ExclusiveFormer Boston tram driver pleads guilty after 'text message' crash News Mark - January 3, 2011 Former 'trolley bus' driver Aiden Quinn has pleaded guilty to gross negligence following a May 2009 crash in Boston that injured more than 60 people. It’s alleged he was distracted by sending a text message from his mobile phone. The crash is said to have caused $10 million of damage.
ExclusiveApple iPhone users suffer two days of alarm problems News Mark - January 2, 2011 Apple iPhone users have suffered from a problem with non-repeating alarms in 2011. Users with iOS4 have reported that one-off alarms haven’t worked on 1st and 2nd January, although Apple says all alarms will work properly again from 3rd January.
ExclusiveAlmost two-thirds of new cars will have built-in telematics within 6 years News Mark - January 1, 2011 62% of the world’s new cars will have factory-installed telematics in 2016; a dramatic increase from less than 10% in 2010. That’s the prediction in a new report from ABI Research.
ExclusiveEnd-to-end GSM hack demonstrated at Chaos Communication Congress News Mark - December 31, 2010 The 27th Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin has been shown a demonstration of intercepting and recording calls and text messages on a GSM mobile phone. Researchers Karsten Nohl and Sylvain Munaut sent a ‘ghost’ text message to a target phone that enabled a hacker to target the handset’s unique identification number.
ExclusiveSony says LG mobile phones violate its patents News Mark - December 30, 2010 Sony Corporation has filed legal complaints with the US International Trade Commission in Washington and a court in Los Angeles, complaining that a number of LG phones use Sony technology without its permission.