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More on the story here:

http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/news/i_team_8/Sexting_20091112

Medialets created the world’s first shakable advertisement for Dockers, together with agencies OMD and Razorfish. Users shake their iPhone to make the Dockers guy dance. This ad utilizes the iPhone’s accelerometer as well as audio capabilities and appears in targeted, free iPhone applications.

http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090512/7278/?mod=ATD_rss

The video talks about a couple of people who’s lives are ruled by harrasing calls and threats. They claim that their phones are tapped with special software.

Rick Mislan talks about the software and how easy it is to be placed on mobile phones.

Software such as:

• http://www.mobile-spy.com/
• http://www.world-tracker.com/
• http://www.flexispy.com/
• http://www.e-stealth.com/
• http://www.fonefunshop.co.uk/spyphone/
• http://www.thespyphone.com/allinone.html

Link to Video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCyKcoDaofg

It can be done!

An in-depth look at the new Palm Pre Mobile Phone:

@ Engadget.com

I love how fast it is and how they allow you to have “pages’ of applications running at once… Look at the videos to see what I mean. What I hate is the numbers on the keyboard are Orange just like punctuation marks on the T-Mobile G1… I can’t see them at all! But that’s just me…

Related:

Plam stocks are up.
Google Finance on Palm, Inc.

Official Website.

Is it going to be the iPhone killer? or will it suck like the Google Android did before it? Give it six months and we’ll see

Watch in on Fora.tv to see the whole transcript as in the Pouge video in the previous post.

The video is Long (32 Minutes!).
- It starts with a parody song (as usual!).
- 3:35 Trends for 2009
- 4:30 VoIP cell phones
- 6:40 VoIP on Mobile Phones with T-Mobile (By the way BT has it too!)
- 10:40 Grand Central: A service that rings all your phone numbers at once at the same time on a single number! Watch the demo
- 12:50 Google Cellular: Free SMS and Voice initiated 411 directory enquiry service
- 16:25 1800 Cha Cha: Ask any question by voice and get answer by text
- 18:00 Voice Messagase by email or SMS services e.g. spinvox, PhoneTag and CallWave
- 21:00 More on Callwave and a feature demo
- 22:35 Popularity Dialer .com
- 23:50 iPhone beginings. How iPhone changed US carriers
- 25:00 iPhone with internet all the time
- 26:30 iPhone shuffle and App Store apps demos like: Midomi, Pandora, Urban Spoon
- 28:30 T-Mobile G1 and Verizon
- 29:30 End with a Song: The iPhone Song

Attached with and armband, it is a portable and multi-purpose tool:

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/12/the_us_armys_secret_weapon_the_ipod_touch-2.html

For more information on the harmless totally-reversable hack, go to:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/10/video-android-rocking-on-the-htc-touch/

Get the hack and instructions directly from xda developers here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=382265

Visit the company’s Official website.

Review here.

iPhone Linux Demonstration Video from planetbeing on Vimeo.

Instructions: Here.
Dowload: Here.

http://ocarina.smule.com/

AKA Ben Stein vs. The Man on the Street:

Geography:

It’s the two hottest touch-screen phones duking it out. Can the new kid on the block take down the champ?

Here is a sample video of Noise Alert:

For more videos visit the website:
http://www.androidapps.com/

For Apple iPhone App reviews, visit AppVee’s iPhone website at:
http://www.appvee.com/

I love David Pogue… He gave us the iPhone Music Video when the iPhone first came out See it again here:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=vniMR6Ez9cE

Just watch

The founders of google missing around with the Android and writing their own applications for it. This includes an application that uses the hardware sensors on the phone. This is an invite to all geeks to hack their Android phones. It’s not like you needed an invite or anything… but it is a good thing to have nevertheless.

Fun Fact: Notice that one of them calls “Android Market” the “App Store”…! I guess one of them was using the iPhone too much

A new book with companion DVD by Jesse Varsalone. Expected retail price is AUD 79.00.

Key Features include:

- Companion DVD Contains Custom Materials That Can Be Used in a Real Digital Forensic Investigation
- Includes Unique Information about Mac OS X, iPod, iMac, and iPhone Forensic Analysis Unavailable Anywhere Else
- Authors Are Pioneering Researchers in the Field of Macintosh Forensics, with Combined Experience in Law Enforcement, Military, and Corporate Forensics

Sounds good? Then for more information go to:
http://www.elsevierdirect.com/product.jsp?isbn=9781597492973

A video file by ZiPhone Maker crashes the iPhone:
Forbes.com

On the G1, T-Mobile customers will be the first to check out about 50 available applications. T-Mobile says that all apps are free until 2009. Here is a look at the top 15 out of those.

