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Want to know how to convert your Nokia phone into a wifi hotspot? Read the article here.

Bluetooth enables these devices to communicate with each other when they are in range. The devices use a radio communications system, so they do not have to be in line of sight of each other, and can even be in other rooms, as long as the received transmission is powerful enough.This time, lets see how can we effectively hack various bluetooth enabled mobile phones.

This post review some of the mobile applications available in internet to experiment with the blue tooth hacks

BlueScanner - BlueScanner is an applicaiton which searches for Bluetooth devices near to you and extract much amount of information of the newly discovered device.

BlueBugger -It simply exploits the BlueBug vulnerability of the bluetooth enabled devices. By exploiting these vulnerabilities and leakes, you can gain access to the phone-book, calls lists and other information of the bluetooth device.( wanna to know how many galfriends are there in your friend’s mobile ? )

BlueSniff - wanna to findout the hidden fish? It is a simple utility for discovering hidden Bluetooth devices around you.

BTCrawler -It is a Bluetooth scanner only for Windows Mobile based devices. It can be used for BlueJacking and BlueSnarfing attacks.

BTBrowser - It is a pure J2ME application. It can browse and explore all the Bluetooth devices near to you. It can extract different kind of information about the other bluetooth device/mobile.

Disclaimer : the information in this post is only for the sake knowledge sharing. we are not responsible for any kind of misuses or damages due to it.

Now a days mobile phones are used for not only for the purpose of calling, today its a multi media world in your hand with game console, messaging terminals, music players, digital cameras, credit cards, alarm clocks, and even TV.

So its more vulnerable to viruses and worms like in a personal computer. A mobile phone virus is quite like a computer virus. Once you receive and install the virus, it starts looking for other Bluetooth phones to infect.

The viruses send infected MMS messages to every phone number in your address list. Since sending MMS messages is not free, you’re actually paying money to send a viruses to your friends, family members and business associates. The virus e can tamper or delete all the contact details and calendar entries in the phone; delete or lock up certain phone applications or crash; show up as games, pornographic material or free download; a text messages camouflaged with a stolen the subject line from a friends’ message, etc. In all these transfer methods, the user install it knowingly or otherwise. But clever virus open and install the bug by disguising it as a desirable application. Mobile viruses can cause trouble as well as financial losses.

Here is some tips which you can reduce the risk of being infected by a mobile virus

Enable Bluetooth only when you need it.
Learn to say ‘no’ If your Bluetooth is on accept only a file that you are expecting.
Never accept an unknown file.
Avoid downloading unscanned material from sharing networks.
Never install any application you are not sure.

Use Mobile AntiVirus like F-Secure. F-Secure Mobile Antivirus and Trend Micro Mobile Security both shield Windows Mobile, Pocket PC, Symbian, and smart phone users. There’s also Airscanner AntiVirus, which defends against Trojans and viruses for Windows Mobile devices and the Pocket PC. Symbian smart phones can get extra muscle power with Commander Mobile Anti-Virus

Enabling the password lock found in your PDA’s native system settings is an important line of defense. Don’t put this off–spend some time setting up a strong. Protect privacy and data by enabling Password managers and data encryption.Encryption apps like Ilium Software’s eWallet Professional for Windows Mobile, Smartphone, and Palm uses 256-bit RC4 encryption to keep your personal files personal. Similar lockbox programs require a password each time you access information–including credit card, bank account, and car details. CryptMagic performs a similar service for BlackBerry owners. Privacy Guardian for Palm and Compact Cleaner for Windows Mobile Phone Edition and Pocket PC erase cookies and other Internet tracks

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ANZ will be the first bank in Australia to launch a browser based mobile phone banking service , which is expected to launch soon( By Middle of the February )

ANZ will offer two services. One is TXT Banking, which uses SMS to deliver a customer’s account balances and view the last five transactions. The more sophisticated service is M-Banking, which enables customers to use their mobile phones to transfer money between their accounts or to other bank accounts in Australia.

