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Inside Todays Bytes:
•Virus alert: Mosquito Trojan bites Symbian OS smartphones
•AIM beta fixes security hole
•Film industry gloats as 321Studios pays up and shuts down
•Phishing attacks reaching viral scale
•Internet Archive stymied by DMCA
•PalmOne to turn off Palm.net wireless service
•Portable Internet to be 10 times faster
•IE evolves with update, but is it enough?
•Copyright cops enlist 'spunky cartoon ferret' to scare kids straight
•More news, plus TidBytes... on the inside!... .

•Virus alert: Mosquito Trojan bites Symbian OS smartphones:
Hot on the heels of the first proof-of-concept smart-phone virus, mobile operating system maker Symbian is warning that a Trojan is infecting phones in the wild and sending text messages to premium rate numbers. The victims of the virus are mobile phone users who have knowingly downloaded an illegal version of the game 'Mosquitos' to play on their handset. However, embedded in their illegal download is a Trojan that infects the phone and sends the costly SMS messages without the owner realising - until their next bill arrives.
•AIM beta fixes security hole:
AOL has released a beta version of AOL Instant Messenger that fixes a critical security hole that could open users to remote attack. As previously reported, AOL had promised to fix the vulnerability in an upgraded version of AIM. On Tuesday, it made a test version of AIM 5.9 available for download. Security researchers had found that AIM 5.5 for Windows, and possibly earlier versions, was vulnerable to an attacker executing arbitrary code.
•Film industry gloats as 321Studios pays up and shuts down:
The US movie industry has hailed its settlement with copying software maker 321Studios as an important step in its fight against DVD piracy. The company also agreed to pay a "substantial" settlement to the Motion Picture Association of America. The company was forced to close down last week after a federal court ruled its copying program illegal. The MPAA says the financial settlement will go towards raising awareness of illegal copying and copyright theft.
•Phishing attacks reaching viral scale:
The prevalence of some phishing attacks are beginning to rival even high-level viral outbreaks, according to email filtering firm MessageLabs. MessageLabs recently identified a new phishing attack directed at a well-known US bank and its customers. Within the first five hours of its appearance, MessageLabs had already intercepted over 125,000 phishing emails containing URLs to a replica of the bank's website. During the recent high profile MyDoom-O outbreak MessageLabs intercepted approximately 23,000 copies within the first five hours.
•Internet Archive stymied by DMCA:
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act is proving a headache for those hoping to preserve software and data. The US Internet Archive, which makes archival copies of software and data, said it was technically impossible to do its job because of the Act which forbids copying software. Because the life of a magnetic disk is only 10 to 30 years, the Archive would have to copy the stuff every few years to preserve it which would be illegal.
•PalmOne to turn off Palm.net wireless service:
PalmOne has posted a statement on its Web site at the end of July to say features such as Palm.Net e-mail and the MyPalm mobile portal and "Web clipping" service won't be available after Aug. 31. There has been a gradual decline in the number of users of the Palm.Net service over the last couple years. Next-gen cellular networks have proved to offer better performance and more features than the data-only Mobitex network on which the Palm.Net service is based.
•Portable Internet to be 10 times faster:
South Koreans will be able to access the Internet on the go at 10 times faster than they are currently, starting next year thanks to the homegrown WiBro service. WiBro, formerly known as 2.3GHz Internet, promises a downstream speed of around 1 Mbps (mega bits per second) and seamless mobile connectivity at up to 60 kilometers per hour. The downstream speed is about 10 times faster than the current mobile connection to the Net via cell phone based on the CDMA 1x EV-DO technology.
•IE evolves with update, but is it enough?:
IE is in the process of getting its first significant update in two years this week, as part of the company's overhaul of its operating system. The updates, part of the WinXP SP2 release, are largely focused on fixing the succession of security flaws that have surfaced in recent months, along with adding a few new features. But renewed competition in the browser market, along with recent calls by MS for higher levels of customer feedback, have led to speculation online that a bigger browser update might be on the way. It has been three years since Microsoft released a new, full version of its browser, and a growing chorus inside the Web development community has said the slow pace of updates has held back online innovation.
•Copyright cops enlist 'spunky cartoon ferret' to scare kids straight:
Just when you thought software licensing enforcement couldn't get any more fun, the copyright cops at the Business Software Alliance have enlivened the process with a spunky cartoon ferret. The BSA--a trade group supported by Microsoft, Adobe Systems and other major software makers to enforce software licenses and copyrights--revealed the new mascot Tuesday as part of a national campaign to... get this... scare kids out of using P2P networks. The "Play It Safe in Cyber Space" campaign will culminate with a four-page comic book featuring the droopy-drawers ferret, who for now is referred to as the "Copyright Crusader."
•UK's youth wave jolly roger, board pirate ship to bootleg island:
