Recently India is investigating whether RIM’s blackberry has a security problem. The official said that smartphones have the potential to be misused by militants.
Now mobile security is a hot issue. Because smartphones adopt Wi-Fi and bluetooth, the problem is getting serious. And in Korea, Google is investigated by police for the reason why they illegally collected private information while they run probe cars for making street view service. They are suspected that gathered information via Wi-Fi network. The news has sounded an alarm.
RIM’s case is the other issue, but commonly indicates that mobile phones and devices are not secure. Whether Indian government permits RIM running their business in India, mobile security is urgent issue. And the market will be estimated to grow fast such as the former case of wired internet market. Actually some players are moving for grabbing the chances of this market. For example, Intel has released about a week ago that they acquire McAfee for a strategic purpose.