Virus en un celular? A lo mejor y te suena raro pero es una realidad, para aquellos que tienen un celular con el Sistema Operativo Symbian es todo un problema tener virus, Celulares lentos, no responden, etc.
Los celulares llevan consigo distintos sistemas operativos, siendo uno de los más conocidos el sistema Symbian muy presente en los equipos de la marca Nokia, algunos Sony Ericsson, etc. Y es que sistema permite la ejecución de aplicaciones fabricadas por terceros dentro de los cuales encontramos a los virus también, y como donde virus viven, antivirus sobreviven.
¿Virus en un celular? A lo mejor y te suena raro pero es una realidad, para aquellos que tienen un celular con el Sistema Operativo Symbian es todo un problema tener virus, Celulares lentos, no responden, etc.
Los celulares llevan consigo distintos sistemas operativos, siendo uno de los más conocidos el sistema Symbian muy presente en los equipos de la marca Nokia, algunos Sony Ericsson, etc. Y es que sistema permite la ejecución de aplicaciones fabricadas por terceros dentro de los cuales encontramos a los virus también, y como donde virus viven, antivirus sobreviven.
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Apple's COO Timothy Cook told analysts Monday that, of the 1.4 million iPhones sold this year, about 250,000 weren't activated with the exclusive U.S. provider, AT&T.
Because of that, we estimate Apple won't realize tens of millions in annual revenue from part of its revenue-sharing plan with AT&T. Cook told analysts that 250,000 iPhones were "bought with the intention of unlocking" -- meaning being hacked into and possibly sold for a profit overseas where they will operate on a network other than AT&T's.
A dispute is raging here at THREAT Level, at Wired News and with our brethren blog Epicenter over why Apple would allow this to happen.
Why doesn't Apple demand that consumers activate the iPhone at the time of purchase? That's generally an across-the-board business model for most mobile phone providers.
What's your conspiracy theory?
For the "unboxing" aficionados, the technology exists to activate devices without them ever leaving the package. That means the unboxing climax would be turning on the phone, watching it activate and placing that first call. (It's getting warm in here.)
Here comes the THREAT LEVEL conspiracy theory: Apple perhaps wants the non-activated phones to be hacked and possibly sold overseas. Apple profits from the phones, and the more phones perhaps means more iTunes music download sales in distant markets.
And if the devices become bricks with a Steve Jobs software update, so what? Apple made the sale.
Perhaps Apple has a flawed point-of-sale business model, where nobody had the foresight to think that an non-activated iPhone would become a hot commodity. All the while, Apple's cash on hand, now at $15-plus billion dollars, didn't get there by accident.
UPDATE 1
Carl Howe, an analyst with Blackfriars Communications, said the phones are fetching upwards of $2,000 each overseas. He said Apple allows customers to walk out of the store without activating the iPhone for a simple reason: "I think Apple wanted to break some new ground, and capture customers."
Still, those buying up the maximum five iPhones at a time for the purpose of unlocking them and selling them overseas could face some legal trouble.
In November it became legal to unlock your own cell phone. Doing it for the purposes of profiteering is another matter. Miami-based TracFone is successfully suing entrepreneurs who make retail purchases of new TracFone handsets to ship overseas for use on non-TracFone services.
The cell phone unlocking exemption under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, adopted in November, covers cases where cell phone software locks are circumvented "for the sole purpose of lawfully connecting to a wireless telephone communication network." In its lawsuits, TracFone has hit resellers with a raft of claims, including trademark and copyright infringement, unfair competition, tortuous interference with business relationships, false advertising, harm to business reputation, civil conspiracy and unjust enrichment, in addition to alleged DMCA violations.
Apple did not return messages seeking comment.
THREAT LEVEL'S Apple unlocking conspiracy theory is debunked if Apple initiates TracFone-style litigation.
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A secret weapon against boring meetings and bad dates.
Overview
Fake Call is a quick and easy Windows Mobile® app to "call yourself". It helps you politely escape social situations with the push of a button. It provides an extremely realistic incoming call experience, and includes powerful scheduling features in a simple user interface.
Features
Schedule a Fake Call in advance, or generate one on demand.
Simple, touch-friendly user interface to quickly schedule a call using predefined intervals. (see screenshot)
Select a caller from your phone's Contacts. The selected contacts photo and phone number appear when the phone rings.
Extremely realistic incoming call experience using your phone's default ringtone and profile settings. (see screenshot)
Ability to play a voice clip after the fake call has been "answered" to simulate conversation at the other end (useful when you are in a very quiet room).
Fast, small and optimized for Windows Mobile using native C++ code. Does its job and gets out of your way quickly.
This July, Street View went international for the Tour de France, and in August, expanded coverage to Japan and Australia. Now, Street View is coming to another new frontier: your phone.
