It can be a scary time when your cell phone goes missing. First of all, it's an expensive item and you'll be out cash. You'll also be out a phone, which, in this day and age can feel like a crisis. Even so, we're overlooking on of the most terrifying aspects of losing a cell phone--your data. I mean, cell phones ... continued »

The mean streets of New South Wales (NSW), Australia, may soon be policed by its own citizens, if an AU$8m scheme inviting cameraphone evidence of crimes gets the go-ahead from the government.  Called Project VIEW (Video Image Evidence on the Web), it would consist of a website to which video and images of criminal activity could be submitted for consideration ... continued »

Despite denials last month from the Indian telecoms secretary, BlackBerry maker RIM is once again under threat in the country after the government there has insisted carriers open all content transmitted to official scrutiny.  According to the Department of Telecom (DoT), the move is required to ensure "fool-proof security", and networks have been given fifteen days to concede else the ... continued »

Hooking up a cellphone to a wireless CCTV camera is a nice idea, but you'd have to be pretty paranoid (and sedentary, for that matter) to want this Sang Da SD999; running Windows Mobile, the smartphone connects to a remote CMOS camera with IR illumination for night-vision, but apparently the real-world range is only about 10 meters (even the official ... continued »

In a move that sounds more like it should be Chinese policy, India is threatening to pull the plug on RIM's BlackBerry servers in the country unless they hand over the decryption algorithms used to secure emails handled by the system.  A meeting is scheduled for Friday 14th, to be attended by RIM executives, reps from Indian carriers offering the ... continued »

Core Security, who research exploits and loopholes in software releases, have identified eight different security issues in Google's Android beta, including some that are blamed on the developer's use of outdated and vulnerable open-source image libraries.  The flaws could see a hacker take "complete control" of an Android-powered handset, including exploiting heap overflows and integer overflows, and Core Security demonstrated ... continued »