[BAK2u] PhoneSCREAM aka KPKB

PhoneSCREAM a nifty app that will scream its head off if an unauthorized user tries to access the phone's content without the correct password.

This app was created in response to existing PhoneBAK Mobilephone users' request to have a stronger level of security protection to protect their phone's content from being accessed when powered up.

No more the need to deactivate the default phone's lock to use PhoneBAK anti-theft software, now both programs can run at the same time.

Free trial: http://www.bak2u.com

[BAK2u] iPhone Application - iCodeRed

In case of emergency, use iCodeRed for your 'single-tap' quick dial in an emergency to a configurable telephone number and also send out the latest location to a pre-defined email address.
This is most useful for folks and kids that needs immediate attention when they are in danger.

The receiver (e.g. spouse, colleague) of the email, will be able to click onto the link and open up the whereabouts of their location.

http://www.bak2u.com/phonebak.php

Cost: US$1.99

Sitex 2008

BAK2u is participating in Sitex 2008 together with the help of Singapore Polytechnic students.

Thank you all!

http://www.bak2u.com

Panasonic may buy out Sanyo

Panasonic may offer to buy a majority stake in Sanyo for up to 500 billion yen ($5.2 billion), but at an offer below Sanyo's current share price.

According to an unsourced article in Japanese daily Yomiuri, the company is planning to offer 120 yen per share for Sanyo stock. Yet significant stakeholder Goldman Sachs intends to value its Sanyo stock at about $2.57 per share, suggesting intense bargaining ahead.

Panasonic has downplayed the veracity of the story, yet did not deny it. A spokesperson for the company told Dow Jones Newswires that, "While there were media reports regarding a tender offer price for Sanyo shares, they are not something that has been released by Panasonic."

If Panasonic cannot make a deal with Goldman Sachs, it can still buy out the shares of the other two significant shareholders – Daiwa Securities and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking. But that would only take Panasonic's ownership of Sanyo to a maximum of 40%.

News of a potential low-ball offer impacted the value of Sanyo shares, which dropped 2.5% to close at $1.60.

Source: http://www.telecomasia.net

Verizon fires workers who snooped on Obama cell records

Red-faced Verizon Wireless has fired an undisclosed number of employees who couldn’t resist the chance to peek into Barack Obama’s cellphone records, CNN reports.

It was an old, flip-top phone, not his famous BlackBerry, and the account had been inactive for months. No text messages or voicemail contents could have been accessed. The employees were satisfying “idle curiosity,” a source told CNN, and the employees were not authorized to access customer records.

Verizon said, in an internal memo, that it has launched an internal investigation into whether the records “of our customer had in any way been compromised outside our company, and this investigation continues.”

The company has also notified federal law enforcement agencies.

While this appears to be little more than a case of bad behavior, it does highlight again the issue of telecom spying –and sharing with the NSA – on customer data. Obama supported legislation giving telecom companies immunity from lawsuits for such transfers.

Source: zdnet.com

iPhone - How to hard reset?

Step 1
On the iPhone, click 'Settings'
Scroll down to 'General'











Step 2
In 'General', click 'Reset'










Final Step
Click 'Erase All Content and Settings'
It will take about an hour to delete all media and data and reset all settings.

[BAK2u] PhoneBAK Mobilephone 2.0

Dear all,

we have just updated our product webpage with PhoneBAK Mobilephone 2.0 to include the following features:

Data Wipeout
Performs a 'Hard Reset' to wipeout all files on external storage card and set the device to factory default to protect confidential information.
Once the SMS Alert Message is sent, the device will be on standby to perform the 'hard reset'.

Hard Reset - wipes out all data in the mobile phone after the SMS Text Alert is sent out.

Wipe Storage Card - wipes out all data in the external storage card inserted in the mobile phone.

Protection - requires the correct password to enter this program (wrong entry will result in SMS Text me ssages send and perform Hard Reset and/or Wipe Storage Card, (if turned on).

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Why auto wipeout?

One of the selling point is that once the sms is sent out, the hard reset will be performed thus eliminating the need to wait for a SMS to trigger the resetting.

