2009 was a terrific year for the mobile phone industry. Sure, it wasn’t really great for some companies in terms of sales and numbers and all of that. But it was an amazing year in terms of new handsets, leaps in technology, creativity in the…
Yesterday Luke blogged about Karsten Nohl, the German engineer who claims to have hacked the 64-bit A5/1 encryption algorithm used by GSM technology. Here’s what it all means… Before the GSM network was introduced in the late 80s,…
The relative silence concerning the Nexus One over the Christmas break has come to an end, with Google sending out invitations to an Android related event to be held on the 5th January 2010 at their Mountain View offices in California. Although it…
Which mobile phones do you think are the most popular mobile phones among UK university students right now? Research indicates that there are three brands that are really competing for sales among this particular consumer population. Those three…
A rogue German academic has decoded the Global System for Mobile Communications, used for seventy percent of all modern mobile phones, and there’s no James Bond to stop him. Because Karsten Nohl’s not holding the world hostage –…
The Office of Communications, aka Ofcom, are engaging with operators again - and hoping it turns out better this time. The regulatory body is once more working to allow owners to keep their old numbers when they change networks, where previous…
It’s often impossible to buy the presents you want for Christmas: they’re sold out, they’re too expensive, the shops are too crowded, and occasionally because the wimpy stores won’t sell things made by MacGyver, exploded…
