Sunday | 12 October, 2008
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    Nokia challenges developers to think outside the phone 02/10/2008 11:55:00

    You'd be wise to learn what a Nokia Series 60 handset can do before you settle on a mobile platform
    You don't have to be a programmer to be a mobile innovator. All you need to do is open your eyes to the fact that a smart phone or QWERTY handset is a personal computer, sans legacy baggage. In the future, user-facing computers will have more in common with the high-end mobile devices of today than with the eight-core desktops and quad-core notebooks of 2009.
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    SDK shoot-out: Android vs. iPhone 26/09/2008 09:52:00

    Apple and Google differ along familiar lines with their smartphone development kits
    InfoWorld has been all over this week's official launch of Android, the new smartphone platform from Google. With its slick interface and open application platform, Android shows every sign of giving Apple's iPhone a run for its money when the first phones begin shipping in late October.
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    First look at the T-Mobile G1 25/09/2008 12:25:00

    The first smartphone based on Google's Android marries a sophisticated HTC handset with software features that outmaneuver iPhone
    On October 22, T-Mobile will reap the benefits of its founding membership in the Open Handset Alliance. Through an exclusive partnership with Google and Asian handset manufacturer HTC, the T-Mobile G1 will become the first shipping mobile device based on the Android platform.
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    5 reasons why the Android phone isn't game-changing 24/09/2008 09:54:00

    An impressive open-source base phone, but won't become game-changing until another carrier starts to support the device
    T-Mobile, HTC and Google launched the "world's first Android-powered mobile phone" today and proudly announced that this phone was going to be "game-changing". But after reading details on the phone, the service and some of the new applications, I'm left wondering where the game is actually changing.
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    I want my mobile social address book 22/09/2008 09:12:00

    We have the technology. We even have the data. So why are we still using business cards?
    Business cards are as obsolete as fax machines. And like fax machines, business cards have us still using paper to move electronic data from one digital system to another.
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    Next-generation mobile is all about the cloud 22/09/2008 11:06:00

    The cloud businesses need is a cross between RIM's BlackBerry network and Apple's MobileMe -- and completely standards-based
    "Cloud" has a special place in my hit parade of despised neo-techno-vernacular. Unlike Web 2.0, my all-time favorite, at least "cloud" is somewhat self-descriptive: Formless, vaporous, and a semi-reliable indicator of climatic conditions. If you point at a round, puffy cloud and declare that it looks like a pitchfork, and someone with you nods and says, "Cool, I can see that," the forecast is mostly patronizing with zero vision and periodic sucking up. You're in trustworthy company if that person says, "Are you blind?" If someone in a meeting refers to a cloud, or worse still, the cloud, don't nod just to keep the conversation going. Consider it your duty to ask them to define the term.
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    Predicting Wi-Fi performance: Can it be done? 19/09/2008 09:57:00

    To begin with, additional budget allocations should be made to allow for unforeseen coverage or capacity issues.
    Whenever I plan and configure an enterprise WLAN system, I always advise that an additional 10 to 20 percent of the capital budget be reserved for expansion and filling in holes in coverage or capacity that couldn't be anticipated during the planning process.
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    Sarah Palin demonstrates the peril of webmail 18/09/2008 12:35:00

    A hacked webmail account highlights the risk of trusting too much information to a service that may not be as secure as you.
    If you needed any more reminders about why it isn't a good idea to use external mail services to conduct critical business, the recent break-in to US Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin's gov.palin@yahoo.com Yahoo inbox should be it. Of note is that following the disclosure of the inboxes the compromised address and another address, gov.sarah@yahoo.com, have been suspended.
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    Mobile social networking goes mainstream 18/09/2008 08:38:00

    The tipping point for business social networking via mobile phones happened this week. Did you feel it?
    Two weeks ago, I shared my belief in this space that mobile social networking will become the most important business technology since e-mail.
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    'Whaling' threats target the big fish of the corporate world 10/09/2008 14:50:00

    Whaling has increasingly been in the news thanks to the ingenious ways a new breed of phishermen collect data to carry out scams and the move towards targeting business networking sites.
    The proliferation and popularity of collaborative Web 2.0 sites – there are around 250,000 new registrations to Facebook everyday – has changed the threat landscape and the way businesses need to think about security. Each year, newer technologies and weapons are being unleashed to leave Web users surprised, annoyed and at greater risk.‘Whaling’ or ‘spear phishing’, is one such threat and refers to phishing scams which specifically target high-worth individuals.
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    Elgan: Got a subnotebook? Get Ubiquity 08/09/2008 08:58:00

    Cramped laptop keyboards, tiny screens are easy to use thanks to new Mozilla software
    Cheap and tiny subnotebook computers have become, well, ubiquitous. Dell is the latest company to ship one, joining a list that includes ASUS, Acer, Everex, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, LG, MSI and many others.
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