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India Claims To Have Cracked Blackberry Encryption; Proudly Spying On Emails

Posted on : Sep 23 2008 | Posted under Wireless Technology

Earlier this year, India demanded that RIM allow it to easily snoop on any email messages sent via Blackberry devices. The company explained that since the end user sets the encryption key, there’s simply no way to provide a backdoor to snoop on the messages. However, now the government is proudly claiming that […]

SanDisk Makes Music Even Less Convenient

Posted on : Sep 22 2008 | Posted under Wireless Technology

SanDisk is getting a bunch of press for releasing what it’s positioning as a new “format” for music. But it’s not a new format at all. SanDisk is simply sticking mp3s onto a microSD card, reasoning that lots of folks now carry phones with microSD slots in them. That’s true (I’ve got […]

People Finally Realizing That SMS Isn’t Good For Emergency Alerts

Posted on : Sep 18 2008 | Posted under Wireless Technology

Only two years or so after we questioned why anyone would seriously consider the notoriously unreliable SMS text messaging system for emergency alerts, the mobile trade group 3G Americas has released a research report stating the same thing. Basically, the system isn’t reliable or efficient, and in an emergency is likely to get overloaded […]

German Court Bans VoIP On The iPhone; Says It’s Unfair

Posted on : Sep 18 2008 | Posted under Wireless Technology

We’ve pointed to a bunch of stories that involved Apple somewhat arbitrarily forbidding or banning iPhone apps, but now it appears that the courts are getting in on the game as well. A German court has banned a VoIP iPhone app after T-Mobile, the mobile operator who offers the iPhone in Germany, complained. […]

India Looks To Make Open WiFi Illegal

Posted on : Sep 17 2008 | Posted under Wireless Technology

In most of the discussions we’ve had over the years concerning the legalities of open WiFi networks, the issue was whether or not it was legal to access an open WiFi network. Over in India, they’re taking a different approach, apparently preparing rules that would outlaw offering an open WiFi network (via Slashdot). […]

Linguist Explains That Txting Isn’t Ruining Spelling Or The English Language

Posted on : Sep 17 2008 | Posted under Wireless Technology

For years, we’ve been responding to highly questionable reports or unsubstantiated claims that “txt spk” was somehow destroying the English language and seeping into all sorts of written communications from students who just didn’t know any better. Much of that myth was apparently built off of a paper that was posted to the internet, […]

Apple’s Podcaster Block Backlash Getting Louder

Posted on : Sep 16 2008 | Posted under Wireless Technology

Apple is getting an awful lot of attention for blocking a podcasting app from the iPhone App Store because it competes with iTunes, and the more details come out, the worse it looks for Apple. In the original post on it, I had wondered, as an aside, if the app had useful functionality that […]