Source: ZDNet
Sharp has announced a new Linux-based handheld for the Japanese market.
The company introduced the device at a press conference in Tokyo on Monday. The Zaurus SL-A300 uses the Linux operating system and will be available in Japan starting July 12 for 50,000 yen ($411).
Anyone wanting to get deeper into Palm development may want to checkout these two tutorials on microcontroller. This first tutorial presents an introduction to microcontroller application design and development, and includes both hardware and software components in the design of a functional sample application.
Last week we wrote about an OGG home stereo component being developed. Now comes news from theKompany.com that they have developed an application for the Linux-based Sharp Zaurus that will turn that PDA into the first OGG Vorbis portable.
There is a story over at Think Mobile about a company that says they have a blackberry killer. What is most amazing is that they say their software will work on any firewall/proxy configuration with little or no setup needed.
Source: Iwon.com
Israeli Internet security firm Check Point Software Technologies (CHKP) on Thursday launched a line of new products that will protect wireless Web surfing using handheld computers.
Source: The Register
The Handspring Treo, a combined phone, Palm OS organiser, wireless web browser, SMS & email device, has arrived in the UK.
The Treo is available in the UK from BT Cellnet at £299 including VAT, or without connection at £499 (including VAT). If you live in other European countries, you can buy one for euro 699 (excluding tax).
Here's what we wrote about the Treo when it announced, back in October:
Nothing moves fast in the world of encryption, which may help explain why the U.S. is only now about to leave 56-bit DES behind for new encryption schemes.
It's been a long time coming, almost 20 years, in fact. The Data Encryption Standard has long outlived its usefulness. But the new Advanced Encryption Standard sets out key lengths of 128, 192, and 256 bits. How much stronger is AES? The National Institutes of Standards and Technology says a machine that could crack DES in just one second would need 149 trillion years to do the same to a 128-bit AES key.
Source: Linux Security
Ironically, winning possession of computer equipment on the battlefield may be the easy part; terrorists today have the capacity to protect data with encryption schemes that not even America's high-tech big guns can crack. The number of possible keys in the new 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), for example, is 1 followed by 77 zeros -- a figure comparable to the total number of atoms in the universe.
Source: CIO Magazine
AS MYSTICS SEARCH for the lost island of Atlantis and UFO buffs seek out alien spacecraft, cryptologists are continuing their own quest to create an unbreakable code.
Michael Rabin, a Harvard University computer science professor, believes he has moved cryptology a step closer to its Holy Grail by developing a code that's undecipherable, even by those who have access to both the cypher text and unlimited computing power.
