Archive for April, 2010
Opera Boosts Developer Tools with New Emulator
Eric M. Zeman, iPhoneScoop, 4/22/2010 Today Opera Software made an Opera Mobile emulator available to the Mac, Linux and Windows PC platforms. The emulator is meant to help developers test their web sites and widgets on their PC rather than on a mobile phone. The software also lets developers alter the screen size and and [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: Linux
MeeGo mobile Linux will also do laptops and desktops
Ryan Paul, Ars Technica, 4/22/2010 Intel has revealed that it is developing a variant of the Linux-based MeeGo operating system that will run on conventional desktop and laptop computers. This move could substantially broaden MeeGo’s scope, transforming it from a mobile platform into a general purpose Linux distro. The open source MeeGo project emerged earlier [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: Linux, Nokia
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Bluetooth v4.0 Enables Low-Power, High-Speed Wireless Devices
Tony Bradley, PC World, 4/21/2010 The core specifications for Bluetooth v4.0, a technology declared one of the “10 Mobile Technologies to Watch in 2010 and 2011” by Gartner based on its perceived potential to evolve and impact short-term mobile strategies and policies, have been finalized by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG). The next-generation Bluetooth [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: Bluetooth, WiFi
Adobe scraps work to bring Flash apps to iPhone
Stephen Shankland, CNET News, 4/21/2010 What a difference two weeks and a few words of legalese can make to the future of a widely used programming technology. In that span of time, Adobe Systems has gone from touting its technology for building Flash applications that run on the iPhone to canceling future development of that [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile Technology, Palm (HP), Symbian, WinPhone · Tagged with: Flash, HTML5
Apple warns iPhone OS users of jailbreaking risks
Prince McLean, AppleInsider, 4/21/2010 Apple has posted a support document targeting iPhone jailbreaking, noting that “unauthorized modification of iPhone OS has been a major source of instability, disruption of services, and other issues,” including compromised security. The article addresses “adverse issues experienced by customers who have made unauthorized modifications to the iPhone OS (this hacking [...]
In: Android, iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: JailBreak, Malware
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In: Mobile Technology
G&D to Demonstrate First Mobile Phone-based Prototype with a Complete Security Platform at Mobile World Congress 2010
Giesecke & Devrient GmbH, April 20 2010 February 15, 2010. Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) today announced that it has developed the first prototype of a complete security platform for a mobile handset, with Qualcomm Incorporated’s support, and will be displaying its proof-of-concept solution running on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon™ chipsets at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: CDMA
WebOS SMS vulnerability detailed
Gareth Halfacree, Bit-Tech, 4/20/2010 Palm’s WebOS platform – the software behind the Palm Pre smartphone, among others – has a rather nasty bug in it which can lead to remote exploitation via SMS. According to a post on ZDNet’s Zero Day blog, the flaw – discovered by security firm Intrepidus Group – stems from the [...]
In: Mobile Technology, Palm (HP) · Tagged with: Malware, SMS
Princeton Attributes iPad Wi-Fi Woes to OS
Andy Patrizio, EnterpriseMoblieToday, 4/19/2010 Almost from the day the iPad reached the anxious hands of early adopters, there have been reports of intermittent and unsteady Wi-Fi connectivity. This problem surfaced on the campus of Princeton University as well, and the school’s IT department says it has gotten to the bottom of the problem. The Wi-Fi [...]
In: iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: WiFi