Today we're launching a new version of Google Maps for mobile with the same street-level imagery available on desktop. Wondering if the restaurant in your search results is the one you're thinking of? Just click "Street View" after your search to see the storefront. Unsure about a complicated intersection in your directions? Use Street View to see a photo, so there's no mistaking your turn. You can also launch Street View from any address where we have photography, or simply by clicking on the map and selecting "Street View". You can browse Street View overlaid on the map or in full screen, rotate your view to see more of your surroundings, and move along the street.
We've also added other features to help you search for and get to businesses and locations. You can now read business reviews, so you'll know if it's actually worth driving across town to that store. And once you decide where to go, you can get there on foot using the same walking directions (beta) we recently launched on desktop. Finally, we hope you'll notice significant improvements in search speed with this version, as well as better location accuracy in all versions thanks to this week's My Location update.
Just a few weeks after Google announced that it was terminating its Dodgeball service, which allowed cellphone users to share their current locations with their friends, the company is coming out Wednesday with a new service, Latitude, that, well, lets cellphone users share their locations with their friends.
Unlike Dodgeball — which used text messages to deliver the information and thus could be used with virtually any phone — Latitude is an add-on to Google Maps. It relies on Google Maps’ My Location feature, which uses the signals from nearby cellphone towers to plot a user’s whereabouts.
That means the mobile version of Latitude can be used only on smartphones like Apple’s iPhone, Research in Motion’s BlackBerry and devices running Microsoft’s Windows Mobile or Google’s own Android operating system.
Steve Lee, product manager for Google Maps for Mobile and Google Latitude, acknowledged that limitation but said smartphone penetration had reached an “inflection point,” with more than 50 million Americans using them. “We feel it’s a much richer application” than Dodgeball, he said.
Latitude also ties into the computer-based version of Google Maps through iGoogle so that, say, a husband on the move could share his location with his wife working at an office PC. (In Mr. Lee’s case, his mom in the Midwest likes to check up on him. “She can use this as a tool to see where I’m at and use it for peace of mind,” he said.)
Besides broadcasting their locations, Latitude users can call, text or chat with their online friends and update their status messages. Google said the mobile version of the service is available in 27 countries.
Privacy is a key concern with any kind of location-based social networking service, and Google says Latitude is completely opt-in: Users choose who gets access and what level of information they can see. For example, users could grant close friends and family access to their exact location, while limiting acquaintances to knowing only the city they’re in. And for those moments when you need to go into total stealth mode, the application allows you to manually set your location or cloak it entirely.
It’s still unclear how much people need or want to send this kind of location information to friends and acquaintances. Dodgeball was never more than a tiny niche application, and its rivals, Loopt and Brightkite, also have yet to build a large user base.
In late 2001, as the global economy reeled from the double whammy of the dot-com collapse and the 9/11 attacks, Apple introduced the iPod — a work of soaring innovation that revitalized the company and quickly became the standard portable device for the music industry.
Jeff Bezos on Amazon’s New e-Book, the Kindle 2
Comparisons to that seminal moment in technology history are sure to be made today. With the world economy gripped in another, much deeper recession, Amazon, the e-commerce giant, will try to capture the same magic by introducing a new version of the Kindle, its heralded electronic book reader.
As we reported last month on Bits, Amazon’s founder and chief executive, Jeff Bezos, will be here today at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City to introduce the device and unveil some new e-book initiatives. We will be blogging the event live starting at 10 a.m.
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11:16 a.m. | To Recap: Amazon’s newest version of its popular e-book reader (see their announcement here) looks a whole lot more attractive and seems to have a simpler, more intuitive interface (the new joystick controller helps). The Kindle 2 is thinner (thinner than an iPhone, to give you some idea), has a crisper black-and-white display, turns pages much more quickly and should hold its battery charge for about 25 percent longer than the previous version. New features include text-to-speech and the ability to transfer content to other devices (such as mobile phones and other Kindles). It’s the same price as the outgoing model ($359) and will be shipped Feb. 24. Amazon is taking preorders now. The online retailer has said customers who are already on the waiting list for the old Kindle will get new Kindle 2’s.
10:52 a.m. | Wrapping Up: Kindle 1 owners, if they order before midnight tomorrow night, will be prioritized to receive the new Kindle. And Mr. Bezos concludes with some high-level thinking: “Our vision is every book, ever printed, in any language, all available in less than 60 seconds,” he said.
10:41 a.m. | Synergy!: And now from the stage, Stephen King is reading a selection of his short story, which is about the Kindle, and for the Kindle, from his free Kindle.
10:40 a.m. | Stephen King Presents: Stephen King is onstage. Mr. King is a longtime Kindle user and will write a story exclusively for the device that focuses on the implications of people reading on their digital devices. He is quite pleased that he has gotten a free Kindle 2 out of the deal.