New research conducted by YouGov has discovered that the youth of the UK care not one whit for the authenticity of the goods they purchase and that almost half own something pirated or counterfeit. In fact, of the 18-29 year-olds surveyed, 44% had bought a fake, and only 8% thought their family and friends would disapprove of such a purchase. The attitude towards copyright infringement is still that it is a soft, and socially acceptable, crime. On a scale of 0 to 10, zero being totally unacceptable and 10 being perfectly OK, downloading pirated songs from the Net averaged just over 5 out of 10, while stealing from an independent shop scored less than one.
•New web standard agreed to:
A major software group which includes Sun, IBM, SAP, BEA and Microsoft has agreed on a new standard intended to promote interoperability between Web applications. The WS-Addressing specification was submitted to the World Wide Web Consortium this week. It will serve as a basic building block for Web applications to talk to one another, provide a framework for applications to exchange and decipher messages, and generally chat to one another. A lack of interoperability has is seen as one of the reasons why Web services never really took off.
•Mesh networking: Protecting the homeland:
Motorola and MeshNetworks have moved forward with design wins, tailoring their first products toward homeland security operations. The Motorola-MeshNetworks mobile broadband networking and position-location solutions will be offered as part of Motorola's wireless broadband data portfolio for enterprise, utility and public safety customers. The agreement also gives Motorola rights to integrate components of MeshNetworks technology, including the MeshNetworks Positioning System and MeshConnex software suites, into future data products such as those in the recently allocated 4.9GHz FCC licensed band allocated to the public safety infrastructure.
•Global DSL business hits speed bump, but growth still predicted:
The global DSL business has hit a speed bump, down by two million ports in the second quarter, but it is poised to recover, according to a report by the Dell'Oro Group. The CEO and founder of the market research firm elieves the current dip in DSL port shipments is a correction. "The decline was broad-based, affected most manufacturers, and occurred most notably in Europe, followed by Asia. This correction could last another quarter as there is still more capacity than subscribers."
•Microsoft patches Exchange security flaw:
Microsoft has published a patch for its Exchange 5.5 email and collaboration server software, fixing a flaw graded as "moderate," the second-lowest of four ratings. The vulnerability revealed in Tuesday's advisory could be exploited to target people using the web email component for Exchange, called Outlook Web Access, Microsoft said. An attacker with an account on a company's Exchange server could create a script that, when run by an OWA user on the same server, would give access to the victim's email boxes and information.
•Fat pipe framework to tackle Scotland's broadband black spots:
The Scottish Executive is inviting telecoms operators to bid for a contract to provide high-speed internet services to Scotland's broadband black spots. The contract, which will run for five years, is to provide affordable broadband services to parts of Scotland where commercial broadband services are not being made available. Broadband availability is much poorer in Scotland than in the rest of Britain. BT has calculated that it isn't economically viable to broadband-enable around 400 of Scotland's local telephone exchanges, and NTL and Telewest have no public plans to extend their own high-speed networks.
•Congressional economists tackle copyright issues:
The Congressional Budget Office released a new study on digital copyright issues Tuesday, outlining economic problems that Congress should keep in mind as it grapples with making new laws. While stopping short of specific legislative recommendations, the paper offers a set of principles for lawmakers that's largely focused on avoiding being tied too closely to past practices or to the interests of powerful companies or consumer groups.
•WiMax to turbocharge alternative carriers:
A research note from Meta Group points to WiMax, just now becoming known as a broadband wireless standard that works over wide areas, as a way for alternative telecommunications providers to compete with incumbent local operators for voice services. It means they don't have to use copper lines or voice over IP technology. Key benefits for those carriers that adopt WiMax are likely to include lower capital expenses, lower operational expenses, reduced customer turnover and service differentiation, given that WiMax will serve fixed locations in homes and over some future mobile handsets.
•Broadband growth fuels Pacific:
Growth in broadband internet connections and value added services helped pan-Asian ISP Pacific Internet grow net profit to $US1.4 million for the second quarter, up from $US33,000 in the same period in 2003. Overall revenue increased 3.1% to $US25 million, with broadband revenue growing 24.4^ to $US11.6 million and revenue from value-added services up 25% compared to Q2 2003, to $US2.6 million. Business customers are starting to demand more value-added services, such as VPNs. Value added services now accounted for about 10% of total revenue for the Pacific Internet Group for the second quarter.

TidBytes:
Apple iTunes catalogue tops 1m songs
Computer worm loads from Aussie MP's site, claims political enemies put it on his site
Microsoft to release stripped down XP to tackle Linux and piracy
UK gov moves to bust bootleggers
Apple puts edit tools in one basket
Torvalds steps in to help Linux trademark dispute
Microsoft Upgrades Software for Digital Pictures
Sony to use PlayStation 2 chip in flat-panel TVs

Symbian OS

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Don't Copy that Weasel!

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The BSA Ferret...

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