It can talk to your car, your refrigerator, water your plants and help you stay fit and healthy: the smartphone is becoming the consumer's remote control for life. That was the message delivered by dozens of firms at the International ...
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A device like Trakdot Luggage was inevitable: With gadgets out there that find lost pets and children, it was just a matter of time before there was one to locate lost luggage. Just introduced at CES by GlobaTrac, the small device sits ...
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Viber, the leading mobile communications platform offering free text and photo messages and HD-quality phone calls, announces today that it has passed the 140 million users milestone with 400,000 users being added every day. The ...
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Although synonymous with Germany, the Ford Focus now has stronger links to Tom Yum Goong than to sauerkraut. The switch to Thai production in August saw the introduction of the Focus Mk2, which debuted Ford’s hands-free Sync ...
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Network World-A researcher at North Carolina State University has uncovered a vulnerability that could be exploited to send deceptive text messages from some Android devices,as part of a phishing scheme. MORE ON ANDROID:Hottest Android ...
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The four largest mobile carriers in the U.S. -- AT&T, Verizon, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile -- have agreed to accelerate the availability of emergency texting, or text-to-911. The four carriers have committed to major deployments of ...
Tags: U.S, mobile providers, emergency texting service, APCO, NENA
In a new twist, spammers have built a botnet that sends SMS spam through infected Android phones, shifting the potentially pricey cost of sending spam to victims. The trend, spotted by security vendor Cloudmark, poses a new challenge for ...
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MOSCOW, RUSSIA, July 19, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- ABBYY , a leading provider of document recognition, document capture, and linguistic technologies and services, today announced the second version of ABBYY Business Card Reader 2.0 for ...
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SMS text messaging is certainly not exclusive to Apple or its iconic iPhone smartphone. But, apparently there is something unique about the way Apple delivers SMS messages that makes the iPhone particularly vulnerable to spoofing or ...
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LOS ANGELES, CA, November 21, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- SnapCuts , the innovative social video messaging company that allows users to "snap" together video clips, add a personalized text message, and then share their creations via social ...
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Appointment-Plus has reached a milestone in the scheduling industry as it eclipses the 100-million appointment mark. The leading mobile and online scheduling software is relied upon by almost 8,000 clients worldwide to automate scheduling ...
Businesses and organizations that rely on Appointment-Plus business scheduling software for their booking needs now have access to numerous widgets to help them efficiently analyze their scheduling processes. Appointment-Plus, the ...
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Businesses must make availability of IT services a boardroom issue because there is growing evidence of employee frustration and resentment when systems are unavailable, according to research from Imperial College. Many staff now expect ...
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Macworld - Following in the footsteps of Google and other services, Dropbox this weekend enabled two-factor authentication to bring enhanced security to its users. While Dropbox was not among the services compromised in the ...
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Computerworld - In a few years, instead of getting an instant text message from the boss, workers may see the chief's face pop up on the screen and start talking. At least that's the vision of Intel Chief Technology Officer Justin ...
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