Trend Micro researchers detected the spread of a new variant of Flock, a Trojan for Symbian systems a year ago found that robs the user of the phone small amounts of money through SMS.

This new variant is passed through an application called 'ZvirOK'. Once installed on the device, it sends a message to a four-digit number with the text "xxx mumym joker90." Although researchers are not clear, it appears that the purpose of the trojan is still the same: to transfer a small sum of money through each of the messages sent.

"SYMBOS_FLOCK.I" as has been bautilzado such malware is desktop Python and affects phones that use Symbian. In addition, we found a different variant of the Trojan that runs on Java platforms (J2ME) and may affect a larger number of mobile devices.

SYMBOS_FLOCK.I being circulated on websites and can only be installed manually by the user. As always we recommend, very careful when downloading software (any kind) from untrusted sites.

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Layar is an augmented reality application for iPhone and Android, they can view information at different sites with just pointing the camera of the mobile device. Thanks to applications like this, the development of augmented reality programs gained more attention and now we see more and more similar options that make extensive use of the benefits of certain mobile equipment (eg GPS, Internet access and camera.) Now it's time to take a new step for Layar, a startup based in Germany. It has long been able to access the Reality Browser where you could see different layers or layers of information, however this has become a mini market where you can buy supplements in the range of $ 1 to $ 4, although some allowances are maintained free.

Layar The policy states that for every sale developers will retain 60%, which leaves Layar with a good profit on each transaction. Other companies like Apple are left with only 30% of sales in the App Store so you have to see how well received this policy is for developers.

The method of payment is PayPal and now this market layer is only available in the U.S., UK, Canada and Australia.

Link Layar App
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This week is taking place in Vancouver on Pwn2Own 2010, a competition in which participants compete for great prizes to exploit security problems in smathphones and web browsers.

On the first day of the event two European security experts, Vincenzo Iozzo, Ralf Philipp Weinmann, exploited a known vulnerability in the iPhone with which you made the SMS database in 20 seconds, including text messages that had been previously eliminated.

While obviously not been given details of the exploit, Weinmann explained that by visiting a malicious site can capture the SMS database and sent to a remote server for checking. He also said the same bug can be exploited to extract the list of phone contacts, like emails, photos and music stored.

The expert duo won a prize of $ 15,000. And the event sponsor, TippingPoint, has become the sole owner of the rights of the vulnerability, which will be reported to Apple to be solved.

No, this is not a BlackBerry, but we do not deny that the appearance is coincidentally very similar. The brand G588 G-Phone is a phone that supports dual SIM slot and is compatible with GSM and CDMA networks, this Peppermint, if you're that loaded with 2 phones a day, is a good solution, although in this case will cost more to make it.

Why do we say this? simply because it is marketed under Bright Telecom mobile operator in India to a very affordable price, $ 105. But hey, if any of you can make with one of them, we discussed the technical features that are available such as a full QWERTY keyboard combined with a 2.2 inch touch screen with QVGA resolution. On the other hand, we have Bluetooth connectivity, camera 1.3 Mpx, MicroSD card slot, MP3 player, FM radio for hours of entertainment and the Opera Mini browser, if you have a good data rate and want to surf from the G-Fone G588.

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Without hesitation I can say that the vast majority of readers know the Samsung S5230 Star, we are talking about a very popular mobile worldwide that has successfully sold millions of units throughout the globe.

Must be why now is when we begin to see the different variations that receives this popular model. The first one (already announced) was the Samsung S5230W Star, a version with the same characteristics as the original except for WiFi connectivity, a feature almost essential today.

And now is the turn of Samsung S5233T Star, a mobile with the same characteristics as the original version except that it has mobile TV analog receiver, not bad. Samsung has said that for now will put for sale in Southeast Asia, a territory where users give more importance to mobile TV.

It was hoped that the numbers will shoot in the use of social networks and mobile terminals is that in order to have everything we want in real time, or we carry with us a computer or the sensible thing is to do it from a mobile, where there only allow us to enter text, but with customers as well photos currently available is standard.

But with the numbers on their hands and making a comparison between the months of January, 2009 and 2010, the most significant growth in the 2 most popular social networks, Facebook and Twitter, with the first an ever-growing engine of 112% and the second from desdeñabale nothing, 347%.