10:31 a.m. | Video Testimonials: We’re now watching a video of owners of the original Kindle testifying to the wonders of the Kindle 2.
10:28 a.m. | Giving Voice to the Kindle: The Kindle 2 also has text-to-speech built in. “Any book, blog, magazine or personal document can be read aloud,” Mr. Bezos said. Users can switch between reading text and hearing it read by a fairly computerized voice. “It’s very easy to go back and forth between reading and listening,” Mr. Bezos said
10:26 a.m. | Interface Updates: Mr. Bezos is demonstrating the new Kindle and the joystick-like controller. The old version of the Kindle had an awkward scroll wheel and a separate vertical screen that helped users maneuver a cursor up and down its screen. Kindle users can use the five-way controller to highlight a word and the Kindle will automatically display the word’s definition.
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10:22 a.m. | Sync or Swim: Mr. Bezos is touting a new Kindle feature, Whispersync. You can read a kindle book on one device and switch to reading the same book on another device, and Amazon will keep track of where you left off in the book. The new device also has a joystick-like five-way controller to help users navigate the screen.
10:21 a.m. | The Reveal: Mr. Bezos is showcasing the device: The Kindle 2 has redesigned page-turning buttons along its sides, a thinner profile, a metal back, and standard round keys — none of the angular weirdness of the original model. The device has seven times the memory capacity of the Kindle 1, but it’s half as thick. It has 16 shades of gray, crisper photos, clear text, 25 percent faster page turns and 25 percent more battery life. “You can read for 2 weeks on a single charge,” says Mr. Bezos.
9:42 a.m. | Some Background: The Kindle, a $359 gadget that can wirelessly download books, periodicals and blogs, has been out of stock since November, when Oprah Winfrey gave it her golden endorsement on her show. Nevertheless, the device has lived up to its name by kindling unprecedented interest in e-books and delivering a glimpse of a potential future for a publishing industry in steep decline.
Amazon has thus far declined to say how many Kindles it has sold, though a Citibank analyst, Mark Mahaney, has pegged sales at around 500,000 units. Mr. Mahaney also noted that Amazon, unlike Apple and the iPod, must succeed with the Kindle or face the inevitable deterioration of its original business – selling and shipping books, made of good old-fashioned paper, through the mail.
“If Amazon can’t successfully jump the chasm from Internet ordered/mailman-delivered media products to Internet delivered-digitally delivered media products, its financial fundamentals and its stock price will be significantly challenged,” Mr. Mahaney wrote in a report last week.
There is something deeply exasperating about the debate, spotlighted Thursday, about whether unlocking an iPhone violates Apple’s copyright on the cellphone’s software. There’s a real issue at stake, but it isn’t fundamentally about copyrights.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, in a filing with the Copyright Office, argues that the government should allow iPhone owners to circumvent technical barriers meant to keep them from changing the phone’s software, a process called jailbreaking. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act bans people from defeating technical protections for copyrighted materials (such as the encryption on DVDs). The act requires the government to consider exemptions to this ban every three years.
Apple, not surprisingly, filed an objection, saying that jailbreaking a phone indeed violates copyright law and that no exception should be granted.
One of the key legal arguments is whether installing software on an iPhone that is not sold through Apple’s iTunes store is an infringement of Apple’s copyright. The E.F.F. argues that it does not and that Apple’s motivation is simply to preserve its revenue from software sales.
Apple argues that its copyright is infringed, in part because its reputation and potential to profit from iPhone sales in the future is hurt because jailbroken phones may be more subject to bugs and security flaws. The copy protection scheme enforces a “chain of trust” that allows Apple to make sure that harmful software does not get onto the phones. Here is a key summary from its argument, which refers to T.M.P.’s, or technical protection measures, the software meant to keep people from jailbreaking the phone:
It should be clear that the iPhone ecosystem Apple has built is good for developers, good for iPhone users, good for Apple, and good for the policies underlying the copyright laws to encourage the creation of works of authorship. That ecosystem depends upon the “chain of trust” implemented in the iPhone through its T.M.P.’s. The proposed exemption would destroy that chain of trust and threaten many of the benefits the ecosystem affords, and should therefore be rejected.
Stepping back, one of the big issues here is whether Apple has the right to tell people who buy iPhones to use them only in the way it wants them to. Why shouldn’t I be able to run buggy software if I choose to?
But it’s not quite so simple. Jennifer S. Granick, a lawyer for the E.F.F., said that Apple could force buyers of the phone to agree to any conditions it wants to write into a user agreement. But those agreements would be governed by contract law, which would force Apple to sue users and prove actual damages.
Under copyright law, Apple would have the right to claim statutory damages of up to $2,500 “per act of circumvention.” People who jailbreak phones might even be subject to criminal penalties of as long as five years, if they circumvented copyright for a financial gain.
