News Articles

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

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.

Author: The Fonecast
0 Comments
Article rating: No rating

Sony says LG mobile phones violate its patents

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.

Author: The Fonecast
0 Comments
Article rating: No rating

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

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.

Author: The Fonecast
0 Comments
Article rating: No rating

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

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.

Author: The Fonecast
1 Comments
Article rating: No rating

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

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.

Author: The Fonecast
0 Comments
Article rating: No rating
RSS
1345678910Last

Follow thefonecast.com

Twitter @TheFonecast RSS podcast feed
Find us on Facebook Subscribe free via iTunes

Archive Calendar

«December 2010»
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
293012345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
272829303112
3456789

Archive

Terms Of Use | Privacy Statement