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- Telstra will introduce Australia's first Windows Mobile-based Palm Treo 750 smartphone on February 26, with the added bonus of compatibility with its high-speed Next G mobile network.
- Shouldered aside by recent entrants into the smartphone and mobile e-mail market, HP sees a tougher focus on business users, enterprise markets and device management as keys to regaining its leadership.
- Enterprise-grade Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) hardware vendor ShoreTel formally opened its doors in Australia today, with at least one significant local customer win already under its belt.
- Several major hard-drive vendors have announced that they will work together to promote and develop a new type of storage: hybrid hard drives.
- Samsungtelecom.com, the Korean firm's Texas-based recruitment site is accessible again after being down for almost two weeks following a hacker attack that resulted in the site's servers being used to host a password stealing Trojan.
- Samsung Telecom has removed a Trojan horse that was being hosted on its Web site but the site's main page has been inexplicably unavailable all weekend.
- update: Samsung's US Web site is hosting a Trojan horse that logs keystrokes, disables antivirus applications and steals online banking access codes, according to Internet security firm Websense.
- Korea's second largest supermarket chain is counting on RFID to understand its customers a bit better.
- Consumer hardware heavyweight Samsung may be entering the enterprise and carrier networking equipment market internationally, but the vendor has no plans to sell its new products in Australia.
- Four mobile handset makers are teaming up with two mobile operators to develop a new Linux software platform for mobile devices.
Reviews
- The BlackBerry popularised the concept of push e-mail, but Samsung's i320N is one of several promising "BlackBerry killers" jostling for a share of the lucrative business arena as well as self-employed mobile professionals and power users.
- Coinciding with Telstra's launch of Next G, an HSPDA-enabled 3G network in Australia that operates in the 850MHz space, is the release of six new mobile handsets
- The Samsung Q30 Plus's superb battery life and light chassis make it a highly attractive ultra-portable, despite questionable performance scores.
- The Samsung SyncMaster 204B can handle productivity and entertainment tasks, but there are less expensive alternatives that offer comparable image quality and superior features.
- The days of the 3G brick are numbered, with Samsung's Z510 joining the Motorola v3x in the slim and sexy category.
Blogs
- In three years phishing has transformed from an unknown threat into a multi-million dollar industry; in the next stage of its evolution, phishers will avoid using spam and instead hijack small parts of 'trusted' Web sites in order to bypass anti-phishing tools.
- And now time for what's becoming a regular segment on Tech and the City: Odd Marketing Campaign Watch.
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