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Digicel Rising Star 2011 finalist Latoya Jackson, more popularly known as ‘Latty J’, along with other members of her family were robbed at gunpoint on the weekend. Reports are that the robbery took place along a section of the Old Stony Hill main road.

Latty J said the robber took $30,000 in cash as well as three cellphones including two BlackBerry phones, an iPod Touch along with shoes and clothing that were in a bag.

It is reported that the thief also took her mother’s purse containing important documents and identification cards.

Latty J said “It was basically four of us standing waiting for a bus, me, my mother and two other members of my family. It wasn’t even 8 o’clock good … it was a little after 7 p.m., and we were standing waiting for a bus and saw this man approaching casually. My mother wanted to make sure we were at the right place so she asked the guy if this was where the 53 bus runs,” she said. “He answered my mother and then brandished the gun and started to rob us.”

Latty J told THE STAR that a report was made to the Stony Hill police and a search of the area was carried out minutes after the incident.

Police sources at the Stony Hill Police Station confirmed the incident, however, no one has been arrested and investigation into the robbery is ongoing.

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Is 2012 the year app stores will break out in the enterprise?

The environment is certainly ripe for it. Over the past two years, there has been a proliferation of employees using smartphones and tablets to do work and more enterprises are implementing BYOD (bring our own device) programs that allow employees to use personal iPads, iPhones and Android smartphones to access business apps.

The company app store, which follows a consumer trend started by Apple’s iTunes App Store and Google’s Android Market (now called Google Play), is a logical extension of the BYOD movement.

But whether businesses are providing company-issued devices or letting users bring their own, mobile app stores still offer the same value: to efficiently and securely distribute mobile apps to employees and take the burden off IT to migrate apps to individual devices or upload each app onto a public app store.

Enterprise app stores are not widely in use (an estimated 10 percent of enterprises have their own stores). But enterprises such as CDW and General Electric have implemented private app stores, and smaller niche companies, particularly in the healthcare field, are also looking at private app stores with help from big vendors like Cisco and smaller players such as AppCentral and Virtusa.

The OS preference for enterprise app stores is mostly Android and iOS, although Rohit Sharma, Global Head of Mobility at Virtusa, recommends keeping an app store compatible with all mobile platforms to serve the various devices making their way into enterprises.

“It costs the same to maintain a cross-platform store so you might as well keep it as open as possible,” say Sharma.

With that in mind, here are 10 important features that should be part of any enterprise app store, according to Virtusa.

Support for Multiple Mobile Platforms

Apple iOS, Android (multiple versions including Honeycomb and ICS) and BlackBerry OS (versions 6.x, 7.x and future support for BlackBerry OS and BlackBerry PlayBook OS, QNX) should be supported, according to Rauf A. Adil, Chief Enterprise Architect at Virtusa. Some enterprises may also require support for other mobile platforms including Windows Phone or Bada OS (Samsung’s Linux-based OS).

Browser and Native App Support

An enterprise app store should allow the apps to be downloaded on the device from the browser via a URL or through an enterprise market app — similar to the Google Play Store or iTunes App store.

Secure It

Integrate the app store with the enterprise single sign-on or identity management system and MDM (Mobile Device Management) solution if available. App downloads should be on a secure SSL (HTTPS) or secure VPN tunnel. Your app store should NOT allow downloads via an unsecured network connection.

Access Control

Only users that are authorized should be able to download and install an app. Authorization can work off of a server side ACL (access control list) that is driven by user, role and designation and group authorizations. For example, an employee working in buildings and facility management should not be allowed to download a mobile app that is intended for sales operations.

Push Notifications

Administrators should be able to send notifications using the push capability of the supported mobile platforms. The notifications alert the user about available updates for apps installed on the device.

Over the Air Updates

Both Android and iOS (5.x) now support OTA (over the air updates) for updating existing apps, installing patches and other maintenance related fixes. An enterprise app store should include a feature to push the updates to the device and notify users through the notification system on the device.

Device Registration and Management

An enterprise app store should include the database of users, devices and apps. This can also be done by using MDM software and integrating it with the app store. In an enterprise, a user may have multiple mobile devices. Similarly, devices may be shared with different users, each having a different account and profile on the device.

