NEWS: BlackBerry hacking peril exposed

<http://www.theregister.com/2006/08/10/blackjack_hack_attack/>

A hacking program, due to be released next week, will demonstrate how
to use a connection from BlackBerry devices to potentially bypass
enterprise security defences.

Jesse D'Aguanno, director of security research at German firm
Praetorian Global, gave a presentation on how to use the BlackBerry
environment to circumvent perimeter defenses and directly attack
hosts on a corporate intranet at last week's DefCon conference in
Vegas. The demo included a live presentation. Next week D'Aguanno
plans to release source code for BBProxy, the tool used to conduct
the attack, which he describes as "Blackjacking".

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<http://www.theregister.com/2006/08/10/aws_auction/>

One of the US's largest ever spectrum auctions kicks off this week, with
168 companies listed as applicants for a share of the AWS (Advanced
Wireless Spectrum) band, which could support 3G or other broadband
wireless services.

Auction 66 is for 1,122 regional licenses in the 1710-1755MHz and
2110-2155MHz bands. The seemingly endless and often highly technical
bickering over the rules for bidding have finally been resolved, but
continue to be at the forefront of discussions, as the FCC regulator
starts to consider how far it needs to change a creaking system in time
for the auctions of even more desirable former analog TV spectrum in
700MHz, due to take place in early 2008.
The bidders

The level of upfront payments is certainly a strong sign of interest and
commitment and reveals the likely major bidders - and so the likely big
winners. The top 10 bidders alone put up almost $4bn in deposits:

1. DirecTV/Echostar/Liberty, $972m
2. Sprint-Cable Co joint venture, $637m
3. T-Mobile USA, $583m
4. Cingular Wireless, $500m
5. Verizon Wireless, $383m
6. Leap Wireless, $255m
7. MetroPCS, $200m
8. Cablevision, $149m
9. Nextwave Broadband, $142m
10. US Cellular, $80m

Gone are the days when the cellular operators largely had to bid against
each other - often through smaller regional proxies - for valuable
mobile-suited bandwidth. Now they are facing competition from cable and
satellite TV firms and many non-traditional operators, encouraged by the
US technology neutral approach.

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<http://www.theregister.com/2006/08/10/sprint_wimax_decision/>

Major victory for Motorola and Samsung

So there really is going to be an honest to goodness broadband
wireless WiMAX network in the US, with tons of spectrum and an
national reach, thanks to Sprint’s decision, leaked earlier yesterday
that it will use the fledgling technology for an all purpose US wide
network costing $4.5bn.

The decision is a body blow to Qualcomm, which has its incumbent
Sprint CDMA mobile network revenues to lose, and which was bidding
the Flarion Flash OFDM, from the company it acquired last August.

But for Motorola, at risk with something like 18 per cent of its
revenues coming from Sprint Nextel’s IDEN mobile network, it is a
major victory, landing the biggest network equipment contract for
WiMAX that has ever been placed.

Motorola will also be asked to come up with brand new mobile handsets
for the WiMAX network, as will Samsung. These are likely to be highly
multimedia capable, dual mode, CDMA WiMAX handsets to enable roaming
and a gradual transition to WiMAX from the existing Sprint CDMA
network.

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Coming on the heels of Nokia's decision to abandon the "shrinking"
CDMA2000 market, this is more bad news for the future of CDMA2000, with
Verizon as the only remaining major player.

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On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:13:35 GMT, John Navas
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
<(E-Mail Removed)>:

><http://www.theregister.com/2006/08/10/sprint_wimax_decision/>
>
> Major victory for Motorola and Samsung
>
> So there really is going to be an honest to goodness broadband
> wireless WiMAX network in the US, with tons of spectrum and an
> national reach, thanks to Sprint’s decision, leaked earlier yesterday
> that it will use the fledgling technology for an all purpose US wide
> network costing $4.5bn.
>
> The decision is a body blow to Qualcomm, which has its incumbent
> Sprint CDMA mobile network revenues to lose, and which was bidding
> the Flarion Flash OFDM, from the company it acquired last August.
>
> But for Motorola, at risk with something like 18 per cent of its
> revenues coming from Sprint Nextel’s IDEN mobile network, it is a
> major victory, landing the biggest network equipment contract for
> WiMAX that has ever been placed.
>
> Motorola will also be asked to come up with brand new mobile handsets
> for the WiMAX network, as will Samsung. These are likely to be highly
> multimedia capable, dual mode, CDMA WiMAX handsets to enable roaming
> and a gradual transition to WiMAX from the existing Sprint CDMA
> network.
>
> [MORE]

...

The service will compete as a full quadruple play, driving US
broadband, telephony, data service and both fixed and mobile voice
pricing down.

The beauty of WiMAX is that it can be built out as customers emerge
that buy into it. For instance, a base station can be installed, and
customers can emerge from unexpected locations and still be serviced
because the system is a point to multi-point radio service.

