The Indian government has banned all Chinese-manufactured phones for security reasons. This development comes in the wake of reports that the said China-made phones may come with spyware or malware that offers intelligence agencies across the border access to telecom networks in India. Among the manufacturers that would be hard hit by this would be [...]

Remember that BlackBerry update we told you about last week? Well it looks like Etisalat has indeed infected about 145,000 BlackBerry units with spyware which could be used to spy on customers’ SMS messages. Here’s what RIM had to say about the whole issue: Etisalat appears to have distributed a telecommunications surveillance application… independent sources [...]