Ovum estimates that mobile operators lost $13.9bn in 2011 due to social messaging
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Categories : Education / Awareness, Mobile tech, New Business Models, Stats / reports, Tech Evolution
Cisco: Global mobile data traffic to increase 18-fold by 2016
14 02 2012Additionally, by 2016 video is expected to make up 71 percent of all mobile data traffic, up from the 66 percent by 2015 that Cisco forecasted last year. By 2016 there will be more than 10 billion mobile Internet connections around the world, according to Cisco, with 8 billion of them being personal devices and 2 billion machine-to-machine connections.
Cisco’s annual report is widely cited every year by carriers and vendors alike as a key benchmark for measuring and predicting data traffic, and also as a data point to justify calls for network investment, traffic management technologies and more spectrum. According to Cisco, in 2011 global mobile data traffic more than doubled–2.3 times growth, or 133 percent–and Cisco projects that it will double again in 2012, but at a slightly lower rate of 110 percent growth.
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Apple now third largest mobile phone vendor as feature phones fade
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iPhone Data Debunks Recording Industry’s Report On How French Three Strikes Law Increased Sales
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EU Parliamentarian Schaake To Lead European Union Research Regarding Internet Freedom
18 01 2012…and how that affects civil rights
Dutch language news article:
http://www.nu.nl/internet/2717606/d66-politica-gaat-eu-onderzoek-internetvrijheid-leiden.html
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Provider GiffGaff has spent some time examining the usage patterns of internet traffic on its network and discovered that just 1% of users are eating over 33% of its total data capacity
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Saudi mobile phone salesmen pose threat to female customers
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Half of mobile users willing to watch ads for free app content
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One Percent of Mobile Broadband Users Eat Half of all Data Capacity
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Ofcom Publishes Draft Annual UK Telecoms Regulation Plan 2012 to 2013
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China overtakes US as world’s biggest smartphone market
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5 Million Dutch T-Mobile customers use 160 Terabytes of data per week. 108% increase compared to last year
10 11 2011Dutch language news article:
http://tweakers.net/nieuws/77984/klanten-t-mobile-verbruiken-160tb-aan-data-per-week.html
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Fortinet expert warns on mobile malware that encrypts its data streams
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The SpyEye banking trojan has acquired the ability to reroute one-time passwords sent to victims’ cellphones, a measure that bypasses protections more and more financial institutions are adopting
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The single-page Department of Justice document, “Retention Periods of Major Cellular Service Providers,” is a guide for law enforcement agencies looking to get information — like customer IP addresses, call logs, text messages and web surfing habits – out of U.S. telecom companies, including AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon
28 09 2011The document, marked “Law Enforcement Use Only” and dated August 2010, illustrates there are some significant differences in how long carriers retain your data.
“People who are upset that Facebook is storing all their information should be really concerned that their cell phone is tracking them everywhere they’ve been,” said Catherine Crump, an ACLU staff attorney. “The government has this information because it wants to engage in surveillance.”

More details and full report:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/09/cellular-customer-data/
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None of the developers of Mobile Operating Systems has issued a patch to remove compromised DigiNotar certificates from their white lists. Smartphones and tablets still vulnerable
11 09 2011Dutch language news articles:
http://tweakers.net/nieuws/76688/smartphones-en-tablets-blijven-kwetsbaar-voor-valse-ssl-certificaten.html
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World WiFi Hotspot Internet Usage to Top 120 Billion Connections by 2015
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Digitimes Research: Apple to lead in 2011 smartphone shipments
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Android nabs 41 percent share in U.S.
31 08 2011Comments : Comments Off
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A new survey from UK ISP PlusNet has revealed that the average British (UK) person spends ten hours a day online and over 40% of respondents in the North West, Northern Ireland, Scotland, London and Wales say that the ability to access Wi-Fi is crucial when picking a hotel to stay in
30 08 2011Comments : Comments Off
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Twitter “explodes” after Virginia earthquake, Verizon cell phone voice service goes down
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iOS 5 gets Japan earthquake notifications
22 08 2011Comments : Comments Off
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Don’t look now but smartphone prices are starting to creep higher. This strategy is going to be tested amid a weakening economy and an iPhone 5 that may sell at $199.99
22 08 2011Comments : Comments Off
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4G a boon to U.S. economy and jobs, study says
22 08 2011Comments : Comments Off
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If someone runs Netflix through a wirelessly connected tablet or smartphone (as opposed to streaming across Wi-Fi), the wireless carrier is going to love that because sooner or later the user is going to exceed his or her mobile broadband data cap and thus produce greater revenues for the telecom carrier
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