Blackberry Encryption Has Been Broken – Stay Paranoid
Infoworld is reporting a Russian passcode-breaker firm has figured out a way to break RIM’s industrial grade security for Blackberry server backups. According to the article, CEO Vladimir Katalov: All data transmitted between a BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry smartphones is encrypted with a highly secure AES or Triple DES algorithm. Unique private encryption keys [...]
You Love Your Phone – And That’s Going To Cost You Because Of It.
We have a love affair with our phones. Seriously. Think about what your phone used to be and what is today. Yesterday, we thought about our phones simply as being cool because we had a way to communicate while we were away from our offices and homes. The mere thought of being able to talk [...]
How Much Money Is Your Telecom Bill Leaking?
We hear many accolades for what we from our clients. The idea of being able to reduce costs, streamline and organize telecom services at ZERO COST is admittedly a pretty attractive offer and once we’re able to show them how easy it is because it requires almost no time involvement from our clients. More often [...]
Sprint’s WiMAX Moving Forward Before 4G
It looks as though the carrier wars to get their next mobile high-speed offerings out there is heating up. WiMAX, the wireless technology providing up to 10Mbps of transfer speed is starting to pick up steam ala Sprint. The pressure of rival carriers starting to roll out their 4G networks is giving each company the [...]
100 Mbps Internet Access? The FCC Wants It To Happen
It looks as though the FCC is looking for a big change when it comes to the speed to and increasing the number of households that would have that access to higher speed internet access. FCC chairman Julius Genachowski recently announced an effort that would target of 100 million households to get 100Mbps internet access [...]
Telcom Carriers Want An Even Bigger Slice
With the success of Apple’s iPhone owed much to their App Store that touts over 100,000 apps available to their customers, many hardware and software providers have taken notice. Research In Motion has the RIM Application Center, Google – the Android Market, Qualcomm, Nokia, Handango and Microsoft to name a few have Mobile Application Stores [...]
Google Getting Into Broadband, What It Means To You
Google recently announced that it intends to shake up yet another market by providing “Google Fiber for Communities” in limited markets from 50,000 to up to 500,000 individual households. This focus intends to bring incredibly fast speeds by today’s standards to businesses and households in the US and potentially disrupt the incumbent providers of broadband [...]
One Vendor, Multiple Prices, Wrong Answers and Outright Lies. What Gives?
If you’ve ever had to send out a Request For Proposal (RFP) or simply tried to find the pricing for a telecom product or service you know that it’s not always a simple matter. If you call up the local office, search for pricing on the company’s website, or compare prices from your neighbor down [...]
Top 5 Ways To Attack Telecom Services Like Steve Jobs Does Business
Love him or hate him, Steve Jobs is one of the most influential business people in modern history. His leadership approach has created huge growth for Apple, and the millions of fans who hang on to his every word, he is a sort of god. Those fan are hoping that the technology he brings enhanced [...]
1 in 3 Data Breaches From Mobile Devices
According to a recent article in Mobile Enterprise, more than one third of the 45 data breach cases studied by the Ponemon Institute in 2009 had a mobile device or laptop that was either lost or stolen. According to the study, “Data breaches concerning lost, missing or stolen mobile devices are more expensive than other [...]
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