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O2 disables 100,000 stolen mobiles as industry gets tough
Stamping out mobile phone theft... Read more
Mar 4, 2003
silicon.com > Technology > Mobile
Mobile phone virus: ACE is a hoax
...your phone will be infected by a virus which will erase all IMEI and IMSI information from both your phone and your SIM card, which... Read more
Aug 14, 2002
silicon.com > Technology > Mobile
Carphone Warehouse launches handset auction site
...auction sites as users are asked to provide their phone's unique IMEI number. This is then checked against the CheckMEND stolen property database. Stolen... Read more
Oct 17, 2006
silicon.com > Technology > Mobile
Revealed - the gadgets thieves love to steal
...carried out to see if a product is stolen by entering an IMEI (for mobiles), a serial number or other ID. The database can tell... Read more
Jul 6, 2006
silicon.com > Technology > Mobile
3GSM: Social responsibility - mobile's next big challenge
...and Sony Ericsson have agreed to make more secure each handset's IMEI tag, which stands for International Mobile Equipment Identity. These will then be... Read more
Feb 25, 2004
silicon.com > Technology > Mobile
Mobile alliance takes aim at handset theft
...comes with its own unique code, called an international mobile equipment identifier (IMEI), which is stored on a central equipment register. When a phone is... Read more
Feb 9, 2004
silicon.com > Management > CIO Insights
Crackdown on mobile phone theft stepped up
...the mobile industry to reduce to a minimum level existing non-unique IMEI numbers present on their networks by the end of the year. IMEI... Read more
Jul 17, 2003
silicon.com > Technology > Mobile
Beating the mobile phone thieves: 'Together we are strong'
...an easy solution. Every phone comes with what's known as an IMEI number, the identifying tag used to enforce such bans. You'd think... Read more
Nov 1, 2002
silicon.com > Management > CIO Insights
Mobile phone theft: Crime-busting database goes live
...by reference to the phone's unique identifying code (known as the IMEI number). But BT Cellnet and Vodafone originally refused to get involved in... Read more
Nov 1, 2002
silicon.com > Management > CIO Insights
Five years in jail - the price of phone theft
...are thought to be able to reprogramme the international mobile equipment identity (IMEI) number assigned to each phone, the power of the operators to act... Read more
May 3, 2002
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