NEC media: Report says world's Slimmest Smartphone is on the road in the United States

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Even in the spring we spent a couple of posts covering Medias (C) N-04 of NEC Casio Mobile Android phone company calls "the slimmest Smartphone". While only 7.7 mm thin, it surpasses the Galaxy S II and 105 g, it is very easy, too.

NEC Casio was announced in February this year, the tube was selling well when it hit the market in Japan a few weeks later (today 500000 units were sold).

And according to Japan's largest business daily Nikkei, the company is ready to involve the media in the United States now, somehow step announced last year already (NEC Casio Mobile was established in 2009, after NEC, Casio and Hitachi have merged their mobile phone operation).

Details are lacking at the moment, but it looks like Americans will have a modified version of the phone. In Japan, NEC Casio with N-06 C [JP] this summer, model, which is a bit thicker (7.9 mm), but water-proof.

Japanese model:

In the United States, the Nikkei said Medias are likely to be available via Verizon (Casio partner in the past) and other carriers. NEC Casio aims to double mobile phone shipments outside of Japan prior to 1.8 million in fiscal 2012.

To recap, the media N-04 C offers a 4-inch touchscreen LCD display with 480 x 854 resolution, Android 2.3, 5.1 MP CMOS camera, microSDHC card slot, Wi-Fi, etc. Expected digital TV tuner, function e wallet and infrared port to get axed in the United States version, however.

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NFC mobile advertising startup Tapit raises seed funding

Tapit is a new mobile advertising startup, founded in March 2011, that facilitates the sharing and delivery offer NFC-enabled phone by simply clicking anywhere Tapit, you can find the logo.

The company is currently raises seed round of financing from Sydney angels in record time – just 22 days from the field until the round was signed to. This is the quickest investment to date for Angels, Sydney, not-for-profit membership Organization for Angels, which usually invests in Sydney-based startups.

NFC (near field communication), short-range wireless technology, is often associated with mobile payments and mobile wallets these days, as a new way to enable the purchase to the cash. But this is just one of many cases of possible uses for technology that can also support things like file sharing and media between devices, advertising, ticketless deals and much more. It can even be used to perform an action in a NTT DOCOMO TAP "follow" offer, which allows two Twitter users to each other simply by clicking the phone.

The idea is to use the Tapit NFC for use in marketing campaigns, working with agencies, brands, handset manufacturers and carriers. Marketing services include mobile commerce, coupon distribution, ticket sales, surveys and reviews, content delivery, contests and social community (e.g. tap here to "like" us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter).

The company is already involved in several campaigns this year – one for a group of radio Nova Australian radio network billboard JCDecaux and another for Australia's channel 10 TV show "LATVIA" and the third with NFC-based sales in shopping malls.

Says director Jamie Kaninghèm Tapit, speed, which was closed in this round is the approval group Tapit, and business models that we have created around our unique NFC technology. All whom we meet likes the idea of Tapit, it is addictive.

NFC, indeed, will step up from the now ubiquitous barcode scanning technology, which involves the use of Smartphone applications to scan QR codes via camera phone. Unfortunately the NFC usually requires accompanying chip, built into the phone itself. Due to this requirement, it is now back, a limited number of supported phones.

Nevertheless, analysts bullish on NFC in the future, with ABI, predicting 35 million phones to 2012, and Frost & Sullivan, assessment of about 868 million by the year 2015.

Tapit conditions in seed investment were not disclosed, but the Fund normally invests sidecar Angels Sydney between $ 100 K-$ 500 K in its portfolio companies.

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iEmu target iOS Apps for Android, Windows and Linux

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Ready this week almost too ambitious Kickstarter project?

Meet iEmu, a new project from one of the early hackers of the iPhone. Goal? To get the iOS and works in an emulated State on Linux, Windows, Mac and Android.

In a building on top of QEMU is an open source project manager Chris Wade (who had a role in some of the early exploits of jailbreak iPhone) hopes to fully emulate the Samsung S5L8930 (A4) chipset used in iPhone 4 and first generation iPad.

This should be easy enough, right? I want to say that your computer can play SNES games and arcade games! This should be a breeze!

Yes No. Even after they figured out how to emulate a CPU (which, in accordance with this page, they've done), they still need to hack together an emulated GPU support, USB controller, Multitouch controller, memory, audio system and all secondary components (Bluetooth chip, GPS, compass, etc) and once they've got all the hardware stuff covers? Then they get to find out how to get all this stuff to download. I'd love to see all of this will happen to call it a massive project will be an understatement.

"But wait!"you're talking about. "Apple already provide their own iOS emulator?"

Like, but with some pretty big footnotes. First of all, Apple is Mac only solution. The second and not so easy to explain in a nutshell: Apple on iOS system test is a simulation, emulation. Although it looks like iOS and iOS acts like, Apple's Simulator isn't actually using a version of virtualized iOS. This is a trivial difference to 99.9% of the world (and even the very vast majority of developers iOS) — but for tiny piece people (safety engineers, digging for the deficiencies of the system, for example), a massive difference.

