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June 28th, 2010 at 01:57pm
Under MTM
I noticed recently that Jan-Erik Ekberg from the Nokia Research Center has written a chapter for the book Trust Modeling and Management in Digital Environments: From Social Concept to System Development. His chapter is entitled Mobile Trusted Computing Based on MTM, and describes amongst other things his work at Nokia on the Mobile Trusted Module, [...]
Continue Reading Nokia Research Center on Mobile Trusted Module
Tags: jan-erik ekberg, nokia
By Ken Y-N
February 22nd, 2010 at 05:14pm
Under Advocacy
I noticed an interesting post on LWN.net about Nokia’s new Maemo operating system, as presented at FOSDEM’10. The description of the way that the system boots, such that it can distinguish between a trusted system that allows trust-related facilities to operate and an untrusted system that allows user kernels to run but doesn’t support security-sensitive [...]
Continue Reading Nokia’s Maemo and Trusted Computing
Tags: fosdem, maemo, nokia
By Ken Y-N
January 5th, 2010 at 02:17pm
Under MTM
Welcome to the first post to Blog of Trust for the New Year, and this post brings some interesting news that I’m personally very happy to see. Nokia have recently had a paper published that was presented at the 2009 ACM workshop on Scalable trusted computing. The title is Trust in a small package: minimized [...]
Continue Reading Nokia puts trust in a small package
Tags: mtm emulator, nokia
By Ken Y-N
December 2nd, 2009 at 01:52pm
Under MTM
Just a quick note that although a previous post of mine it on top of Google for a search for MTM Emulator, the target link is out of date. I’d been informed of the new location through another channel, but I didn’t think I had permission to announce it. However, I now see that the [...]
Continue Reading Update on the MTM Emulator
Tags: emulator, nokia
By Ken Y-N
October 12th, 2009 at 03:26pm
Under MTM
Maemo is Nokia’s new Linux-based software platform for mobile phones and tablet computers, etc, so I was interested to see this post entitled Maemo Security – Lockdown or Liberation? by an open source developer involved with the device. There was this interesting section: At the Maemo2009 Summit Nokia shared a great deal of information about [...]
Continue Reading Nokia Maemo Security
Tags: maemo, nokia
By Ken Y-N
November 11th, 2008 at 03:34pm
Under TCG
Just a short note to say that representatives from Dell and Nokia have been voted onto the Trusted Computing Group’s (TCG) board as Contributor Advisory Members for a one year term. The names of the representatives were not published in the press release, however. Find the press release at SYS-CON here.
Continue Reading Dell and Nokia join TCG board
Tags: dell, nokia, sys-con
By Ken Y-N
September 4th, 2008 at 02:22pm
Under MTM
Janne Uusilehto, head of Nokia product security and chairman of the Trusted Computing Group’s Mobile Phone Work Group, will be a panelist on a discussion on enterprise mobile security at the CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment 2008 conference, to be held on the 11th of September 2008 from 2:30 pm to 3:45 pm at the [...]
Continue Reading Nokia to address CITA on mobile security
Tags: mobile phone, nokia, wireless it
By Ken Y-N
September 1st, 2008 at 02:01pm
Under General
I read some news about Nokia striking a deal with Intertrust to use some of their patented technology, specifically related to Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), Marlin Digital Rights Management (DRM) and other assorted mobile distributed trusted computing-related technologies. I did some work with Intertrust a number of years ago and I’ve looked at a few [...]
Continue Reading Nokia licenses Intertrust patents
Tags: intertrust, nokia, patent
By Ken Y-N
August 23rd, 2008 at 10:12am
Under General
Wave Systems are never shy when it comes to making press releases; this time they celebrated record revenues in Q2 2008, of nearly two million dollars, thanks to growth in licensing of their software. However, they still reported a net loss of over 5.5 million dollars, up 16.5% from Q2 2007. Steven Sprague, the President [...]
Continue Reading Wave Systems’ Q2 earnings up 41%
Tags: intertrust, nokia, wave
By Ken Y-N
June 19th, 2008 at 01:28pm
Under Advocacy
Following up on Dr Ari Jaaksi asking the Linux community for understanding, Bruce Perens, a leader in the Free Software and Open Source communities, had this to say in response to Dr Jaaksi’s statement that: “There are certain business rules [developers] need to obey, such as DRM, IPR [intellectual property rights], SIM locks and subsidised [...]
Continue Reading Bruce Perens responds to Ari Jaaksi
Tags: ari jaaksi, bruce perens, nokia, open source, technocrat
By Ken Y-N