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A photo of a car crash victim's phone has been released by the Greeley Police Department in Colorado.
Officials want the last text message that the driver sent out to serve as a reminder of the fact that texting and driving can prove deadly.
The photo has been made public with the consent of the family of twe... |
12 April 2013
02:42 GMT |
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Skymobius Inc. has released Vtok 2.10, a new version of the company’s video and voice calls app for iOS devices. With over 3 million downloads worldwide, Vtok is one of the most popular apps of its kind. Vtok lets you place and receive free gtalk video and voice calls to all your Google contacts, as well as us... |
26 March 2013
16:51 GMT |
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In case you ended up here by mistake and the title of this article has left you bewildered, check out a creative image one Redditor posted.
Featured above is a user's “conversation” with a moth. The scenario is quite simple: kid goes into the bathroom, kid owns a smartphone, he is scared by a moth a... |
30 December 2012
07:01 GMT |
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Download the new textPlus application and you’ll be able to call any user on any phone number completely free of charge in the United States. The only condition is for the recipient to have textPlus installed as well.
textPlus, Inc. announced a new update this week for users of its popular iOS application bear... |
29 November 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Apple’s text messaging app is exiting beta next month, according to an email sent out by the Cupertino giant. The shuttering will occur in mid-December, according to Apple’s message.
Customers enrolled in the Messages Beta program for Lion are being told that Friday, December 14, 2012 will mark the end o... |
17 November 2012
07:19 GMT |
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Superb Mini Server, a Linux operating system based on Slackware 13.37 and manageable through the Webmin web-based interface, is now at version 2.0.1. Albeit Superb Mini Server 2.0.1 is just a minor release, there are a few updates that warrant an immediate update, such as the new Linux kernel 3.2.33. Besides this ... |
7 November 2012
08:07 GMT |
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Facebook's just updated its Messenger app for Android. Messenger is a standalone app that you can pretty much figure out what it does, it's a way of accessing your Facebook messages on your phone without having to go into the Facebook app.
It's also a simple way of chatting with your Facebook friends ... |
21 September 2012
10:42 GMT |
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The media is up in arms over Apple’s blunders regarding Internet services – most recently, iMessage. Numerous customers have come to realize that the default SMS setting between iPhones often doesn’t work. So people are beginning to ask “why does Apple keep trying?”
iCloud, the iTunes Store, ... |
18 September 2012
04:33 GMT |
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The developers behind the Superb Mini Server (SMS) Linux server operating system proudly announced earlier today, September 18th, the immediate availability for download of the Superb Mini Server 2.0.0 release.
Based on Slackware 14, Superb Mini Server 2.0.0 is now powered by Linux kernel 3.2.29 and features import... |
18 September 2012
02:40 GMT |
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Contradicting the very person who discovered the SMS spoofing bug in the iPhone operating system, security company AdaptiveMobile says the flaw detailed by hacker Pod2g is, in fact, serious.
AdaptiveMobile released a whitepaper today to dispel some of the myths surrounding the recent iPhone SMS vulnerability which c... |
23 August 2012
17:41 GMT |
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According to renowned iPhone hacker Pod2g, a person with bad intentions could send a spoofed message to an iPhone user and specify a fake reply-to number. Apple has responded to these claims, noting that iMessage is the way to go, as any cell phone is susceptible to such attacks.After Pod2g detailed his findings on h... |
18 August 2012
15:31 GMT |
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Apple could be hard pressed to release an incremental software update to iOS 5 customers after the discovery of an SMS spoofing flaw by a renowned hacker.
Discovered a few days ago by jailbreaker Pod2g, the iOS text spoofing vulnerability is a serious one. So serious, Apple might have to push out an update just to f... |
17 August 2012
04:58 GMT |
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A prominent hacker in the jailbreak community claims to have discovered a serious bug in the way iOS handles text messages. Pod2g promises to provide a detailed analysis of his discovery on his blog, shortly. Renowned hacker and security expert Pod2g has just tweeted to his 330K followers, “Found a heavy SMS f... |
14 August 2012
04:34 GMT |
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MightyText is a nifty extension for Google Chrome, designed to push text messages you receive on your Android smartphone to the screen of your computer. It works with all Android builds starting 2.2.
The functionality of this instrument is extended by the fact that you can use it to reply to any received message or ... |
1 June 2012
15:51 GMT |
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Fake contests that purport to be sponsored by a reputable company are not new, but now, cybercriminals that launch such campaigns have turned their attention to mobile phone owners. In one instance, to ensure the success of the operation, they use the name and reputation of Apple.
