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The Texas Instruments DST tag is a cryptographically enabled RFID transponder used in several wide-scale systems including vehicle immobilizers and the ExxonMobil SpeedPass system. This page serves as an overview of our successful attacks on DST enabled systems.

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Doom RPG for Mobile Phones
Doom RPG is a first-person turn-based role playing game set in the Doom universe. Developed specifically for your mobile device, you reprise the role of the Doom Marine made famous in the groundbreaking id Software titles Doom, Doom II, and Doom 3. Say goodbye to humdrum mobile gaming and prepare yourself for the return to Mars in a showdown with the legions of Hell!

From: Doom as RPG for mobile

Can you really turn a First Person Shooter into a RPG for mobile???!

Here we go use your mobile as a OCR scanner:

The software, developed by NEC and the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) in Japan, goes further than existing cellphone camera technology by allowing entire documents to be scanned simply by sweeping the phone across the page.

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Using the new software with a 1-megapixel camera held at least 20centimetres away, an A4 sized page takes about 3 to 5 seconds to scan. This produces between 21 and 35 images which the software merges together to extract the text and record any images

Yet another clever way to enhance the phones capability – whole story @ newscientist

The Wall Street Journal has a really interesting story about mobile phones that are also being portable music players.

A few quotes:

The cellphone-music market in Japan has already surpassed the market for music downloaded using a PC, which is often for later use on a digital music player. In the first six months of 2005, total revenue from PC-based music downloading was just $4.8 million, compared with $122.1 million for music — not including ringtones — downloaded to cellphones, according to the Recording Industry Association of Japan.

Well a $122.1 millions is a good start I think.

Certainly, most consumers accustomed to paying 99 cents to download a song to their PC for use on their iPod aren’t likely to want to pay double or triple that to download to their phones, despite the instant gratification. A Yankee Group survey in 2004 found that Internet users’ likelihood of downloading music from a licensed service declined 58% if prices were raised from 99 cents to $1.49, an indication of how attuned U.S. consumers are to price.

True – but the shear ease of downloading directly is appealing. Why sideload if its not needed? When bandwidth becomes cheaper the I-Pod will die. Ohh and so will the new and sexy Sony MP3 Walkman (purple thingy below).

I am very sure that devices like those will not have a place in the market within 3-5 years. Why would the main consumer prefer two seperate devices? I would not anyway…

Australian it news reports that there are know over 2 billion ! !

Nokia last month said it expected the 2 billion mark to be reached in the final quarter of the year and 3 billion to be reached by 2010.

“The total number of mobile connections is now equivalent to nearly a third of the estimated world population of 6.5 billion,” Martin Garner, director at Wireless Intelligence, said in a statement.

Well I wonder how Martin Garner knows – but wow!

Well I guess that Sky also thinks going for ported television content. Yesterday I wrote about Orange offering 50 channels, but Im not sure its clever. Also some reports doubts that there is enogh bandwidth for mainstream adoption of this service…

Sky is targeting children! This is a good move, since children will have difficulty estimating the value of the offer made… :-(

More about Sky on mobile @ The Independent Online