Administrative Console, Centralized Management and Control

An easy-to-use, Web-based administrative console is an essential feature that allows administrators to approve new apps or updates to existing ones. It also allows them to retire, archive and remove apps when necessary.

Identifying Malicious Code

Malicious software including Trojan apps are a big problem in public app stores, and an enterprise app store could also be susceptible to such attacks from an internal party like a disgruntled employee, or from the packaging of third-party software and services bundled with in-house enterprise apps. The app store should provide ways to identify, prevent and take down apps that do not adhere to the organization’s code of conduct.

Publishing Process

There should be a clear and simple process for submission, approval and withdrawal of apps that are intended for the app store. A well-defined set of guidelines should be published as to what are the acceptable policies for approval of apps. This is also an area where the company’s best practices, polices and design guidelines can be validated and enforced.

Shane O’Neill covers Microsoft, Windows, Operating Systems, Productivity Apps and Online Services for CIO.com. Follow Shane on Twitter @smoneill. Follow everything from CIO.com on Twitter @CIOonline and on Facebook. Email Shane at soneill@cio.com

Modest specs likely aimed at developing market

Previously photographed for T-Mobile’s UK website, the speculation over the upcoming Blackberry Curve 9320 is over. The specifications of the phone have been revealed by Vietnamese mobile-centric website Sohoa, with the phone already confirmed for India and the UK sometime next month.

The Blackberry OS 7.1 phone has an as yet unnamed single-core processor, 512MB of RAM, a “better” QWERTY keyboard, a 2.44 inch qVGA display running at 320×240, a 3.2MP rear camera, and a 1450mAh battery. No release date nor pricing for this entry level phone has yet been announced for the US market.

United States marketshare of the Blackberry continues to fall, and has sunk to 13.4 percent of the smartphone market in recent surveys. During the same period of time, Android phone market share rose to 50.1 percent, and Apple’s iPhone climbed to 30.2 percent. [via Sohoa]

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Developers can upload their code to the cloud-based service and get back mobile apps for Windows Phone, iOS, and Android

Windows Phone can now be targeted by PhoneGap Build, a cloud-based service for creating cross-platform mobile phone apps, according to a blog post from Nitobi, the service’s creators.

Developers first write their applications using HTML, CSS, or JavaScript then upload the code to the Build service, which sends back apps for Apple’s iOS, Google’s Android, Research In Motion’s BlackBerry OS — and now Windows Phone, too.

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Instead of configuring environments and installing platform-specific tools, developers can focus on writing apps, according to the blog post. Build is still under development, but developers that want to try it out can sign up to test the public beta version, it said.

Once the product has been launched, the main priority is providing PhoneGap Build as a Web service that can seamlessly integrate with existing technology infrastructure and tools, according to an FAQ.

The service will remain free for open source projects, and pricing details for commercial applications will be announced closer to the public launch.

Also, earlier this week, PhoneGap’s owner, Adobe Systems, introduced Creative Suite 6, which has better integration with Build. The integration allows developers who use Dreamweaver, an HTML editor, to target more platforms.

Adobe acquired PhoneGap’s creator Nitobi last October, and about a month later Adobe announced plans to ditch Flash for mobile app development and instead focus on HTML5.

Gaining the support of cross-platform tool vendors such as Adobe is important for Microsoft as it wants to increase the number of applications available for its mobile OS.

Soon two-thirds of the top 100 applications for competing operating systems will be available on the Windows Phone Marketplace, and that number continues to grow, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said last week.

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Migicovsky says he started out making watches that integrated with BlackBerry phones. When he decided last year to create a new device that did the same for iOS and Android smartphones, the idea landed him in the renowned Y Combinator start-up incubator. Four angel investors—including Y Combinator partner and Gmail creator Paul Buccheit and Draper Fisher Jurvetson managing director Draper—gave Migicovsky the money he needed to begin designing Pebble.

After that, though, the money stopped—and so did product development.

“Hardware companies are somewhat hard to fund,” Migicovsky says. “VCs have less experience with hardware.”