Now, for the ever important question: why? Because they (hopefully they) can. In addition, the objectives, get up "most of the iPad/iPhone apps" and works on iOS devices allows true iOS emulation on Windows, Mac, Android and iOS device (why device iOS? think virtual machines), and allows security engineers to give due consideration to iOS malware without potentially destroying their actual device. Plus reverse engineering, participation in theory leads to documentation on all aspects of the iPhone, that no one outside of Apple really understands.

Chris trying to raise $ 20 k for this project, which will cover his living expenses for 3 + months, he says, to cover the costs of hosting and production/delivery of the Kickstarter awards. If you're down throw a few greenbacks in the mission, you can find the project here, but it is known to Kickstarter: these guys have one hell of a mountain to climb. If they were able to get things up and load in a reasonable period of time, don't expect Android devices for chewin' through tons of iOS-native apps and games soon — there is still question as hardware emulation crazy computationally expensive to deal with.

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COMEX answers questions about iPhone hacking before heading Off for Apple

If you pay even a little bit of attention to the iPhone scene jailbreaking, you've probably heard today: one of his Golden Boys moves to greener pastures. Nicholas Allegra — perhaps known better as the comex (brain for jailbreaking one-click, Web-based tool, JailbreakMe) is Hangin' up Hacker hat and heading in Cupertino by proposing internship at Apple.

However, before settling in his new position, the comex is a bit of time to answer some questions from the community on his future, his thoughts on the jailbreak scene and regrets.

To be clear: text excerpts below are taken from the Ama ("ask me anything") on Reddit. AMA took place in iPhone sub reddit, rather than selected Ama sub reddit. Each question on the original Asker following in parentheses.

Once your internship with Apple and after iOS 5 officially released, you continue to support community jailbreak, allowing exploits? (nishnasty)

COMEX: No. (but I want to jailbreak my phone, so I hope someone finds them: p)

(Of course, it is worth noting that it most likely cannot continue, even after the end of the internship. Once you have signed up for an official tour to the mothership and potentially released with source code, [Although Apple interns are usually located at a distance from the source], activities, as no-go.)

Why although the position of an intern? It seems like you could be established posts at apple. (AstroZombie138)

COMEX: I don't know if I would do it-I've never had a job before and I don't know what it's like-and I intend to soon go back to College.

How key jailbreak dev team has responded to you will work for apple? (AstroZombie138)

COMEX: mainly with congratulations.

You have made any money from [jailbreak] scene? (jamesvdm)

COMEX: I did a good amount of money through donations, which is primarily used to help pay for College. JailbreakMe 2.0 was like $ 40,000; 3.0 was 15000 (not quite sure why it fell).

The jailbreak community has made a huge impact when you left. Do you think that players can outsmart you, now, when you play for other commands, or you are Apple's ultimate solution to the problem of their jailbreak? (bitterorca)

COMEX: there's a lot of smart people working for Apple already; Maybe I can help, but I doubt I can stop people from finding vulnerabilities.

Paraphased – on Apple "steals" ideas community jailbreak (because many of the concepts, which were reflected in OIOS, such as multitasking, notifications, and even in the App Store were first implemented jailbreakers):

COMEX: I certainly don't mind. The jailbreak community puts the idea in front of people with crappy implementation; Apple polishes his to the point where it can be a function of the OS. I don't know whether Apple really paid attention to apps jailbreak, but see the App Store, copy and paste, multitasking, etc.

Why did you decide to take part in a special iPhone jailbreaking scene that had attracted you to the iPhone? (Colonel_Ham_Sandwich)

COMEX: I was the one ... He was a device () has been a lot of functionality, (b) was nice and flexible OS UNIX, (c) is already active homebrew community and (d) it was great. : p

Whether you've always wanted to be a hacker or is it just something interesting you and found you [knack]? (Colonel_Ham_Sandwich)

COMEX: I never wanted to be a hacker Black Hat, but I really enjoy hacking (originally SQL injection and shit), as a natural development programming.

Finally with regard to PDF errors used to JailbreakMe.com jailbreak, where on earth did you get a brilliant idea for it? (Colonel_Ham_Sandwich)

COMEX: FreeType was one of the less-studied open source components of iOS.

Are you optimistic about the future of iOS platforms? What you looked forward to the next? (iconoclaus)

COMEX: my personal opinion: it will probably continue to beat the pants off your competition in performance while still and Apple "take your time, but do it right" policies on probably will continue to make a pleasure to use. But I'm impatient: other platforms (WebOS) have lots of fun things with real equivalent in iOS.

Do you have any regrets? (bitterorca)
COMEX: I must have worked at those jailbreaks more consistently and let them go more quickly; I had a few exploits, fixed on me, which could be used in the jailbreak, if I was faster on the packaging.

