Omaha 2600 will hold its first wireless hacking competition October 2 at 7PM in the Westroads Mall Food Court.

Two encrypted wireless networks will be set up: a 64-bit
WEP encrypted one and a 128-bit WEP encrypted network. The first 14 people to crack the password to both networks get
a custom DEFCON 17 Riviera room key card and a burned copy of the DEFCON 17 CD.

Contact bungfish [AT] omaha2600.org for contest rules, details, and/or questions.

The AIM Institute is bringing David Pogue to Omaha for its 2009 IT Futures Forum being held from 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM on November 4, 2009 at the Embassy Suites LaVista Conference Center.

For those of you who don’t know, David Pogue is a technology columnist and blogger for The New York Times, Emmy-winning technology correspondent for CBS News and best-selling author. He also has several excellent presentations on TED.com.

Pogue’s presentation is titled Disruptive Tech: What’s New, What’s Coming and How it Will Change Everything. He will discuss which new, innovative technologies—the booming PDA market, mobile computing, Web 2.0 and more—will move beyond fad to cause major, disruptive change within business in the coming years.

Individual tickets and tables may be purchased here or by calling Sherry Beglin at 402.345.5025. The deadline to register is October 30, 2009. Registration is $55 for AIM Members ($550 for a table of 10) and $85 for Non-Members ($850 for a table of 10).

Omaha joined hundreds of other cities worldwide Saturday in holding a local Palm Pre Developer Camp. Flye Rosal organized the event which was held at DJ’s Dugout.

In attendance were other local developers including Bryan Roth who already has a shopping list application in the Pre’s Homebrew App Gallery that he demonstrated.

Carl Zulauf treated the group to a demo on developing with the Pre’s Mojo framework. Mojo allows you to use the Pre’s system calls and databases all through an easy Javascript API.

And Nick Ashley talked about his blog, webosappreview.com which lists reviews of Pre applications in the Pre App Catalog.

And if you’re wondering whether or not to get a Pre, I gathered some two-sentence reviews:

“I love it and it’s very responsive. It’s not in any way like Windows CE mobile devices.” -Aron Filbert

“Multitasking bliss. It has a long way to go, but hopefully it will get there.” -Carl Zulauf

“It’s not on AT&T. Plus ten bonus points right there.” -Nick Ashley

“A great start, but hopefully lots more to come.” -Adam Lassek

“A new beginning to the mobile market.” -Bryan Roth

“Needs more tools for development, but looking forward to utilizing cloud services through Mojo messaging services.” -Flye Rosal