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• HTC issues hotfix for Bluetooth vulnerability in smartphones

  HTC released a software update on Thursday that fixes a Bluetooth vulnerability disclosed earlier this week by a Spanish security researcher.

• HTC smartphones left vulnerable to Bluetooth attack

  If you have an HTC smartphone running Windows Mobile 6 or Windows Mobile 6.1, you may want to think twice before connecting to an untrusted device using Bluetooth. A vulnerability in an HTC driver installed on these phones can allow an attacker to access any file on the phone or upload malicious code using Bluetooth, a Spanish security researcher warned Tuesday.

• HTC Hero finds a killer app in Flash

  The HTC Hero opens up a whole world of multimedia content with support for Flash 9, intensifying the spotlight on Apple's lack of cooperation with Adobe in bringing Flash to the iPhone.

• HTC puts new face on latest Google Android phone, Hero

  Smartphone developer High Tech Computer (HTC) introduced a completely revamped user interface (UI) on its latest smartphone running Google Android software, the HTC Hero, highlighting the importance companies see in making users love the software on their handset.

• T-Mobile's Android-powered myTouch 3G due in August

  As if the summer smartphone blockbuster season wasn't competitive enough, T-Mobile has announced a new contender slated for August that will be its second smartphone to run on Google's open-source Android platform.

• T-Mobile to offer Huawei's Android phone next quarter

  T-Mobile will release a smartphone running Google's Android operating system in Europe in the late third quarter, the phone's Chinese manufacturer, Huawei Technologies, said Thursday.

• HTC Hero Android Phone Coming June 24?

  This truly is turning into the Summer of Smartphones. The Palm Pre, of course, has already debuted to mostly positive reviews, and seemingly endless clues point to a next-gen iPhone launch in the very near future.

• HTC releases Magic Android to local market

  A week after Vodafone and 3 announced their intentions to offer the Google Android-based HTC Magic smartphone, HTC has officially release the product, which ships in two configurations.

• HTC to sell Google Android smartphone in China

  China's first mobile phone based on Google's Android software will go on sale next month in a deal between China Mobile and Taiwan's High Tech Computer (HTC).

• Android some day will outdistance the iPhone

  Mobile phones using the Android operating system will eventually be huge, even if the number of Android smartphones shipped in 2009 doesn't grow by 900% as a research firm recently predicted.

• MTN offers Android-based HTC Dream in South Africa

  MTN Group, Africa's biggest mobile-phone company, has released the Android-based HTC Dream smartphone in South Africa and is expected to start sales in 22 other countries. 

• HTC Magic delayed until May 5

  HTC has revealed that its Magic handset, which runs on Google's Android platform, won't be available in the UK until May 5.

• HTC to launch 'at least' three Google phones this year

  High Tech Computer (HTC) will ship "at least" three smartphones this year that use Google's Android software, HTC's CEO said Tuesday.

• HTC Maple smartphone to launch in US in early April

  Taiwanese smartphone developer High Tech Computer (HTC) plans to launch the HTC Maple in the U.S. next month to coincide with the International CTIA Wireless 2009 exhibition slated to start on April 1.

• Cameras and phones kick off March

  We're already a quarter of the way into 2009 and the gadgets are coming thick and fast despite the recession that is gripping many countries. This month it was time for new digital cameras with the PMA show in the U.S. and a couple of follow-ups from Panasonic and Sony in their CES announcements from back in January.