Posts Tagged ‘bbc’

BBC crafts malicious smartphone app to prove a point… we guess

You may surmise that Auntie Beeb is only good for news distribution from across the pond, but as it turns out, the BBC is apparently giving at least a few of its employees a little of that oh-so-coveted " 20 percent time ." In an effort to prove just how easy it is to create a smartphone application that can gank all sorts of personal information, a staffer at the organization spent just a few weeks learning enough code to create a "crude game." In play, the app would gather contact information, copy text messages and log the phone's current location; afterwards, it would shoot all of that information to a specified email address, but not before putting a serious hurting on the battery. All told, the spyware took up around 250 lines of the 1,500 making up the whole program, and thankfully for us all, the BBC decided against submitting the program into any app stores. Phew.

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Unauthorized iPhone news readers raise eyebrows

Here's an interesting little new media legal dilemma for you: apparently there are several paid apps in the iPhone App Store that bill themselves as "readers" for publications like the New York Times , CNET , and the BBC, but aren't actually licensed or official in anyway -- they're just pulling RSS feeds. That means people paying for an app like The New York Times Mobile Reader aren't actually getting an app from the Times -- and, perhaps more importantly, the Times isn't getting anything from anyone. Seems like Apple should probably just shut these apps down, but that's the interesting part: all these apps are pretty much just custom-built feed readers, and you can generally access all of the same content using Safari

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Sonim’s ‘unbreakable’ handset shattered on the BBC

What happens when you let all comers batter, submerge, and otherwise abuse your so-called "unbreakable" handsets on the show floor at CES? Well, sometimes they break -- as a certain BBC News video makes abundantly clear. Are you ready for the truth

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PalmAddicts: BBC – A tour of the new HTC HD2 handset

[From Hans] The BBC gives you a video overview of the HTC HD2 mobile phone.

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Bangladeshis Rush to Learn English Through Mobile Phones – PSFK

BBC World Service Trust is attempting to harness the power and pervasiveness of mobile phones to provide English language lessons for the 50+ million mobile users in Bangladesh.

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Dizzee Player – free mobile phone application

October 16, 2009 · By admin. 578 views. http://www.bbc.co.uk/electr… Download the free BBC Electric Proms Dizzee Rascal mobile phone app: play his samples and mash up his tunes.licat.

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Mobile broadband dongles – up to speed? : | OfcomWatch |

Nothing in the T- Mobile shop (Oxford Street ) had any disclaimers or warnings about what was meant by the term mobile broadband. Similarly, nothing in the packet that came with the USB modem mentioned what exactly was being provided or ...

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p2pnet news » Blog Archive » WSJ puts a price on mobile news

Now he's going to hammer mobile readers of his Wall Street Journal which will, “soon will begin charging people to read the paper on mobile devices such as their BlackBerrys, the paper's owner Rupert Murdoch said on Tuesday,” according ...

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BBC – dot.life: Will T'Orange be good for shoppers?

So the message seemed to be that we will see fewer shops cluttering up every high street with confusing mobile deals, fewer but better phone masts, and an industry able to concentrate on improving customer service. ...

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Nokia X3 Review | Mobile Phone Blog – Mobile Phone News from Right …

With a whole host of devices announced at the recent Nokia World event in Stuttgart, Nokia showed their intention to hold on their status as the world's leading manufacturer of mobile phones .

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