A number of Apple Mac developers have requested that Sony Ericsson provide some of its popular content development tools for use with Mac OS. Their wishes have finally come true. Sony Ericsson has published Themes Creator 1.60 for Mac OS X. Also supporting the Sony Ericsson V800, the Sony Ericsson Themes Creator 1.60 (including Developers’ Guidelines and Release Notes) is available.

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The BBC’s Stephen Evans looks at how film makers are producing short snippets for modern mobile phones.

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If you’re as into the BlackBerry 7100t as your hopelessly addicted editor, you’ll want to read Emory’s list of what’s on his 7100t:

First, the UI. T-Mobile’s theme for the 7100 was quite possibly designed by war criminals. Certainly not UI experts. The icons are bad, the details are fuzzy and sometimes seem mis-matched, and the color scheme sucks. I changed over to the old-school Icon theme that just puts everything on one screen. That way I could hide unused icons like that stupid “Download Fun!” one, and the “Compose” shortcut. If I want to compose an email, I do it from Messages or from the Address Book.

Read the entire article at MobileWhack.
If you’d like to read more on the BB 7100t check out my previous articles on this awesome device (Part I, II and III).

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SecurityFocus’ Kevin Poulsen broke a story about a 21-year-old hacker that had access to T-Mobile’s customers names, addresses, social security numbers, voicemail passwords, and get this, their Sidekick photos. What’s worse is that he also nabbed some pretty sensitive email from the US Secret Service. Why the hell are those guys sending confidential email from their Sidekicks anyway?

A sophisticated computer hacker had access to servers at wireless giant T-Mobile for at least a year, which he used to monitor U.S. Secret Service e-mail, obtain customers’ passwords and Social Security numbers, and download candid photos taken by Sidekick users, including Hollywood celebrities, SecurityFocus has learned.
Twenty-one year-old Nicolas Jacobsen was quietly charged with the intrusions last October, after a Secret Service informant helped investigators link him to sensitive agency documents that were circulating in underground IRC chat rooms. The informant also produced evidence that Jacobsen was behind an offer to provide T-Mobile customers’ personal information to identity thieves through an Internet bulletin board, according to court records.

The PowerPage are huge GSM and T-Mo advocates and we’re wondering what the company is going to do to compensate the victims of this attack and prevent it from happening again? Verizon, can you hear me now?
Read more:
T-Mobile: Hacker had limited access (CNet)
Hacker breaches T-Mobile systems, reads US Secret Service email (The Register)
Hacker Penetrates T-Mobile Systems (Slashdot)

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From Engadget and PCWorld we get word of the first iTunes-compatible phone:

Not quite the magical unveiling of the iPhone that we’ve all been waiting for (guess that could still be in the offing at Macworld or something), but Motorola executive VP Ron Garriques showed off the first iTunes-compatible handset during his keynote address at CES yesterday. He wouldn’t cough up anything much about the phone itself or when Apple fans everywhere will finally be able to feel whole, but the phone itself did have an iPod-like navigation interface and sync with iTunes just like a proper iPod.

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I did it. The unthinkable.
After writing off the PDA as a victim of advancing mobile phone technology and vowing never to have a Windows device in my home I singlehandedly broke both resolutions and splurged on the new HP iPAQ h6315 mobile phone.
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Research In Motion (RIM) has announced the Blackberry 7100t, their new flagship mobile phone and email device that looks more like a phone than a PDA.

The 7100t is a full-featured, quad-band (GMS 850/900; DCS 1800; PCS 1900), world-ready smart phone that works on the GSM/GPRS network.

Mac OS X 10.3.5 brought full HID support for Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones that have a HID profile. What does that mean for users of Jonas Salling’s Salling Clicker?
Absolutely nuthin’.

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Photos have surfaced of a new handset from Sony Ericsson. This time it’s a clamshell.

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Sony Ericsson has a new GSM handset coming down the pipeline. Is it a special edition T610? All signs point to “yes”. The T620 is a color handset with Bluetooth and a different look.
READ MORE for the link to photos! Habla Espanol? The site is in Spanish.
(And no, we still haven’t heard about the CDMA T608.)

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