The software allows stalkers to continuously track a person's whereabouts. But the US Congress's Senate judiciary committee has approved a bill that makes it a crime for companies to make and intentionally operate such stalking apps. ...
Tags: software, programs, software companies, wireless technology
Every minute another person in New Zealand becomes a victim of cybercrime according to a new report which claims there are 556 million victims worldwide every year after the two NRI jailed for a major cyber fraud case revealed in this news ...
Tags: cybercrime, victims, cyber fraud, Internet
The MapAlerter.com system is a free service for people who want to receive important service alerts from their local authority by text message, email, landline and social media, including Facebook and Twitter. The service has already been ...
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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 ...
Tags: spammers, a mobile spam campaign, spam messages, Android
The Card Editor from MCookie has become a recent topic of conversation. We now have the Card Editor from MCookie to satisfy those smartphone users who want to express themselves by creating their own unique identity. In line with this ...
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Security threats to your mobile device such as malware, fraudulent lures such as SMS spoofing, and toll fraud, are all becoming favourites of digital crooks as people move away from using PCs and toward smartphones and tablets, according to ...
Tags: cybercrime, mobile devices, mobile security, PC, tablet
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. Particularly worrisome is the fact that the ...
Tags: Android, Phising, SMS, Android devices
The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) has developed a standard for handling 2D barcodes that it hopes will direct mobile phone users to websites more easily. By standardizing the specification for encoding, decoding and resolution of 2D barcodes, ...
The 2013 Mercedes-Benz E-Class has been revealed ahead of its international debut at January's Detroit motor show,sporting fresh styling,a range of new and more efficient engines and a number of advanced driver assistance systems. The ...
Tags: Mercedes Benz E Class, Australia, Diesel Hybrid Confirmed
The company spark has set out to create a device that can control your light bulbs. What they've created is a piece of technology that you use in between the socket and the bulb to control when its on and it's off. This device allows ...
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Sweden - Covering 1080 acres across four adjacent skiing areas, Sweden's Åre ski resort is not just one of the largest in Scandinavia, but in 2009 was judged the best in the world by Conde Nast Traveller magazine. A recently completed ...
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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 ...
Tags: SMS txt msgs, Matti Makkonen, Vodafone, text-messaging era
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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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 ...
Tags: Papa John, lawsuit, text spam messages
IDG News Service-Mobile card payments startup iZettle has settled its payments dispute with Visa Europe and can now accept Visa payments in Norway,Finland and Denmark,the company announced on Tuesday. To accept Visa,iZettle had to add a ...
Tags: Visa, iZettle, mobile payments, Visa payments