Mobile operators in the UK are not known for being the best of friends. Be it fighting for the latest exclusive handset or threatening court action over 4G rollouts, the big guns have never been at the top of each other's Christmas lists. ...
Louisiana's new platform-Helping Individuals Reach Employment(HIRE)-is set to go live by the end of December 2012. Geographic Solutions is helping the State of Louisiana modernize its unemployment benefits system by connecting it to the ...
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Car crashes are the number one killer of teens and even though there has been a 62 percent decline since 1975 in teen deaths, more can be done. Here are some ways to keep young drivers safe on the road. Graduated driver licensing are laws ...
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IDG News Service-In the fast moving world of technology,there are perhaps few things that have proved as resistant to change as the simple SMS text message. While a dizzying number of options exist today to interconnect people,the text ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)has fined a marketing firm GBP440,000 for spamming its customers with text messages. Tetrus Telecoms,owned by Christopher Niebel and Gary McNeish,has been under investigation for 18 months after ...
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I was too young to recognize Lunar New Year as anything more than feasts of dumplings and sweet pastries and extra pocket money in red packets the last time I spent it in China. Lighting up fireworks and firecrackers was also just the ...
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Orange today launched a new application called Libon, enabling users to make calls and send texts for free. Initially just for iOS, but with an Android version due in the first quarter of 2013, the application can be used by customers of ...
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A U.S.district judge has approved a request for class action in a lawsuit against pizza maker Papa John's International for allegedly sending hundreds of thousands of text spam messages. Seattle law firm Heyrich Kalish ...
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A 16-year-old security researcher from India plans to present a malware application for Windows Phone 8 at the upcoming MalCon security conference in New Delhi,India,on Nov.24. According to a brief description of the presentation on the ...
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Anyone who finds it hard to believe that the average U.S. mobile subscriber sent 696 text messages per month in the second quarter of this year may be relieved to know that this figure fell to 678 per month in the third quarter. It was ...
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Egypt s cement market has witnessed an increase that has caused resentment among wholesalers. "Since before the Eid holiday, cement producers have been pressing to increase price per tonne, " cement wholesaler, Khairy El-Batrawy said. ...
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About 200 Android applications hosted on Google Play create spoofed SMS messages on the devices on which they are installed,according to security researchers from antivirus vendor Symantec. This technique can theoretically be used for SMS ...
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A text message delivered to O2 subscribers in the UK this week has revealed an intention by the telecoms giant to raise the cost of making and receiving calls and using data outside Europe dramatically. From 28 November ...
Tags: double roaming charges, telecoms giant, Ofcom, pence
IDG News Service-Facebook,under pressure to cheer up its disappointed investors,posted revenue growth of more than 30 percent on Tuesday,beating Wall Street expectations,but it also recorded a loss. Facebook's revenue for the third ...
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Microsoft has acquired mobile authentication solutions provider PhoneFactor, which it hopes will help it to offer secure mobile business applications for enterprises. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Further reading ...
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