The current jailbreaks and/or site disappear? (UntilWeLand)

COMEX: no, I will pass them on to MuscleNerd or chpwn or someone who will take care of them.

Your thoughts on Steve Jobs departure? (MDevonL)

COMEX: pity; I was hoping to meet him some day and company management side, the keynotes will not be as entertaining without him.

The fact that in addition to money, you turn to the other side? (Clavis_Apocalypticae)

COMEX: this is not about money. A large part of my motivation to jailbreak was always a problem; The internship will be a new challenge.

Again, this is only the main points — for deep dives and a good bit of interesting conversation, don't forget to check out the full flow of AMA.

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ISI: Verizon and Gamble AT&T, T-Mobile's $ 100 m in mobile payments

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NFC will be everywhere, one day, but we still have a ways to go. Unlike other functions Smartphone this requires on the huge scale of just about everything that definitely will take a while. But we are approaching.

Although Sprint fiddles with Google Wallet, Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile reportedly made plans to invest over 100 million dollars in their joint mobile payment network called Isis. Can anyone else smell simmering competition?

According to Bloomberg carriers can invest way more than depending on how many traction, they can get out of the banks and merchants. ISIS already has the support of a major player in the trade: Visa. However, Google Wallet has its own big name credit card company MasterCard.

Two mobile payments network also have the "offer" services that send coupons for users that they can save and redeem their phone. At least in the case of Isis, the network will supply money by charging marketers pay to send coupons to mobile phone users.

Carriers had originally planned to start around mid-2012 Isis, but because Google (and Sprint) appears on track more quickly in terms of use of the service, merchants can pick up the pace of the Isis. In fact, he better hurry as mobile payments industry is expected to be $ 240 billion this year alone, Juniper Research. Only this number is expected to triple within the next five years.

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Update mobile AR browser Junaio 3.0. Now, barcode scans too.

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Junaio, mobile browser augmented reality created AR German company Metaio, updated this morning: version 3.0 now supports barcode scanning. Some of you probably meant "BOOM de doo, each application can scan barcodes today." and you're right; This is not a big deal in this sense. When you think you recognize possible Junaio additional images, using it to scan 1 D and 2D QR codes is sort of like using a bazooka to shoot an arrow.

But from a usability perspective it makes a lot of sense. I'll be the first to admit that the concept of "channel" Junaio's for AR content has always been a little confusing for me. I mean, I get it and think it is a flexible way to split the content. I am sure that it also makes it easy for the 3 parties to make content available in the browser.

But I must always remind ourselves how it works ...I choose x x channel for content type, etc I think adding "instantly" scanner that you can simply scan images, posters, to recognize the natural feature tracking experience is to do all the things you can always make Junaio — plus 2D barcode scanning is a big step in the right direction for Junaio and ease of use. This is definitely a faster way to get to the content.

In terms of strategy, it also makes sense. Why not try Junaio "one-stop-shop" for all AR and image search needs? Especially when AR content is still not as substantive as the scan (not that I would like to say a barcode scan fully master either) barcode. But why not try to make less complicated barcode functionality is possible for users too. This is a good idea.

I installed it this morning and noticed that not all 2D barcode for network scanning capability. I confirmed this representative from Metaio, who said that in today's launch, would Junaio only to scan the barcode standard 1 D and QR-codes. They will add additional symbol libraries over time to accommodate different types of code.

Several symbols of recognition will be important for the Junaio become that "single-window scanning app. I understand that QR codes are more popular symbols, and their ability to encode Kanji characters to make them more practical, international decisions. This is probably a good place to start. However, data matrix codes in North America are still popular and in the print size can be significantly reduced.

As a minimum should be included in the data matrix, PDF417 and maybe even the Aztecs. But overall, I think this additional functionality is a step in the right direction for very few mobile AR browser.

Version for iPhone is available now, with the iPad version 2 coming later this week. The Android version will be available next week.

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Quixey raises US $ 3.8 million, for functional search engine for your applications

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Quixey, on the basis of the Palo Alto startup that builds functional search engine for your applications, today announced that it closed the US $ 3.8 million series a funding round. Investment venture partners led the WI Harper group and the United States, with the participation of Webb investment network, along with subsequent investments, Eric Schmidt innovation. Series round adds to Quixey $ 400 K, grew in April from innovation endeavours to attract investment to $ 4.2 million.

We've all heard (and maybe even prototyping) quip "there is an app for that." It's really excellent quality of the Mobile revolution: there really is an app for just about everything you can think of, from call taxis for managing schedule scan for cancer or heart murmors skin. But it's also overwhelming, and find the application you want is not easy. There are a lot of noise and a lot of flawed approaches to app engine.

