running on a Nexus One in January, and it has
been cooperating with third-party developers on Flash applications for Android, like the
recently-demoed Tunevision jukebox.
March Madness host network CBS is offering iPhone users its own mobile solution to follow the
NCAA Men’s College Basketball Tournament in real time, but not for free: The
network’s March Madness app provides live streams via 3G and WiFi connections for a price
of $9.99. Adobe’s Nexus One demo, on the other hand, simply plays the streams in a browser,
so there’s no need to purchase an application.
The fourth annual Pwn2Own contest—which takes place at
the CanSecWest security conference every year—kicks off next week. Like last year,
2010's contest will offer security experts and hackers the chance to "pwn" a number of mobile
platforms in addition to various browser/OS combinations. Though no mobile devices were
successfully hacked last year, expectations are high that the iPhone will go
down in this year's contest.
"With all the recent research on mobile phone security being presented worldwide, these devices
are quickly becoming a ripe target," wrote Aaron Portnoy, security researcher at TippingPoint and
Pwn2Own contest organizer. "First to fall: the iPhone."
Mac OS X security expert Charlie Miller, known for his past exploits
of Safari and discovery of a possible arbitrary code
execution exploit for the iPhone, is also confident that the iPhone will go down this year.
"Someone I know quite well says they have an exploit for it and plan on using it," he said recently
during a chat with Kapersky Labs' ThreatPost. "From an exploitation perspective, iPhone is no
harder than [Mac] OS X now that Snow Leopard has data execution protection," Miller explained.
However, Miller plans to stick to Safari, which he successfully attacked the last two years,
netting him thousands in cash and two MacBooks. "There isn't as much exposed code on the iPhone,"
he said. "The easy to exploit bugs I know about happen to live in the code that Safari has but
Mobile Safari doesn't," mostly due to Mobile Safari's lack of support for Java, Flash, and other
third-party plugins.
Also, Miller said, "in real life the iPhone is harder because you can't just execute a shell. You
have to write your return-oriented payload to do all your dirty work, which can be a pain."
Miller said that attacking Safari this year will be harder than last year, since Snow Leopard has
DEP and Safari sandboxes plug-ins in separate processes. However, he noted that Snow Leopard's
incomplete support for address space layout randomization still leaves the Safari and Mac OS X
combination open to vulnerabilities.
This year, contestants will have a chance to nab a laptop and a $10,000 cash prize for
demonstrating exploits for IE8, Firefox 3, and Google Chrome 4 running under Windows 7, or Safari
4 running on Mac OS X 10.6. Contestants that successfully hack an iPhone 3GS, BlackBerry Bold
9700, a Nokia E62, or a Motorola Droid will get to keep the device as well as $15,000 in cash.
The fourth annual Pwn2Own contest—which takes place at
the CanSecWest security conference every year—kicks off next week. Like last year,
2010's contest will offer security experts and hackers the chance to "pwn" a number of mobile
platforms in addition to various browser/OS combinations. Though no mobile devices were
successfully hacked last year, expectations are high that the iPhone will go
down in this year's contest.
"With all the recent research on mobile phone security being presented worldwide, these devices
are quickly becoming a ripe target," wrote Aaron Portnoy, security researcher at TippingPoint and
Pwn2Own contest organizer. "First to fall: the iPhone."
Mac OS X security expert Charlie Miller, known for his past exploits
of Safari and discovery of a possible arbitrary code
execution exploit for the iPhone, is also confident that the iPhone will go down this year.
"Someone I know quite well says they have an exploit for it and plan on using it," he said recently
during a chat with Kapersky Labs' ThreatPost. "From an exploitation perspective, iPhone is no
harder than [Mac] OS X now that Snow Leopard has data execution protection," Miller explained.
However, Miller plans to stick to Safari, which he successfully attacked the last two years,
netting him thousands in cash and two MacBooks. "There isn't as much exposed code on the iPhone,"
he said. "The easy to exploit bugs I know about happen to live in the code that Safari has but
Mobile Safari doesn't," mostly due to Mobile Safari's lack of support for Java, Flash, and other
third-party plugins.
Also, Miller said, "in real life the iPhone is harder because you can't just execute a shell. You
have to write your return-oriented payload to do all your dirty work, which can be a pain."
Miller said that attacking Safari this year will be harder than last year, since Snow Leopard has
DEP and Safari sandboxes plug-ins in separate processes. However, he noted that Snow Leopard's
incomplete support for address space layout randomization still leaves the Safari and Mac OS X
combination open to vulnerabilities.
This year, contestants will have a chance to nab a laptop and a $10,000 cash prize for
demonstrating exploits for IE8, Firefox 3, and Google Chrome 4 running under Windows 7, or Safari
4 running on Mac OS X 10.6. Contestants that successfully hack an iPhone 3GS, BlackBerry Bold
9700, a Nokia E62, or a Motorola Droid will get to keep the device as well as $15,000 in cash.
