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I have -- no kidding -- been just waiting for a reason to tell readers about one of the coolest gadgets on the market today, the Eye-Fi series of SD cards that uploads video and photos to your computer wirelessly. Now with the release of Eye-Fi Droid 0.8 beta, I get my chance.

Eye-Fi cards take the hassle out of connecting your camera to your computer and waiting for tons pictures to upload while you just sit there. Instead, you simply swap out your camera's old SD card for the Eye-Fi wireless version and it will upload pictures automatically to a Web service like Flickr or a networked computer of your choice.

As more applications move to the cloud, it's not surprising that developers are spending a lot of time working on ways to provide mobile access to the cloud. To create applications and services for handheld devices like the iPhone and Android-based G1, they use tools like Volantis' Open Source Mobility Server, a java-based development and runtime platform.

Volantis Systems released version 5.1 of GPLv3-licensed Volantis Mobility Server (VMS) Community Edition this week. It has connectors that integrate with many popular Web sites including Picasa, Flickr, and Google Docs, with more expected to be added in future releases. The new version is optimized for the iPhone and also includes tools to create mash-up mobile applications. When looking at the future of VMS, Dave Roberts, Manager, Business Development, says thanks to the open source community, the sky's the limit.

Reports are emerging of a serious security flaw with the Android software that powers T-Mobile's newly-launched G1 smartphone. Charles Miller, the researcher who discovered it, says he notified Google of the flaw this week but decided to also go public with the information to protect users from becoming exploited by people with nefarious intent.