A year ago or so, many of us had not even heard of an HTC let along what they do. Now it seems they are one of the stronger players in the mobile phone market. With a huge 140% increase in shipments presummably backed up with actual product sales against the same period last year it has thrown them into a strong position as a top 10 mobile phone manufacturer.
It would appear that the launch of the iPad has actually had no effect on the mobile phone sector at all.
References
InformationWeek
Experts at MWR Labs seem to have uncovered a highly disturbing bug in the Palm Pre. Indeed it literally is a bug. Or has the potential to be a bug in the sense of a listening device.
Security risks in the Android operating system apparently make it possible to use the phone to listen into conversations anywhere in the world. The flaw works in the way of opening a backdoor for intruders to install malicious software by simply sending a well formed and equally malicious message to the phone.
The MWR Labs people seem to believe this is just the start of a huge range of security issues in relation to mobile phones. Which, given the number of security related posts I’ve made recently, I can entirely believe this to be truthful.
References
eWeekEurope
