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Verizon Wireless and Novatel Wireless announce new Verizon Jetpack, Global Ready 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot
Today at CES, Novatel Wireless announced that the new Verizon Jetpack 4G MiFi 4620L will soon be available on Verizon¹s blazing fast 4G network.
BASKING RIDGE, N.J. From the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Verizon Wireless and Novatel Wireless (NASDAQ: NVTL) today announce the new Verizon Jetpack – MiFi® 4620L. This Verizon Jetpack is [...]
UK Mobile phone hacking – no-one held to account
Rating: Industry buries its head in sand
A day doesn’t seem to go by without further revelations over the indulgence by the UK’s elite media in mobile phone ‘hacking’. And that is just it. There has been plenty of exposure about the fact that the mobile phones of celebrities and other news-worthy personalities were ‘hacked’ but little mention of the ‘how’ this was actually done. This isn’t the Nineties when it was possible to ‘listen in’ on analogue mobile phone calls. Everyone today in the UK uses GSM phones which are digital and the connexions are virtually un-crackable. No. What actually happened is that the vast majority of people’s GSM phones had voicemail facilities which were left wide open to infiltration. The question is – why wasn’t this gap plugged earlier and more openly exposed by the operators themselves? Continue reading
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Tagged hacking, Milly Dowler, press, The Guardian, voicemail. UK
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More press than sense at Mobile World Congress
Mobile World Congress has attracted more media attention than ever this year – despite the increased amount of space for media and press this year, there are more people than ever sitting on the floor to get work done. I’d love to see the numbers on how many press attendees there are, because it feels like the place is coming down with us. Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, MWC, mobile news
Tagged media, mobile, Mobile World Congress, MWC, press
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