Sometime this year, Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) will almost certainly unveil an iPhone compatible with Verizon Wireless’ — and Sprint’s (NYSE: S), for that matter — CDMA-based network.

Apple is also working on another GSM iteration of its iconic device, which will be released by AT&T (NYSE: T) later this year, according to The Wall Street Journal, which broke the story on Monday.

The timing is right for another upgrade to the iPhone, which stormed onto the market in 2007, and it’s no shocker that Apple may be planning a release for Verizon Wireless.

AT&T’s 3G network has already drawn complaints about its availability. Though the iPhone has given the wireless provider a vast stream of new subscriber revenue, the data-hungry device has weighed heavily on its network. Now AT&T has been named as the cellular data provider for 3G-enabled iPads, too. Can it take on the extra traffic?

GSM encryption is cracked, anyone can listen to your calls

A German security expert has raised the ire of the cell phone industry after he and a group of researchers posted online a how-to guide for cracking the encryption that keeps the calls of billions of cell phone users secret.

Karsten Nohl, 28, told The Associated Press this week that he, working with others online and around the world, created a codebook containing how to get past the GSM standard encryption used to keep conversations on more than 3 billion mobile phones safe from prying ears.

HELSINKI/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Top global cellphone maker Nokia Oyj on Thursday charged Apple Inc with infringing Nokia patents, accusing the iPhone maker of trying to hitch a “free-ride” on Nokia’s technology investments.
Nokia dominates the global handset market but it has lost some ground to new smartphone entrants like Apple, which entered the market with its iPhone in mid-2007.
The 10 patents in the lawsuit, filed in the U.S. state of Delaware, relate to technologies fundamental to devices using GSM, UMTS and/or wireless local area network (LAN) standards, Nokia said.
In its complaint filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, Nokia said it was seeking compensation for Apple’s use of the patents and a declaration that Nokia is entitled to an injunction until Apple pays compensation, along with interest, for past infringement.
It did not specify an amount.
“Apple’s wireless communication devices take advantage of the decades of continued investments by Nokia to build today’s communication protocols,” Nokia said in the filing. “By refusing to compensate Nokia for its patented technologies, Apple is attempting to get a ‘free-ride’ on the billions of dollars that Nokia has invested.”
Apple declined to comment on the lawsuit.
Analysts said the suit could have an impact on the iPhone maker, who is likely one of the biggest net payers of royalties in the industry. As a latecomer, Apple has limited intellectual property assets compared with rivals, when all vendors work under cross-licensing agreements.
“It’s quite likely Nokia has a case,” said Tero Kuittinen, an analyst with MKM Partners. “Plenty of companies come to handset manufacturing and don’t pay for all the IP in early years. Several Asian vendors started paying GSM license fees years after they began manufacturing GSM phones.”

PATENT FIGHT
The patents cover wireless data, speech coding, security and encryption and are infringed upon by all iPhone models shipped since the iPhone was introduced in 2007, Nokia said.
About 40 companies have entered into license agreements with Nokia, including virtually all the leading handset vendors, but it has not struck a deal with Apple.
In its court filing, Nokia said it made various offers to Apple for a license agreement, which Apple rejected.
“This is about competition against Apple,” said Alfred Zaher, partner and intellectual property attorney at Blank Rome LLP in Pennsylvania. He added that if Apple settles the lawsuit, it may represent tens of millions of dollars, at most, over a 10-year period.
However, he said Nokia is facing an eroding market position that could represent billions of dollars.
“I don’t think Apple is as concerned about the patent infringement lawsuit from a global perspective as would be Nokia, looking at its market share and what it’s losing,” Zaher said.
Even if Apple were to pay past due royalties, “it would still enjoy a market share it otherwise would not have but for a period of ‘free-riding,’” the complaint said.
Nokia said that because it was difficult to predict whether it can regain market share lost to Apple, “Nokia’s harm cannot be compensated by payment of” past due royalties alone.
Legal battles over as many as 10 technology patents can easily take several years.
“Nokia’s enormous patent portfolio doesn’t make this a big surprise but it could have severe repercussions for Apple and its component supplier,” said CCS Insight analyst Geoff Blaber.
“Once again intellectual property has become the secondary battleground in a highly competitive mobile phone market.”
Last year, Nokia ended a more than three-year legal battle with U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm which spanned three continents and involved more than a dozen separate cases.
Apple shares closed up 0.1 percent at $205.20 on the Nasdaq. Nokia shares closed in Helsinki 0.3 percent lower at 8.82 euros.

French health watchdogs, in a precautionary move, recommended on Thursday reducing exposure to mobile phones and other portable wireless devices………..

Norway’s Telenor and Russia’s Alfa Group have agreed to end years of conflict and lawsuits with a merger of their mobile telecoms interests in Russia and Ukraine and the creation of a new U.S.-listed operator.

Free voicemail to email
Usually when you receive a voice message you have to dial in to your provider to hear it, most of the times the call is not free. CY.TALK® has a different approach: each time someone leaves you a voice mail we will email to you a small file containing the audio message, all you have to do to listen to it is to open it! You can now save them and organize them the way you want. Your messages will be also stored on CY.TALK®  website for a period of time so you download them or listen to them again from there. You can access your voicemail from your CY.TALK® phone or any other traditional phone by calling the voice mail access numbers available from many countries.

You can listen to your messages form the CY.TALK® website as well:

CY.TALK® Voicemail Box

Never miss a message!

Never miss a call! Up to 4 diverts possible.
Don’t like to miss phone calls? Configure the CY.TALK® Call Forwarding to have your calls follow you consecutively to up to 4 different numbers.
Could be set like that:
1 – Ring on my mobile
2 – Try my secretary
3 – Try my car phone
4 – Find me at home!
To prevent callers form hanging up while the search for you is on, a FREE announcement tells the callers to hold the line while we search for you.

Another Free CY.TALK® service.

A simple system to avoid GSM roaming costs when your traveling.

As well as never missing a call.

Easy and fast to setup, and you can change all your settings from your accounts page.

Let’s use the following scenario:

You live in France and have a French mobile.

You will travel to Australia and have there a mobile number.

You will need to have a French phone number from CY.TALK®.

You will set your mobile phone to divert all your calls to your French phone number.

Then you will set your French phone number (from the “Call Forwarding” in your profile) to send all calls to your Australian mobile.

Every time someone will call you on your French mobile it will be forwarded to your French virtual number which in turn will be forwarded to your Australian number.

Call to your French mobile>Your CY.TALK® French phone number>Your Australian mobile number

All this happens extremely fast, and it is completely transparent to the person calling you.

The caller will have no idea where you are answering from.

this way it is much cheaper then using your GSM roaming (the cost involved here are a transfer from your French mobile to your French phone  number (very cheap) and then a call form you CY.TALK® account to Australia mobile)

You can see all the incoming calls in your reports – no more people saying they called you and you didn’t pick up!

All your calls will be sent to your CY.TALK® voicemail to email system. All the voicemails will be on your computer as well as on the server. You can listen to them form any phone as well.

You can also configure more divert if you don’t pick up your mobile on time, forward to your home, hotel, other mobile…

The only limit is your creativity!!

Am here to answer any questions/ideas you might have.

Hi all,

I can proudly announce that now we offer a wide choice of Phone numbers form all over the world.
More than 500 cites in many countries. Prices start at a low 4 euro per month!
If you have a special need please do not hesitate to contact our sales team.

Use CY.TALK® from your GSM
If you want to use your home or office numbers from your GSM mobile and benefit from CY.TALK® services; try our landline to CY.TALK® gateway! Save while you are on the move!
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