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Rodd & TTP wins slice of the £400,000 Mobile Phone Security Challenge

Rodd Design has been announced as one of the 4 winning partnerships in the £400,000 Mobile Phone Security Challenge, a national competition to create ‘crime proof’ mobile phones. Beating over 50 other entries Rodd partnered with TTP (The Technology Partnership) a company we have worked with in the past and knew well.

Rodd and TTP were selected on the strengths of their credentials and will now start developing new ways of securing mobile phone handsets, the data they contain, and their future use as electronic ‘wallets’ when m-commerce (mobile commerce) is introduced in the UK. With guidance from a steering group of experts across the mobile, technology and design industries, the team will develop their innovative ideas into market-ready solutions, with a view to delivering prototypes to be showcased in 2010 and to take part in a national exhibition in 2011.

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.