...

Whatever happens, something like 40 to 50 MHz of spectrum could be
made over to video services and that could provide something like 200
mobile TV channels.

However, Sprint is known to be interested in offering full screen TV
across the network, to extend the reach of the cable operators, and
it wouldn’t be a big surprise if the network had something like 20 to
30 channels of full screen TV broadcast on it, as well as 50 channels
of mobile TV as well, and that should all fit comfortably into the
Sprint spectrum and still leave plenty over to offer advanced data
services, voice communications and roaming internet access.

Whatever happens, this contract will put WiMAX on the map and secure
its future globally, it will drive a stake into the heart of the
moribund US telcos and it will catapult Motorola into the top flight
of network equipment makers.

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On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:18:16 GMT, John Navas
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Whatever happens, something like 40 to 50 MHz of spectrum could be
> made over to video services and that could provide something like 200
> mobile TV channels.

Just what America needs... More TV channels.

No we can sit around and get fat in more places.

A_C

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
Agent_C <Agent-C-hates-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:18:16 GMT, John Navas
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >Whatever happens, something like 40 to 50 MHz of spectrum could be
> > made over to video services and that could provide something like 200
> > mobile TV channels.
>
> Just what America needs... More TV channels.
>
> No we can sit around and get fat in more places.
>
> A_C

Some people will never have leave the McD's ever again...

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:12:14 GMT, Kurt Ullman <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote in
<kurtullman-(E-Mail Removed)>:

>In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
> Agent_C <Agent-C-hates-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:18:16 GMT, John Navas
>> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>> >Whatever happens, something like 40 to 50 MHz of spectrum could be
>> > made over to video services and that could provide something like 200
>> > mobile TV channels.
>>
>> Just what America needs... More TV channels.
>>
>> No we can sit around and get fat in more places.

> Some people will never have leave the McD's ever again...

I agree in general -- I don't even have regular TV service -- but it's
good to have more delivery choices. There are a (very) few shows I like
(e.g., Deadwood), and it would be nice to be able to view them on demand
wherever I might happen to be; e.g., sitting comfortably on a sailboat
anchored in (say) Ayala Cove, Paradise Cove, Stillwater Cove, or even
Fort Ross Cove.

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In alt.cellular.sprintpcs John Navas <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> I agree in general -- I don't even have regular TV service -- but it's
> good to have more delivery choices. There are a (very) few shows I like
> (e.g., Deadwood), and it would be nice to be able to view them on demand
> wherever I might happen to be; e.g., sitting comfortably on a sailboat
> anchored in (say) Ayala Cove, Paradise Cove, Stillwater Cove, or even
> Fort Ross Cove.
>

Pocket Dish would fit the bill nicely. Pairs up well with a DVR.

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On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:28:11 GMT, "Thomas T. Veldhouse"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
<vFMCg.51999$(E-Mail Removed)>:

>In alt.cellular.sprintpcs John Navas <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>> I agree in general -- I don't even have regular TV service -- but it's
>> good to have more delivery choices. There are a (very) few shows I like
>> (e.g., Deadwood), and it would be nice to be able to view them on demand
>> wherever I might happen to be; e.g., sitting comfortably on a sailboat
>> anchored in (say) Ayala Cove, Paradise Cove, Stillwater Cove, or even
>> Fort Ross Cove.
>
>Pocket Dish would fit the bill nicely. Pairs up well with a DVR.

Or iPod video. Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm talking real-time,
not pre-recorded and after the fact -- we've already got portable DVD
players for that (and the means to create our own discs). For example,
we'd have loved to get World Cup soccer on TV while sailing, but were
out of TV range, and had to settle for radio. Watching it the following
weekend just wouldn't have been the same.

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In alt.cellular.sprintpcs John Navas <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:28:11 GMT, "Thomas T. Veldhouse"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> <vFMCg.51999$(E-Mail Removed)>:
>
>>In alt.cellular.sprintpcs John Navas <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>>
>>> I agree in general -- I don't even have regular TV service -- but it's
>>> good to have more delivery choices. There are a (very) few shows I like
>>> (e.g., Deadwood), and it would be nice to be able to view them on demand
>>> wherever I might happen to be; e.g., sitting comfortably on a sailboat
>>> anchored in (say) Ayala Cove, Paradise Cove, Stillwater Cove, or even
>>> Fort Ross Cove.
>>
>>Pocket Dish would fit the bill nicely. Pairs up well with a DVR.
>
> Or iPod video. Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm talking real-time,
> not pre-recorded and after the fact -- we've already got portable DVD
> players for that (and the means to create our own discs). For example,
> we'd have loved to get World Cup soccer on TV while sailing, but were
> out of TV range, and had to settle for radio. Watching it the following
> weekend just wouldn't have been the same.
>

To my knowledge you don't get any real-time video from any provider. But what
you said was "Deadwood", which is perfectly suitable for PocketDish.

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