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Windows 7 phones only usable with Windows Live ID
May 18th
The use of a smartphone with the new Windows Mobile 7 Phone will be possible only with a valid Windows Live ID. Even with the early versions of the Google Android operating system, there was such pressure, which was then removed under pressure from concerned users and privacy advocates again.
Since Android Google Account 1.5 no longer necessary to use an Android phone.Even Apple’s iPhone at a less rigorous way, such as Microsoft reported tweakers.net Phone with Windows 7, as areamobile.de, citing a report by the Dutch website. Admittedly, the iPhone users have an iTunes account to use the iPhone for the first time to activate them. At a later stage, however, no more iTunes account is required.
Source: microsoft.com
With Windows Mobile 7 this seems to be otherwise well. The use of new Microsoft smartphones will be possible only with a valid Windows Live ID. This should emerge from a secret Microsoft document that tweakers.net present. Thus, a Windows Live ID is not only for the initial set up (to sync to the iPhone) is necessary, but also contacts or other services from Microsoft, such as the Windows phone access 7 Market Place.
In addition to seven cell phones a certificate installed on Windows, which is to prevent that can be installed unauthorized software on the Microsoft Smartphone.Moreover, Microsoft can thus always recognized by whom the Windows Mobile 7 Phone can be used. A similar procedure previously met with great criticism.Android users and data protectors protested against such a constraint in Google’s operating system. With success: Since Android 1.5 a Google account is needed anymore.
Pwn2Own: iPhone via Safari hacked in 20 seconds, SMS data stolen
Mar 28th
When Hacker Contest Pwn2Own could be cracked the iPhone. About a malicious website, it was possible to win two hackers through a security hole in Safari browser to access the full text database and then transfer them to any server.
The whole operation took no longer than 20 seconds, as zdnet.com reported. The hacker duo Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf Philipp Weinmann use a malicious website, enabling them to access the SMS database of the affected iPhone. Even SMS, which had previously been removed, the two were not safe from hackers. The campaign has lasted much longer but on the whole. From the discovery of the vulnerability in the Safari browser to access the SMS data, according to Weinmann passed around two weeks.
Using the same method would be possible to access the SMS, including the stealing of the email data, the phone book or iTunes, images and tracks have been possible. The hacker piloted the iPhone to a malicious web site that led to the fact that the data is uploaded to an SMS database controlled by the hackers server. For their discovery Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf Philipp Weinmann was at 15,000 U.S. dollars prize money and reward the previously successfully hacked iPhone.
Pwn2Own is an international competition in which security experts and hackers are trying with appropriate security holes in operating systems and browsers access to laptops, PCs and smartphones gain. Total prize money is up to 100,000 U.S. dollars to win. For the first time an iPhone could now be broken. The victim was doing a 3GS iPhone with firmware version 3.1.3. In addition to the iPhone Safari, the desktop could also be cracked version on the Mac, and Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox on Windows 7 successfully within a few minutes.
iCall make VoIP calls through the 3G Network
Mar 18th
For all of you known the eternal debate about the unacceptability of Apple to make VoIP calls through 3G network from the iPhone. Many (including myself included) thought this would never come to light after Google’s rebuke as theVoice, but nothing is further from the truth.
With iCall can make calls to any number anywhere in the world via the 3G network. To get an idea, a five-minute call from Spain to Singapore has left me by 8 cents (about five U.S. cents), far less than it costs me a call within the same territory through Telefónica.
There are several settings of the program, one of which will pay you a monthly fee allowing us to call anynumber. But the most interesting is the charge per call, which will require an initial payment of 10 dollars (just over 7 euros) you spend on card, allowing us to use it for subsequent calls.
The program will save this amount in a counter that is updated with every call minus the spending we’ve done. We synchronize the program with Facebook to add his contact list and can also access the iPhone’s agenda since. We must be clear that to make the call, it is necessary to determine the country where is that phone number, so in the case of Spain will have to add the “0034″ ahead of the number. Thanks to Albert Sant by pointing to this program.
Hack: How Google Android 2.1 can be installed on Windows Mobile Phones
Mar 3rd
The mobile phone operating system Windows Mobile is in comparison to competitors such as Android, iPhone OS and webOS as complicated and outdated with the new Windows 7 Phone Series later this year. Although Microsoft will bring an entirely new operating system on their Smartphone’s which scored after their presentation at the Mobile World Congress last week of kud
But who wants to wait as the owner of a Windows Mobile phones and no longer wants to give his old cell phone new skills, interests, perhaps the instructions, such as Android can bring on some Windows Mobile 2.1 Smartphone. The XDA-Developers forum will detail how to do it, but the whole thing is just something for people who know technology.
The four smart phones HTC Tilt (also known as HTC Kaiser), Niki, Vogue and Polaris are eligible for the hack. Still has the whole beta status are the two biggest bugs massive problems with Bluetooth and functioning after installing the new ROM.
Otherwise, the Windows Mobile Smartphone with Android will work pretty well. The chopped Smartphone are thus the first HTC phones with the new 2.1 version of Android