According to security experts, an SMS of death threatens to disable many current Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Motorola, Micromax and LG mobiles.
In recent months, the tendency has been for hackers and security testers to focus their efforts on smartphones such as the iPhone or Android-based phones. However, according to Mulliner, only 16 per cent of mobile phone users possess sophisticated handsets of this type. By contrast, worldwide, more than 4.6 billion people use simpler feature phones. These often have just a single processor, are unable to run external native applications, but are often able to run Java apps.
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12/29/2010 Pakistan Drivers to Recieve Text Messages
The National Highway and Motorway Police in Pakistan is going to launch a Short Message Service (SMS) from the new year to create awareness about road safety in commuters and inform them about weather conditions.
12/22/2010 Texting Invented by a Man According to Kutcher
Ashton Kutcher likes communicating via the written word.
We know he Tweets to and about wife Demi Moore, even when she's sitting right next to him. And now he's exploring the notion in an essay for Harpers Bazaar. He maintains that it is safe to say text messaging was invented by a man.
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12/20/2010 Blackberry News Feed
BlackBerry users, like everyone else, want to be kept up to date with the latest news, so having a decent RSS feed reader on the BlackBerry platform is a good thing. And we have just that with the BlackBerry News Feeds app.
12/09/2010 SMS and Conterfeit Medication
In the heart of Africa, where humanity wallows in poverty and access to health care is a dream, the fight against counterfeit drugs has been daunting.
But technology is coming to the rescue of millions of patients and consumers who face the risk of using counterfeit medicines each year.
Consumers will soon be able to countercheck genuineness of the drugs they buy via short text messages a platform dubbed mPedigree.
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12/08/2010 SMS Spammer Fined
The mastermind behind a SMS spam scheme that preyed on lonely hearts through dating websites has been fined $2 million.
Former porn site operator Scott Gregory Phillips was behind a Brisbane-based business which employed backpackers to create fake profiles on dating websites and send unsolicited text messages to victims.
SMS Spammer Fined
12/07/2010 Charity Text Donations
Four nonprofit groups are trying to attract $25 gifts through text messages this holiday season, an experiment that may increase the popularity of giving via mobile phones among charities.
One of the biggest limitations of such giving, which burst onto the scene earlier this year when nonprofits raised tens of millions of dollars through text-to-give programs after the Haitian earthquake, has been the small size of the donations charities could solicit, just $5 or $10.
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12/06/2010 Text Messaging Tip Line at School
The city of Brockton has launched a text messaging tip service in its public school system. On Wednesday, students in both middle and alternative high school were encouraged to begin using a text and web-based tip line to let school officials and police know about problems with bullying. According to Jocelyn Meek, the communications officer for Brockton Public Schools, the system is an anonymous way for students to share their concerns on a variety of troubling issues.
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12/01/2010 Text Messaging Saves Lives
A 17-year-old boy and his grandfather were rescued from the icy marsh in Dutchess County after their canoe overturned, thanks to his text messages.
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11/30/2010 SMS Alerts in Egypt
An Egyptian court overruled on Saturday a decision by the telecommunications authority to impose restrictions on media companies that send out news alerts to cell phones.
The Administrative Court said the governments action were a restriction on freedom of expression and an unjustified intrusion on the SMS alert services. It is not yet clear if the government will try to appeal the verdict.
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11/29/2010 911 Text Message
The way we reach 911 in an emergency could soon change. The Federal communications Commission is looking at the possibility of being able to relay messages to emergency services via text messaging, and even streaming video.
11/26/2010 Digital Forensics and Texting
In an effort to determine what Brett Favre did or did not text Jenn Sterger, the NFL is conducting high-tech forensic work to trace the electronic pathways and transmission of any photos or messages that might have been sent during communication between them, according to a source familiar with the situation.
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11/25/2010 Texting in Class
College students say their professors would be shocked to know just how often they send text messages during lectures, and one researcher has offered a simple and stringent solution: Give failing grades to text-happy students.
Nine in 10 students said in a Wilkes University study released this month that they have sent and received texts during class, although a much smaller portion of students believe educators should allow unlimited texting in class as long as it does not disturb others.
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11/24/2010 Ethics Code and Texting
Texas Education Agency staff requested the change to the ethics code because they said they are receiving disciplinary case referrals in which teachers were found to have sent students thousands of text messages. Sometimes the content of the messages was not inappropriate on their face but the volume of messages and time of day the messages were sent indicated that the educator was grooming the student for a future sexual relationship.
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11/23/2010 Texting Doomed His Escape
Rodriguez gained momentary infamy when he succeeded in eluding law enforcement officers from three states and federal marshals after stealing an unmarked police car while his hands and feet were shackled, according to authorities. He used his knees to steer the vehicle before freeing himself of the constraints using a handcuff key on the key chain left in the running car, police said.
After making his unlikely getaway, police were able to track him down early Thursday at a motel in Connecticut by tracing text messages he sent from his cellphone. The account that follows comes from a law enforcement official with knowledge of the case.
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11/22/2010 Get Text-Message Reminders of Shows You Want to Watch
Proof positive that people are wired differently: I'm a walking TV guide, able to tell you the day and time for each of my favorite shows, but my wife has no idea when anythings on. If not for our DVR, she would never catch an episode of Glee.
