There’s a maverick in town
May 14th, 2009 | Published in Mobile Apps, Mobile Devices, Mobile Services | 1 Comment
The MSM (Maverick Secure Mobile) is a security application for your phone in case you lose it or it get stolen. It sits quietly and invisible to the untrained eye on your phone. With it, you can track the location of your phone, remotely retrieve the contents and disable it just by sending an SMS from a different device. An SMS can tell you if the thief changed your SIM card and check whatever number dialed from the stolen phone. You can conviniently proceed to encrypt and retrieve your data making the thief pay transfer! To make things a bit more dramatic and difficult for the thief, you can trigger via SMS an alarm that will not stop unless the battery is taken out. Even then, the alarm will continue if the battery is put back in. At the moment the application only works for Symbian but surely other platforms will soon follow.
Maverick(the company behind it) forecasts the revenue growth from current $150,000 to $ 10 million by year 2009 as device capabilities are expanding. MSM works on Symbian OS which is 70% of total mobile market.
Why is this interesting? Imagine the times you have lost or got your phone stolen…Now? Problem solved.
What I would really like to see is an Android and iPhone version of this product. I’ll be the first one to get it.
May 15th, 2009 at 3:38 PM (#)
I think that I already have it installed – my alarm goes off and won’t stop until I drag my lazy a$$ out of bed