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All About N-Gage have the dirt on a game that looks like it has a lot of potential: Asphalt: Urban GT.  I can't say that I've played much more than some FIFA and other random stuff on the N-Gage, but a good racer can add a lot of value to a gaming platform.  Of course I'm still waiting to see if Call of Duty rocks as much as it should.

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A couple of days back I had told you how a Polish security expert and hacker Adam Gowdiak had created ripples by reporting vulnerability in Nokia S 40 phones and had in turn asked for $29,500 for releasing the complete report. This entire incident had raise eyebrows in the community.

Nokia admitted to have received the security threat notice from Adam Gowdiak and now the company has admitted that its S series operating system is vulnerable to hackers and malicious programs could be installed. I was wondering whether Nokia had paid for his efforts or not since the company avoided commenting on this issue. Even Adam Gowdiak could not be reached on this issue but to me it seems that his efforts have finally paid off. Best of luck Adam for your new venture!! See full article.

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Opera Software patched seven vulnerabilities in its flagship browser but omitted information on one of the fixes, hinting that other software remains at risk from a cross-site scripting vulnerability.

Ted Shelton: "Frankly I felt that BlogOn was a waste of time and money."

I think the BlogOn conference was overproduced. In the name of professionalism the organizing firm turned off potential speakers, oversubscribed sponsors, etc.

I would have liked a debatable topic (aside from *blogging = journalism*. Two people slugging it out. Or a devil's advocate taking challenges from the floor.

I would have liked more hard numbers. Facts. Charts. Diagrams. We have the analytic tools to BS-check them; harder on vague opinions and single-points-of-observation.

I found it disturbing how much money was being commanded (from both attendees and sponsors) for a conference at a university. Maybe it was because it was at Berkeley? Maybe we should have taken over a community college or a Cal State or a DeVry. The facilities costs would have been cheaper at least. I heard an organizer apologize and say the next one would be at a hotel, like that would have been better.

Cost wasn't the whole problem. We're at a stage where early adopters are meeting folks who want to leap the chasm. Huge gaps in knowledge, experience, context, culture, vocabulary. It's the gap.

There are huge ideas to be explored, even in the world of applying blogs to media strategy and the enterprise. And most of the big ideas weren't even on the agenda at BlogOn. Probably because it was catering to those who want to commercialize, fund, and otherwise exploit (excuse me, "get in on") the emerging medium.

Let's fork these conferences so advanced topics on business and technology and culture fit the participants. 

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