Quixey entered the game with the intent to build a new type of search, molded specifically for the unique features of the search for these everywhere, but sometimes elusive apps. Their decision came up with "functional search", which not only scans the major App stores, but blogging crawls, review sites, forums and social media sites to create a truly comprehensive picture of what the application can be done through reviews, Word of mouth and demos.

Quixey for search engine enables the user to enter queries like "baseball report and get a list of applications that provide only that (which they can then filter by platform). And the best part search Zarins Windows and Mac apps, iGoogle, extensions, and much more. It's not just the iOS and Android.

Although the Quixey seemingly to compete with the likes of Chomp and other, startup also has added value offers in the nutritional status of the search for other App stores, search engines and Web sites — just like Google — to facilitate the diffusion of its search engine for third-party sites throughout the Internet.

So it comes as no surprise then that Eric Schmidt innovation Ventures invests in search a great application. Attraction of external information and data from blogs, review sites and beyond, really adds an additional level of depth search applications (especially in being independent of the platform), as well as nutrition search through Web sites gives Quixey the ability to scale and be mixed with the very place it scans. Startup will use its new investment to continue achieving partnership with App stores and other app a great third party resources, and teammate Quixey, there are more than 25 potential partnerships in the pipeline. More partners, the more effective it becomes search engine.

This is an interesting new approach this "functional search, and from my experience so far, works as advertised. Chimes to let us know what you think. More about Quixey here.

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Video: Sense UI 3.5 shows new face of leaked HTC phones

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Eagle-Eyed readers may have noticed "with HTC sense, HTC Vigor to pass on the recently leaked from behind, and has not yet leaked may have revealed what to expect when it includes. Five-minute video tour of the HTC sense UI updated 3.5 only appeared and gives us a glimpse into the next big devices, HTC has in store for us.

Broadly speaking, it looks very much like feeling 3.0 skin as seen on devices like the HTC sense. This is not surprising, given the small version number bump, but the team HTC UI seems to be focused much of their work smoothing transitions and adding small details.

The biggest difference visually is the disappearance of the standard three button feeling run bar at the bottom of the homescreen. This seemingly replaced box and phone keys separate application. Also updated the HTC widgets and also played with the ability to add and remove homescreens.

HTC sense 3.0 looks cool, but extra bits of Polish that went in version 3.5 do devices feel more ... complete. The amount of material that may make sense normally means cluttered homescreens for most devices, but the meaning of 3.5 at first glance feels much cleaner and more open. In addition to Vigor sense UI 3.5 is also expected to appear on the notorious HTC Bliss, for girls only Verizon smartphones.

Android popularity comes from the ability to customize endlessly, but definitely in the market a wonderful experience out of the box. No word on start hitting 3.5 sense of mobile phones, but here's hoping that it won't take too much time.

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LG Optimus enhances 3D library application with 3D game converter

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Compelling content is the key to ensuring that 3D Smartphone is more than just a Flash in the Pan and right now there's just not a lot of it floating around. LG Optimus, maker of 3D phone seeks to address this issue with the recent announcement of their new 3D game converter software.

Due to his first demos at IFA in Berlin, LG 2011 new 3D game converter does exactly what its name. After firing up the converter at Optimus 3D, about 50 games will be 3D compatible 2D facelift, while unsupported game OpenGL can be manually optimized to achieve the desired effect.

The game will get quite comprehensive work for, or as LG's 3D evangelist Dr. Henry Nho would have us believe: "LG's 3D game converter automatically recognizes the depth of information based on the location of each object and separates the 2D graphic images for each eye. Using existing information depth, 3D games, the converter creates two different images for the foreground and background. "

LG promised that another 50 titles will support 3D by the end of this year, an important complement to the existing library of 3D content. It's win win for game developers and their clients: devs get no-hassle way to offer 3D functionality, and customers can extend their 3D content library is not free. The converter will come as part of a new maintenance release of Optimus 3D, currently scheduled for release Oct.

To their credit, the LG seems to realize that for all its gimmicky fun 3D Smartphone to live or die depending on the quality of the experience they deliver. Some users will be more that happy to shoot stereoscopic video until they're blue in the face, but that Novelty will typically only last for so long. The announcement adds a bit of the value of the 3D experience by providing more content, but the inevitable question "what is enough?"

The game, one thing, but in order to overcome their status as gimmick, 3D Smartphones should more applications that are designed from the ground up with 3D in mind rather than simply as meditation.

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iTunes rival radio launches gift cards available online and on target

Streaming music radio service from Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, is today launches two new musical gift options – physical gift cards and online loans. Consumers will have the opportunity to buy a virtual gift card options at $ 10, $ 25, $ 50 and $ 100 values or user-selected amount. In the meantime, the physical card in the value of $ 10 and $ 25 will be sold in more than 600 Target retail stores here in the United States.

Gift card radio is flexible in that it did not specify how the money should be used. The recipient can choose to use it towards their monthly subscription offline music or with recently announced unlimited family plan radios.

