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Joel bookmarked on 2009-04-30 Mobile Virus
  • The widespread outbreak of mobile phone viruses
    will occur when a sufficient number of them share
    an operating system ...

    Viruses spread by Bluetooth could reach all users
    of a given OS in days, whereas those spread by
    multimedia messages could spread in just hours.

    But the virulence will only appear when a given
    OS has about 10% market share.

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  • 30 Apr 09
    • The widespread outbreak of mobile phone viruses
      will occur when a sufficient number of them share
      an operating system ...

      Viruses spread by Bluetooth could reach all users
      of a given OS in days, whereas those spread by
      multimedia messages could spread in just hours.

      But the virulence will only appear when a given
      OS has about 10% market share.