Mitterrand &#39;ordered phone taps to keep love child secret&#39;
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ONE of the darkest chapters in Franceâs past resurfaced yesterday as a notorious bugging scandal, dubbed the French Watergate, came to trial more than 20 years after FranÃ§ois Mitterrand allegedly ordered the first of more than 150 illegal phone taps.
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A French newspaper reported on Monday  that President Nicolas Sarkozy might have married his new  girlfriend Carla Bruni last week, but the mother of the former  Italian supermodel said she was unaware of any secret nuptials.
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ST. HELENS, Ore. - So far as she knows, Pufferbelly Toys owner Stephanie Cox hasn't been passing any state secrets to sinister foreign governments, or violating obscure clauses in the Patriot Act.  So she was taken aback by a mysterious phone call from the U.S.
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Madeleine's parents plan ways to keep public aware  as the search carries on.
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CROWN POINT, Ind. - A judge detained and questioned a row of spectators when a cell phone rang for a third time in her courtroom, later ordering two people to serve community service for contempt of court.
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder confirmed on Wednesday that he and his wife have adopted a child, reported to be a girl from a Russian orphanage, but has called on the media to respect his family&#39;s privacy.
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Apple plans to hold a press conference Tuesday whose subject is a secret -- sparking intense speculation by telephone companies as to who will be named to distribute the iPhone in Europe.
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The Indian government is struggling to find the right protocol for French President Nicolas Sarkozy's girlfriend Carla Bruni if she accompanies him to New Delhi, local media said Saturday.
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Celltrust developed its SecureSMS application so banks could deliver secure text messages to their customers&#39; mobile phones -- but the company&#39;s chief technology officer wonders whether French president Nicolas Sarkozy might like a copy of the software.Sarkozy sued a French magazine on Thursday for publishing a message it alleged he had sent by SMS (Short Message Service) to his ex-wife just days before his marriage to singer Carla Bruni earlier this month. The president accused the magazine of falsification, use of false documents and possession of stolen goods.If a text message is sent using SecureSMS then even if the phone is stolen, the secured messages on it cannot be read, Celltrust CTO Houman Shafiezadeh said at a press event in Barcelona, on the eve of the Mobile World Congress.That&#39;s because SecureSMS encrypts messages before transmission using a key unique to the sender, decodes them at a secure gateway and reencrypts using another key for delivery. A special application on the sender&#39;s and the recipient&#39;s phones stores the encrypted message, and will only decrypt and display it if the appropriate password is provided.SecureSMS can encrypt messages sent between two cell phones as long as both subscribers have set up accounts with Celltrust, Shafiezadeh said.Celltrust&#39;s target market, though, is big business: it hopes that banks will use its gateway and application software to secure the messages they send out to customers. The software has other advantages for banks: it provides confirmation of the reception and opening of secured messages, showing that whoever holds the phone also has the password.These confirmations, however, are sent by SMS and paid for by the phone subscriber. That makes the application more suitable for customers on tariffs allowing unlimited text messages.&quot;If you&#39;re paying 10 cents a message, I wouldn&#39;t recommend it,&quot; Shafiezadeh said.Celltrust is in talks with a number of U.S. banks to roll out the software in trials, he said. Finding enough customers with the right kinds of account, phone and SMS tariff is slowing things down, he said. Once the banks have identified the customers, the company will invite them to download the application, so that it can fine-tune the delivery process. The trials should begin in March, with a commercial service up and running by September, he said.The SecureSMS software is initially available as a J2EE applet for phones capable of running Java applications. Other versions, for Microsoft&#39;s Windows Mobile and for Qualcomm&#39;s Brew platform, will soon be ready.After that, Shafiezadeh said, it will be a race between Celltrust coders producing versions for Google&#39;s Android platform -- for which there is an SDK (software development kit) but no phones -- and for Apple&#39;s iPhone, on the market for almost eight months but with no official SDK available yet. That&#39;s frustrating for Shafiezadeh because Celltrust has issued its employees with iPhones.Other companies offer secure SMS tools, but for more limited ranges of handsets. Kryptext, in Brighton, England, offers an application by the same name that works only on phones running Symbian OS, while Finnish handset maker Benefon (now GeoSentric) offered handsets that could send encrypted text messages back in 2003.The Mobile World Congress, at the Fira de Barcelona, runs through Thursday.
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Brad Pitt and a pregnant Angelina Jolie, who are awaiting the &quot;imminent arrival&quot; of their first child, want their stay in Namibia to be as private as possible.
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The eldest son of late President Francois Mitterrand was convicted Wednesday of tax fraud and sentenced to a 30-month suspended prison term.
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The romance between President Nicolas Sarkozy of France and the Italian singer Carla Bruni has intrigued a nation accustomed to heads of state that keep their private lives private.
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A long-standing taboo in France is about to be broken with the release of a film that depicts the last two years in the life of Francois Mitterrand, the Socialist president who died in 1996.
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A police probe into whether a journalist intercepted phone calls from Prince Charles's London residence exposed another potential breach of security around the royal family.
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A trial begins in Paris over the late President Francois Mitterrand's  wiretapping of his opponents in the 1980s.
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Police stepped up a high-profile probe into suspicions that a senior tabloid newspaper journalist and two other men intercepted phone calls from staff close to Prince Charles, heir to the throne.
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One of the darkest chapters of late French President Francois Mitterrand&#39;s rule finally made it to court on Monday as 12 men went on trial for a 1980s wiretap scandal reminiscent of the United States&#39; Watergate coverup.