“Congratulations, Your entry ... |
8 May 2012
09:30 GMT |
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Google is not slowing down with Google+, it's got plenty of registered users though usage may be another matter. Still it wants more and it's now making it possible for more people to use the site even if they don't have an internet connection, via SMS, the same way Twitter does.Google has enabled user... |
21 April 2012
20:21 GMT |
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Individuals from Finland are warned that a SMS spam campaign launched by GTradeInc is making the rounds, claiming to subscribe recipients to unsolicited premium services. F-Secure informs that CERT-FI released an advisory regarding these scam messages that are apparently received even by users who didn’t provi... |
20 March 2012
10:19 GMT |
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Bitdefender experts reveal that since it first started appearing on Facebook walls, the Pink Facebook scam has taken many forms, each trying to lure users to survey pages or other even more dangerous services that inflate phone bills. One of the variant of the Pink Facebook theme comes as a fake plugin that infects ... |
1 March 2012
06:51 GMT |
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Twitter started out as an SMS service, few people remember that or even knew about it, back when it was called twttr. Apart from adding a couple of vowels, Twitter added quite a lot of features to the site and, importantly, the platform.
However, it continued to support SMS access for areas with no internet connecti... |
10 February 2012
11:21 GMT |
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SMS spoofing is not new, researchers having proved in 2010 for BBC’s Watchdog that it could be done. While most of the telecommunications companies are aware of the risks, few have actually done something to prevent it. Now, an amateur programmer came forward with a simple app to prove that SMS spoofing for m... |
25 January 2012
10:09 GMT |
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Following some security concerns, the free text-messaging application WhatsApp has been pulled from the iTunes App Store.
Despite having patched the security holes, the developers at WhatsApp said it had nothing to do with its unavailability on iTunes.
A message on the company’s official WhatsApp Status page ... |
17 January 2012
05:35 GMT |
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Reports from Apple Support Communities indicate that people who once used an iPhone and switched to an Android phone are having trouble receiving texts from their iPhone-wielding friends.The problem? iMessage, according to a person going by the screen name of Literroy over at Apple’s forums."I bought an Android... |
6 January 2012
08:18 GMT |
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Classic survey scams that fill the pockets of fraudsters with affiliate marketing money don’t necessarily have to circulate on Facebook. Sometimes an email can be much more effective.
An email baring the subject “Take our Angry Birds survey and get a $20 iTunes Giftcard” has been seen landing in in... |
29 December 2011
08:46 GMT |
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Researchers from F-Secure came across a large number of Trojans that were initially designed to seamlessly send SMSs to premium rate numbers with the purpose of filling the pockets of the cybercriminals who launch them. The only problem is that the latest series of these malicious apps contain a bug in the source cod... |
28 December 2011
09:10 GMT |
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A Cydia app called biteSMS that delivers features like Scheduled Messages, Auto-Forward, Auto-Retry, Passcode Lock, Delivery Reports, Contact Pics, and Signatures, has received an uber update that may just push it to the top spot of this year’s jailbreak tweaks.
Simply put, biteSMS is “a complete souped-... |
20 December 2011
06:31 GMT |
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A flaw in Apple’s iMessage service appears to be troubling enough to get the iOS team scrambling for a fix in the coming weeks, if not days.People whose iPhones have been stolen, or who’ve bought an iPhone from someone unaware of its origins, are signaling that iMessage is acting up.How? It appears that, ... |
15 December 2011
08:52 GMT |
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The controversial company Carrier IQ issued a report to further explain how they do business and how their software really works. It seems as they discovered a bug in a diagnostic profile that measures radio-network-to-mobile device signaling, which helps network operators determine why calls get dropped. In uniq... |
14 December 2011
04:52 GMT |
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The developers behind the Superb Mini Server (SMS) server operating system proudly announced last evening, October 10th, the immediate availability for download of the Superb Mini Server 1.6.2 release.Superb Mini Server 1.6.2 comes after three months of development and it brings updated packages and various improveme... |
11 October 2011
10:50 GMT |
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Smartphones are becoming commonplace these days. Even in places like Nigeria, a cheap Android smartphone can sell like hot cakes. Even so, there are only a few hundred million smartphones, most in the developed countries while there are billions of 'dumb' phones in the world.And those with regular phones wo... |
22 September 2011
12:31 GMT |
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WISeKey has launched an iPhone application that allows you to secure your text messages. It’s called WISeSMS and you can download the lite version for free from the App Store right now.
