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Ofcom helps protect customers against unexpected roaming charges

Ofcom helps protect customers against unexpected roaming charges

UK service providers must notify customers when they connect to a different network

New rules from UK telecoms regulator Ofcom will protect customers when they use their mobile phone on a foreign network. In addition, customers will be alerted if they are inadvertently roaming, perhaps because they're near an international border.
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Global smartphone market is set for recovery, says new forecast

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Vodafone and Three plan to merge their UK businesses

Vodafone and Three plan to merge their UK businesses

New Hutchison/Vodafone network would be biggest UK operator

Vodafone Group plc and CK Hutchison Group Telecom Holdings Limited have agreed to combine their UK telecommunication businesses, respectively Vodafone UK and Three UK. The merger will create a large new network operator to compete with Virgin Media O2 and EE.
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UK mobile payment service Paym to close in March 2023

UK mobile payment service Paym will close on 7th March 2023. The service, which allowed users to make and receive payments using their mobile phone numbers, was launched in 2014.
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Qualcomm legal action moves forward in the UK

Qualcomm legal action moves forward in the UK

Which? seeks payout for Samsung and Apple smartphone owners

Consumer protection organisation Which? has been given permission by the UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal to represent Apple and Samsung smartphone buyers in a legal case against chip manufacturer Qualcomm.
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Sunday, November 6, 2011

Cortado offers a secure 'cloud desktop' without unnecessary restrictions

Mark Bridge writes:

Security is often a balancing act - and security on mobile devices is no exception. If procedures and processes aren't tough enough, you'll compromise the security of the information you're protecting. But if your security is too tight or if it seems too complicated to an end user, that user is likely to find a way round your security by doing something else instead.

Carsten Mickeleit, the CEO of Cortado, is well aware of the challenge. His company, known as ThinPrint until earlier this year, enables cloud-based access to documents for individuals (Cortado Workplace) and for businesses (Cortado Corporate Server). It means employees can enjoy remote access to their desktop without the company having to provide them with a particular kind of mobile phone or tablet.

I caught up with Carsten last week in London, where he was talking about the HTML5 client that's been officially announced by Cortado today. With many business users wanting to use their own smartphone, tablet or laptop to access company information - and many businesses seeing financial savings from the 'bring your own device' trend - this new HTML5 option seems an obvious move for Cortado. Corporate users now have a browser-based option for PCs and Macs as well apps for iPads, iPhones, Android devices and BlackBerry smartphones.

Carsten explained how limiting the options available to business users can result in them emailing documents to private accounts, uploading files to uncontrolled cloud services or simply copying information to a CD or USB stick. Cortado's cloud desktop gives IT administrators the control and tracking they want while still giving the end user access to their files, including the ability to print, email or even convert to PDF. Most importantly, communication between the corporate server and the device is encrypted - and on-device encryption can also be used.

As well as its focus on the 'cloud desktop', Cortado is a big fan of cloud printing - which is no surprise when you consider the company's ThinPrint heritage. It's a founder member of the Cloud Printing Alliance; a group committed to a wireless printing solution that works independently of mobile device, printer or file type. In conjunction with Cortado's app, a user can print documents from the cloud by using almost any printer attached to their chosen wireless network.

You can listen to my full podcast interview with Carsten Mickeleit on our website or by downloading the MP3 file. You can also find us on iTunes and via our RSS feed.
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