“We knew how much it would cost to bring this product to market and we didn’t have that in our bank account,” he adds.

Backers to Receive Watches

Migicovsky turned to Kickstarter, posting a video of a Pebble prototype and its various possibilities—including mail and messaging, music controls, exercise data tracking and more—and listed the project’s fundraising goal at $100,000, an amount he said would allow them to sell 1,000 watches.

Early “investors” basically pre-pay for the watches; different funding levels buy a promise to ship one or more of the watches in September. (Big donors could also get custom watch designs.)

Worth noting: Backers are putting their money into a product that is still just a prototype—and they get no protection if the project fails.

Still, the resulting cash influx has allowed Migicovsky to increase his staff, going from five to 10 people, and add new planned features to the watch, including water resistance and higher-quality plastic for a better feel, he said.

And Migicovsky, at least, is confident that Pebble will deliver on its promise. “We having an amazing support network. We’re feeling good,” he said.

THE police force is forking out more than £2 million to hand over BlackBerry phones to its officers.

The move comes so Gloucestershire police can keep bobbies on the beat instead of returning to the office to do their paperwork.

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The force was keeping quiet about how much the scheme for nearly 650 members of staff would cost. But a Freedom of Information request revealed it would cost £2.2million over the next three years.

The constabulary revealed it has been given a £1.3 million grant from the National Policing Improvement Agency to help pay for the phones.

But it will be stumping up £900,000 from its own coffers.

Officers will use the smart phones to carry out work and update logs, which previously had to be done from the office.

The mobile move comes after Gloucestershire police has put 13 of its stations up for sale to help save £18 million from its budget.

The force has defended the spend and said the £2.2 million is not solely for the cost of phones.

Spokesman Chris Jackson explained it included the cost of all usage for three years, meaning no monthly contract fees to pay, and the infrastructure to ensure officers had access to all police systems, such as the police national computer.

It will also pay to ensure the systems on the mobiles are secure.

Mr Jackson said: “The devices will give officers access to the majority of the systems used in their work, allowing them more time on patrol and less time travelling to or working within police stations.

“This is part of our drive to increase the number of officers working in high visibility roles.

“It will also reduce bureaucracy and improve efficiency, thereby cutting overall policing costs.”

The project has been four years in the planning and the constabulary’s contribution was earmarked and set aside four years ago.

Katy Roberts, spokeswoman for Gloucestershire police, previously told the Echo: “641 BlackBerry devices are being issued across the county to PCs and PCSOs working in our local policing areas.

“The devices will give officers access to the majority of the systems used in their work, allowing them more time on patrol and less time travelling to or working within police stations. This is part of our drive to increase the number of officers working in high-visibility roles.

“It will also reduce bureaucracy and improve efficiency, thereby cutting overall policing costs.”

The latest BlackBerry phones can cost around £300.

Among the stations closed are Whaddon, Barton Street in Tewkesbury, Leckhampton, St Marks, Berkeley, Brockworth, Newent and Tutshill.

OPINION, P8

BY ROLFE WINKLER AND HESTER PLUMRIDGE

Low prices haven’t attracted customers to Nokia and BlackBerry phones. Cheap share prices likely won’t attract buyers for the companies that make them—at least any time soon.

Nokia stock is setting new multiyear lows and Fitch on Tuesday downgraded its debt to “junk” status. Meanwhile, freefalling Research in Motion, which make the BlackBerry, is exploring strategic options. Both of their stock prices have fallen more than 90% from the peak.

But there are just too many reasons not to buy them. Start with the prices. Even after a valuation collapse, Nokia and RIM have market capitalizations of $13.5 billion and …

Computer scientists have devised an attack that logs phone numbers, Social Security IDs, and personal identification numbers entered into smartphones by monitoring the devices’ integrated motion sensors.

TapLogger, as their proof-of-concept application for phones running Google’s Android operating system is called, masquerades as a benign game that challenges the end user to identify identical icons from a collection of similar-looking images. In the background, the trojan monitors readings returned by the phone’s built-in accelerometer, gyroscope, and orientation sensors to infer phone numbers and other digits entered into the device. This then surreptitiously uploads them to a computer under the control of the attackers.

