Discovery

Mobile games are played using the technologies present on the device itself. For networked games, there are various technologies in common use. More common, however, are non networked applications, that simply use the device platform to run the game software. The games may be installed over the air, they may be side loaded onto the handset with a cable, or they may be embedded on the handheld devices by the OEM or by the mobile operator.

According to a Gartner Inc report, the global mobile games market is on track to grow 49.9 percent in 2007 to $4.3 billion, and will hit $9.6 billion by 2011. Gartner defined mobile gaming as video games on mobile phones as long as there was some revenue stream—so demos, preloaded and prebundled games were excluded because there is no direct consumer revenue component. Regional differences will play a significant role in adoption rates for mobile gaming, with Gartner noting that even though mobile games are more expensive than other forms of mobile content in emerging markets mobile game is the only form of digital gaming widely available.

Now, mobile games has become a lifestyle. It is easy to find guys or even students/ teenagers sit in some cafés with laptop on the table, fiddling with their PlayStation Portable. But, you know what? If you are in the same coffee shop with them, then be careful because they may be spying on which sites you are surfing. Hackers have known for years that game consoles can be made to accept a different operating system, such as Linux, and used as an ordinary PC. Now a host of portable consoles, including the PSP, have added a new possibility. They connect to any open Wi-Fi access point in range, allowing the attacker to then use “packet-sniffing” programs to snoop on traffic or direct viruses at any other computer on the network.

Be careful!

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