Alex Kinch

Hello, Alex here. You may remember me from such recent articles as ‘Are mobile calls as secure as you think‘ and ‘Datawind launch three new mobile Internet devices‘.
To say I’ve been a bit busy with other projects lately would be an understatement. However, it hasn’t stopped me putting in the hours for this esteemed publication [...]

It’s been an interesting week in the world of mobile security, with news emerging that UK tabloid Sunday newspaper News of The World is allegedly involved in a rather serious phone ‘hacking’ incident. Whilst the papers have been busy claiming this is ‘wiretapping’, and actual mobile calls have been intercepted, it seems more the case [...]

Link: BBC NEWS | England | Merseyside | Mobile appeal for Rhys witnesses
Police investigating the killing of 11-year-old Rhys Jones are sending issuing appeals directly to mobile phones in a bid for more information.
Detectives are using a device that can send messages to Bluetooth enabled phones in Croxteth within a 100m radius of the transmitter.

Link: webitpr | End2End Strengthens Mobile Gaming Offering with Acquisition of Terraplay Creates market leading solution for hosted mobile gaming
End2End, the leading provider of managed service solutions for mobile data, today announced its acquisition of Terraplay, the leading provider of connected-gaming services. The deal substantiates End2End’s position at the forefront of developments in the mobile [...]

Link: webitpr | AirVersent and BT Extend Relationship
AirVersent today announces an extension of its relationship with BT, which will see AirVersent’s ServiceNet solution rolled out to 2,000 of BT’s own mobile engineering workforce. In 2006 the ServiceNet managed service platform was chosen to underpin BT’s own Mobile on Demand (MoD) field service solution, which [...]

Mobile value-added services player Zed Group (formerly LaNetro Zed, and current owner of MonsterMob) has just announced they generated a record $100 million dollars in revenue in the month of September 2007. The company’s mobile products and services are used by more than 35 million customers across 37 countries each month.
Javier Perez Dolset, founder and [...]

Link: BBC NEWS | Northern Ireland | Cell phone radio caller shot dead
Back in May 2007, a man by the name of John Daly made a phone call on his mobile to a popular Irish radio show. However, this wasn’t any ordinary call – as Daly was currently inside Portlaoise jail serving a nine-year stretch [...]

In this post (Should GMTV executives be tried for fraud?) we asked how GMTV and Opera had managed to get away with ripping so many millions of pounds off viewers – and not be subject to a criminal investigation.
Apparently a few other people have been wondering that too. The BBC are reporting that the Serious [...]

HandMark yesterday announced a new version of their award-winning Pocket Express mobile service designed for Symbian S60 third edition.
Created in the UK, this all-new release of Pocket Express for Symbian OS offers free mobile access to a powerful handset client, featuring essential BBC news, global weather and minute-by-minute score reports for UK and European footballer [...]

Link: BBC NEWS | Technology | Mobile phone use backed on planes
Remember the story from a while back that the EU had cleared in-flight mobile calls using Airbus’s OnAir system?  Well bizarrely enough the BBC seems to have rustled up a non-news story about this in the last couple of hours.
Scanning through the article, I [...]