Deepfish: different browsing experience for Windows Mobile
Though my smartphone provides Internet connectivity to me, the browsing experience has not been very pleasent. Most of the times when it transforms actual layout of any page to displayable format, it becomes very difficult to browse.
Microsoft labs has launched a project called Deepfish to enhance browsing experience on devices running Windows Mobile 5+. It creates a full screen size thumbnail of actual layout of the page and displays a zoom box that you can move and zoom a particular part of page, which then displays that part of page zoomed to the screen size.
Sounds really interesting concept but lets see if it really improves the browsing experience. Sadly its in limited beta and has already exhausted the limit. Lets see if they increase it.
Security issues with smartphones
These days you can see almost every other person (atleast in corporate world) having a smartphone – a blackberry or a symbian/windows mobile phone, which not only lets you make and recieve calls but also provides internet connectivity enabling you to check emails, access calendar and surf internet on the move. Since so many people are carrying these devices (including me) that are connected to internet all time, I wonder how many of them have anything like an antivirus or some sort of firewall installed on their phones. I think this is a very serious issue specially after reading this article -
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9014118
Whenever I (and I think alot of other people) have bought a new computer or reinstalled OS on a computer, first thing I do is get all latest patches, install virus scanner and configure a firewall. I really wonder how many people update their smartphones with latest patches. Also I never connect my computer to internet directly without a router being in between or a firewall being installed on it but our smartphones dont have any kind of firewall and are connected to internet all the time.
I think this is a very important security issue specially for corporations whose employees have these phones and might have alot of confidential information/data stored on them.
