Canadian vendor Nortel said late Wednesday that Peter Currie will step down as executive vice president and chief financial officer on April 30. The company has begun searching for a new candidate and Currie will continue to provide advice and assistance during the transition. Mike Zafirovski, president and CEO of Nortel said “Peter has successfully [...]
Fifteen leading European mobile operators and content providers will meet with senior EC figures in Brussels on Tuesday, signalling the industry’s move towards self regulation of mobile content. In a meeting presided over by Viviane Reding, the Commissioner of Information Society and Media, the operators and content providers will sign the “European Framework on Safer [...]
A Trojan that attacks GPS devices sounds like the stuff of security nightmares. But this week, it happened, as GPS vendor TomTom confessed that all the GO910 GPS receivers produced during one week in October had been shipped with a virus aboard. The Trojan, Backdoor.Win32.Small.io, exploits the Windows Autorun function to initiate other malware on [...]
An estimated 97 per cent of Brits judge someone’s personality based on their choice of ringtone, with 90 per cent of UK mobile owners having been criticised by friends and family for their selection. According to figures published by mobile phone retailer, Dial-a-Phone, around 80 per cent of UK mobile users actually fear criticism of [...]
The Mobile Data Association has announced that a new record for the number of mobile internet sessions was achieved in the UK during December. Subscribers accessed the net from their mobile devices a total of 15.9 million times, up 1 million from the previous record reached in November, 2006. The figures quoted by the MDA [...]
Reports have been circulating this week that some users of 3 UK’s new X-Series service may have been over billed for data usage. Despite having an unlimited data plan, with a 1GB per month fair use limit, a number of users have reported higher than normal bills. 3 has said that in about 50 cases [...]
The user Generated Content (UGC) bandwagon gathered momentum today with the news that Singapore’s M1 and UK-based Vodafone are looking to get in on the game. After Hutchison Whampoa 3 UK set the ball rolling with SeeMe TV in 2005, the UGC market has exploded. Now M1 is hoping to cash in on a generation [...]
A survey of mobile phone users in Finland has discovered that 25 per cent of respondents use their handset to access the internet. The Mobile Media Tracking survey, conducted by research firm Satama was commissioned by the Finnish Direct Marketing Association. Over 1,500 Finns aged between 15 and 64 took part in the survey. According [...]
Global spend on music downloaded to mobile handsets is forecast to rocket to $32.2bn by 2010, up from $13.7bn in 2007, according to industry analyst Gartner. The analyst anticipates that carriers will overcome a host of challenges in delivering these services, with two distinct factors driving uptake: personalisation and entertainment. Stephanie Pittet, principal research analyst [...]
A posting to the Full Disclosure security listserv on Tuesday reveals another Bluetooth-based potential security threat to mobile devices. The exploit relies on a crude denial of service (DOS) attack on discoverable Bluetooth devices. Using USSP-PUSH, a program that sends files as OBEX object exchange requests from a Linux-based Bluetooth stack, security researchers made a [...]
A step in the right direction but does it go far enough?
Sharing an allowance among family members is one ...
I agree with Dan about this being a excellent read, and that QNX is not well known but sooner or ...
Excellent read with some actual facts compared to the hack journalist/bloggers on the interest. Many don't understand what QNX ...
The main issue with Telenor is that whether they made underhand payments to ge the licenses. If they did, then ...
Over The Top providers have become the staple wildcard in almost any sector set on a collision path with mobile. By and large they are very good at what they do: connecting a user with their chosen content or service by whatever means available.
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