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GSM call can be listened to by anyone with $500 and a laptop within six months
At the recent Hacking at Random (HAR) conference, Karsten Nohl detailed plans for cracking standard GSM cell phone encryption, known as A5/1, and making the results available for anyone to use.
His presentation from the event is here – [...]

The handset vendors are still telling us it is a frosty market out there but there is a spring in their step as 2Q-2009 results start to pour in.
“269 million handsets were shipped in 2Q-2009,” says Jake Saunders, VP for Forecasting at ABI Research. “That bodes well for 2H-2009. Shipments should build sequentially in [...]

While PNDs and in-dash navigation device sales continue to suffer from the economic recession, handset-based turn-by-turn navigation is boosted by the rapidly growing smartphone segment. ABI Research expects the number of paying handset-based turn-by-turn navigation users to increase to 26 million by the end of 2010 with the Asia-Pacific region experiencing the strongest growth.
In [...]

Since the first self-service, interactive kiosk was deployed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1977, innovation, technology, pricing, consumer acceptance and demand among deployers have converged, creating a market primed for growth.
Today, kiosks are enabled in airports, retail stores, state parks, banks and a multitude of other locations. While the first kiosk [...]

Telepresence, a kind of video conference providing the realistic sensation that all participants are actually in the same room, is a rapidly growing industry. The technology, however, is very expensive – prohibitively so, for the majority of its potential users. Hence there is a growing trend toward offering telepresence as a managed service. According to [...]

Any reader who believed all the recent headlines would feel confident that the WiMAX market is being crushed by LTE. Nortel has left the WiMAX market and Alcatel-Lucent has “backed off” from WiMAX; and these developments supposedly dealt a blow to Clearwire, which had so far chosen neither as an infrastructure vendor. But that’s not [...]

The weakened economy is impacting every industry, but the mobile wireless industry remains relatively strong. While CAPEX will not increase in 2009, the outlook is far better than the prospects in many other industries.
What impact will the economic turmoil have on planned 3G+, WiMAX and LTE deployments globally? What changes will it mean for [...]

Europe as a region has the highest adoption of mobile services at 121% penetration and this is expected to rise to 135% by 2012. At these high penetrations, overall service revenue growth through the handset is expected to decline. However, ARPU is expected to continue growing among business users. In a new market data product [...]

ABI Research Survey: 79% of Respondents View Netbooks as “Secondary” Devices
In November 2008 ABI Research carried out a survey of more than 1000 adult consumers in the United States, aimed at identifying their attitudes to netbooks and mobile Internet devices (MIDs). The results are summarized in a Research Brief that provides critical insights into [...]

Mobile technology market-watchers are always on the lookout for the next “killer app,” and according to ABI Research, mobile financial services are very likely to become the “next big thing” that will attract many millions of consumers.
“Mobile financial services have the potential to be bigger than mobile TV and premium mobile content in terms [...]