From our survey, if the owner loses his phone, it will take him/her about 5-7 minutes to find out about the loss and probably another 5-7 minutes to recall how to send a SMS back to his own phone (which the sim card may have been removed by the thief and sensitive information copied).

If the owner's sim card has been removed from the stolen phone, the owner still needs to find out what is the thief's number before sending the sms from the predefined numbers (colleagues or spouse). All these will only buy more time for the thief to access confidential information on the phone.

http://bak2u.com/phonebakmobilephone.php

Software of the Week: PhoneBAK

PhoneBAK Anti-theft software is the Software of the Week! (Software Mall from Thailand)

PhoneBAK will be available via Singtel and M1 mobilephone soon.

Malaysia - Gomobile.my

Mobizads & Pokit.mobi will have our 1st ever event in Malaysia - GoMobile Expo 2008. Please come visit our booth, sign up for Free with us and get some Free games. You will stand a chance to win the RM800 worth of Mobile Anti-Theft Software sponsored by BAK2u!

The GoMobile Expo will be a huge consumer event where mobile brands, telcos, service providers, content creators and just about anybody else in the mobile industry can participate in. Many tens of thousands of visitors are expected to attend the event. The target attendees of GoMobile are youths and upwardly mobile young professionals who are digital natives and want to live fully mobile lifestyles. The objective of GoMobile Expo is to encourage and educate all to embrace mobility as a lifestyle.

GoMobile consists of 3 exciting events namely:
a) 2nd Asia Pacific Mobile Learning & Edutainment Conference 2008…To Learn
b) MobileWorld Star Award 2008 Gala Dinner…To Celebrate
c) GoMobile Expo 2008 …To Experience

http://gomobile.my

Singeo - Singapore Flight Information on your iPhone

If you’re an iPhone user, you can now get access to Changi airport flight arrivals and departures from a webapp. Just load isinjet.com into your browser and away you go. If you already use isingeo.com on your iPhone it’s also available there under the “Travel Information” section.

Type in a flight number.

Source:

http://www.singeo.com.sg/?p=209

Microsoft will offer free antivirus product

Microsoft Corp. said it will offer free software to protect PCs from viruses, in a move that could pose new challenges for independent makers of security software. The Redmond, Wash., company said it plans to introduce its security software, code-named Morro, during the second half of next year in an effort to persuade more users to secure their PCs against spyware, viruses and other forms of “malware.” Use of antimalware software is far from universal, especially in emerging markets.

There are two primary reasons consumers supply for not protecting their PCs, including a concern that the anti-malware software will bog down their PCs, said Amy Barzdukas, senior director of product management for the online services and Windows division at Microsoft. The other reason is the cost of security software, which can run $75 for the programs plus two years of updates. Morro will replace another security software program Windows Live OneCare, a broader suite of software and services. Microsoft will discontinue retail sales of that software, which costs consumers $49.95 a year, on June 30 of next year. The shift to a free security offering from Microsoft could be a problem for Symantec Corp., McAfee Inc. and other independent security companies that charge consumers for their products.

Shop2u.SG - How to 'paste' screen protector on iPhone

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Intel Core i7-based PCs Debut

Dell, Gateway, and other computer makers on Monday launched high-end PCs with Intel's latest Core i7 desktop processor.

Dell made the quad-core processors, the first built with Intel's new Nehalem microarchitecture, available in XPS systems. Dell subsidiary Alienware has made the chips available in its gaming PCs, and Gateway launched the chips in its FX Series PCs.

Intel formally launched its Core i7 design Monday at a San Francisco event featuring the first desktops running the high-performance chip line. The systems are aimed at PC games and content creation, such as video.

The first chips being released are quad-core desktop models, the 920, 940, and 965 Extreme. Clock speeds are 2.66 GHz, 2.93 GHz, and 3.2 GHz, respectively, and prices in batches of 1,000 are $284, $562, and $999...more

Watching the hi-tech detectives

As fast as detectives delete one website selling your stolen credit card details, another pops up. How do police track these online identity thieves?

Sixteen storeys up in an anonymous London tower, the people inside this office aren't admiring the view of the capital's financial heart.

They're hunkered down over laptops, delving link-by-link into another world - the e-crime that attacks the bricks and mortar of Britain's finances.

