Happy New Year!
Iain, James and Mark are back with the first edition of The Fonecast for 2011. There’s a look at the top industry stories from the past couple of weeks, covering Skype, The Carphone Warehouse, GSM hacking, the Rise of the Machines (or, more specifically, machine-to-machine connections) and plenty more.
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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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As we’ve said more than once recently, it’s the time of year for predictions. We made some of our own 2011 predictions in this week’s podcast… and now it’s time for mobile messaging company Airwide Solutions to take a look at the next 12 months.
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It’s reported that the Indian Department of Telecommunications has told Reliance Communications and Tata Teleservices to close all 3G services that can’t be monitored.
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Mobile security company AdaptiveMobile says this year has seen the highest-ever number of mobile malware infections aimed at smartphone users, with the total number of reports up 33% on 2009 figures.
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