Call it what you like, the act of transmitting a message, image, sound, or any other data, to someone’s Bluetooth device via that Bluetooth, without their permission, is spamming – Bluespamming to be precise – pure and simple. (It’s also Bluejacking.) However, that’s not what a company which mega-band Coldplay…

Meet the Car Whisperer. We told you it could happen. Remember the BlueSniper “Rifle” which could sniff out and Bluejack Bluetooth devices up to a half-mile away? And the Bluetooth Bluespam being sent to movie-goer’s phones? [Oh sure, the company called it “ringtones” and “wallpaper”, but we all know better.]…

While consumers, and indeed the online security industry, have typically not paid much mind to warnings of nasties being sent to or through a Bluetooh device, experts are warning that this needs to change. Case in point: the newly discovered Doombot.A, which carries with it CommWarrior.B, which sends itself out…

Remember how last month Aunty told you about AOL’s new AIM Mail free web mail service? Well, AOL has not only made it official that they are providing 2gig of email storage, putting them squarely in competition with both Gmail and Yahoo, but they are giving away cool prizes, to…

Have you ever wondered who is watching you when you are on AOL Instant Messenger (AIM)? Who is reading your profile, and checking you out? Well, wonder no more, because Justin Nolan, the body behind the relatively new ConnectedMobiles.com, has written Aimtrac, just for you! Says Justin, an apparently bored…

But, soft! What light through yonder Windows breaks? Windows Mobile that is, as historic Stratford-on-Avon goes not only digital, but unwired to boot. With wireless hotspots, provided by British Telecom, throughout, Stratford-on-Avon has essentially created a fully connected wireless touris..er..town. Visitors can rent networked PDAs for about $14.00 US per…

Is the T-Mobile Sidekick About to Become the MCI Sidekick? This news release just came across Aunty’s desk, and inquiring minds want to know!: ASHBURN, Va., June 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — MCI, Inc. today announced a four-year agreement with Danger, Inc., provider of the hiptop(R) mobile Internet platform, the software and…

As many of the Internet Patrol’s regular readers know, Paris Hilton’s Sidekick was hacked, and the data was posted to the Internet, several months ago. And they also know that one Nicholas Lee Jacobsen pleaded guilty to the T-Mobile hacking which is assumed to have lead to Miss Hilton’s Sidekick account being hacked.

Yes, you read that right! Get a T-Mobile Sidekick II (a/k/a the Danger Hiptop) for free! Actually it’s better than free! Believe it or not, right now, after rebates, you will make $50.00 when you buy a T-Mobile Sidekick II Danger Hiptop! Of course our readers will remember the T-Mobile…

Many of our gentle readers know that I adore my T-Mobile Sidekick (also known, hardware-wise, as the Danger Hiptop). Despite the Sidekick being in the news lately primarily due to Paris Hilton’s Sidekick being hacked, it is a wonderful little device, providing always-on email, AOL Instant Messenger, web browsing, and…

T-Mobile Sidekick users across the country are suffering a Danger network outage which is leaving their Sidekicks unable to communicate across the Danger data network, rendering the T-Mobile Sidekicks just glorified T-Mobile telephones. The Danger network outage, which started yesterday, shows no signs of letting up as one day has…

Voipullar? What is that? Well, take VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), and combine it with a handheld Internet-able device such as a PDA or a smart phone, and what do you get? What some people are now referring to as Voipullar calling. In fact many believe that Voipullar (or VOIPullar,…

What do you think the hot news is on the mean streets of the Internet? The Apple lawsuit against pre-med student Vivek “Desicanuck” Sambhara for putting a beta version of Mac OS X 10.4 (“Tiger”) on Bit Torrent? The teenager who was arrested for sending instant messenger spam (“spim”)? The…

Yes, it’s true. During the time that the Tmobile system supporting the Tmobile Sidekick was hacked by Nicholas Lee Jacobsen, who just pleaded guilty for the Tmobile hacking, one of the accounts to which he had access was none other than Paris Hilton’s Sidekick account.

Those of you who recall Aunty telling you about the T-Mobile Sidekick hacker will be interested to know that not only has he been apprehended, but he has pleaded guilty. Twenty-one year old Nicholas Lee Jacobsen, an engineer now living in Oregon, formerly of Orange County, California, pleaded guilty to…