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Dec

2010

End-to-end GSM hack demonstrated at Chaos Communication Congress

Author: The Fonecast

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.

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30

Dec

2010

Sony says LG mobile phones violate its patents

Author: The Fonecast

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.

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30

Dec

2010

Skype explains last week's outage - and launches video calling for iPhone

Author: The Fonecast

Skype CIO Lars Rabbe has published a blog post detailing the problems that affected the company’s VoIP service for around 24 hours from 4pm on Wednesday 22nd December.

Skype has also announced the new version of its iPhone application, which adds the option of video calling over 3G and WiFi networks.

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29

Dec

2010

ABI Research expects more than 7 trillion SMS messages will be sent next year

Author: The Fonecast

ABI Research has estimated that more than seven trillion SMS messages will be sent worldwide in 2011. With nearly 4.2 billion mobile subscriptions worldwide, that’s theoretically approaching five text messages per phone per day.

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29

Dec

2010

McAfee Labs expects geolocation, mobile devices and Apple to top the list of targets for new threats next year

Author: The Fonecast

Online security company McAfee has published its 2011 Threat Predictions report, detailing the new internet-related threats its researchers expect to see next year – and some have a decidedly mobile flavour.

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