My presentation will be held in English, and will be added to the web site shortly. Hit the link below to find out more:
http://www.nokiaappforum.com/conference/

P.S. The current schedule is in this PDF…

However, TamsPPC is now known as “the Windows Phone blog”, while TamsS60 now carries the tagline “the Symbian blog”. Once again, this has nothing to do with the content or editorial line – it remains the same.

The reason for this renaming was that the terms PocketPC and S60 are starting to get less and less popular. In order to make the TCN more visible for new readers, this renaming had to be performed.

If anyone of you has any questions or issues, please leave a comment here!

All the best
Tam Hanna

The Vienniese TCN team is packing for Barcelona!

Yes, we are on our way, and expect to bring you loads of live coverage and thousands of shots by tomorrow. Stay tuned!

P.S. In case anyone of you wants to meet up: SMS me at 0043 676 7886431!

Keeping an event successful thus requires not only smart management, but also an effective way to attract the media. Unfortunately, the folks at MiLiberty’s seem to have issues understanding this basic rule of thumb.

Their response to an accreditation request by the yours truly looked like this:

From: Sam Tring [string@miliberty.com]

Your message

To: press@mobileworldcongress.com
Cc: pressregistration@mobileworldcongress.com
Subject: Press accreditation
Sent: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:38:50 -0000

was deleted without being read on Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:18:19 -0000

Well, well – it’s a bit difficult to say much here. I should have no issue covering the event due to exhibitor passes from partners – but it nevertheless serves as an excellent example for how to kill events!

The folks at Nokia’s have already ditched the GSMA – I can understand them well. After all, the purpose of such an event is to get press exposure – and if you keep the press out, well, you get the idea…

Attack vectors on mobile devices

Symbian: code signing methods for mobile

Enjoy!

At Tamoggemon’s, we fortunately weren’t first in line (kudos to AllAboutSymbian for that) – and thus had some time to reinforce our defenses.

Unfortunately, this has caused some outages for some of you, for which we can but ask for understanding and forgiveness. As of 9am local time, service should be fully restored on all news sites…

Yours truly
Tam Hanna for the Tamoggemon Content team

Image: public domain / NASA

Yours truly will hold two presentations at this year’s IT Underground conference, which will be held in Warsaw. Both talks are focused on mobile technology and are currently scheduled to take place on the 17th of November – look forward to the following:

Attack vectors on handsets – 13h15 to 14h15
The first of the two talks will look at the various ways mobile devices can be attacked. Look forward to a round-up of the various scams, exploits, physical attacks and – last but not least – a discussion of why carriers don’t do anything about rampant mobile theft.

Symbian Code Signing – 15h00 to 16h30
Talk number 2 starts off with a recap of native Symbian development methods, and then moves on to look at the implementation of mobile code signing/code security environments using the Symbian Platform Security model as a working example.

Afterwards, I will likely take place in a podium discussion where questions can be asked.

Further information can be had at the URL below:
http://itunderground.org/en/wydarzenia/50-IT_Underground_Warsaw

Austria’s MetaLab hosts its famous Linuxwochenende: a weekend full of talks about open-source technologies. I will be there on the 25th – my talk begins at 12h local time:

So: see you all there. Don’t leave /me hanging .

Our web host brainsware has advised us that a server migration would help combat these problems and would allow us to provide you with a better user experience.

In order to facilitate this, we will go down shortly on the 20th of this month. As of now, the maintenance is scheduled for 22h Austrian time, and will take approximately one hour.

As this move is absolutely necessary, I can but ask for your understanding. I furthermore hope to be able to welcome you soon on our new, faster server!

Yours
Tam Hanna and the Tamoggemon Content team

Image: abc texte / Dr. D. M. Kohrs

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So: good luck, guys and gals! See you all here next week…same news service, same venue!