The one that scares me is the sex offender warning application. It tells you where your G1-carrying daughter or grandma are and how far and in which direction is the nearest registered sex offender to them!

See what I mean by watching the demo here:
http://www.freefamilywatch.com/demo.html

Follow the link for the story and pictures:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/152384/in_pictures_15_killer_android_apps_for_the_g1.html

The beggest selling points for the Android and the G1 in my openion are the simultanious execution of applications and street level on google maps. Who needs any of these?!

You can run applications in the background on iPhone by using the Cydia app Backgrounder and you can use google earth for now to get street level pictures and wait for 2.2 iPhone software for full street view capabilities

I am sticking to my iPhone for now Gotta love the big screen and the safari browser responsiveness and page browsing speed.

The LayerOne 2008 talk by David Hulton titled: Intercepting Mobile Phone/GSM

Visit the GSM Hakcing WIKI at:
http://wiki.thc.org/gsm
The USRP is available at: http://www.ettus.com
Learn more about the GNU RADIO project at: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuradio

David is the Chairman of Toorcon

MyPhone2008.com

Here is a link to the T-Mobile G1 website where you can play around with a basic emulator without having to download the SDK. You can also get a basic guide on features here:
http://tmobile.modeaondemand.com/htc/g1/

A more functional emulator can be downloaded with the Android SDK here:
http://code.google.com/android/reference/emulator.html

Finally here is a good video Introduction on Android OS for Developers. A must see if you have anything to do with the Android Platform(WARNING: 52 MINUTES LONG!):

More demo videos on user interface and applications can be found on the Android developer site:
http://code.google.com/android/index.html

Here is one of them to get you started:

These are some of the prototype Mobile Phones on show.

3D Navigation and Situational Awareness in a Mobile Phone:




Separatable mobile phone:




Projector Mobile Phone:

Ideally the emergency dial screen should allow ONLY EMERGENCY NUMBERS to be dialed out on a passcode locked phone. The iPhone however allows for ANY NUMBER to be dialed when it is passcode locked! This bug is not new, it was present in iPhone 2.0.2 as well!

Here is a video demonstrating the issue:

I discovered this bug in 2.0.2 just a couple of days before 2.1 came out. So, it was too late for me to give a heads up to Apple. So, I waited for 2.1 to come along to see if it was fixed. I did that today and found out that it wasn’t fixed.

This of course could be an Auatralia-only issue or even an Optus-only issue. Nevertheless it is a security issue with the iPhone and should be addressed.

UPDATE 18 Sep 08:

There is some debate on whether it is a bug or feature! Look at the following link for some more information on the issue:
http://www.macrumors.com/iphone/2008/09/17/iphone-2-1-emergency-call-anyone-bug-or-feature/

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About the author:

Marwan Al-Zarouni CISSP is currently pursuing a Doctor of Information Technology award at Edith Cowan University. He is a member of the Security Research Centre at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia.

The features include: live rss feeds, live TV streaming channels, TV guide while watching TV, credit card and transport card functions on the phone, biometric fingerprint reader, 3+Mbps speed 3g data speeds… etc.

It has street view

Here is a link to a Video demo shown on CNET News.com. It shows the potential of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications like Basecamp or Salesforce.com on the iPhone. This could boost the sales of the iPhone and at the same time provide another dimention to information accessable to the iPhone mobile device.

For more information go to the MSN Video:
http://ninemsn.video.msn.com/v/en-au/v.htm?g=7386e8dd-6f00-4c67-931b-cea66739a91e&f=&fg=copy

For an interesting look at the cellphones of the future, watch this short video from cnet:

http://www.cnettv.com/9710-1_53-27879.html

 

In August, the IEEE released IEEE.tv, its Internet broadcasting network, which features coverage of IEEE conferences, interviews with IEEE book authors, primers on technology-related careers, and overviews of IEEE products and services.

IEEE.tv comes in two formats: the Member/Basic format, available only to members, can be accessed through the myIEEE members-only portal (www.ieee.org/myieee), while the freely available Public Access format (www.ieee.org/ieeetv) offers information about careers in technology and engineering and offers demonstrations of new technology used in everyday applications. The presence of a padlock-shaped icon in the margin of a program indicates that it’s only for member access.

Link:
http://www.ieee.tv