Developed for the delivery and receipt of encrypted text messages, WISeSMS encrypts text and recognizes the native delivery... |
27 July 2011
12:11 GMT |
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Russian media reports that MegaFon leaked people's personal SMS messages by allowing the Yandex search engine crawlers to index them.MegaFon is the second largest mobile phone operator in Russia with over 30 million subscribers while Yandex operates the largest Internet search engine in the country with over 60%... |
18 July 2011
15:55 GMT |
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Google+ is just getting under way. Google has only let a few users in, if you can call five million a few, but it is slowly opening up the service. While it's probably looking to get traction in the developed countries first, in the US, Europe and so on, it looks like Google is very keen on the developing market... |
11 July 2011
12:11 GMT |
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One of the big new features in the latest Yahoo Messenger 11, still in beta, is the Facebook integration. This is part of a broader strategy at Yahoo and the company is taking it one step further now by enabling users to send and receive Facebook chat messages via SMS. This added flexibility means that you can always... |
1 March 2011
03:20 GMT |
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The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has ordered all mobile operators to restrict the maximum number of daily text messages sent by every customer to 100 in a decision meant to cut down on SMS spam.The new regulation, which is bound to make some texting fans unhappy, was announced back in December and wen... |
4 February 2011
03:55 GMT |
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Superb Mini Server (SMS) 1.5.5 has been released. The latest version brings plenty of updated packages, some new ones and several new features. One notable addition is support for RAID configurations in both the live CD and the text installer.All packages have been updated to the latest in the Slackware repositories.... |
10 January 2011
09:11 GMT |
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WordPress.com has been adding a number of features for the more hardcore bloggers and the latest, SMS notifications, is certainly aimed at the same people. WordPress.com users in the US can now keep track of their blog, post new entries and even approve comments via SMS. "Sometimes, you can’t always get to your... |
11 October 2010
15:25 GMT |
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Superb Mini Server 1.5.3 has been released bringing with it a number of updates and changes. SMS 1.5.3 is now on par with the current Slackware, on which it's based, so many of the packages have been updated."This minor release upgrade packages to slackware current and brings the latest stable versions of severa... |
14 September 2010
17:01 GMT |
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Just as the world record of fast SMS typing had been smashed, someone came along and smashed the new one, following with a blog post and a video of the impressive feat. “So, I guess I did something sort of cool,” Blogger Brian Sweet of Gumball Tech writes. “I read a blog post on Boy Genius Report ... |
25 August 2010
07:03 GMT |
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Twitter is going back to its roots with a new ‘follow by SMS’ feature. Anyone in the US can now use the Fast Follow feature to start following any Twitter user by sending a text message. You will then receive tweets from that user via SMS and the best part is that you don’t even need a Twitter accou... |
11 August 2010
04:04 GMT |
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Superb Mini Server (SMS) 1.5.2 has been released. It’s a small update to the Slackware-based Linux distro aimed at small servers. It comes with an updated Linux kernel, as well as some updated packages. New ones include support for the Tcl scripting language and HFS (HTTL File Server) utilities. It also comes w... |
22 June 2010
05:30 GMT |
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The communications solutions in the mobile market have evolved to new heights, but it seems that traditional means of interaction between users are those who will remain dominant in the area. Global research and consulting firm Frost & Sullivan stats in a recent report exclusively licensed to Comverse that Text Mess... |
1 March 2010
13:21 GMT |
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Things are settling down in Haiti after the devastating earthquake that ravaged the country, but after the initial rescue efforts and emergency response, the country is now left with the prospect of years of rebuilding. Already the poorest state in the region, the cost to rebuild will be a huge burden even with inter... |
23 February 2010
09:21 GMT |
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With Valentine's Day knocking at the door for yet another year, many couples around the world are now getting ready to restate their commitment to the people they love. Unlike years before, in 2010, they have a wide variety of means at their disposal, ranging from the classic love letter and cards, to sending el... |
13 February 2010
04:07 GMT |
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A series of leading companies from the telecommunications industry have recently announced that they managed to define a preferred manner in which voice and SMS services on Long Time Evolution (LTE) should be easily introduced on upcoming networks all around the world. Industry leaders developed a technical profile ... |
5 November 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Twitter really took off as a web service and many of today's users started with the website and moved on to desktop or mobile clients. But, when it started out, text messaging was an integral part of the service and the reason why the 140 character limit is in place (text messages are limited to 160 characters).... |
15 October 2009
03:34 GMT |
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mBlox has announced that its mobile message-delivery platform has been selected to support textPlus, a new text-messaging application for the iPhone and iPod touch from GOGII, Inc. Self-touted as the world’s largest, mobile transaction network, mBlox claims textPlus has been downloaded by more than two million ... |
8 October 2009
08:41 GMT |
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The Slack Mini Server (SMS) Project team announced yesterday, August 10th, the release of Slack Mini Server 1.4.5, which celebrates 2 full years of activity. The new release is based on Slackware Linux 13.0 RC2 and it brings Asterisk PBX, Samba 3.4.0, PHP 5.3.0 and many updated packages (see below for details). "It&... |
11 August 2009
03:30 GMT |
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Charlie Miller, the winner of two consecutive editions of the Pwn2Own hacking contest, is signaling that a critical vulnerability exists in the way iPhones handle their text messages. According to the security expert, an attacker could exploit the hole even to turn on the phone's microphone to eavesdrop on a con... |
2 July 2009
10:33 GMT |
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Mobile phone users who are fond of the popular VoIP application Skype have now a reason to rejoice as the gold version of Skype 3.0 is available for download for Windows Mobile-powered handsets. The software solution, which has been up until now in beta, has reached version 3.0.0.256 and comes with only a few changes... |
30 June 2009
06:45 GMT |
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MasterCard Inc. announced on Wednesday the launch in the United States of a person-to-person payment service for mobile phones, called MoneySend. According to the company the new service is based on its established MoneySend P2P platform, and has been developed in partnership with Obopay. The new MasterCard MoneySen... |
18 June 2009
09:28 GMT |
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