Radio vs. iTunes-"rent" versus "native"

Gift cards are for the first time the radio is currently sold in retail stores in the United States. Although they will be sold along with the top competitor to iTunes, two services are actually quite different. iTunes payment you music that you upload, which can then be saved and synced to your Apple devices. Radio, instead, provides streaming access to all the music in its catalog of nearly 11 million songs for a monthly fee. In other words from iTunes you own you buy music, but with a radio, for the most part, you rent it.

As Apple's upcoming iTunes match radio also uses a tool that searches your local library (in iTunes or Windows Media Player) look for the names of the artists, albums and songs that are already available in its catalog. With radio in the monthly fee, but Apple will charge $ 25/year to do the same. However, Apple will also update the tracks for high-quality, DRM-format when you run your game.

In addition, users can purchase select the tracks for offline listening if desired – the feature that is on a par with traditional iTunes offer. Often this is due to the music labels and/or rights holders ' restrictions on streaming.

New radio gift cards are available in the trust now or on the radio on the Web site www.rdio.com/gift.

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BoltJS: another secret part of Facebook's Spartan puzzles?

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After a steady flow of information in June, all was quiet on Facebook project Spartan front in recent weeks. Initially, at least some thought the plan was to reveal the Spartan in July, but it is clear that came and went. It is certainly possible, we don't hear anything until f8 in late September at the present time. But one new bit of information has come to our attention that could be linked. Say hello to BoltJS.

BoltJS is a UI framework that is built on Facebook for this purpose "helps developers build fantastic mobile Web applications with HTML5 and Javascript, as you can read it here for yourself. It is entirely written in JavaScript and runs in a browser window, it means that you want to not handling backend. And guess where the focus of the project is now: mobile browsers WebKit — as the Spartan project.

Here is a description of the developer Shane O' Sullivan's own words from the GitHub project page:

BoltJS is a structure of UI design Facebook is compact, fast and powerful. It is entirely written in JavaScript and runs in a browser window, requiring no backend server. While BoltJS can be used in the progressive enhancement approach, it is intended primarily for interfaces that are built mainly, if not entirely, in a Web browser.

Although the objective of the project BoltJS to support as many modern browsers as reasonable, currently focused on supporting mobile browsers, WebKit, design the best possible platform for mobile sites and HTML5 apps.

About ' Sullivan is a software engineer at Facebook Client UI team. Other sponsors of the draft are will Bailey, Vlad Kolesnikov and Tom Occhino.

BoltJS is built on top of Spears and plays nicely with Facebook the current code, comments about ' Sullivan. It also contains modules that use CommonJS standard. For all other technical details, check the docs page GitHub.

But here are some other interesting things about the project. First Facebook doesn't seem to want to say a few words about this. I asked them about this a few hours ago after back and forth about something else. So far Nada in response to this. This is not surprising, given what I said about BoltJS — namely that it should still be secret.

While at GitHub are documentation, source code was never released to the public yet. Links do not work on this page for the source files zip and tar. But I'm told that BoltJS already being licensed secretly to third parties that are preparing applications to show off using the platform. At least one of these third parties is a major player in the consumer Web space. Again, this sounds a lot like the Spartan.

Also on GitHub-demo application built using BoltJS, entitled "Weather app". If it looks familiar, it's because you have an iPhone. It is essentially a weather app again using the JavaScript framework. Still think Facebook is not going to fight with Apple's mobile down the road? …

It's all for now. More as we get it.

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Nokia quits Developer Forum after Hacker accesses the members records

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Nokia to temporarily close your website developer community as a precautionary measure after hackers gained access to a database table that contains the e-mail addresses of the members of the Forum and other information. Hacker exploited vulnerability last week in the bulletin board software, allowing SQL injection attack, which in turn allowed him (or her) distort the Forum Web site.

Nokia now Forum members, warning them of the fact that not only has Web site by electronic mail the developer was defaced, but Hacker got access to the records, which, fortunately for Nokia – does not contain passwords, credit card data or other confidential information.

Nonetheless, Nokia said, about 7 per cent access to records include date of birth, the URL of the Web site and/or user names for services like aim, ICQ, MSN, Skype or Yahoo.

SQL injection attacks usually occur when the user input in the database layer of an application is not filtered for escape characters and is then passed to the SQL statement, or when a user box is not type-safe or not checked for type constraints and thereby unexpectedly executed.

Nokia said that initially believes that access only a small number of records of members of the Forum, however, that further investigation determined that the number of "considerably higher" – Nokia does not disclose exactly how many records have been accessed or other information about the breach of security.

The company also said that he took down his site offline developer community as a precautionary measure while the Nokia team conducts further research and assessment of safety.

(Thanks for the heads up, Robert)

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Samsung to launch chaton, cross platform mobile IM service

Samsung releases chaton, cross platform mobile IM service, it seems RIM BlackBerry BBM. Services, which are scheduled to begin in September, will be showcased at this week's consumer electronics focused IFA Conference.

