Google Nexus One Phone Likely to Launch Jan. 5, 2010

Google’s much-anticipated new phone, the HTC-designed Nexus One, could make its debut next week.

Google has scheduled a press event for Tuesday, January 5 at its Mountain View, California, headquarters. Though the company hasn’t mentioned Nexus One, the invitation mentions Android, Google’s mobile operating system for phones, and the company is widely expected to show the device that has had smartphone industry watchers buzzing for weeks.

This is going to interesting year for Android indeed. Go Android!

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/12/new-google-nexus-one-phone-likely-to-launch-jan-5/

Hacker Breaks GSM Mobile Phone Code

December 29, 2009

A German computer scientist working with a team of experts has broken the code used to secure about 80% of the world's mobile phones. But the group responsible for protecting GSM communications said Tuesday the feat is a "long way from being a practical attack."

Researcher Karsten Nohl, a former graduate student at the University of Virginia, revealed his decryption methods this week at the Chaos Communication Conference in Berlin, the largest hackers conference in Europe. Nohl and a team of two dozen other experts worked for five months to crack the security algorithm that protects Global System for Mobile communications.

What does it mean? Well, this can be bad for users which someone can purchase tools on the market and be able to listen to your conversations.

Details:

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/185552/gsm_encryption_cracked_showing_its_age.html

Virtualbox for multiple OSes on your machine

VirtualBox is an x86 virtualization software package, is the third most popular software package for running Windows programs on Linux desktops and vice versa. Originally created by German software company Innotek, now developed by Sun Microsystems as part of its Sun xVM virtualization platform. It is installed on an existing host operating system; within this application, additional guest operating systems, each known as a Guest OS, can be loaded and run, each with its own virtual environment.

Supported host operating systems include Linux, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Solaris; there is also an experimental port to FreeBSD.^[1] Supported guest operating systems include a small number of versions of NetBSD and various versions of DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD, OS/2 Warp, Windows, Solaris, Haiku, Syllable, ReactOS and SkyOS.^[2] The latest version also supports Windows 7.

The application can be downloaded via SUN:

http://dlc.sun.com/virtualbox/vboxdownload.html#linux

Google phone: Nexus One

Hooray!! The rumor has revealed the truth. Yes Google has made its own phone dubbed 'Nexus One' and is based on Android 2.1. The Google has given its employees the phone to try out on 14-12-2009.

The Google Inc plans to sell two versions of its own-branded cell phone: one with a service contract with T-Mobile USA and another that is unlocked, a source familiar with the matter said. The phone, manufactured by HTC,

This believed to be the PHONE that can be up against Apple's IPhone

Stay tuned and more to come.

Cheap netbook for everyone, Cherrypal $99

Budget computer vendor CherryPal has announced the availability of a new $99 netbook. The device, which has a 7-inch display and a 400Mhz ARM processor, is designed to run Windows CE and Linux.

This could be huge benefits for developing countries like Laos.

More details:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2009/12/cherrypal-announces-99-netbook.ars
http://www.cherrypal.com/products.php