Archive for August, 2008

Got password protection enabled on your Apple iPhone? Recently we’ve discovered there’s a real easy way for attackers to skip the password prompt screen and get access to your contacts, browse the Internet, read all your e-mails, and even make a calls. Luckily, there’s a fix/patch released for that security hole.

According to Ars Technica, posters on the MacRumors forums discovered the security hole, and it’s a pretty big one.

After a buzz of leaks, the rumor about Palm Treo Pro finally got approved. At first glance, it’s a one slick smartphone, although you’ll have to ‘provide’ a pretty bucks to get this Palm Treo Pro.

Firstly, let’s get to the roots. This Palm Treo Pro is indeed, as expected, operated by Windows Mobile handset Pro version 6.1, which includes mobile versions of Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint, and Palm itself plans to sell it directly, starts from $549 for an unlocked version of it. The “unlocked” term here means no contract, good news for everyone who doesn’t want to be tied with a carrier for two years.

Some news sources are reporting that T-Mobile will launch the touchscreen version of G1 (Google Android Phone)— this ultimate Google Android expected this year for the U.S. market—as early as next month, is this the Apple iPhone killer, anyone?

You can found more detailed stories about the G1 on Wired News, this G1 (Google Android Phone) described as a touchscreen phone with a full slide-out, full-QWERTY keypad, a roomy 5′x3′-inch display, a nice 3MegaPix camera, and access to T-Mobile’s nascent 3G network which, for now only run in New York included Las Vegas.

The Researchers and Scientists in the US and Japan said that they are one step closer in development materials that could render people invisible. As exampe, the scientists at the University of California in Berkeley have developed a material that can bend light around 3D objects making them looks “disappear”. The materials do not occur naturally but have been created on a nano technology (nano scale), measured about billionths of a meter.

The researchers says the principles could one day be scaled up to make invisibility cloaks large enough to make people become invisible to normal eyes..

A leading company in network security applications, Trusted Computer Solutions (TCS), has recently announced upgrades to one of its most well known applications, Security Blanket. The application is capable of allowing administrators to configure and manage their network as well as lock it down if needed.  The system communicates through network cables which transmit the security information all throughout the network.  The application runs on Linux operating system and announced new and improved compliance features. The reasoning behind the enhanced features of the security application is for the protection of companies that handle and process credit card transactions. This is virtually everyone in today’s business world.  Here are a few of the highlights of the new and improved Security Blanket:  

• Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) - helps companies to prevent credit card fraud and other forms of credit security threats.
• Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) - allows Security Blanket to automatically lock-down any unused ports and services on the operating system.
• Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) - Allows the application to gather information, store it centrally, and then protect it from cyberwarfare/cyberterrorism. 

While you’re busy with shopping and many other things, a mobile phone company T-Mobile just launched a whole brand new model Sidekick that’s both can afford by you and totally user customizable. -Video Reviews Here-


This little gadget called Sidekick has gone by quite few other names before as example LX, Slide and Sidekick 3, but this whole new model is simply named T-Mobile Sidekick, but many have been calling it as “Gekko” but not “Gecko” in “InternetGecko” ok, Just joking. T-Mobile Sidekick has been called “Gekko” since its details information hit the Internet.