So we can conclude that Twitter will have little competition and leave both Google Buzz ousted as MySpace, instead of growing, has crumbled a bit more, if possible, obtaining a negative percentage of 7%.

Google has released Gesture Search, a search system for mobile version 2.0 of Android.

This search system will enable us to find a contact, a bookmark, the browser that we saved on the phone or open an application to write on the screen only the first letter of what we are looking for ... as simple as you can see in the image that heads this post.

The system we will be very useful to those who do not like the search for voice or for use as an alternative at the moment we can not speak up ... Also, the voice search is currently only offered in English by Google ...

A plus is that Google Gesture Search is fully integrated with Google Maps so you can also find places to write with his finger on the screen of our Android.

More and more I like the improvements offered by Google for its phones, also shows in many applications, the insertion that society is having on developers and "the hand" of open source enthusiasts.

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Apple has released a new version of the homepage of the mobile page of Me.com for iPhone and iPod touch, which adds links to the applications MobileMe iDisk and Gallery. There is also a link to allow access from the iPhone feature called Find My iPhone.

Previously, the mobile page of MobileMe compatible with the iPhone, only contained a link that provided instructions to configure the mail, contacts, calendars and Find My iPhone, the new page has the same link, but adds all new features mentioned earlier.

Once the user clicked the link given to Find My iPhone, you'll be prompted to enter username and password and the user automatically be in the mobile page of Find My iPhone. On that page you can view the location map and all other links and features that can be done from a computer.

Apple notes that these new features are great especially when there is no access to a computer and now can be accessed wirelessly Mobile Me to locate any iPhone or iPod touch, so just delete it or lock it remotely.
For more information about this new feature please visit Apple Support.

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Facebook launch the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona its version of text-only Facebook for mobile browsers called Zero. Chamath Palihapitiya, has been in charge of presenting this new version of the largest social network in existence.

Facebook Zero, is a lighter version of its mobile version to m.facebook.com which can be accessed from the direción zero.facebook.com and expect to be available in the coming weeks.

As announced in the introduction, the intention is that the carriers offer this version free of charge to its users and if they decide they want to access the multimedia version, operators begin to charge a service like premium.

Source Tech Crunch

Adobe Systems announced during the Mobile World Congress 2010, which with the addition of new products, aims to position itself in the market of smartphones, leading the development of Flash applications to a new level, where developers do not have to specialize in language specifically as they consider developing for mobile platforms.

The AIR platform is about to be taken to the Android OS, a mobile operating system that is gaining a lot of users quickly. With this move Adobe plans to enter the list of major in the field of smartphones, which is dominated by Apple, which has a monstrous market share thanks to the iPhone.

Being a single platform Adobe AIR, you can write applications that run in different environments with the same source code, so you can save many lines of code and above all, time. That is, similar to what happens with Java (using a virtual machine to run applications) with the same code, developers can distribute their applications to run on Windows, Mac, Linux and now platafomas laptops.

This is an important announcement as to unleash the full potential of this idea, many developers probably feel restless and launched many programs such as games, productivity tools, entertainment, etc.. So perhaps in the near future, thanks to the penetration of the Android OS, Adobe made a little shade to Apple and the iTunes Store.
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One year ago, Nokia introduced a new model of the Classic range, the 6303, the manufacturer has now updated by adding new features, new colors and a modern new directional pad.

Like its big brother, the 6303i includes a 2.2 inch QVGA screen, FM radio, Bluetooth 2.1, USB 2.0, 3.2 megapixel camera, 3.5mm jack, and it still has a size of 108.8 × 46.2 × 11.7 mm and weighing 96 grams.

At the bottom to see the Nokia 6303i in fact

Google's smartphone is not getting the sales that were expected, but slowly arrive as expected by the famous search engine.

They are known as the sales generated in the Nexus One month of life, reaching the figure of 80,000 units sold (well below the iPhone).

With 1 month of life in America, it has trouble selling what until now expect both HTC and Google, about 500,000 units in about 6 months.

Nexus two rumored to already, the first terminal has not seemed to please the many users who seek a phone to last such as this.

iPhone went on to sell no more and no less than 600,000 units in its first month, or 520,000 units more than its competitor in the market.

Motorola Droid also exceeded in 30 days with nearly 524,900 units sold (incorporating Android 1.6) operating system.

Google Nexus One is still time to see if it is a total failure or sales in the U.S. continues to escalate and soon in Europe.

via: Neowin