Archive for November 2009

iPhone 3Gs – My Initial Observations and Tips


I have finally upgraded my 2 year old Palm Treo to an Apple iPhone 3Gs, and thought I would share a few of my initial observations and tips. Save battery capacity – By switching off a couple of items when they are not required, you can get 2-3 days of use on a single battery [...]

 

More Sharing of Network Towers


Earlier this week I noticed an article “Govt Calls for shared Network Towers” in the news. Cambodia’s Minister of Posts and Telecommunications called on the country’s nine mobile phone networks to share their network infrastructure to reduce the number of towers being deployed in the country. Requests to reduce tower numbers are becoming more common, [...]

 

Man-in-the-middle attacks demoed on smartphones


Security researchers have released a paper detailing successful man-in-the-middle attacks against several smartphones. They tested the Nokia N95, HTC Tilt, Android G1 and iPhone 3GS devices over unsecured Wi-Fi networks. ….. read the original article at ZD net, or the report at Smobile systems. // Share|

 

New Online Wireless Courses


To supplement our existing range of courses for registered learners, we have added a new Online Wireless Courses page, linking to a selection publicly available and free online courses. The two initial courses added are: XC001 – Intro to Radio Waves – An introduction to  radio waves and their characteristics. XC002 – Intro to Cellular [...]

 

Operators combine to agree on LTE voice


Leading operators, network equipment vendors and handset developers have agreed on a common method for handling voice and SMS traffic over LTE.  Although LTE networks are likely to be primarily marketed as high speed data networks, it has become clear that they will still need to be able to carry voice and SMS traffic, and [...]

 

Website Update


To improve the user experience on our website, we have just completed an update adding:- Blog functionality to allowing posting of the latest information on the wireless and training industries, our exploits and interesting projects we are working on. A link to Twitter. Share functionality to allow users to bookmark or share interesting pages and [...]