Mobile Computing

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Dealing Crack? There’s an app for that too!

Turn your iPhone into a “Cartel-o-Phone” Well it was just a matter of time before somebody figured this one out.  Recently an iPhone developer created an application known as “Drug Lords,” a program that would enable both drug-dealers and users to find one another in real time and space, thanks to the mobile phone’s built-in [...]

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Spoofing Life: Reality Altering Technology Enables Crime

As we come to rely more and more upon technology as a filter for our life experiences, opportunities to bend reality abound. In theory, none of this is new.

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Mobile Phone Botnets: Is Your Refrigerator Next?

For some time now, experts in the information security community have been concerned about the possibility of  mobile phone botnets: now it appears these fears may have been well-grounded, as suggested in the article below.   While there are billions of desktop and portable computers in the world, there are billions more mobile phones.  As [...]

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When Flash Mobs Become Crime Mobs

When people think of flash mobs, they tend to focus on the positive: 300 people showing up to dance to Michael Jackson’s Thriller in a London tube station,  a relatively calm Worldwide Pillow Fight Day or even an impromptu Sound of Music performance in Antwerp’s (Belgium) central rail station. Yet as the below article demonstrates, [...]

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Mobile Phones: A Crime Superhighway Into Your Life

Accessing the Internet via a PC is quickly becoming passé and according to Gartner Research, the number of users accessing the Net via mobile phones will surpass those on PC’s by 2013.

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