Monthly Archives: December 2008

Lenovo OPhone

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Its on news again that Lenovo lunched its new Mobile Phone named Ophone. Is it true? or a hoax again? A small search in Google and Lenovo’s official site doesn’t return any result which we can trust.

At engadgetmobile, they showed us some pics of that piece of really cool looking mobile, but they can be easily faked. As long as we don’t get any official statement, we can not be 100% sure.

Lenovo OPhone

Lenovo OPhone

This mobile is expecting to run on Google’s Android Operating System which infact is a good OS for Mobiles and PDAs and can compete with Symbian Series OS.

It is powered by a good speedy 624MHz CPU and 3.5″ OLED display. The touchscreen navigation interface putting it closer to Apples’s iPhone, though we learn that its longer, wider and thicker then iPhone.

Its also has 3.5mm headphone socket, mini USB interface, bluetooth and WiFi for connectivity and a powerful 5 Megapixel camera.

With no official announcement of release, we better wait and watch till it comes out to the market.

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Need a Ride? Tap your iPhone

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Soon you may no longer need to stick out your thumb to catch a ride. Instead, you may get one by tapping your fingers on your iPhone.

Avego, based in Kinsale, Ireland, is demonstrating an iPhone application intended to let drivers and prospective passengers connect and share rides.

Avego

Avego

When the program is available, drivers who want to offer rides will first download the application, then record their preffered route, said Sean O’Sullivan, MD of Avego and Executive Chairman of Mapflow, Avego’s parent company, based in Dublin. “You put the iPhone on the dashboard, and records the entire trip and sends the route to our network,” he said. The system stores the route, adding it to it’s menu of paths and pick-up points and offering them and offering them autometically to interested riders.

Drivers must have an iPhone in order to use the service, but if passengers don’t, they still will be able to look for a ride in Avego’s website or call or send a text message, O’Sullival said. Drivers and riders can identify one another by photographs displayed on their iPhones, as well as by PINs that verify identities and authorize the transaction.

Avego will charge 30 cents a mile, he said, with 85% going to the driver to recover some of the commuting costs and 15% to the company. All payments will be handled by automated online accounting. It will take a while to establish the critical mass of drivers and passengers, O’Sullivan acknowledged. But he hopes that the chance to defray expenses will change the entrenched habits of many drivers who tresure their solitude.

“It will require behaviour changes on the part of drivers and riders,” he said.

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Hackers using Antivirus to sneak into computers

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Computer Hacker

Computer Hacker

If you are using AVG, F-Secure (F-Prot), Sophos, ClamAV, Bit Defender, Avast, NOD32 or any such easy to download antivirus software for your PC, its time you sat up and took notice. An information security company setup by IIT Kharagpur engineers has found hackers using antivirus to break into the system.

“An attacker first crafts an email with malicious payload and sends it to the target user. When the email is scanned by the vulnerable anitivirus, it either crashes the antivirus software or executes arbitrary code resulting in complete security bypass and remote system compromise,” said iViZ Vice President Bala Girisaballa.

Home PCs apart, companies and business in banking, finance and insurance, IT/ITES and consulting, online retail, ecommerce, manufacturing, telecommunications and R&D are highly susceptible to such risks. If the antivirus crashes it can even cause remote system compromise. Attackers can steal information or cause ‘Denial of Service’ condition.

The company’s vulnerability research team that conducts extensive research on attack techniques and checks robustness of applications and networks by trying to penetrate them periodically discovered that several popular commercial and open source antivirus software were vulnerable to attacks. Incidentally, iViZ’s Green Cloud Security is the world’s only on-demand penetration testing for vulnerability.
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