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As we announced last week, SevenClick received last friday the Junior Company Award at X Noche de las Telecomunicaciones. It was a nice party full of interesting people.

Here is a picture of SevenClick’s team with the award. Enjoy!

Vodafone 360 is a newborn network, but Vodafone is working hard and doing a great job with continuos improvements, releasing new firmware for their phones, adding new services like Gmail contacts synchronization, or updating their websites.

On their last website update, we received a nice surprise: “Búsqueda de Empleo for Rookies” is one of the two featured Apps! We are very happy for this acknowledgement of our work, and we also want to congratule the national newspaper El País, as the second featured app is theirs, “El Pais Plus”.

Visit Vodafone 360 Featured Apps here, and remember to look for the Weird Rabbit !

SevenClick, TBS Group company specialized mobile solutions development, has been awarded at the Junior Company category in the “X Noche de las Telecomunicaciones de Aragón”.

Sponsored by the Society of Aragon Communication Engineers (Aitar) and the Centro Politécnico Superior (CPS) of the University of Zaragoza, these awards serve as a point of annual meeting between institutions, companies and professionals committed to the information society.

The Junior Company Category is intended for a young company recently established, but already has achieved excel in technological landscape of Aragon, characteristics that SevenClick stands and make him deserving of this award.

Morgan Stanley published last month a report analyzing the “state-of-the-art” of Mobile Internet. The report covers almost every aspect related to Mobile Internet: technologies, key players, carriers, content providers, etc..

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Some days ago our phone calls started to be more unsecure due to the hack of the main code of the GSM encyption algorithm. Karsten Nohl, a german computer engineer, and his crew got this code by brute force technique, that means they tryed enough random keys until they got the password. This information was published in the ‘Chaos Communication Congress’ that took place in Berlin.

The cracked algorithm is called A5/1 and is the one it is used in over 80% phone call connections so this represents a big problem for our voice communications according to our privacy violation. Besides, the discovered code/password has been published via torrent, so anyone can access it and with the proper software could spy our phone calls. Some phone operators have said that changing that code in the operators networks would solve the problem, but it would keep being as vulnerable as the previous one that has been discovered.

The code of A5/1 algorithm, devised in 1988, consists on a 64bit string. Actually there is a newer algorithm based on a 128bit code that is called A5/3, available since 2007, but operators have not introduced this algorithm in their networks yet. This code has not been hacked, at least so far …

The company Cellcrypt, has said that what Karsten Nohl has published will help criminal organizations to listen private conversations. Nowadays this technology was only available for governments and intelligence agencies.

Maybe its time to change our minds, maybe it is time to stop using an old voice technology, maybe it is time to establish our voice communications in other way… Technology has improved in all ways and two facts could help us solve this problem. Nowadays we can use VoIP (Voice over IP) to call a friend wherever he is at really cheap rates using internet connection. In addition personal certificates identify and secure us in the internet when we make important operations such as banking, or administrative tasks. What about joining both? That could solve our impending problem.

At the moment make sure your private conversations are not through a mobile phone call…

Via Engadget | Cellcrypt

Don´t miss the photos of the great Christmas party we had last friday at noosfera !

Visit TBS Christmas party 2009 Photoset

Desde el Grupo TBS (TBSolutions, TBSecurity, SevenClick y Confëttika) os deseamos una Feliz Navidad y lo mejor para el 2010.

No os perdáis el vídeo de nuestra felicitación realizado por Confëttika! Fantástico trabajo!

From TBS Group (TBSolutions, TBSecurity, SevenClick and Confëttika) we wish you a Merry Christmas and best for 2010.

Do not miss our congratulations video by Confëttika! Great job!

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Some weeks ago I wrote a review post about the new HTC Touch Diamond2, where I explained its advantages and drawbacks besides my personal experience with it. Today we have prepared in the office, with our friends from Confëttika, some good pictures of the smartphone that will let you know it better. Enjoy them!

Let’s see the top!

Zoom out… and here we have the Programs menu and TouchFLO with Mail.

Now let’s touch and type!

Links: Confëttika | HTC Touch Diamond2 Review

HTC Tattoo is the latest Android mobile phone launched by HTC which attacks the affordable market. Although it is not the cheapest, it is reasonably priced.

At the first sight, because its design and knowing that it has a resistive touchscreen, it remind us of HTC Touch, a device too difficult to use without stylus. All we know that Android isn’t built to use with stylus, in fact all the other Android phones in the market has capacitive screen, so at the beginning it is normal to think that it can be a huge issue.

But, despite it wasn’t a good start, after some days using it I have to say that I am pleasantly surprised with this device.

People complain about the use of resistive touchscreen saying that the unique reason is keeping cost down, but HTC claims that it is because its 2.8-inch screen is simply too small “to be accurate with” as a capacitive one.

I can say that, after holding it in your hands, you will realize that a great finger-friendly environment has been achieved.

You can see the whole specification here. Let’s see some outstanding features that makes Tattoo different.

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