An update on their troubles

If you are a fan of Windows Mobile, I'm sure Coolsmartphone.com is on the list regularly read, it's on me, but they have terrible problems with an attack at the end of Google have been pretty much knocked them from the Internet . They each search that Google returns a page Coolsmartphone is a terrible message to them and said: "This site may harm your computer." Leigh has worked tirelessly to address the problem and now reports all goes well. You can read the detailed explanation after the break.

OK, a quick update on how things with the site. Google now have pretty much knocked us from the Internet. They each search that Google returns a page Coolsmartphone is a terrible message to them and said: "This site may harm your computer." If you visit us in Firefox, you get a really horrible red page warning you about us and they will refuse to load the page, unless you ignore it.
We are now 100% sure that we have found and the problem is eliminated. I would like forum member "sTeDay" for his help tonight, plus all the messages of support, help and concern you have to send through - it is very much appreciated. Although we have removed the problem I am slightly at a loss to explain how they got there. A message here on the first page was changed and an IFRAME had been added to the end of it pulling code from a nasty Web site that tries to infect your machine with EXE files from various other websites. Somehow it had also changed the forum post in connection with this same story, which is a little confusing, as our internal systems would not normally fire changes in the forum automatically.
The problem could also arise in the ads on the side of the site, so I have removed every single Flash and Java display. This obviously has a massive financial hit for us, but I'm well aware of the problems you guys were out and I want to make sure that it does not happen again. I have e-mails and comments from people who have had to re-format their machines and start again. Although I personally believe that anyone with the Internet should be an anti-virus (AV) system, I would like to personally apologize to all those who either do not update their AV, has not made use or AV-AV, that missed the Download trial.
If there is someone out there experience with this hack (which came from places klikvp.com among others), please give me a shout at gears@coolsmartphone.com. Although I have removed the offending code, I'm not able to handle any type of SQL injection in each log file on our main server, so I'm assuming it's a different kind of hack. Even if someone has any contact with Google, I would love to hear from you - I've just filled in a form in their webmaster tools and got this answer ...
"If we find that it no longer violates our webmaster guidelines, we will index the site. Please allow several weeks for the renewed inquiry."
Several weeks? It took only a few days to us and black block Firefox / Google chrome access. Several weeks would leave us dead in the water, so please help if you can. : (
Thank you for your patience during this time. If any of our friends on other Windows Mobile sites wants to this story, please feel free.
Thank you. gears@coolsmartphone.com
Update - Thanks to everyone for your donations. I have in this bottom you should want to help, while we diagnose the problem. I've just done a thorough check with rkhunter and the good news is we have not had hacked into the server so it looks like an SQL injection of a sort possible.

HP Oak, Silver smartphone rumors resurface

HP is nearing the release of two important touchscreen phones previously only hinted at earlier in the year, according to a pair of reports. The Wall Street Journal now hints that one of HP's first true touchscreen-focused iPAQ smartphones is due in Europe as soon as two months from now; the report directly corroborates a leak early in the year of the Oak that reveals a hybrid touch and keyboard design intended for Vodafone. The earlier and more specific leak would give the phone a side-slider design with 7.2Mbps, HSDPA-based 3G as well as GPS and Wi-Fi.

As with recent iPAQ smartphones, the Oak is also said to be running Windows Mobile 6.1. The newspaper adds that the phone should be available worldwide after the European release but doesn't mention more specific dates or prices. The earlier leak had initially suggested a September launch at ₤260 in the UK (now $461) but now may change given the apparent delay.

Separately, Engadget has also obtained the first photos of the Silver, a candybar-style parallel to the Oak. It would lose the touchscreen and revert to a SureType-style keyboard while keeping the advanced 3G and Windows Mobile foundations of the larger and likely more costly Oak. It too is also slated for Vodafone, though its originally projected ₤250 ($443) price and July release date have since become inaccurate. A US launch is very likely for the Silver.

HP to release touchscreen smartphone

The WSJ.com reports that Hewlett Packard will release a new smartphone in the next two months, aiming to grow its device business beyond corporate users. The device will debut in Europe, and will be sold by a mobile carrier in retail stores.
Hopefully, as WMPowerUser hopes, “the device will be the HP Oak, which looks pretty tasty, and hopefully the device is more polished and less buggy than the trouble-some HP 910c.”

