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M2 PRESSWIRE-24 June 2009-DESIGN COUNCIL: Design and technology teams win national Challenge to design 'crime proof' mobile phones(C)1994-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS
RDATE:24062009
Some of the UK's top designers and technology experts have been announced as winners in the GBP400,000 Mobile Phone Security Challenge, a national competition to create 'crime proof' mobile phones.
The winning teams are; Proxama with Minima Design, Therefore Product Design with Imagination Technologies Limited, Rodd Design with TTP (The Technology Partnership) and Data Transfer Communications and PDD Group Limited with You Get It Back.
The four winning teams are each made up of a design and a technology lead and were selected on the strengths of their credentials. The teams will be tasked with developing new ways of securing mobile phone handsets, the data they contain, and their future use as electronic 'wallets' when m-commerce (mobile-commerce) technology is introduced in the UK. Their innovative ideas and concepts will now be developed and refined over the coming months in steering meetings with an expert panel from across the mobile, technology and design industries.
The winning teams will aim to produce market-ready solutions which may include hardware and software for handsets, new services and other innovations, which will be showcased and promoted in early 2010, with a view to widespread and rapid take-up by the market.
The Challenge is part of 'Design Out Crime', an initiative from the Home Office's Design & Technology Alliance Against Crime and the Design Council. The Mobile Phone Security Challenge is supported by the Technology Strategy Board. Over 50 teams applied to the complex Challenge, setting out how they would tackle making mobile phones less attractive to thieves...
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