From: Mobile Hardware Report [mailto:mobilehardware@newsletter.infoworld.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 1:41 PM
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Subject: Mobile Hardware Report: First iPhone vulnerability found by security team
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| Wednesday, July 25, 2007 First iPhone vulnerability found by security teamPosted July 24, 10:11 a.m. Pacific Time Three security researchers claimed Sunday that they have found the first exploitable vulnerability in Apple's iPhone, a flaw that allows them to steal any data from the device or even to turn it into a remote surveillance tool. >> What IT staff can do if the CEO gets an iPhone Posted July 24, 5:17 a.m. Pacific Time With hundreds of thousands of iPhones flying off the shelves in the U.S. in the last three weeks -- and numerous Apple stores reporting renewed shortages of the popular device -- chances are good that IT staffers will be asked sooner or later to get an iPhone working on the corporate network. >> High-fidelity VoIP Posted July 23, 3:00 a.m. Pacific Time Not so long ago, I wrote an article on Asterisk and open source VoIP in general. In my discussion with Mark Spencer, the founder of Digium and the Asterisk project, he recommended Polycom as the phone vendor he would choose for an Asterisk deployment. In the same article, I profiled Summer Bay Resorts, which runs Asterisk across multiple call centers and hundreds of agents, all with Polycom phones. You might think Polycom is onto something. >> STRATEGIES FOR PROFITABLE GROWTH IN THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY The insurance industry continues to undergo unprecedented change due to such influences as scale, consolidation, globalization and demographics. A top priority for most carriers is service oriented architecture. This webcast will explain why SOA is important for the industry as well as the best way to plan and execute an SOA strategy. Click here. >> Dell offers free laptops with broadband subscription Posted July 20, 6:24 a.m. Pacific Time Dell has signed a deal with a U.K. mobile phone retailer to distribute free laptops with the purchase of a broadband Internet access subscription, continuing the company's push into the retail market. >> Mobile sales drop hits Motorola earnings Posted July 19, 8:24 a.m. Pacific Time Two days after it restructured operations, Motorola on Thursday reported that flagging sales of mobile devices were a factor in its second-quarter loss of $28 million, or $0.01 per share. >> Quanta mum on reported iPhone, Dell smartphone deals Posted July 24, 4:24 a.m. Pacific Time Quanta Computer, the world's largest contract laptop PC maker, is reportedly gearing up to make iPhones for Apple and a new smartphone for Dell, but the company isn't talking. >> STRATEGIES FOR PROFITABLE GROWTH IN THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY The insurance industry continues to undergo unprecedented change due to such influences as scale, consolidation, globalization and demographics. A top priority for most carriers is service oriented architecture. This webcast will explain why SOA is important for the industry as well as the best way to plan and execute an SOA strategy. Click here. >> OLPC sends laptops to production, delays release Posted July 23, 10:48 a.m. Pacific Time On Monday, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) moved a step closer to providing low-cost laptops to children in developing nations by giving the go-ahead to the mass production of its XO laptop. However, the computers are expected to be out in October, one month later than originally planned. >> Thin clients: The time is now Posted July 23, 3:00 a.m. Pacific Time Consider your current computing situation. A few hardy souls reading this are squinting at their Blackberries, cell phones, or even iPhones and scrolling furiously from screen to screen. Most of you, though, are staring at a standard computer monitor, which is tethered to a conventional, full-featured PC -- of either the desktop or notebook flavor. >> | ||
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