David Ansermot Web Developer / TYPO3 Integrator

27oct/100

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:

Video of bug on Vimeo

26août/100

Xmarks available for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad

Xmarks LogoI'm sure that you know  Firefox's addon called Xmarks. It allow you to synchronize your bookmarks with other browsers (as Safari, etc.).
Now you can use it on you Apple mobile device to get your bookmarks and use them with Safari Mobile.

Available on the AppStore for $0,99.
I got it and I'm a fan !!

Source  : Xmarks official site

2août/100

AndroidMarket rise above the 100’000 applications

The figure is more symbolic than historical. But it still reflects, among other signs, the success of Google's mobile OS, especially among the developer community.
According AndroLib, a company that has made a specialty of analyzing the Android Market, the gallery of the OS just to rise above the 100,000 applications.

The second is that the company includes in its assessment of applications (about 18,000) who have subsequently been withdrawn (including malicious applications that used the Android flaws revealed at Black Hat Conference for the last?).

The number of downloadable applications has substantially exceeded one billion.

An impressive figure which does not suffer him, no comment.

Source : AndroLib Report

7avr/100

Thursday : iPhone’s OS 4.0 presentation

This Thursday there will be a highly anticipated event by all the media and fans of Apple: OS 4.0 of the iPhone.

After the announcement and the sale of the iPad, Apple launched a new media coup.

Since the success of the iPhone and immeasurable returns mixed (though generally positive) of the iPad, the media are impatient to know more about the features implemented in the new version of the operating system iPhone.

The announcements are:

  • A different management of multi-touch
  • The implementation of multitasking
  • Changes graphs (work on the ergonomics have been made)

Also, there may be new on the synchronization.

Finally, this update will be possible for 3G and 3G iPhones.

Many rumors predicted the statement and demonstration of this version at the event related to the launch of the iPad earlier this year. But this was not the case.

30mar/100

MonoDroid project brings .NET on Android

This is not a scoop. NET is becoming more widespread. Today, the framework from Microsoft could affect Android, the Java platform of his great rival Google, thanks to a project from Novell, the Mono editor.

Small return on the Mono project.

Mono is implementing open-source and portable. NET framework. Some even say that Mono is preferred to Java application development for Linux workstation.

The project also aims to make applications interoperable with Microsoft Virtual Machine installed on posts in order to achieve compatibility on all operating systems without having to edit / compile the code.

And among the systems promising, there are obviously Android (Google's platform which initially covers smartphones, but who wants to generalize to all mobile devices, possibly more ...).

This project intends achieve MonoDroid, option for Android Mono somehow, to reach mobile and all the different devices in the future, adopt the OS giant's website.

By enabling the deployment. NET applications on Android, will allow Novell Does Microsoft to become an alternative to Java (especially in terms of interoperability with its virtual machine) or Python?

MonoDroid Or will he a minor project?
Time will tell (and especially the first preview, which is already attracting a lot of waiting).

MonoDroid was announced at Mix10, Microsoft's living room.