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When Google first launched its TV service, LogiTech introduced the first-ever set-top-box for the platform named the Revue. Logically, everyone who was interested in Apps on TV jumped on it – sadly, the press didn’t like it too much.

Some three weeks ago, BroadbandTV reported the following:

Logitech’s Revue set-top box for Google TV was a ‘big mistake’, according to Guerrino De Luca, chairman and acting chief executive of Logitech

Fortunately, it now looks as we will get two new, far larger hardware vendors on board:

Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics are expected to launch Google TV next year. But only LG will show its models at the 2012 CES in Las Vegas.

Yoon Boo-keun, chief of Samsung’s TV division, said on Tuesday to the Korean press that the company is in final talks with Google about when to release the hot new gadget. “We will announce the launch date at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January.”

Samsung already showed a prototype of Google TV at last year’s CES, but did not bring any sets to the market. …

With Microsoft increasing the ad pressure for its XBox all over Europe, we could be in for an interesting fight. What do you think?

When Google first launched its TV service, LogiTech introduced the first-ever set-top-box for the platform named the Revue. Logically, everyone who was interested in Apps on TV jumped on it - sadly, the press didn't like it too much. Some three weeks ago, BroadbandTV reported the following: Logitech’s Revue set-top box for Google TV was a ...

The history of mobile malware started out on Palm OS. Attackers then moved on to Symbian, and now play around on Android and iOS.

At the Vienniese deepsec conference, the following slide was presented by McAfee:

Not much to add here…

The history of mobile malware started out on Palm OS. Attackers then moved on to Symbian, and now play around on Android and iOS. At the Vienniese deepsec conference, the following slide was presented by McAfee: Not much to add here...

Mobile security has been a topic ever since this network was opened – so far, no really large breakout has taken place.

Canalys has now released the following press release – as always, highlighting was added by yours truly:

Canalys today announced its updated worldwide mobile security forecast, estimating an average investment growth of 44.2% per year, reaching $759.8 million by the end of 2011 and turning into a $3 billion market opportunity in 2015.[1]

According to Canalys figures, only 4% of smart phones and pads shipped in 2010 had some form of mobile security downloaded and installed, highlighting a low end-user awareness level and the relative infancy of the market. Mobile security uptake is anticipated to rise rapidly over the next four years, as enterprises conform more strictly to data protection and compliance practices, and consumers begin to understand the impending security threat to their personal data. Canalys forecasts that by 2015 over 20% of smart phones and pads will have mobile security software installed.

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Mobile security has been a topic ever since this network was opened - so far, no really large breakout has taken place. Canalys has now released the following press release - as always, highlighting was added by yours truly: Canalys today announced its updated worldwide mobile security forecast, estimating an average investment growth of 44.2% per ...

This was intended as an internal broadcast – but it makes good food for tought for the general public, too

Something is borked up with the case below – the retainer is all over the place. What a rotten case:

In fact, dear readers, this case is a-ok. It has just taken the brunt of an Austrian rioter who miscalculated a turn and rammed his riot-o-mobile (more fashionable name for bike) straight into a detachment of press photographers, yours truly included. As the rear end of yours truly hit the floor, so did the Palm Treo 680 then found in my pouch. In fact, I partially landed on the Treo (in its case)…and the device survived.

A case is intended to protect your device from catastrophic incidents like the one above! 30€ at Proporta’s, and the 300€ Treo was ready for the next riot. The case didn’t fail; it did an excellent job.

P.S. If a case has been strongly deformed once, resist the temptation to bend it in shape. It won’t be able to “take up” as much force as it could take up the first time…

This was intended as an internal broadcast - but it makes good food for tought for the general public, too Something is borked up with the case below - the retainer is all over the place. What a rotten case: In fact, dear readers, this case is a-ok. It has just taken the brunt of an ...

Before the PlayBook tablet by Research in Motion, ActionScript was a language mainly used by Flash designers for adding a bit of “brains” to their animations. Unfortunately, the BlackBerry tablet changed that – ActionScript now is interesting for classic programmers, too. Can O’Reilly’s classic satisfy the needs of this clientele?

The first chapters are best described as Programming for Dummies – not only do they show the syntax of AS, they also explain the concepts behind the idioms in painstaking detail. Seasoned IT vets will have issues not falling asleep here…

Part 2 focuses onh all things graphics: topics like pixel graphics, vector graphics and motion are explained in considerable detail. This treatise is very interesting, and contains many examples. However, it suffers from two weaknesses: first of all, it is focused on people programming games or graphic demos. The second and more significant weakness is the dependency on Flash CS – if you use Flash Builder, many of the examples can not be used.

Text, Sound and video get one chapter each. The same is valid for file IO and XML processing.

Our review is based on the second edition of the book. As usual for O’Reilly, it is well-written and contains loads of images. This time, the book is printed in color:

All in all, the book provides a great overview of the possibilities of ActionScript. Unfortunately, it is not perfectly suited for PlayBook developers – it does not explain the QNX controls or the Flash Builder IDE. However, developers who need to create a PlayBook app ASAP should invest the 32$ the book costs at Amazon’s – there is no better way to get up to speed with ActionScript quickly…

Before the PlayBook tablet by Research in Motion, ActionScript was a language mainly used by Flash designers for adding a bit of "brains" to their animations. Unfortunately, the BlackBerry tablet changed that - ActionScript now is interesting for classic programmers, too. Can O'Reilly's classic satisfy the needs of this clientele? The first chapters are ...

Traditionally, the idea of a network service provider is the transmission of data packets – whatever in it, the carrier is not concerned. In fact, Austrian law even acknowledges this fact specifically…which is quite a feat.

Unfortunately, T-Mobile of Germany seems to have found a way to fuxate even something as simple as serving TCP/IP packets. HagensTechiBlog reports that the operator modifies HTML data, packing external CSS files into the HTML file.

The damages of this process are obvious: not only is caching eliminated, it furthermore makes page rendering slower as the whole CSS has to be downloaded before HTML arrives.

Find out more via the URL below – even though the page is in German, the screenshots are HTML and CSS:
http://blog.sky-bizz.com/2010/12/24/umts-via-t-mobile-doppelte-ubertragungsmenge-als-via-dslmodem/

Traditionally, the idea of a network service provider is the transmission of data packets - whatever in it, the carrier is not concerned. In fact, Austrian law even acknowledges this fact specifically...which is quite a feat. Unfortunately, T-Mobile of Germany seems to have found a way to fuxate even something as simple as serving TCP/IP ...