This week’s podcast from The Fonecast includes European & US approval for Google’s acquisition of Motorola, job cuts as Nokia restructures its manufacturing, a new type of upgrade scheme from Phones 4u and security problems for satellite phones.
As always, you can listen to the programme on our website audio player, via iTunes, by using our RSS feed or by downloading the MP3.
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This week's headlines include Google and Motorola getting the go-ahead for their acquisition deal, 4000 Nokia staff losing their jobs, satellite phones being hacked, a new upgrade scheme from Phones 4u... and much more.
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Mark Bridge writes:
It’s not been a good week for Nokia staff, with 4000 of them likely to lose their jobs from factories in Finland, Hungary and Mexico. The company says it’s moving device assembly to Asia, where it’ll be closer to component manufacturers. The three scaled-down factories will remain open with a new focus on smartphone customisation.
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Researchers at the Horst Görtz Institute for IT-Security at Germany’s Ruhr University Bochum have cracked the A5-GMR-1 and A5-GMR-2 encryption algorithms of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute.
The ETSI algorithms, which are used for satellite telephones, were breached within an hour.
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Google has revealed details of a behind-the-scenes security service called ‘Bouncer’.
It automatically scans applications in the Android Market to identify whether they are likely to behave maliciously when installed on a user’s smartphone.
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