Based in part on a similar smartphone keylogger called TouchLogger demonstrated last year, TapLogger exploits a design weakness in Android that allows all installed apps free access to motion sensor readings. Because similar permission systems are found in Research in Motion’s Blackberry OS, there’s nothing stopping similar apps from targeting Blackberries according to researchers (Jailbroken iOS devices are also vulnerable.)

“The fundamental problem here is that sensing is unmanaged on existing smartphone platforms,” Zhi Xu, a PhD candidate in the Pennsylvania State University’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering, wrote in an email to Ars. “TapLogger shows that those unmanaged ‘insensitive sensors’ can really be used to infer very sensitive user information (e.g. passwords and PIN numbers). Inspired by TapLogger, we believe that more and more sensor-based attackers will be introduced in the near future.”

TapLogger works by using a device’s motion sensors to record subtle real-time changes of orientation as a user enters numbers to release a phone’s screenlock, dial a phone number, or provide a social security number during a call to a health-insurance service center. By logging the precise changes along three dimensions—azimuth, pitch, and roll—the trojan makes educated guesses about the touchscreen regions that were tapped to generate the orientation changes. TapLogger then maps those regions to the user interface of the screenlock or dial pad of a specific Android phone.

To accurately infer taps, the trojan first must learn the patterns of a specific person using a specific Android phone, since precise pitch and roll will be different for each user and smartphone model. Masquerading as a game called HostApp, TapLogger surreptitiously collects training data as players match the icons. The more rounds a user plays, the better the trojan gets at guessing the keys that are tapped when users’ are entering numbers into the screenlock or dial pad interfaces.

“When a user taps on the touchscreen, the display and its supporting hardware and firmware will report the coordinates of tap events to the operating system of the smartphone,” explains a paper titled “TapLogger: Inferring User Inputs On Smartphone Touchscreens Using On-board Motion Sensors.” Xu and two other researchers presented it last week to the Fifth ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks. “The coordinates of a tap event together with knowledge of the application view currently displayed on the touchscreen determine the corresponding user input. For example, a tap event with coordinates within the boundary of a button displayed on the touchscreen stands for a tap action on this button.”

Even after TapLogger has been trained to deduce the taps of a given user on a specific smartphone model, background vibrations and other variables prevent TapLogger from determining the exact sequence of numbers entered into a device. Despite this limitation, the trojan can still greatly reduce the number of guesses required to recover a user’s PIN, social security number, or other numerical string entered into the phone.

For example, trying every possible combination to crack a four-digit PIN would require a maximum of 10,000 combinations. By using the information returned by TapLogger, an attacker can narrow the number of tries to just 81 with an average of a 100-percent chance of success. Using TapLogger data to deduce a six-digit PIN, meanwhile, would generate a search space of 729 likely combinations with an average success rate of 80 percent. By contrast, it would require a maximum of 1 million possible combinations to crack the same PIN using brute-force methods.

The research is the latest to show the vulnerability of smartphones to techniques that could allow adversaries to gain unauthorized access to sensitive data stored on the devices. In addition to last year’s TouchLogger technique, attacks that analyze smudges to deduce password patterns have been adopted for devices running Android, and researchers say Windows 8 devices are susceptible to similar attacks.

The paper, which was co-authored by Kun Bai (of IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center) and Sencun Zhu (of the University of Pennsylvania), warns that the risks that arise from data leaked by integrated motion sensors won’t be curbed without fundamental changes by the OS developers. Whereas the Android and Blackberry OSes all have mechanisms to prevent one app from accessing privileged functions, data, and files of other apps, there are no such prohibitions on the access to the speed and orientation readings returned by a phone’s sensors.

“To prevent such types of attacks, we see an urgent need for sensing management systems on the existing commodity smartphone platforms,” they wrote. “Sensors, such as accelerometer and orientation sensors, should all be considered as sensitive to user’s privacy and need gaining security permissions to access.”

This article was updated to correct statements about iOS devices. They are not vulnerable to the attack unless they have been jailbroken.

April 22, 2012 5:55 pm

By Chris Nuttall in San Francisco