TechWeb Mobile & Wireless Update - Monday, Aug 3, 2009
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*Apple Fixes iPhone SMS Vulnerability
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*iPhone OS 3.0 Leads To Wi-Fi Use Surge
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*HTC Lowers Revenue Forecast
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*Motorola Plans Low-Cost Android Phones
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*Skype Software Flap Threatens Its Future
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Apple Fixes iPhone SMS Vulnerability
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Moving to close a hole revealed at the Black Hat security conference on Thursday, Apple has released iPhone OS 3.0.1.
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Image Gallery: Virgin Galactic's Spaceship And Carrier
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The founder of the world's first spaceline, Richard Branson, said it will be ready to transport people and satellites into space in about a year and a half.
Shuttle Glides To Safe Landing
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Endeavour completes 16-day mission with spot on touchdown.
Windows 7 Gets Auto-Upgrade Switch
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Microsoft's Windows Anytime Upgrade program lets users migrate to a premium version of the OS with a mouse click.
Researchers To Unleash New SMS Hacking Tool At Black Hat
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iPhone-based auditing tool tests mobile phones for vulnerabilities to SMS-borne attacks
FCC Asks Apple, AT&T About Google App
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Apple and AT&T have been targeted in an antitrust probe for allegedly denying iPhone owners access to an application made by Google, federal officials say.
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Silver Lake's Hutchins Touts the Cloud, Social Networking as Mega-Trends
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Private equity veteran predicts slow recovery but urges financial industry to invest in technology and innovation at SunGard City Day event.
BAI Retail Delivery News: HP Sees Infrastructure as Key to Branch Transformation
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HP launches Banking Innovation Center to show potential impact of emerging technologies.
UBS Joins DTCC Managed Accounts Service
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iPhone OS 3.0 Leads To Wi-Fi Use Surge
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AT&T says it saw a 41% increase last quarter in iPhone connections at wireless hotspots.
HTC Lowers Revenue Forecast
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The smartphone maker is feeling the heat from a downward trend in handset pricing and from China's delay in rolling out its 3G network.
Motorola Plans Low-Cost Android Phones
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Motorola says it will use Google's Android platform to make smartphones at feature phone prices.
Skype Software Flap Threatens Its Future
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A licensing dispute over crucial peer-to-peer technology licensed to the VOIP-provider may halt eBay's Skype operations -- and IPO plans.
Apple Doubles Time Capsule Capacity, Cuts Pricing
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Apple added a new model to the Time Capsule line, which combines backup storage with a Wi-Fi base station. The company also cut pricing to the existing Time Capsule.
Apple Shows Google The Web Hasn't Won
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The Web may be the platform of the future, but at the moment, Web development technology doesn't provide Google with a way around Apple's ban on its Google Voice app.
Carriers Respond To Bans On Texting While Driving
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The four major wireless operators agree that the practice is dangerous, but not all believe national legislation is the best way to solve the problem.
LG Reveals Latest 'Chocolate' Phone
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The handset's 4-inch, high-quality touch screen is geared toward watching videos and viewing Web pages on the go.
Alcatel-Lucent Reports $19.7 Million Profit
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The communications equipment supplier's stock rose on news of its first profit in more than two years.
Facebook May Be Friending Android
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Google's Android platform may soon become too big for the social networking giant to ignore.
RIM Releases Developer Tool For BlackBerry
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Mobile app makers can test and debug BlackBerry programs that use HTML, CSS, Ajax, Silverlight, Ruby on Rails, and other rich Internet applications.
Motorola Delivers Unexpected 2Q Profit
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The mobile phone maker is placing a big bet on its commitment to release handsets based on Google's Android platform in time for the holiday season.
Black Hat: Android, iPhone SMS Flaws Revealed
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Security researchers have identified several SMS vulnerabilities that can be used to deny service to mobile phones. They're presenting on Thursday but their findings have been published.
Lawmakers Aim At Texting While Driving
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The proposed legislation would reduce federal highway funding for states that don't ban texting or sending e-mails while driving.
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Agiliance and PricewaterhouseCoopers Team Up to Automate GRC Processes
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Agiliance and PwC are leveraging the synergy of the PwC domain experience in GRC, internal controls, and information security consulting services and Agiliance's technology for the open, scalable delivery of GRC automation.
Thomson Reuters Acquires Vhayu
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Market data giant will be able to offer new event stream processing applications for pre-trade analytics and devising trading strategies.
Set Top Shipments To Top 200M By 2013
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Many consumers are interested in a set-top box that connects to their PC and Internet.
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