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computer, the same is not true for mobile phones. "In the cell phone market there is an assumption--rarely questioned--that restricting the end user is the natural thing carriers do," Schoen said. "I don't see the TPM in phones changing the user experience."

Hardware-based security is not new to the mobile phone space, said Nokia's Uusilehto, but manufacturers have so far each gone their own way. The Trusted Computing Group aims to provide a standard, which should reduce costs for handset makers and let component suppliers standardize.

"Today we're wasting a lot of resources and inventing the wheel again here and there, instead of doing it together in this open approach," Uusilehto said.

Nokia, the world's biggest handset maker, plans to use the TCG's security specifications, Uusilehto said. However, he could not say which products would include the technology and when those might become available.

It took several years for PCs with TPM chips to appear. Gartner analyst John Pescatore believes it won't be until about 2008 before cell phones with the new security technology hit stores.

"The major problem is not that the technology is so difficult, but that the market is fractured," he said. While the PC market is dominated by Intel and Microsoft, the mobile phone space has many different players who will need more time to coordinate, he said.

Though the industry sees broad use for its security technologies, Pescatore thinks large businesses will be the first to buy devices that have the added security technology. Employees are accessing corporate data on their mobile devices and there is a need for more "trustable" devices, he said.

Consumers initially will not want to pay for the extra features, Pescatore said. "What consumers really want are smaller phones and lighter phones, and they don't want to pay a lot for them. Adding security hardware can make the phone more expensive, thicker and take more battery power."

[OneWithTech]

Cell Phones-Virus'-and Hackers

There is a serious need to enable this type of secure technology for mobile devices like cell phones, pda's, and media managers.

I personally own a N-Gage QD and have used it extensively for almost a year now. Being a web developer I use the N-Gage QD to manage and run web applications from my cell phone.

I also manage all of my contacts, calenders, emails (yes, real email). Just about anything a real computer can do at my office, I can do with my phone.

Some might say, "How is this possible"?

For the non-geeks reading this that don't know about the Symbian Operating System (<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.symbian.com" target="_newWindow">http://www.symbian.com</a> ) you can cut and paste the fore-link and go check them out.

The rest of us geeks know that the Symbian OS is just that, an Operating System. Like a Mini Windows if you will, with the ability to cover over 90% of the same functions as a regular desktop computer, or laptop.

So if you can imagine, if this phone runs a full blown operating system, and I give you code and tools to create software for it. What do you think the end result will be?

I know for a fact the end result bear's that of a Window's Machine. It's only a matter of time. Time that it takes to learn about the code and how to manipulate it. As programmers and developers learn the code, they also learn the flaws.

Although we in the tech community would like to think that all geeks are do-gooders, this is far from the truth.

Hacker's, Virus writers, and Spyware vendors all create programs to gain profit. In the act of gaining this profit there is generally un-repairable damages that come as an effect of the actions portrayed by this kind of geek.

I can't guarentee that there isn't a virus on my N-Gage QD (<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/0407antivcompa.html" target="_newWindow">http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/0407antivcompa.html</a>). Series 60 OS is what the N-Gage and N-Gage QD run for Operating Systems.

The article link above will back the need to keep certain technlogical advance's in the protected, private, sector of technology.

If we don't do something about our mobile technology we are sure to suffer the same fate as Microsoft and Windows.

~Justin

[OneWithTech]

Cell Phones-Virus'-and Hackers

There is a serious need to enable this type of secure technology for mobile devices like cell phones, pda's, and media managers.

I personally own a N-Gage QD and have used it extensively for almost a year now. Being a web developer I use the N-Gage QD to manage and run web applications from my cell phone.

I also manage all of my contacts, calenders, emails (yes, real email). Just about anything a real computer can do at my office, I can do with my phone.

Some might say, "How is this possible"?

For the non-geeks reading this that don't know about the Symbian Operating System (<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.symbian.com" target="_newWindow">http://www.symbian.com</a> ) you can cut and paste the fore-link and go check them out.

The rest of us geeks know that the Symbian OS is just that, an Operating System. Like a Mini Windows if you will, with the ability to cover over 90% of the same functions as a regular desktop computer, or laptop.

So if you can imagine, if this phone runs a full blown operating system, and I give you code and tools to create software for it. What do you think the end result will be?

I know for a fact the end result bear's that of a Window's Machine. It's only a matter of time. Time that it takes to learn about the code and how to manipulate it. As programmers and developers learn the code, they also learn the flaws.

Although we in the tech community would like to think that all geeks are do-gooders, this is far from the truth.

Hacker's, Virus writers, and Spyware vendors all create programs to gain profit. In the act of gaining this profit there is generally un-repairable damages that come as an effect of the actions portrayed by this kind of geek.

I can't guarentee that there isn't a virus on my N-Gage QD (<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/0407antivcompa.html" target="_newWindow">http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/0407antivcompa.html</a>). Series 60 OS is what the N-Gage and N-Gage QD run for Operating Systems.

The article link above will back the need to keep certain technlogical advance's in the protected, private, sector of technology.

If we don't do something about our mobile technology we are sure to suffer the same fate as Microsoft and Windows.

~Justin

[Mendz]

All devices...

... that enable connectivity to and from other devices (including web servers, servers, PCs, etc.) should have security features.

Meanwhile, Windows is getting into Palm devices. So this news is timely...

:D
Peace.

[Mendz]

All devices...

... that enable connectivity to and from other devices (including web servers, servers, PCs, etc.) should have security features.

Meanwhile, Windows is getting into Palm devices. So this news is timely...

:D
Peace.

[Gayle Edwards]

"Trusted Computing" is about one thing, and it sure ISNT "security".

This is really about corporate-control, eliminating consumer-choice, and imposing DRM... period. Anyone who thinks differently, really should spend a few days reading about the "Trusted Computing Alliance". This "standard", is little more than a corporate wish-list of hard-DRM, and absolute control of all computing-devices, not by the devices-owner, but by the manufacturer, and other "corporate-interests, AFTER a sale.

I am so tired of this BOLD-FACED CHARADE. And, I am SICK of where computer-owners are currently being led by these LIES.

[Gayle Edwards]

"Trusted Computing" is about one thing, and it sure ISNT "security".

This is really about corporate-control, eliminating consumer-choice, and imposing DRM... period. Anyone who thinks differently, really should spend a few days reading about the "Trusted Computing Alliance". This "standard", is little more than a corporate wish-list of hard-DRM, and absolute control of all computing-devices, not by the devices-owner, but by the manufacturer, and other "corporate-interests, AFTER a sale.

I am so tired of this BOLD-FACED CHARADE. And, I am SICK of where computer-owners are currently being led by these LIES.