The fourth annual Pwn2Own contest—which takes place at
the CanSecWest security conference every year—kicks off next week. Like last year,
2010's contest will offer security experts and hackers the chance to "pwn" a number of mobile
platforms in addition to various browser/OS combinations. Though no mobile devices were
successfully hacked last year, expectations are high that the iPhone will go
down in this year's contest.
"With all the recent research on mobile phone security being presented worldwide, these devices
are quickly becoming a ripe target," wrote Aaron Portnoy, security researcher at TippingPoint and
Pwn2Own contest organizer. "First to fall: the iPhone."
Mac OS X security expert Charlie Miller, known for his past exploits
of Safari and discovery of a possible arbitrary code
execution exploit for the iPhone, is also confident that the iPhone will go down this year.
"Someone I know quite well says they have an exploit for it and plan on using it," he said recently
during a chat with Kapersky Labs' ThreatPost. "From an exploitation perspective, iPhone is no
harder than [Mac] OS X now that Snow Leopard has data execution protection," Miller explained.
However, Miller plans to stick to Safari, which he successfully attacked the last two years,
netting him thousands in cash and two MacBooks. "There isn't as much exposed code on the iPhone,"
he said. "The easy to exploit bugs I know about happen to live in the code that Safari has but
Mobile Safari doesn't," mostly due to Mobile Safari's lack of support for Java, Flash, and other
third-party plugins.
Also, Miller said, "in real life the iPhone is harder because you can't just execute a shell. You
have to write your return-oriented payload to do all your dirty work, which can be a pain."
Miller said that attacking Safari this year will be harder than last year, since Snow Leopard has
DEP and Safari sandboxes plug-ins in separate processes. However, he noted that Snow Leopard's
incomplete support for address space layout randomization still leaves the Safari and Mac OS X
combination open to vulnerabilities.
This year, contestants will have a chance to nab a laptop and a $10,000 cash prize for
demonstrating exploits for IE8, Firefox 3, and Google Chrome 4 running under Windows 7, or Safari
4 running on Mac OS X 10.6. Contestants that successfully hack an iPhone 3GS, BlackBerry Bold
9700, a Nokia E62, or a Motorola Droid will get to keep the device as well as $15,000 in cash.
Malware-tainted memory cards may have
ended up on as many as 3,000 HTC Magic phones, a greater number than first suspected, Vodafone
said Friday.
The problem came to light earlier this month after an employee of Panda Security plugged a newly
ordered phone into a Windows computer, where it triggered an alert from the antivirus software.
Orange and high-street retailer HMV will next week launch what they claimed is a first for a UK
mobile phone operator: an online games download store for Java-enabled phones....
Wireless handset maker Pantech is bolstering the senior ranks of its U.S. division to help it win
more business from AT&T, the No. 2 U.S. mobile phone service provider. South Korea-based
Pantech named David Ronis as its chief marketing officer, a newly created position, the company
plans to ...
Google is looking to take the Android operating system to the big screen—the one in your
living room, anyway. The company has partnered with Intel and Sony in order to bring a more
interactive viewing experience to the TV in the form of (you guessed it) set-top boxes. The idea
behind it is giving users the ability to seamlessly switch between Web apps and video
entertainment, though there's already plenty of competition in this space. Or is there?
According to the New York
Times, Google plans to treat this platform in the same way it treats Android for
Mobile—it will open the platform to developers "within the next couple of months" and
products could hit the shelves sometime this summer. That means third-party apps could show up on
TV just as easily as they do on our mobile phones, from Twitter apps to games to Wikipedia
browsing and more. It also means, however, that there's potential for an overflow of apps to be
available (hello iPhone App Store).
Google is looking to take the Android operating system to the big screen—the one in your
living room, anyway. The company has partnered with Intel and Sony in order to bring a more
interactive viewing experience to the TV in the form of (you guessed it) set-top boxes. The idea
behind it is giving users the ability to seamlessly switch between Web apps and video
entertainment, though there's already plenty of competition in this space. Or is there?
According to the New York
Times, Google plans to treat this platform in the same way it treats Android for
Mobile—it will open the platform to developers "within the next couple of months" and
products could hit the shelves sometime this summer. That means third-party apps could show up on
TV just as easily as they do on our mobile phones, from Twitter apps to games to Wikipedia
browsing and more. It also means, however, that there's potential for an overflow of apps to be
available (hello iPhone App Store).
Sygic has finally announced the public availability of Sygic
Mobile Maps with Turn-by-turn navigation for the Nokia N900 Maemo devie. It’s available
for purchase for around 60 euros and you need to download around 1.8 Gigabytes of maps data to
your phone !
Official Press Release Below
The first turn-by-turn voice guided navigation application for Maemo phones has just got
available for European Nokia N900 users at Sygic web e-shop. With the full set of navigation
features, multiple user settings, fast route calculation, user-friendly operation and the latest
maps situated on-board of the device, Sygic Mobile Maps turns Nokia N900 into a full-featured
personal navigation device, and provides for superb user experience and reliable
navigation.
The first available region, launched today, is EUROPE. It costs EUR 59,99, it has no time limit
on use after purchase, and it includes countries of Western Europe and Eastern Europe as
follows:
- Maps included: Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,
Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein,
Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, San Marino,
Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, Vatican.
