T-Mobile G1 (the much-awaited HTC dream), has been announced today. The T-Mobile G1 is the first handset powered by Google’s Android operating system will be coming to T-Mobile on October 22nd.

The 5.6 ounces, 4.60” x 2.16” x 0.62” handset sports a 3-inch touchscreen, 3-megapixel camera, internet navigation buttons and a full QWERTY keypad. Users can have up to 350 minutes talk-time for WCDMA (3G) or up to 406 minutes for GSM. The T-Mobile G1 is available in three colors, white, brown and black and will be priced at $179 (for a two-year contract).

Here are the features of T-Mobile G1:

• Qualcomm MSM7210A running @ 528 MHz
• 256MB ROM / 192MB RAM
• Quad-band (850/900/1800/1900Mhz) GSM/GPRS/EDGE
• Dual-band (1700/2100Mhz) UMTS/HSDPA (3G)
• 7.2Mbps HSDPA (downstream) and 2Mbps HSUPA (upstream)
• WiFi 802.11 b/g
• Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR (Enhanced Data Rate)
• myFaves-enabled
• GPS capabilities
• 3.2-inch touchscreen display @ 320 x 480 (HVGA) resolution
• Voice recognition, voice dialing and speakerphone
• Full Cut-and-Paste functionality
• 3-megapixel camera with photo-sharing (geo-tagging) capabilities
• Trackball for one-handed navigation
• Chrome Lite Web browser with zoom function that expands any page section by simply tapping on the screen.
• One-click contextual search to instantly find relevant information with a touch of a finger in any application
• Rich HTML email client
• Google Maps
• Music player supports MP3, M4A (iTunes AAC, DRM-free), AMR, WMA, MIDI, WAV, OGG Vorbis
• microSD card slot supports up to 8GB microSD cards

Applications

• ShopSavvy: designed to help people do comparative shopping
• Ecorio: developed to help people keep track of their daily travels and view what their carbon footprint looks like
• BreadCrumbz: enables people to create a step-by-step visual map using photos; customers can create their own routes, share them with friends or with the world
• Pre-installed Amazon MP3 Store.
• Instant messaging application with support for AIM, GTalk, Windows Live Messenger, and Yahoo! Messenger
• YouTube video application

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Debian has released an OpenSSH security updates intended for computers powered by the Debian Linux Operating System. The current OpenSSH version found in Debian has a Denial of Service vulnerability. It was discovered that the Debian version of OpenSSH server’s  signal handler implementing the login timeout uses functions which are not async-signal-safe that leads to denial of service vulnerability. An affected system suffers from tremendous amount of zombie sshd processes.

If your Debian system is running the old version of OpenSSH server, using root account and running the following commands will solve the problem:
# apt-get update
# apt-get upgrade

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Good news to all Asterisk fans out there, Asterisk Graphical User Interface (GUI)  2.0 has been released and it looks great.

Asterisk, the most popular open source telephony system has been criticized in the past for not having a good GUI and most network administrators and asterisk enthusiasts like me prefer to use the Command Line Interface (CLI) to configure and maintain an asterisk platform.

Click HERE to check the screenshots of the new Asterisk GUI 2.0 

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Last week, some of Red Hat servers were compromised by outside attackers. The intruder was able to sign a small number of OpenSSH packages relating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (i386 and x86_64 architectures) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (x86_64 architecture). The attack could also make the end-users victim if they installed the compromised software. As a result, Red Hat issued an OpenSSH update and provided a command-line tool that administrators can use to check if their system has compromised OpenSSH packages.

From the RHN announcement:

Last week Red Hat detected an intrusion on certain of its computer systems and took immediate action. While the investigation into the intrusion is on-going, our initial focus was to review and test the distribution channel we use with our customers, Red Hat Network (RHN) and its associated security measures. Based on these efforts, we remain highly confident that our systems and processes prevented the intrusion from compromising RHN or the content distributed via RHN and accordingly believe that customers who keep their systems updated using Red Hat Network are not at risk. We are issuing this alert primarily for those who may obtain Red Hat binary packages via channels other than those of official Red Hat subscribers.

Following products are affected:

• Red Hat Desktop (v. 4)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4.5.z)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4.5.z)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 4)

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Could it be possible that HTC Dream will run the much-awaited Google Android platform? The HTC Dream has received an approval from FCC and its timing leads credence to HTC and T-Mobile’s announcement that they will be releasing  a new phone based on Google’s Android platform by the end of this year. The HTC Dream will have quad-band GSM/EDGE radios, WCDMA 1700, Bluetooth, three mega-pixel camera, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, trackball and WiFi.

I think its about time that Google’s Android platform be used in new models of mobile phones after almost a year of development. Well, I hope that Google, HTC or T-Mobile will have an official announcement on this and hopefully clear all speculations about the HTC Dream mobile phone.

For the meantime,  like many other phone enthusiasts out there, I want to see some pictures of HTC Dream go online soon.

UPDATE (8/21/08) : T-mobile’s Android HTC Dream mobile phone is set to be released on October 13 for $200 and a 2 year commitment. A very good deal for people who would like to have a nice phone powered by Google’s Android Operating System.

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