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[News] Mobile Companies Aligned to Promote Mobile Linux, Windows Mobile Has Security Holes

  • Subject: [News] Mobile Companies Aligned to Promote Mobile Linux, Windows Mobile Has Security Holes
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:40:31 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Mobile Linux accelerates

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| MontaVista has joined the LiMo Foundation (www.limofoundation.org) a body set 
| up in January 2007 by Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile 
| Communications, Samsung Electronics, and Vodafone to develop and promote 
| Linux-based platform for mobile devices. It aiims to create the world's first 
| globally competitive Linux-based software platform for mobile devices. 
| Handsets supporting the LiMo platform are expected to reach consumers in the 
| first half of 2008.      
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14563/127/

Mobile Security, Virtualization on tap at MS Hacking Meet

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| Plus, we've got a couple of talks on Windows Mobile and more about automated 
| exploit creation-- this time using Metasploit." 
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070922/tc_pcworld/137478


Related:

Linux grabs 30% of China's fast-growing smartphone market

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| China consumed 15 million smartphones in 2006, up from 10 million
| units in 2005, resulting in more than doubling of smartphone
| revenues, according to Chinese market research firm CCID Consulting
| Company. Symbian controlled 63.2 percent of the market, followed by
| Linux (30.3 percent) and Windows Mobile (5.4 percent). 
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9419753617.html


Microsoft doesn't deny Windows Mobile flaw

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| Microsoft has refused to deny that the most recent version of
| Windows Mobile leaves data poorly secured on handsets.
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39284532,00.htm


Airscanner Vulnerability Summary: Windows Mobile Security Software Fails the
Test

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| Since developers are not in a hurry to keep their users information
| secure... we feel compelled to publish - with exclusivity granted to us
| by author till August 21, 2006 - an article, that reveals various
| problems with Windows Mobile software from various software vendors!
| This article is a "must read" for any serious user of Windows Mobile...
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http://msmobiles.com/news.php/5474.html 

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