GSM Encryption Cracked: Karsten Nohl Posts Phone Hack Torrent

GSM encryption was hacked again, and computer engineer Karsten Nohl published the exploit as a torrent, which anyone with an Internet connection can download and do with as they please. (Hopefully Vodafone,...

Cell phones for Fast Credit Card Transactions

This will benefit small scale businesses as they can also get credit cards as a form of payments."Now it also claims another facet of transaction and that is in the form of mobile banking as mobile phone users can swipe their credit cards into their cellphones without the...

Distracted Drivers Kill Thousands Each Year

Drivers who were distracted by electronic devices killed around 5,800 people in the United States during 2008, says U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. The numbers were presented at a two-day Transportation...

Cell Phone Radiation: List of Safest Phones

Environmental Working Group (EWG) has released a new article warning us once again about cell phone radiation. The gist of the article is that cancer rates are up in those who have been using mobile phones for ten years or more, but current research can't actually pin the...

Nagging by Text

Nagging by text. Txt nagging? Nggng? Wow. We all know that kids are given mobile phones as a Trojan-Horse gift: cool new toy that parents will then use to spy on you. However, that was bearable to all the tweens...

Guide for soil id'ing comes to cellphones

When an agricultural technician is out in the field, without a library or laboratory in sight, how does he answer the farmers' question: “What type of soil does my farm have?”Gone will be the days when technicians have to get soil samples and bring it first to their...

Palm Pre to Arrive June 6 on Sprint

The much-hyped Palm Pre has finally gotten an official US release date: June 6. It will launch on the Sprint network, alas, but will only cost two hundred bucks after alll the rebates, paperwork, etc. No release date...

Now Stay Connected on Mt. Everest

Mt. Everest is on hiegher altitute and thus telecommunication is the problem faced till now. But with the combined efforts to the telecommunication networks they are working out for satellite network. So in near...

Judge Blocks New Jersey Sexting Charges

A New Jersey judge has blocked the prosecution of three teenage girls over a sexting charge, following a request by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The ACLU argues that the images sent by the girls were not pornographic in nature, as they were not meant for...

Can Human Blood energize iPods and Cellphones?

this story intrigued meas how a body reaction and movement can generate electricity." This can be a possibility as the this body movement, beating of a human heart or simply the blood flow can be converted into electricity using nanowires made up of zinc oxide. Zinc-oxide...

Blackberry App World Announced

Blackberry's application store is now online, though it's the smartphone equivalent of a store with butcher-paper over its windows. Don't call it the "app store", though... the storefront is called App World. It...

Motorola to Lay off 4,000 Staff

Update: the rumor was true. Motorola will lay off 4,000 of its staff, including 3,000 from the handset division. "Motorola said 3,000 jobs would be eliminated from its handset unit, while another 1,000 jobs would...

First CarbonFree® Mobile Phone

Motorola has teamed up with Carbonfund.org to battle electronic product waste by its early 2009 release of the world's first climate change aware cellphone, the Renew MOTO W233. This environmentally designed...

Mumbai Police To Enforce Wi-Fi Security

Mumbai police will be sniffing out open Wi-Fi networks in an attempt to somehow secure them. "In an initiative taken by the Mumbai police, in the backdrop of terror mails sent before blasts and terror attacks,...

NYPD Wants to Jam Cell Phones During Terror Attack

The NYPD wants the ability to disrupt electronic communication, including mobile phone calls, during terrorist attacks. Somehow, the New York Police Department, after studying last November's attack in...

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