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While we’re all against jamming mobile phones by the government bodies, I must admit I can understand the police of New York, which is studying the feasibility of disrupting mobile phone communications between terrorists during any attack.
This comes after revelations that gunmen in Mumbai, India received electronic transmissions during their killing spree in November.
Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly raised the possibility at a recent Senate hearing, but also noted there were technological hurdles to shutting down cellular service in a narrow location, like a hotel or movie theater.
Later, Paul J. Browne, the Police Department’s chief spokesman, said the department wanted to preserve the option of monitoring conversations between terrorists, adding that any plan to shut electronics transmissions was “only in the discussion stage.”
[Via: The New York Times]
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