TXT Banking can be used on any phone, but M-Banking requires a device that can install Java applications and has GPRS internet access. On its website, ANZ lists 76 phones compatible with M-Banking.After installing the application and activating their mobile accounts, users of M-Banking can view account balances and past transactions or transfer money to an account at another bank.

Mobile banking transactions are protected using SSL encryption, which is the same technology used to secure many transactions on the internetRead More…

When SMS was introduced at the beginning of the 90ies in Europe, it was basicly free. There were SMS gateways all over the Internet. But then the carriers were recognizing the marketing potential of SMS, and slowly the prices per single message were rising until they reached 49 ct (in Germany at the end of the 90ies). Only when parents were stunned by the SMS cost of their children, protests started to mount, and then the diverse regulation offices in the different countries were trying to limit SMS prices, so there were actual plans which included for example 1000 short messages per month.

A standard SMS message contains up to 140 bytes (1120 bits) of data - this takes care of the 160 characters allowed in your text message. This might not make sense at first, until you realize that SMS uses 7 - not 8 - bit characters - leaving you with 128 possible character values instead of the normal 256. So 1120bits/7bits = 160 characters.

So our total message length is about a tenth of a kilobyte (.13671875 Kbytes). In terms that the iPod generation would understand - if you had an iPod with a tenth of a kilobyte you could fit 1/4000th of a song on it. I assume here and for the rest of this article that 1 song = 4 Megabytes.

If you divide 140 (the total number of bytes available to you) by 20 (the cost per message), you find that you are paying 1 cent for every 7 bytes of data. This leaves you with a cost of $1,497.97 for the 1024Kbytes contained in a single megabyte. iPod users: It would cost you $5,991.88 to transfer - not even to buy - a single song via SMS.

I found this article give us more insight about the play behind this SMS business, Read More…

See, how bluetooth technology helped him to walk into life again…

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Google’s announcement in the fall that it would release free software for mobile devices fired the imagination of thousands of developers around the world anxious to build the next billion-dollar technology business. Now they are grumpily asking: “Where’s the code?”  Google admits that the software development kit it released in November is a work in progress and does not include all the software needed for a phone. The kit also does not include any source code,though Google had promised that Android’s code would be available for developers to examine and modify.

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EyeMobile Engine takes mobile gaming and navigation to new heights. This software-only solution uses the existing camera on a mobile device to deliver a gesture-based interface to mobile applications. An entertaining and intuitive alternative to conventional button interfaces, EyeMobile allows users to do anything they would normally do with their mobile device, such as play games, answer calls, make menu selections or scroll, pan and zoom in on photos, simply by shaking, rocking or rolling their device. With the EyeMobile Engine, handset manufacturers can offer all the benefits of gesture recognition technology, without the expense and real estate of adding specialized hardware. The EyeMobile Engine Application Programming Interface (API) also provides application developers with the means to integrate motion control into their applications, much as they do with current conventional controls such as keys and buttons

Get more information about GestureTek and its technologies at http://www.gesturetek.com  and http://www.gesturetekmobile.com.

Near Field Communication (NFC) standard number one tag type, Topaz, has announced the winners of its NFC Innovation Awards, It was a UK based competition to find the most innovative applications of NFC tags for the everyday mobile handset user.

The top innovations are :

Health Buddy - Health Buddy tracks the activity and progress of a user on a set exercise course, triggered each time the user scans an NFC tag at specific locations with an NFC-enabled phone. The location information provided by the NFC tags is linked to pre-calculated calorie-burning, timing and effort data for various physical activities, which could include walking, running and cycling. As well as providing an instant motivator during exercise, Health Buddy provides a historical view of activity, including distances covered and energy consumed
Vehicle identification - This enables traffic officers to use an NFC handset to scan a Topaz tag affixed to the inside of a car windscreen, either as a complement to or replacement of the current tax disc. When scanned, the tag provides a unique reference which the phone uses to retrieve information from a central database. This would enable officers to confirm the vehicle’s tax, insurance and MoT, for example, in a matter of seconds rather than the 20 minutes or so it takes today
Healthcare application - This uses an NFC-enabled phone as a way of automating the process of collecting prescriptions from a pharmacy and reminding patients when it is time to take their drugs

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