Mobile Computing

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When Computers See: Crime and Policing Implications

Ah, remember the good old days of searching the Internet…the days when you had to type your search request into a search engine text box?  So quaint…so 2009.  Now, thanks to Google Goggles, it is possible for your mobile phone’s camera to take a picture of an object and use that image itself to search [...]

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Subverting the App Store: A Phisher’s Delight

Once again, criminals have shown their creativity in pursuing financial fraud in cyberspace.  While most of us have already suffered phishing attempts via e-mail solicitations purportedly coming from our banking and credit card companies, a new twist on the scam is affecting smartphone users.  Organized criminals have invaded “app stores” and provided fraudulent versions of [...]

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Mobile Phone Applications to Fight Crime & Disorder

December 3, 2009 Increasingly, police agencies are using social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook to connect with the public on a wide variety of issues.  Now several agencies are releasing their own iPhone applications as a means of combating crime and fighting community disorder.  The most recent and notable example of this has [...]

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