Today, Apple released the new beta of the SDK from the iPhone. It is version 4.0.
In the iPhone DevCenter you will find this the download.
New in Version 4.0

• Multitasking
• IAd
• Over 1,500 new APIs
• …

What all is new, can be found here

The Zero Day Initiative announces the 4th Pwn2Own contest. They are searching exploits/vulnerabilities for browsers and mobiles … if you find one you can win some money. Total prize money is $100k.

Sounds like an interesting “job” … Read more here

Anyone who thinks an Android phone, you can not play games, should watch this video.
There are briefly shown 50 games in 9 minutes.

A list of all games and the publisher you can find here.

A few days ago, the new Android SDK was released. There are no signifieds user features added in version 2.1. Primarily benefit from this update Nexus One developer.
You can add the update with the SDK Manager.

All changes can be found in the Release Notes on the Android developer site.
Two new extensions in the API are the live wallpaper and the signal strength. The live wallpapers are already being used in the Nexus One.

Google wants to speed up the web. Now Google starts with its own DNS Service.

Google Public DNS uses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as its IP addresses. Advanced users will surely have no problem making the necessary changes to enable Google Public DNS. The company has also released a set of step-by-step instructions for Windows, Mac and Linux users that can be found here.

Here you can find the Google page

Google has released the source code for its Chrome OS project, as it prepares to show off the lightweight operating system for the first time.

Here you´ll find the article: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/releasing-chromium-os-open-source.html

If you want to run a script on a linux host from your powershell you might want to open an ssh session. Powershell does not bring this feature natively … but you can build yourself a quick workaround by combining powershell with the free tool “PuTTy” and it’s commandline interface “plink”  … read more Powershell SSH Howto

Did you also ask yourself what this google wave is all about? Here is a nice introduction … watch it! It’s googles attempt to reinvent email communication combined with all collaborative communication inventions from the last years (like blogs, twitter, bulletin boards etc.) …

On http://dev.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-whitepaper google is talking about a plan to improve the HTTP protocol with SPDY (speedy). It should drastically reduce latency, remove redundant and irrelevant data transmission (like sending the same headers with every request), base on SSL and compression for every request and make web requests much faster and more efficient …

I think this is very interesting especially for the mobile world since web connections on my mobile still feel like back in the “modem” days which is mainly caused by latency times for all those small requests that happen in the HTTP protocol …

If you are using a mediawiki for internal documentation or as a team knowledge base you might want to automate page creation from a shell. I wrote a powershell script which offers a simple function to create a new wiki page with a title, text and a category as parameters. It works with HTTP – so it should work from most of your servers without firewall problems.

Mediwiki offers a Special page where you can import pages. But this is not a webservice API or something like that – it’s an html form with an xml file upload. So you have to create a mediawiki-compliant xml file and fake an html form submission with the correct parameters (thats why I have this strange parameters in $wikiURL – without them it won’t work). Read more … Powershell Tutorial