"Paul" is a field agent with the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca), the secretive national policing department that's often dubbed Britain's FBI. But the doors Paul tries to smash through are not bolted from the inside.

The doors that interest him are virtual gateways to international rackets plotting to steal your financial identity. No stab vests and baseball caps - just a lot of mouse clicks. It's like that fairground game Whack-A-Mole. As fast as they hit one target, another replaces it.

"Quite simply, organised criminals are able to get at data on machines where there's been no attempt made to secure the PC and prevent an attack," says Paul...more

Nokia’s shock

A seminal moment: handset sales look set to decline for the first time in the history of the mobile industry.

Mobile phone leader Nokia, with approximately 40% market share, cut its forecast for Q4 and said it expects full-year sales to fall in 2009.

In its second profit warning in as many quarters, Nokia said the global economic slowdown and “unprecedented currency volatility” had caused a “sharp pullback” in consumer spending.

Nokia says it expects to sell 330 million devices for the quarter, down 6% on forecast. It anticipates full year shipments of 1.24 billion, as against its previous guidance of 1.26 billion. It sold 1.14 billion phones in 2007...more

Tomb Raider Underworld

For generations, stories have been told of the fearsome weapon of Thor, the Norse god of thunder. Legend holds that Thor’s hammer had the power to smash mountains into valleys and to destroy even the gods. For more than a thousand years it has existed only as a myth…until now.

In an ancient ruin on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea, Lara Croft uncovers proof of the Norse underworld and the mythical hammer. As she attempts to unravel the secrets behind these myths, Lara’s perilous journey leads her toward a forgotten power that, if unleashed, could lay waste to all civilization.

Nokia E63

Nokia E63 is a powerful device helping you to get things done when and where it matters the most.

Nokia E63 is designed for communication, it has advanced messaging features and you can also share your stories, photos, and videos directly from your Nokia E63.

Nokia E63 has a full keyboard and large landscape display that help you stay connected, and share your media more easily.

Nokia E63 has two home screens and dedicated one-touch keys for home, calendar, contacts, and email. Nokia E63 is also a great multimedia device; you can store songs on your device, or listen to Internet and FM radio.

The 3.5 mm audio plug works with your favorite headphones.

Feature Overview

• Full keyboard
• Two home screens with customizable active standby views
• Dedicated one-touch keys: Home, calendar, contacts, and email
• 2.0 megapixel camera
• High quality QVGA display
• 3.5 mm standard AV connector

PhoneBAK protects Symbian OS phones.

[BAK2u] Christmas Promotion

Together with our Singapore partners, we are pleased to offer discounted price on our all software for this Christmas Season!

Discount of up to S$56.00, including free delivery of software (Singapore)

Mobile Phone*** + Laptop** + Anti-virus*

The Death Of Packaged Software: Microsoft Store Opens On The Web For U.S. Shoppers

The days of buying packaged software loaded onto CDs are numbered. Today, Microsoft quietly drove another nail into the coffin of packaged software by launching the Microsoft Store on the Web. After testing the software download store in Europe and Korea, Microsoft opened up its U.S. version today.

The store sells all Microsoft software from Office to Xbox 360 games. Instead of shipping the software in the mail, you download it over the Web. Just like you can download apps directly to your iPhone from the iTunes App Store, the Microsoft Store takes the same approach for its own PC and server software. (It does not distribute mobile apps or software made by other companies)...more

Report Lost/Stolen Item

(Beta-in-testing)

We know how painful it is to lost or have something precious stolen from you. This service (beta) is an attempt to try to match that item found by others that may come across it and or to provide some information when a theft occurred

Report here.

[BAK2u] Testimonial - Esther Wee, Singapore

'It was a wrong move not to get the antitheft software at the iShop event last week (Oct 2008). Lost my MBP at the McDonald! No more second chance, got it the next day.'

Esther Wee, Singapore

http://www.bak2u.com

Sun Unveils 'Open Storage' Appliances

Sun Microsystems (NSDQ: JAVA) on Monday launched a line of "open storage" appliances that the vendor said combine open source software with industry standard hardware to provide more flexibility at a cheaper price than products offered by competitors.

