February 8, 2010 
There has been some downtime over at HtcPortal.com in the last couple of days. Minor updates have been added but the page is still out of date in terms of content.
For those of you who don’t know what HTC is all about, check out htc.com. The HTC corporation (High Technology Computers) are the creators of some really awesome cellphones (yes, even better than iphone!)
You can also take a look at my personal blog, fabnomena.com where I’m talking about the 7th world wonder, HTC Bravo :P
I know, I know.. updates have been REALLY rare these days and I really have no other excuse than the truth - life is busy :) I have been working on my fabnomena.com blog page, I have been working on a norwegian gadget website and a lot of other minor projects.
I can’t reveal too much about the current project just yet, but make sure you bookmark hardcore.no if you understand norwegian. The original launch date was set to January 31st, but as of right now I’m a little behind schedule, so don’t get your hopes up just yet :)
The latest version of Windows Mobile will be available on mobile phones next month, Microsoft has confirmed.
The software giant has hyped up Windows Mobile 6.5 for some time now, but today finally announced that the first handsets to support the redesigned OS will start appearing in retail stores on 6 October.
Despite insisting that Windows Mobile 6.5 devices are referred to as “Windows phones”, Microsoft hasn’t actually made any handsets itself – in spite of claims to the contrary.
TechCrunch reports today that when Amazon acquired Zappos in July for more than $900 million, it also bought intangible assets including various domain names.
One of these acquired domain names is Clothes.com. According to Amazon’s SEC filing, Zappos had bought Clothes.com for $4.9 million from Idealab in May 2008. The domain is currently redirecting to a Zappos web page selling clothing products.
In May 2008, we [Zappos] acquired the Clothes.com internet domain name from Idealab. The domain name was recognized as a purchased intangible asset with a useful life of 20 years. The entire purchase price of $4.9 million was assigned to the price of the domain name intangible asset and will be amortized on a straight-line basis over its remaining estimated useful life.
This makes Clothes.com the second-highest domain sale of 2008, topped only by Fund.com, which was sold for close to $10 million. The sale shows once again how many top-dollar domain sales go unnoticed in any given year. But it also shows that many smart companies do care about generic domain names, which they quietly acquire and then use to increase sales and support their brands.
According to the NY Times, Google announced late Tuesday that it is developing an operating system for PCs that is tied to its Chrome Web browser.
The software, called the Google Chrome Operating System, is initially intended for use in the tiny, low-cost portable computers known as netbooks, which have been selling quickly even as demand for other PCs has plummeted. Google said it believed the software would also be able to power full-size PCs.
The move is likely to sharpen the already intense competition between Google and Microsoft, whose Windows operating system controls the basic functions of the vast majority of personal computers. Click to read the full story »
Given the hype surrounding Apple’s iPhone, we’re actually surprised that we haven’t seen more holes to plug over the years. In fact, the last major iPhone exploit to take the world by storm happened right around this time two years ago, and now — thanks to OS X security expert Charlie Miller — we’re seeing yet another come to light.
Over at the SyScan conference in Singapore, Mr. Miller disclosed a hole that would let attackers “run software code on the phone that is sent by SMS over a mobile operator’s network in order to monitor the location of the phone using GPS, turn on the phone’s microphone to eavesdrop on conversations, or make the phone join a distributed denial of service attack or a botnet.” Charlie’s planning to detail the vulnerability in full at the upcoming Black Hat conference, but Apple’s hoping to have it all patched up by the end of this month.
