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KillPill enables you to remotely delete sensitive data from a lost or stolen mobile phone. After the remote wipe has been completed, you will receive a notification that your mobile phone has been wiped and your phone will return to factory settings.

If the SIM card is replaced on your mobile, you may track down your mobile phone by retrieving the phone number from the person who inserted the new SIM card. This feature is only available before you have sent a KillPill to your phone.

KillPill works with all Window Mobile 5 phones.

AT&T announced the resignation of Jim Ryan, the carrier’s outspoken VP of consumer and business data. “He decided to look for other things to do,” AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel told RCR, confirming Ryan’s recent exit. “It was something he wanted to do, and we wish him all the best.” AT&T said Mark Collins, who formerly served as its VP of long-term products and planning services, will fill Ryan’s position.

After signing on with AT&T (then Cingular Wireless) in 2003, Ryan supervised the carrier’s full-track music download service as well as the revamp of its mobile web platform. He was also instrumental in the development of its mobile video service.

Ryan is not the only high-profile carrier exec to jump ship in recent weeks. Last month, veteran Sprint VP Paul Reddick left the company. One of his recent moves includes a post on Handmark’s board of directors. Contrary to reports, however, Reddick did not leave Sprint for this post.

According to Katie Fehrenbacher The web-based social network boom and the rising use of cell phones for non-voice functions, makes the trendy ‘mobile social network’ phenomenon an obvious area for investment. But the reality is that it’s difficult to base a business off of just turning an unknown brand into a single mobile social network. You need a lot of money to grow the subscriber counts, and mobile users aren’t so enthused about mobile data in most markets around the planet.

Only 4% of U.K. mobile users and 6% of U.S. mobile users have uploaded content to social network sites (including sharing sites or blogs) from their phones, according to Telephia. That’s just uploading mobile content, and doesn’t include any of the other mobile social network features from the mobile web, or an application. And with MySpace mobile leading the way in these small markets, with 32% of U.S. mobile upload traffic and 21% in the U.K, what do you do if you’re a small startup with a little-known mobile social network?

If you’re InterCasting, a startup founded by CEO Shawn Conahan, you try to make friends with your web-based potential competitors. The company has been working on building its mobile social network and chat service Rabble for several years now, but has recently started selling a technology platform service for carriers and web-based social network providers. Basically, social network providers can plug into Intercasting’s gateway via APIs, and the service combines a server software and a handset client.

Conahan, in an email response to GigaOM, said: “I agree that it is difficult to start a mobile social networking business from scratch, AND it is cost-prohibitive for existing social networking sites to build their own mobile applications, and that is why we think enabling the whole opportunity is a better approach.”

The company’s investors must think the strategy shift is a good move, otherwise they wouldn’t have handed over another $12 million in a Series B financing, led by Venrock and including existing backers Avalon Ventures and Masthead Venture Partners. We had mentioned that the company was looking for investment in a recent post.

via Gigaom