Source: RCRNEWS
SAN DIEGO, Calif.—Wireless Facilities Inc. announced it will sell $45 million worth of its preferred stock in a private placement to investment funds managed by Oak Investment Partners and Meritech Capital Partners, the company's two largest sources of pre-public venture capital, and to Sean Tayebi, brother of the company's founder and chief executive officer.
IBM developerWorks just finished a three part series on securing PDAs. The first deals with the inner working of the Palm’s new Secure Socket Layer. The second is an overview of denial of service attacks and viruses.
I've been watching CellPhoneHacks.com for the past few weeks, I joined their mailing list to be notified when the site went live and i just got a e-mail saying it was online. Any hacker will a cellphone has to love this site, the layout is sweet, the only thing it needs is the people right now so I thought I'd notify ya'll! Its a discussion board for cell phone hacks all models. Seems the main thing on the site is discussion of the codes and theres room for cloning, unlocking, modding, sims, and other hacks. Check it out.
IBM just released an article called "The speed demon: 3G telecommunications" that takes a look at some of the technical details of the transition from 2G to 3G wireless. Instead of being just hype, the author looks at a high-level architecture study of 3G or UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication System) and compares it to 2G and 2.5G. Great technical article for anyone wanted to understand what's going on.
IBM developerWorks just released this article on location-based wireless services - combining GPS with cell phones, cars, etc. The article even provides a little code to see what the data formats may look like.
The New York Times ran this article on IBM's Infoscope(free registration needed), a handheld devises that translates languages through the Internet. What’s really nice is that the device has a camera so you just point it at text and it will translate. This looks like a combination of alphaWorks Machine Translator and Pervasive Computing.
Source: Network World Fusion
Later this year, enterprise users of Palm OS devices for the first time will get a fully equipped Web browser with the Palm OS operating system.
A release of the upcoming Palm OS 5 will feature a "traditional" Web browser to enable users to access the whole of the Web, said Steve Sakoman, chief product officer of PalmSource, Palm's operating system division. PalmSource is licensing the browser from a third party that he declined to name.
Source: The Register
Palm finally has a modern, 32bit operating system to boast about, but has staggered the roadmap so that most of the gain - and most of the pain for developers - is deferred until the next major release.
"The next OS release will be even bigger - a lot bigger in terms of new APIs," said PalmSource's David Fetter. PalmSource is the new name for the software side of Palm, Inc.
