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iPhone virus adds botnet powers

In a similar fashion to the relatively benign ikee virus that was recently released, another iPhone virus is targeting jailbroken Australian devices and builds botnet functionality into it, according to computer security firm, Sophos. Read more »

Oracle unwraps Fusion Middleware 11g

Oracle has unveiled the next generation of its middleware suite, Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g. Read more »

Google's plans for Android's YouTube

As part of a series of blog posts, Google has released more information this week about some of the goodies we can expect out of version 1.5 of the Android operating system, which has been going by the code name Cupcake. Read more »

Google's Latitude knows where your friends are

Google has today launched software called Latitude that lets mobile phone users share their location with close contacts. Google hopes it will help people find each other while out and about and to keep track of loved ones. Read more »

Adobe CEO: Flash on iPhone not so easy

Even after months of striving, a workable version of Flash for the iPhone remains a tough nut to crack according to Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen. Read more »

Optus prepares for Android G1

Optus has been getting ready behind the scenes to support HTC's Android G1 phone, according to internal documents seen by ZDNet.com.au. Read more »

Google peeps get Android phone for Xmas

Google Australia employees — and those in many other countries — received an HTC Dream Android phone for Christmas. Read more »

Google selling unlocked Android phone

Google's Android developer team has started selling the Android Dev Phone 1, the first Android-based device unlocked to allow the use of any SIM card or software. Read more »

Adobe bringing full-fledged Flash to phones

Inspired by a new generation of smartphones, Adobe Systems has begun a new, higher-power effort to spread its Flash technology to mobile devices. Read more »

Google details 'reboot' bug, Android security fixes

Google has begun releasing some details about the vulnerabilities it patched in two updates to Google's Android operating system software in the T-Mobile G1 smartphone. Read more »

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10 reasons why open source makes sense on smartphones

Open source brings a host of benefits to the mobile market, starting with cost savings but the advantages go much further — from better security to more customisation options to more prolific application development. Read more »

10 predictions for Linux and open source in 2009

The new year holds a great deal of promise for the Linux OS and open source software -- from an explosion in the mobile arena to large-enterprise scalability to widespread adoption of OpenOffice 3. Read more »

A Quickstart to Erlang

If any language could be said to be ideally placed to deal with the challenges of the next 10 years it's Erlang. Designed from the ground up to take advantage of parallel and multi-core architectures, and natively supporting distributed systems coding, Erlang is a valuable addition to your programming skill set. Read more »

Copy Oracle's Automatic Storage Management files with DBMS_FILE_TRANSFER

Oracle's Automatic Storage Management (ASM), introduced in Oracle 10g, provides an alternative to raw disk devices for storing Oracle-related files. Read more »

Capture changes using Oracle 10g's new row timestamps

In Oracle 10g, a new pseudocolumn called ORA_ROWSCN is available on every row that approximates when the row was last updated. ORA_ROWSCN gives a "conservative upper bound" system change number for the transaction that last modified the row. Read more »

Ask the Java expert: Develop mobile apps

Want to start developing applications for Java phones? Builder AU's resident Java expert, Michael Geisler shows you how to get started. Read more »

New Oracle10g SQL optimizer hints

With the introduction of Oracle 10g, there are many new optimizer hints available to control optimizer behavior. Take a quick tour of these powerful new hints. Read more »

Wireless Visionary: Wi-Fi speeds into the future

Although Wi-Fi has turned into one of the hottest young technologies, Vic Hayes says the real excitement will start after the computer industry hurdles the 100mbps speed barrier. Read more »

Bluesocket Wireless Gateway: Wireless security savior?

The words "wireless" and "security" usually don't fit into a sentence without a wry chuckle added in there. A new generation of wireless security devices aims to change that perception. Read more »

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New iPhone: More monkeys from Sega

At Apple WWDC 2008 in San Francisco, Ethan Einhorn of Sega shows off a new and improved 'Super Monkey Ball' for the iPhone, complete with 4 monkeys and 110 stages. Read more »

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Jobs unveils GPS for the 3G iPhone

At Apple's WWDC 2008 in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs demonstrates GPS on the new 3G iPhone. Jobs shows how an iPhone travelling in a car going down San Francisco's famously crooked Lombard Street can be tracked as its user navigates the curves. Read more »

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iPhone 3G makes its debut

At Apple WWDC 2008, Steve Jobs reveals the iPhone 3G with faster download speeds, longer battery life, GPS, a lower price, and a near worldwide release on 11 July. Read more »

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Opera Mini 4.2 shakes off its Android beta

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- The final release of Opera Mini 4.2 for Google Android adds regular features of the Java browser that were disabled in its November beta version. Read more »

China poised for 3G

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- A major overhaul of the telecommunications industry in China will clear the way for 3G services to possibly over half a billion mobile phones. Read more »

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