Forum Nokia teams with DeviceAnywhere to deliver enhanced Mobile Application Development Testing Services

The largest mobile development community in the world taps DeviceAnywhere to create Forum Nokia Virtual Developer Lab, bringing developers remote access to Series 40 and S60 Handsets

(San Mateo Calif., USA), July 8, 2008 – DeviceAnywhere™ today unveiled the new Forum Nokia Virtual Developer Lab (VDL) – a remote testing service designed to dramatically reduce the time and resources required to develop, test, monitor, and deploy applications and content for Nokia handsets. The on-line service supports the most popular Nokia devices running on the Series 40 and S60 platforms and is available globally to all members of the Forum Nokia developer community. Read more: Forum Nokia teams with DeviceAnywhere to deliver enhanced Mobile Application Dev

London, UK and Helsinki, Finland: Xtract, the leader and innovator in social advertising intelligence today announced that it has closed its series B round of funding with EUR 7,5 Million ($11.74M) from leading early-stage technology investors Creandum, ETF III advised by Eqvitec Partners and InnovationsKapital.

Xtract enables mobile and online companies to refine their customer data creating highly accurate 3 Dimensional profiles combining social interactions, behaviour and demographic information. It answers a crucial need in the advertising industry by making the advertising in social media and mobile effective. By using Xtract, customers have seen the average ad income increase with as much as 82% and in mobile campaigns response rates have increased, on an average, with 30%. Read more: Xtract, Innovator in Social Advertising Intelligence Raises EUR 7.5 Million

Universal Software Development Platform Plus New Pre-Built Skinnable Applications Drastically Reduce the Time and Cost to Develop Mobile Services

Paris, France, 8 July, 2008 – Streamezzo, creator of the Universal Software Platform™ that overcomes mobile industry fragmentation and powers the Mobile Internet, today announced the release of the initial four elements of its Streamezzo Skinnable Application Suite™. Effective today, independent software developers, system integrators and mobile agencies can experience a compelling new alternative for developing mobile services.

Streamezzo has released the following four skinnable applications for use in developing compelling new rich media-based mobile applications and services: Read more: Streamezzo announces Skinnable Application Suite for Developing Compelling...

7th July 2008 - Fortify Software, the application vulnerability security specialist, has warned companies using Microsoft\'s ASP (Active Server Page) technology - Microsoft\'s server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages - to be watch out for SQL Injection attacks.

\"Although Microsoft ASP is a powerful component in the Windows 2000 Server stable of offerings, it seems that hackers have latched on to the fact that many companies have created poorly-written Web code that interfaces with their Web sites\'\' back-end database,\" said Rob Rachwald, Fortify’s director of product marketing.

\"This means that, although the Microsoft Security Response Centre (MSRC) is aware of the problem, it\'s not something it can issue patch for. As a result, large numbers of ASP-enabled Web hosts are being hit by SQL injection attacks,\" he added. Read more: Fortify Software warns over SQL attack headache for ASP site owners