28th August 2006 Archive

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Motorola gains ground on Nokia

Razr and Slvr spur land grab

Motorola continues to make in-roads into Nokia's share of the mobile phone market, increasing its share to 22 per cent during the second quarter. Around 229m mobile phones were sold worldwide during the second quarter of 2006, an increase of 18 per cent on the same period last year, according to research firm Gartner, which …

Mobile 28 Aug 2006, 07:02
Get yourself up to speed with UML 2.0

Book review Everyone's fave modelling language

The Unified Modelling Language (UML) has firmly established itself as the lingua franca of the object oriented development world. It offers the right levels of abstraction, independence from programming language implementation to make it pretty much ubiquitous. Use cases and class diagrams have entered the vernacular, even …

Developer 28 Aug 2006, 07:02
Oz 'pseudo-ID card' database racked by identity fraud claims

19 sacked, 92 resigned

Australia's citizen database was routinely searched for personal reasons by government agency employees, some of whom have been sacked. Police are now investigating allegations of identity fraud resulting from the security breaches. There were 790 security breaches at government agency Centrelink involving 600 staff. Staff were …

Music and Media 28 Aug 2006, 08:02
Windows Update for mobile phones?

Deadlock broken

The Open Mobile Alliance has published its Firmware Update Management Object (FUMO): a standard which allows mobile phones to be updated over the air - from fixing a spelling mistake to changing the whole OS, all without bothering the user at all. For all the complaints about Windows Update, there is value in the distributor of …

Mobile 28 Aug 2006, 12:47
Nokia N93 camcorder phone

Review First-person shooter

Nokia wants us to give up our cameras and embrace the future, as they see it, of integrated devices - those being mainly Nokia devices, obviously. The N series have been squarely aimed at achieving that and with the N93 they have certainly taken a step in the right direction. The N93 is Nokia's new flagship camera phone, so how …

Reg Hardware 28 Aug 2006, 13:02