Posts Tagged ‘smartphone’

Beware The Attack of “MMS Bomber” Viruses on Smart phones

Saturday, April 3rd, 2010

symbian-s60Recently, a new cell phone virus named “MMS Bomber” attack in China, and millions of mobile phones in the country has affected, the Beijing Business News reported. Technical team of emergency response for national computer network has make an action by reminding the mobile phone user that the virus targets was the mobile devices with the Symbian S60 operating system, which is widely used by Samsung and Nokia smartphones.

The virus is disguised as an application, but once installed, the virus will automatically make contact with the Internet and send an MMS message containing a malicious URL to a lot cell phone users randomly without being noticed, and caused financial losses for mobile phone users.

The Virus attack was first caught by the “Mobile Security Center of NetQin Mobile Inc.”, the main provider of mobile phone security service, in early February 2010 and then. the company Statistical data show that it had been infected at least 100,000 cell phone.

“It seems clear that the virus has a defense mechanism. Immediately after the attack, the virus will disable the system on the cell phone management program which was attacked, and the user will not be able to delete the virus,” said Dr. Shihong Zou, head scientist at NetQin.


HTC and Adobe Add Flash On Android phone

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

Exciting news, that the recently under a good cooperation between the two largest companies that HTC and Adobe, introduced a new smartphone product named Hero. And the great news is, This Hero smartphone is the first Android phone that has been implanted inside a flash application is on board.

Both companies, has added Flash 10, and various support for On2 VP6 and Sorenson Codec. With the existing flatform, the application provided is able to provide this smartphone ability to perform an embedded streaming video content and audio content embedded directly derived from the web. That way, you do not have to bother again if want to enable multimedia applications directly from the Internet in accordance with your wishes. Wow, that’s sounds good!

According to the news that was launched, this Hero smartphone plan be in the market in North America at the end of this year, too. HTC and Adobe also confirmed that this flash application will remain applications that decorating a product for more appropriate Android based phones.