[News] Google's Mobile Linux O/S Gets Good Reviews and Claimed Far More Secure Than iPhone

Google Android gets positive early reviews

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| While Google's Android announcement generated a lot of hype, developers had
| to wait a week to see whether the company had actually developed a good
| platform.
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[url]http://www.techworld.com/mobility/features/index.cfm?featureid=3845&pagtype=samechan[/url]

Google's Android vs. Apple's iPhone: Which is More Secure?

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| I’m going to go out on a limb here and predict Google’s Android mobile phone
| platform is going to prove itself to be more secure than Apple’s iPhone in
| the long run. Let’s take a closer look.
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[url]http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/entdev/article.php/3714096[/url]


Related:

How secure are Linux, Window and Mac OS? [Linux is most secure]

[url]http://www.masuran.org/node/29[/url]


iPhone Security Hellhole?

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| First, the iPhone root password was broken. OK, it happens. But now it seems
| that all applications run on the iPhone as root. Can you say biggest security
| blunder of the 21st century to date? Â* Â*
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[url]http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2191348,00.asp[/url]


Apple iPhone issue highlights security debate

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| Most early iPhone adopters have bought into the Apple mythology which
| convinces them that anything blessed by Steve Jobs is automatically
| desirable, so we won't see a mass return of the shiny devices with their
| slick interface.
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[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6911756.stm[/url]


IPhone Flaw Lets Hackers Take Over, Security Firm Says

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| The researchers, working for Independent Security Evaluators, a company that
| tests its clients’ computer security by hacking it, said that they could take
| control of iPhones through a WiFi connection or by tricking users into going
| to a Web site that contains malicious code. The hack, the first reported,
| allowed them to tap the wealth of personal information the phones contain.
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[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/23/technology/23iphone.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1185163364-1OTsRJvbylLamj17FY2wnw&oref=slogin[/url]