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The second iPhone worm of the week carries with it a lot more risk than the first one. According to Intego Security, this new iPhone worm that is known as iPhone/Privacy.A uses the same hole that ikeeex found a few days ago to change the hacked iPhones’ background image into Rick Astley’s photo. The new iPhone worm, however, is a more serious one because it allows the hacker to install software without going through iTunes.

The new worm bypasses iTunes in jailbroken iPhones and iPod Touches and copy private data. These data include e-mail, contacts, SMSs, photos, music files, videos, calendar entries and saved data from apps. Intego explains:

Hackers using this tool will install it on a computer – Mac, PC, Unix or Linux – then let it work. It scans the network accessible to it, and when it finds a jailbroken iPhone, breaks into it, then steals data and records it.

This hacker tool could easily be installed, for example, on a computer on display in a retail store, which could then scan all iPhones that pass within the reach of its network. Or, a hacker could sit in an Internet café and let his computer scan all iPhones that come within the range of the wifi network in search of data. Hackers could even install this tool on their own iPhones, and use it to scan for jailbroken phones as they go about their daily business.

Intego recommends its own VirusBarrier X5 for the iPhone/Privacy.A malware. Also, you can simply change the SSH password. iPhone jailbreak is common to six to eight per cent of iPhone users.

[intego via mobilecrunch]

One would expect more ambition from a prolific manufacturer of computer monitors would be more ambitious about their portable media player. But then again, maybe this is to be expected from such a company. The VPD400 MovieBookis your basic non-touchscreen PMP. The 4.3-inch LCD display should be any less reliable than ViewSonic LCD monitors. There’s an AV out and microSD card slot. It plays 6 hours of video at a full charge or 12 hours of music. It supports 720p videos. For the 8GB you have to dish out $129.99.

video support: AVI, RM/RMVB, FLV, MP4, MOV, PMP, MPG, VOD, DAT, H.264, H.263

Audio support: MP3, WMA, WAV, FLAC, APE, OGG

[viewsonic via engadget]

Apple became the world’s most profitable handset vendor in Q3 2009. Fueled by strong volumes, high wholesale prices and tight cost controls, the PC vendor has successfully broken into the mobile phone market in just two years. What can Nokia do to regain the number one position?

Apple’s operating profit during Q3 2009 is at 1.6 billion surpassing Nokia’s $1.1 billion for the same quarter. Please note that operating profits are different from sales volume, and sales from the iTunes App Store may have spiked the revenues for the iPhone. Nevertheless, the iPhone’s profitability bode well for Apple’s future dominance in the mobile hardware industry.

[via gigaom]

We hope we had the pricing and date of availability of PMP gamer from Neoflash. The pricing is bound to be on the sweet side. As for specs, we have the following:

Screen: 3.5-inch TFT LCD 320 x 240 pixels
Video: Neo Slim 3000 plays 34 video formats directly, e.g. RM/RMVB, ASF, AVI, MP4, FLV
Music: MP3, WMA, OGG, APE, FLAC, WAV direct music playback directly with lyrics sync
Digital recorder in MP3/WAV formats
FM Radio: Worldwide FM band support, from 76.0MHz~108.0MHz
FM recording/playing multi-task. User can save up to 40 channels.
Image: IJPG, BMP GIF, PNG (zoom, rotate and image slide show function)
E-book: E-book reader with multitasking
Multiple EQ options with 3D virtual sound field, surround sound effect and play mode options, support multi-task.
Gamesupport: FC, MD, SFC, GBA at 8bit/16bit/32bit .
Memory: 2GB and with miniSD, SD/TF memory card.
Data translate: USB2.0 high speed, support WIN2000/XP/VISTA/WIN7/MAC Operation System.
Power: Built in rechargeable Li-Ion battery, support long-time running capability

[site via gmp3]

Good news for you Canadians out there as Motorola Canada has just announced the Motorola Milestone will be available in your country. Unfortunately, it won’t make it in time for Christmas. It will be released in early 2010 and will exclusively be available on Telus. What’s even better is, like the European GSM version of the Motorola Droid, the Telus Motorola Milestone will come with multitouch capabilities right out of the box. Since this is a GSM phone, the Milestone also works nicely with Telus’ brand new HSPA+ network. Apart from those enhancements, you can still expect WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, and a bundled 16GB microSD card to be part of the package. No word though on its pricing, but this big announcement alone should be good news for most people in Canada envious of their US neighbors who are already enjoying some Droid goodness right as we speak.

[via cellphones etc]

Bloomberg is reporting that the Motorola Droid didn’t do too badly during its launching weekend. The “iPhone killer” with Android 2.0 OS and real GPS and turn-by-turn voice navigation may have sold as many as 100,000 units. That’s only a tenth of the iPhone sales two years ago when the first-gen Apple phone came out, but, hey, the economy is still bad and people are saving up for Christmas. Verizon, though, doesn’t expect a million customers as it only has 200,000 Motorola Droids on the ready.

Though the Droid will probably save Moto, it’s not going to be an iPhone killer, says Citigroup’s Jim Suva. “It wasn’t as good as the iPhone, but anybody that was expecting that had their expectations too high,” he said and tells anyone who’s in the market to buy Motorola shares. Moto shares did rise a few cents after Droid’s launching.

Forecasts: the Droid may sell up to 1.3 million units in Q4 and about 9 million in 2010. Apple is expected to sell 8 million iPhone in Q4 and 28.5 million in 2010. MKM Partners are even more skeptical at the appeal of Motorola Droid among the ordinary buying public. An analyst there says the Android lacks appeal for the “average consumer.”

[source: bloomberg] photo: blogs.dallasobserver

It’s the delayed Nokia N900! No problem, right? Big problem. This Maemo-running smartphone has lost touch with reality.

[via engadget]

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I take it OPPO means to broadcast to the world that they didn’t steal the designe of the Philips Luxe Bluetooth MP3 player.

Try in the model based on the combined number of high-end perfume bottle design inspiration, the effect diagram has been revised many times, the effect of the first draft of the final map was born.

The GoGear Luxe happens to be one of our most popular search trends last year, and with good reason we believe. The OPPO X1 apparently didn’t evolve effortlessly. It’s birthing was painful, an almost epic coming out from raw idea–

Original design inspiration, was born in OPPO artists and designers in Japan, a Japanese high-end encounters the brand make-up bottles, beautiful curves and fantastic color transition, bring immense good association. To create a “beautiful,” MP3! The original dream of the resulting embryo.

to the thing of beauty that it is today. Of course, once you find the perfect design idea, you need materials:

In order to show the effect of X1-clear out the initial production of selected models of glass processing lens, but because technology to limit it only uses straight cut, not the performance of a sense of the beautiful arc cutting.Glass lens processing the idea of the cancellation.

And how to achieve the desired effect of colors on a crystalline material?

Color is the first visual impact. X1 style from the lens mounted in the middle with color-plated hollow boxes and buttons in product segmentation. Lens color design, decided to form a first impression of the product. So the color on, X1 after several attempts, from the solid color, to color, to the final gradient.

All these research means the possible SRP for the X1 Music Crystal would not be cheap–dare I say, even iPodian? Well, you have to know how to read between the lines…

The way the beautiful transformation, the birth of the music crystal OPPO X1, X-series name, a symbol of the return of sound quality, and the origin of most of the music, the most simple pursuit. Full of beauty and love of the X1, is a couple hand heart a radiance scenery.

[via imp3]