The Storage 7000 line, code-named Amber Road, initially comprises three products, the 7110, 7210, and 7410. The appliances are what Sun calls "unified storage systems" that present an integrated package of software and hardware in order to ease complexity in configuration, deployment, and maintenance.

A key component of the software stack in the new products is the Zettabyte file system, developed by Sun and released as an open source program. ZFS manages how data files are stored and named and is different from traditional file systems in that it's built on top of virtual storage pools. ZFS was originally designed for Sun's Solaris operating system.

The new products also include what Sun calls DTrace technology for monitoring storage use to spot potential problems and to diagnose and resolve issues. DTrace was developed by Sun's FISHworks engineers who developed the code for Sun's unified storage systems. FISH stands for "fully integrated software and hardware....more

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1

PhoneBAK anti-theft software supports Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1!

Download a trial copy to test it out today

Website

Fact: BAK2u anti-theft software has been protecting PDA phones since 2006.

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BAK2u supports Samsung I7110

BAK2u anti-theft software supports the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. Details

Samsung I7110 is a slim and sleek bar type smartphone with incredibly robust and fully-packed functionality. It features the top-of-line technologies, such as 2.6” AMOLED (Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode) screen, to deliver outstanding experiences in navigation, multimedia, and connectivity. As a mobile navigator, the I7110 boasts of geo-tagging and navigation capabilities in pedestrian and driving modes. Samsung I7110 is also a great multimedia companion. Users will be able to enjoy high resolution photos with its 5 megapixel camera featuring auto focus and LED flash. It also comes with the latest digital camera features including smile shot and blink shot functions. The I7110 offers advanced video recording and play features. To offer seamlessly connected multimedia experience, the I7110 comes equipped with HSDPA and Wi-Fi connectivity. For easier web browsing, the phone features an 8-way optical mouse.

[BAK2u] Panda Anti-virus + FREE Bak2U anti-theft software bundle @ Challenger

Now available @ Challenger (Singapore)

Panda AV Pro 2009 @ $49.90
Panda Internet Security 2009 @ $69.90
Panda Global Protection 2009 @ $99.90

Limited period offer.

[BAK2u] Spider88.com

We are pleased to announce a new online store Spider88.com

Spider88 Pte Ltd (New)

49 Jalan pemimpin #06-10
APS Building. S(577203)
Website

Google patches Android security flaw

Google has begun distributing a patch to its Android mobile phone operating system, an early test for how nimbly the company can respond and how well the infrastructure works to distribute and install updates.

For the Android test phone I'm using, a T-Mobile G1, the update was smoother than the process by which the software problem came to light publicly on October 24.

The handset I'm testing gave me a message Saturday afternoon: "A system update is available," and a choice to update now or later. When I clicked the button to begin the update, it downloaded new software, which took a few minutes, then installed it, then resumed working with no hitches....more

M1 DataSave

Never lose important phone numbers again

M1 DataSave provides a simple way of backing up your phone’s data and content over-the-air. The data types that can be backed up using M1 DataSave include contacts, tasks, events, notes, photos, music, videos and SMS. In the event of loss, theft, damage, mistakes or phone upgrade, the saved data can be intelligently restored on any supported device based on their respective handset data capabilities.

Link

Sony's Latest Battery Recall, in Detail

Sony said Friday that it will recall roughly 100,000 notebook batteries worldwide in conjunction with the U.S. Consumer Product and Safety Commission, after several reports that the batteries could overheat.

The recall covers notebooks made by Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Toshiba, during the same timeframe as the widespread Sony laptop battery recall of 2006. However, the laptops named by the CPSC do not overlap with the models previously recalled, and the hazard cited by the agency did not include the risk of a short-circuit or fire, the reason for the earlier recall.

Specifically, the recall covers 32,000 batteries sold by Hewlett-Packard, from Dec. 2004 through June 2006. The models affected include the HP Pavilion, the dv1000, dv8000 and zd8000; the Compaq Presario, models v2000 and v2400; and HP Compaq notebooks including thenc6110, nc6120, nc6140, nc6220, nc6230, nx4800, nx4820, nx6110, nx6120, and nx9600. Affected customers can visit HP's battery-replacement Web site or call (800) 889-2031 between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. CT Monday through Friday, HP said....more