“Apple is bringing the hammer down in a way that Congress never intended and is really severe for something that is just not wrong,” Ms. Granick said. An Apple spokesman declined to comment beyond the company’s legal filing.
The issue will be decided by the Library of Congress by this fall after several hearings in the spring. This is the exasperating part. It’s hardly clear that the Library of Congress, which does look after copyright law, is the right place for this debate. After all, the copyrighted software is really a small part of a cellphone and not really part of the fundamental issue.
This is an issue that Congress may have to take up. Ms. Granick also pointed out that Congress has from time to time limited the ability of companies to use contract law to limit what buyers of their products can do with them. For example, car companies are not allowed to void warranties for people who chose to have repairs done somewhere other than at dealers.
I had a chance to preview the new Windows Mobile 6.5 cellphone operating system that Microsoft is introducing today. I was unimpressed with the new graphic flourishes that are the bulk of the changes. But the demo reminded me of some of the nicely open aspects of Microsoft’s approach that have always been there.
Windows Mobile, which traces its heritage to Microsoft’s Pocket PC software for hand-held organizers, has long tried to replicate the experience of using a Windows computer for a device you use with a stylus. It had pull-down menus, and offered handwriting recognition as a method of entering text.
Most of Microsoft’s changes to the operating system are meant to update it to work better on phones that people touch with their fingers rather than tap with a stylus. Microsoft is also trying to make the phone have a less businesslike look (without losing appeal to corporate technology managers who have been among the operating system’s main proponents).
That means that the pull-down menus are de-emphasized in favor of icons and scrolling lists of large, friendly-looking type. The overall effect is pleasant, but it appeared derivative, with nothing that I noticed that pushed the art of cellphone interfaces forward.
Unlike the iPhone and the Palm Pre, Windows Mobile does not recognize gestures with more than one finger at the same time. In part that is because it is still using resistive touch-screen technology that senses pressure so that it can still work with a stylus. The iPhone and other multi-touch devices use capacitive touch-screen technology, which responds best to fingers and can sense more than one of them at a time.
Microsoft is also announcing a free service called My Phone that will back up information on a Windows Mobile phone and synchronize it with a computer. It also will introduce a marketplace from which you can buy Windows Mobile applications, although the details are sketchy. (Have I heard of those two ideas somewhere else?)
What impressed me were not the new features meant to copy the iPhone but the longstanding openness that comes from the attempt to miniaturize a PC. Even though Microsoft will offer an easy way to download and buy applications, it is not going to force people to use it. You can still simply load an application on the phone yourself.
Last week, the government released a filing from Apple arguing that anyone who modifies an iPhone to load software that wasn’t acquired through the iTunes store is in violation of copyright law, potentially subjecting them to fines and even jail time.
Also unlike the iPhone, Windows Mobile lets any application read files created by other applications. That means, for example, you can go to any Web site, say Amazon.com, to download music that you can play on the phone. The only way to buy music on the iPhone is through iTunes, although you can move music you got anywhere onto the iPhone from your computer.
In another attempt at openness, Windows Mobile 6.5 will support Adobe Flash and Flash video in its browser. This, in theory, will bring most of the video on the Web to Windows Mobile phones. In the demo I saw, Flash was very sluggish, potentially backing up Apple’s contention that Flash is too inefficient for small phone processors. But Microsoft and handset makers have months to try to speed up the Flash experience.
Phones with the new operating system, from manufacturers including LG, won’t be available until the end of this year.
All in all, there was nothing I saw that made me lust for a Windows Mobile phone. But I hope that Microsoft’s openness will help force Apple and others to rethink their arguments that they need to approve every application that runs on their handsets. It’s nice to see a company that treats people who simply want to use their own phones their own way as customers, not criminals.
ive months after T-Mobile introduced the first phone powered by Google’s Android operating system, the cellphone giant Vodafone is unveiling the second. Like its predecessor, the new device is made by a Taiwanese manufacturer, HTC. It is called the HTC Magic and has a touch screen, but not the slide-out keyboard that the T-Mobile G1 has.
Starting this spring, the HTC Magic will be available exclusively to Vodafone customers in Britain, Germany, Spain and France and nonexclusively in Italy. Pricing was not disclosed. HTC executives, speaking at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, said they were working on making the device available in the United States.
The T-Mobile G1 received generally good reviews, but its appeal was limited by its exclusive availability on T-Mobile, the fourth-largest carrier in the United States. The size of Vodafone, the largest mobile carrier in the world by revenue, should help Android gain broad distribution in Europe.
Google, however, is not pinning hopes for Android’s success on any one phone, but rather on a multitude of phones from different manufacturers. Several others are expected to unveil Android-based phones in 2009.
This July, Street View 
