A new exploit involving text messages was demonstrated this week against several models of Nokia mobile phones. According to researcher Tobias Engel, of the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, a specially formatted text message, or SMS could be sent to silently crash the SMS inboxes of phones running versions 8 through 9.2 of the Symbian operating systems. This problem also affe...

The folks behind the iPhone 3G unlock - which will be hitting the Internets tomorrow night at midnight - gave a presentation on their project at CCC in Berlin last week. Rather than sound like a bunch mewling nerds, they have excellent speaking voices and seem very intelligent and sassy. The most interesting thing

Over on Nokia Beta Labs, Admin, Maria is looking for anyone living in London, or Berlin, who are interested in joining in with some Nokia Maps, and Navigation Research.  Over the next few weeks The Nokia Maps team will conduct a piece of research for the Walk navigation feature within Nokia Maps. Why not get involved, you may even win some goodies! "We’re looking for a range of users, f...

MTV Returns to Celebrate the Twentieth Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall BERLIN, -- MTV Networks International announced that the city of Berlin, Germany, will host the 2009 MTV Europe Music Awards. This is the fourth time that the Awards will be held in Germany as it returns to the original city where it was launched in 1994 to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Ber...

BERLIN: European Union telecommunications ministers are set Thursday to endorse price limits on cross-border text messaging and mobile Web surfing, according to a copy of the plan obtained by the International Herald Tribune. The ministers plan to adopt almost verbatim a proposal made by the European telecommunications commissioner, Viviane Reding, the author of similar price restrictions on roami...

BERLIN — European Union telecommunications ministers are set to endorse on Thursday proposed price limits on cross-border text messaging and mobile Web surfing, according to a copy of the plan obtained by The International Herald Tribune. The ministers plan to adopt almost verbatim a proposal made by the European telecommunications commissioner, Viviane Reding, the author of similar price restri...

The new snom 820 VoIP phone from Berlin-based snom Technology AG breaks ground by featuring a USB port into which a Wi-Fi dongle can be plugged. The new snom 820 has a high-resolution TFT color display that optimises the presentation of call lists, address books, caller information and other applications. This data is provided through the integrated XML browser and accessed directly by the user vi...

Bjorn Behrendt from hiogi a new Q and A style mobile search company in Berlin asked me to Beta Test the new services. Of course, I forgot so when I received the press release today I took a quick look around, signed up and got familiar with the services. Now, I really really wanted to like ...

Every day, we wake up hoping that some bit of common sense will find its way into the world when it comes to copyright issues, and yet every day we seem to find out about more and more ridiculous situations. For example, the Berlin Metro system has ordered a 21-year-old student to stop distributing an iPhone app that helps travelers look up a train schedule. I've used similar apps for train s...

The dust has well and truly settled on IIR’s LBS 2008 show in Berlin last week and now I’ve brought together some analysis of the LBS start-ups that were on show. First up is LOVO, a mobile lifestyle recommendation service that takes into account your location (as well as the weather, season, time, preferences opinions, needs,