Monday, January 17, 2011

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Microsoft Developer Blogger Shows Easy Sniffing Of WP7 Traffic

Posted: 17 Jan 2011 03:45 PM PST


Do you fancy investigating any traffic being sent in and out of your Windows Phone 7 device? Aside from the more involved method of using a packet sniffer on your phone or capturing the data over a wireless connection and decrypting it, a member of the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) has gone ahead and given some extremely straight forward steps on how to set up a man-in-the-middle proxy to capture and store all HTTP and HTTPS traffic. How it works is very simple – Fiddler, a web debugging proxy, is run on a Windows PC and acts as an intermediary gateway to the outside world, once you configure your device to pass information through it, Fiddler will capture, display and allow you to modify the passing traffic.

What legitimate use case could this have? Well it’s useful for developers who are writing apps, however it’s especially useful for enterprising hackers, do-it-yourselfers and anybody else who is concerned about the information that apps are uploading. Microsoft does have very stringent rules for allowing applications into the Marketplace, but as we’ve seen before with the Apple AppStore and the Android Market, sometimes things either slip through the cracks or are obfuscated enough that the QA team is fooled and allow the malicious code to go live. With Fiddler, you can see full HTTP streams and if you do choose to install the SSL certificate – all HTTPS encrypted traffic can be re-signed using the cert and then decrypted at will.

While most developers will be using the emulator to do the majority of their development work, when it comes to real deployment and users who want to get started in monitoring their device traffic, they should visit the post on the MSDN Blog by Eric Lawrence and follow the provided instructions.


Microsoft Developer Blogger Shows Easy Sniffing Of WP7 Traffic originally appeared on Techie Buzz written by Simon on Monday 17th January 2011 06:45:38 PM under Mobile News. Please read the Terms of Use for fair usage guidance.

Nokia ‘Ovi Music Unlimited’ Service Shut Down

Posted: 17 Jan 2011 10:08 AM PST


Last year, Nokia launched the 'Ovi Music Unlimited' service which allowed users to download unlimited number of songs for free for a period of 1 year via the Ovi Music store. Users could get access to this service if they purchased any of the 'Comes with music' branded Nokia handset. However, today Nokia has announced that will be shutting down their 'Ovi Music Unlimited' service.

The folks over at NokiaUsers contacted Nokia regarding this matter and the company has confirmed that they will be shutting down the Ovi Music Unlimited service. However, the Finnish giant won't be shutting down the service in all regions of the world. In India, China and Indonesia, Nokia will continue offering the Ovi Music Unlimited service. In Brazil, Turkey and South Africa the company will offer the service with a reduced timespan of 6 months. 

In other regions of the world, Nokia will stop offering the Ovi Music Unlimited edition handsets. Nevertheless, users who still use the Ovi Music Unlimited service can continue to do so until their original time period of the service is valid.

One of the biggest disadvantages of  Ovi Music Unlimited service was that the songs were not DRM free. This meant that users could only listen to the songs downloaded from the Ovi Music store on their handsets or on their PC using the Ovi Player. Also the songs offered for download were of very low quality (64Kbps AAC).

Except for Ovi Maps I don’t think any other Ovi service from Nokia has met with success. Time for Nokia to think upon their ‘Ovi’ strategy.


Nokia 'Ovi Music Unlimited' Service Shut Down originally appeared on Techie Buzz written by Rajesh Pandey on Monday 17th January 2011 01:08:16 PM under Mobile News. Please read the Terms of Use for fair usage guidance.

Sony Ericsson Xperia Play Caught on Video

Posted: 17 Jan 2011 09:06 AM PST


The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, which has been one of the most highly anticipated Android smartphones, is set to launch at the Mobile World Congress in February. It will combine the gaming experience of the Sony PSP Go with the power of the Android OS.

We already have had quite a few leaks related to the Xperia Play and we now have the complete list of hardware specs as well as some benchmark performance numbers of the Xperia Play. We have also seen it in images, and now thanks to BGR, we also have two videos of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play in action. It seems to be a final production prototype and from the videos, the Xperia Play seems to be a definite hit.

Sony Ericsson Xperia Play

Check out these two videos of the Xperia Play in action:

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, the Playstation phone, comes with Android 2.3 Gingerbread with a custom UI shell by Sony Ericsson and will be powered by a 1 GHz processor and 512 MB RAM. It has an Adreno 205 GPU and comes with a 3.7 inch capacitive touchscreen display with a resolution of 854 x 480 pixels. It has a sliding joystick instead of a keyboard which resembles the PSP Go and has performed quite well on the Quadrant and Neocore benchmarks. It will have an exclusive library of PSP games and will also support the Android Market apps and games.


Sony Ericsson Xperia Play Caught on Video originally appeared on Techie Buzz written by Pathik Shah on Monday 17th January 2011 12:06:11 PM under Mobile News. Please read the Terms of Use for fair usage guidance.
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