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Welcome to the Spring issue of Funambulletin, where we strive to bring you the best, most interesting and entertaining news about mobile open source. Exclusive Funambol Introduces World's First Touchless iCar Borrowing from the iPhone, Funambol is premiering the world's first finger gesture operated vehicle. With no steering wheel, it makes driving a snap. Check out the press release and test drive video a day before anyone else. Funambol Events See Funambol at CTIA Funambol is showcasing its next major version, MobileWe v8, at CTIA, April 1-3. It includes an all new AJAX portal that makes it easy to sync content from billions of mobile phones with the Internet cloud and popular email systems and desktop apps. For more information about our doings at CTIA and to arrange a meeting, see our advisory. Funambol Video Funambol v8 Open Source MobileWe Portal Screencam Not headed to CTIA? See a screencam of the new portal on Youtube, here's the long and short of it. Free White Paper Mobile Sync, the New World Order This new white paper describes the trends that are making cloud sync compelling. It also discusses the requirements for a mobile sync solution and how open source satisfies these requirements. Get the free white paper instantly after website registration. Product Update New Phone Pack Supports BlackBerry Storm Funambol just completed work on its new monthly 'phone pack' that supports the latest mobile devices. It supports the BlackBerry Storm as well as lays the foundation to support other touchscreen devices more quickly. The new phone pack will be made available shortly on the free myFUNAMBOL portal. We will issue a press release in the next few days to signal that the phone pack is installed and ready for action. Community News New Funambol Forge Home Page Our new forge has had an extreme home (page) makeover, check it out. It shows how dynamic our community is and makes it easier to download software and access other content. Our downloads and community traffic have reached record levels since the home page was redesigned a few weeks ago. Thanks to everyone who provided feedback on the new home page and helped make it happen. Open Source Update Write Code, Get Paid We recently suggested several new Code Sniper projects that community developers can work on and get paid and recognized for their contribution. These include a Syncml Graphic Client for Maemo, GNOME Eplugin for Evolution, LinkedIn Contacts Client, Skype PIM Client, Eclipse integration and Netbeans integration. Check out the Code Sniper page for details. Funambol Customers Millions of Users Adopting Funambol There has recently been a surge in customers, ranging from established companies to startups, who have deployed Funambol Carrier Edition. These customers collectively have millions of users and have implemented some highly innovative uses of mobile sync and push email. We will be issuing a press release about them in the next few days as well as blogging and tweeting about them. Thought Leadership Smart Cloud Syncing, the Next Mobile Holy Grail? Check out this interesting OSTATIC article about smart cloud app syncing as the next mobile frontier. Fun Tweet Favorite Tweet of the Month We love reading everyone's tweets, but this one caught our attention: "iPod Touch Sets Kid's Pants on Fire. I feel bad for the kid, but it's an amusing story."	In This Issue... Funambol Introduces World's First Touchless iCar See Funambol at CTIA Funambol v8 Open Source MobileWe Portal screencam Mobile Sync, the New World Order whitepaper New Phone Pack supports BlackBerry Storm New Funambol Forge Home Page Code Sniper: Write Code, Get Paid Customer Update: Millions of Users Adopting Funambol Smart Cloud App Syncing Favorite Tweet of the Month Code Sniper Community Program Funambol offers cash bounties for developers to extend our open source capabilities. Check out the list of projects and become a Code Sniper. Upcoming Events
CTIA Wireless 2009 April 1-3, 2009, Las Vegas Funambol is showcasing its new Funambol v8 Open Source MobileWe Portal for billions of phones. Check out this advisory for more information and to arrange a meeting.
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Funambulletin is Funambol's periodic newsletter that contains mobile open source community and industry news, views, tips and happenings. We hope that you find Funambulletin to be informative, useful and entertaining. If you have any suggestions or contributions, please contact Stefano Maffulli, Funambol community manager, at maffulli-at-funambol com.

About Funambol Copyright (C) 2009 Funambol. All rights reserved. Funambol is the leading provider of open source push email and mobile sync worldwide. Funambol open source software has been downloaded three million times by 50,000 developers and project participants in 200 countries. The commercial version of Funambol has been deployed at service providers, mobile operators, portals, device manufacturers and ISVs including customers such as 1&1, Earthlink, AOL and CA, Inc. Funambol is headquartered in Redwood City, CA with an R&D center in Italy. For more information, please visit www.funambol.com.

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New virus infects ATM , steals money from banks

Moscow: Automatic Teller Machines (ATM) may not be a safe way of transaction anymore as a new software virus has been found out which infects ATMs to steal money from bank accounts of their users. Doctor Web and 'Kaspersky Lab, two major anti-virus software producers have discovered such virus in the networks of several bank ATMs, which is able to collect information from bank cards.

This is a malicious program intended to infect and survive in ATMs. It is possible that new software will appear, aimed at illegitimately using banking information and removing funds," an official of the Kaspersky Lab was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti news agency.

According to the official, the virus is a Trojan which is able to infect the popular American Diebold brand of ATMs, used in Russia and Ukraine. Judging by the programming code used, there is a high probability that the programmer comes from one of the former Soviet republics.

The computer security experts say the number of infected ATMs is minimal but individual bank cardholders will not be able to detect whether an ATM is infected or not. However, banks can run security software to find out if their machines are at risk.

Courtesy: http://www.siliconindia.com

Chinese hackers infiltrate Indian embassy data

Toronto: China based hackers have infiltrated computers and stolen documents from hundreds of government and private offices around the world, including those of the Indian embassy in the U.S. and the Dalai Lama's organization, Canadian researchers said.

A vast electronic spying operation system, which infiltrated the computers, was being controlled from computers based exclusively in China, said the researchers in a report to be issued shortly. But they could not say conclusively that the Chinese government was involved. The group did also not identify the Indian embassies which were targeted.

The office of the Dalai Lama in India had asked the researchers based at the Munk Center for International Studies at the University of Toronto, to examine its computers for signs of malicious software, or malware.

Their examination unearthed a broader e-spying operation that, in less than two years, has infiltrated at least 1,295 computers in 103 countries, including many belonging to Indian embassies as well as the Dalai Lama's Tibetan exile centers in India, Brussels, London and New York.

The researchers believed that the e-spying operation, which they called GhostNet, had hacked into the computer systems at embassies of countries like Pakistan, Germany, Indonesia, Thailand and South Korea. The networks at foreign ministries of Bhutan, Bangladesh, Latvia, Indonesia, Iran and the Philippines, had been found similarly hacked.

Courtesy: http://www.siliconindia.com