Category Archives: Mobile

Free Symbian Software Giveaways for This Week

From then82blog.
SymbianGear.com is giving out free applications during this week. For each day, one specific application can be downloaded for free. (This info is a bit late, but still have 3 more free apps from today, they are EUROPAinfo 1.0, Advanced Brain Trainer and Handy Alarm.)
TheN82blog has links to many good and free applications.

Walking with Nokia Sports Tracker

This afternoon, I took a walk with my recently bought Nokia N82. I had already installed Nokia Sports Tracker and was eager to test it.
I created a new walking workout with autolap set to route based. Once the application starts tracking, it will record the path, location, time and number of steps I took. The [...]

Sky Explorer Supports Unicode Filename

Unicode filename and path are supported in version 1.0.3
The symbian python os functions can accept utf8 string and will also return utf8 string (eg. in os.listdir). It does not use unicode string like in other native symbian functions.
Since the Sky Explorer code uses path.join to get the full path in a lot of places, I [...]

Japanese Children Cellphone Obsession

From Google news.
Young Japanese people are evolving a new lifestyle for the 21st century based on the cellphones that few are now able to live without.
They are using their phones to read books, listen to music, chat with friends and surf the Internet — an average of 124 minutes a day for high school girls [...]

Interview with Google Android’s Makers

From CNET News.com.
After years of rumors of a Google phone, the search giant a week ago finally unleashed its mobile play: an alliance of handset makers and an open software platform dubbed Android.
On Monday, Google released the software developer kit, or SDK, for Android and announced that it would set aside $10 million to give [...]

Venezuela’s Four-Legged Mobile Libraries

From BBC News.
A university in Venezuela is using a novel method to take books into remote communities and encourage people to read. The book mules known as bibliomulas are helping to spread the benefits of reading to people who are isolated from much of the world around them.
Spreading the joy of reading is our main [...]

How some Extremely Smart Hackers Pulled off the Most Audacious Cell-network Break-in

From IEEE Spectrum.
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The base station’s activities are governed by a base station controller, a special-purpose computer within the station that allocates radio channels and helps coordinate handovers between the transceivers under its control.
This controller in turn communicates with a mobile switching center that takes phone calls and connects them to call recipients within the same [...]