Although the content of wireless traffic is very secure, cellular devices do give away information that might be security sensitive - for example the location of the user or traffic profiles from the device.
Cellular manufacturers have half-heartedly chased the prospect of vehicle telematics for years, with little to show for it. Here too cellular operators have struggled to deploy services which combine the position of the user with interesting and...
Perhaps the techies were inspired by the 'Encyclopaedia Galactica' in Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which was such a comprehensive repository of information it required several articulated lorries to transport its micro-chipped...
And because Wi-Fi routers are often deployed closer together in cities than mobile phone masts are, it can also be more accurate than cellular-based location systems, he added. When a mobile user running the Skyhook client pops up in a...
After fellow travellers, road warriors place most store on the advice of cellular or hotspot service providers (53 per cent), followed by location owners such as hotels and cafés (35 per cent), and airline/airport or rail network/operators (30 per...
The analyst points to an impressive array of radio access techs already in play - from cellular in its various forms, to 3G and HSPA data networks, to video broadcast techs such as DVB-H, to short-range connectivity techs such as Bluetooth, along...