If you are like her, you might appreciate Remember To Watch. True to its name, the service sends text-message reminders to your cell phone 30 minutes before a selected show is scheduled to air.
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11/16/2010 Text messaging to help fight AIDS in Africa
Kenyan patients with HIV got a weekly text message that asked, How are you? in a reminder for them to take their drugs that help keep the virus dormant.
People who got the texts were 12 per cent more likely to have an undetectable level of the HIV virus.
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11/15/2010 Text Messaging Weight Loss
A San Diego-based company is conducting a study to see if constant text messages can help a person lose weight.
San Diegan Raymond Acosta wants to be fit and healthy, and he said sometimes he needs a little push. He said constant text messages have helped him stay on track.
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11/15/2010 AT&T Class Action
AT&T Mobility notified its subscribers Thursday that they might be entitled to benefits from a proposed class-action settlement over alleged improper charging of Internet taxes.
Subscribers sued AT&T earlier this year, saying the carrier charged them Internet taxes on their mobile service bills in violation of the federal Internet Tax Freedom Act and other laws. Suits in various courts were transferred to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, in Chicago. AT&T and the plaintiffs in the case, who represented a broad class of AT&T Mobility customers, reached a settlement agreement in July.
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11/09/2010 Software Allows Parents to Monitor Text Messages
Today, more and more predators are switching to cell phones to lure their victims, but parents can use that same technology to help keep their kids safe.
Amy Antley checks her daughters Facebook page every two to three days. That was one of the stipulations. You have a phone, Facebook, I have the passwords.
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11/08/2010 Text Messaging After Bed Time Can Cause Problems
Text messaging at night can lead to sleeping disorders in kids
Children sending text messages and working on internet before sleeping are more likely to suffer from poor sleep, bad mood, and cognitive problems, reveals a pilot study.
Use of electronic media like cell phones, laptops, iPads, etc. and continuous texting while sleeping is found to cause insomnia, ADHD, anxiety, depression, learning difficulties, and leg pain at night in kids aged between 8 to 22 years.
Researchers said, These activities are not sleep-promoting, like reading a novel or listening to music. They stimulate the brain and depress normal sleep cycles.
10/27/2010 Average Number of SMS
That's increasingly the attitude of teens in the U.S., who used their mobile phones to send and receive an average of 3,339 texts per month in the second quarter, according to The Nielsen Co. SMS ) is now the main reason to own a cell phone, according to teens in the U.S. SMS, which was created as a testing and communication system for cellular network technicians, is limited to 160 characters per message but has proved well-suited to consumers around the world. The pace at which the average U.S. teens is now using SMS comes out to six messages per waking hour, according to Nielsen.
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10/21/2010 Send Text Messages
Nielsen found that teens send or receive an average of 3,339 texts per month. Those between the ages of 13 and 17 send or receive an average of 4,050 texts per month, far more than any other age group. The next closest group was 18-24 year olds, who send an average of 1,630 text messages per month. Those figures are both greater than the average amount of texts sent during the same quarter in 2009.
10/14/2010 New SMS Fraud
A new fraud, targeting people selling second-hand goods in newspaper classifieds and online services such as Gumtree, is in operation. According to the Wireless Application Service Providers Association of South Africa (WASPA), the purported buyers use commercial SMS messaging services to send sellers fraudulent confirmations of bank deposits so that they can obtain the sellers goods.
On receipt of an apparently legitimate confirmation that they have deposited the money, they then insist on taking the goods from the seller, who soon discovers that no deposit has been made to his or her bank account. The fraudsters currently operate mostly on the weekends and in the evenings.
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10/13/2010 SMS Tells Childrens Whereabouts
Greenfingers Global School, a co-educational English medium school in Kharghar, Navi Mumbai, has installed RFID technology on school grounds to record attendance and monitor student whereabouts, according to a New Delhi Television report.
The schools 850 students will wear RFID-embedded ID cards, which are captured by installed RFID readers and antenna. Once transmitted to the school’s database, the system can send bulk SMS messages to parents regarding their child’s current whereabouts.
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10/08/2010 Why Recycle Cell Phones
Cellular phones and other mobile devices often contain toxic materials that can pollute the environment. The chemicals contained in the cell phones and electronics are harmful to the health of both humans and animals. Cell phones and their accessories contain a large number of hazardous substances known as Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic Chemicals - PBTs. Some of the chemicals contained in the PBTs have been known to cause damage to nervous systems, reproductive systems, and developmental systems, as well as causing cancer.
When recycled properly, the materials can be put back into circulation, reducing the health risks to the community. The materials that are contained in old cell phones can often be recycled and reused to make a variety of other products. Additionally, in order to comply with environmental protection regulations, many countries have very specific requirements and methods for disposing of cell phones, batteries, and other toxic items. Rather than wrestling with disposal guidelines yourself, it is often much easier to just sell or donate old cell phones to a company qualified to recycle them.
Why Recycle Cell Phones
10/07/2010 Partnership for Mobile Interaction
Taking advantage of the most ubiquitous device in the world
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