- Maps with transit roads only: Albania, Macedonia, Serbia, Belarus, Moldova, Montenegro, Bosnia
-- Herzegovina, Romania, Ukraine.
Further regions will be added and announced gradually. Sygic Mobile Maps navigation application
for Nokia N900 Maemo OS phones features Navteq maps.
Product description
Sygic Mobile Maps is a turn-by-turn voice guided navigation software that converts mobile phones
into full-featured navigation devices. It is fully operable on hundreds of mobile phones and
smartphones running major mobile operation systems, incl. iPhone, Symbian, Maemo, Android and
Windows Mobile, incl. Windows Mobile 6.5. It also supports various PDA, PND and MID devices based
on Windows CE, Windows XP/Vista or Linux. Sygic Mobile Maps uses latest maps located on-board of
the device, which means that the use of the navigation is not conditioned by mobile network
signal availability.
Features and benefits of the Mobile Maps:
All latest maps are with you on your phone.
Speed cameras, speed limits and railway crossings warnings provide safety for you and others.
Signposts help you to head in the right direction.
Lane assistant informs you about the correct lane to be in.
Automatically adapts to horizontal or vertical view with
Automatically or manually adjustable color schemes for day and night use.
User interface and voice guide speak your native language.
Search for millions of restaurants and other points of interest, with an option to call in,
find parking, and navigate to.
Design your trip with multi-stop route planning before you head out.
See the summary of your trip before you set off.
Avoid a roadblock with a single click.
Save and organize favorites according to your needs.
Customize what you want to see on the navigation screen.
Download Sygic Mobile Maps for Nokia N900 from: sygic.com/maemo
O2 says better approach would be for copyright holders to devise a new business model where
customers get what they want, when and where they want it, for a “fair price.”
UK ISP O2, the “leading provider of mobile phones and broadband” in that country, has
condemned the approach to illegal
P2P taken by law firm ACS:Law in which it’s been ending thousands of “settlement
letters” to suspected file-sharers.
It prefers a “win-win” approach to the problem that involves “encouraging the
development of new business models that offer customers the content they want, how they want it,
for a fair price.”
Even the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), hardly an advocate of developing new business
models to combat illegal file-sharing, has criticized
ACS:Law, though it prefers a “three-strikes” graduated response system instead.
ACS:Law announced
an initial plan to target some 15,000 alleged illegal file-sharers across the UK last
December as part of a “revolutionary business model that “generates revenue for
rights holders and effectively decreases copyright infringement in a measurable and sustainable
way” unlike what it says are “costly and ineffective” anti-piracy measures used
by other companies.
After careful review it later decided to drop
a number of those cases, limiting their lawsuits only to those it deemed “viable”
or “beneficial to its clients.”
Soon thereafter Which?, the largest consumer body in the UK with over 650,000 members, reported
it had received letters from more than 150 people claiming to have been wrongly accused, with
even more now choosing to come forward after hearing they’re not alone.
Some of the P2P lawsuits were handed over by Davenport Lyons, the law firm which in many ways
pioneered the controversial strategy. It’s worth noting that two of the law firm’s
partners at the time, David Gore and Brian Miller, will soon face the Solicitors Disciplinary
Tribunal over complaints they engaged in “bullying” and “excessive”
conduct while acting on behalf of client copyright holders.
However, ACS:Law seems immune to any criticisms.
“Neither we nor our clients threaten or bully anyone,” said Andrew Crossley of ACS:
Law. “We send out letters of claim to account holders of internet connections where those
internet connections have been identified as being utilized for illegal file-sharing of our
clients’ copyrighted works.”
Crossley emphasized that the real crime is not overzealous lawyers, but rather the fact that his
clients are losing money to illegal P2P.
“My clients are losing money because of copyright infringement and they are equally upset
that their copyright is being stolen,” he said. .
That may be so, but suing people en masse will never solve the problem. Crossley, apparently
unaware of the failed history of the RIAA pursuing a similar approach for almost a decade, even
chastises the BPI for not doing the same.
“I think the BPI is letting its members down. I think they are scared of alienating their
customers,” he said. “My clients don’t have the same fear. They take the view
that the people they target aren’t their customers because they are stealing from
them.”
If that’s what his clients truly believe then their sadly mistaken. How many of you have
downloaded a movie and then saw it later at the theater? How many of you have downloaded and
album and then purchased it to support the band?
Furthermore, potential loses are not theft. One can’t suggest that simply because a person
illegally downloaded a piece of content they would have otherwise purchased it.
Earlier this week, Opera Software released the final
versions of Opera Mini 5 and
Opera Mobile 10, Opera
initially introduced as the first public Betas back in
November last year. This week's release puts the finishing touches on the Opera
mobile-browsing duo. The focus is on delivering the best Internet experience on nearly any mobile
phone, along with a unified look and feel and innovative favorite features, such as Speed Dial,
password manager and tabbed browsing. Now, nearly any mobile phone can support an Opera-driven
Web experience, complete with unmatched speed, style and cost savings.
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