http://www.computerworld.com.au Mobility & Wireless by Computerworld en-us Copyright 2009, IDG Communications, for personal use only, not for redistribution without permission. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:40:02 +1000 60 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1674928030&rid=-300 Apple is working to fix an iPhone vulnerability that could allow an attacker to remotely install and run unsigned software code with root access to the phone. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:59:00 +1000 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=192228782&rid=-300 The Symbian Foundation expects to begin beta testing of a new version of its mobile phone operating system within the next few weeks. Symbian, the first version of the software since the foundation said it planned to go open source, should be ready for release six months after that, so smartphone buyers may see the first devices using the software in the first half of next year. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:48:00 +1000 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1848902978&rid=-300 Customer forum complaints about shoddy hardware in the recently released Palm Pre are hard to put in perspective, analysts said today, considering it is a first-generation device that still has promise for its new WebOS. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:15:00 +1000 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1298521574&rid=-300 Moblin is an Intel-created open-source operating system for netbooks and, specifically, the kind of people who use them. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +1000 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=530742205&rid=-300 Less than a week after the iPhone app developer behind Hottest Girls was busted for distributing pornographic material on the iPhone, another perpetrator sneaked in and posted what is purported to be a photo of a nude 15-year-old girl to its iPhone app. The app, named BeautyMeter, has been removed in line with Apple's policy against pornographic material. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:05:00 +1000 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=271667640&rid=-300 Every few months, some new hopeful to the smartphone market will garner enough hype where various media outlets will dub it an "iPhone killer". Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:09:00 +1000 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=423868496&rid=-300 Some Palm Pre owners are complaining about poor hardware quality of the phones, with at least one person saying that he's already had to return four devices. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:00:00 +1000 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1533738817&rid=-300 Only two weeks after launching the 3.0 software update for iPhone and iPod Touch, Apple is now working hard on delivering an update to the iPhone OS. The iPhone SDK 3.1 beta has been pushed out to developers last night, which already reported a few new features and refinements. Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:47:00 +1000 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1910510846&rid=-300 Nokia's latest-generation Nseries phone, the N97, was released today officially beginning the era of programmable widgets and the bundling of the Ovi apps and content store. Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:52:00 +1000 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1737113608&rid=-300 What goes up must come down, and lately what's coming down are netbooks, as more and more articles talk about the compact computers disappointing customers. However, we can't blame netbooks for that. We can only blame vendors who overhype and customers who underbuy. Before you buy a smaller, cheaper and less powerful netbook, determine if you need a notebook instead. If so, you can spend about the same money and get more power, albeit in a larger package. Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:06:00 +1000