This is an interesting start for Samsung because it will support a variety of mobile operating systems, including Samsung's Bada mobile operating system Android, feature phones, and even competitors ' platforms, including BlackBerry and iOS.

In addition to supporting mobile chat, rhinestone will offer Web-based client that allows users to chat with their computers, too. Users of the service can be private-1-1 calls or participate in group chats. Chaton also supports sharing media like photos, videos, voice messages and contacts.

The phones feature service allows for text, images, calendar and contact sharing. However, smart phones, users will have some additional parameters, such as the ability to comment on each others ' profiles, send multimedia messages that combine text and audio and view their own "interaction of Rank," which shows how active they are in rhinestone network.

Chaton will go live next month in more than 120 countries and 62 languages.

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Samsung could buy webOS, recruits former HP Exec

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When HP decided to kill webOS, most people were more concerned about who would snatch the business PC that went tumbling down the gutter trash along with it. Discarded several alternatives, but most bets on Samsung, ostensibly seeking to transfer some laptop orders. Little we know, Samsung may be interested in capturing the webOS, too.

DigiTimes sources report that Samsung may very well consider buying webOS better compete with Apple and other developers of Android phone. With Google's proposed acquisition of Motorola game has changed significantly.

The IP wars have become a bit lately in the mobile industry trend, and no one can be completely safe. However, Android is now much better thanks to Motorola's massive patent hoard. HP made a similar move last year from 1.2 billion acquisition of Palm and its patent portfolio. If Samsung truly end up buying webOS, he can buy yourself some much-needed protection. To be quite a boost since South Korea-the company is under full attack from Apple over the past four months. Moreover, the acquisition of webOS can give a competitive advantage, and Samsung.

Though Google promises to leave the open Android, Motorola would no doubt dominate in terms of Android devices. However, many Android partners are likely feeling a bit frazzled and can find their own path for the convenience of distinction. Android course success story compared with webOS, but also to capture and Motorola will now get first dibs. It's quite uncomfortable to just about anyone but Motorola.

Apple is iOS. HTC has a massive supply. Nokia will have Windows phone 7 mango. And of course, Motorola will have Android. This leaves Samsung, which is a particularly strong competitor receiving those big five devices without something to set it apart.

While the webOS is the shining star among mobile platforms, it's not to say that this is a bad operating system. Quite the opposite actually. webOS beauty and simplicity of iOS partners with multi-tasking Android, but simply don't have enough apps to walk. With a little tweaking and some applications support webOS may be just what you need to Samsung. Especially if South Korea-the company aims to break free from the Android to make trial.

In other news, HP'S former Vice President of marketing for personal systems group reportedly were recruited by Samsung to take on PC sales, adding weight to rumors that Samsung is interested in HP will soon be spun off PC business. Samsung for quite categorically denied any intention of picking up business PC HP. We agree that it will not be the best fit for HP in the lower box PC business doesn't really jive with the Samsung Group in an open field and DRAM businesses.

Here's Samsung's statement on the matter:

To put to rest any speculation on this matter, I would like to definitively state that Samsung Electronics has become Hewlett-Packard PC business. Hewlett-Packard is a world leader in the PC business with sales of 40 million units last year, while Samsung is a new player in the category and sold nearly 10 million units by the year 2010. Based on the significant differences in scale with Samsung's PC business and complete lack of synergies, it would be impracticable and careless to even consider such acquisitions.

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CyanogenMod Android team gets running on HP'S touch pad

In recent days aimed at getting real Android version up and running on HP touchpad-based webOS were a flurry of efforts. The mission is funded partly Modding community called HackNMod, who hoped to give the Tablet operating system with more pioneers defined future: Android.

It seems that team CyanogenMod has finally made it happen. According to a public statement and accompanying video developers say that they now have an alpha version of CyanogenMod firmware, 7 touch panel.

CyanogenMod is one of, if not the most popular aftermarket firmware for Android operating systems. Those who want to hack their phones offers an alternative to the Exchange system, which comes on their device, as well as a few extra features. CyanogenMod 7 is release on the basis of the source code for Android 2.3 (biscuit).

Video (see below) shows the CyanogenMod running on the touch pad, just last week, but the team said more progress was made, since it was withdrawn. Today, the building offers more tablet settings include LVM support (storage management) and will include a 2D hardware acceleration "soon".

The team also said that her ultimate goal is to create a more robust solution where the end user can choose to boot in webOS, CyanogenMod or another operating system. But right now, developers are in search of more pills, they say, to assist in their development efforts.

In particular, the letter states that CyanogenMod command are not interested in the Bounty offered by the HackNMod and others-they only say they are motivated to do it right, do it fast ". However, that the $ 2,000 Bounty you can buy a few more dvuhknopocnyh couldn't it?

