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Apple’s MobileMe hit in email scam

Friday, August 15th, 2008

Online scammers – the type that usually send you badly worded emails with shoddy graphics asking you to give up all your bank details or eBay password – have found themselves a new target in the form of Apple’s MobileMe service.

According to Computerworld, the scammers sent out emails to MobileMe subscribers trying the usual ‘there has been a problem with your account’ tack and a surprising number of them fell for it, yielding details including credit card numbers, passwords and social security numbers, apparently thinking the emails had something to do with the changeover from .Mac to MobileMe.

Normally the criminals just go for the big banks when trying out these sort of scams – it’s a bit of flattery for Apple that an online back-up service has hit the criminals’ radar. Or is it just a sign that the scammers reckon anyone who’s bought an iPhone is easy to part from a large amount of money?

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Mobile messaging to be worth $88 billion

Friday, August 15th, 2008

New statistics out on how much we love our mobile messaging (guess what? It’s a lot) from the analysts over at Strategy Analytics. According to them, the world will be spending $88 billion on messaging by 2012 – that’s 15 percent up on 207 – and while text messaging will still make up the lion’s share of what we spend out money on in moble, other forms of messaging will grow at a stellar rate.

Apparently, the mobile messaging stars will be the sort of services we use on our PCs – mobile email, mobile IM – as operators start giving away more cheap, all-you-can-eat data pricing and make email services easier to use.

The report also notes that the way device form factors are changing will affect mobile messaging take-up. Too right – the way the BlackBerry (not to mention its copycats) is starting to get comfortable in the consumer space just proves how popular the combination of email-friendly keyboard and a big screen is for even the average user at the moment.

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CTIA September – Got my first email

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

I’ve had my first email about CTIA in September. From MX Telecom, no less, asking if I’m up for an interview / briefing.

That I am. With nobs on. And with a large HD camera in tow.

We’re going to be doing a lot of wicked coverage from San Francisco this coming September.

Are you coming?

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iPhone in the office

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

I used to work for an agency that believed that Macs were better at everything.  It would spend a fortune on a Mac and then only use it to do MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and the interweb.  It did seem like a waste of money, especially as the company in question wasn’t the best payer out there.

As a result, the company’s boss had an iPhone when they were first released.  He then fumed when, a week later, the devices dropped in price.  But it appears that he’s not the only one.

Tech Target has proclaimed the devices are being adopted by businesses to use as an enterprise smartphone.  Whilst I doubt that all the CIOs are ordering the phones purely because they look good it possibly has something to do with it.  It is, afterall, a consumer device.

The online publication has followed Tessenderlo Kerley’s CIO, Bruce Blitch (there is thankfully an L in the surname).  He and a team of staff (senior of course) have been testing the device and given positive comments.

I’m not that surprised that it’s being adopted.  Having tried both I think I’d still rather have the CrackBerry 8120 especially as it has WiFi on it.  It’s not pretending to be something else.

I have an iPod (two in fact) and so never listen to music on the phone.  I have a camera.  I have a phone.  I don’t really check the web on my phone because it’s rarely that urgent.  So, that leaves me with the need for email and, quite simply, Blackberry is perfect for this.  Especially as it has keys to easily type one.

That said, iAnywhere may make the iPhone that little bit better for email.  It’s a Sybase tool and provides access to MS Exchange and Lotus Domino.

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No talking please, we’re on a plane

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Who really wants to be able to use mobile phones on planes? It seems not as many of us as the airlines might be hoping, according to a new survey commissioned by Yahoo. The research found that nearly three out of four people questioned wanted in-air mobile phone use restricted to silent features like SMS.

While Yahoo is somewhat optimistically portraying this as a sign that the average Joe can’t be bear to be parted from mobile IM and the mobile web, it actually looks like people are still after using the old favourites: 38 percent of those surveyed want in-flight SMS and 28 percent wouldn’t mind mid-air mobile email.

The survey also says that the ability to play games while in flight would be a hit with 29 percent of consumers, which sort of suggests that consumers may not even want connectivity, just the ability to be able to turn on their phone and use the features, especially after a recent flight where I was told that I couldn’t look at my phone at all, flight mode or no flight mode. If mobile connectivity on planes means I can look at the clock, calendar, calculator, whatever, on my phone whether I use the network or not, I’m all for it.

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Qantas opens up SMS and email for Aussie flyers

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Just days after Emirates announced plans to offer in-flight mobile connectivity, Qantas has revealed its going ahead with a plan to provide passengers with SMS and e-mail functionality on planes, also using Aeromobile kit.

The launch follows a trial which finished earlier this year. During 2008, Qantas will start rolling out the service on some domestic B767-300 and A330-200 aircraft. Aussie flyers wanting to use the service will need either a roaming-equipped GSM mobile for texting or a GPRS BlackBerry for email – voice calls aren’t on the cards.

No word again on the pricing or where the service will be used. It’s interesting that Qantas is only offering the service on inter-Australia flights – you’d think that longer haul trips would be more likely to induce the sort of boredom texting relieves. I wonder if it’s a regulatory issue?

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In-flight mobile calls take off with Emirates

Friday, March 21st, 2008

The world has finally got its first commercial in-flight mobile service, thanks to Emirates and supplier AeroMobile. Emirates saw its first call on flight EK751, on a plane travelling between Dubai and Casablanca yesterday.

According to AeroMobile, it’s the first time that voice calls have been allowed on commercial airline flights, after the European Aviation Safety Agency and the United Arab Emirates-based General Civil Aviation Authority gave the system the thumbs-up.

It looks like AeroMobile and Emirates have really done their research here. There’s a second aircraft coming online soon, so the service isn’t just a one-off, BlackBerry email and other GPRS data applications will be available later on this year and there’s even a politeness policy enforced making sure that passengers keep their mobiles on silent. If Emirates get the pricing right, it could be the testbed that proves demand for in-flight mobility.

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