A spokesman described it as "purely a proof of concept study". However, the service has taken a long time to roll out, largely because funding for telecoms projects is extremely thin on the ground. NTL is expecting to launch its wireless broadband...
He likens the roll out to the beginnings of the 1980s credit card boom. The concept of m-payment sounds good on paper. The general consensus is that the next-generation of mobile devices - 3G - will be necessary to take m-payments beyond the...
An experiment carried out within London's square mile has revealed that employees in some of the City's best known financial services companies don't care about basic security policy. CDs were handed out to commuters as they entered the City by...
The academics also went on to create a proof-of-concept virus, which uses the track and trace tags to compromise middleware systems using a SQL injection attack. While the idea of RFID viruses has surely crossed people's minds, the desire to see...
Of course, it should be remembered that there are no reports of any 'in the wild' attempts to exploit the flaws in either Centrino or Apple wi-fi - so at the moment these exploits can be considered 'proof-of-concept'.
I'm not talking proof-of-concept - I'm talking actual exploit. Absolutely, we need legislation to make it illegal to drive without due care and attention. But then we had laws to deal with that long before the mobile phone even existed - 'driving...