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Google has announced the throwing of the version 2.0 of Gmail for Mobile, the adaptation for phones with support J2ME and for the BlackBerry. According to Google the general yield has experienced an important progress as for the speed or the scroll of screen.

If the user possesses so much mail account in Gmail as in Google Apps his accounts, position is possible easily simultanear that he is not necessary mobile applications to gain access to them. In addition to keeping multiple e-mail drafts.

The company of the searcher makes sure that the new version has been thrown in 35 languages, although it is necessary to bear in mind that not all the applications are available for all the mobile phones models.

Finished news | Google throws a Gmail new version for mobiles (The Country)

The diverse attempts of fraud and swindle that at present we suffer across the computers networks, between other types of attacks, they will move to the networks of mobile telephony and will reach a special virulence in 2009, according to a report of the Georgia Tech. The more and more voluminous quantity of information handled by means of the mobile phones - especially the financial information - and the difficulties to implement in them software anti-virus, makes them especially vulnerable and turns them into imminent target of the cybercrime.

Finished article | The mobile telephony turns into target hacker (Tendencies of the telecommunications)

The mobile terminals are vulnerable and the big networks of bots that sell his services to the spammers and the organized computer crime, they prepare an assault without precedents, as the investigators of Georgia Tech reveal in a report.

The study is alert of the extension of the botnets from the PCs up to the mobile terminals, thanks to the increase of his potency of calculation and wide connectivity to Internet, making use of the vulnerabilities of the cell phones and the operating systems of web applications.

The investigators of Georgia Tech say that the mobile phones suppose a big attraction for the computer delinquents, since in general they are sending and receiving information continuously and usually have safety systems of low level.

Finished news | Botnets: the hunting spreads to the mobile phone (The Inquirere ES) la caza se extiende al teléfono móvil (The Inquirere ES)

The planet Earth will count with “4.000 million mobile phones before the ends of the year” that is to say an index of cellular penetration of 61 %, according to the last estimations of the International Union of Telecommunications (UIT).

“From the beginning of century, the growth of the number of holders of mobile phones is very impressive, with an annual progression of about 24 % between 2000 and 2008 ″, stressed a spokesman of the UIT in press conference.

The year 2008 gave a very considerable jumping with regard to ends of 2007, when there were 3.300 million mobile phones, a progression due largely to the development of the emergent markets, in particular those of Brazil, China, India and Russia, added.

“These economies should be provided themselves with more than 1.300 million phones before the ends of the year”, according to the UIT. “China overcame 600 million devices during the year, turning of background on the most important mobiles market”, he added.

Finished news | The world will finish the year with 4.000 million mobile phones (finished News)

One year, after recommending prices reduction, the operators have ignored the same ones, therefore the European Commission has proposed (if it is a price it will be imposed by Law) a reduction of 70 % in the price of the SMS sent from the foreigner, cost reduction of the navigation in Internet across the mobile and minor cost in calls.

The principal proposal of the European police station of telecommunications, Viviane Reding, is to limit to 11 cents of euro the price of a message of text sent from the foreigner. At present the average price is 29 cents, in Spain it costs 40 cents and for the Belgians it rubs the silly thing with 80 cents and a few fabulous ganacias for the operators.

Finished news | SMS in Europe: maximum cost 11 cents (The Inquirer ES) coste máximo 11 céntimos (The Inquirer ES)

T-Mobile announced that next Tuesday the liberation of the first mobile based on the operating system Android de Linux, whose development is headed by Google. The mobile will be on sale next month.

The phone, called Dream, is done in Taiwan by the company High Tech Computer (HTC) and the reason for which one is waiting for his liberation is due to the fact that the software Android of Google provides a much better platform to sail along the web, at a level that earlier has never been seen in a mobile phone.

Finished news | Android of Google will liberate next week (UbuntuArte)

The new BlackBerry smartphone incorporates GPS and WiFi, as well as a wide scale of multimedia functions that VGA and camera of 2 megapixels combines with a design chromed in brilliant black, keyboard Qwerty, screen LCD in color semi.

The screen is that of major resolution produced for BlackBerry, of 480×230 píxels, half of the resolution VGA. Also, there includes memory flash of Gentle 128 more 1 Jig of internal memory of storage, and a groove for cards of memory microSD/SDHC.

Vodafone and Orange will commercialize on the Spanish market the device BlackBerry Bold of RIM, the first smartphone compatible with networks of high speed tribanda HSDPA, as have informed the companies in each bulletins. Sources of Phone companhy indicated to Europe Press that the operator also will commercialize the device on the Spanish market.

News completes | a new competitor of the iPhone Comes to Spain: BlackBerry Bold (Libertad Digital) BlackBerry Bold (Libertad Digital)