Android 3 – No flash on tablet before some weeks
Much excitement is being felt now in the IT press about an advertisement by the telecom carrier Verizon for Xoom, the first tablet PC Android 3, the new OS version suitable for tablet PCs.
The company announced that version 10.2 of Flash Player will be (within weeks) pre-installed on some of the tablets Android about to go out and be available for download for others.
The manufacture of the iPad 2 started
Rumors rife on the net for several months on Apple's next tablet. The Wall Street Journal in an article just confirm some of these rumors.
The newspaper, sources close to the project announced that Apple has already started with the production of the iPad 2.
Sun Ray 5.1 available
The Sun Ray is a light client created for the professional market in 1999 by Sun Microsystems.
With the acquisition of the company by Oracle, the technology is now a part of the third softwares world company. Who has announced the release of version 5.1 of the solution.
Oracle highlights the extensive support of Windows 7 security, and has improved the multimedia performances.
A flaw in IOS 4.1 allow access to personal datas
A new security flaw has been discovered in iOS: it bypasses the password that protects iOS an iPhone running 4.1.
So, the hacker can access personal data stored in the mobile.
To achieve this, it must simply enter # # # on the keypad, instead of an emergency number, then just press all the buttons lock and appeal. This causes the release of the phone application that provides access to contacts, messaging and call history.
Apparently, this flaw is exploitable from version 4.2 Beta 3 IOS. Which suggests that Apple got wind of the vulnerability and that it has corrected
Source: Video of a Brazilian hacker who gave a demonstration of the exploit:
Gemalto attack Android in court for patent infringement
The complainant, the company specializes in computer security Gemalto, has grievances against Google about "the use of Gemalto's innovation in the Android operating system, the virtual machine Dalvik, and development tools and products shareholders ".
Manufacturers of smartphones are much against them under the spotlight these days. Because the lawsuit would also take to HTC, Motorola and Samsung for the same reasons. Gemalto justifies the criticisms that are made as follows: "the patented technologies involved in this action have been developed in the 90s in Central Research and Development of Texas at Gemalto."
The company claims to hold patents essential to the use of Java as part of an OS via a device with limited resources. She also claims to have discovered and patented the JavaCard, a very popular operating system that is supported by the SIM cards and bank cards (and allows developers to program in Java for these products).
Gemalto accuses Google of using a similar technique to run Java in Android.
Source : Gemalto's press communicate
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