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...background would target him as a prime suspect. Amrozi was a self-taught auto mechanic and tinkerer who ran a workshop in his backyard; those skills would have been invaluable in assembling and transporting a bomb. He was also known to repair mobile phones; police believe such a handset may have been used to set off the bomb in Bali. He was a former hell-raiser who had turned devout in recent years. And, above all, Amrozi was a man with strong ties to Islamic radicals suspected of involvement in terrorist activities. His eldest brother co-founded the village...
...part of the building. Hence, businesses are seeing a dramatic increase in the use of mobile phones inside offices and an equally dramatic ballooning of phone bills. Getting those costs under control is a priority for business, and CTP seems a good way to help. But so far most handset manufacturers aren't including CTP in their products. While fixed-line carriers, such as the U.K.'s BT, say they are potentially interested in exploiting the technology, handset manufacturers' biggest customers - mobile operators - aren't requesting it. "No one is going to own up to this, but there...
...would develop smart phones based on a scaled-down version of its ubiquitous Windows. The first wide-scale deployment of phones running Microsoft's software is expected to come later this month through Orange, the pan-European mobile firm owned by France Telecom. But most of the major handset manufacturers - including Nokia, Sony-Ericsson, Motorola, Matsushita (Panasonic) and Siemens - are all betting on an alternative system made by the London-based consortium Symbian. These manufacturers will want to convince consumers they can Web surf via phone without installing a mini-version of Windows. Assuming Opera's technology catches...
...phones to catch on, or there may never be a demand for the even greater data capacity of 3G networks, for which they sell the infrastructure equipment. Both companies will probably do well selling camera phones. But they are also going to face a lot more competition in the handset market, predicts T-Mobile's Jones. We'll spare you the technical details, but the point about GPRS is that it makes handsets, in terms of receiving data, less like phones and more like computers. "PC players, PDA players, games makers - all these guys suddenly have the same underlying technology...
...using ordinary cell phones as cheap eavesdropping devices. Phones switched to idle and silent mode and set to answer calls automatically can be "accidentally" left behind in an office?when a spook excuses himself from a meeting to use the bathroom, for example?and activated remotely from another handset, allowing the user to listen in without the occupants' knowledge. The scam is more cunning than it sounds: So-called "bug sweepers" that reveal the presence of electronic listening devices ignore the radio frequencies used by cell phones because they are always jammed with traffic, and mobile handsets are so ubiquitous...