Fellow PC manufacturers Dell and Acer have been hinting their own plans to enter the smartphone industry. Acer even has been confirmed to start its brand new smartphone debut in Q1 2009.

HP To Release Touchscreen Smartphone

The new device will have a touchscreen and keypad and will use Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system, say people briefed on the plan. It will be able to send and receive emails, and access the Internet.

The phone is the latest version of H-P’s iPaq devices. H-P, which has been selling iPaq-branded devices since it acquired personal-computer maker Compaq Computer Corp. in 2002, primarily focused earlier iPaqs on businesses and typically didn’t sell them through retail stores.

This is an interesting move, as PC manufacturers seem to be hopping on the smartphone train of late. Look for Dell and Acer to enter the market as well, possibly as early as Q1 2009.
Reports have it that Hewlett Packard is working on a new smartphone for release before the end of the year. The new touchscreen smartphone initially dubbed the ‘HP Oak’ will be initially sold in Europe by carriers in their retail stores. Initial reports on this new device came out earlier this year… But it sounds like HP has finished their development and is getting ready to ship the device.

Vodafone Roadmap for 2008

What we have here, courtesy of the folks at The Boy Genius Report who broke the story, is the entire Vodafone roadmap for 2008. Included is details of the new Blackberry, Hewlett Packard’s new Windows Mobile Phones and all the new Nokia Symbian devices. It’s a fabulous scoop, and we’ve got the lot here! Read on…

HP have been stalling for a while now with their mobile phone
series, however it seems they will be going full-steam-ahead in 2008.
According to the leaked information, they will offer the HP Silver Windows
Mobile smartphone in July which will be armed with both Wi-Fi and GPS
and will come with a Blackberry-style SureType keyboard.

The HP Oak will again be Windows-powered, however
this time we are talking a PocketPC with keyboards, GPS and Wi-Fi. The
HP Oak is expected in September 2008.

HP Oak!

Nope, we’re not talking about a tree here! It looks as if the HP Silver won’t be the only HP handset sporting some HSUPA action. You now have a pretty decent line, with the Standard version, and now the Professional one making the rounds. The HP Oak sports a nifty slide-out QWERTY keyboard with a traditional number pad on the front, in addition to integrated GPS and Wi-Fi. We’re not really judging here, but it looks like you might have some difficulty with that 1010mAh battery. Release date? Thought you’d never ask! September, guys. It’s a long way to go, and ₤260 couldn’t come soon enough. Whittle the HP Oak, so to speak, after the jump!
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"HP Oak" 2008's iPhone

What if instead of announcing the iPhone in January 2007 when it was still basically a pretty brick that didn't work (a huge risk if they hadn't been able to fix the product), Apple had instead waited until June and announced the product then?

Certainly, the buzz surrounding the phone would have continued and the risk of being sued for not disclosing that the phone wasn't even close to viable at the announcement would have been mitigated. This was a huge risk for Apple, which was already under SEC investigation, and while it played out for the company nicely there are few companies that are willing to take that risk.

HP would likely be at the top of the list when it comes to taking risks like this. While HP clearly had the same opportunity Apple had, and its product (based on Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) Free Trial. Security Software As A Service From Webroot. Latest News about Microsoft Mobile platform) is vastly more complete than the iPhone was last January, it has apparently decided to hold off announcing the offering until later in the year, and the phone is still in the "rumor" stage as a result.

Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) Latest News about Vodafone, one of the carriers evidently launching the phone later in the year, evidently isn't that secure, however. Its entire fall line was leaked to the Web. One of those phones was HP's Oak, and it now takes the place of the iPhone for what is the most anticipated new phone coming to market. Granted, there is still the 3G Latest News about 3G iPhone and the expected iPhone nano -- at least one of which will show up this year (probably both) -- but for now the Oak seems to be the product to watch.

The reason for this is it seems to blend the advantages of the RIM Blackberry with the iPhone to create a hybrid product which offers the benefits of both into what could be a bigger product than either. HP's connections into the enterprise are better than RIM's, and the company probably has more senior people with Apple DNA than any other company in Silicon Valley.

Granted, there's no Steve Jobs there to present the product, but remember that it was HP's iPod competitor that scared Steve Jobs so much he actually tricked HP into stopping it. That won't work twice. This time HP appears not only to have a great product but to be immune to Apple's trickery.