Mobile text messaging could become extinct within a generation as millions of young people turn to other forms of electronic communication.
Experts predict the amount of texts sent in the UK will drop by 20 per cent in the next two years, as teenagers are increasingly using instant messaging from mobile phones and social networking sites such as Facebook.
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Our development team have been busy researching the Android operating system and we found an interesting feature we thought you might like to know about.
It turns out that if USB debugging mode is turned on, then XRY can extract data from the device without the need to enter the device passcode/pattern.
This also works on rooted devices and it’s even possible to root a locked device as long as USB debugging is turned on. We have tested XRY and it connects fine and downloads all the data, before you enter the code. This works for both android v1.5 and v2.2, so it should also work for all the versions in between.
But before you get too excited - this only works if USB debugging is enabled. If that is not switched on then you still have a problem. So if you do have a live android device, please enable USB debugging before it is switched off. That way it won’t make any difference if the code is set when it comes to examining the Android device at a later date.
In summary this little nugget of information is going to be most effective when you have immediate access to the phone, before it locks and before the phone is switched off or the battery runs out. Also it may not be possible in every case; if the android phone has a screen lock (like a password screen saver) then you may not be able to get into the phone to change the USB debugging settings.
And finally please ensure that you have the full legal rights to undertake this type of examination of course!
Apple iPhones and 3G iPads are recording and storing details of all their owners' movements, researchers claim.
The findings, first reported by the Guardian newspaper, will come as a surprise to most iPhone users, as their devices do not give any visual indication that such data is being recorded.
But they are no surprise to the developers here at MSAB who have been recovering this data in XRY for some considerable time.
Did you know that XRY now supports the forensic extraction of data from a whole host of different smartphone applications on the iPhone, Android and Blackberry operating system platforms?
We now have ‘app’ support for a wide range of different apps including Facebook, MySpace, Skype, Flickr, Gmail, PingChat! and much more.
A lot of this data can be found in the Log section of the XRY report and in our next release of XRY v5.5 we have fully documented what support we offer and where the data is located in XRY.
In particular if there are new apps that you would like to see supported in the future, then please do let us know as we want our tools to support your needs.
Send us your smartphone 'APP' support request: info@msab.com">info@msab.com
Global research firm TNS has been compiling extensive reports on the usage habits of mobile phone users.
Today the company announced the release of its latest work, TNS Mobile Life 2011. Based on a staggering amount of effort -- 25,000 hours of interviews with over 34,000 respondents covering 43 countries -- there's a ton of interesting data here on all sorts of things wrapped up in some attractive Flash graphics to allow you to slice and dice the data.
For more information please visit their website here: http://discovermobilelife.com/
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