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Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange has warned, “You’re all screwed,” when it comes to smartphone and gadget monitoring and surveillance.
Users of the Iphone, Blackberry and Gmail are among those who are supposedly ‘screwed’ because more than 150 organisations can monitor data on mobile devices. Assange made the statement at a press conference while unveiling the Wikileaks ‘Spy Files’ project.
Wikileaks said, “Mass interception of entire populations is not only a reality, it is a secret new industry spanning 25 countries.”
“It sounds like something out of Hollywood, but as of today, mass interception systems, built by Western intelligence contractors, including for ‘political opponents’ are a reality.”
Assange said, “Who here has an iPhone? Who here has a BlackBerry? Who here uses Gmail? Well, you’re all screwed.”
“The reality is, intelligence contractors are selling right now to countries across the world mass surveillance systems for all those products.”
The organisations apparently have the ability to track devices, intercept messages and listen to phone calls, according to The Press Association.
It might sound like a complete invasion of privacy but the goings on are legal according to Assange and are leading to a “totalitarian surveillance state”.
He said the US, UK, Australia, South Africa and Canada are all developing “spying systems”, and the data is collected and sold on to “dictators and democracies alike”.
The publication of the ‘Spy Files’ consisting of 287 documents in collaboration with the web site spyfiles.org is a “mass attack on this mass surveillance industry,” added Assange. µ
Source: The Inquirer
Research In Motion (RIM) on Wednesday launched of three new BlackBerry 7 OS smartphones in India.
The BlackBerry Bold 9790 combines the BlackBerry keyboard with a high resolution touch display in a slim and narrow design. The BlackBerry Curve 9350 is the first CDMA-based BlackBerry 7 smartphone to be launched in India. The BlackBerry Curve 9380 is the first-ever BlackBerry Curve smartphone with an all-touch display. These three new BlackBerry 7 based smartphones offer impressively slim and stylish designs with enhanced communications, multimedia, productivity and social connectivity features.
The BlackBerry Curve 9350 is the first CDMA-based BlackBerry 7 smartphone launched in India. Priced at Rs 20,990, it features a 5 megapixel camera with flash. It also has a microSD/SDHC slot that supports up to 32 GB memory cards for additional media storage.
The BlackBerry Curve 9380 is the first-ever BlackBerry Curve smartphone with an all-touch display. Priced at Rs 20,990, it features a 3.2-inch all-touch display. The BlackBerry Curve 9380 smartphone comes with pre-installed social networking applications such as BBM (BlackBerry Messenger), Facebook, Twitter, and Social Feeds. It also has a 5 megapixel camera with flash.
BlackBerry Bold 9790 and Curve 9380 official
RIM has announced its two latest BlackBerry 7 smartphones, the Bold 9790 and Curve 9380, the latter being the first Curve to use an all-touch design. Set to go on sale “in the coming weeks” the two phones each have NFC support; the Bold 9790 pairs a 1GHz processor with a touchscreen and QWERTY keyboard, along with 8GB of integrated storage and a microSD card slot.
via BlackBerry Bold 9790 and Curve 9380 official – SlashGear.
If Porsche Design made a BlackBerry… oh wait, that’s already happened. Well this leaked handset is said to be a forthcoming BlackBerry, and just happens to share design cues with the Porsche P’9981 that emerged a couple of weeks ago.
It’s also said to be the first handset running the QNX operating system, reports The Verge. Whether it’s anything to do with BBX is anyone’s guess, but here’s what we do know.
Dubbed the BlackBerry London, it can apparently stand on one of its sides, according to the source, so expect it to be pretty rectangular. Not that that’s necessarily a bad thing. Inside is a TI OMAP dual-core CPU running at 1.5GHz, as well as 1GB of RAM. It comes with 16GB storage onboard (no word on card slots), and there’s an 8-megapixel camera on the back and 2-megapixel front-facer.
It’s pretty impressive in the dimensions department too. The source claims it’s “thinner than the iPhone 4” (and therefore slimmer than the 4S, too), and about the same size as the Samsung Galaxy S2, though which model of S2 isn’t clear. Still, pretty swish.
- Blackberry smartphones are losing ground to the combined strength of iPhone and Android smartphones, as far as their use at the workplace is concerned, according to a survey of 1,681 U.S.-based workers released Thursday by Forrester Research.
- That finding amplifies what many have known for a while about the entrenched workplace smartphone veteran: the BlackBerry faces trouble from its competitors.
- The BlackBerry, made by Research in Motion, still leads among U.S. workers, with 42%, the survey said, with Apple”s iPhone accounting for 22% and Android devices, 26%.
- The survey also found that nearly half, or 48% of the group, said that they chose the primary smartphone used for their work without considering what their company supports. Only 29% said they chose the smartphone from a list of phones the company supports, while 23% said they had no choice in the matter.
- Often, corporate IT shops will choose BlackBerry smartphones when requiring a worker to use a specific smartphone, partly because of the perceived security benefits, many analysts, including at Forrester, have found. The growth in Android phones and the iPhone — many of them brought to workplaces by workers independently — are forcing IT shops to rethink that decision
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