A report published by Georgia Tech Information center warns that mobile is going to be slithered by the spammers. Security researchers threatened that the mobile or cellphone is going to be attacked more than PC.
The researchers said that nowadays mobile computing and internet mobiles are dealing with more data so they are going to be a frequent target.The concern is that hackers will begin stealthily taking over phones the way they’ve taken over network computers, turning them into virtual “bots” to do their bidding . Because of cell phones’ increasing computing power — not to mention their always-on nature — the researchers fear they’ll soon become an obvious target.

“Large cellular botnets could then be used to perpetrate a [denial of service] attack against the core of the cellular network,” says Patrick Traynor, an assistant professor at Georgia Tech involved in the study. “But because the mobile communications field is evolving so quickly, it presents a unique opportunity to design security properly — an opportunity we missed with the PC,” he adds.

The overall lack of cell phone security so far is one of the first issues Traynor and his team are trying to tackle. Right now, they say, proper antivirus protection would drain too much of a phone’s battery and thus prove to be unpractical. Add in the fact that most people tend to be trusting when it comes to voice technology, and you have the potential for disaster.

“Most people have been trained to enter social security numbers, credit card numbers, [and] bank account numbers … over the phone while interacting with voice response systems,” says Tom Cross, an IBM Internet Security Systems researcher also involved in the research. “Criminals will exploit this social conditioning to perpetrate voice phishing and identity theft.”

As intense as it all sounds, there’s likely no cause for panic. The researchers point out that the relatively closed nature of cellular networks compared to the Internet will help carriers combat ill-intended tactics. They also note that they’ve seen no evidence of these types of hacks actually being plotted yet.

Rather, they’re looking at the ripe environment as an opportunity to put up protection before it becomes too late.

Graphical system design inspires the young children and leads them to achieve some interest in designing and modelling of robotics. Not only the current engineers, but also young people of eight years are doing fabulous jobs in this field due the effective and efficient approach of system designing using graphics.

Using the included graphical programming tool based on LabVIEW, thousands of children are building sophisticated robotics designs. They are implementing parallel programming on the embedded ARM7 microcontroller in the NXT that communicates with sensors and actuators. They are, in a sense, the youngest domain experts and innovators in robotics – the new Edisons.

Graphical system design is imperative to continue innovation in robotics design at an accelerated pace. Complicated traditional tools can impede advancements in robotics technology. LabVIEW provides a comprehensive and scalable platform that spans the design, prototype, and deployment phases, so engineers can focus on robotics without getting discouraged by minute implementation details. They can use the same powerful platform to program controllers ranging from microcontrollers to FPGAs; send and receive signals from virtually any sensor and actuator; design and simulate dynamic control systems; and implement an interface to remotely monitor or control the robot. The LabVIEW graphical system design platform encourages accelerated robotics design ingenuity by providing a uniform platform for all robotics designers.

High Definition Television(HDTV) application is going to be one of the key application phenomenon in upcoming mobile 4G Networking industries. It will provide tremendous growth in world telecommunication industries. The recent development suggest by one of the report in WIMAX FORUM indicate the potential market of  INDIA is going to be worth $13 billion in 2012.

Recently South Korean delegates plan demonstration of HDTV streaming 4G applications using next-generation WiMAX specifications at an upcoming ITU-R conference to be held in Seoul, Korea.WiBro Evolution, a platform going to be used by the designers to demonstrate HDTV content streaming at over 200Mbps.

Based on orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA), WiBro Evolution offers a reported 149 Mbps in the downlink and 43 Mbps in the uplink direction.  The system also includes MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) antennas.  Multiple technology consortia are feverishly working to develop solutions that meet the ITU-R requirements for 4G mobile technologies, called IMT-Advanced.  ETRI plans to submit the core capabilities of WiBro Evolution as part of the IEEE 802.16m standard to be completed in 2010.

Tremendous achievement is persuied by the SAMSUNG AND ETRI. Their research is going to be a milestone is the upcoming world.

Google the internet t search leader took a giant leap into the mobile phone market on Tuesday 23^rd September 2008, unveiling a handset developed with telecom carrier T-Mobile to compete with Apple’s hot-selling iPhone.

The T-Mobile G1, the first mobile device powered by Google’s open-source Android software, will be available in stores in the United States on October 22 and will cost 179 dollars.

Cole Brodman, T-Mobile chief technology and innovation officer, called the G1, built by the Taiwanese firm HTC, a “game-changing” device which will “power a new mobile Internet of the future.”

The G1, which is a bit thicker but slightly narrower than an iPhone, will go on sale in Britain in early November and in other European countries served by T-Mobile, a subsidiary of Germany’s Deutsche Telekom AG, in early 2009.

The G1 offers many of the features of the iPhone and Research in Motion’s popular BlackBerry including a touch screen similar to that of the iPhone, a trackball for navigation, high-speed Internet browsing, Wi-Fi, e-mail, instant messaging and SMS texting.

It has a 3.0-megapixel camera with photo-sharing capability and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a feature lacking on the iPhone.

Internet retail giant Amazon.com announced shortly before the G1 release, in a direct challenge to Apple’s iTunes, that the entire catalog of the Amazon MP3 music store would be available on the new phone.

The new phone has, unsurprisingly, been closely integrated with Google applications such as Google Maps and G-Mail and can display videos from YouTube, the video-sharing site purchased by Google in 2006.

“Google’s strategy is all about broad reach for their services,” said Charles Golvin, an analyst at Forrester Research. “It’s just the first step in a long strategic voyage for Google.”

Carolina Milanesi, research director at Gartner Consulting, agreed.

“Google is moving into the mobile devices market not to become yet another mobile phone manufacturer but to enable a large addressable market for its services and applications,” she said.

“The G1 is the first of a series of devices that will come to market and will be optimized to offer consumers a superior experience when using Google services and applications.”

Google hopes the open-source Android software powering the G1 will eventually become the dominant operating system for mobile phones and make handsets compatible with the networks of multiple carriers.

“A developer will be able to use it as a platform,” said Andy Rubin, senior director of mobile platforms for Google. “A developer will be able to modify the platform and make it better.”

“It’s very exciting for me as a computer geek to have a phone that I can play with and modify,” said Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who made a surprise appearance at the launch event.

The phone, Google’s first foray into the highly competitive mobile phone market, also will allow users to access the Android Market, where they can download software applications from developers around the world.