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02/12/2009 Mobile
Phone and Fingerprints |
Mexico will start a national register of mobile phone
users that will include fingerprinting all customers
in an effort to catch criminals who use the devices
to extort money and negotiate kidnapping ransoms.
Under a new law published on Monday and due to be
in force in April, mobile phone companies will have
a year to build up a database of their clients, complete
with fingerprints. The idea would be to match calls
and messages to the phones owners.
Hundreds of people are kidnapped in Mexico every year
and the number of victims is rising sharply as drug
gangs, under pressure from an army crackdown, seek
new income.
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02/05/2009 Wonder
What Privacy Experts Will Say - New Meaning to Big Brother
is Watching |
U.S. Internet search company Google Inc released
software on Wednesday that allows users of mobile
phones and other wireless devices to automatically
share their whereabouts with family and friends.
Users in 27 countries will be able to broadcast
their location to others constantly, using Google
Latitude. Controls allow users to select who receives
the information or to go offline at any time, Google
said on its Web site.
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02/04/2009 Cost Cutting
Cell Phone Measures |
Consumer Action identified five ways that consumers
often inadvertently spend too much money on cell-phone
service.
1. Early Termination Fees
2. When you buy a new phone, perhaps because an old
one was lost or stolen, operators typically they are
required to start a new contract.
3. Some operators charge $.40 to $.45 per minute for
calls that surpass a users monthly allotment for a
postpaid plan.
4. Excessive text messaging charges.
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02/03/2009 Nokia Fighting
with Finland |
Mobile phone giant Nokia threatened to leave its
native Finland if a change to laws blocking companies
from monitoring employee emails was not introduced,
a respected Finnish newspaper said Sunday.
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01/26/2009 Inaugural
Cell Phone Coverage |
The history-making inauguration of President Barack
Obama also was a cell-phone test. Wireless networks
braced for an onslaught of photos, text messages,
video and voice communications from the millions of
people attending the inauguration.
Initial reports were that cell phones in the metropolitan
Washington, D.C., area were buckling under the strain,
with some voice communications having trouble getting
through, although text messages were doing fine.
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01/20/2009 Driving
and Cell Phones |
Many parents would love to be able to give their
teenagers a cell phone that could not be used while
driving. Now some inventors say they have come up
with ways to make that possible, but they appear to
be relying on wishful thinking.
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