December 28, 2010 - BERLIN, Germany — It’s a scene from an as-yet-unmade thriller – across a country, tens of thousands of cell phones all blink white at the same, and turn themselves off. Calls are lost, phones are rendered useless, and the affected mobile operator is forced to pay a ransom or lose customers.
It hasn’t happened yet. But speaking at the Chaos Computer Club Congress here, German researchers showed how vulnerabilities in some the simplest, but most common phones in the world could conceivably lead to just such a scenario.
Dec 28,2010 - The Mobile phone brands across the UK are trying their best to provide the all new and avant-garde handsets. These gadgets are armed with all the innovative appearance. You can do a number of your office and daily life tasks with the help of these devices. There are a number of sections of mobile phones are accessible in the UK phone market as featured handsets, smart phones, business phones and abounding others. You can choose the handset of your choice from these sections according to your needs and requirements. These handsets are expensive but still the people are buying these gadgets as a hot cake deal. The only reasons behind it are the mobile phone deals.
By Douglas Brown
The Denver Post
No smart-phone application — at least not yet — can accelerate heart rates, inflate muscles or trim waistlines.
To accomplish that, bodies must be moved, not just thumbs, and calories watched.
While apps alone can't transform a beer gut, they at least offer quite a bit of guidance, and they are legion, offering everything from daily yoga poses to videos demonstrating proper bench-press form.
Applications can be downloaded to a computer or smartphone, and not just the iPhone anymore. These days, app developers write software for BlackBerry and Android operating systems too.
Technology giant IBM issued a list of predictions of future technologies culled from a survey of 3,000 IBM scientists, Bloomberg reported, pronouncing cities heated by servers, holographic cell phones and advanced city traffic monitoring as among the prevalent technologies of the next five years. Batteries that “breathe” air and the proliferation of environmental sensors were also included on the list.
“All this demonstrates a real culture of innovation at IBM and willingness to devote itself to solving some of the world’s biggest problems,” Josephine Cheng, a vice president at IBM’s Almaden lab, told the news service. The company predicted batteries would move beyond lithium-ion construction to more energy-dense materials, greatly increasing their power capacity and allowing them to recharge using the air around them.
Google has come out with their latest phone, the Nexus S, which with the help of Samsung, has many features which may make it a success. With this, they have provided some great features to the phone, such as a 4 inch touch screen. An interesting item about the phone, which is care of Google, is the phone is available unlocked, which allows you to take the phone to other carriers. Few manufacturers do this because wireless carriers lock you into a 2 year contract, so they do not see the need here in the US. In Europe, though, people have the ability to change carriers far easier than we do here in the US.
ViVOtech, the leader in Near Field Communication (NFC) mobile payments, loyalty and marketing applications and contactless NFC readers, today announced that its end-to-end NFC mobile phone solution for mobile payments and promotions has been selected as a finalist for the prestigious SESAMES Award in the Banking/Retail/Loyalty Application Category. The 15th annual awards presentation is set for Monday, December 6 at the 25th Annual Cartes IDentification 2010 event in Paris.
The company was chosen from a field of 396 applicants by a jury of international experts and journalists in the smart card industry as one of the most innovative products across 10 categories including hardware, software and applications.
By Amit Roy Choudhury
SINGAPORE - Do you have a bulging wallet filled with plastic cards that you use to make payments? Well, come early 2012 you can throw them all away. All you'll need is your mobile phone.
Thanks to a new form of wireless mobile payment service, for which a Call For Collaboration (CFC) was issued yesterday, users will be able to use their phones to make a wide variety of payments simply by holding the phone in front of card readers.
