Report: Hulu app coming to the iPhone soon

Silicon Alley Insider is reporting that a dedicated Hulu application is indeed on its way to the iPhone and should be here in just a few months.

SAI says the application will work over Wi-Fi and AT&T's 3G network, meaning that users will be able to view programming anywhere with a fast data connection.

Rumors suggesting that an iPhone-friendly version of Hulu swirled around this time last year, however, they predated the launch of the App Store, and Hulu flat-out denied that one was being worked on.

This time around, though, it's far more plausible, with the upcoming iPhone OS 3.0 software update, which lets developers bake streaming media into their applications. For Hulu, this means that the advertising could be stuck into the mobile stream and that users would be able to watch videos without leaving the application.
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Apple rumor: Launch email from an iPhone note?

According to developers poking through the latest version of the iPhone OS 3.0 beta, it seems that the Mobile Notes application in iPhone OS 3.0 is capable of detecting phone numbers, URLs, and email addresses when viewing a note. Once detected, which the operating system shows by underlining the data, simply touching that item launches the corresponding Phone, Mobile Safari, or Mobile Mail application. (Source: AppleInsider)

When Apple unveiled the iPhone 3.0 OS in March, it only showed off a few of the new features that are going to arrive with the next release. Developers are being given over 1,000 new APIs to play with--allowing to them to tie their applications to parts of the iPhone's hardware in ways that were previously forbidden--and details have been trickling out ever since.

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SMS messages could be used to hijack a phone

Be careful who you give your mobile phone number out to. An attacker with the right toolkits and skill could hijack your phone remotely just by sending SMS messages to it, according to mobile security firm Trust Digital.

In what it calls a "Midnight Raid Attack" because it would be most effective when a victim is asleep, an attacker could send a text message to a phone that would automatically start up a Web browser and direct the phone to a malicious Web site, said Dan Dearing, vice president of marketing at Trust Digital. The Web site could then download an executable file on the mobile phone that steals data off the phone, he said.
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KDDI develops arm swing authentication system

From silencing alarms to motion gaming, now it seems embedded accelerometers in mobile devices have another calling. They will soon let you lock folders on your phones, start applications and unlock handsets with an arm swing.

The application, developed jointly by the KDDI R&D Laboratories and Yoshinori Hatori Laboratory at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, uses motion sensor to detect an arm swing and matches it to a pre-registered pattern. Other variables such as the length of a person's arm, muscle structure and holding style are also computed in the swinging action.

According to the researchers, the error rate for rejecting an authorized user and allowing a third-party mimicking the pattern is 4 percent. This failure rate lowers if the sequence of the action hasn't been made known to anyone else.

No word on when this will be available yet, though KDDI and its partner expect to enhance the system, which can possibly be as accurate as current biometric authentication technologies.

Via Tech-On

Are you still willing to pay unsubsidized phone prices?

Yesterday, HTC announced the Singapore prices of its upcoming Touch Diamond2 and Pro2 smartphones, at S$1,088 (US$727) and S$1,328 (US$887) respectively. A few technology Web sites based outside Asia picked up the press release, and the opinion that the HTC offerings are way too expensive seems to resonate across the different sites. But are they really?

Given the economic climate, many will be more careful about their spending. But if you look at those prices, they are actually very similar to their predecessors' (Touch Diamond and Pro) when they were launched. Given the strengthening US dollar against the Singapore dollar, the devices should seem even less expensive to those in the US. Why then do these technology sites and their readers balk at the price? The difference, as we see it, is in the perception.
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