G1 phone hacked

Hackers have managed to jailbreak T-Mobile's G1 phone by exploiting a gaping loophole in Android, the open source operating system supplied by Google, reports TheRegister.

The hack is a process that allows Linux geeks to gain root access in about one minute and involves using the widely available PTerminal application to telnet to the device's IP address.

The hack gives complete system access, with full read-and-write functionality of Symbian and Linux.

A National Football League (NFL) game will be broadcast on Sprint mobile phones as part of the wireless company's partnership with the league, states WSJ.com.

The partnership deal is valued at about $500 million over five years, and over the next seven weeks Sprint will “phonecast” the eight games that are televised on the NFL Network.

With the NFL Network available in only about 40% of American households, Sprint executives hope the NFL games can do for their company what the league's Sunday Ticket package has done for satellite television provider DirecTV Group.

Small to medium enterprises are adopting mobile broadband at a faster rate than large enterprises, according to a study from ABI Research, states Information Week.

The study, entitled United States Mobile Business Customer Profiles, said one of the key drivers to adoption is familiarity with data access from PCs and laptops, and mobile broadband makes this access easier on the road.

The report concluded that while the deep pockets and IT departments of large businesses make them ripe for mobile broadband, SMEs are implementing it faster because there is no distribution favouritism toward business customers.