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Location-Based Services: How they Work

finid — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:04:23 +0000

A typical mobile phone contains a whole bunch of communication information which tells the mobile phone what network operator your mobile phone is connected with, and how to optimize your mobile signal in order to ascertain the best signal strength. You can usually access all this information by typing in a special character combination on your mobile phone which will take you to the engineering information screen.

LiMo Foundation adds Eleven New Members

finid — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:17:44 +0000

Since it was publicly announced in January 2007, the LiMo Foundation has been steadily adding new names to it's membership roster. Today, it announced that eleven new companies have joined the foundation, bringing its membership total to more than 50. All eleven listed companies joined the foundation as Associate Members. Some of them - Esmertec, Telecom Italia, and PacketVideo Corporation (PV) , are also member-companies of the Open Handset Alliance, the organization overseeing the development of the Android platform. In addition to Esmertec, Telecom Italia, and PacketVideo Corporation (PV). some of the core members of the Android platform - NTT DoCoMo, Samsung, and Motorola, are founding members of the LiMo Foundation. So while the LiMo Foundation's members list has been growing, the Android platform has yet to add a new member since the first or second week after it was launched in October, 2007.

Movial Joins LiMo Foundation

finid — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:23:58 +0000

Movial joins the LiMO Foundation, and contributes Browser D-Bus Bridge to the Open Source Community

Locle: LBS without GPS

finid — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:00:20 +0000

Locle is a mobile application that allows you to see where your contacts are without using GPS. It's a new service, with very little information on the company's website. Here's the complete description of the service that you'll find on the company's website:

Open Source and Cloud Computing

finid — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:23:21 +0000

Read Tim O'Reilly's thoughts about open source and cloud computing. It's an insightful look into these two key areas of modern technology

Why free software and Apple’s iPhone don’t mix

finid — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:58:06 +0000

The iPhone is not a "phone" any more than my laptop computer is a phone. The iPhone can make phone calls, but so can my laptop.

AdMob iPhone Developer Program

finid — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:50:12 +0000

AdMob's iPhone Developer Program carries a price tag of $1.0 million, but that's not $1.0 million cash. Rather, AdMob will select upto "200 iPhone developers to receive $5,000 in AdMob advertising credit to acquire traffic for their web & native apps".

Fortify’s Open Source Security Study: It’s All FUD

finid — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:12:22 +0000

This is our final response to what we consider misleading statements by Fortify in their recently released report

Ribbit Acquired by BT

finid — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:59:58 +0000

Ribbit, the Internet telephony company has been acquired by BT for an amount that we consider to be very cheap.

Open Source Security Study: Fortify Got it Wrong

finid — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:50:19 +0000

Several bloggers have already reported on the Open Source Security Study released by Fortify's Security Research Group (and Larry Suto), but we are yet to see anyone take an in-depht look at the study itself. This is our attempt to take a closer look at the study titled "How Are Open Source Development Communities Embracing Security Best Practices?". The study which was released as an 11-page report, is free to download from the company's website. We'll analyze some of the statements and conclusions made in the report, and also look at a couple of the "Open Source Development Communities" that the study surveyed. If you want to undertake a study of a certain group of applications, and given the sweeping and misleading conclusions that the report reached, I think it makes sense to make a comparative study of their closed source equivalents. But, no, Fortify chose to exclude "Freeware projects that are not open source". And for the open source applications that they studied (see the list above), Fortify found that "few open source projects provide" access to security resources, which the study identified as:

Locify: Exploring from your mobile phone

finid — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:28:51 +0000

Locify is a location-based service that allows anyone with a supported phone to explore places of interest from "Wikipedia, seek for geocaches, display map where you are (or you want to go), twitter you location, save interesting places from phone or web sync them and even navigate to them".

Android Polling Application

finid — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:28:18 +0000

An Android polling application from Mastiff Tech, a consulting and development service provider based in Mumbai, India. The polling application is their first for Android.