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Seesmic is focused on social enterprise; Android, iPad Debuts Apps for Salesforce CRM

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Social application developer Seesmic makes a big step in social enterprise and debuting dedicated Android app and iPad app for Salesforce CRM product (Windows phone 7 will also be added soon), called Seesmic CRM. Android app will be published tomorrow morning at Salesforce at the annual Conference, Dreamforce and Seesmic launches iPad app within a few weeks.

For the background of Seesmic, which was founded by a French entrepreneur Loic Le Meur, allows you to monitor and follow up the social web. Seesmic desktop, Internet and mobile clients integrate with Twitter, Facebook and other social networks. Bonus using an application like Seesmic is the ability to combine your streams from a variety of social Web services such as YouTube, Foursquare, Techmeme, LinkedIn, and others.

But lately, Seesmic dabbling in the enterprise and launch more focused business functions. Last fall, Seesmic has deep integration with Salesforce enterprise social network chatter. And then earlier this year, Salesforce 4 million Australian dollars round in Seesmic.

Mostly Seesmic Android and iPad apps CRM lead all the functionality of Salesforce CRM for mobile phones. Users can search their Salesforce.com account from native applications; Search for leads, contacts, accounts, related activities and sets of chatter on the move; Creating and updating leads, contacts, tasks, and activities; Log calls and emails after meetings; and much more. And applications use mobile OS; to map users to their respective leads to their current location; upload photos and more. While prices had not been announced yet, Seesmic may charge a fee of $ 10 per month per user for the application.

Le Meur tells us that he does not compete with Salesforce CRM giant, because currently does not offer in-depth Android and iPad apps. In fact, Seesmic is working "hand in hand" with Salesforce mobile group to develop these native apps. And Salesforce particularly bullish on social enterprise at the end — "Welcome to the social enterprise» is the theme of the Dreamforce this year. As Le Meur said: "we are working with Salesforce, not compete with the company."

Of course it's interesting that Twitter's developer platform is shifting focus from building consumer and focusing on the enterprise. In March, Twitter basically told developers avoid compete with them on their own customers. It's not that Twitter doesn't want developers to build off their platform, they simply do not want developers to create clients that simulate Twitter's own services.

Thus Seesmic found new user base in the area of business. Le Meur explains that the use of mobile and social enterprise of the future for Seesmic. While the startup will not relinquish their Web and mobile applications (Android app company has more than one million users); all efforts of Seesmic now completely focused on attracting social for business users, "said Le million euros.

Seesmic BlackBerry app shuttered a few months ago. You can watch Le million euros in a recent conversation with TechCrunch TV Andrew Kina here.

(Disclosure: TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington was an early investor in Seesmic.)

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Video: this is not the iPhone 5 … But I kind of wish it was

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When it comes to massive news, the last two weeks have been absolutely insane. Google's purchase of Motorola? HTC buy beats? Resignation as Apple CEO Steve jobs?!

What better way to cleanse the palette than quickly Tromp in the conceptual rabbit hole? 3D animation shop Aatma Studio released a concept video shows what they perceive as the iPhone and the future ... Ok... I am ready to pre-order.

Now as far as practicable current with tech? None of it really is, but a good chunk of it in the realm of credibility if we believe said Tech foreseeable evolution.

Design:Design looks much thinner than the barrier 8 mm that none actually managed to hack yet (if we count that tuck thick bits in one region, lumped, Tapper remaining, and then create a measurement on the thin part of the profile, which kind of deceit.) in view of the above thick bits most modern smartphones, usually radio and camera sensors, and they are becoming slimmer and slimmer every few months. Just two weeks ago, for example, OmniVision has announced an 8-megapixel camera module, which comes at the height of the Assembly only 4.4 mm ...

Keyboard: Projection keyboard was done before (the IBM patent in 1992 year!), but not quite like this. Although they really don't seem to take off, some projection keyboards that do exist are usually dedicated Accessories Bluetooth/USB, as opposed to being integrated into the handset itself. Even as rather clunky, individual components, the projection was one things laser red — nothing of the kind of high-resolution, nice expanding the Council, you see here. But these days we have received an itty bitty-Pico projectors and people like Microsoft/PrimeSense dumping millions of people in based on Infrared tracking. Let these technologies continue to evolve and we probably, but after a few years from something like the concept of keyboard, shown here.

Holographic projector: for showing video in thin air without any screen for a reflections of light ... something that'll probably be stuck in the concept of the video and "Star Wars" Universe until further notice. Damn you, physics! It is probably for the better, really: while interacting with floating screen futuristic and fun, the absence of any touch would rather miserable users.

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Mobile ad network millennial MEDIA saw about 50 million dollars in revenue in 2010 year

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We know that mobile ad network millennial MEDIA has more than tripled revenues in 2010, 2009, and achieve profitability. But we did not know how many in the mobile advertising network brought in until now. In 2011 the last Millennial Inc. 500 list saw 47.8 million turned out in 2010, income, more than 3000 percent from 2007, $ 1.5 million in revenue. And although we don't know what the Millennial net income, we know that the company is profitable.

