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Supreme Court to hear text message privacy case
The Supreme Court said it will take on a case that deals with whether employers can review text messages--without the consent of the employee--sent to and from employer-issued devices. The outcome of... Read more...
Chinese company reveals Windows XP smartphone
Chinese company In Technology Group said it has created a smartphone that runs Windows XP. The company said the device, called the XPPhone, is the first to blend smartphone, PC and mobile Internet... Read more...
Apple contacting some iPhone 3GS users about battery problems
iPhone 3GS users have been complaining about premature battery draining, leading Apple to contact an undisclosed number of customers to get first-hand reports about what might be causing the problem,... Read more...
Google rolls out Google Voice on BlackBerry and Android devices
Google announced that Google Voice is now available on both BlackBerry and Android-based smartphones. Previously, users of these devices had to dial a Google Voice number to place a call. Now users... Read more...
Teenagers averaging thousands of text messages a month
The New York Times ran a report yesterday about how teenagers in America are sending text messages at a growing rate. And carriers such as AT&T and Verizon probably aren't capitalizing on this... Read more...
The reason text messages are 160 characters long
If you have ever wondered about the 160 character limitation on traditional text messages, you might be glad to know that it wasn't an arbitrary figure that was plucked out of thin air. Well, not... Read more...
Teen sends 14,528 text messages in a single month
13-year-old Reina lives in California and like many teenagers her age, owns her own mobile phone. She also likes texting, which is nothing unusual, if not for the fact that she managed to rack up a... Read more...
Serious new denial-of-service attack against certain Nokia phones surfaces
A new exploit involving text messages was demonstrated this week against several models of Nokia mobile phones. According to researcher Tobias Engel, of the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, a... Read more...
Forwarding your text messages to your email
I came across txtForward earlier today, which I thought was worth a mention here. As its name suggests, txtForward automatically forwards incoming or outgoing text messages to a specified email... Read more...
Mobile operators faces suit over texts
Subscribers in Canada are furious with Canadian mobile operators Telus and Bell Mobility over changes that will see them paying a 15-cent charge for each incoming text--including spam. Unlike the... Read more...
