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Brick-like handsets with green screens and Snake as the only highlight was all we knew in regards to mobile phones 10 years ago. But now, the technology that powers today''s mobile phones is moving faster than a teenager writing a text message using predictive text. Now, a decade later we can organise our lives from the palms of our hands; call, text, email, surf the internet, take pictures, listen to music and with the introduction of apps, the world is rapidly becoming your mobile phone''s oyster. Mobile phone advancement doesn''t seem to be showing any signs of slowing down either. ''Intelligent technology'' will be the talk of the town as mobile phone producers, network providers and operating systems developers show off their latest contributions at this year''s Mobile World Congress. Taking the lead this year are the developers as software including apps are now what defines the differences between the big three, Microsoft, Apple and Google and is what attracts the gadget-hungry consumers. However, the downside of all technology is that if it falls into the wrong hands it can be misused. The Government has now called on the mobile phone industry to step in, in an attempt to protect users from having their handsets stolen and falling into the wrong hands. In the past 12 months, approximately 2% of British mobile phone owners have had their handsets stolen. If measuring thefts from teenagers, the figure jumps to 6%. To try and tackle this problem, the Government unveiled a handful of new handset designs to increase the security of mobile phones. The first offering is a phone that locks itself if separated from its owner. Further examples include encryption data that matches a specific sim card to a specific handset and a kind of ID card that needs to be used to authenticate the user with the handset. Criminals, thanks to mobile and internet technology, are finding life easier. Misuse of personal data, fraud and identity theft are increasing. Sadly, mobile technology, particularly Blue Tooth, means mobile users are susceptible to all manner of hackers and criminals. It''s not just the annoyance of if you have your phone stolen, you then need to worry about what is going to happen to it. In most cases it is sold on to make money, but sometimes the data stored in it can be used fraudulently. The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona will showcase these new measures and it should bring the issue into the media and alert users to the dangers as well as encouraging other developers and operators to invest more time on building up mobile phone security.
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