Millennial is one of the largest remaining independent ad networks Google bought AdMob, and Apple has acquired Quattro. There is no doubt that many technology companies through the eyes of the Millennial goal acquisition, but the company has managed to preserve its independence in spite of increased consolidation taking place in the mobile ad space.

In addition to Millennial in independent ad network company also operates and manages private mobile ad networks for large media companies and conglomerates that have multiple applications and sites, essentially the power of self-service ad network for these companies. And the millennial deals with "prominent Internet media company" (but declining to name the company), which is fully running mobile advertising at the millennial.

On the basis of comparison, AdMob reportedly had 100 million dollars in revenue, run course, when it was purchased in the year 2009, which could put his actual revenue in the $ 40 million (AdMob Division revenue 60/40 with publishers). It's unclear if the Millennial in 47.8 million in 2010, income is post-split.

I hope we will see more detailed information on financials Millennial when a company files S-1 for public offer in the coming months. CEO and founder Paul Palmieri had ambitions of taking public companies, and the timing may be right, considering that this seems to be the year of tech companies IPO. In may, Bloomberg reported that Millennial talked to bankers on the IPO, which could come in the autumn or early 2012 and valued the company at a whopping $ 700 million to $ 1 billion (AdMob was sold to Google for $ 750 million).

Given how most companies refuse to disclose the exact financials when they are private is always interesting to see revenue numbers pre-IPO.

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FEMA's new Android App arrives just in time for Hurricane Irene

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FEMA had a mobile version of its Web site, available for a while now, but this information does you no good if you can't get a connection to the Internet. Given the vulnerability of networks of mobile communication during disaster occurs without the Web client is a very real possibility.

Enter the FEMA in new, self-titled alien blobs pits Android app that puts a lot of emergency information right in the Palm of your hand only.

The application contains information and advice on what to do in the event of disasters, from earthquakes to forest fires and everything in between. Also present is the emergency kit checklist defines all elements and provisions, which one might want to get through some difficult times. Very helpful, especially because some of the things that they recommend (such as "whistle signal for help"), not the first things come when brainstorming content survival kit. For those worst-case scenarios when you best bet is to head for nearby housing annex list of places where it should be safe to hunker down.

It also provides a quick way to disaster victims to apply for Federal aid, though I sincerely hope that none of you ever need to readers. Although it is essentially a pocketable site version FEMA, is a valuable resource in its own right, especially in connection with Hurricane Irene promises a barrel up on the East Coast in the coming days.

Creating an application is a smart move for FEMA, especially given the State of most mobile networks in times of emergency. Cellular networks are quickly jammed mobile phones to make calls, as some of you probably noticed during last week's earthquake. FEMA recommends for text messages and e-mail messages when you try to connect with others, and the app just works without a data connection helps. One less thing for the network has to cope with hope means that everyone can get in touch with everyone else without too many headaches.

For more information on Hurricane Irene head over to the New York Times or check out our post with additional resources, Irene.

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OpenFeint Announces replacement UDIDs iOS

On the heels of Apple's decision to abandon the developer access to UDID (unique identifier) on the device iOS, mobile social gaming network OpenFeint offers up an alternative solution. The company announced today that it launches the single sign-on system for social game developers, which will replace UDIDs iOS.

The system will be available later this fall.

It was observed a change in the final set'S UDID access release notes for iOS5, where he was listed as "obsolete". UDID alphanumeric string that is unique to each device Apple is currently used by mobile advertising networks, gaming network, analytics providers, developers, and system testing app as TestFlight, for example. In some cases, developers use even UDID to check whether users have access to their app from the new device.

In other words this kind of change is very, very big deal.

However, with the new system, OpenFeint game developer community, at least, will have another option. Users will choose to OpenFeint's new single sign on system, which then gives the developer access to OpenFeint OFUID, a universal system for users, cross platform gaming network.

Using the OFUID, developers can examine and analyze user behavior through games in order to better understand what works within their applications and that needs to be corrected. It will also help game developers with their ad targeting efforts. All data will be anonymous to protect user privacy, OpenFeint says.

Unfortunately, unlike Apple UDID, OFUID only works when the user chooses to log on to OpenFeint. And it is clear that is not a universal replacement UDID because OpenFeint is only on mobile games.

OpenFeint Announces also the accompanying trade Setup "for developers to contribute to the new system. OpenFeint says that he will guarantee new application developers 1.5 installs for each new installation of his "game channel," a new application that the SSO system to work.

Developers interested in early access can register to participate in the new agenda here.

OpenFeint has currently over 6900 games on their network and more than 115 million registered users. It was acquired by GREE Japanese mobile games in April for $ 104 million.

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